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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So where do we start. I got a whole list
of stuff, and you're more than welcome to jump on board.
I think where I'm going to start really is deck maintenance,
because that is uh I think that's one thing in
our house. I believe this, and I believe this firmly.
I think we spend as much time maintaining that deck
as we do enjoying it. And so there's there's a
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lot to know in it in terms of ceilants and
stains and coatings, and and it's constantly changing. So we
are going to cover that today and talk about the
differences between you know, a modified oil OUTCT, acrylic deck sealers,
acrylic deck sealers, solid colored deck sealers, semi transparent deck sealers,
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and how and why and when should you use those
and if you've got any question on uh, maybe deck ceiling.
We have no guests today too. I just thought i'd
leave it open because we're having you know, a lot
of folks have a few days off. A lot of
people are uh, you know, on vacation. And I, by
the way, we do not use the word staycation on
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this show. We declared that about twenty five years ago.
I think Danny. Danny said, no, no staycations. But you know,
if you are, you know, taking some time off work.
I had it was very nice. You'd like that. Yeah,
I did that. I hated that. I hate I banned it. Oh,
I banned it. Just to sleep late for a week
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was nice because of the hours I get up for here.
Well then you could just say you were on vacation. Yeah, yeah,
but staycation. I don't like it. I I just told
people I was taking time off. Well that's fine. I
was always infused with work around the house too. It's
a staycation. I didn't like that. Anyway, we got we
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got a bunch of stuff we want to cover today
and along with your questions, which will be the bulk
of the show today. So here's a number. It's eight
hundred and eighty two three eight two five five. Grab
the line and Steve, you lead us off today.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Welcome, Hey, nice talk to you again.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I just I just wanted to warn people. I'll tell
you what happened. I have My roof was nineteen ninety one,
and so I this year, this year, I decided I'm
replacing it. And so I got my first quote from
a national roofing company that advertises big time, and my
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home is thirty two hundred square foot and they came
in with singles priced at fifty five thousand dollars. Okay,
I got my second quote, four singles from a local
company and it was nice, eighteen thousand. And then I
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got one more local quote and it was sixteen thousand.
Now there's a huge difference between sixteen thousand and fifty
five thousand. So if people are getting roof quotes, I
strongly recommend that you get several quotes so that you
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don't get saddled. My real letter told me about another
couple who paid like thirty five thousand dollars for a
thousand square foot roof and they didn't really have the
money for it. And so just beware, Okay, people have.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
To beware Steve when you were looking at those bids,
and I totally agree. You know, I have been promoting
two to three you know, estimates on roofing and heating
and air conditioning systems for years. I mean, you're making
a big investment. You shop for a car, you should
shop for a roof and get the quotes and everything.
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What I found when I did my roof was about
four years ago, and I had three quotes on the roof.
Was they were all different? I mean not price wise,
I'm talking about how they were going to do the project,
what they were going to incorporate on the new roof,
and what they were not. Did you find that to
be true on the difference between say the sixteen thousand
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and fifty thousand or whatever, it was?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, the actually I had a couple more quotes as well,
but they were below the nineteen thousand. So it was
I had like four quotes that were nineteen thousand or below,
and then one that was fifty five. The one that
was fifty five they used their own proprietary shingles, okay,
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and their sales guy talked to me like, if I
don't use his shingles, you know, I'm I'm gonna lose
out because there aren't any singles that are any good.
Do you know all of the other companies we're going
to put the the Owen's Corning really nice shingle.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Oh that's a good shot. That's a good shingle. That's
a very good shingle. I think that's what I got
on my.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Home, and that's what I end up going with and
I am extremely happy. But man, oh man, fifty when
they when the first guy came in for fifty five thousand,
and they're like a national company there were they're the
big guys, and I just was about ready to die.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, I'm glad you got the extra quotes.
And it does give you a little bit of education
on you know, what they're going to incorporate and you know,
I mean, you know, with flashing without flashing, I mean
it goes on and on and on. So I'm glad
you got the quotes and made a decision. So thank
you for sharing that.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yep, thanks carry.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You bet you bye bye, and uh, very important you've
you've heard me talk about before. Proprietary. I always wonder
about that. The Owens Corning shingle. There's a lot of
there's a lot of good shingles out there. Owen's Corning
is kind of one of my favorite ones, but there's
a lot of good ones out there. And I always say,
really you can people always ask me who's the best roofer.
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I always kind of say, you know, I mean, or
what's the best shingle? And roofers want to use the
best shingle because in a lot of cases. Their reputation
is on that and and and Owen's Corning, and they
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got this presidential series which is just great. The wind
ratings on them are great. But you know, you can
look for the ice guard, you can look where they're
gonna do flashings. It kind of goes on and on.
The different bells and whistles you can get, but get
them and use that for your buying decision. Just like
when you're buying a car, you got the window sticker.
It has all the different options and features, and SODA's
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replacing a roof, SODA's buying in an air conditioner, and
really laying those out on the table with the options
and the pricing will help you make the decision that's
right for you. All right, let's take a breakaway, come back.
We got can Ken and then John if you'd like
to join us. It's eight hundred eight two three eight
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We go at home with Gary Sullivan. And you know,
one of the big parts or extensions of our home
is certainly the exterior of the landscaping the yard, the trees,
maybe even the vegetable garden out back. And each week
run Wilson steps in to help us out with that.
