July 6, 2025 • 45 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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collection of some wonderful videos. All right, our phone number,
you got it, it's eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Grab a line. We've covered a lot
today and continue to talk a lot about decks. It
is certainly deck season and many other things on the
X tier of our home. So grab a line and
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we've got Scott to lead us off this hour. Scott, welcome,
good morning, Gary good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I had a comment about that guy with the paint
on his wall. A dart erase marker A lot of
times will take permanent marker off.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Mm hm, Are you talking like that? That the one
I mentioned the magic what's the name of it now?
Magic eraser? No, oh, you're just talking about a regular eraser,
I got you.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
No, the dry erase marker, the I fual marker for
like whiteboards.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Oh okay, yeah he didn't. Yeah, I don't know exactly.
It sounded to me like it was Ballpoint inc. That
she had broke the pin because I asked if it
was like a magic marker, and he said no.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, but the dry erase markers will remove permanent mark.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Okay, well, it's certainly worth a try. I gave him
a couple. I liked that one eight hundred Crayola. Did
you hear that?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I did hear that.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
That was a good one too.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
That's a great one too. Yeah, appreciate it all right, Well,
thank you very much. I didn't know that I mentioned
four or five that I knew that were. I do
think we'll see what there was. Are a lot of
times folks call back. I do think you probably goof
up the wall a little bit you end up primin
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in paint in the wall. But you never know unless
you try. Like I said, especially the last one I
gave on rubbing alcohol that if you rub that's a
great tip too. A lot of times people will say,
you know, I've got this pain on the floor and
I want to remove it. Well, what kind of pain is?
I have no idea? Well, rubbing alcohol if you take it,
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put a little rubbing alcohol on the paint, and then
take a cotton cloth, put a little rubbing alcohol on that,
let it sit on, you know, thirty seconds or so,
and then scrub the dickens out of that with that
cotton cloth with a rubbing alcohol that's been also sitting
on the painted surface. If it is latex, it'll get
real sticky gummy, it almost feel like chewing gum. And
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then you'll know it's a latex paint. So if you're
trying to determine that you know, what kind of paint's
on the you know, maybe baseboard or something. That's how
you'll tell if it's an oil base. It'll actually shine it,
it'll clean it, it'll look awesome. So if you ever,
you know, scratching your head that's how you find out
pretty quickly. All right, let's go to Benny.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Benny, Welcome, good morning, Garrett. How are you today.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I'm doing fine.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
You I'm doing great. I just had a little kid
bit I wanted to pass on you talking about the
decks and fences. I've got a privacy fence around my
patio faces sileth so it always gets a hard son
And I've tried that consence wood suit and all that stuff,
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and it just didn't hold up and didn't do the job.
So I thought i'd try something different. I got some
pills out the over primer, I put two coats on it.
Then I came back with two coats of a high
gloss navel water based Sono paint. Okay, it has been
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pablo over six years ago and is still holding up
very good.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Oh yeah, yeah for sure. And don't you tell a
good lesson too, Benny. And that is when you stain
a fence, like with a Thompson water seal or something
I think you mentioned. If you get two to three
years out of that, you're doing fantastic. When you paint
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something or use a solid color stain and done properly,
you can get fifteen years out of that. And the
reason is the amount of solids that are in paint
block the ultraviolet rays of the sun, which breaks down finishes.
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And again, a semi transparent stain, you know, very thin,
almost like water, very little solids in it, and that
suddenly just eat that alive. So you made a smart choice.
You made a smart choice.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
And I'm sure it worked on the decks, just as oil.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Well they have something for decks. I don't know if
I would use the type of paint that you recommended,
but if you're a regular listener, Benny, you probably heard
me talk a little bit about solid color stains. And
a solid color stain looks like paint, but it holds
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and it holds up like paint. I don't know if
it'll gets you fifteen years, but probably get you seven
or eight. It will outperform a semi transparent stain, you know,
times three or four, and then it'll look like paint.
But paint will have a problem with pressure treated wood
that's being walked on. That's why you wouldn't really want
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to paint it. But a solid color stains got a
little different composition and you could certainly.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Use that, right, Yes, You've worked real good and thank
you for the information.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Very good. Thanks for the tip. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yeah, I hope you have a great take.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You do the same, sir, Take care, Bye bye, all right,
If you'd like to join us again, our phone number
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you're insulated real well and you're ventilated real well, that
attic temperature of it's ninety degrees outside, it might be
one hundred and ten. If it's not ventilated or improperly ventilated,
it might be one hundred and forty. And nobody wants
an addict that's one hundred and forty degrees, especially if
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you have inadequate insulation too, and you're in an upstairs bedroom.
That's not good. But if you ever want to a
quick check, people always go like, how do I know
we've got the right ventilation? Uh, maybe in the summertime,
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is though, I mean the weather channel give you that right.
And again you know it's not going to be as
cool as your house. But again, if it's a ninety
ninety five degrees outside, you're probably gonna be one hundred
and ten in a well ventilated attic. But if it's
not ventilated, big problems. All right. While Danny answers to
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the phone, we'll take a break. Pam, you'll be up first,
and then we got Bob and Martin and Molly and
Ray and you. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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All right, doing well in the neighborhood. We are fixing
up the home, and you're at home with Gary Sullivan
and if you'd like to grab a line talk about
your home project. Do so. We're going to get right
back to the phones. A busy day it is and
paym welcome, Hello, How are you? I'm doing fine? Thanks.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
I have a question about cleaning sighting. I have like
a cape Cod house and the top of siding in
the bottom of red brick and I need to clean
the sighting. But I want to not do something that's
going to run down and make streaks on the brick
or advantage it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
And did you say it's aluminum sighting?
Speaker 8 (12:37):
Correct? Yes, okay it is.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah, Well, how holds that sighting?
