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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, a good Saturday morning, Welcome at Home with Gary Salvin.
Another weekend, getting a few things done around the home.
And you got it, another hot Saturday. So maybe working
outside right now, but it might be a little too warm.
Later on in the day. We'll take your calls regarding
your home projects inside or out. We'll do that at
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until one o'clock today. All right here on fifty five
care see you talk station. All right, it's the weekend.
Welcome at Home with Gary Salvent taking to your calls
regarding your home projects. And let me give you the
phone number. The lines are open. Joe Strecker is on
the board and he'll take your call. Nanny Bowie is
on vacation, and our phone number it's eight hundred eight
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two three eight two five five. Happy to talk to
you about what you're working on around your home, whether
it's a little maintenance, whether it's a little repair, whatever's
going on. And also start to think about maybe cooler temperatures.
Maybe not so all the fall out looks. It doesn't
look like it's gonna get real cool then either. But
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I'm really starting to think, especially climates, maybe in the colder,
colder reaches of the country, ice, snow and all that
good stuff. But a little too early to talk about that,
But there are some things to maybe think about, and
that is a concrete ceiling, deck, ceiling, hawking nose. They're
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all ceiling, ceiling, ceiling, because that's really important, concrete ceiling.
Somebody asked me the other day, is it really important
to seal concrete? Do I have to seal it? Now?
You don't have to do anything, but I think it's important.
I think it's important in both the northern reaches of
the country and the southern reaches for two totally different reasons.
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In the southern reaches of the country, you get a
lot of morning dew, concrete absorbs it. In we get
a lot of mold and mildew growth because it doesn't
dry out very fast because that dew was heavy or
the afternoons were heavy, and you got a lot of
penetration of water into concrete and you'll get moldy and
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mildew driveways and sidewalks. So it's important there. In the
northern reaches, I think it's very important, especially if you
get snow and ice and you use ice melters which
then melt the ice in the snow. But it creates
a very salty brain solution which penetrates into the concrete
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and it's corrosive. So when we get the calls, and
we get them pretty much every weekend, you know, I've
got this walkway, I've got this stoop, I've got this driveway,
and there's like pot marks all over. It's caused by
a couple things, but one of the things it's certainly
caused by is that a salty brine solution that I
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was speaking of. And ceiling it in late summer fall
is a great time. You want to do it when
it's below ninety Probably even better to do it on
a shady, cloudy day because you don't want to let
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a lot of evaporation occur. But what that will do
is they'll just minimize the amount of water that can
penetrate into the concrete. And it's really cool too, because
the type of concrete ceiler you want to use is
what they call a saloxane seiler, and it's breathable. What's
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that meaning. Well, it's kind of like gortex for your driveway,
doesn't It really minimizes the water penetration going into the concrete.
But that concrete is on Mother Earth. So there's water
vapor coming up through the concrete, it will expel that,
it will breathe. So again, probably don't want to do
it if it's ninety eight degrees and bringing sunshine at
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three in the afternoon, or the surface temperatures above ninety.
But put that on your list. I think that's a
really kind of a good thing to have have done.
And other things that we're gonna with some of the weather,
really the rain and the heat, and earlier it was
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the coolness of spring. I know I keep talking about this,
but it's really affected so many things, and I'm sure
it's maybe affected you, like, Eh, I'm not going to
do that deck this year. I just do it next year. Well,
you're coming into some really good weather in the fall
to get that done. And whether you're replacing boards on
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a deck, whether you're thinking of building a deck, whether
you're thinking about restaining your deck, I'll tell you the
big buzz in decking right now is lowering the temperature
of the decking boards. Every other year we take a nice,
big family vacation and there's big deck and well there's
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not really a big deck. There's a big set of
stairs that have composite decking on it. There's maybe fifteen
steps and it's in the south and you can't run
up those steps fast enough without burning your feet. And
whether it's seal coatings for decking or whether it's composite decking,
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there's a really Obviously there's been a lot of technology
and studying about eliminating that problem. And I'm not saying
they're eliminating a big man. They have made progress. Cabin
introduced a deck sealer where it lowers the temperature of
decking by thirty degrees. Now that deck's one hundred and
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thirty degrees, getting it down to one hundred degrees is
a big deal. It's a matter of being able to
get up those steps or not get up those steps
without choose. Also, moisture shield decking has just come up
with some cool surface decking, slip resistant decking. So if
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one of those projects is on your to do list
in the next year, whether it's ceiling, whether it's replacing,
whether it's building a deck, and you're out in the
uh maybe southwest facing of your house where that deck's
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going to be built, you might want to take a
kind of focus in on heat resistant or heat reducing.
I guess we should call it decking because it's out
there now encodings to make it a little bit more palatable,
if you will, all right again, Our phone numbers eight
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hundred eight two three eight two five five Tom, Welcome,
good morning. How are you doing fine? Thanks? Great?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I have three questions with respect to grout two of
my bathrooms. The grout in the floor tile around between.
You know, the floortile grout is chipping out in various places,
and I am not particularly handy, although I still have
grout in leftover from when those bathrooms were done good.
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One of them, though, the grout is tinted gray, and
I'm not sure sure how to get it tinted gray
to match and whether, and secondly, whether there are any
tips in terms of mixing up ground since I've never
done it before.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah, well, tinting it is a challenge. When you said
you had the groud, I was thinking, great, you know,
because it's already gonna be the same color as the
grout that's there. But you're saying that's not true.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I don't think that's true. I mean, this is powdery grout.
Did you have to mix out?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah? Yeah, you can go and you can buy tint there.
It's the secret is is, you know, doing it slowly,
because when you tint grout and you're mixing it up
and it's in the bowl, the bucket or whatever, that's
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not the color it's going to be when it dries
mm hmm like paint. Right. So the tip here is
get some scrap glass from your local hardware store squares
and when you mix it up and you think, well,
that's getting close, it's getting close, take a little doll
up of that and put it on a glass and
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then turn the glass over and that's what's gonna look
like when it's dry. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Wow, it's pretty cool. So that's how you're gonna play
with it. And then you can add a little more grout,
or you can lighten it and darken it. But you're
just gonna have to fool with it a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And I kinda have to take out all the grout.
You know that it's only out of little pieces.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, you're you're gonna want to get as much of that.
