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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Investing in your future.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now more from the Steve Parns Coordinated Financial Planning Studios.
This is fifty five KRZ, the talk station and iHeart
radio station.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
All right, Saturday it is and welcome aboard at home
with Gary Salvin.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Welcome now our number four.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
And good afternoon as we take your calls regarding your
home improvement projects. Happy to have you, and I say,
give the phone number and let's keep rolling. It's eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five. Got a
question regarding your home dollars up, Joe, take your call
and you and I will chat.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
All right, let's get to Tim. Tim.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Welcome, Hey, welcome Gary, Yes, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
You bet hey.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
I was gonna paint around the bottom of my scarage.
It's on a block foundation, man. Yeah, I'm doing some
painting around trimming to make the house in the garage
righten up a little bit. Now, the block are old
and they're forever. What should I paint that with?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
So the blocks are what you're painting, I mean that's
what the wall is or concrete blocks.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Yeah, on the bottom.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Okay, Well you can paint those with what pretty much
any type of paint you could Uh, It just depends
whether you want it like a waterproof paint, a thick
coating to fill some of the block, uh you know,
pot marks and things like that. If that's what you
want to use, I would use a product called dry Lock.
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Dry Lock is a cementatious Portland cement based paint.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
A gallon gets.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You the coverage of what a quart would usually give you,
so you get one hundred square feet to a gallon.
If you're not interested in the waterproofing properties and filling
up the uh you know, the marks in from the blocks,
the pores, the pop marks.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Or whatever, you can just use a regular.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Exterior house paint in the garage and go right over
that block with that.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
What Uh Can you mix uh coling in with the
dry Lock?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yes, yes, so it comes in white, and I would
assume the hardware stores know that, but if they don't,
the formulation is if you pick out a uh color
on their color chart, they would use half half the
formula to go into dry lock and it'll come very
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very close.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
But it can be mixed. Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
The house, the house when it was cited, they put
the trim around all the windows. It's an old, old house,
so they put the trim around the windows and it's
a hunter green. And then just to writen it up
and make the house look better. I've been going around
by painting a few other things around the house the
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same color and it makes it it just makes it
look nice.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Sure. Sure, so you're going to paint that block a
hunter green?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, So they may struggle to get to that color
just because of the deep pigments, and we're mixing a
white paint, not a base, so I don't know how
close they can come to that, but it's usually hunter
green is sometimes a stock color. That's why I'm asking,
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because it would take so much pigment.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
What if I painted it with the dry lot first,
but that drive then go over.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Could do that. You wouldn't even necessary unless you want
to fill it. You wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
You could just use you know, regular exterior paint, or
you can quite honestly inside a garage. You could even
use an interior paint. But if you want it nice
and smooth, I would definitely paint the dry lock on
there and then just you know, interior.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
House paint right on top of it.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Okay, sound good, Very good, Thanks Tim, Thank you, Take
care all.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Right then.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, the interior late text paint is great for masonry surface.
This is not going to offer waterproofing protection like the
dry Lock, but dry Lock's a good filler.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Also, John, welcome.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Gary, thanks for taking my call and listening forever, but
doing it forever, and listen what I've done. I got
tired of prim and shrubbery and everything. I had everything
out in front of my house taking out and now
what's out there all across the front of the house
is river rock and it looks looks nice. It is really,
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but I was wondering if you knew where you could
buy artificial plants.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Joe's doing the same thing at his house. He's getting
rid of all.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
The landscape, you know, seventy five years old, and I'm
tired of messing with it.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, well Joe's not that old, but he was definitely
tired of messing with it. Yeah, so I do you
know a place to get artificial flowers?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Joe? Amazon? Yeah, that's a great place. Really.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I was going to say Walmart might be the you know,
best place if you're looking for a brick and mortar.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I don't think you're gonna I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, yeah, I like Joe's idea, I think i'd go
to you know, get on Amazon, take to look and
see what they got.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
I've seen them advertise different places, but I hate buying
something without uh you know, touching it, looking at it,
you know. But you know, I had a neighbor and
had a pretty good idea. He said, you ought to
go to one of these concrete places, you know, to
sell all these different fixtures, you know, like animals that
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And I'm thinking maybe doing that.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Well, I'll tell you another thing Joe just mentioned is Minards.
That would be a good place to check.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Also, yeah we got I'm here in Louisville and yet
we've got one here.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Yeah, I would check there.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
They have you know, they're kind of a little bit
off the beaten path from a regular big box store.
They have some very very cool products you know, here
and there. But the other question is how well they
going to hold up into the sunlight.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Yeah, That's what I'm thinking. See, and I don't know
who's the most reptable to buy from but Amazon. Anything
I've ever done with Amazon, if you don't like it
or something, they've always taken care of it.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
So well, maybe it will. And also you know, usually
their product description.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
It may even talk about U V resistant, you know,
or not UV resistant because you're gonna want to have
some UV resistance, or that uh that green bush will
be uh you know, sea green after a while.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Jerry, Well, I appreciate it, all right, get on Amazon.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Good, thank you. Yeah, I'm glad you said that, Joe.
I don't know why I wouldn't even have thought of that.
But that's the perfect place because you can you can literally,
you know, keep scrolling shop for hours to get exactly
what you want.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Harold welcome, Hey, Gary roll Ti. Yeah you Harold all right, Yeah, you're.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Doing hey man ready Todd Todd rolls a week from.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Today, week from today. Wow, it's hard.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
To Florida state. Florida state.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Well, we're in our nineties. I'm sure you're the same.
So I hope it's a cool day.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
I'm one hundred and two heat in this here today.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Yeah, we're riding the same ballpark. Was a guy cool
off there?
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Yes, sir, but you have the title heat things back
up for us, sir?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Oh yeah, it will. I was thinking to you last week.
I found uh on Apple TV a whole story about
the sec which was very good.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Yes sir, Yes, sir, we'd love we'd love for Ohio
State to step their game up.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
And join.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
See where all this is going.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
At my lake house, I've got a hunderneath my raised deck.
I've got concrete and it's walkable, and I put some
of the uh the sealer on there. Uh what's making
redefend your seiler?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Okay, back last fall?
Speaker 7 (08:52):
If I want to come back and put like a
dice coating because I need a little bit of texture
because I got a downhill, is that going to be
an issue with the sailor up put on my fall?
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I think you're gonna want to prep it differently. I'm
trying to think what uh the roller rock is designed.
Probably gonna want to atch it or grind it a
little bit, so maybe like a radic acid wash on there.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah, I think you're going to want to open that
up a little bit just so that it bites onto
that concrete.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Yeah. It's not a well used it's not a well
trafficked area.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
Right when I put the wood.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
Brightener on my dock, how long? How long do I need?
How long will that last and be effected? Before I
put the cabin ut correct on it.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah, it's going to open up those fibers.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I mean, I don't know if you can say, you know,
three days or a week or a month, but you.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Know, I would say, you know, if you're going to
put it on there, try to do it in a
couple couple of weeks. Uh.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Okay, that's that's what I was after getting gum hot.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, yeah, just get a good Are you going to
use the temperature lowering cabot deck sailor.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
I'm using deck correct. I don't think that's the temp
ofture okay lowering deal. Yeah, just the things about eight
years old and it never had anything put on it.
How I pressure washed it, and I've already done my
two decks up top. Uh, but I just used a
semi solid CABT saying but I'm going to do the
deck correct down there because people are barefoot down there,
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and you know, I've got some cracks and I'm trying
to fill in their swims. So but I'm just gonna
probably wait go on there, I was.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Going to say, so tell me what that deck correct
product is?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Is that like it cover.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
Up it is and you put two coats on it,
and what it does. It's almost like a feint of coating. Yeah,
it goes on top and you only get seventy five
square feet to the gallon. That's two coats need to
put two coats. Yeah, so I bought about nine hundred.
I've got twelve hundred square feet on my dop so
(11:24):
I have bought about nine hundred dollars of that product.
And I'm just gonna I'm not going to wait till
the fall. The do the deck brightener on one weekend
and come back the next week sometime his own.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Yeah, So I just had a call. I don't know
if you heard.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
It was probably a half hour ago, and he had
a bear product and I forget what the name of
that deck on deck or deckover, deckover, I think it's
called and he was having problems with peeling. And we
had a long conversation about what those products were invented
it for. And they were invented to take an old,
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old deck and kind of resurface it, like you said,
hide the splinters, hide to cracking.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
But it struggles very much on biting onto the wood surface.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And it's designed to last like five years. It's kind
of a buying time. Now what you're are you're putting
in on the deck correct?
