Gary Sullivan 8/16/2025 Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right, welcome there, number three at home with Garry Sullivan.
Nice and sunny, a good summer day, gonna be hot
and hot tomorrow and hot Monday and.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
A lot of rain.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Gents, we could looks like it again. So the pattern
hasn't changed. We're talking home improvement, working our projects around
the weather. If you'd like to discuss it, do so.
We'll take your calls till one right here on fifty
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They're there to help. All right. We're talking home improvement
and our phone number if you'd like to join us
is eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Those lines are pretty much open, so go ahead and
grab a line. We have Matt.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Matt welcome, Hey, thanks for taking my call. I love
your program. If it's like a seminar every week, well
thank you. Question for you. That product that awesome. When

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you put it in the washing machine and cycle it
without any clothes in it? Do you cycle it with
cold water or hot water or mild water?

Speaker 1 (02:16):
I usually use the mild water. I'm sure it says
that I'm a canister. I just do it instinctively. Now,
So my guess is I read the directions ten years
ago and that's what I do. I just do it
with warm water.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
I don't do it okay, okay, in not cold.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
No, Usually I just did the mild or whatever the
designation is.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it seems like you kind
of want to get it warmed up and then flush
it through. So cold water isn't going to do that,
but hot water is probably not the right thing to do.
So that makes sense. Okay, that was the only question.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah. One of the neatest things about that that product
that quite honestly, is it's such a small amount you
use and it comes a small container. And you know,
when he was talking about diloting it for drains, that
was amazing a teaspin for three gallons. But one of
the neatest things about doing it in a washer is
you can see it. I mean after you run that cycle.

(03:21):
He had warned me, he said, when when you run
that cycle, you're gonna have to run another cycle, or
rents it all out, rents it down. And I'm going like,
is there stuff in there? And he is, there'll be
some there'll be some stuff there. You'll know it worked.
So yeah, good luck with that. Yeah, So.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
I wanted to get the question answered because I didn't
want my wife to say, Matt, you're nuts.

Speaker 5 (03:48):
Okay, well your way to forget, and.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
You could do this if you'd like, just to get
you know, right from the horse's mouth, if you will
just go to the a A H. H S O
M E dot Com. I'm sure they have the applications
for use and it will you know it. Maybe maybe
you're supposed to use hot. I've always used mild and

(04:14):
it's worked. But you know it'll have those directions either
on the jar. Probably have it on their website too.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Okay, all right, awesome, thanks.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
You do the same, Take care bye. I love it,
he said. Awesome, that was great timing, no doubt about it.
All right. Our phone number is eight hundred eight two
three A two five five and we can go to Dennis.
Dennis welcome, Hey, how are you doing fine? Thanks?

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, I've heard you talk a lot about the stuff
that you spread on your siding to uh remove the
mold and dirt and everything. And I think it was
called Wet and Forget.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, that's the brand name.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Now my concern is I want to go get some,
but I have a lot of plants around my house.
When I spray that on and it gets on my
is that gonna kill my plants?

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Now, it's safe, but there's precautions. Okay. It is a
very safe product. It's not like a bleach or anything
along those lines. But it will tell you to either
cover you know, the plantings or if you I think
it also gives you an option of you know, taking
your hose and really rinsing down the plants after applications.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Maybe just wait till fall and spring to do it
when the plants are not.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Either way, it again, it's not that big of a deal.
What I have done in the past is where I
was spraying and where my plants were. You know, they
could have got a lot, or it could have got
a little, but not a lot. I didn't even cover them.
I sprayed the roof. I went and got my garden

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hose was and went over the tops and sides of
the plants for about three minutes and that was that.
So you know, there's precautions, but it's a fairly safe product.
I will say this. The one thing I've started adding
on that just because it makes sense, is when you
spray with a kind of whether we've had this year,

(06:23):
try not to do it on the sunniest day at
peak temperatures because it will evaporate off roofs. So it
talks about spraying it on cloudy days or first thing.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
I was planning on. I was planning on spraying on
my vinyl siding.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, that's fine. Well, that's fine, there'll be a lot
of vaporation. My thing is, you know, do it at
nine o'clock in the morning or six in the evening,
and they make it different ways. They make it in
a concentrate that you mix in a sprayer tanks and
wet it down, or they have a hose end connector