You know, if you can do the whole line, that's
better than trying to patch it in because ground also
doesn't like to attach itself to grout. Oh, so there's
there's a little grout saws, a little handheld grout. Yeah,
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you use something like that and scrape it out the
best you can.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
One other question. I also have grout beginning to fall
out in the shower in one bathroom where I have.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
A soap dish that's.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Part of the tile, you know, it's kind of and
the groud around the top of it is beginning to
fall out. It looks to me like different grout than
the kind on the floor could.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Be because they're sanded and non sandy grout. And the
sandy grout is for grout lines that are larger I'd say, okay,
three sixteenths of an inch and up and oka non
sanded is for thin grouting, which is usually found in
a bathroom.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Non sounded thin. Okay, you can't. There are no grouts
that you can just buy in a tube.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And there is you're not going to be able to
use it for the real small vertical line or real
small like bathroom grout lines. It's mainly used for larger, wider,
like really big tiles, and then you run into an
issue of matching it too. I see yeah, makes sense.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Those are great tips. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. Take care all right? Coming
up next Ron Wilson, and then we've got Sam and
Jeff and you if you'd like to join us. You're
at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Time to get your hands dirty with Gary Sullivan. Give
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Speaker 4 (11:33):
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Speaker 1 (11:47):
Got humid, stuffy air, smell musty.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
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Speaker 1 (11:58):
Well it's time to bring in our yard boy. Ron
Wilson does a national show on gardening and mister Wilson,
how's the day? Fine? You I'm not the farmer. You're
not the farmer now I was during your show you.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Were okay, all right, I'm doing I'm just wonderful. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Burning any weeds lately?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
No, I have not always wanted to do that, but no,
I'm looking forward to you doing it though, are you
gonnavite me over to do it or are you gonna
come Well, you will come over.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You can watch, you can play with it, do whatever.
All right, I'm a little nervous about it. Why, I
don't know. I wonder if that do nutgrass. I guess
they'd do anything. Probably do grass.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Well, just remember it's burning. It's just burning off the
fold age in the top part.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
It doesn't burn the roots.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I mean you got to burn the soil too.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
You're not gonna go down and burn out those nuts,
SAIDs and nuts that are done in the ground. Should
I do that?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Try to? I think they'll come right back up, do you. Yeah,
well you're gone for a while. I'll use it as
a trimmer. I can see it now. I got my
fire king weed burner, and Sue will have the pressure washer.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Right behind it, right behind you, just in case the
house lights up.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Just I feel sorry for your neighbors. If you've got
if you're Gary's neighbor, you have weeds in your yard
right now. I'd get rid of them before Gary gets
his flamethrower.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
What do you think about the birch tree? Oh my,
all right, we better quit that. We're giving people ideas,
but they do.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Sell me, and so you're gonna jack that thing up
so when you turn it off like this is not
going to have a good ending. No, this has got
something I always thought the mults could be. Oh yeah,
the malts right, and the oh cypress too.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
You know what the best thing to edge beds with.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Is landscape crew spade, mister Sullivan. Yes, I always tell
folks that there's one tool that I could not live
with without. I'm sorry, yeah, and that is my squares
de handled short square speed. I agree with a sharp
keep it sharpened once a year, illuminum handle, aluminum top,
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lunam shaft, and I have had that for thirty years,
same one. Spent seventy five bucks for it thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Well my weed burner is only seventy.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
By the propane tank. Oh yeah, are you gonna have that?
Because sometimes you as see them that little bitty utane thing,
little prop They let them sell those.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Why, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
I mean in ground stuff, that's it's it's it's an
all organic way to take care of weeds. So you
know when folks are saying I want something all natural,
I don't want to spray anything, and you start, don't
you know, talking about even with the all natural it
is vinegar or whatever oils or citrus oil, I don't
know whatever they use, but that is an all natural way,
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and that would do the flame.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
There's some parts of the country may that shouldn't be used, though,
don't you.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
I would imagine where it's nice and dry, you would
not want to use something like that. That's correct. Now,
my old my brother, my brother in law, has one.
We just were nott in Kansas. Yeah, but he uses
it to help light his fire.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
His fire pit. Yeah. Oh no, that's a heck of
an idea. I love that idea.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
So he's got it with the big tag on it.
It's on a two wheeler little Dolly.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Because sometimes those are more difficult to start than a fireplace. Yep.
And that the woods a little wet and you don't
have good circulation around yep. Now now I'm sold.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Now you're sold on. There's so many things you're going
to use that for.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You think I should grow when I'm using.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
It, I know you're going to. I know you will.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Should I sell tickets first flame that comes.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Out of there, you're gonna be doing. Should I sell tickets?
Put bleachers in the dry I'd be watching the movie
Quest for Fire Folks.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Now we're going to trim the landscaping bed. You think, yeah,
a little audience with that. Wow, I get Joe Strecker.
He come over and facebook live it. Could well, you
think I could? You know, he is the producer man,
he is, he knows what he's doing.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
All I can say is, please be careful, use it wisely. First,
I'll watch other.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
People use it for a while.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
I just know serious. Note that you've got to hold
that on that weed for a you know, limited amount
of time to make sure you burn that right down
into the root system. So make sure you burn all that,
especially get the crown out of it.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Did you hear Joe? Huh? Flip flops? Where's the hair
on my big toe? Where's my big toe? I don't know.
I think I'm going to stay with my spade and
I'm going to observe for a while. Yeah, what do
you think?
Speaker 5 (16:58):
I sit back and watch if you watched your brother
in law or who's who'd you say?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Edwin?
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Yeah, my brother in law out in Kansas City. Uh
huh So, but that's all I use it for. You
just use it for that and burning I think you
said he burns burn, burns weeds in the gravel.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Oh, that'd be good, that'd be safe.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
But I didn't use it. I didn't. I did it
all natural.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Mister Wilson, you've been a fountain of knowledge and you
just olminate me and my house a problem. Please be careful,
very good. All right, thank you, sir, goodbye. All right,
Ron Wilson online dot com. You'll get some of the
steps through which Wolts includes that.
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Speaker 1 (19:18):
All right, back at it we go thirty three minutes
after the top of the are Your calls are welcome
and there's open lines. So let me give you the
phone number. It's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Go ahead and grab the line. Joe Streckers
on the board today. He'll take your calls and you
and I will then chat. All right, let's go to Sam. Sam. Welcome,
(19:40):
Good morning, Gary har Are you today doing wonderful? Thank you.
