August 17, 2024 • 45 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Well it's a weekend. Welcome, you're at home with Gary Salvin.
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phone number is eight hundred eighty two three eight two
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five five, and we're going to get back to the
phone calls because we get some folks that want to
talk about home issues and Joette, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Good morning, Gary morning.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Thank you for taking my call. I have listened to
you for years and years and have gained so much knowledge.
Thank you so many tips. And I'm calling today because
I think a few years back I heard you talk
with someone about cleaning outside of their eaves tross and
maybe using a white wall tire cleaner we have. We
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are right now in the process of having new sighting
installed on our house, and they took all of our
eavestross down and they're only a couple of years old,
so they will be going back up, but they're dirty,
and we thought we would clean them before they go
back up.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Can you Yeah, no, I think you're right. We've talked
about that. They're not Every cleaner works on those gutters
and down spouts. Is it a blackish grayish film?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah? It is.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, so you can use like you know, there's different
tucks like simple green things that just doesn't clean it off.
So one of the things I found that worked, and
I guess you can still get it now. I you'd
probably have to look it up is Wesley's white wall
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white nerd tire cleaner white wall tire clean I don't
even know if they make white wall tires anymore, but
it worked great. I mean it really did work great.
I know there's a product like spick and Span that
worked really good.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
So I would try that.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I use the white wall cleaner on my numerous times.
The really interesting thing here, folks, is somebody actually told
me that that was a fungus, and I can't tell
you if that's true or not true. It probably is true,
and you find it also on aluminum and vinyl replacement windows.
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But the interesting thing is a number of years ago
we painted the house the trim and we painted the gutters,
and I've never had that problem since because of the
mill sides they put in paint.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Okay, so interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Not trying to talk you into painting your down spouts
are your gutters, but I found it pretty interesting.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, okay, well we will try some of this and
see what it does.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Very good.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Thanks for the call, appreciate it, Take care, bye bye.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Let's go to Bob.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Bob Welcome, Hello Gary, how are you going doing fine?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Sarah? Thanks?
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Ye, just kind of question ahead. About twenty years ago,
I put down some laminar flooring and I when I
put it down, they said that you could put something,
you could spread something on it to keep out the
noise of when you walk across it, and you could
put everything's in between the tongue and groops. But I
forgot what that was.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And do you know, I can't think of the name
of it. I know there is something out there. I
think it might have been called quiet Zone.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Quiet Zone.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Don't better nickel on that, but I think that's what
the name of it was.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Okay, quiet zone. Okay, maybe get that at like a
hardware store on those Yeah, I'd.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Probably even check on the internet make sure I got
that name right first. But you know, I would say
probably more like a big box store rather than a
hardware store. Minards might have it too. I think it
was a Corning product. If I'm not mistaken, you are correct. Okay,
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it is called the Owens Corning Quiet Zone. Yeah, okay, fantastic.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
That's great because I run the vacuum over and my
wife runs a vacuum over.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
That helps, But it's just paying to walk across it.
And another another question, bathroom noise anyway, anyway to cut
down the noise coming from a bathroom.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
The only other thing I could think of would be
howld's the house? Uh?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Thirty years old?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Thirty years old? There's installation in the walls, even though
they're interior walls.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Let's see, I don't know there's insulation. I don't know
if there's installation on the interior walls. The exterior, there's yeah,
so you.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Know trying, you know, you know that's but once the
walls are up, I mean, that's it, right. I mean
you can get you can get sound deadening insulation for
the walls, but it's installed, you know, as the walls
being built. There's different mats that are sound deadening mats,
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like if you had a carpeting or something along those lines.
But there there's all kinds of sound deadening, but most
of it's used during remodeling or new builds.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Okay, nothing you can put on the.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Wall, Nothing that I can think of off the top of
my head.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
No.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I mean there's acoustical clocking. There's even acoustical calcking that's
used with double sheets of drywall. So like if you
wanted to get like a quarter inch drywall and put
it over the existing water, you use an acoustical clocking
between the two pieces of drywall, which works as a
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sound deadener and not opening up the wall, but you
are covering up the wall.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Okay, okay, that might work too good. Yeah, So one
final question. This morning, you're talking to Ron about a
boxwood and the yellow jackets that were all over the boxwood.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
I think Ron was talking to.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Buggy Joe at that point. I don't think I was
involved in that conversation, okay, And I was in the
other room, so I didn't hear that. But I did
catch a little bit of his bald faced hornets and
different things like that, but didn't catch that one.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
I came downstairs and heard gotch that doesn't sound okay?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
All right, very good, thanks Bob. All right, let me
give you the phone number. You can grab a line.