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Yeah. The deck like it's about eight years old, never
had anything on it was an older lady that I
bought house from, and both decks up top same thing.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
You know.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
I listened to this guy named Gary Soliman Key, so
I pressure washed it, deck, brightened it, and put the
semi solid staining. Okay, And you may remember my callback
last ball where my wife picked out a color and
she drove I was, well, I was painting the spindle
and she drove up and I don't like that collar.
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And I said, well you picked it. And I said,
what am I going to do with that two hundred
and thirty dollars a paint? She told me that was
my problem.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
That's just another happy marriage.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
Well it is, you know, there's there's bigger I got
bigger things I want to go through with her at
the end of the deck.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Gully.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
So yeah, So when you were saying the masonry defender,
so that that that sealer isn't on the deck, right,
that's somewhere else.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
No, No, this was on the concrete and I use
I used that concrete sealer on my driveway about five
years ago. And man, Okay, that thing still be still
things still be up.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Yeah, that's a great thought. Well, all I can tell you,
if you're going to use that cover up.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Product, read those directions and put it on step by
step exactly what it says.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I'm being real.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I'm not a huge fan of that stuff, and I
don't care what brand it is on that type of wood.
I just I think it can be overused, and I
think it I know it has difficulty biting. Somebody else
may tell you something different. I rarely knock a product.
(14:20):
I'm just saying if you're and if you have problems
and you take it back, I guarantee you they're going
to tell you because the directions are very explicit, and
they're sometimes labor intensive, and sometimes it's a little bit
more than.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Just the deck brightener.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
So just I mean, the deck brightener is used, but
just follow those instructions to the t Harold. That's that's
the big thing. And yeah, good luck with that. And
we got a scoot and take a break.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Thank you, Mauch Harold appreciate he didn't get to say
roll tied. That's a first.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
We'll continue at home with Gary Salvan right here of
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All right, back in it we go.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Twenty two minutes after the top of they are talking
a little home improvement and let's.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Get back to the phones. We've got Tom, Tom, welcome.
Speaker 12 (15:35):
For good morning Gary, or way make an afternoon.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 12 (15:40):
Flying bye. Actually a whole year is flying bye.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
You know.
Speaker 12 (15:45):
Products change over time, of course, but I put sealer
on a stamped concrete patio, and it's time to do
it again. It's just a prevlalm to it. I have
a number of cans left over or without labels, uh,
in my garage. Can I mix those from you know,
two three years ago to something that I bought an hour?
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Do they go to the.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
I will not.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I might be able to, but I, you know, every
now and then when I'll talk even about additives and paint,
I'll talk to their technical services.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
If we wanted that in there, we would have put
it in there.
Speaker 12 (16:25):
Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
You know, maybe you know that they're solvent based maybe
you don't because they're solvent based and water bass and
they don't.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
They don't play in the sandbox very well together.
Speaker 12 (16:38):
Yeah, and there you know, it's too much money for
the patio, not the product, but the patio.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (16:45):
Yeah, another one. And I've heard you talk about this before.
I believe I have. I think chipmumps aren't those ones
that are like little rats by.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
The size of your hand.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
They go burrowing under steps and sidewalks and all that good.
Speaker 12 (17:01):
Well, they I think they're under my whole house. It's uh,
you know growing anyway, I have they burrowed under my patio.
I have, you know, it's four inches and then four
inches of the stamp concrete on top of it. And
I had to pull my dog out it from under there.
He got all the way in there and I couldn't
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get him out. So I need to do something about him.
Can I just take maybe pound some gravel in there
and then put some sort of a you know, somemato
concrete over top of it.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
My experiences, when you put gravel in there, they'll throw
it back at you the same night.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Okay, I'm serious.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I one way of you know, if it's I talk
a lot about concrete leveling and slab jacking where they
drill in and pump cement down underneath it. That's an option,
But the real problem is the chipmunks.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
It's eliminating the chipmunks, And every time I talk about it,
I'll get all kinds of emails. But you know, you
can if there's a bird feeder near there, remove food sources.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
That's number one.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
And you can try blocking the whole with gravel and
expandable foam and everything else.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
I've never had luck with that.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
And you can trap them, but then what are you
going to do with them because you can't release them,
and you get to a rat trap, a snap trap
that can be effected with peanut butter. But I'll tell you,
I'll tell you, and I will get emails. I hate
talking about it, but it works. I will take a
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five gallon bucket and i will put about two gallons
of water in it, and I'll throw a handful of
sunflower seed in it, and I'll get about a one
by six and I'll take a little ramp going up
to that bucket and I'll put sunflower seeds on that
and the chipmunks will take care of themselves, but.
Speaker 12 (19:13):
If they had a problem with it, they would go
somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
So it's humane, but it's you know, quite honestly, it's
a Chipmunks are very destructive. And what will happen to
that patio. I mean you can try the gravel and
with the cement. I mean, it may work for you.
I've never never really had luck with it. They just
keep kicking it back, okay, But when they will burrow
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under there and start disrupting that base, you'll get settling
on that patio and you'll get cracking on that patio.
Speaker 12 (19:45):
Yeah, I need to avoid dad.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Yeah, yeah, because I can.
Speaker 12 (19:50):
I ask you one another. I'll make it quick. I
have a detached garage and it's about twenty by twenty
twelve twelve pitch. But this siding on it, you're talking
mister procrastinator. Now, the siding on it has kind of
you know, popped out at the bottom, not to where
I can nail it in necessarily. It's just it's just
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warped and it's worked to the tune of about I
don't know, two three inches. Do I have to take
that four x eight sheet off and replace it? Or
is there another angle to play?
Speaker 6 (20:26):
On this.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
So what kind of side is this, like T one
eleven sighting or is this a vinyl sighting or what
kind of sighting is it?
Speaker 12 (20:32):
Yeah, I should have said that up front. Yes, T
one eleven exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
T one eleven.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
And and so a panel and down at the bottom
of that panel is where it's warped.
Speaker 12 (20:44):
Yes, it's you know, it's since it's two stories, it's
about eight feet up. It's where the next one needs it.
And yeah, it's just a yeah, it.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Worked out and there's no movement at all in that
where you could screw that back in or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Well, I mean that's your only you're.
Speaker 12 (21:02):
Going to.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Yeah, you're.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Push that back even then screw that back into place
where you're going to replace it.
Speaker 12 (21:13):
Okay, okay, yeah, okay, Well, uh I guess that goes
on the list of things to do.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
There you go, there, you go.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
All right, Well, good luck with the chipmunks, Tom, and
let's grab hern here.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Ron.
Speaker 13 (21:28):
Welcome, thanks for taking the calls with you again. I
have an old walnut washstand that about fifty years ago.
I stripped two or three coats of white enamel off
of it and finished it with deft for some reason.
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There's a spot on one hand about the size of
the palm of your hand that has become cloudy, and
i'd used just, uh, maybe a four hundred grip wet
dry sandpaper, send that down and put just a little
more depth over that.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Yeah, yeah, uh.
Speaker 13 (22:19):
That is just yeah, it's a good barny lacquer.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Yeah, they make both.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
They make a lacquer, they make a varnish. So you
think that was caused by water or somebody setting a
glass on it or something along those lines.
Speaker 13 (22:37):
I think was caused by way too many years sitting
right next to a register warner was either cool there
or warm there and blowing on the majority of the time.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Well, try this before you get into the sandpaper. All right,
take some baking soda and some toothpaste and you know,
just like wax in a car circular motion, and see
if that will take care of that cloudiness.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
If it does not, then I would.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Hit it with a you know, six hundred grit wet
dry paper really and see if we can remove that cloudiness.
And then if you remove the cloudiness with the sandpaper grit,
yes you will. You will be able to just go
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ahead and put another coat of deft over that. I mean,
it'll be fine, but your toothpaste and your baking so
it will sometimes take out those moisture rings and moisture
cloudiness and you won't effect a finish. You won't have
to put anything on there. So I try that first
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and yeah, good luck. I think that toothpaste and bacon
soda very.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Well may work. All right, We're going to talk about
leaky basements.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Oh gosh, if we had the rain, Yes we have.
And you hear me talk about ever dry a lot.
And they're different than a lot of other people that
do it. They do a system and a friend of
mine just had them do their house. Very very happy,
he was James Bagley. He will be our guests as
we continue. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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Back in it we go at home with Gary Sulventheim.
Do you talk to our friend James Beagley. He is
with ever Dray and we're going to talk about eliminating
the worry that you have when you have a basement
that's leaking, or when you're going to try and sell
a house and you know it's leaked before and you
(26:05):
know it. You know, we tried to patch it but
didn't really work type of deal, and then having a
deal shuddered because it had a league basement. So James
Bagley with ever Dry, Welcome. You're at home with Gary
Salivan once again.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
How are you.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
Hey, I'm great, Gary. How are you doing today?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Doing wonderful? I gotta tell you. Have you noticed it's
been wet this year?