Speaker 8 (12:44):
That fighting is not terribly The house is fifty years old,
but that fighting is probably about three years old.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Okay. Do you know if it was when you bought that,
if it was like sighting that was to cleanse itself
or anything along those lines with those words.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
I don't believe though.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Okay. The reason I'm asking is, you know, you drive
through older neighborhoods and you'll see white stains all over
red brick, and that sighting was designed to clean itself.
It was called chalking. So the finish paint would literally
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deteriorate and it would wash down, but it would clean itself, right,
And that's what we want to avoid. But if you
have non cleaning sighting or non chalking sighting, and it's
probably not even made anymore, you'll be fine. So my
next question is what are we cleaning it from? Mold's
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mildew dark? All right, so there's a couple of ways
to clean it. I'm gonna tell you the easiest way first. Okay,
you may have heard me talk about a product called
Wet Forget. Wet and Forget is a product that can
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literally connect a hose to the bottle and spray it
on the siding. Give it six weeks and it'll be gone.
It'll be absolutely clean. You will not scrub it, you
will not do anything with it.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
That sounds great.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That sounds awesome. So the other ways, and there's other ways.
There's other cleaning products, oxygenated bleach, there's sighting washes where
you spray, you wet the brick, you spray the siding,
and then you'll have a bucket of this mixture and
you'll take like a a truck mop or a truck
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washing brush with a long handle, and you'll scrub that
siding in rints. I've seen people use pressure washers on it.
You got to be careful with that. You don't want
to debt the dent the aluminum siding. But the Wet
and Forget literally they make it in a concentrate where
you can mix it in a sprayer if you want,
but they've got a hose end sprayer. It sprays twenty
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five feet in the air. You connect it to your hose,
do it early in the morning or a cloudy day.
You don't want to do it when it's sunny and
ninety five out, okay, Because the way it works is
it sprays onto the surface and it stays on the surface.
You can't tell it, but it stays on the surface,
and as the sun and the rain it activates it.
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That's what kind of keeps the And it takes like
six weeks and it you know, gets rid of fungus, algae, mold, mildew,
you know, liking the whole works. It does a great job.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
So obviously I can stray that on the brick too.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, you put it on your sidewalk, driveway, patio whatever.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
That sounds wonderful. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
All right, very good. Give me a full report, maam,
and don't give up on it takes six weeks, okay, okay,
I'll be all right, very good, thank you. Yeah. I
still remember when I first was introduced to that product.
It sounded too good to be true, right, And I
also remember I started recommending I tried it, I liked it.
I recommended it, and somebody called me up and they
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weren't happy with me. They had a white picket fence
they had sprayed that thing. It was five weeks, this
thing has not done anything, so just please just give
me another week or two and there's no You know,
it depends how sunny it is, It depends how cloudy,
how much it's rained. I mean, it depends on a
lot of things. I've used it and it's worked in
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three days on window sills. One time, anyway, ran into
the person I don't know, six or probably seven weeks later,
or so two weeks later, so seven weeks since they
sprayed it. She remember when I was telling you how
that would and of course it worked, and she goes,
I can't believe it's absolutely clean, and it is. It's
absolutely clean, all right, Molly.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
Welcome, Hi, thank you, Hi, thank you. I have a
question about stairs going well, actually just two steps going
up to a deck. The deck is it's composite with
kind of a matte textured finish, so it's not slippery.
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But the steps are different. They're made out of some
fake wood that looks like it has grain, but you know,
the grain is not real, so there's no texture and
it's very plastically and they're very slippery. Yeah they could be,
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but it's really hard to tell. And I am responsible
for the property. But I want to ask the landlord
to put some sort of strip on there to be
anti skid. But there's a billion of them online and
some of them are or it looks like most of
their adhesive only, and I just don't know if they're effective,
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if they're going to actually come off when it gets cold.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Well, i'll tell you what you want to do. There's one.
It's made by three M. It comes in one inch,
two inch, three inch. I think it even comes in
four inch and you put it on that stuff. I've
got three strips of that on some presstreet wood steps
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that has been there for twenty six years.
Speaker 10 (18:35):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
And it's a it's an adhesive. You don't have to spread,
you know, it's it's the traction strips are you know?
It's sticky on the back. You peel off the paper,
you put it down and put it down exactly how
you want it, so a little part on the end,
and then smooth it and keep it straight because when
it's down, it's down for good. It's not going anywhere.
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They use it in the marine business on boats and stuff.
And that's also another option for you because lost sunlight
and water. But I use a three M and traction
strips and they're awesome. They really are.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
Are they? Are they black?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Kind of looks like they I know they're black, and
I think they make like a grayish white. Also.
Speaker 9 (19:25):
Okay, well that's the issue. The owners are very very.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, sit tight and if you've got a follow up question,
we'll get you on the other side of the break.
But it's the three M one I recommend and show
them a picture of it. I don't know how else
you're going to make it. You know, have that kind
of good subtraction, but looking marine catalogs for boats. Also,
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back to the phones in keeping us busy there. I
kind of love it. Ray. Welcome, Hi, Gary, Hey, you
going doing fine? Thanks?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Hey, got two questions for you. First one is about
a water heater. I've got electric water heaters about two
years old, and I've been hitting the reset because and
and then heats up again. And then about a day
after using it, it's, uh it's cold again, and I
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got to go in there and hit the reset. Uh
it's about two years old. What do you think is
going on with that?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I think probably the elements of the thermostat's gota. You know,
it's breaking down. How old you say it was, it's
only two years old? Two years old? That that would
be my guess of what's going on is that when
it quits working, does it flip the circuit breaker?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Uh? It trips that you know when you take the
cover off the water heater and you press that little reset, okay,
and then it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yeah, I would think. So you got an upper and
a lower. I am I trying to say? It's like
an element, like an element element? Yeah, yeah, I would
replace both of those. I'm pretty sure that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
How big of a pain in the butt is that?
The change them?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Not too bad? I mean, I mean it's a project.