Then we have Jack and John come in your way
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back in it we go eighteen minutes after the top there,
of course, we're talking home and provement and how important
that is. And I think if you own a house,
you understand how important it is. You also understand how
fast things fail, and you also understand that they come
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in waves. Sometimes you can go two or three years.
And I have a problem you're looking for problems. You
don't see a problem in other years. It's like they
never stop coming at you. Well, we're here for you
and we can talk about maybe your projects or your issues.
So grab a line and we'll talk to Jack.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Jack. Welcome, Hello, Gary, Hello.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
To talk with you.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
Yeah, So I'm moved in your community where we we
have a long wooden bridge that connects a couple areas
and it's probably one hundred and fifty foot long or so.
There was a long bridge, got some water running under it,
probably about twenty seven years old, and we want to
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go and seal that. But you know, I've sealed my
decks and stuff in the years past, not a big issue.
But with the bridge here, we've got the water with it,
we've got us covered in trees, is flying along trees
or on both sides of it. So let's looking for
some guidance on boath to seal to use and also
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you know there something can we put sand in that
seal or something to help them prove traction on the
on the on the planks, because gosh, in the winter
time it's pretty cooky over there.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So is this bridge, is this a pressure treated wood.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
It is, but as I said, it's you know, it's
twenty seven years old, so it's quite worn.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
And this pressure treated wood, has it been maintained? I mean,
has it been sealed periodically?
Speaker 8 (13:15):
I think it may have been. I don't know the
whole history, being a resident new resident, but it's it
appears to be very you know that the sun exposed
parts are quite you know, the grain's quite opened up
and you know, not in great shape.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Well, I guess the first thing you got to decide
is what kind of finish do you want to put
on it? Do you want to have it where it
looks like a wood tone, where it's a semi transparent
it's going into the wood and you know, adding some
pigment to it, which is also adding some protecting to it,
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protecting it from the sun, and it's penetrated down into
the wood.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
It's option one.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Option two is more of a solid color stain. It's
more of a film that's laying on the surface of
the of the pressure duted wood. It's biting into it,
but it's not becoming part of it like a wood
toned stain wood. Okay, So that's option two. Then there's
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an option three, which is a real thick coating and
it's more of a temporary coating and it's good for
grain being really rough, but you usually use that as
if you're going to replace that floor boarding in about
three or four years and you're just trying to get
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you to that three or four year mark, and it's
a little expensive, but that's that's out there also, So
that'd be option three. Option four is to replace the wood.
So which direction are you thinking about going?
Speaker 8 (15:05):
Well, right now, it's it's not much about how it looks.
It's just trying to preserve what we have for as
long as we can.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Okay, So would you want it to look like pain
or do you want it to look natural? And then
you know, like a semi transparent stain.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Yeah, I think a semi transparent stain would be the best,
uh best option for us.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
So the semi transparent stain certainly offers protection. It doesn't
really hide anything, but you know, it'll it'll look good,
it'll give it protection and you know, we got to
address a couple of the issue. We have to clean it.
And you can clean it with a regular deck cleaner,
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which is an oxygenated bleach you've probably heard me say
that a million times. Which is a sodium per carbonate.
And what you do is it's a powder. You mix
it with water, you spray it onto the surface as
you let it sit about ten minutes, and you scrub
it off in rents. Don't use a pressure washer on it.
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A lot of people are going to do that. But
if you got it open grained and things, you're just
really forcing water into areas that may not want to
have water forced into it. If you use a pressure
pressure washer and insist on using what I would do
is I would use the sodium precarbonate again augen bleach,
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mix it, put it all over the deck, the rails
and everything else, let it sit about ten minutes and
use the pressure washer two thousand PSI nothing stronger than
that and a forty degree nozzle, and that'll take place
of the scrubbing and the rinsing, and that will open
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up the pores of the wood.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
You might have to.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Do some light sanding where the grain is raised. Do
not oversand because when you sand, you'll burnish the surface.
Burnish the surface means you'll kind of seal over. It
won't accept as much stain as it needs to accept.