Speaker 9 (26:33):
Oh yeah, I've noticed, and it's been a fun exciting
year here, you know, for business and also knowing that
we're able to help so many homeowners out with you know,
getting that healthy home that they that they deserve.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah, I tell you a friend of mine that I
gave you his name, and he had ever Dry come
out and do. He is so thrilled and so happy
and he couldn't talk talk enough to me about your
crews and how helpful they were because it's a big
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project and you know, somebody checking on him. He was
absolutely thrilled. James, which is one of the reasons I
recommended he call you.
Speaker 9 (27:16):
Absolutely, and you know that's why you send send those
referrals our way, because you know what homeowners are getting
Gary And you know, with our process with you know,
the workers on the job site, you know they're supervisors.
We do in progress calls to talk to the homeowners
to make sure that we're meeting their expectations. We call
them when the job's done. We also go back out
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and do an inspection afterwards again to make sure that
you know, everything met what they were promised during the
you know, the foundation specialist visit.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Yeah. Yeah, Now you guys do it right.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
So those that are not familiar with ever Dry, tell
us a little bit about ever Dry. How long you
guys been around. Uh, you're probably the grandfather other of
the waterproofing business in the greater Cincinnati area, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Absolutely.
Speaker 9 (28:06):
So, you know, we've been around the Tri state area
here for forty one going on forty one years and
just low recently we started taking over the Louisville and
Lexington market about two and a half years ago. So
now we go from you know, Springfield down to Lexington
down to Louisville. We got we cover a lot of
area here, so forty one years. There's a lot of
a long time. And yes, we are the name of
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the game when it comes to basement waterproofing.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
So is there anything we can do well? I don't know.
If the rain's letting up.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I looked at this week's forecast, it was like rain Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday once again. Is there anything homeowners can do to
I don't know, help prevent it. I guess it's really
about water controlling. That's what you guys do.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
Yeah, absolutely, And that's that's a very common question we
get at home shows and home on will call in
sometimes just asking for tips and what will gladly give them.
And one of the main things you can always do
is make sure you keep your gutters clean, because you know,
when that water's not able to go into that gutter
just pours off your house and right down to your foundation.
You know, having your grades sloped away from your house,
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making sure that all your water is just ran.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Away from the home.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
There you can route your down spouts off your hill
and things like that, because one way to keep the
water out of your house gary is to not let
it get around your house. And you know, if you
know like I know, with how foundations work.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
That's that's that's a great thing to do.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
So when I was talking before, I was saying, you know,
ever Drid does a system. You guys offer a lifetime
warranty which is transferable to the next home or is
that true?
Speaker 9 (29:49):
Absolutely, as long as that structure is standing, that thing
can have a warranty on it there. That's one of
the one of the main you know, things people like
about our system is knowing that when they to sell
that home, you can even put it on the MLS
site and things. I was actually on a website the
other day and I saw this house and it said
for sale and it said basement waterproof, I ever dry,
and I you know, it made me happy knowing that
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they were talking about that even when they're trying to
sell the home, because I mean, you talk about peace
of mind when buying a house knowing it comes with
a lifetime warranty and the basement already waterproof. It's a
great feeling to have knowing you don't have to worry
about that.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
That is a big deal. That is a big deal.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
So when you do the system, I guess the first
thing you start is on the outside of the house
again with water control.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
Absolutely yeah. So we'll dig down an inspection trench on
the outside of your home there looking for any kind
of cracks. We find any cracks, we dig those down,
steal them on the outside with a thick black mastic
tar fill that back up to that inspection trench level,
and we'll put an underground drainage there for you to
direct that water away from your home.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Man, that seems that seems like a lot right up front.
I mean you talk about water control. If you got
that maybe grating that isn't working real well, this is
going to help that problem, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
And then the water table. I hear more and more.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
About that, probably because we're having more and more del
uses the water table. It's it's everywhere, right of water
is underneath the ground. Then look at Venice, Italy. It
comes up every day and goes back down there. But
you know, if I got a house and I got
a basement and all of a sudden I got water
that's coming between the floor and the wall, is that
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the ground water is just rising above the floor level.
Speaker 9 (31:40):
Yep, that's exactly what happens. So then when they build
your house there, Gary they dig a big hole. And
you know, if you leave a basically a clay bowl
is what.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
We call that.
Speaker 9 (31:48):
And if if I leave a ball outside in the rain,
what's going to happen to that bowl?
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Fill up?
Speaker 9 (31:53):
Yeah, and that's exactly what happens to your house, and
that that water table comes up and down, up and
down throughout the year every time it rains. You know,
with the groundwater and what we do on the inside,
we create a safe a safe zone there is to
where that water what it can come up and down,
but it'll get into where we put our system in
the ground and it'll go to our sump pump and
then get out of there.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
So so you're rolling it away from the outside foundation
what's coming up, you're collecting and h where do you
move that?
Speaker 9 (32:24):
We run that to, you know, wherever coat allows. Sometimes
we can run to the streets sometimes into you know,
existing lines that are there. Just again away from the house,
we have that go to a sump pump which also
comes with a battery backup along with that and it
pumps it out and wherever code allows. Different cities, you know,
allow different things, but away from your home is the
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most important thing.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
What do you.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
I know what I say, But what do you say
when a home owner's got a foundation it's got cracks
in it and wants to know if he can just
patch that up.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
I know everybody wants a can, but absolutely.
Speaker 9 (33:03):
Absolutely, it's it's almost like putting band aids on something
in neat stitches. So you know those cracks are there.
They start in the outside, they work their way in
with anything that water gets in there. We have thirty
forty free stall cycles a year. You know, the water
gets in there, it expands. Now you have water coming
through those cracks and you can patch them, but water
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follows the path of least resistance, and you know it's
going to find its way, and water's tricky. You know,
you've had water in your basement. I've had water in
my basement. I'm pretty sure we're both waterproof. I ever dry.
You know, so we know, we know how it works,
and we know how stressful it can be, and we
know how great it feels to know that we don't
have to worry about that.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Right. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
I always tell people, if you patch that crack, that's wonderful.
But when you pasch that, can you tell me where
that water's going?
Speaker 9 (33:51):
Yeah, to the next to the next available spot.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
You know, what do you mean, I go, what's got
to go somewhere? Yeah, they're You're exactly right. That's in
a lot of cases just breeds another crack.
Speaker 9 (34:03):
That's all it does. Path of least resistance.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
And basements are notoriously damp anyway, aren't they. I mean,
even after their waterproofed. I would imagine because I get
new homes that are damp. I mean, basements are just damp.
Speaker 9 (34:19):
Yeah, yeah, they can be. And it's because you know,
they're underground and you know, back in the back in
the day, that's where people would store all their their
goods before they had refrigeration and lower levels because that's
where you know, it stays the coolest. I know in
my house, it's the lower level of the home. The
basement's always the coolest spot. So yeah, it's just because
it's underground there, Yes, there.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
And I love that ever Dry incorporates the uh the
easy Breathe in their waterproofing warranty because you know, even
if you have you could have the whole thing sealed
in everything and it's below ground, you're gonna have a
little musty smell and that easy Breathe eliminates that and
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make sure home even healthier with pollutants that we're now
trapping into. And that comes with your system.
Speaker 9 (35:05):
Correct, Yes, there, that is part of our our pandent
system there. And you know, that thing came about because
homeowners were, you know, back in the early two thousands,
late nineties, early two thousands, homeowners were saying, you know,
my basement's dry and I love it, but it still
has that basementy smell. So our you know, our company
designed the Easy Breathe and what it does is an
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air exchange unit and exchanges the air in your home.
It takes care of cooking odors, pet odors if you're
a smoke or smoking odors, any kind of odors that
can you know, because odors typically just fall to the
bottom of the to the bottom of the house there
and you know the moisture and all of that as well.
So absolutely that's one of my favorite parts of the system.
And again I had, you know, experience with it, because
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I have one of those in the home as well,
and I absolutely love it. And you can set it
to it. It runs until it hits a certain amount
of humidity in your home and then it shuts off,
so it doesn't run year round. It only runs when
it needs to run. But you can turn it on,
you know, if you want to air the house out
one weekend, you know, just modify the dials on it.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Yea, yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
And inexpensive to operate too. It's like two three bucks
four bucks a month.
Speaker 9 (36:11):
So it'sout the cost of a light bulb.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Yes, yeah, a lot, a lot less expensive than a
do you midify her?