(07:03):
which is just tremendous. You just put a garden hose
on it and it'll spray it like twenty five feet.
You'll get about I think a two thousand square foot
of coverage on there. So when you're spraying it like that,
there'll be some missed just you know, we don't want
to really really really you know, ninety five degrees in
bright sunshine.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
All right, sounds good. Thank you so much. I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
You're quite welcome. Thank you all right again, it's eight
hundred eight two three A two five five Mike. Welcome.
Oh on Gary, Yes, sir, uh yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
I've got an outside deck that I've been painting for
years and I use this Bear advanced deck over. Yes,
it's resurfaced, proper, really prepared weathered wood, and I'm not

(08:06):
sure I think I need to have something that I
put to clean it maybe first, or make it last
longer because I have to do it. I'd say every
two years, maybe three years. And I'm just wondering, is
there's some better way of doing this because it cracks,
the paint actually cracks, and then it comes up.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
How old is the deck? The deck put it in.

Speaker 5 (08:34):
Nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Okay, so the age of the deck is perfect for
that product, all right. The problem is I think you're
misusing that product and not necessarily your fault. One of
the things I don't like about that product category, and

(08:58):
it's not just bear. Everybody has one. Now. When it
was originally came to market, it was marketed to people
that had a deck that was built in nineteen eighty nine, right,
and you were staining it and you were taking care
of it, but it was getting old and the grain
was getting raised and the noil heads were popping and
there was splinters, and they came out with this product

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that was going to keep you from replacing those deck boards.
It's going to be your life saver. It's a thick coating.
We're going to cover all this up in bingo. You'll
be good, and it's going to last. You know, it's
going to last four to six years, I think is
what their claim was. And in a lot of cases

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it made it to four to six years, but in
a lot of cases it didn't because preparation work was really, really,
really critical because it's so thick and it it's I
think it's a water base. It doesn't bite into water, right,
and it cracks and appeals, and then if you use
it a second time, it's worse, right because it keeps

(10:09):
getting thicker, you know, on top of another thick coating
and another thick coating, and it's just it can't breathe.
It cracks and appeals. And I know you don't like
to hear that. I don't like to tell you that,
but you know that's the uh pain. That's the bottom
line is it was designed to buy you five years.

(10:32):
And then I started having people that were putting a
new deck out and a new deck up, and they're
calling asking if they can put this on a new deck,
and I'm going, no, no, don't do it on a
new deck. You're gonna you're gonna spend too much money
and you're gonna strip it off. And then I'm gonna
tell you you're gonna have to strip it off really

(10:53):
good because I just want you to use a semi
transparent paint. So with the age of that deck and
where you're at, I guess all I want to tell
you is lower your expectations. I think that's going to
be a problem you're going to continue to have as
you reapply. Okay, yeah, Or you're into trying to strip

(11:14):
that off, which I haven't done, but I understand it's
very difficult. Or you're going to replace the boards on it.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
I had to replace one or two boards, but we
put the screws from underneath and so we don't have
any top layer screws or nails.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
So that's good. Yeah, that's good. So I'm just telling
you you know what to expect. I mean, I get it.
If you buy a couple, two, three, four more years,
that's fine, go for it. But for everybody else, that's
my thoughts on that.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
Yeah, it's kind of I guess that's what I'm doing
is I'm just trying to keep it going. It looks
fairly nice. Actually, the boards are still you know, down
and they're still holding and they're not that badly. It's
just that the paint that I put on. After two
years or so, it begins to peel.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Up right right right, yep. I understand the more I
could do.

Speaker 5 (12:13):
But as far as is there any like a pre.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
No, I'll tell you what. Let me put you on hold,
let me take a break, and I come back and
wrap up with you.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
There.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Run a little late. I will get right back with you. Mike,
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Speaker 1 (12:59):
Fifty is the talk station. Then back to work we
go talking a little home improvement. So I'll get to
you in a minute. Let's get back to Mike. And
we were talking about the uh the deck renew or resurfacer,
the bear peeling and things like that. You were asking

(13:20):
if there was something you can do. Let's see where. Yeah,
there is. I don't know if it's going to improve much.
You got to remember, though, that you're putting a thick
cutting on top of a thick cutting that's already failing. Okay,
so keep that in mind. So really the way, the

(13:42):
proper way, if you were going to continue to do that,
would be to strip it off, get down to the
bare wood, and then use what they call a deck brighter,
which is like solic acid, and it's kind of like
using like mradic acid on concrete. It opens the pores
of the wood. The deck brighter the oxalic acid, and

(14:04):
so it has a little it has a better chance
of gripping onto the wood. The problem is is the
pressure treated wood is pressure treated, so it has issues
with paint sticking on it anyway, and then when you
put a coating on it, it's even a bigger issue.