So clean it with the oxygen ade bleach and then
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come back with what they call a deck brightener. A
deck brightener is oxalic acid. You're not gonna get burned
from its very very.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
It's wood bleach.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
And what that'll do is that'll kay kind of bring
it back a little bit to its natural color, get
really out of the gray. It is also spread on
and scrubbed off, and then go ahead and use your
your semi transparent stain, whatever one you want to use, okay.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
And so the steps in between cleaning all that wood
and then stealing it, obviously you want to dry first
before you seal it. But how long can you wait
before the seal goes on after cleaning it.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
If you're using a latex or akryllic deck sealer, you
only have to wait two hours. If you're using a
sod of solvent based sealer or an i'll get acrylic
which is a solvent in acrylic, you got to wait
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two days, okay, to make sure that it's going to
penetrate in.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
If you wait longer than that, for instance.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
No problem, no problem, no problem.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
It's not going to get that dirty that fast.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
Okay, awesome, all right, One other quick question for you
talking about cleaning gutters before? Uh huh would when and
forget spray.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
It does not take it off. It does not take
it off. Okay, No, I like to tell you it does,
but it doesn't.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
Yeah, that's a problem for me too.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yep, I hear you. The tire bleach is the best
thing I found, and just put it on. Let's sit
for a while. It's gonna take some elbow grease, but
it'll come off.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
All right. Thank you much for the call. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
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All right, back here do we go?
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Thirty three minutes after the top, they are at home
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a few things done around the home and Granpa line.
When one's available, we got John John Welcome.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Hi Gary, we love your show.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
Kind of referencing back to the caller that you had
about the dry lock. We live on a slope lot
and the front of the home picks us toward the
toward the back. In the front there, we have a
French drain that was installed maybe five years ago, and
that French drain wrapped around the corner of the home.
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And for about five years we've had some water come in,
not really very much, maybe two foot either side of
that corner.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
It would when it.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
Was mostly damp as opposed to standing water. But we
had a guy come out and we worked that French drain.
He said it was done improperly. And uh, we had
a storm here about two weeks back that that gave
us about four inches of rain, was a pretty good storm,
and we had just about two inches of dampness come
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in either side of that corner. And I'm wondering if
the if the dry lock, if I cut drywall out,
say you know, a foot either side of that corner
and on the floor and painted that, if that would
stop that.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Well, if it's under ten pounds per square inch, it
will hasn't really taken care of the problem though, so
and I say that not trying to be as smart ally.
I'm just saying there's more water there than they're supposed
to be right. And dry lock, as I said, it
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can hold back ten pounds of water pressure per square inch.
The dry lock clear.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
So better.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
You know, I've said many times on this show, John,
and it's very much the truth. It's not really about
water proofing, it's about water control. So reworking the French
strain is a great idea. You know, I'm always talking
about the killer gs. You know, make sure you have
grading away from the house. Gutters aren't clogged, ground water
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isn't present, and sometimes that's the Sometimes that's very complicated,
and you can have success in it. I remember this
was a long time ago. I had a crack and
a foundation in one of the houses. I went in
and patched it. When people tell me that, now I go, well,
so where'd that water go? I patched it. What happened
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is it cracked a couple of feet down the foundation
and I patched it, and at one time I patched
it two or three times, put dry lock on it,
and it never leaked again. Now I don't know what
changed outside, but something changed outside. So you're better trying
to work on a source and think of the dry
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lock as more of an insurance.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
It might work. Well.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
We worked, we worked on the source. We had a
guy redo the French drain and it made a huge,
huge difference.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I mean it was like.
Speaker 9 (25:52):
A tsunami storm that we had four inches of heavy
rain and all we had was just maybe an end
see side of that crack, and it was just damp.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Well, if it's just damp and there's not much flowing,
you know, into the basement or something, give it a try.
You got nothing to lose. I mean, it's a gallon
of waterproof paint.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Right.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
Is there a particular dry lock product that that I
would use?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
They make several and you could use. They make a
dry lock that comes in white and gray. They make
a dry lock clear which can also be used on
floors and walls, and then they make I think it's
a dry lock Max. Should have to go to their website.
The dry lock Max is the one that holds up
the ten psi. I think the other one's eight psi.