I mean you can google and get this or even
YouTube it and they'll walk you through it. But you know,
there's you know, there's there's basically there's different kinds. Some
screw in. Some have a plate with four screws and
it's a matter of pulling it out. You got hard
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water where you're at.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Well, I do have a real good.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
What do you call it, water softner.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Where you put yeah, water soft You put salt in
everything from Adams. It's a real reliable company that I've
had for a long time, and I only use the
really good salt in it and stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
You know. Yeah, Well, it's you know, a lot of
times the hard water breaks those down. And if you've
got that going on, it's probably not an issue. I mean,
it's probably not an issue with the hard water. You
can test for the continuity and stuff like that. I mean,
I'm guessing. I'm not there. I'm just guessing that's probably
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what it is, okay, I mean is it consistent? Is
it turning off like every other day?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I mean, you know, it'll warm up get real nice.
I thought at first it was the like maybe it
was too hot and it was tripping, you know, but
it's set I'm trying to remember what it's set at
a good temperature. But it's almost like you know, if
they take a bath or something like that, or use
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pretty much of the water and then uh, then it's okay,
but but then it you know, I still got enough
water in there and it's still hot, but then all
of a sudden it's it's lukewarm and cold. And then
I check that. Uh I knew a little bit about it,
so I took a cover off and I hit that.
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I've done it probably four times now.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yes, but you don't want to be living like that
right now. So right and as well as the electric panel,
it hasn't tripped that circuit breaker it it has a
trip that. Yeah, I mean I would say high temperature
that could do it, or the elements. I'm still kind
of leaning to the elements, and and you know, it
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could be a bad thermostat too. It's something in there
there's probably a short in it, or that elements and
across burning out. I'm just again, a multi meter will
test both of those if you want, you can, you know,
test the continuity and see where you stand. But one
of those is bad, and so you're gonna have to
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track down to which one it is. I don't think
it's the wiring, I really, I really believe it's the
thermostat element and maybe the hot water, maybe the burned wire.
I'm still back at the kind of the element, to
be honest.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
With you, so I guess I'll have I don't want
to sound dumb here, but I'm sure there. Yeah, I'll
have to drain the tank and everything.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah. You know you're gonna have to shut the power
off from the circuit breaker before you get into that, right.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Okay, all right? So if I check continuity on them,
then if I don't, If I don't have continuity, one
of them elements is.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Bad, correct, right? And you got an upper and a
long one.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Okay, uh let me ask you something? Uh me doing it?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Is there?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I'm over here in the Ross area and and uh
and in Ohio, you know around Cincinnati? Is there a
good reliable uh bummer? And what do you think something
like that with cost if I just called them and
had it done.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
You know, they're all different. But I mean you've got
Rotor Ruter does the city. You got Guyler Plumbing on
the west side. I mean you've got to play you know,
independence or you know, corporate like a Rotor Ruter would.
I'll tell you what. Here's another idea. If you go
to rotoruter dot com, Okay, you can get your you
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can get their app. They're they're doing a mobile app
thing right now. They have hundreds and hundreds of videos.
Oh and you could follow. I'm sure they'll have one
on that without even looking one on that, and they
can walk you know, you can watch that whole thing
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being done and then decide whether you want to tackle
it or not. And then you can even book an
appointment right on there. I don't know if they do
any estimates on there.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Or not, but okay, any idea with something like any
idea with something like that, well.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
No, and then plumbing you don't really know. Yeah, you know,
I mean it's like a hundred bucks to get there.
I mean that's that's you can always figure that. And
then how whatever the time charges on to fix that.
And you know, if it's an element, and they probably
zapp that together pretty fast, but you and I sitting
here don't know what the element if it is the element,
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so right, you know, And also you probably got a
warranty on that tank if it's three years old, probably
not on the heating elements, but you could probabrobably go
to their website also and they may have a twenty
four hour number.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Okay, okay, that's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
And usually those tanks got you know, one year, five year,
or ten year warrant. He just depends.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Okay, that's a good idea. Well thanks, Okay, next question
is I got about a two hundred foot concrete driveway
I want to power worship off. What what do I
need to seal that with?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
So it's just regular concrete. It's not like an exposed
aggregator stamp concrete.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
It's just a regular concrete all right.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, so's driveway. Yeah, there's You want to find a
breathable It sounds weird, but a breathable sealer, especially in
our climate, And I'll give you a recommendation of a product,
but they're slock sane based products that are breathable, and
every hardware store has a slocksane based product. It's a
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breathable concrete seiler. It's kind of like gore tex for concrete.
So what it does is the soil that's moist underneath,
especially this year and if it was wintertime, it will
exhaust moisture through the slab and it will minimize moisture
from going through the slab. So it's kind of like
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here we go one, ah, you do the same, all right.
Our phone number if you'd like to join the show,
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Speaker 1 (35:37):
All right, back at it, we go at home with
Jerry Simon. I did mention testing with a multimeter on that,
and I didn't tell you what the readings were. The
reading would be somewhere between ten and twenty olms. That
would be good. If it reads ol or total resistance,
(35:58):
basically that element is bad, and so I just wanted
to note back on it. I think I also mentioned
he mentioned draining the tank. I think I said, yeah,
I don't. You don't need to drain the tank. You're
just messing with the elements and you should be good.
All right, Just want to follow up on that. All right,
let's get back to the phones. In fact, let me
(36:19):
give you the phone number if you'd like to join us,
please do. It's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five, And let's go to Martin. Martin. Welcome, Hey,
good morning, Gary morning.
Speaker 10 (36:32):
So I have a two family house with a walk
up attic, and we had that heat wave last week,
and I have a remote temperature sensor up in the
attic with a digital readout in my kitchen.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Perfect with the windows.
Speaker 10 (36:45):
Even with the windows open, it was one hundred and
twenty five degrees up there. What can I do to well, oh, heat,
it's one hundred years old.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
One hundred years old. Okay, So do you have besides
the windows or not? Do you have any ventilation besides
the open windows up there?