(14:24):
Now another option, and again I don't know how bad
it is, is maybe scratch off the part that's peeling
and rather than using that thick surface coating, you just
go to a solid color stain. And the solid color
stain is more like a deck paint. So it's a

(14:47):
solid color stain, it doesn't penetrate. It's going to bite
onto the deck over, but if the deckover is failing,
it will still peel. You know, we can't do anything
about that. It's separate. Move and then.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
Yeah, the parts where the yeah, the deck over has
lasted and it's not peeling, so I can maybe put
that on there again, right, but maybe in the areas
where it is peeling, put this solid color stain.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Or I would do it a little bit differently. I
would use if it's not peeling, maybe use the solid
color stain over the deck over and where it's it's
it has a better chance of biting. But it's only
really as good as what's beneath it. Mm hmmm, because

(15:43):
you don't really need the deck over on top of
the over. It's already it's already done its magic. It
hit all the bad stuff. Right. So now we're looking
at it from a cosmetic standpoint, right, So.

Speaker 5 (16:02):
A solid colored stain you're saying, yeah, yeah, what's on there? Yeah,
and it's okay if it's water soluble.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, because that's what the deckover is too, right,
it's water soluble, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, just use a
water based solid coach stain and go over that. I
don't know if you've talked to the people at home
Depot about the deck over, it'd be interesting get their
replay on it, though, But that whole category what I

(16:33):
say is true. I mean I get to question a lot,
and I know a lot of companies are having it,
and I've had an opportunity to talk about it. And
this is the way I kind of chat about it.
Is it is a product to buy you four years,
five years period.

Speaker 5 (16:52):
Yeah, okay, all right, I appreciate your help.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. Take care. All right. So, boy,
when people start putting that on new pressure treated would
I mean even the solid color stain and it's new
pressure treated wood, there's a period of almost I mean,
nobody ever sign a time anymore, but nine months to

(17:16):
twelve months before you put a solid color stain over
perch treated wood unless it's kill and drive. All right, Sue,
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Speaker 1 (19:12):
All right, back at it to go at home with
Gary Salvan A good hour and a half to go.
If you'd like to join us with a question about
your home, feel free. It is eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. Go ahead and jump on board. Joe,
take your call. Nanny's on vacation and uh, he'll set
you up and we will chat. All right, let's get

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to Sue. Sue Welcome, Hi, Gary. Hello.

Speaker 9 (19:40):
What's the optimal humidity level in a basement this time
of year?

Speaker 1 (19:45):
I'd say if you can keep it below sixty percent,
you're doing good. Okay, optimal I need if you can
get it in the low fifties, that'd be tremendous.

Speaker 5 (19:55):
Where are you at Okay, Cleveland?

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Okay? What's your mis in the basement?

Speaker 9 (20:02):
Probably like sixty five?

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Okay, So do you have a deumidifier down there or not?

Speaker 9 (20:08):
We have one, but I think we need another one.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Okay, Yeah, I mean yeah, you'd be much better off
getting that thing down to sixty percent. And it's probably
is it always been higherzed just recently.

Speaker 9 (20:24):
No, it's always been kind of high.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
I'm gonna ask you one question, see if you can
answer this. On your air handler, your air conditioner. Yeah,
there's a there's two options on fan. You can have manual,
it'll either be manual or on, and the other option

(20:47):
is auto. Auto means it turns on only when the
air conditioner turns on. You know what what setting none is?

Speaker 9 (20:56):
I think it's probably on auto.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Okay, that's where or it should be. So sometimes when
people are running on auto, they're in good shape. And
if you have it on on, what you're doing is
you're pulling the EU Moody out of the air, but
the water's dripping off the coils and sits. It never
shuts off. It blows all that water right back up
into the air.

Speaker 9 (21:19):
Okay, So leave it on auto.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, leave it on auto in the in the summertime.
You can put it on on in the winter time,
do you know, you know, even out the cold spots
or hotspots. But yeah, okay, all right, yeah it sounds great. Different.