Mister Wilson, how are you warny, mister.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Charlman, I'm gonna follow up on the roof quote here. Yeah,
all right. So if I get five different estimates or
ten or whatever it may be, should I do my
homework before I even get the estimates, because don't I
want to determine which roof that I want to have done?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, well that would be idea ron But I guess
a lot of people don't do that, don't want to
do that. And this is where problems come in. Is
if you don't do any uh you know, a little
reconnaissance yourself, a little studying up on it, and then
you get one estimate, you really don't know what your options.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Are, so that the multiple esthmas become my homework.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, exactly. I tell people a lot to if you
really don't understand it, get three estimates and just start
comparing them and ask questions, why are you why are
you putting flashing on the roof, and why sir are
you not doing flashing? And the guy you know that
isn't doing it, so you don't need it. And the
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guy that you're asking about flashing might say, oh, well
the person that wasn't going to put the flashing, did
they tell you there's some holes into flashing. I mean
you kind of learn by comparing, and I think that's
a really smart thing to do. You know, why are
your shingles costing this and this shingles and that they
go you know, well, there's wind ratings, there's warranties, there's
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it's just an opportunity to learn about what you're buying.
As I just kind of compared it to the sticker
on buying a car, and they're kind of similar. You know,
you got different bells and whistles on different cars, and
maybe that's needed, maybe it's not, or whatever. You can
see where the cost is actually you know, factored in.
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I always laugh because I think sometimes that proprietary is
always kind of a little scary work. Right, Yeah, well
it's their proprietary system. Well what's that mean? You know, well,
we got the best shingles. What's that mean?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
So if I narrow it down to one shingle that
I think is the best for our house, do I
din't go back and get five more estimates from companies
that offer that shingle.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Well, that doesn't one too. I mean, if you want to,
I wouldn't say that'd be necessary. I would pick three
three good roofers. And this is exactly what I did
when I had my roof put on, probably four years ago.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I had, by the way, your house looked pretty funny
without the roof.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
For all those years, I had three that I, you know,
wanted to do business with. And it was interesting because
one person I was actually out in California when it
came for the estimate, and they never got on the roof,
which I thought, that's weird.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Did you do the drone thing?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, yeah, then some of that's okay. But you know what,
if you're on the roof, you can see if there's
any soft spots on there. You can get a closer
examination of the flashing. So, you know, I just and
it was interesting the difference in the They were all
within probably three or four thousand dollars, but the way
they did things was just a little different. He gave
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me an opportunity to ask questions. That's the key, got it.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
And you know the same thing applies with landscaping and plants,
and I'm being and I was leaning in. You know,
sometimes the thing about the landscaping if you don't want
a landscape plan is it's hard to compare apples to
apples because each designer is going to have something a
little bit different. So you have to kind of find,
you know, with the design that you like. Sure, and
you know a lot of times people call around about
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plant prices and that's kind of hard because you know,
at three foot whatever you know, it might be in
a smaller pod might be the quality. You know, it's
hard to do apples to apples when it comes to that.
But again, you know, getting a couple of people, that's
where I always think home the garden shows you and
I always enjoy those, right because a lot of times
that's a great place for you to go and just
to talk to somebody one on one.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, and yeah, doing it in April's not the time
to do that, no, not now.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
But well I'm just saying that's good if you know
ahead of time.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Right right, Well, things are probably starting to slow down
a little bit in garden centers now, So if you
want to do something in the fall, which is a
great time to work not only on your home but
also on the landscaping of your home. Yeah, we'll start
preparing now.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Yeah, the call the calls for landscape designers right now.
As we get into the July and August, folks on
vacation or whatever really do start to cut back. So
now's an excellent opportunity to get your name back in
the pot again and get them out to take a
look at it, get the design and what you want
to do ready so that when the weather becomes more
conducive in September, issh, October, November. Obviously it's a very
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long planting season for the fall, much longer than the spring.
You're in and you're ready to go, so you're at
the top of the list and you can enjoy that
stuff earlier.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah, with the weather we've had, I heard you and
Joe Bogg's talking about, you know, the heat, humidity, and
then disease, and it's kind of interesting. Everything was green,
Everything was perfect in my lawn until this week I
could start seeing I think it's probably red thread or
(15:45):
round patch. Yeah, and so is did that kind of
explode this week? Well, we had the heat and the rain.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Yeah, that all of a sudden, you're starting to see
you know, leaf diseases on tomatoes and lawn disease is
now starting to show up that weren't there earlier, That
may have crept in earlier, but now all of a sudden,
we're starting to see those. If you watch even some
of the turf updates we do. Ohio State does one
that you can watch video wise that professionals watching golf
keepers watch your golf you know, of course at the
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superintendents because they tell you when it's you know, weather
changing next week, watch for this particular disease to really
start to ramp up. And yeah, all of a sudden,
just as past ten days or so, things started to change.
It's like, better start watching for this. Betters are watching
for that. You better start applying for this, right So, yeah,
you know, and it's a tough time. I've always said
between June and into early July, so many things happening
(16:37):
with plants, sudjusting to the summer season. It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, and yeah, missus Sullivan noticed the disease and she is,
can you take care of that? I go, it's expensive,
take care of disease.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Gerry, is that brown past supposed to be there.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You're a naughty man.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
All right, Ron Wilson online dot com. What information? Maybe
he'll tell you what to watch. Thanks Ron, see you
all right, take care, all right, the break and then
Ken you'll be up first. It's eight hundred eight two
three eight two five y five at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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and that's what we're talking about, is your home maintenance
and repair, maybe a little remodeling. Feel free to grab
a line. We've got several open. Let's go to Ken
Ken Welcome.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Good morning, Gary.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I mortally enjoy.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Your show every week. You were talking about a landscaping
all ago, and my question sort of leads into that.
I've got a raised concrete patio and I had a
put a sealer on it probably the four or five
years ago, and it was called a wet look seiler.
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And right now half of it is on and half
of it is off. One question is what's the best
way to get the remainder off?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Well, what are you going to do to it?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
To do?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
What do you want it to look like? When you're finished,
you're gonna go back to that wet look.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Preferably not?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Okay? So is it just regular? Is it? Is it pavers?
Is it a patio or is it stamp concrete or
what's the surface?
Speaker 5 (21:16):
No, it's just regular porn concrete.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Regular pork concrete.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
And I said, the landscaping comes around it because we've
got plants around it, and of course whatever I use
to get the seiler off, I don't want to destroy
the plants.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Do you know if it was a solvent base or
a water base, it's a it is a water base.