Speaker 4 (36:17):
That's for sure? So how long does it take you
to waterproof a a regular home?
Speaker 3 (36:27):
I don't that's an unfair question, but I mean, is
it a week long project or is it two weeks?
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Or generally is it a week project?
Speaker 9 (36:37):
Typically between two to five days is our average job.
We have had bigger jobs over the years that take
a couple of weeks, but you know those are usually
like churches and things of that nature. You're talking three
hundred four hundred feet linear foot jobs and those are
our average jobs, about one hundred and twenty one hundred
and twenty six So two to five days maximum typically,
unless you have a big giant, you know, three hundred
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four hundred lineal foot base.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Sounds to me like every home will eventually leak in
the basement. Is that true or no?
Speaker 9 (37:05):
You know, I always say it's not a matter of if,
it's a matter of when. You know, everything breaks down
over time, and when builders build houses, they do put
waterproofing on the walls, a little thin coat, and then
they put some drainage around you know, your your basement
typically and it just breaks down. In the seventies and
eighties they had the terra cotta piping, which just destroys
over the years, and they moved to the perforated tile
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in the eighties and nineties and two thousands, and with
house settling and everything those the slope always goes away.
It turns into a roller coaster of you know, pipe
under your home which sits the water sits there and
just you know, if the water doesn't have anywhere to go,
it's going to come right through your floor there and
that's where the water table comes back into play.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
So when I tell people to walk around the house
and you see a down spout that's no longer lined
up with the pipe that goes underground, and I tell
you to get that fixed right away, I'm not lying
to you, right because even if you don't have quote
a big time waterproofing problem. If that thing's not connected,
you're gonna have water in your basement.
Speaker 9 (38:08):
Yeah, absolutely, because what it's gonna do is just gonna
drop down on that foundation and it's gonna eat a
hole away in the dirt and it's just gonna put
that pressure on the foundation. It's a lot of pressure
when when a home, you know, when it's raining outside,
it's almost like an elephant sitting on your foundation with
that water pressure.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
And when you do estimates, you also give tips like
that too, Like you know, I mean, there's no high pressure.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
You're there to solve a problem.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
And if this gets taken care of and that gets
taken care of, maybe, but if you want a lifetime warranty,
we'll cover everything and it'll be warranted.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
That's a great way to happen business.
Speaker 9 (38:48):
Absolutely, And like I said, we've been doing it forty
one years now, and the homeowners get to make their
own decision at the end of the day, and that's
what's great about it. We give them the information and
if you know they don't want to have the water
proven done.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
We do give those tips.
Speaker 9 (39:00):
As far as you know you can some things you
can do, like everything We've talked about making sure your
downspout hoocked up, making sure your gutters are clean. If
you have water in your basement by your washer and dryer,
make sure you stand on a rubber mat so you
don't run the chance of getting electrocuted down there, anything
like that. So there's a lot of hazards when you
have water in the basement. So we try to give
help wherever we can. And that's what's kept us in
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the business. As long as you know, great workmanship, just
you know, customer satisfaction and just you know, being there
for homeowner.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
Just what we do.
Speaker 9 (39:28):
We have nearly forty thousand customers in our database here
in Cincinnati.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Wow, well, you guys are doing a great job.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
And if people you know, they get on the list,
probably not going to be out there the next day.
How do you get a hold How do you get
a hold of ever Dray James?
Speaker 9 (39:45):
Yeah, so you can call us five one three eight
seven four seven two zero zero. They can check out
our cool website. It's www dot ever dry Sincywi a
y dot com. You can google us. I mean, there's
a lot of options out there. If you call tell
them you heard James on the Radio with Gary, and
I'll throw in a free easy breathe with any purchase
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that you might make with us.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Wow, there's a deal.
Speaker 9 (40:09):
I knew I was worse something only only because I
like you, Gary. That's that's I like. I like giving
your your database here, your friends some uh you know
some some something in the game there, give them a
reading to call us if if you've been waiting to call,
now is the time, because yes, our our our backlog
is just growing. You know, it's been a wet year
and we've been very fortunate this year, for sure.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Yes, sir, all right, my friend, thank you very much.
I encourage everybody to give every great car. I'll call
if you got that leaky basement and it ain't don't
fix itself, So James, thank you.
Speaker 9 (40:40):
Hey, always a pleasure. Gary, have a great day.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
All right, you do the same, Thank you very much.
We'll take a short break and come back.
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All right, back at it, we go at Home with
Gary Sullivan. I know a couple of people shocked with
their energy bill. This month, I was a new record
for summer energy. And I've been really working hard to
control humidity and pulling down shades. But cost energy keeps
going up, and that's something as a homeowner, we got
to keep watching lights and weather stripping and chargers and
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running the deumidifier. There's a lot of things driving it up,
but nothing but bigger than price increases. And the other
one is property insurance. I've had numerous people get in
contact with me like what do I do? You know, well,
the first thing I'd do is I'd get a broker
to shop multiple places and a good one, someone that
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you can communicate with, someone's going to spend the time
going through line by line. We did that last year
and it's saved and with some you know, hard to
see to make what you want to cover, what you
don't want to cover, what your you know deductible is
going to be. But those things can be you know,
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pulled in and pulled out a policy. So that's just
a couple of quickies there on trying to save a
little bit of money in these crazy times.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
All right, let's go to Eve and Eve welcome.
Speaker 14 (42:22):
Hi Yarry, thank you for taking my call. I had
I had a poored wall put up about fifteen years ago,
and it started to fall you know, started to fall over.
So I hired a contractor to put up a brick wall.
And he didn't use concrete. He's mortar mortar. I don't
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even know. I don't know one one from the other.
I'm not too familiar with that type of work material.
And I was told that that won't hold through the
winter and stuff, and it's crooked and it's not It's
supposed to have been straight, and it's got a bowl
in it and attached to the the garage. The concrete
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there and that wasn't a tachtrity either. So I'm going
to have to hire another contractor to correct it. So
I don't know what what what, I don't know what
to do. I just wanted some advice.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
Well, I can't see it. I don't know if it
was done right or not done right, how hot? How
high is it is it?
Speaker 4 (43:28):
What's it there for? Is it to hold back a
hill or what's it there for?
Speaker 14 (43:32):
It was there for a hill coming down my driveway
and my gravel on top of that, you know, it
was filled in with gravel, and I've had two or
three people come by and say, you know that mortar
is not well, it's not meant for that. So I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
Well, how high is the wall.
Speaker 14 (43:50):
It's about three feet?
Speaker 3 (43:53):
Mm hmm, Well I don't think you got the right
wall there, to be honest with you, three feet is
a very It needs to be engineered if it's taller
than three foot, because then you get back into digging
into the hillside putting in a geo grid to maintain
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that wall. You can have a three foot wall and
not even have concrete involved or mortar involved, if it's
done properly, and a lot of landscaping companies.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
Will do that.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
They will have blocks that are tapered in the back.
They'll put in a good, you know, four inch base,
they'll set the blocks, they'll be level, they'll fill the
blocks with gravel, and then they'll stagger the next blocks
in a stagger pattern and fill those blocks with gravel
and then another block and that'll hold back. You know,
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for a three foot wall, that thing ain't going anywhere.
But you know, if you start not using you know,
if you just start using a base and bricks and mortar,
it probably isn't going to hold back. It's not going
to be nearly as strong as what I just described.
And then the second thing is if it is over
three feet, it's a bigger project.
Speaker 4 (45:16):
And then you know, maybe the average.
Speaker 3 (45:19):
Person that's doing a block wall is going to be
able to accomplished. I mean, you almost have to have
the wall engineered.
Speaker 14 (45:30):
Well, it was a four foot wall and we dropped
it down a little, yeah, you know the wall that
was poured and it just I don't know, well, it
was the wrong.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
Kind of wall and it was too high. Okay, if
you're going to do that, you got to get somebody
that's you know, in the business. You see a lot
of costcos they got these big concrete walls that are
twenty foot that are holding back a whole large amount
of land. Those are engineered walls, and even when you
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get into homelers on hilly grounds and around houses, they
have to be engineered.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
But a three foot wall is you moved it down
to and then you talk it should be engineered about
the way I.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
Just talked about it with the blocks, and I think
what I would do is rather than a contractor and
you're going to keep it below three food. I think
I would probably reach out to some of the landscaping forms.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
And see if they can help you out. All right,
thank you much for the call, Joe, Thank.
Speaker 3 (46:31):
You very much for subbing in for Danny certainly appreciate it.
And good Lord Willing. We'll be back tomorrow for more
at home with Carrie Sullivan
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All right, let's get to Tim. Tim.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Welcome, Hey, welcome Gary, Yes, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
You bet hey.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
I was gonna paint around the bottom of my scarage.