Speaker 9 (21:36):
Do you miss the second one? Yeah? I have one
more question for you.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Sure.

Speaker 9 (21:40):
We just got a teak table. It was cleaned and
prepped and dried out, so we put a coat of
teak oil on, waited a little bits all the instructions
on the back of the can, put the second coat on.
I think our mistake was we did it today and
it's really hot and sunny right now.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
A little sticky.

Speaker 9 (21:57):
Well, yeah, it's a little sticky. Will it soak in
dry or if it doesn't over time? Should we just
stand down the sticky areas?

Speaker 1 (22:10):
So where is this table at? Is it outside? Okay?
Does it look to wipe.

Speaker 9 (22:21):
Off the access after the second coat? But when I
tried to, it was taken the little fibers from the
the rag and leaving them on the table.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
You might try. So what's going on there is the
tea coil is not penetrating the teak. So question one
is was too much applied? That's going to be the
first question because its teak is very very very very dense,
and I know they make tea oil and that's good,

(22:55):
but getting it to penetrate is difficult. Okay. So the
ability is it supposed to be shiny when it's finished
or should just look like natural teak?

Speaker 4 (23:08):
Probably satin okay.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
So that means there is a surface coating which means,
you know, that's the way it was designed to be.
It has a you know, a finish to it is
designed to lay on the surface. And that tea coil.
I'm just asking questions for my own edification. Now, is
that has resistance to the sun? That tea coil you bought?

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Because there's interior tea coil nextterior tea coil. Oh, so
if it has resistance to the sun, it would be exterior,
and that's good. Then I would kind of go back
and say how long has it been down on the table.

Speaker 9 (23:51):
Like half an hour?

Speaker 1 (23:54):
I would let it go.

Speaker 9 (23:55):
I was supposed to wipe the excess off after, but
it was so tacky that Okay, this just says superior. Yeah,
block's moisture and UV ray, so it must be for exterior.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
Okay, so actually have indoor outdoor.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Do you have a microfiber towel?

Speaker 9 (24:16):
Now, both the towels I tried, we're leaving little pieces
of stuff on there. Oh I do have a microfiber yes,
Like try that one.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Try that and if you cut any paint thinner, maybe
just a little bit of that, just a little dip
of that, Try it in a corner and see if
that helps otherwise, and if it looks good otherwise, I
would give it twenty four hours to cure because we're

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kind of vastling between two techniques where we got the
one that's going to penetrate and you're gonna wipe it off,
so you're wiping off all the access. You're not really
leaving a coating. What's penetrated is penetrated, and that's going
to be your protection versus it tells me to wipe
it off, but I can't wipe it off. So my
answer is, well, there's too much on there because they

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were telling you to wipe it off and you can't
wipe it off. But that doesn't mean it won't dry.
But it'll dry slow. It'll dry slow because it's an
oil and a humid outside. Try the microfibritie, maybe a
little mineral spirits and see if we can and try

(25:28):
that mineral spirits in an inconspicuous place. Let's make sure
it doesn't go cloudy on you or something like that.
But there's hope, don't panic. The worst case scenario is
after it does dry and it will dry, we might
have to take a light standing sponge to it and

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then put a very fine little layer over the surface.
So we got a couple options for you. All right,
thank you much for the call that helps, and let's
go to Jim. Jim, welcome, hither.

Speaker 10 (26:04):
How are you doing today? I called you a while
back about floors going with vinyl plank versus wood, and
we ended up going with wood and hickory and it
is incredible, great, but I'm building a brand new house
and uh, downstairs, beans had spots of like molds for spots.

(26:31):
I was wet when they were putting it in or whatever.
And so the guys are putting uh they've been scrubbing
them and doing that kind of stuff, and I was
wondering if wet and Forget would be good to spray
on there.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Well, they make a bunch of wet and Forget products,
So not the ones that we have been talking about today.
We've talked about the shower, We've talked about the exterior.
They do have a wet and Forget disinfected in mold
eliminator or some verbiage along nose lines. It is for
interior mold. And I don't know what are the what

(27:07):
are the guys scrubbing it down with.