Is it bonded on there pretty tight? I guess where
I'm leaning right now is I'd probably try to use
a pressure washer and see if I can get a
lot of that off. Some of that stuff is really
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really difficult to get off. That's some of it comes
off real easy. So I think that's what I would
start with. I'm pretty sure that to actually remove it
is a productol xylinol. But that's a that's a tough job.
That's why I was wondering if it's going to stay
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the same because you could go over it if you
were going to go with another you know, wet look surface.
But if it's just regular, if it's just regular concrete
and it's not exposed to aggregator stamped, I think I
would just try to use a pressure washer maybe fifteen
degree nozzle, maybe three thousand psi and see if we
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can't take it off that with that.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Would there be any chemical that if just doesn't work,
that you would recommend.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Well, that xylinol would be the would be the chemical,
But it's almost literally rubbing it off like with a
cloth and gloves, and that can be a big job.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Okay, In the fall question or this when I get
this off, what would you recommend what.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
You want to use on a concrete slab that is
not a decorative or a garage floor that's usually where
wet looks are used. What you want is a penetrating sealer,
and you also want it to be breathable. So the
active ingredient is is actually called slock saine. It's a
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molecule silicone and gosh, it's very thin. It's almost the
viscussities like water. You can put it on with a
tank sprayer and then just you know, if there's ain't puddling,
just take a paintbrush and just you know, spread it out.
You just don't want it to puddle. It'll soak right in.
And yeah, it's just a driveway and sidewalk ceiler. It's
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it is a slock sane based seiler and it is
a penetrating seiler.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Is there any particular brand that you would regret that.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
There's a real easy one that you can get on
the internet, which is super easy to get and it's
a it's a project specific sealer. So if you go
to a website, I'm sure Amazon has it also, but
if you go to their website, it's called masonry Defender
dot com. Masonrydefender dot com. And the very first one
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you'll see, it'll say sidewalking driveway seiler. That is a
sloxane based seialer penetrating that's the one to use.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Okay, very good, All right, okay, sir, I appreciate your information.
It's right on dot as usual. So on, thank you,
we'll continue listening to you.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Very good. Thank you much appreciate it. Take care, bye bye,
all right. The numbers eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five Feel free to grab a line. John, Welcome.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Yeah, Gary, I've got a front door, natural woods front
front door and it's just got like a cherry stain
on it. Okay, and the inside of it still looks great,
but the outside it's all faded real light. Now, yeah,
what do I What do I need to do? Can
I just stain over the top of.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
That's not that easy, unfortunately. So what it is is
that's the UV rays of the sun that's causing that
damage in that fading to that door. That's why it's
perfect on the inside and we'll probably be perfect for
the next twenty years, but the outside takes a beating.
So so here's the here's the question you usually those doors.
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Is it a wood door or is.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
It a wood door?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
It is a wood door, Okay. So when it's stained,
then there should be a protect and put over that.
The correct protectant would be a marine your thane or
a spar your thane that has the best ultraviolet ray
block that you can have. Now, depending on how long
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it's been left unprotected as that your thane or what
varnish or whatever is on there. You know, fail is
going to tell you what you need to do, all right,
So the two options are. Here's how you really tell.
If you take that door. You can take a little
hose or spray bottle or whatever, and you wet that
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door down, does it still look bad or does it
kind of look good?
Speaker 6 (26:38):
It really doesn't change color or much. I mean it stays.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Looking the same. Well yeah, yeah, Unfortunately, then what that's
telling you is that's got to be stripped and sanded,
retained and rerthing.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Okay now, and I.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Just want to add this for other people. If it's
when you wetted down, that's kind of telling you what's suffering.
What's damaged is the protectant, but the stains still intact,
and once you get a sheen on there, it will
look good. And then what I would tell you to
do is take like a six hundred grit sanding sponge
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and just sand that door down. You wouldn't really be
moving anything. You'd just be creating a little bit of
texture on there, a little uffing up a little bit,
wipe it down, and then you would use a spar
your thane or a marine your thane, and you would
do two coats. All right, if it's if it still
looks damaged when you wet it down, then what you
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gotta do is you pretty much gotta You can strip
the rest of your thane off, but you can't strip
the stain off. You got to sand that out.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Yeah, okay, whether you'd go eight grit or or.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Something or I don't think you need to get to
go that strong. You might try two twenty first and
see how that works.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Money, Okay, good, you.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Might have to go to a stronger grid. I don't
know what kind of would you got on there, and
you know how deep it's penetrated. There's a lot of
ifs in there. I'd start with the two twenty and
see where you go with it.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Okay, I've got another question, Can I ask that?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (28:18):
Yeah, I've got a my basement door walk out door.
I've got the patio above it, cement patio above it,
and the cement is falling off of the ceiling. Uh,
you know from the basement door above the basement door.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Okay, I've tried to put.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Cement you know, up there, but it just keeps falling
down on me.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Again, it won't stick, all right?
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Any any ideas how to get that?
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, So preparation the key, of course, you know, get
a broom, a street broom something like there where you
can really kind of agitate and knock off any dust,
get any loose pieces off and at that point, you know,
concrete and and and mortar and stuff like that, it
doesn't like to stick to itself. And since you're doing
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it above you know, above your head, the weight of
that has a tendency to, you know, even exacerbate the situations.
So there is there's a couple of ways you can
do it. You're going to patch that with a sand
mix or a mortar mix. Quick Crete makes them in
bags and you got to add the adhesive and all this,
(29:34):
but they also make it sounds like you need to
do some patchwork basically right.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Right, right, yeah, to show Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yeah, how deep is that? Maybe like a half inch?
Speaker 6 (29:47):
Yeah, probably about a half inch.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
They make a product called zip It Mortar. It's a
three pound bag. So it's got the mortar in there,
it's got the adhesive in there, it's got everything in there.