Speaker 7 (19:45):
I would like your opinion please. Lately in my neighborhood
at least the airwaves have been inundated by a company
the advertisers for spraying the stuff on your roof to
lengthen the life of your shingles. That sounds like a
scam to me, but I want a professional opinion.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, no, it's I say it this way. It's not
for everybody, nor is anything, and but it will extend
the life of a shingle. So let me kind of
give you the history of it. I guess one of
the originators and maybe it's the same people as a
company called roof Max. And yeah, and the way a
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shingle works in a way a shingle fails. Is this.
So a shingle has its you know, core, and then
there is a granular material over the shingle. The granular
material over the shingle protects the core from the sun.
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When the granular protection sheds, and it sheds from the
very get go. When it sheds an enough that that shingle,
that core begins to deteriorate. It can crack, it can curl,
it can do all kinds of things. So it's in
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a state of fail. If you get a twenty five
year or let's say a thirty year shingle, you will
get somewhere between, probably depending on the facing, the climate
and everything else, probably somewhere between twenty three and thirty years.
Generally you won't get thirty years, you know, it'll be
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less than that. So Roofmax came along and said, if
we can keep that granular protection intact on that shingle,
we should be able to extend the roof life at
least to its guaranteed point. And that's what they've done.
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So let's give it an analogy. Let's say you got
a thirty year roof and at you're twenty, you're starting
to find more and more of the grains of sand
and the gutter and stuff, and you call them, they'll
come and inspect and determine, Ah, there's enough granular protection
on that roof, or while we're really losing, we got
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to keep what we got. And if you decide to
do that, they will spray this on the roof. It
will Basically it's a seiler for the shingle and it
keeps that saying there and it's good for about five years.
And I think it's around twenty to thirty percent of
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the cost of a roof I generally, and you can
do that up to three times. So that's that's the story.
And it doesn't when I say it's for anybody or
not for everybody, it isn't because if you're going to
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move in two years, that much be a good way to,
you know, show off the roof and say, well, it's
good for at least five years and it's old, yeah,
but it's it's got five years. If you're going to
be there for another twenty, yeah, probably replace the roof. Well,
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my roof looks good.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
But let me ask you another question, is is this
something you can do with yourself? Can I go to
a home and buy this stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
No, it's not on the market. There's been some attempts
to put it on the market. There was a company
about eight years ago out of Boston that haded out
in the marketplace for just a few years. And you know,
I don't know whether they're just wasn't enough demand for
it or what, but I do not know of one
out on the market. Now.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Well, my roof hit a little bit old, but it
looks good, so maybe I guess I'll just give.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Him a call. Yeah, let them take a look at it.
And yeah, that's what I tell people. If it intrigued,
you go get all the facts, find out what's going
to cost, what the warranty is. And I know that
it's five years. I know you can reapply it up
to three times, but yeah, and then you can make
your decision.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
All right, Well, I'll try to save a buck. But
my best friend is fond of saying it's amazing what
a guy can accomplish if he's handy with a checkbook.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
There you go, all right, I really appreciate your advice.
All right, thanks for the call. Take care all right again.
The line's open today, And don't know why, because it
should be a very busy weekend. It's eight hundred eight
two three A two five five. We kind of started
talking off really the Roofmax product is a relatively new
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product and we've gotten some calls on that, and we
started off the show talking about the big trend in decking. Now,
you know, we went from the composits, and then we
went to the cap composits, and there's all kinds of
different cap composits out there, and then we went to
the I'm not going to say heat resistant, but the
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decking itself has kind of a built in radiant barrier
in it where you can reduce the heat of the
decking itself, which I think is tremendous, especially if you
got a really sunny area. And the first time I've
kind of seen that was when Kambuck came out with
their deck sealer, and the deck sealer was just that,
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I mean, it was a semi transparent seiler and said
it would reduce the temperature. I think it was thirty
degrees or thirty percent. I can't remember which, but that's intriguing.
I mean that that is that's that's if you got
a deck because even pressure treated wood, let's face it,
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pressure treated wood where a brown stain can get hotter,
and heck, so if you can get one where it's
kind of bouncing that heat off, man, that's pretty cool.
And it goes on just like the other semi transparents.
And then then, like I said, the other new product
is kind of the roof Max. But there's some big
trends the other trends. I mean, we can keep going
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staying in the sealer field because when you get into
garage floors, holy cow, and we've talked about some of
the uh roller rock and spreadstone, a slip resistant track, STAFS,
track safe seiler for that, and then you get into
some of the uh ureas for garage floor coatings. I mean,
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the coatings industry is is moving very rapidly. We start
even with the acrylic resins, which started this whole revolution
of different technologies for coatings, and they're they're phenomenal. I mean,
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whoever thought you could put a coating on a stoop
and a north they're in climate and you know, throw
salt on it and use a snowshovel to remove it
and it stays intact. I mean, that's some good stuff.
And whatever you do is we're just kind of talking
about different things as folks are calling in, and thanks
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for calling in. We can shut ab at your projects
in a minute. One of the things that I still
cringe about is stoops and concrete porches. Older homes probably
built in thirties, forties, fifties, so they've been around, they've
got cracks, they've got spawling, they've been patched and uh
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and then they it looks like a patched mess. So
with these coatings, you can hide it. One of my
pet peeves is people that are going to hide it
and decide indoor outdoor carpeting is a good idea. And
maybe you've done that. I have. It was a long
long time ago, but I have. That's not a way,
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that's not a long term answer. And there wasn't the
products that are out there today where you can just
surface coat those and hide it. So don't take you know,
carpet tape or flooring glue and glue that to that stoop,
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because it is a disaster. You get it off. The
coatings are so much more superior versus what they were
fifty years ago. All right, let's take a break. And
then we got Frank and Ron and Scott and Greg
and you if you'd like to join us. You're at
home with Gary Sullivan.
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Speaker 1 (29:20):
Man, a great day. It is. You're at home with
Gary Sullivan talking about your home projects. A little maintenance,
a little repair, summer projects, fall projects. Let's do it.
Let's go to Frank. Frank, Welcome, Thanks Garry, sir.
Speaker 9 (29:37):
I'm looking at it's fully a shower stall in the basement,
so it's concrete.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Floor, and I had a drain installed.
Speaker 9 (29:50):
But now I realize that the drain is offset from
where the drain is on a shower pan, you know,
whatever you use. I was looking at the shower pans
that are either sent at the center of that pan,
and so I need to somehow relocate that and I'm
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trying not to have to dig up the concrete again.