It's on a block foundation, man. Yeah, I'm doing some
painting around trimming to make the house in the garage
righten up a little bit. Now, the block are old
and they're forever. What should I paint that with?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
So the blocks are what you're painting, I mean that's
what the wall is or concrete blocks.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Yeah, on the bottom.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Okay, Well you can paint those with what pretty much
any type of paint you could Uh, It just depends
whether you want it like a waterproof paint, a thick
coating to fill some of the block, uh you know,
pot marks and things like that. If that's what you
want to use, I would use a product called dry Lock.
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Dry Lock is a cementatious Portland cement based paint.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
A gallon gets.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You the coverage of what a quart would usually give you,
so you get one hundred square feet to a gallon.
If you're not interested in the waterproofing properties and filling
up the uh you know, the marks in from the blocks,
the pores, the pop marks.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Or whatever, you can just use a regular.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Exterior house paint in the garage and go right over
that block with that.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
What Uh Can you mix uh coling in with the
dry Lock?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yes, yes, so it comes in white, and I would
assume the hardware stores know that, but if they don't,
the formulation is if you pick out a uh color
on their color chart, they would use half half the
formula to go into dry lock and it'll come very
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very close.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
But it can be mixed. Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
The house, the house when it was cited, they put
the trim around all the windows. It's an old, old house,
so they put the trim around the windows and it's
a hunter green. And then just to writen it up
and make the house look better. I've been going around
by painting a few other things around the house the
(03:12):
same color and it makes it it just makes it
look nice.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Sure. Sure, so you're going to paint that block a
hunter green?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, So they may struggle to get to that color
just because of the deep pigments, and we're mixing a
white paint, not a base, so I don't know how
close they can come to that, but it's usually hunter
green is sometimes a stock color. That's why I'm asking,
(03:44):
because it would take so much pigment.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
What if I painted it with the dry lot first,
but that drive then go over.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Could do that. You wouldn't even necessary unless you want
to fill it. You wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
You could just use you know, regular exterior paint, or
you can quite honestly inside a garage. You could even
use an interior paint. But if you want it nice
and smooth, I would definitely paint the dry lock on
there and then just you know, interior.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
House paint right on top of it.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Okay, sound good, Very good, Thanks Tim, Thank you, Take
care all.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Right then.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, the interior late text paint is great for masonry surface.
This is not going to offer waterproofing protection like the
dry Lock, but dry Lock's a good filler.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Also, John, welcome.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Gary, thanks for taking my call and listening forever, but
doing it forever, and listen what I've done. I got
tired of prim and shrubbery and everything. I had everything
out in front of my house taking out and now
what's out there all across the front of the house
is river rock and it looks looks nice. It is really,
(05:01):
but I was wondering if you knew where you could
buy artificial plants.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Joe's doing the same thing at his house. He's getting
rid of all.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
The landscape, you know, seventy five years old, and I'm
tired of messing with it.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, well Joe's not that old, but he was definitely
tired of messing with it. Yeah, so I do you
know a place to get artificial flowers?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Joe? Amazon? Yeah, that's a great place. Really.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I was going to say Walmart might be the you know,
best place if you're looking for a brick and mortar.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I don't think you're gonna I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, yeah, I like Joe's idea, I think i'd go
to you know, get on Amazon, take to look and
see what they got.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
I've seen them advertise different places, but I hate buying
something without uh you know, touching it, looking at it,
you know. But you know, I had a neighbor and
had a pretty good idea. He said, you ought to
go to one of these concrete places, you know, to
sell all these different fixtures, you know, like animals that
(06:11):
And I'm thinking maybe doing that.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Well, I'll tell you another thing Joe just mentioned is Minards.
That would be a good place to check.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Also, yeah we got I'm here in Louisville and yet
we've got one here.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Yeah, I would check there.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
They have you know, they're kind of a little bit
off the beaten path from a regular big box store.
They have some very very cool products you know, here
and there. But the other question is how well they
going to hold up into the sunlight.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Yeah, That's what I'm thinking. See, and I don't know
who's the most reptable to buy from but Amazon. Anything
I've ever done with Amazon, if you don't like it
or something, they've always taken care of it.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
So well, maybe it will. And also you know, usually
their product description.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
It may even talk about U V resistant, you know,
or not UV resistant because you're gonna want to have
some UV resistance, or that uh that green bush will
be uh you know, sea green after a while.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Jerry, Well, I appreciate it, all right, get on Amazon.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Good, thank you. Yeah, I'm glad you said that, Joe.
I don't know why I wouldn't even have thought of that.
But that's the perfect place because you can you can literally,
you know, keep scrolling shop for hours to get exactly
what you want.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Harold welcome, Hey, Gary roll Ti. Yeah you Harold all right, Yeah, you're.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Doing hey man ready Todd Todd rolls a week from.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Today, week from today. Wow, it's hard.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
To Florida state. Florida state.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Well, we're in our nineties. I'm sure you're the same.
So I hope it's a cool day.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
I'm one hundred and two heat in this here today.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Yeah, we're riding the same ballpark. Was a guy cool
off there?
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Yes, sir, but you have the title heat things back
up for us, sir?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Oh yeah, it will. I was thinking to you last week.
I found uh on Apple TV a whole story about
the sec which was very good.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Yes sir, Yes, sir, we'd love we'd love for Ohio
State to step their game up.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
And join.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
See where all this is going.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
At my lake house, I've got a hunderneath my raised deck.
I've got concrete and it's walkable, and I put some
of the uh the sealer on there. Uh what's making
redefend your seiler?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Okay, back last fall?
Speaker 7 (08:52):
If I want to come back and put like a
dice coating because I need a little bit of texture
because I got a downhill, is that going to be
an issue with the sailor up put on my fall?
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I think you're gonna want to prep it differently. I'm
trying to think what uh the roller rock is designed.
Probably gonna want to atch it or grind it a
little bit, so maybe like a radic acid wash on there.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah, I think you're going to want to open that
up a little bit just so that it bites onto
that concrete.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Yeah. It's not a well used it's not a well
trafficked area.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
Right when I put the wood.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
Brightener on my dock, how long? How long do I need?
How long will that last and be effected? Before I
put the cabin ut correct on it.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah, it's going to open up those fibers.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I mean, I don't know if you can say, you know,
three days or a week or a month, but you.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Know, I would say, you know, if you're going to
put it on there, try to do it in a
couple couple of weeks. Uh.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Okay, that's that's what I was after getting gum hot.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, yeah, just get a good Are you going to
use the temperature lowering cabot deck sailor.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
I'm using deck correct. I don't think that's the temp
ofture okay lowering deal. Yeah, just the things about eight
years old and it never had anything put on it.
How I pressure washed it, and I've already done my
two decks up top. Uh, but I just used a
semi solid CABT saying but I'm going to do the
deck correct down there because people are barefoot down there,
(10:44):
and you know, I've got some cracks and I'm trying
to fill in their swims. So but I'm just gonna
probably wait go on there, I was.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Going to say, so tell me what that deck correct
product is?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Is that like it cover.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
Up it is and you put two coats on it,
and what it does. It's almost like a feint of coating. Yeah,
it goes on top and you only get seventy five
square feet to the gallon. That's two coats need to
put two coats. Yeah, so I bought about nine hundred.
I've got twelve hundred square feet on my dop so
(11:24):
I have bought about nine hundred dollars of that product.
And I'm just gonna I'm not going to wait till
the fall. The do the deck brightener on one weekend
and come back the next week sometime his own.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Yeah, So I just had a call. I don't know
if you heard.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
It was probably a half hour ago, and he had
a bear product and I forget what the name of
that deck on deck or deckover, deckover, I think it's
called and he was having problems with peeling. And we
had a long conversation about what those products were invented
it for. And they were invented to take an old,
(12:02):
old deck and kind of resurface it, like you said,
hide the splinters, hide to cracking.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
But it struggles very much on biting onto the wood surface.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And it's designed to last like five years. It's kind
of a buying time. Now what you're are you're putting
in on the deck correct?
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Yeah. The deck like it's about eight years old, never
had anything on it was an older lady that I
bought house from, and both decks up top same thing.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
You know.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
I listened to this guy named Gary Soliman Key, so
I pressure washed it, deck, brightened it, and put the
semi solid staining. Okay, And you may remember my callback
last ball where my wife picked out a color and
she drove I was, well, I was painting the spindle
and she drove up and I don't like that collar.