Literally add water need the bag, so you're mixing it
(30:10):
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apply with a taping knife. So that's one way of
doing it. The other way of doing it is you
can you know you can get a sixty pound fifty
pound bag of mortar, but you have to get a
bag of or not a bag, but a jug of
(30:32):
concrete adhesive. And it looks like Elmer's glue that's mixed
with the mortar mix.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah, you could do a big bucket of it then.
But the zip it mortar is very handy, very easy,
and it's designed for patching overhead surfaces, just exactly what
you have.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
I need to do it in a couple of passes
there to build it up or can I do it?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Well? It has a limitation of a half inch thick,
so that's why I asked, how you know how deep
it was?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
So I wouldn't apply it anymore than that, you know,
even if you did a little less like a three
ace inch skim coating and come back and reapply it
the next day another.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
Three ace okay, all right, great, thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
All right, very good. Thanks for the call. Appreciate it.
All right. You can join us, sins. We talk a
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if you'd like to ask a question about your home
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number is eight hundred eight two three eight two five
five and Carol welcome, Hi, Hello, yep.
Speaker 7 (34:51):
I want to know if you know about the product
roof max M. It's a spray that they put on your.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Aging roof right, correct, correct, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (35:05):
If I don't know anything about it, is it worth
looking into? Or my roof is about twenty years old
and it's in good shape.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Okay, okay, And so your roofs probably got what a
twenty five thirty year warranty? Probably yeah, and start age.
So the way a roof ages is the granular the
sand on the top of the shingles begins to shed,
ends up in your gutters, et cetera, and you start
(35:35):
seeing some worn spots on the shingles themselves. And when
that starts happening, that leaves the shingle vulnerable to the
ultraviolet rays of the sun, which begins to break down
the shingle. So what roof max is. It's an application
of an adhesive over the roof and onto the shingles,
(35:59):
which fortifies the shingles the granular texture of the shingles
from becoming dislodged. Okay, so it extends the life of
that shingle and one application will last about five years
(36:21):
and then you can either put on a new roof
or you could do a second application. I think you
can do up to three applications. Sometimes it's already worn
too much and they'll tell you the application isn't going
to help you. So what else do you need to
(36:42):
know about that? Carol?
Speaker 7 (36:43):
Well, I have a shaded roof. You know, some much
changes A little lighter Does it remove that effect?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
I don't know how a shingle would be a little lighter.
It does not.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
They're shaded. Some of them are lighter and some of
them are darker. That's the Yeah, I don't know what
they call that. There's not one color. Yeah, they're a
little lighter and a little darker.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
My guess is the lighters doesn't have a fungus on it,
and the darker shaded I.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
Mean no, they're they're built like that's how they They have.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Very variations in color of the shade yes themselves.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
So rough macs eliminate that no effect. It's a clear it's.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
A clear finish, right. And again the granular protection on
that shingle is colors. So on a black roof, it's
all black. Maybe on some of your presidential uh shake shingles,
they'll be tans and browns and things like that, where
there's variations of color, uh huh. But this is a
(37:57):
clear protectant that is spread over. It's probably about I
think an applications around somewhere between twenty and thirty percent
the cost of a new roof.
Speaker 7 (38:10):
Uh huh. And it lasts about five years.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
You say, they last about five years and then you'll
either put a new roof on or you'll do it again.
Speaker 7 (38:20):
Uh huh. No downside.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Well no, yeah, I mean you never end up with
a new roof. You're just buying time. So I always
kind of tell people it's really a personal decision. You know,
you can buy you know, if the roof is inspected
and you know, the roofer tells you you got about
two more years to go, or you need to get
it replaced now the ones that need to be replaced
(38:47):
now is probably not ideal for the roof max the
ones would say, oh, you've got about two to five
more years on the roof. You could put that protecting
on there and buy yourself some time. And then you
just got to decide whether financially that's the way you
want to go.
Speaker 7 (39:03):
Yeah, what about on a newer roof, say only a
ten year is it worth to kind of preserve those shingles?
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Well, you got longer in a ten year warranty. The
warranty on a new roof that's ten years is probably
warranted against fungus and streaking. But most of your shingle
ratings now you know, thirty year roof, twenty five year roof.
There's even some fifty year roof shingles out there, so
(39:34):
you know, there wouldn't really be a need to protect them.
You know they're going to wear for a long time.
But eventually, you know, all shingles fail. If you've got
a thirty year roof, probably at about year twenty it's
starting to show some signs of wear. But all roofs
(39:55):
are different, right, You've got different brands of shingles, you
got different weather condition, you got some with with way,
a whole bunch of son, some with noes son. You
just got. What I would do is a lot of
roofers will inspect roofs, and you could get them to
inspect the roof kind of give you a longevity plan
of what you're looking at, and you know, if they go,
(40:18):
you got you know, if it's less, if it's five
years somewhere in that timeframe, and you're interested in the roof, max,
you would call them and they would come out and
give you a quote on it. Okay, thank you, all right,
very good Carol. Thanks for the call. I appreciate it.
Take care. So that is a really good thought. Also
(40:41):
is having that inspection. And I'm not talking for storm damage.
I mean if your house just went through a hailstorm
or something, having that inspected to see if there's damage,
that's always a good idea. But just to have it
inspected and see where you are, or you can even
inspect that. Sometimes it's standing on the ground with binoculars
(41:02):
and looking at the shingle themselves. See if you see
any worn spots, See if you're see any cracks in
the shingles, fractures, See if you see corners of the
shingles that are cracked off. See if the kernel the
corners of the shingles are curling up. Those are all
signs of aging of the shingle itself. And at that point,
(41:26):
if you're interested in doing something that would extend the
life of that shingle, like a roof Max product, go
ahead and get a quote and then you can do
the finances on that. Say, if that's something you want
to do, or it's something you want to just get
a new roof and check with your insurance company. Also
whether that coverage is the same with a roof Max
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Help for your home is just a click away at
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So where do we start. I got a whole list
of stuff, and you're more than welcome to jump on board.