I was wondering if you always seem to have that
optimal solution.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Do you have, well, something that you do. You have
the shower pan, I don't. There is a company that
custom makes firepans or shower pans, so it's so it's
custom made. It can put the drain wherever. I believe.
(30:38):
Now it's been a long time since I've looked, probably
ten years, but there's a big company out of Tampa, Florida,
and I believe there's one in Cincinnati, Ohio. But the
name that sticks in my head is called fin Pan
FI N P A N. You might google that and
(31:00):
check that, because that would really be ideal. I know
the one in Tampa. Yeah, you can just send the
you know, the measurements and they'll just ship it right
to your house. It's like an Amazon for shower pans.
Oh boy, that would be great. So that that that
would be my answer, and that I don't know how
you would get around without chiseling into that, you know,
(31:26):
into cutting their concrete.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
Well, my my solution would have been, I was going
to cut out around the since it's that foam material,
cut out around the existing opening in the in the pan,
and then relocate that by cutting out and the same
size opening where the drain actually isn't just basically swamping
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those two things.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
And that didn't seem like that seemed like a solution,
but not the best solution.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
I like this idea a lot better.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah. I think that's where I would start the investigation
and see if see if you I I know that
they exist. I don't know if I have all the
right names, but I think you'll find them.
Speaker 9 (32:11):
Yeah, Okay, I will do some investigation and see if
I can find that. Can I sneak in another question?
Speaker 5 (32:15):
Sure?
Speaker 9 (32:17):
Okay, hardwood floor, I have a light scratch on the floor.
I'm not even sure it's down into the wood.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
It may just be into the uh euro than or whatever. Uh.
Speaker 9 (32:30):
And I'd like to uh repair that, and I don't
want to do something where I just make it worse.
Now it's it's barely visible, but I can see it,
and so it's a problem for me. You have any
ideas on that.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Well, it's probably not into the wood. It probably is
into the euro thane. Usually a floor is coated with
about three coats of your thane or varnish, so you
know it's you where you can get in rubbles if
you use different sheens of varnish. Okay, so they all
(33:07):
have like you know, a ten percent sheen and eight
percent sheen of four percent, but they're never on the can.
They're just called flat satin, semi gloss or gloss. If
you happen to have any of that varnish and you
know exactly what the sheene is, that that'd be a bingo.
That'd be real good. But if it's just in the varnish,
(33:27):
and I assume it is, I would take a six
hundred grit sanding sponge or a seven hundred grit sanding sponge,
which is very very fine, and you might even be
able to get it in a wet dry sanding sponge.
Just dampen it a little bit and see if you
can't sand sand that scratch out, you're gonna still have
(33:53):
to put some varnish on because you're gonna dull it.
And so I would probably obviously you want to test
this first. You want to test it if you have
a scrap piece of wood from that project or the
same kind of wood, and just put varnish on here
(34:14):
and see see where we are in terms of matching it.
That that would be the way if you called somebody
to come in and do it. That's what they would do.
A professional would come in and you know, and if
you had a whole bunch of scratches, they would just
come over and just screen at and then go ahead
and recode it. But it's probably in the barn if
you're exactly right. Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, thanks for
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your help. Okay, you bet, good luck, take care all right,
then let's go to Scott Scott.
Speaker 10 (34:45):
Welcome, Hey Gary, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
You bet.
Speaker 10 (34:49):
We got our new walking shower installed and we went
with the clear glass doors, which we love. But it's
been a few months and now we're and to see
the water build up and whatnot. I got the wet
and forget for shower yesterday, but the directions are a
little vague. Do we spray it on when it's dry
(35:12):
or do we spray it on right after we get
out of the shower and while it's still wet. It'll
work with it when it's still wet. I'm a little confused.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I've done it both ways. I hear you, I hear you.
I used to always spray it on dry and I
would I had good luck with it. And somebody called
me and said, you're supposed to spray that on when
it's wet, and so I sprayed it on when it's
wet and it kind of did just as good. But
(35:40):
I did use it to dry. So I don't know.
I don't know if there's a correct answer or not.
But I've done it both ways and I've had success
both ways.
Speaker 10 (35:50):
Okay, all right, because yeah, we got hard water up
here in Cleveland, and it took about six months and
now it's like, yeah, it's not so too dull.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yeah, and it's going, Yeah, it's it's a it's a
marvelous product.
Speaker 10 (36:05):
Really, I mean, uh, oh, the stuff works fantastic.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Yeah, you used topray this thing every week and you
just stay ahead of it. You know where people get
in trouble was when they just let it go and
go and go, and six months later it's like, oh,
you know, now you need something a little stronger maybe,
or you're gonna need several weekend applications. But yeah, if
you're just catching it now, I think I just spray
it down. I I don't. We still kind of do
(36:31):
it both ways.
Speaker 10 (36:33):
Okay, I'll do it. One other quick thing is I
called a while back, we had a some pump with
a a h the activator bubble thing was all covered
in paint. And do you know I could not find
a replacement uh bobber for the switch. I looked everywhere
(36:54):
the big box stores out signed the right one. So
I ended up from the some pump.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Really, so this was the float that was thank you.
It was tethered to the discharge piper. Was it tethered
to the to the pump itself, yeah, to the pump itself, okay,
and then it was I.
Speaker 10 (37:19):
Could not find a replacement float for it to save
my life, huh. And I ended up just putting a
new some pump and I just put it's only used
for the discharge from the from the air conditioner and
and the slop sink, so that's it, so it's not
use that off. I ended up with the float that
(37:40):
the float that floats up to turn the switch on.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that'll be fine. That'll be fine. What
what kind of pump did you have before?
Speaker 10 (37:50):
I think I had. I'm not sure if it was
a zlar, but it was a pretty decent one about
ten years ago. And uh uh, I think I got
it from either my local hardware store. I think I
got from there.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Yeah, yeah, probably when Zalor is now in some lows.
But it's it was pretty much a plumbing specialty item, and.
Speaker 10 (38:16):
You recommend replacing those every ten years whether they need to.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Well that's what they say. Yeah, that's you know, the
industry says that you can have a some pump that
can last twenty five years or five years. Claim the
fame with a Zalor since you brought that name up
is they have incredible switches and that's the number one
failure on any pompous the switch. But yeah, well yeah,
(38:42):
so you replace the whole thing, okay, and you got
that float switch will be fine, that'll be fun. All right,
very good, Thank you much for the call. I appreciate it.