(13:02):
And I said, well you picked it. And I said,
what am I going to do with that two hundred
and thirty dollars a paint? She told me that was
my problem.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
That's just another happy marriage.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
Well it is, you know, there's there's bigger I got
bigger things I want to go through with her at
the end of the deck.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Gully.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
So yeah, So when you were saying the masonry defender,
so that that that sealer isn't on the deck, right,
that's somewhere else.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
No, No, this was on the concrete and I use
I used that concrete sealer on my driveway about five
years ago. And man, Okay, that thing still be still
things still be up.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Yeah, that's a great thought. Well, all I can tell you,
if you're going to use that cover up.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Product, read those directions and put it on step by
step exactly what it says.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I'm being real.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I'm not a huge fan of that stuff, and I
don't care what brand it is on that type of wood.
I just I think it can be overused, and I
think it I know it has difficulty biting. Somebody else
may tell you something different. I rarely knock a product.
(14:20):
I'm just saying if you're and if you have problems
and you take it back, I guarantee you they're going
to tell you because the directions are very explicit, and
they're sometimes labor intensive, and sometimes it's a little bit
more than.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Just the deck brightener.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
So just I mean, the deck brightener is used, but
just follow those instructions to the t Harold. That's that's
the big thing. And yeah, good luck with that. And
we got a scoot and take a break.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Thank you, Mauch Harold appreciate he didn't get to say
roll tied. That's a first.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
We'll continue at home with Gary Salvan right here of
fifty five kr SE the talk station.
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Speaker 4 (15:24):
All right, back in it we go.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Twenty two minutes after the top of they are talking
a little home improvement and let's.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Get back to the phones. We've got Tom, Tom, welcome.
Speaker 12 (15:35):
For good morning Gary, or way make an afternoon.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 12 (15:40):
Flying bye. Actually a whole year is flying bye.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
You know.
Speaker 12 (15:45):
Products change over time, of course, but I put sealer
on a stamped concrete patio, and it's time to do
it again. It's just a prevlalm to it. I have
a number of cans left over or without labels, uh,
in my garage. Can I mix those from you know,
two three years ago to something that I bought an hour?
(16:09):
Do they go to the.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
I will not.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I might be able to, but I, you know, every
now and then when I'll talk even about additives and paint,
I'll talk to their technical services.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
If we wanted that in there, we would have put
it in there.
Speaker 12 (16:25):
Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
You know, maybe you know that they're solvent based maybe
you don't because they're solvent based and water bass and
they don't.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
They don't play in the sandbox very well together.
Speaker 12 (16:38):
Yeah, and there you know, it's too much money for
the patio, not the product, but the patio.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (16:45):
Yeah, another one. And I've heard you talk about this before.
I believe I have. I think chipmumps aren't those ones
that are like little rats by.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
The size of your hand.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
They go burrowing under steps and sidewalks and all that good.
Speaker 12 (17:01):
Well, they I think they're under my whole house. It's uh,
you know growing anyway, I have they burrowed under my patio.
I have, you know, it's four inches and then four
inches of the stamp concrete on top of it. And
I had to pull my dog out it from under there.
He got all the way in there and I couldn't
(17:22):
get him out. So I need to do something about him.
Can I just take maybe pound some gravel in there
and then put some sort of a you know, somemato
concrete over top of it.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
My experiences, when you put gravel in there, they'll throw
it back at you the same night.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Okay, I'm serious.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I one way of you know, if it's I talk
a lot about concrete leveling and slab jacking where they
drill in and pump cement down underneath it. That's an option,
But the real problem is the chipmunks.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
It's eliminating the chipmunks, And every time I talk about it,
I'll get all kinds of emails. But you know, you
can if there's a bird feeder near there, remove food sources.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
That's number one.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
And you can try blocking the whole with gravel and
expandable foam and everything else.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
I've never had luck with that.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
And you can trap them, but then what are you
going to do with them because you can't release them,
and you get to a rat trap, a snap trap
that can be effected with peanut butter. But I'll tell you,
I'll tell you, and I will get emails. I hate
talking about it, but it works. I will take a
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five gallon bucket and i will put about two gallons
of water in it, and I'll throw a handful of
sunflower seed in it, and I'll get about a one
by six and I'll take a little ramp going up
to that bucket and I'll put sunflower seeds on that
and the chipmunks will take care of themselves, but.
Speaker 12 (19:13):
If they had a problem with it, they would go
somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
So it's humane, but it's you know, quite honestly, it's
a Chipmunks are very destructive. And what will happen to
that patio. I mean you can try the gravel and
with the cement. I mean, it may work for you.
I've never never really had luck with it. They just
keep kicking it back, okay, But when they will burrow
(19:37):
under there and start disrupting that base, you'll get settling
on that patio and you'll get cracking on that patio.
Speaker 12 (19:45):
Yeah, I need to avoid dad.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Yeah, yeah, because I can.
Speaker 12 (19:50):
I ask you one another. I'll make it quick. I
have a detached garage and it's about twenty by twenty
twelve twelve pitch. But this siding on it, you're talking
mister procrastinator. Now, the siding on it has kind of
you know, popped out at the bottom, not to where
I can nail it in necessarily. It's just it's just
(20:12):
warped and it's worked to the tune of about I
don't know, two three inches. Do I have to take
that four x eight sheet off and replace it? Or
is there another angle to play?
Speaker 6 (20:26):
On this.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
So what kind of side is this, like T one
eleven sighting or is this a vinyl sighting or what
kind of sighting is it?
Speaker 12 (20:32):
Yeah, I should have said that up front. Yes, T
one eleven exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
T one eleven.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
And and so a panel and down at the bottom
of that panel is where it's warped.
Speaker 12 (20:44):
Yes, it's you know, it's since it's two stories, it's
about eight feet up. It's where the next one needs it.
And yeah, it's just a yeah, it.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Worked out and there's no movement at all in that
where you could screw that back in or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Well, I mean that's your only you're.
Speaker 12 (21:02):
Going to.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Yeah, you're.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Push that back even then screw that back into place
where you're going to replace it.
Speaker 12 (21:13):
Okay, okay, yeah, okay, Well, uh I guess that goes
on the list of things to do.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
There you go, there, you go.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
All right, Well, good luck with the chipmunks, Tom, and
let's grab hern here.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Ron.
Speaker 13 (21:28):
Welcome, thanks for taking the calls with you again. I
have an old walnut washstand that about fifty years ago.
I stripped two or three coats of white enamel off
of it and finished it with deft for some reason.
(21:54):
There's a spot on one hand about the size of
the palm of your hand that has become cloudy, and
i'd used just, uh, maybe a four hundred grip wet
dry sandpaper, send that down and put just a little
more depth over that.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Yeah, yeah, uh.
Speaker 13 (22:19):
That is just yeah, it's a good barny lacquer.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Yeah, they make both.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
They make a lacquer, they make a varnish. So you
think that was caused by water or somebody setting a
glass on it or something along those lines.
Speaker 13 (22:37):
I think was caused by way too many years sitting
right next to a register warner was either cool there
or warm there and blowing on the majority of the time.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Well, try this before you get into the sandpaper. All right,
take some baking soda and some toothpaste and you know,
just like wax in a car circular motion, and see
if that will take care of that cloudiness.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
If it does not, then I would.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Hit it with a you know, six hundred grit wet
dry paper really and see if we can remove that cloudiness.
And then if you remove the cloudiness with the sandpaper grit,
yes you will. You will be able to just go
(23:36):
ahead and put another coat of deft over that. I mean,
it'll be fine, but your toothpaste and your baking so
it will sometimes take out those moisture rings and moisture
cloudiness and you won't effect a finish. You won't have
to put anything on there. So I try that first
(23:58):
and yeah, good luck. I think that toothpaste and bacon
soda very.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Well may work. All right, We're going to talk about
leaky basements.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Oh gosh, if we had the rain, Yes we have.
And you hear me talk about ever dry a lot.
And they're different than a lot of other people that
do it. They do a system and a friend of
mine just had them do their house. Very very happy,
he was James Bagley. He will be our guests as
we continue. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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Back in it we go at home with Gary Sulventheim.
Do you talk to our friend James Beagley. He is
with ever Dray and we're going to talk about eliminating
the worry that you have when you have a basement
that's leaking, or when you're going to try and sell
a house and you know it's leaked before and you
(26:05):
know it. You know, we tried to patch it but
didn't really work type of deal, and then having a
deal shuddered because it had a league basement. So James
Bagley with ever Dry, Welcome. You're at home with Gary
Salivan once again.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
How are you.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
Hey, I'm great, Gary. How are you doing today?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Doing wonderful? I gotta tell you. Have you noticed it's
been wet this year?