Speaker 10 (37:08):
No? No, And there's no ridge event.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Okay, okay, man, that's the ventilation I was talking about.
So well, okay, so we didn't ventilate homes till the
late seventies, so obviously incorporating ventilation would help solve the problem.
And you might think right away, well, I think windows open, Gary,
(37:32):
Come on, that's kind of ventilation. But not really. And
here's why. Unless there's a really good breeze blowing through
one window and out the other window, then you've got
good cross ventilation and you'll take that heat out. But
we don't always have that when it's hot, you know
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a lot of times, right, So what the whole new
concept being well over fifty years now, you know, late
late seventies, as we and you probably don't have this
where you have the gutters on the house, and you
have the soffit, and you have the facia, there would
be vents underneath the soft and then at the top
(38:17):
of the roof you would have the ridge vent. Right,
so we create almost like how a chimney works. All right,
even though it's ninety ninety five degrees outside, and let's
go back and say the windows are closed, okay, because
(38:38):
we would have to close them to use this. Windows
are closed. That ninety five degree air is cooler. The
hot air in the attic now might be one hundred
and forty degrees, And if there's air coming in through
those soffits, it's cooler and it's pushing the one hundred
(38:58):
and forty degree temperatu your air out of the ridge vent.
That's how we ventilate a house. Now, if you don't
do that, you got two windows, so you can't open
up the windows if you put in the soft events
in a ridge vent, because then you'll screw up the
whole flow of what they call convection. That's convection bringing
(39:20):
cool air in pushing hot air out. So you would
put in a ridge vent, put in soft events, close
those windows. Another option would be what I said, well,
if you had a thirty mile on hour breeze. Well,
we don't have a thirty mile on our breeze, but
we could make one. So at one end of that
attic we would have a fan that would be drawing
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air from the other window, So we would create a
tunnel of air going across. It may not be pushing
all of it out, it may just be like a
jet stream going through the attic, but what is pulling out.
It's replacing with the same outdoor that would be coming
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up through convection in the ninety five degree air. Okay,
So having a fan there and pulling that all the
way across would certainly help. It would And you're you're
almost there, right, I mean, yeah, it's one hundred and
twenty five degrees. That's that's not great. But we put
a fan in there, we can lower that.
Speaker 10 (40:26):
Mm hmm. Okay, yeah, so I'll just have to measure
the window and find a box fan that'll fit in there.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Yeah, and then would go and reverse, so you know,
I mean, it's it's pulling. As a kid, we had
bedrooms that were basically in the attic. We had a big,
old fan. We could flip the blades going one way
or the other way. For we just pulled the air
in and out the other window, it would go.
Speaker 10 (40:48):
So would it would the fan be blowing the air
out or pulling air in and let the.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Pulling air in the other one pulling air in, pulling
air and out. See when you're when you have where
it's just blowing on you, that air is not being replaced.
It's just one hundred and twenty five degree air with
a wind chill. But when you're pulling air in, you're
pulling ninety five degree air in and you're pushing creating
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that gestuream out the other window.
Speaker 10 (41:19):
Yep, yep, Okay, all right. Now would putting any type
of insulation on the rafters help in any way? Or
I would still the.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
H That's a great question, And shame on me for
not talking. So there's a there's you know, we're always learning.
So you know, before the seventies we didn't ventilate addicts.
Now we ventilate addicts. And in the last fifteen years
there's something called whole home encapsulation. So people were looking
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and saying, say, especially in the southeast, you got a
lot of air handlers, air conditioners up in the attic,
and if it's not vented properly, it's one hundred and
thirty hundred and forty degrees. That doesn't work very well.
So whole house encapsulation came along, and that's kind of
getting a good look at throughout different areas of the country.
(42:15):
But what they do is there's no ventilation back in
the attic, just like you got in fact, you would
board up the windows, and you would insulate the sidewalls,
and you would insulate the underside of the roof, and
you wouldn't insulate the floor of the attic. You would
allow that to become a semi conditioned airspace, so the
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you know, the air air conditioning work a little harder.
You're not gonna put vents up there and air condition it,
but you're going to allow the cool house air to
seep up into that attic and it's insulated. A lot
of foamers and people that use foam insulation are doing that,
and it's really really us savings. If, like I said,
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in the southeast Southwest, where they have air handlers and
air conditioners in an attic, that's a big deal. And
I'm seeing it incorporated in different other areas of the country,
including you know, some of our northern states.
Speaker 10 (43:19):
Yeah, back in the seventies when we had the energy crisis,
my dad had blown in insulation put into the side
walls of the house and under the floor in the attic.
So I have installation between the second floor ceiling and
the attic floor.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Right right, So if you went to you know, and
what that adding or what that insulation's doing is basically,
you know, protecting the house from the one hundred and
twenty five degree temperature that you have in the attic
and then the ventilation it's still ninety five degrees, So
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it's because it's having protection from the nine five degree
temperatures that's in the attic. If you're going like, well,
I'm gonna go a whole house encapsulation, you're taking that
insulation out and you're just letting the air move to
the attic and you've encapsulated everything else. So something to
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think about. Yeah, yeah, different options. Thanks, thank you, take care,
bye bye. All right, Yeah, there's a lot to look at,
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two five five. Grab a line. We've covered a lot
today and continue to talk a lot about decks. It
is certainly deck season and many other things on the
X tier of our home. So grab a line and
(01:36):
we've got Scott to lead us off this hour. Scott, welcome,
good morning, Gary good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I had a comment about that guy with the paint
on his wall. A dart erase marker A lot of
times will take permanent marker off.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Mm hm, Are you talking like that? That the one
I mentioned the magic what's the name of it now?
Magic eraser? No, oh, you're just talking about a regular eraser,
I got you.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
No, the dry erase marker, the I fual marker for
like whiteboards.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Oh okay, yeah he didn't. Yeah, I don't know exactly.