I think where I'm going to start really is deck maintenance,
because that is uh I think that's one thing in
our house. I believe this, and I believe this firmly.
I think we spend as much time maintaining that deck
as we do enjoying it. And so there's there's a
(00:22):
lot to know in it in terms of ceilants and
stains and coatings, and and it's constantly changing. So we
are going to cover that today and talk about the
differences between you know, a modified oil OUTCT, acrylic deck sealers,
acrylic deck sealers, solid colored deck sealers, semi transparent deck sealers,
(00:47):
and how and why and when should you use those
and if you've got any question on uh, maybe deck ceiling.
We have no guests today too. I just thought i'd
leave it open because we're having you know, a lot
of folks have a few days off. A lot of
people are uh, you know, on vacation. And I, by
the way, we do not use the word staycation on
(01:08):
this show. We declared that about twenty five years ago.
I think Danny. Danny said, no, no staycations. But you know,
if you are, you know, taking some time off work.
I had it was very nice. You'd like that. Yeah,
I did that. I hated that. I hate I banned it. Oh,
I banned it. Just to sleep late for a week
(01:29):
was nice because of the hours I get up for here.
Well then you could just say you were on vacation. Yeah, yeah,
but staycation. I don't like it. I I just told
people I was taking time off. Well that's fine. I
was always infused with work around the house too. It's
a staycation. I didn't like that. Anyway, we got we
(01:53):
got a bunch of stuff we want to cover today
and along with your questions, which will be the bulk
of the show today. So here's a number. It's eight
hundred and eighty two three eight two five five. Grab
the line and Steve, you lead us off today.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Welcome, Hey, nice talk to you again.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I just I just wanted to warn people. I'll tell
you what happened. I have My roof was nineteen ninety one,
and so I this year, this year, I decided I'm
replacing it. And so I got my first quote from
a national roofing company that advertises big time, and my
(02:39):
home is thirty two hundred square foot and they came
in with singles priced at fifty five thousand dollars. Okay,
I got my second quote, four singles from a local
company and it was nice, eighteen thousand. And then I
(03:03):
got one more local quote and it was sixteen thousand.
Now there's a huge difference between sixteen thousand and fifty
five thousand. So if people are getting roof quotes, I
strongly recommend that you get several quotes so that you
(03:26):
don't get saddled. My real letter told me about another
couple who paid like thirty five thousand dollars for a
thousand square foot roof and they didn't really have the
money for it. And so just beware, Okay, people have.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
To beware Steve when you were looking at those bids,
and I totally agree. You know, I have been promoting
two to three you know, estimates on roofing and heating
and air conditioning systems for years. I mean, you're making
a big investment. You shop for a car, you should
shop for a roof and get the quotes and everything.
(04:08):
What I found when I did my roof was about
four years ago, and I had three quotes on the roof.
Was they were all different? I mean not price wise,
I'm talking about how they were going to do the project,
what they were going to incorporate on the new roof,
and what they were not. Did you find that to
be true on the difference between say the sixteen thousand
(04:30):
and fifty thousand or whatever, it was?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, the actually I had a couple more quotes as well,
but they were below the nineteen thousand. So it was
I had like four quotes that were nineteen thousand or below,
and then one that was fifty five. The one that
was fifty five they used their own proprietary shingles, okay,
(04:56):
and their sales guy talked to me like, if I
don't use his shingles, you know, I'm I'm gonna lose
out because there aren't any singles that are any good.
Do you know all of the other companies we're going
to put the the Owen's Corning really nice shingle.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Oh that's a good shot. That's a good shingle. That's
a very good shingle. I think that's what I got
on my.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Home, and that's what I end up going with and
I am extremely happy. But man, oh man, fifty when
they when the first guy came in for fifty five thousand,
and they're like a national company there were they're the
big guys, and I just was about ready to die.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, I'm glad you got the extra quotes.
And it does give you a little bit of education
on you know, what they're going to incorporate and you know,
I mean, you know, with flashing without flashing, I mean
it goes on and on and on. So I'm glad
you got the quotes and made a decision. So thank
you for sharing that.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yep, thanks carry.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You bet you bye bye, and uh, very important you've
you've heard me talk about before. Proprietary. I always wonder
about that. The Owens Corning shingle. There's a lot of
there's a lot of good shingles out there. Owen's Corning
is kind of one of my favorite ones, but there's
a lot of good ones out there. And I always say,
really you can people always ask me who's the best roofer.
(06:25):
I always kind of say, you know, I mean, or
what's the best shingle? And roofers want to use the
best shingle because in a lot of cases. Their reputation
is on that and and and Owen's Corning, and they
(06:46):
got this presidential series which is just great. The wind
ratings on them are great. But you know, you can
look for the ice guard, you can look where they're
gonna do flashings. It kind of goes on and on.
The different bells and whistles you can get, but get
them and use that for your buying decision. Just like
when you're buying a car, you got the window sticker.
It has all the different options and features, and SODA's
(07:08):
replacing a roof, SODA's buying in an air conditioner, and
really laying those out on the table with the options
and the pricing will help you make the decision that's
right for you. All right, let's take a breakaway, come back.
We got can Ken and then John if you'd like
to join us. It's eight hundred eight two three eight
(07:28):
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We go at home with Gary Sullivan. And you know,
one of the big parts or extensions of our home
is certainly the exterior of the landscaping the yard, the trees,
maybe even the vegetable garden out back. And each week
run Wilson steps in to help us out with that.