Speaker 9 (26:33):
Oh yeah, I've noticed, and it's been a fun exciting
year here, you know, for business and also knowing that
we're able to help so many homeowners out with you know,
getting that healthy home that they that they deserve.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah, I tell you a friend of mine that I
gave you his name, and he had ever Dry come
out and do. He is so thrilled and so happy
and he couldn't talk talk enough to me about your
crews and how helpful they were because it's a big
(27:06):
project and you know, somebody checking on him. He was
absolutely thrilled. James, which is one of the reasons I
recommended he call you.
Speaker 9 (27:16):
Absolutely, and you know that's why you send send those
referrals our way, because you know what homeowners are getting
Gary And you know, with our process with you know,
the workers on the job site, you know they're supervisors.
We do in progress calls to talk to the homeowners
to make sure that we're meeting their expectations. We call
them when the job's done. We also go back out
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and do an inspection afterwards again to make sure that
you know, everything met what they were promised during the
you know, the foundation specialist visit.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Yeah. Yeah, Now you guys do it right.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
So those that are not familiar with ever Dry, tell
us a little bit about ever Dry. How long you
guys been around. Uh, you're probably the grandfather other of
the waterproofing business in the greater Cincinnati area, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Absolutely.
Speaker 9 (28:06):
So, you know, we've been around the Tri state area
here for forty one going on forty one years and
just low recently we started taking over the Louisville and
Lexington market about two and a half years ago. So
now we go from you know, Springfield down to Lexington
down to Louisville. We got we cover a lot of
area here, so forty one years. There's a lot of
a long time. And yes, we are the name of
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the game when it comes to basement waterproofing.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
So is there anything we can do well? I don't know.
If the rain's letting up.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I looked at this week's forecast, it was like rain Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday once again. Is there anything homeowners can do to
I don't know, help prevent it. I guess it's really
about water controlling. That's what you guys do.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
Yeah, absolutely, And that's that's a very common question we
get at home shows and home on will call in
sometimes just asking for tips and what will gladly give them.
And one of the main things you can always do
is make sure you keep your gutters clean, because you know,
when that water's not able to go into that gutter
just pours off your house and right down to your foundation.
You know, having your grades sloped away from your house,
(29:17):
making sure that all your water is just ran.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Away from the home.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
There you can route your down spouts off your hill
and things like that, because one way to keep the
water out of your house gary is to not let
it get around your house. And you know, if you
know like I know, with how foundations work.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
That's that's that's a great thing to do.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
So when I was talking before, I was saying, you know,
ever Drid does a system. You guys offer a lifetime
warranty which is transferable to the next home or is
that true?
Speaker 9 (29:49):
Absolutely, as long as that structure is standing, that thing
can have a warranty on it there. That's one of
the one of the main you know, things people like
about our system is knowing that when they to sell
that home, you can even put it on the MLS
site and things. I was actually on a website the
other day and I saw this house and it said
for sale and it said basement waterproof, I ever dry,
and I you know, it made me happy knowing that
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they were talking about that even when they're trying to
sell the home, because I mean, you talk about peace
of mind when buying a house knowing it comes with
a lifetime warranty and the basement already waterproof. It's a
great feeling to have knowing you don't have to worry
about that.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
That is a big deal. That is a big deal.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
So when you do the system, I guess the first
thing you start is on the outside of the house
again with water control.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
Absolutely yeah. So we'll dig down an inspection trench on
the outside of your home there looking for any kind
of cracks. We find any cracks, we dig those down,
steal them on the outside with a thick black mastic
tar fill that back up to that inspection trench level,
and we'll put an underground drainage there for you to
direct that water away from your home.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Man, that seems that seems like a lot right up front.
I mean you talk about water control. If you got
that maybe grating that isn't working real well, this is
going to help that problem, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
And then the water table. I hear more and more.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
About that, probably because we're having more and more del
uses the water table. It's it's everywhere, right of water
is underneath the ground. Then look at Venice, Italy. It
comes up every day and goes back down there. But
you know, if I got a house and I got
a basement and all of a sudden I got water
that's coming between the floor and the wall, is that
(31:35):
the ground water is just rising above the floor level.
Speaker 9 (31:40):
Yep, that's exactly what happens. So then when they build
your house there, Gary they dig a big hole. And
you know, if you leave a basically a clay bowl
is what.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
We call that.
Speaker 9 (31:48):
And if if I leave a ball outside in the rain,
what's going to happen to that bowl?
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Fill up?
Speaker 9 (31:53):
Yeah, and that's exactly what happens to your house, and
that that water table comes up and down, up and
down throughout the year every time it rains. You know,
with the groundwater and what we do on the inside,
we create a safe a safe zone there is to
where that water what it can come up and down,
but it'll get into where we put our system in
the ground and it'll go to our sump pump and
then get out of there.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
So so you're rolling it away from the outside foundation
what's coming up, you're collecting and h where do you
move that?
Speaker 9 (32:24):
We run that to, you know, wherever coat allows. Sometimes
we can run to the streets sometimes into you know,
existing lines that are there. Just again away from the house,
we have that go to a sump pump which also
comes with a battery backup along with that and it
pumps it out and wherever code allows. Different cities, you know,
allow different things, but away from your home is the
(32:45):
most important thing.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
What do you.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
I know what I say, But what do you say
when a home owner's got a foundation it's got cracks
in it and wants to know if he can just
patch that up.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
I know everybody wants a can, but absolutely.
Speaker 9 (33:03):
Absolutely, it's it's almost like putting band aids on something
in neat stitches. So you know those cracks are there.
They start in the outside, they work their way in
with anything that water gets in there. We have thirty
forty free stall cycles a year. You know, the water
gets in there, it expands. Now you have water coming
through those cracks and you can patch them, but water
(33:24):
follows the path of least resistance, and you know it's
going to find its way, and water's tricky. You know,
you've had water in your basement. I've had water in
my basement. I'm pretty sure we're both waterproof. I ever dry.
You know, so we know, we know how it works,
and we know how stressful it can be, and we
know how great it feels to know that we don't
have to worry about that.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Right. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
I always tell people, if you patch that crack, that's wonderful.
But when you pasch that, can you tell me where
that water's going?
Speaker 9 (33:51):
Yeah, to the next to the next available spot.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
You know, what do you mean, I go, what's got
to go somewhere? Yeah, they're You're exactly right. That's in
a lot of cases just breeds another crack.
Speaker 9 (34:03):
That's all it does. Path of least resistance.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
And basements are notoriously damp anyway, aren't they. I mean,
even after their waterproofed. I would imagine because I get
new homes that are damp. I mean, basements are just damp.
Speaker 9 (34:19):
Yeah, yeah, they can be. And it's because you know,
they're underground and you know, back in the back in
the day, that's where people would store all their their
goods before they had refrigeration and lower levels because that's
where you know, it stays the coolest. I know in
my house, it's the lower level of the home. The
basement's always the coolest spot. So yeah, it's just because
it's underground there, Yes, there.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
And I love that ever Dry incorporates the uh the
easy Breathe in their waterproofing warranty because you know, even
if you have you could have the whole thing sealed
in everything and it's below ground, you're gonna have a
little musty smell and that easy Breathe eliminates that and
(34:59):
make sure home even healthier with pollutants that we're now
trapping into. And that comes with your system.
Speaker 9 (35:05):
Correct, Yes, there, that is part of our our pandent
system there. And you know, that thing came about because
homeowners were, you know, back in the early two thousands,
late nineties, early two thousands, homeowners were saying, you know,
my basement's dry and I love it, but it still
has that basementy smell. So our you know, our company
designed the Easy Breathe and what it does is an
(35:25):
air exchange unit and exchanges the air in your home.
It takes care of cooking odors, pet odors if you're
a smoke or smoking odors, any kind of odors that
can you know, because odors typically just fall to the
bottom of the to the bottom of the house there
and you know the moisture and all of that as well.
So absolutely that's one of my favorite parts of the system.
And again I had, you know, experience with it, because
(35:46):
I have one of those in the home as well,
and I absolutely love it. And you can set it
to it. It runs until it hits a certain amount
of humidity in your home and then it shuts off,
so it doesn't run year round. It only runs when
it needs to run. But you can turn it on,
you know, if you want to air the house out
one weekend, you know, just modify the dials on it.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Yea, yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
And inexpensive to operate too. It's like two three bucks
four bucks a month.
Speaker 9 (36:11):
So it'sout the cost of a light bulb.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Yes, yeah, a lot, a lot less expensive than a
do you midify her?
Speaker 4 (36:17):
That's for sure? So how long does it take you
to waterproof a a regular home?
Speaker 3 (36:27):
I don't that's an unfair question, but I mean, is
it a week long project or is it two weeks?