We'll take a little break and we'll come back and
we got Greg. You'll be up first and then we'll
go to ron in brad If you'd like to join us,
it's eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five.
Will continue with your calls. You're at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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Speaker 1 (39:50):
So are you planning a new deck
Well, a good Saturday morning, Welcome at Home with Gary Salvin.
Another weekend, getting a few things done around the home.
And you got it, another hot Saturday. So maybe working
outside right now, but it might be a little too warm.
Later on in the day. We'll take your calls regarding
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you about what you're working on around your home, whether
it's a little maintenance, whether it's a little repair, whatever's
going on. And also start to think about maybe cooler temperatures.
Maybe not so all the fall out looks. It doesn't
look like it's gonna get real cool then either. But
(01:10):
I'm really starting to think, especially climates, maybe in the colder,
colder reaches of the country, ice, snow and all that
good stuff. But a little too early to talk about that,
But there are some things to maybe think about, and
that is a concrete ceiling, deck, ceiling, hawking nose. They're
(01:36):
all ceiling, ceiling, ceiling, because that's really important, concrete ceiling.
Somebody asked me the other day, is it really important
to seal concrete? Do I have to seal it? Now?
You don't have to do anything, but I think it's important.
I think it's important in both the northern reaches of
the country and the southern reaches for two totally different reasons.
(02:00):
In the southern reaches of the country, you get a
lot of morning dew, concrete absorbs it. In we get
a lot of mold and mildew growth because it doesn't
dry out very fast because that dew was heavy or
the afternoons were heavy, and you got a lot of
penetration of water into concrete and you'll get moldy and
(02:23):
mildew driveways and sidewalks. So it's important there. In the
northern reaches, I think it's very important, especially if you
get snow and ice and you use ice melters which
then melt the ice in the snow. But it creates
a very salty brain solution which penetrates into the concrete
(02:45):
and it's corrosive. So when we get the calls, and
we get them pretty much every weekend, you know, I've
got this walkway, I've got this stoop, I've got this driveway,
and there's like pot marks all over. It's caused by
a couple things, but one of the things it's certainly
caused by is that a salty brine solution that I
(03:09):
was speaking of. And ceiling it in late summer fall
is a great time. You want to do it when
it's below ninety Probably even better to do it on
a shady, cloudy day because you don't want to let
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a lot of evaporation occur. But what that will do
is they'll just minimize the amount of water that can
penetrate into the concrete. And it's really cool too, because
the type of concrete ceiler you want to use is
what they call a saloxane seiler, and it's breathable. What's
(03:51):
that meaning. Well, it's kind of like gortex for your driveway,
doesn't It really minimizes the water penetration going into the concrete.
But that concrete is on Mother Earth. So there's water
vapor coming up through the concrete, it will expel that,
it will breathe. So again, probably don't want to do
it if it's ninety eight degrees and bringing sunshine at
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three in the afternoon, or the surface temperatures above ninety.
But put that on your list. I think that's a
really kind of a good thing to have have done.
And other things that we're gonna with some of the weather,
really the rain and the heat, and earlier it was
(04:35):
the coolness of spring. I know I keep talking about this,
but it's really affected so many things, and I'm sure
it's maybe affected you, like, Eh, I'm not going to
do that deck this year. I just do it next year. Well,
you're coming into some really good weather in the fall
to get that done. And whether you're replacing boards on
(04:56):
a deck, whether you're thinking of building a deck, whether
you're thinking about restaining your deck, I'll tell you the
big buzz in decking right now is lowering the temperature
of the decking boards. Every other year we take a nice,
big family vacation and there's big deck and well there's
(05:22):
not really a big deck. There's a big set of
stairs that have composite decking on it. There's maybe fifteen
steps and it's in the south and you can't run
up those steps fast enough without burning your feet. And
whether it's seal coatings for decking or whether it's composite decking,
(05:48):
there's a really Obviously there's been a lot of technology
and studying about eliminating that problem. And I'm not saying
they're eliminating a big man. They have made progress. Cabin
introduced a deck sealer where it lowers the temperature of
decking by thirty degrees. Now that deck's one hundred and
(06:13):
thirty degrees, getting it down to one hundred degrees is
a big deal. It's a matter of being able to
get up those steps or not get up those steps
without choose. Also, moisture shield decking has just come up
with some cool surface decking, slip resistant decking. So if
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one of those projects is on your to do list
in the next year, whether it's ceiling, whether it's replacing,
whether it's building a deck, and you're out in the
uh maybe southwest facing of your house where that deck's
(06:59):
going to be built, you might want to take a
kind of focus in on heat resistant or heat reducing.
I guess we should call it decking because it's out
there now encodings to make it a little bit more palatable,
if you will, all right again, Our phone numbers eight
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hundred eight two three eight two five five Tom, Welcome,
good morning. How are you doing fine? Thanks? Great?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I have three questions with respect to grout two of
my bathrooms. The grout in the floor tile around between.
You know, the floortile grout is chipping out in various places,
and I am not particularly handy, although I still have
grout in leftover from when those bathrooms were done good.
(07:54):
One of them, though, the grout is tinted gray, and
I'm not sure sure how to get it tinted gray
to match and whether, and secondly, whether there are any
tips in terms of mixing up ground since I've never
done it before.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah, well, tinting it is a challenge. When you said
you had the groud, I was thinking, great, you know,
because it's already gonna be the same color as the
grout that's there. But you're saying that's not true.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I don't think that's true. I mean, this is powdery grout.
Did you have to mix out?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah? Yeah, you can go and you can buy tint there.
It's the secret is is, you know, doing it slowly,
because when you tint grout and you're mixing it up
and it's in the bowl, the bucket or whatever, that's
(08:49):
not the color it's going to be when it dries
mm hmm like paint. Right. So the tip here is
get some scrap glass from your local hardware store squares
and when you mix it up and you think, well,
that's getting close, it's getting close, take a little doll
up of that and put it on a glass and
(09:09):
then turn the glass over and that's what's gonna look
like when it's dry. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Wow, it's pretty cool. So that's how you're gonna play
with it. And then you can add a little more grout,
or you can lighten it and darken it. But you're
just gonna have to fool with it a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And I kinda have to take out all the grout.
You know that it's only out of little pieces.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, you're you're gonna want to get as much of that.