Mister Wilson, how are you warny, mister.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Charlman, I'm gonna follow up on the roof quote here. Yeah,
all right. So if I get five different estimates or
ten or whatever it may be, should I do my
homework before I even get the estimates, because don't I
want to determine which roof that I want to have done?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, well that would be idea ron But I guess
a lot of people don't do that, don't want to
do that. And this is where problems come in. Is
if you don't do any uh you know, a little
reconnaissance yourself, a little studying up on it, and then
you get one estimate, you really don't know what your options.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Are, so that the multiple esthmas become my homework.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, exactly. I tell people a lot to if you
really don't understand it, get three estimates and just start
comparing them and ask questions, why are you why are
you putting flashing on the roof, and why sir are
you not doing flashing? And the guy you know that
isn't doing it, so you don't need it. And the
(11:43):
guy that you're asking about flashing might say, oh, well
the person that wasn't going to put the flashing, did
they tell you there's some holes into flashing. I mean
you kind of learn by comparing, and I think that's
a really smart thing to do. You know, why are
your shingles costing this and this shingles and that they
go you know, well, there's wind ratings, there's warranties, there's
(12:05):
it's just an opportunity to learn about what you're buying.
As I just kind of compared it to the sticker
on buying a car, and they're kind of similar. You know,
you got different bells and whistles on different cars, and
maybe that's needed, maybe it's not, or whatever. You can
see where the cost is actually you know, factored in.
(12:27):
I always laugh because I think sometimes that proprietary is
always kind of a little scary work. Right, Yeah, well
it's their proprietary system. Well what's that mean? You know, well,
we got the best shingles. What's that mean?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
So if I narrow it down to one shingle that
I think is the best for our house, do I
din't go back and get five more estimates from companies
that offer that shingle.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Well, that doesn't one too. I mean, if you want to,
I wouldn't say that'd be necessary. I would pick three
three good roofers. And this is exactly what I did
when I had my roof put on, probably four years ago.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I had, by the way, your house looked pretty funny
without the roof.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
For all those years, I had three that I, you know,
wanted to do business with. And it was interesting because
one person I was actually out in California when it
came for the estimate, and they never got on the roof,
which I thought, that's weird.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Did you do the drone thing?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, yeah, then some of that's okay. But you know what,
if you're on the roof, you can see if there's
any soft spots on there. You can get a closer
examination of the flashing. So, you know, I just and
it was interesting the difference in the They were all
within probably three or four thousand dollars, but the way
they did things was just a little different. He gave
(13:46):
me an opportunity to ask questions. That's the key, got it.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
And you know the same thing applies with landscaping and plants,
and I'm being and I was leaning in. You know,
sometimes the thing about the landscaping if you don't want
a landscape plan is it's hard to compare apples to
apples because each designer is going to have something a
little bit different. So you have to kind of find,
you know, with the design that you like. Sure, and
you know a lot of times people call around about
(14:11):
plant prices and that's kind of hard because you know,
at three foot whatever you know, it might be in
a smaller pod might be the quality. You know, it's
hard to do apples to apples when it comes to that.
But again, you know, getting a couple of people, that's
where I always think home the garden shows you and
I always enjoy those, right because a lot of times
that's a great place for you to go and just
to talk to somebody one on one.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, and yeah, doing it in April's not the time
to do that, no, not now.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
But well I'm just saying that's good if you know
ahead of time.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Right right, Well, things are probably starting to slow down
a little bit in garden centers now, So if you
want to do something in the fall, which is a
great time to work not only on your home but
also on the landscaping of your home. Yeah, we'll start
preparing now.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Yeah, the call the calls for landscape designers right now.
As we get into the July and August, folks on
vacation or whatever really do start to cut back. So
now's an excellent opportunity to get your name back in
the pot again and get them out to take a
look at it, get the design and what you want
to do ready so that when the weather becomes more
conducive in September, issh, October, November. Obviously it's a very
(15:17):
long planting season for the fall, much longer than the spring.
You're in and you're ready to go, so you're at
the top of the list and you can enjoy that
stuff earlier.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah, with the weather we've had, I heard you and
Joe Bogg's talking about, you know, the heat, humidity, and
then disease, and it's kind of interesting. Everything was green,
Everything was perfect in my lawn until this week I
could start seeing I think it's probably red thread or
(15:45):
round patch. Yeah, and so is did that kind of
explode this week? Well, we had the heat and the rain.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Yeah, that all of a sudden, you're starting to see
you know, leaf diseases on tomatoes and lawn disease is
now starting to show up that weren't there earlier, That
may have crept in earlier, but now all of a sudden,
we're starting to see those. If you watch even some
of the turf updates we do. Ohio State does one
that you can watch video wise that professionals watching golf
keepers watch your golf you know, of course at the
(16:13):
superintendents because they tell you when it's you know, weather
changing next week, watch for this particular disease to really
start to ramp up. And yeah, all of a sudden,
just as past ten days or so, things started to change.
It's like, better start watching for this. Betters are watching
for that. You better start applying for this, right So, yeah,
you know, and it's a tough time. I've always said
between June and into early July, so many things happening
(16:37):
with plants, sudjusting to the summer season. It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, and yeah, missus Sullivan noticed the disease and she is,
can you take care of that? I go, it's expensive,
take care of disease.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Gerry, is that brown past supposed to be there.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You're a naughty man.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
All right, Ron Wilson online dot com. What information? Maybe
he'll tell you what to watch. Thanks Ron, see you
all right, take care, all right, the break and then
Ken you'll be up first. It's eight hundred eight two
three eight two five y five at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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Ken Welcome.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Good morning, Gary.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I mortally enjoy.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Your show every week. You were talking about a landscaping
all ago, and my question sort of leads into that.
I've got a raised concrete patio and I had a
put a sealer on it probably the four or five
years ago, and it was called a wet look seiler.
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And right now half of it is on and half
of it is off. One question is what's the best
way to get the remainder off?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Well, what are you going to do to it?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
To do?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
What do you want it to look like? When you're finished,
you're gonna go back to that wet look.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Preferably not?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Okay? So is it just regular? Is it? Is it pavers?
Is it a patio or is it stamp concrete or
what's the surface?