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Or generally is it a week project?
Speaker 9 (36:37):
Typically between two to five days is our average job.
We have had bigger jobs over the years that take
a couple of weeks, but you know those are usually
like churches and things of that nature. You're talking three
hundred four hundred feet linear foot jobs and those are
our average jobs, about one hundred and twenty one hundred
and twenty six So two to five days maximum typically,
unless you have a big giant, you know, three hundred
(36:58):
four hundred lineal foot base.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Sounds to me like every home will eventually leak in
the basement. Is that true or no?
Speaker 9 (37:05):
You know, I always say it's not a matter of if,
it's a matter of when. You know, everything breaks down
over time, and when builders build houses, they do put
waterproofing on the walls, a little thin coat, and then
they put some drainage around you know, your your basement
typically and it just breaks down. In the seventies and
eighties they had the terra cotta piping, which just destroys
over the years, and they moved to the perforated tile
(37:27):
in the eighties and nineties and two thousands, and with
house settling and everything those the slope always goes away.
It turns into a roller coaster of you know, pipe
under your home which sits the water sits there and
just you know, if the water doesn't have anywhere to go,
it's going to come right through your floor there and
that's where the water table comes back into play.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
So when I tell people to walk around the house
and you see a down spout that's no longer lined
up with the pipe that goes underground, and I tell
you to get that fixed right away, I'm not lying
to you, right because even if you don't have quote
a big time waterproofing problem. If that thing's not connected,
you're gonna have water in your basement.
Speaker 9 (38:08):
Yeah, absolutely, because what it's gonna do is just gonna
drop down on that foundation and it's gonna eat a
hole away in the dirt and it's just gonna put
that pressure on the foundation. It's a lot of pressure
when when a home, you know, when it's raining outside,
it's almost like an elephant sitting on your foundation with
that water pressure.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
And when you do estimates, you also give tips like
that too, Like you know, I mean, there's no high pressure.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
You're there to solve a problem.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
And if this gets taken care of and that gets
taken care of, maybe, but if you want a lifetime warranty,
we'll cover everything and it'll be warranted.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
That's a great way to happen business.
Speaker 9 (38:48):
Absolutely, And like I said, we've been doing it forty
one years now, and the homeowners get to make their
own decision at the end of the day, and that's
what's great about it. We give them the information and
if you know they don't want to have the water
proven done.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
We do give those tips.
Speaker 9 (39:00):
As far as you know you can some things you
can do, like everything We've talked about making sure your
downspout hoocked up, making sure your gutters are clean. If
you have water in your basement by your washer and dryer,
make sure you stand on a rubber mat so you
don't run the chance of getting electrocuted down there, anything
like that. So there's a lot of hazards when you
have water in the basement. So we try to give
help wherever we can. And that's what's kept us in
(39:21):
the business. As long as you know, great workmanship, just
you know, customer satisfaction and just you know, being there
for homeowner.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
Just what we do.
Speaker 9 (39:28):
We have nearly forty thousand customers in our database here
in Cincinnati.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Wow, well, you guys are doing a great job.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
And if people you know, they get on the list,
probably not going to be out there the next day.
How do you get a hold How do you get
a hold of ever Dray James?
Speaker 9 (39:45):
Yeah, so you can call us five one three eight
seven four seven two zero zero. They can check out
our cool website. It's www dot ever dry Sincywi a
y dot com. You can google us. I mean, there's
a lot of options out there. If you call tell
them you heard James on the Radio with Gary, and
I'll throw in a free easy breathe with any purchase
(40:05):
that you might make with us.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Wow, there's a deal.
Speaker 9 (40:09):
I knew I was worse something only only because I
like you, Gary. That's that's I like. I like giving
your your database here, your friends some uh you know
some some something in the game there, give them a
reading to call us if if you've been waiting to call,
now is the time, because yes, our our our backlog
is just growing. You know, it's been a wet year
and we've been very fortunate this year, for sure.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Yes, sir, all right, my friend, thank you very much.
I encourage everybody to give every great car. I'll call
if you got that leaky basement and it ain't don't
fix itself, So James, thank you.
Speaker 9 (40:40):
Hey, always a pleasure. Gary, have a great day.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
All right, you do the same, Thank you very much.
We'll take a short break and come back.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
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Speaker 3 (41:03):
All right, back at it, we go at Home with
Gary Sullivan. I know a couple of people shocked with
their energy bill. This month, I was a new record
for summer energy. And I've been really working hard to
control humidity and pulling down shades. But cost energy keeps
going up, and that's something as a homeowner, we got
to keep watching lights and weather stripping and chargers and
(41:27):
running the deumidifier. There's a lot of things driving it up,
but nothing but bigger than price increases. And the other
one is property insurance. I've had numerous people get in
contact with me like what do I do? You know, well,
the first thing I'd do is I'd get a broker
to shop multiple places and a good one, someone that
(41:48):
you can communicate with, someone's going to spend the time
going through line by line. We did that last year
and it's saved and with some you know, hard to
see to make what you want to cover, what you
don't want to cover, what your you know deductible is
going to be. But those things can be you know,
(42:09):
pulled in and pulled out a policy. So that's just
a couple of quickies there on trying to save a
little bit of money in these crazy times.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
All right, let's go to Eve and Eve welcome.
Speaker 14 (42:22):
Hi Yarry, thank you for taking my call. I had
I had a poored wall put up about fifteen years ago,
and it started to fall you know, started to fall over.
So I hired a contractor to put up a brick wall.
And he didn't use concrete. He's mortar mortar. I don't
(42:46):
even know. I don't know one one from the other.
I'm not too familiar with that type of work material.
And I was told that that won't hold through the
winter and stuff, and it's crooked and it's not It's
supposed to have been straight, and it's got a bowl
in it and attached to the the garage. The concrete
(43:07):
there and that wasn't a tachtrity either. So I'm going
to have to hire another contractor to correct it. So
I don't know what what what, I don't know what
to do. I just wanted some advice.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
Well, I can't see it. I don't know if it
was done right or not done right, how hot? How
high is it is it?
Speaker 4 (43:28):
What's it there for? Is it to hold back a
hill or what's it there for?
Speaker 14 (43:32):
It was there for a hill coming down my driveway
and my gravel on top of that, you know, it
was filled in with gravel, and I've had two or
three people come by and say, you know that mortar
is not well, it's not meant for that. So I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
Well, how high is the wall.
Speaker 14 (43:50):
It's about three feet?
Speaker 3 (43:53):
Mm hmm, Well I don't think you got the right
wall there, to be honest with you, three feet is
a very It needs to be engineered if it's taller
than three foot, because then you get back into digging
into the hillside putting in a geo grid to maintain
(44:17):
that wall. You can have a three foot wall and
not even have concrete involved or mortar involved, if it's
done properly, and a lot of landscaping companies.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
Will do that.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
They will have blocks that are tapered in the back.
They'll put in a good, you know, four inch base,
they'll set the blocks, they'll be level, they'll fill the
blocks with gravel, and then they'll stagger the next blocks
in a stagger pattern and fill those blocks with gravel
and then another block and that'll hold back. You know,
(44:54):
for a three foot wall, that thing ain't going anywhere.
But you know, if you start not using you know,
if you just start using a base and bricks and mortar,
it probably isn't going to hold back. It's not going
to be nearly as strong as what I just described.
And then the second thing is if it is over
three feet, it's a bigger project.
Speaker 4 (45:16):
And then you know, maybe the average.
Speaker 3 (45:19):
Person that's doing a block wall is going to be
able to accomplished. I mean, you almost have to have
the wall engineered.
Speaker 14 (45:30):
Well, it was a four foot wall and we dropped
it down a little, yeah, you know the wall that
was poured and it just I don't know, well, it
was the wrong.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
Kind of wall and it was too high. Okay, if
you're going to do that, you got to get somebody
that's you know, in the business. You see a lot
of costcos they got these big concrete walls that are
twenty foot that are holding back a whole large amount
of land. Those are engineered walls, and even when you
(46:01):
get into homelers on hilly grounds and around houses, they
have to be engineered.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
But a three foot wall is you moved it down
to and then you talk it should be engineered about
the way I.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
Just talked about it with the blocks, and I think
what I would do is rather than a contractor and
you're going to keep it below three food. I think
I would probably reach out to some of the landscaping forms.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
And see if they can help you out. All right,
thank you much for the call, Joe, Thank.
Speaker 3 (46:31):
You very much for subbing in for Danny certainly appreciate it.
And good Lord Willing. We'll be back tomorrow for more
at home with Carrie Sullivan
Speaker 1 (46:58):
I coach my daughter softball team.
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