You know, if you can do the whole line, that's
better than trying to patch it in because ground also
doesn't like to attach itself to grout. Oh, so there's
there's a little grout saws, a little handheld grout. Yeah,
(09:55):
you use something like that and scrape it out the
best you can.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
One other question. I also have grout beginning to fall
out in the shower in one bathroom where I have.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
A soap dish that's.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Part of the tile, you know, it's kind of and
the groud around the top of it is beginning to
fall out. It looks to me like different grout than
the kind on the floor could.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Be because they're sanded and non sandy grout. And the
sandy grout is for grout lines that are larger I'd say, okay,
three sixteenths of an inch and up and oka non
sanded is for thin grouting, which is usually found in
a bathroom.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Non sounded thin. Okay, you can't. There are no grouts
that you can just buy in a tube.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And there is you're not going to be able to
use it for the real small vertical line or real
small like bathroom grout lines. It's mainly used for larger, wider,
like really big tiles, and then you run into an
issue of matching it too. I see yeah, makes sense.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Those are great tips. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. Take care all right? Coming
up next Ron Wilson, and then we've got Sam and
Jeff and you if you'd like to join us. You're
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Got humid, stuffy air, smell musty.
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Speaker 1 (11:58):
Well it's time to bring in our yard boy. Ron
Wilson does a national show on gardening and mister Wilson,
how's the day? Fine? You I'm not the farmer. You're
not the farmer now I was during your show you.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Were okay, all right, I'm doing I'm just wonderful. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Burning any weeds lately?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
No, I have not always wanted to do that, but no,
I'm looking forward to you doing it though, are you
gonnavite me over to do it or are you gonna
come Well, you will come over.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You can watch, you can play with it, do whatever.
All right, I'm a little nervous about it. Why, I
don't know. I wonder if that do nutgrass. I guess
they'd do anything. Probably do grass.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Well, just remember it's burning. It's just burning off the
fold age in the top part.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
It doesn't burn the roots.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I mean you got to burn the soil too.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
You're not gonna go down and burn out those nuts,
SAIDs and nuts that are done in the ground. Should
I do that?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Try to? I think they'll come right back up, do you. Yeah,
well you're gone for a while. I'll use it as
a trimmer. I can see it now. I got my
fire king weed burner, and Sue will have the pressure washer.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Right behind it, right behind you, just in case the
house lights up.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Just I feel sorry for your neighbors. If you've got
if you're Gary's neighbor, you have weeds in your yard
right now. I'd get rid of them before Gary gets
his flamethrower.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
What do you think about the birch tree? Oh my,
all right, we better quit that. We're giving people ideas,
but they do.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Sell me, and so you're gonna jack that thing up
so when you turn it off like this is not
going to have a good ending. No, this has got
something I always thought the mults could be. Oh yeah,
the malts right, and the oh cypress too.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
You know what the best thing to edge beds with.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Is landscape crew spade, mister Sullivan. Yes, I always tell
folks that there's one tool that I could not live
with without. I'm sorry, yeah, and that is my squares
de handled short square speed. I agree with a sharp
keep it sharpened once a year, illuminum handle, aluminum top,
(14:11):
lunam shaft, and I have had that for thirty years,
same one. Spent seventy five bucks for it thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Well my weed burner is only seventy.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
By the propane tank. Oh yeah, are you gonna have that?
Because sometimes you as see them that little bitty utane thing,
little prop They let them sell those.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Why, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
I mean in ground stuff, that's it's it's it's an
all organic way to take care of weeds. So you
know when folks are saying I want something all natural,
I don't want to spray anything, and you start, don't
you know, talking about even with the all natural it
is vinegar or whatever oils or citrus oil, I don't
know whatever they use, but that is an all natural way,
(14:56):
and that would do the flame.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
There's some parts of the country may that shouldn't be used, though,
don't you.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
I would imagine where it's nice and dry, you would
not want to use something like that. That's correct. Now,
my old my brother, my brother in law, has one.
We just were nott in Kansas. Yeah, but he uses
it to help light his fire.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
His fire pit. Yeah. Oh no, that's a heck of
an idea. I love that idea.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
So he's got it with the big tag on it.
It's on a two wheeler little Dolly.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Because sometimes those are more difficult to start than a fireplace. Yep.
And that the woods a little wet and you don't
have good circulation around yep. Now now I'm sold.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Now you're sold on. There's so many things you're going
to use that for.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You think I should grow when I'm using.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
It, I know you're going to. I know you will.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Should I sell tickets first flame that comes.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Out of there, you're gonna be doing. Should I sell tickets?
Put bleachers in the dry I'd be watching the movie
Quest for Fire Folks.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Now we're going to trim the landscaping bed. You think, yeah,
a little audience with that. Wow, I get Joe Strecker.
He come over and facebook live it. Could well, you
think I could? You know, he is the producer man,
he is, he knows what he's doing.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
All I can say is, please be careful, use it wisely. First,
I'll watch other.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
People use it for a while.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
I just know serious. Note that you've got to hold
that on that weed for a you know, limited amount
of time to make sure you burn that right down
into the root system. So make sure you burn all that,
especially get the crown out of it.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Did you hear Joe? Huh? Flip flops? Where's the hair
on my big toe? Where's my big toe? I don't know.
I think I'm going to stay with my spade and
I'm going to observe for a while. Yeah, what do
you think?
Speaker 5 (16:58):
I sit back and watch if you watched your brother
in law or who's who'd you say?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Edwin?
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Yeah, my brother in law out in Kansas City. Uh
huh So, but that's all I use it for. You
just use it for that and burning I think you
said he burns burn, burns weeds in the gravel.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Oh, that'd be good, that'd be safe.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
But I didn't use it. I didn't. I did it
all natural.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Mister Wilson, you've been a fountain of knowledge and you
just olminate me and my house a problem. Please be careful,
very good. All right, thank you, sir, goodbye. All right,
Ron Wilson online dot com. You'll get some of the
steps through which Wolts includes that.
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Speaker 7 (19:45):
I would like your opinion please. Lately in my neighborhood
at least the airwaves have been inundated by a company
the advertisers for spraying the stuff on your roof to
lengthen the life of your shingles. That sounds like a
scam to me, but I want a professional opinion.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, no, it's I say it this way. It's not
for everybody, nor is anything, and but it will extend
the life of a shingle. So let me kind of
give you the history of it. I guess one of
the originators and maybe it's the same people as a
company called roof Max. And yeah, and the way a
(20:28):
shingle works in a way a shingle fails. Is this.