It sounded to me like it was Ballpoint inc. That
she had broke the pin because I asked if it
was like a magic marker, and he said no.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, but the dry erase markers will remove permanent mark.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Okay, well, it's certainly worth a try. I gave him
a couple. I liked that one eight hundred Crayola. Did
you hear that?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I did hear that.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
That was a good one too.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
That's a great one too. Yeah, appreciate it all right, Well,
thank you very much. I didn't know that I mentioned
four or five that I knew that were. I do
think we'll see what there was. Are a lot of
times folks call back. I do think you probably goof
up the wall a little bit you end up primin
(03:06):
in paint in the wall. But you never know unless
you try. Like I said, especially the last one I
gave on rubbing alcohol that if you rub that's a
great tip too. A lot of times people will say,
you know, I've got this pain on the floor and
I want to remove it. Well, what kind of pain is?
I have no idea? Well, rubbing alcohol if you take it,
(03:31):
put a little rubbing alcohol on the paint, and then
take a cotton cloth, put a little rubbing alcohol on that,
let it sit on, you know, thirty seconds or so,
and then scrub the dickens out of that with that
cotton cloth with a rubbing alcohol that's been also sitting
on the painted surface. If it is latex, it'll get
real sticky gummy, it almost feel like chewing gum. And
(03:53):
then you'll know it's a latex paint. So if you're
trying to determine that you know, what kind of paint's
on the you know, maybe baseboard or something. That's how
you'll tell if it's an oil base. It'll actually shine it,
it'll clean it, it'll look awesome. So if you ever,
you know, scratching your head that's how you find out
pretty quickly. All right, let's go to Benny.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Benny, Welcome, good morning, Garrett. How are you today.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I'm doing fine.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
You I'm doing great. I just had a little kid
bit I wanted to pass on you talking about the
decks and fences. I've got a privacy fence around my
patio faces sileth so it always gets a hard son
And I've tried that consence wood suit and all that stuff,
(04:42):
and it just didn't hold up and didn't do the job.
So I thought i'd try something different. I got some
pills out the over primer, I put two coats on it.
Then I came back with two coats of a high
gloss navel water based Sono paint. Okay, it has been
(05:02):
pablo over six years ago and is still holding up
very good.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Oh yeah, yeah for sure. And don't you tell a
good lesson too, Benny. And that is when you stain
a fence, like with a Thompson water seal or something
I think you mentioned. If you get two to three
years out of that, you're doing fantastic. When you paint
(05:29):
something or use a solid color stain and done properly,
you can get fifteen years out of that. And the
reason is the amount of solids that are in paint
block the ultraviolet rays of the sun, which breaks down finishes.
(05:52):
And again, a semi transparent stain, you know, very thin,
almost like water, very little solids in it, and that
suddenly just eat that alive. So you made a smart choice.
You made a smart choice.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
And I'm sure it worked on the decks, just as oil.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Well they have something for decks. I don't know if
I would use the type of paint that you recommended,
but if you're a regular listener, Benny, you probably heard
me talk a little bit about solid color stains. And
a solid color stain looks like paint, but it holds
(06:33):
and it holds up like paint. I don't know if
it'll gets you fifteen years, but probably get you seven
or eight. It will outperform a semi transparent stain, you know,
times three or four, and then it'll look like paint.
But paint will have a problem with pressure treated wood
that's being walked on. That's why you wouldn't really want
(06:55):
to paint it. But a solid color stains got a
little different composition and you could certainly.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Use that, right, Yes, You've worked real good and thank
you for the information.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Very good. Thanks for the tip. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yeah, I hope you have a great take.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You do the same, sir, Take care, Bye bye, all right,
If you'd like to join us again, our phone number
is eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. How
hot is your attic right now? That's not a silly question,
you know. We're always talking about insulation ventilation. So if
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you're insulated real well and you're ventilated real well, that
attic temperature of it's ninety degrees outside, it might be
one hundred and ten. If it's not ventilated or improperly ventilated,
it might be one hundred and forty. And nobody wants
an addict that's one hundred and forty degrees, especially if
(08:01):
you have inadequate insulation too, and you're in an upstairs bedroom.
That's not good. But if you ever want to a
quick check, people always go like, how do I know
we've got the right ventilation? Uh, maybe in the summertime,
put a thermometer up there and just see what your
attic temperature is. You'll know maybe what the outdoor temperature
(08:25):
is though, I mean the weather channel give you that right.
And again you know it's not going to be as
cool as your house. But again, if it's a ninety
ninety five degrees outside, you're probably gonna be one hundred
and ten in a well ventilated attic. But if it's
not ventilated, big problems. All right. While Danny answers to
(08:50):
the phone, we'll take a break. Pam, you'll be up first,
and then we got Bob and Martin and Molly and
Ray and you. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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All right, doing well in the neighborhood. We are fixing
up the home, and you're at home with Gary Sullivan
and if you'd like to grab a line talk about
your home project. Do so. We're going to get right
back to the phones. A busy day it is and
paym welcome, Hello, How are you? I'm doing fine? Thanks.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
I have a question about cleaning sighting. I have like
a cape Cod house and the top of siding in
the bottom of red brick and I need to clean
the sighting. But I want to not do something that's
going to run down and make streaks on the brick
or advantage it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
And did you say it's aluminum sighting?
Speaker 8 (12:37):
Correct? Yes, okay it is.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah, Well, how holds that sighting?
Speaker 8 (12:44):
That fighting is not terribly The house is fifty years old,
but that fighting is probably about three years old.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Okay. Do you know if it was when you bought that,
if it was like sighting that was to cleanse itself
or anything along those lines with those words.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
I don't believe though.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Okay. The reason I'm asking is, you know, you drive
through older neighborhoods and you'll see white stains all over
red brick, and that sighting was designed to clean itself.