Speaker 5 (21:16):
No, it's just regular porn concrete.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Regular pork concrete.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
And I said, the landscaping comes around it because we've
got plants around it, and of course whatever I use
to get the seiler off, I don't want to destroy
the plants.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Do you know if it was a solvent base or
a water base, it's a it is a water base.
Is it bonded on there pretty tight? I guess where
I'm leaning right now is I'd probably try to use
a pressure washer and see if I can get a
lot of that off. Some of that stuff is really
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really difficult to get off. That's some of it comes
off real easy. So I think that's what I would
start with. I'm pretty sure that to actually remove it
is a productol xylinol. But that's a that's a tough job.
That's why I was wondering if it's going to stay
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the same because you could go over it if you
were going to go with another you know, wet look surface.
But if it's just regular, if it's just regular concrete
and it's not exposed to aggregator stamped, I think I
would just try to use a pressure washer maybe fifteen
degree nozzle, maybe three thousand psi and see if we
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can't take it off that with that.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Would there be any chemical that if just doesn't work,
that you would recommend.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Well, that xylinol would be the would be the chemical,
But it's almost literally rubbing it off like with a
cloth and gloves, and that can be a big job.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Okay, In the fall question or this when I get
this off, what would you recommend what.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
You want to use on a concrete slab that is
not a decorative or a garage floor that's usually where
wet looks are used. What you want is a penetrating sealer,
and you also want it to be breathable. So the
active ingredient is is actually called slock saine. It's a
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molecule silicone and gosh, it's very thin. It's almost the
viscussities like water. You can put it on with a
tank sprayer and then just you know, if there's ain't puddling,
just take a paintbrush and just you know, spread it out.
You just don't want it to puddle. It'll soak right in.
And yeah, it's just a driveway and sidewalk ceiler. It's
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it is a slock sane based seiler and it is
a penetrating seiler.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Is there any particular brand that you would regret that.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
There's a real easy one that you can get on
the internet, which is super easy to get and it's
a it's a project specific sealer. So if you go
to a website, I'm sure Amazon has it also, but
if you go to their website, it's called masonry Defender
dot com. Masonrydefender dot com. And the very first one
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you'll see, it'll say sidewalking driveway seiler. That is a
sloxane based seialer penetrating that's the one to use.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Okay, very good, All right, okay, sir, I appreciate your information.
It's right on dot as usual. So on, thank you,
we'll continue listening to you.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Very good. Thank you much appreciate it. Take care, bye bye,
all right. The numbers eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five Feel free to grab a line. John, Welcome.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Yeah, Gary, I've got a front door, natural woods front
front door and it's just got like a cherry stain
on it. Okay, and the inside of it still looks great,
but the outside it's all faded real light. Now, yeah,
what do I What do I need to do? Can
I just stain over the top of.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
That's not that easy, unfortunately. So what it is is
that's the UV rays of the sun that's causing that
damage in that fading to that door. That's why it's
perfect on the inside and we'll probably be perfect for
the next twenty years, but the outside takes a beating.
So so here's the here's the question you usually those doors.
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Is it a wood door or is.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
It a wood door?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
It is a wood door, Okay. So when it's stained,
then there should be a protect and put over that.
The correct protectant would be a marine your thane or
a spar your thane that has the best ultraviolet ray
block that you can have. Now, depending on how long
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it's been left unprotected as that your thane or what
varnish or whatever is on there. You know, fail is
going to tell you what you need to do, all right,
So the two options are. Here's how you really tell.
If you take that door. You can take a little
hose or spray bottle or whatever, and you wet that
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door down, does it still look bad or does it
kind of look good?
Speaker 6 (26:38):
It really doesn't change color or much. I mean it stays.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Looking the same. Well yeah, yeah, Unfortunately, then what that's
telling you is that's got to be stripped and sanded,
retained and rerthing.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Okay now, and I.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Just want to add this for other people. If it's
when you wetted down, that's kind of telling you what's suffering.
What's damaged is the protectant, but the stains still intact,
and once you get a sheen on there, it will
look good. And then what I would tell you to
do is take like a six hundred grit sanding sponge
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and just sand that door down. You wouldn't really be
moving anything. You'd just be creating a little bit of
texture on there, a little uffing up a little bit,
wipe it down, and then you would use a spar
your thane or a marine your thane, and you would
do two coats. All right, if it's if it still
looks damaged when you wet it down, then what you
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gotta do is you pretty much gotta You can strip
the rest of your thane off, but you can't strip
the stain off. You got to sand that out.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Yeah, okay, whether you'd go eight grit or or.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Something or I don't think you need to get to
go that strong. You might try two twenty first and
see how that works.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Money, Okay, good, you.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Might have to go to a stronger grid. I don't
know what kind of would you got on there, and
you know how deep it's penetrated. There's a lot of
ifs in there. I'd start with the two twenty and
see where you go with it.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Okay, I've got another question, Can I ask that?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (28:18):
Yeah, I've got a my basement door walk out door.
I've got the patio above it, cement patio above it,
and the cement is falling off of the ceiling. Uh,
you know from the basement door above the basement door.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Okay, I've tried to put.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Cement you know, up there, but it just keeps falling
down on me.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Again, it won't stick, all right?
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Any any ideas how to get that?
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, So preparation the key, of course, you know, get
a broom, a street broom something like there where you
can really kind of agitate and knock off any dust,
get any loose pieces off and at that point, you know,
concrete and and and mortar and stuff like that, it
doesn't like to stick to itself. And since you're doing
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it above you know, above your head, the weight of
that has a tendency to, you know, even exacerbate the situations.
So there is there's a couple of ways you can
do it. You're going to patch that with a sand
mix or a mortar mix. Quick Crete makes them in
bags and you got to add the adhesive and all this,
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but they also make it sounds like you need to
do some patchwork basically right.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Right, right, yeah, to show Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yeah, how deep is that? Maybe like a half inch?