So a shingle has its you know, core, and then
there is a granular material over the shingle. The granular
material over the shingle protects the core from the sun.
(20:49):
When the granular protection sheds, and it sheds from the
very get go. When it sheds an enough that that shingle,
that core begins to deteriorate. It can crack, it can curl,
it can do all kinds of things. So it's in
(21:10):
a state of fail. If you get a twenty five
year or let's say a thirty year shingle, you will
get somewhere between, probably depending on the facing, the climate
and everything else, probably somewhere between twenty three and thirty years.
Generally you won't get thirty years, you know, it'll be
(21:31):
less than that. So Roofmax came along and said, if
we can keep that granular protection intact on that shingle,
we should be able to extend the roof life at
least to its guaranteed point. And that's what they've done.
(21:51):
So let's give it an analogy. Let's say you got
a thirty year roof and at you're twenty, you're starting
to find more and more of the grains of sand
and the gutter and stuff, and you call them, they'll
come and inspect and determine, Ah, there's enough granular protection
on that roof, or while we're really losing, we got
(22:12):
to keep what we got. And if you decide to
do that, they will spray this on the roof. It
will Basically it's a seiler for the shingle and it
keeps that saying there and it's good for about five years.
And I think it's around twenty to thirty percent of
(22:35):
the cost of a roof I generally, and you can
do that up to three times. So that's that's the story.
And it doesn't when I say it's for anybody or
not for everybody, it isn't because if you're going to
(22:58):
move in two years, that much be a good way to,
you know, show off the roof and say, well, it's
good for at least five years and it's old, yeah,
but it's it's got five years. If you're going to
be there for another twenty, yeah, probably replace the roof. Well,
(23:19):
my roof looks good.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
But let me ask you another question, is is this
something you can do with yourself? Can I go to
a home and buy this stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
No, it's not on the market. There's been some attempts
to put it on the market. There was a company
about eight years ago out of Boston that haded out
in the marketplace for just a few years. And you know,
I don't know whether they're just wasn't enough demand for
it or what, but I do not know of one
out on the market. Now.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Well, my roof hit a little bit old, but it
looks good, so maybe I guess I'll just give.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Him a call. Yeah, let them take a look at it.
And yeah, that's what I tell people. If it intrigued,
you go get all the facts, find out what's going
to cost, what the warranty is. And I know that
it's five years. I know you can reapply it up
to three times, but yeah, and then you can make
your decision.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
All right, Well, I'll try to save a buck. But
my best friend is fond of saying it's amazing what
a guy can accomplish if he's handy with a checkbook.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
There you go, all right, I really appreciate your advice.
All right, thanks for the call. Take care all right again.
The line's open today, And don't know why, because it
should be a very busy weekend. It's eight hundred eight
two three A two five five. We kind of started
talking off really the Roofmax product is a relatively new
(24:41):
product and we've gotten some calls on that, and we
started off the show talking about the big trend in decking. Now,
you know, we went from the composits, and then we
went to the cap composits, and there's all kinds of
different cap composits out there, and then we went to
the I'm not going to say heat resistant, but the
(25:07):
decking itself has kind of a built in radiant barrier
in it where you can reduce the heat of the
decking itself, which I think is tremendous, especially if you
got a really sunny area. And the first time I've
kind of seen that was when Kambuck came out with
their deck sealer, and the deck sealer was just that,
(25:29):
I mean, it was a semi transparent seiler and said
it would reduce the temperature. I think it was thirty
degrees or thirty percent. I can't remember which, but that's intriguing.
I mean that that is that's that's if you got
a deck because even pressure treated wood, let's face it,
(25:50):
pressure treated wood where a brown stain can get hotter,
and heck, so if you can get one where it's
kind of bouncing that heat off, man, that's pretty cool.
And it goes on just like the other semi transparents.
And then then, like I said, the other new product
is kind of the roof Max. But there's some big
trends the other trends. I mean, we can keep going
(26:11):
staying in the sealer field because when you get into
garage floors, holy cow, and we've talked about some of
the uh roller rock and spreadstone, a slip resistant track, STAFS,
track safe seiler for that, and then you get into
some of the uh ureas for garage floor coatings. I mean,
(26:36):
the coatings industry is is moving very rapidly. We start
even with the acrylic resins, which started this whole revolution
of different technologies for coatings, and they're they're phenomenal. I mean,
(26:56):
whoever thought you could put a coating on a stoop
and a north they're in climate and you know, throw
salt on it and use a snowshovel to remove it
and it stays intact. I mean, that's some good stuff.
And whatever you do is we're just kind of talking
about different things as folks are calling in, and thanks
(27:17):
for calling in. We can shut ab at your projects
in a minute. One of the things that I still
cringe about is stoops and concrete porches. Older homes probably
built in thirties, forties, fifties, so they've been around, they've
got cracks, they've got spawling, they've been patched and uh
(27:41):
and then they it looks like a patched mess. So
with these coatings, you can hide it. One of my
pet peeves is people that are going to hide it
and decide indoor outdoor carpeting is a good idea. And
maybe you've done that. I have. It was a long
long time ago, but I have. That's not a way,
(28:04):
that's not a long term answer. And there wasn't the
products that are out there today where you can just
surface coat those and hide it. So don't take you know,
carpet tape or flooring glue and glue that to that stoop,
(28:27):
because it is a disaster. You get it off. The
coatings are so much more superior versus what they were
fifty years ago. All right, let's take a break. And
then we got Frank and Ron and Scott and Greg
and you if you'd like to join us. You're at
home with Gary Sullivan.
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Speaker 1 (29:20):
Man, a great day. It is. You're at home with
Gary Sullivan talking about your home projects. A little maintenance,
a little repair, summer projects, fall projects. Let's do it.
Let's go to Frank. Frank, Welcome, Thanks Garry, sir.
Speaker 9 (29:37):
I'm looking at it's fully a shower stall in the basement,
so it's concrete.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Floor, and I had a drain installed.
Speaker 9 (29:50):
But now I realize that the drain is offset from
where the drain is on a shower pan, you know,
whatever you use. I was looking at the shower pans
that are either sent at the center of that pan,
and so I need to somehow relocate that and I'm
(30:11):
trying not to have to dig up the concrete again.
I was wondering if you always seem to have that
optimal solution.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Do you have, well, something that you do. You have
the shower pan, I don't. There is a company that
custom makes firepans or shower pans, so it's so it's
custom made. It can put the drain wherever. I believe.