It was called chalking. So the finish paint would literally
(13:23):
deteriorate and it would wash down, but it would clean itself, right,
And that's what we want to avoid. But if you
have non cleaning sighting or non chalking sighting, and it's
probably not even made anymore, you'll be fine. So my
next question is what are we cleaning it from? Mold's
(13:45):
mildew dark? All right, so there's a couple of ways
to clean it. I'm gonna tell you the easiest way first. Okay,
you may have heard me talk about a product called
Wet Forget. Wet and Forget is a product that can
(14:05):
literally connect a hose to the bottle and spray it
on the siding. Give it six weeks and it'll be gone.
It'll be absolutely clean. You will not scrub it, you
will not do anything with it.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
That sounds great.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That sounds awesome. So the other ways, and there's other ways.
There's other cleaning products, oxygenated bleach, there's sighting washes where
you spray, you wet the brick, you spray the siding,
and then you'll have a bucket of this mixture and
you'll take like a a truck mop or a truck
(14:46):
washing brush with a long handle, and you'll scrub that
siding in rints. I've seen people use pressure washers on it.
You got to be careful with that. You don't want
to debt the dent the aluminum siding. But the Wet
and Forget literally they make it in a concentrate where
you can mix it in a sprayer if you want,
but they've got a hose end sprayer. It sprays twenty
(15:07):
five feet in the air. You connect it to your hose,
do it early in the morning or a cloudy day.
You don't want to do it when it's sunny and
ninety five out, okay, Because the way it works is
it sprays onto the surface and it stays on the surface.
You can't tell it, but it stays on the surface,
and as the sun and the rain it activates it.
(15:32):
That's what kind of keeps the And it takes like
six weeks and it you know, gets rid of fungus, algae, mold, mildew,
you know, liking the whole works. It does a great job.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
So obviously I can stray that on the brick too.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, you put it on your sidewalk, driveway, patio whatever.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
That sounds wonderful. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
All right, very good. Give me a full report, maam,
and don't give up on it takes six weeks, okay, okay,
I'll be all right, very good, thank you. Yeah. I
still remember when I first was introduced to that product.
It sounded too good to be true, right, And I
also remember I started recommending I tried it, I liked it.
I recommended it, and somebody called me up and they
(16:19):
weren't happy with me. They had a white picket fence
they had sprayed that thing. It was five weeks, this
thing has not done anything, so just please just give
me another week or two and there's no You know,
it depends how sunny it is, It depends how cloudy,
how much it's rained. I mean, it depends on a
lot of things. I've used it and it's worked in
(16:39):
three days on window sills. One time, anyway, ran into
the person I don't know, six or probably seven weeks later,
or so two weeks later, so seven weeks since they
sprayed it. She remember when I was telling you how
that would and of course it worked, and she goes,
I can't believe it's absolutely clean, and it is. It's
absolutely clean, all right, Molly.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
Welcome, Hi, thank you, Hi, thank you. I have a
question about stairs going well, actually just two steps going
up to a deck. The deck is it's composite with
kind of a matte textured finish, so it's not slippery.
(17:24):
But the steps are different. They're made out of some
fake wood that looks like it has grain, but you know,
the grain is not real, so there's no texture and
it's very plastically and they're very slippery. Yeah they could be,
(17:45):
but it's really hard to tell. And I am responsible
for the property. But I want to ask the landlord
to put some sort of strip on there to be
anti skid. But there's a billion of them online and
some of them are or it looks like most of
their adhesive only, and I just don't know if they're effective,
(18:08):
if they're going to actually come off when it gets cold.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Well, i'll tell you what you want to do. There's one.
It's made by three M. It comes in one inch,
two inch, three inch. I think it even comes in
four inch and you put it on that stuff. I've
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that has been there for twenty six years.
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And it's a it's an adhesive. You don't have to spread,
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They use it in the marine business on boats and stuff.
And that's also another option for you because lost sunlight
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Kind of looks like they I know they're black, and
I think they make like a grayish white. Also.
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Yeah, sit tight and if you've got a follow up question,
we'll get you on the other side of the break.
But it's the three M one I recommend and show
them a picture of it. I don't know how else
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of good subtraction, but looking marine catalogs for boats. Also,
we'll continue at home with Gary Sullivan.
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back to the phones in keeping us busy there. I
kind of love it. Ray. Welcome, Hi, Gary, Hey, you
going doing fine? Thanks?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Hey, got two questions for you. First one is about
a water heater. I've got electric water heaters about two
years old, and I've been hitting the reset because and
and then heats up again. And then about a day
after using it, it's, uh it's cold again, and I
(23:30):
got to go in there and hit the reset. Uh
it's about two years old. What do you think is
going on with that?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I think probably the elements of the thermostat's gota. You know,
it's breaking down. How old you say it was, it's
only two years old? Two years old? That that would
be my guess of what's going on is that when
it quits working, does it flip the circuit breaker?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Uh? It trips that you know when you take the
cover off the water heater and you press that little reset, okay,
and then it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yeah, I would think. So you got an upper and
a lower. I am I trying to say? It's like
an element, like an element element? Yeah, yeah, I would
replace both of those. I'm pretty sure that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
How big of a pain in the butt is that?
The change them?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Not too bad? I mean, I mean it's a project.
I mean you can google and get this or even
YouTube it and they'll walk you through it. But you know,
there's you know, there's there's basically there's different kinds. Some
screw in. Some have a plate with four screws and
it's a matter of pulling it out. You got hard
(24:52):
water where you're at.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Well, I do have a real good.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
What do you call it, water softner.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Where you put yeah, water soft You put salt in
everything from Adams. It's a real reliable company that I've
had for a long time, and I only use the
really good salt in it and stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
You know. Yeah, Well, it's you know, a lot of
times the hard water breaks those down. And if you've
got that going on, it's probably not an issue. I mean,
it's probably not an issue with the hard water. You
can test for the continuity and stuff like that. I mean,
I'm guessing. I'm not there. I'm just guessing that's probably
(25:37):
what it is, okay, I mean is it consistent? Is
it turning off like every other day?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I mean, you know, it'll warm up get real nice.