Speaker 10 (27:12):
I don't know, like a priate bleached substance.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
It could be. It could be so in a new house,
it takes. First of all, it's probably the most humid
year we've had in a while. And second of all,
the new house stays quote damp for a year. So
there is a wet and forget product. To answer your questions,
it's disinfectant and mold eliminator. Okay, But one thing I'll

(27:41):
interject here too is it doesn't take care of the stained. Okay,
it'll kill the mold spores, but and it won't be active,
but it won't take care of the stains, so they
might have to scrub that down after that.

Speaker 10 (27:56):
I will eventually spray it spray painted ceiling. I've done
that at my last two houses.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Oh okay, all right, Well.

Speaker 10 (28:05):
I think I got I have some deck out there
that they put the.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
I don't know the.

Speaker 10 (28:14):
Man made the plastic decking, the fiber board decking.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah, and it's and.

Speaker 10 (28:19):
It's one color all the way through. Can I put
a grill on that deck? I want to put like
a flat top.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Grill, Yes, I I don't. I mean, he wouldn't bother that.
Do you know the brand name? Is it like fibron.

Speaker 10 (28:39):
I don't know. I know it's like one hundred and
sixty dollars a board.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Oh yeah, it's crazy. It's not cheap, so I yeah,
A quick answer, A quick answer would yeah, you should
be able to put a grill up there, and it
should be not an issue. It's either capped with a
PVC product, a polyethylene product, or a fiberglass product, all

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of which should you know that grills shouldn't get hot
enough where that would be a problem. Oil that splashes
onto that deck, as long as it's a cap product
shouldn't be a problem either. It should wipe off. If
it was regular pressure treated wood, it would soak in.
So I think you'd be absolutely fine putting that up there. Okay,

(29:29):
I appreciate it, all right, like you very good, Thank you.
A lot of times, you know, condos and different things
they have regulations about no grills on balconies, And in fact,
we even had a fire in our neighborhood. Somebody had
it on a balcony next to a vinyl sighting part

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of the house and the sighting melted and the house
got fire. So obviously I'm a assuming that we're going
to use the various safety precautions. I'm talking and he
was asking about the floor and you should be fine
in that respect. All right, let's take a break, we'll
come back. We got Luke, John, Tom Jason, and you.

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to go, So sit tight. We'll get to you and
let's start things off with Luke. Luke welcome.

Speaker 4 (31:05):
Hello.

Speaker 11 (31:06):
So my down spout, my down spout that was attached
to my guard. I got a new roof on here
back and I went with Brian Atis upon your recommendation.
I checked out a few guys and Brian did a
great job to put a put a single roof on
my home and I'm very very happy. But either way,
the gut or down spout, uh passed from the guttis.

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I got the gutter running along my home and wave
my house. But my garage goes underneath underneath my house,
beside my basement is my garage. And in the back
here down spout is disconnected to the water's coming right
out of my gut are running right down to the
garage and then finals into my basement. So I come
downstairs and uh, about ten foot into my out of

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the between the basement and the garage. Word they're coming
out of the garage. One of the basement about ten
foot on the carpets wet by about ten by ten area,
and I got all bar there. I got this indoor
out There was an indoor outdoor carpetents and call it
in the basement and on a concrete flo I lived
in a brick home. Either way, I get my vacuum
shot back and I probably sucked up twelve gallons of
water off the floor. I got two industrial fans and

(32:14):
big search on the fans, and I blowed. Then I
went by the third one that you can angle, and
I got it. I had it dried up, and but
when I woke up at next morning it was all dry.
This was last week. My question is there was water
butted right up to that bar, my wooden bar, if
it was wet and hold well, but I smell wet

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wood already, But I smelled mold beginning already, or I
still not know yet. It's been probably six days since
it's happened. I was on my hands and k these
that shot back, really really sucking up on that corner
there to make sure I got all the all the
water off on that carpet right there as you could,
and I had a fan blowing right there on the bar.
I just don't want my wooden bar to begin to

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smell like mold. But if it hasn't yet, what we'll
it begin to.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Well, mold can grow where there's organic material and water.
So the question mark is, and why I can't answer
that question, is when that flood took place the carpet,
you suck the moisture out of that, but you can't

(33:20):
suck the moisture out of the concrete. It's going to
hold that moisture for a while. The secret now is
to start really working on the humidity level. So I
don't know what the humidity level is down there right now,
but it could well.