(30:38):
Now it's been a long time since I've looked, probably
ten years, but there's a big company out of Tampa, Florida,
and I believe there's one in Cincinnati, Ohio. But the
name that sticks in my head is called fin Pan
FI N P A N. You might google that and
(31:00):
check that, because that would really be ideal. I know
the one in Tampa. Yeah, you can just send the
you know, the measurements and they'll just ship it right
to your house. It's like an Amazon for shower pans.
Oh boy, that would be great. So that that that
would be my answer, and that I don't know how
you would get around without chiseling into that, you know,
(31:26):
into cutting their concrete.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
Well, my my solution would have been, I was going
to cut out around the since it's that foam material,
cut out around the existing opening in the in the pan,
and then relocate that by cutting out and the same
size opening where the drain actually isn't just basically swamping
(31:49):
those two things.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
And that didn't seem like that seemed like a solution,
but not the best solution.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
I like this idea a lot better.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah. I think that's where I would start the investigation
and see if see if you I I know that
they exist. I don't know if I have all the
right names, but I think you'll find them.
Speaker 9 (32:11):
Yeah, Okay, I will do some investigation and see if
I can find that. Can I sneak in another question?
Speaker 5 (32:15):
Sure?
Speaker 9 (32:17):
Okay, hardwood floor, I have a light scratch on the floor.
I'm not even sure it's down into the wood.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
It may just be into the uh euro than or whatever. Uh.
Speaker 9 (32:30):
And I'd like to uh repair that, and I don't
want to do something where I just make it worse.
Now it's it's barely visible, but I can see it,
and so it's a problem for me. You have any
ideas on that.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Well, it's probably not into the wood. It probably is
into the euro thane. Usually a floor is coated with
about three coats of your thane or varnish, so you
know it's you where you can get in rubbles if
you use different sheens of varnish. Okay, so they all
(33:07):
have like you know, a ten percent sheen and eight
percent sheen of four percent, but they're never on the can.
They're just called flat satin, semi gloss or gloss. If
you happen to have any of that varnish and you
know exactly what the sheene is, that that'd be a bingo.
That'd be real good. But if it's just in the varnish,
(33:27):
and I assume it is, I would take a six
hundred grit sanding sponge or a seven hundred grit sanding sponge,
which is very very fine, and you might even be
able to get it in a wet dry sanding sponge.
Just dampen it a little bit and see if you
can't sand sand that scratch out, you're gonna still have
(33:53):
to put some varnish on because you're gonna dull it.
And so I would probably obviously you want to test
this first. You want to test it if you have
a scrap piece of wood from that project or the
same kind of wood, and just put varnish on here
(34:14):
and see see where we are in terms of matching it.
That that would be the way if you called somebody
to come in and do it. That's what they would do.
A professional would come in and you know, and if
you had a whole bunch of scratches, they would just
come over and just screen at and then go ahead
and recode it. But it's probably in the barn if
you're exactly right. Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, thanks for
(34:38):
your help. Okay, you bet, good luck, take care all right,
then let's go to Scott Scott.
Speaker 10 (34:45):
Welcome, Hey Gary, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
You bet.
Speaker 10 (34:49):
We got our new walking shower installed and we went
with the clear glass doors, which we love. But it's
been a few months and now we're and to see
the water build up and whatnot. I got the wet
and forget for shower yesterday, but the directions are a
little vague. Do we spray it on when it's dry
(35:12):
or do we spray it on right after we get
out of the shower and while it's still wet. It'll
work with it when it's still wet. I'm a little confused.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I've done it both ways. I hear you, I hear you.
I used to always spray it on dry and I
would I had good luck with it. And somebody called
me and said, you're supposed to spray that on when
it's wet, and so I sprayed it on when it's
wet and it kind of did just as good. But
(35:40):
I did use it to dry. So I don't know.
I don't know if there's a correct answer or not.
But I've done it both ways and I've had success
both ways.
Speaker 10 (35:50):
Okay, all right, because yeah, we got hard water up
here in Cleveland, and it took about six months and
now it's like, yeah, it's not so too dull.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yeah, and it's going, Yeah, it's it's a it's a
marvelous product.
Speaker 10 (36:05):
Really, I mean, uh, oh, the stuff works fantastic.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Yeah, you used topray this thing every week and you
just stay ahead of it. You know where people get
in trouble was when they just let it go and
go and go, and six months later it's like, oh,
you know, now you need something a little stronger maybe,
or you're gonna need several weekend applications. But yeah, if
you're just catching it now, I think I just spray
it down. I I don't. We still kind of do
(36:31):
it both ways.
Speaker 10 (36:33):
Okay, I'll do it. One other quick thing is I
called a while back, we had a some pump with
a a h the activator bubble thing was all covered
in paint. And do you know I could not find
a replacement uh bobber for the switch. I looked everywhere
(36:54):
the big box stores out signed the right one. So
I ended up from the some pump.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Really, so this was the float that was thank you.
It was tethered to the discharge piper. Was it tethered
to the to the pump itself, yeah, to the pump itself, okay,
and then it was I.
Speaker 10 (37:19):
Could not find a replacement float for it to save
my life, huh. And I ended up just putting a
new some pump and I just put it's only used
for the discharge from the from the air conditioner and
and the slop sink, so that's it, so it's not
use that off. I ended up with the float that
(37:40):
the float that floats up to turn the switch on.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that'll be fine. That'll be fine. What
what kind of pump did you have before?
Speaker 10 (37:50):
I think I had. I'm not sure if it was
a zlar, but it was a pretty decent one about
ten years ago. And uh uh, I think I got
it from either my local hardware store. I think I
got from there.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Yeah, yeah, probably when Zalor is now in some lows.
But it's it was pretty much a plumbing specialty item, and.
Speaker 10 (38:16):
You recommend replacing those every ten years whether they need to.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Well that's what they say. Yeah, that's you know, the
industry says that you can have a some pump that
can last twenty five years or five years. Claim the
fame with a Zalor since you brought that name up
is they have incredible switches and that's the number one
failure on any pompous the switch. But yeah, well yeah,
(38:42):
so you replace the whole thing, okay, and you got
that float switch will be fine, that'll be fun. All right,
very good, Thank you much for the call. I appreciate it.
We'll take a little break and we'll come back and
we got Greg. You'll be up first and then we'll
go to ron in brad If you'd like to join us,
it's eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five.
Will continue with your calls. You're at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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