I thought at first it was the like maybe it
was too hot and it was tripping, you know, but
it's set I'm trying to remember what it's set at
a good temperature. But it's almost like you know, if
they take a bath or something like that, or use
(26:04):
pretty much of the water and then uh, then it's okay,
but but then it you know, I still got enough
water in there and it's still hot, but then all
of a sudden it's it's lukewarm and cold. And then
I check that. Uh I knew a little bit about it,
so I took a cover off and I hit that.
(26:26):
I've done it probably four times now.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yes, but you don't want to be living like that
right now. So right and as well as the electric panel,
it hasn't tripped that circuit breaker it it has a
trip that. Yeah, I mean I would say high temperature
that could do it, or the elements. I'm still kind
of leaning to the elements, and and you know, it
(26:54):
could be a bad thermostat too. It's something in there
there's probably a short in it, or that elements and
across burning out. I'm just again, a multi meter will
test both of those if you want, you can, you know,
test the continuity and see where you stand. But one
of those is bad, and so you're gonna have to
(27:15):
track down to which one it is. I don't think
it's the wiring, I really, I really believe it's the
thermostat element and maybe the hot water, maybe the burned wire.
I'm still back at the kind of the element, to
be honest.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
With you, so I guess I'll have I don't want
to sound dumb here, but I'm sure there. Yeah, I'll
have to drain the tank and everything.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah. You know you're gonna have to shut the power
off from the circuit breaker before you get into that, right.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Okay, all right? So if I check continuity on them,
then if I don't, If I don't have continuity, one
of them elements is.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Bad, correct, right? And you got an upper and a
long one.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Okay, uh let me ask you something? Uh me doing it?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Is there?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I'm over here in the Ross area and and uh
and in Ohio, you know around Cincinnati? Is there a
good reliable uh bummer? And what do you think something
like that with cost if I just called them and
had it done.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
You know, they're all different. But I mean you've got
Rotor Ruter does the city. You got Guyler Plumbing on
the west side. I mean you've got to play you know,
independence or you know, corporate like a Rotor Ruter would.
I'll tell you what. Here's another idea. If you go
to rotoruter dot com, Okay, you can get your you
(28:46):
can get their app. They're they're doing a mobile app
thing right now. They have hundreds and hundreds of videos.
Oh and you could follow. I'm sure they'll have one
on that without even looking one on that, and they
can walk you know, you can watch that whole thing
(29:08):
being done and then decide whether you want to tackle
it or not. And then you can even book an
appointment right on there. I don't know if they do
any estimates on there.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Or not, but okay, any idea with something like any
idea with something like that, well.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
No, and then plumbing you don't really know. Yeah, you know,
I mean it's like a hundred bucks to get there.
I mean that's that's you can always figure that. And
then how whatever the time charges on to fix that.
And you know, if it's an element, and they probably
zapp that together pretty fast, but you and I sitting
here don't know what the element if it is the element,
(29:49):
so right, you know, And also you probably got a
warranty on that tank if it's three years old, probably
not on the heating elements, but you could probabrobably go
to their website also and they may have a twenty
four hour number.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Okay, okay, that's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
And usually those tanks got you know, one year, five year,
or ten year warrant. He just depends.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Okay, that's a good idea. Well thanks, Okay, next question
is I got about a two hundred foot concrete driveway
I want to power worship off. What what do I
need to seal that with?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
So it's just regular concrete. It's not like an exposed
aggregator stamp concrete.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
It's just a regular concrete all right.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, so's driveway. Yeah, there's You want to find a
breathable It sounds weird, but a breathable sealer, especially in
our climate, And I'll give you a recommendation of a product,
but they're slock sane based products that are breathable, and
every hardware store has a slocksane based product. It's a
(31:02):
breathable concrete seiler. It's kind of like gore tex for concrete.
So what it does is the soil that's moist underneath,
especially this year and if it was wintertime, it will
exhaust moisture through the slab and it will minimize moisture
from going through the slab. So it's kind of like
cortex for your concrete. Got a lifespan of somewhere between
(31:26):
three and four years. There is if you want to
read about one that's like the one I'm recommending, you
can go to a website called masonry Defender dot com
and they have project specific products and the very first
product they show you is a sidewalking driveway sailor. And
(31:51):
there's all different kinds. I mean, I can give you
any kind of recommendation. If you want a little bit
of sheene, there's one for that. If you want just
a flat one, that Masonry Defender one is perfect. You
put this on, you can't tell there's anything on there,
so it looks exactly like it was, minimizes water penetration,
allows it to breathe, and again it's it's just called
(32:13):
sidewalking Driveway Sailor.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Okay, Masonary Masonary Defender.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
That you said, Masonrydefender dot com.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Yes, dot com dot okay, all right, hey, thank you
so much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
All right, very good, Thanks for the call. Take care, Okay,
here we go one, ah, you do the same, all right.
Our phone number if you'd like to join the show,
happy to talk about your project, and it's eight hundred
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We'll talk about uh well, we can get you an
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Speaker 1 (35:37):
All right, back at it, we go at home with
Jerry Simon. I did mention testing with a multimeter on that,
and I didn't tell you what the readings were. The
reading would be somewhere between ten and twenty olms. That
would be good. If it reads ol or total resistance,
(35:58):
basically that element is bad, and so I just wanted
to note back on it. I think I also mentioned
he mentioned draining the tank. I think I said, yeah,
I don't. You don't need to drain the tank. You're
just messing with the elements and you should be good.
All right, Just want to follow up on that. All right,
let's get back to the phones. In fact, let me
(36:19):
give you the phone number if you'd like to join us,
please do. It's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five, And let's go to Martin. Martin. Welcome, Hey,
good morning, Gary morning.