Speaker 9 (33:37):
Be pretty good.

Speaker 11 (33:38):
It's pretty good, pretty good Gary, and only because I
have a.

Speaker 10 (33:45):
Running full time.

Speaker 11 (33:46):
I have a big air surefire essentially, and I have
it right beside the h back. I got a manar.
It was like about the biggest one you can buy,
and it runs NonStop. I just bought new filter short
the other week. I feel pretty good. I mean, I
don't have a humidity tester, but.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
I feel good.

Speaker 11 (34:05):
That is not sticky. It's always pretty cool. But I
can't pay one hundred percent certain, but I feel like
it's low community in that basement.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
I really do. All right, Well, let let's be sure
because that's going to be the defining moment. There's two things.
We don't know if the bottom of that wood bar
has absorbed the water, and you haven't get it with
a shot back. So there is a there is a tool,
probably twenty five bucks. It's got probes and it will

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tell you what the moisture content of that wood is. Okay,
and we want to be sure that's down below ten percent.

Speaker 11 (34:43):
Yeah, I mean, it's a nice bar about this house
back a couple of years ago, a really nice bar,
and I just you know, so, okay, can I'll probably
get that a.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Lows yep, yep. The second thing when you're in lows,
when you're inky in lows, you get that tool and
then also get a humidity or gauge. It's just like
a it's just like a thermometer and it's got a
little dial. You want to work, you want to make.
You want to get that humidity level in that basement

(35:12):
below sixty percent, prefer being closer to fifty percent, but
it definitely belows sixty percent. And if you don't, I
would probably get a deumidifier in there, whether you've got
a rent one or what, but that'll help start sucking
some of that moisture out of there, the old eddies.
If it smells like mold, there's mold.

Speaker 11 (35:35):
So we yeah, Wen, I'm a cry baby. I'm sensitive
on stuff like I mean, there's no smell whatsoever my base.
That's why I got that air purrefire instead of next
to my HVAC system.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
And it kind of.

Speaker 11 (35:49):
Sucks for the whole house, okay, And you know it's
odd to break home, so you know it really smells
just clean and fresh air. Yeah, And so I hope
I want to tell you that, but you know you're
better prevented maintenance is a lot better manus. Yeah, but
the problem I want better get it.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
I want to get ahead of it. Yeah, you did
what you could do. Now let's get the data to
make sure we're okay. And that's that's really what you're
looking at doing. Then, all right, thank you much for
the call. I appreciate it. We've had. We always have
a lot of discussion on mold because that is your

(36:24):
number one enemy and you got to get it under control.
That's just the facts. That's a real quick We'll grab
Jason here and then we'll take a break and we'll
get everybody else's questions answered. I hope Jason welcome.

Speaker 4 (36:41):
Hey Harry, how are you today?

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Doing fine? Thanks? Good.

Speaker 11 (36:44):
So here's what I got.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
I woke up this morning and the house wasn't uncharacteristically warm.
But I went downstairs and we've got a three little house,
and the basement is where the HVAC unit is, and
the there is a for supply that's on the directly
above it, right, and it almost sounded like there was
an obstruction there. And I wasn't really getting a lot

(37:07):
of volume out of the other registers. So I'm maybe
at the tail end if I typically change out the
filter every ninety days, right, and maybe I should be
better about that, but I'm maybe at the tail end
of that, so that might be it. But if that
doesn't fix or address the issue, do you have any
other thoughts?

Speaker 1 (37:25):
The other thought I would have would be the blower. Okay,
either is you know, failing or starting to fail. It's
just you know, does your air handler does it have
like indicator lights on the problem, you know, blinking lights
like three blanks, five blinks, four blanks where you.

Speaker 4 (37:47):
Know there are none showing and it is a you know,
a less than ten years old unit.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Okay, is there just a solid light there showing it's working.
I didn't noticed if there was one, but I wasn't. Yeah, well,
definitely changed the filter, that's for sure. And the only
other thing is it can cool the air, but if
it's not blowing it, you know, with enough velocity, that

(38:16):
can certainly be the problem. I had a blower on
my air handler go down a couple of years ago,
So those would be the two things I'd focus in on,
and you know, after that, i'd probably call him HVAC company.
I don't know what else it would be. To be
honest with you, just not getting enough circulation out from
that main unit. All right, music's playing and that means

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