Speaker 6 (29:47):
Yeah, probably about a half inch.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
They make a product called zip It Mortar. It's a
three pound bag. So it's got the mortar in there,
it's got the adhesive in there, it's got everything in there.
Literally add water need the bag, so you're mixing it
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up while it's in that bag, and then you can
apply with a taping knife. So that's one way of
doing it. The other way of doing it is you
can you know you can get a sixty pound fifty
pound bag of mortar, but you have to get a
bag of or not a bag, but a jug of
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concrete adhesive. And it looks like Elmer's glue that's mixed
with the mortar mix.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah, you could do a big bucket of it then.
But the zip it mortar is very handy, very easy,
and it's designed for patching overhead surfaces, just exactly what
you have.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
I need to do it in a couple of passes
there to build it up or can I do it?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Well? It has a limitation of a half inch thick,
so that's why I asked, how you know how deep
it was?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
So I wouldn't apply it anymore than that, you know,
even if you did a little less like a three
ace inch skim coating and come back and reapply it
the next day another.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
Three ace okay, all right, great, thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
All right, very good. Thanks for the call. Appreciate it.
All right. You can join us, sins. We talk a
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five and Carol welcome, Hi, Hello, yep.
Speaker 7 (34:51):
I want to know if you know about the product
roof max M. It's a spray that they put on your.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Aging roof right, correct, correct, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (35:05):
If I don't know anything about it, is it worth
looking into? Or my roof is about twenty years old
and it's in good shape.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Okay, okay, And so your roofs probably got what a
twenty five thirty year warranty? Probably yeah, and start age.
So the way a roof ages is the granular the
sand on the top of the shingles begins to shed,
ends up in your gutters, et cetera, and you start
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seeing some worn spots on the shingles themselves. And when
that starts happening, that leaves the shingle vulnerable to the
ultraviolet rays of the sun, which begins to break down
the shingle. So what roof max is. It's an application
of an adhesive over the roof and onto the shingles,
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which fortifies the shingles the granular texture of the shingles
from becoming dislodged. Okay, so it extends the life of
that shingle and one application will last about five years
(36:21):
and then you can either put on a new roof
or you could do a second application. I think you
can do up to three applications. Sometimes it's already worn
too much and they'll tell you the application isn't going
to help you. So what else do you need to
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know about that? Carol?
Speaker 7 (36:43):
Well, I have a shaded roof. You know, some much
changes A little lighter Does it remove that effect?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
I don't know how a shingle would be a little lighter.
It does not.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
They're shaded. Some of them are lighter and some of
them are darker. That's the Yeah, I don't know what
they call that. There's not one color. Yeah, they're a
little lighter and a little darker.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
My guess is the lighters doesn't have a fungus on it,
and the darker shaded I.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
Mean no, they're they're built like that's how they They have.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Very variations in color of the shade yes themselves.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
So rough macs eliminate that no effect. It's a clear it's.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
A clear finish, right. And again the granular protection on
that shingle is colors. So on a black roof, it's
all black. Maybe on some of your presidential uh shake shingles,
they'll be tans and browns and things like that, where
there's variations of color, uh huh. But this is a
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clear protectant that is spread over. It's probably about I
think an applications around somewhere between twenty and thirty percent
the cost of a new roof.
Speaker 7 (38:10):
Uh huh. And it lasts about five years.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
You say, they last about five years and then you'll
either put a new roof on or you'll do it again.
Speaker 7 (38:20):
Uh huh. No downside.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Well no, yeah, I mean you never end up with
a new roof. You're just buying time. So I always
kind of tell people it's really a personal decision. You know,
you can buy you know, if the roof is inspected
and you know, the roofer tells you you got about
two more years to go, or you need to get
it replaced now the ones that need to be replaced
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now is probably not ideal for the roof max the
ones would say, oh, you've got about two to five
more years on the roof. You could put that protecting
on there and buy yourself some time. And then you
just got to decide whether financially that's the way you
want to go.
Speaker 7 (39:03):
Yeah, what about on a newer roof, say only a
ten year is it worth to kind of preserve those shingles?
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Well, you got longer in a ten year warranty. The
warranty on a new roof that's ten years is probably
warranted against fungus and streaking. But most of your shingle
ratings now you know, thirty year roof, twenty five year roof.
There's even some fifty year roof shingles out there, so
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you know, there wouldn't really be a need to protect them.
You know they're going to wear for a long time.
But eventually, you know, all shingles fail. If you've got
a thirty year roof, probably at about year twenty it's
starting to show some signs of wear. But all roofs
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are different, right, You've got different brands of shingles, you
got different weather condition, you got some with with way,
a whole bunch of son, some with noes son. You
just got. What I would do is a lot of
roofers will inspect roofs, and you could get them to
inspect the roof kind of give you a longevity plan
of what you're looking at, and you know, if they go,
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you got you know, if it's less, if it's five
years somewhere in that timeframe, and you're interested in the roof, max,
you would call them and they would come out and
give you a quote on it. Okay, thank you, all right,
very good Carol. Thanks for the call. I appreciate it.
Take care. So that is a really good thought. Also
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is having that inspection. And I'm not talking for storm damage.
I mean if your house just went through a hailstorm
or something, having that inspected to see if there's damage,
that's always a good idea. But just to have it
inspected and see where you are, or you can even
inspect that. Sometimes it's standing on the ground with binoculars
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and looking at the shingle themselves. See if you see
any worn spots, See if you're see any cracks in
the shingles, fractures, See if you see corners of the
shingles that are cracked off. See if the kernel the
corners of the shingles are curling up. Those are all
signs of aging of the shingle itself. And at that point,
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if you're interested in doing something that would extend the
life of that shingle, like a roof Max product, go
ahead and get a quote and then you can do
the finances on that. Say, if that's something you want
to do, or it's something you want to just get
a new roof and check with your insurance company. Also
whether that coverage is the same with a roof Max
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or having it replace Sometimes they're different. All right, Uh, well,
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