Speaker 10 (36:32):
So I have a two family house with a walk
up attic, and we had that heat wave last week,
and I have a remote temperature sensor up in the
attic with a digital readout in my kitchen.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Perfect with the windows.
Speaker 10 (36:45):
Even with the windows open, it was one hundred and
twenty five degrees up there. What can I do to well, oh, heat,
it's one hundred years old.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
One hundred years old. Okay, So do you have besides
the windows or not? Do you have any ventilation besides
the open windows up there?
Speaker 10 (37:08):
No? No, And there's no ridge event.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Okay, okay, man, that's the ventilation I was talking about.
So well, okay, so we didn't ventilate homes till the
late seventies, so obviously incorporating ventilation would help solve the problem.
And you might think right away, well, I think windows open, Gary,
(37:32):
Come on, that's kind of ventilation. But not really. And
here's why. Unless there's a really good breeze blowing through
one window and out the other window, then you've got
good cross ventilation and you'll take that heat out. But
we don't always have that when it's hot, you know
(37:53):
a lot of times, right, So what the whole new
concept being well over fifty years now, you know, late
late seventies, as we and you probably don't have this
where you have the gutters on the house, and you
have the soffit, and you have the facia, there would
be vents underneath the soft and then at the top
(38:17):
of the roof you would have the ridge vent. Right,
so we create almost like how a chimney works. All right,
even though it's ninety ninety five degrees outside, and let's
go back and say the windows are closed, okay, because
(38:38):
we would have to close them to use this. Windows
are closed. That ninety five degree air is cooler. The
hot air in the attic now might be one hundred
and forty degrees, And if there's air coming in through
those soffits, it's cooler and it's pushing the one hundred
(38:58):
and forty degree temperatu your air out of the ridge vent.
That's how we ventilate a house. Now, if you don't
do that, you got two windows, so you can't open
up the windows if you put in the soft events
in a ridge vent, because then you'll screw up the
whole flow of what they call convection. That's convection bringing
(39:20):
cool air in pushing hot air out. So you would
put in a ridge vent, put in soft events, close
those windows. Another option would be what I said, well,
if you had a thirty mile on hour breeze. Well,
we don't have a thirty mile on our breeze, but
we could make one. So at one end of that
attic we would have a fan that would be drawing
(39:42):
air from the other window, So we would create a
tunnel of air going across. It may not be pushing
all of it out, it may just be like a
jet stream going through the attic, but what is pulling out.
It's replacing with the same outdoor that would be coming
(40:05):
up through convection in the ninety five degree air. Okay,
So having a fan there and pulling that all the
way across would certainly help. It would And you're you're
almost there, right, I mean, yeah, it's one hundred and
twenty five degrees. That's that's not great. But we put
a fan in there, we can lower that.
Speaker 10 (40:26):
Mm hmm. Okay, yeah, so I'll just have to measure
the window and find a box fan that'll fit in there.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Yeah, and then would go and reverse, so you know,
I mean, it's it's pulling. As a kid, we had
bedrooms that were basically in the attic. We had a big,
old fan. We could flip the blades going one way
or the other way. For we just pulled the air
in and out the other window, it would go.
Speaker 10 (40:48):
So would it would the fan be blowing the air
out or pulling air in and let the.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Pulling air in the other one pulling air in, pulling
air and out. See when you're when you have where
it's just blowing on you, that air is not being replaced.
It's just one hundred and twenty five degree air with
a wind chill. But when you're pulling air in, you're
pulling ninety five degree air in and you're pushing creating
(41:15):
that gestuream out the other window.
Speaker 10 (41:19):
Yep, yep, Okay, all right. Now would putting any type
of insulation on the rafters help in any way? Or
I would still the.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
H That's a great question, And shame on me for
not talking. So there's a there's you know, we're always learning.
So you know, before the seventies we didn't ventilate addicts.
Now we ventilate addicts. And in the last fifteen years
there's something called whole home encapsulation. So people were looking
(41:52):
and saying, say, especially in the southeast, you got a
lot of air handlers, air conditioners up in the attic,
and if it's not vented properly, it's one hundred and
thirty hundred and forty degrees. That doesn't work very well.
So whole house encapsulation came along, and that's kind of
getting a good look at throughout different areas of the country.
(42:15):
But what they do is there's no ventilation back in
the attic, just like you got in fact, you would
board up the windows, and you would insulate the sidewalls,
and you would insulate the underside of the roof, and
you wouldn't insulate the floor of the attic. You would
allow that to become a semi conditioned airspace, so the
(42:39):
you know, the air air conditioning work a little harder.
You're not gonna put vents up there and air condition it,
but you're going to allow the cool house air to
seep up into that attic and it's insulated. A lot
of foamers and people that use foam insulation are doing that,
and it's really really us savings. If, like I said,
(43:03):
in the southeast Southwest, where they have air handlers and
air conditioners in an attic, that's a big deal. And
I'm seeing it incorporated in different other areas of the country,
including you know, some of our northern states.
Speaker 10 (43:19):
Yeah, back in the seventies when we had the energy crisis,
my dad had blown in insulation put into the side
walls of the house and under the floor in the attic.
So I have installation between the second floor ceiling and
the attic floor.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Right right, So if you went to you know, and
what that adding or what that insulation's doing is basically,
you know, protecting the house from the one hundred and
twenty five degree temperature that you have in the attic
and then the ventilation it's still ninety five degrees, So
(43:57):
it's because it's having protection from the nine five degree
temperatures that's in the attic. If you're going like, well,
I'm gonna go a whole house encapsulation, you're taking that
insulation out and you're just letting the air move to
the attic and you've encapsulated everything else. So something to
(44:18):
think about. Yeah, yeah, different options. Thanks, thank you, take care,
bye bye. All right, Yeah, there's a lot to look at,
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