Speaker 9 (26:47):
Okay, so that Max would give me the best protection.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah, okay, well, yeah, exactly, I would just give it
a try. Obviously, there's still a little dampness, there's still
some puddling, not much pressure, or it would actually crack
or start flowing through the wall.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
It's just damp.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
That's actually how they're in store display functions is it's
a cement block that's hollow, and they got a water
pump pumping water into it. And on the outside, half
of it's in dry lock and half of it's just
playing and the waters flowing through the concrete block and
it stopped on the other side.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
Where the drive a block foundation too, by the way.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, yeah, so it can hold water. So i'd give
it a try. I you know, there's no guarantee, but
i'd give.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
It a try.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
We will do that.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Thank Gary, all right.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
You bet take care might and Bill.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Welcome, Thank you for taking my call. The name of
that bleach product that they had you talked about for
using on guglers was made by Wesley's, Yes, sir, and
it was called it was called bleach White.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
That was now. I don't know. If I lived in
Cleveland years ago and they were big, that's where Wesley's
was made. I don't know if it's still made or not.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
But I don't either. I don't either. That's what I
used to use on mine. That was one of the
only things I only ever had luck with now. I
have had other people, other callers have called me over
the years and say, gosh, what was that. I think
Purple Power.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Was one, and.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
There was another one, but I can't remember exactly what
it was.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Well, they come and they go, and they get bought out,
they change their names.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
You know, change the formula. I get it.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Yeah, Like I said, I don't know if it's available
anymore or not. But it worked. Well, you know, things
kind of diminished where they went away from white walls.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
But well, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
If you had a car or particularly an SUV that
had raised letters with an at X or whatever, you
would use it on that. My question is, I have
a uh jacuzzi in the master bathroom and the access
panels that you are on either side of the door
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that have yellowed. Is you know where you open them
up when you want to service it that Is there
anything that removes that yellowing or does that go all
the way?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That's just yellowing. I mean you could paint it, okay,
but that's just in the surface. I mean that's in
the materials. It's just you know, there's a minimum amount
of titanium that's in there. That keeps whites from yellowing.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
I see, and that's the same the same thing that
we had, Like you know, all your computers before we
went to flat screens, we're all pretty much beige and
over the years they've all gone yellow too.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Oh yeah, yep, exactly, all right.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Just didn't know if it was anything to clean it up, but.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Nope, it's kind of built into the plastic. So appreciate
the call.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
All right.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Our phone number is eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five Jason, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Hi Gary, Yes, sir, when my home, when my home
was built, the north and south side were bricked and
the east and north sides were siding. Now that the
neighborhood has built up, I would like to brick the
east side of my home. What kind of project am
I getting into? Can I have a quick list of materials, procedures,
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level of difficulty and costs?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Well? Are you going to do this yourself?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Well, that's what I'm thinking. Yes, I would like to try.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Have you done brick before, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
A little bit babbled in someod.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Okay, Well, I don't know if I can give you
a cost it. I mean, I think the first thing
would do is howld's a house right now?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
It was built in ninety seven. On the side of
the house, I'm looking at about fifty to sixty square feet.
Does that sound like a lot to tackle on my own.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
No, but I think they're one of the things.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Here would be my suggestion, which is not going to
answer your question, but here's my suggestion. Sure, there's been
a lot of changing, or a lot of innovation in
stone and brick products for homes. So rather than thinking
about this as a I'm going to remove the sighting
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and I'm going to install brick on my house, take
a look at some of these new materials. They're faux
brick and there's faux stone. You see them on all
new construction now. And the reason that the industry went
that way is it's hard.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
To find good masons.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
They're they're in short supply, so we have to come
up with things that make this project easier. And I'm
telling you this is honest to God truth. You can
stand next to that stuff and you can take your
fist and knock on you would never know it's not.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
A brick wall.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Well, I'm sold. I'm going with the faux bricky. Wonder
how difficult. That may be to match up to the
existence well that I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
That I don't know, and maybe maybe you can go
with a stone on the side. You see a lot
of mixed substrates now on homes. I mean there's some
of them. I think it's overused. There's cedar, there's brick,
there's stone, there's metal. It's like enough of that, But
I mean it is a trend to use different ones,
and maybe a stone side it might look pretty cool. Yeah,
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just google that, spend some time. They're usually put on
almost like horizontal metal, uh firring strips. That's kind of
a cool way of saying it.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
So it's relatively it's pretty easy to put up. Just
just take a look at it. And it's also very lightweight.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
So it's a whole different it's a whole different genre,
but it's really satisfying the needs in the industry right now.
And I think that might be a perfect product for
you if you want to try it yourself.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Absolutely, Gary, Hey, all right, that's why we call you
very good.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Thank you, all right, bye, take care, bye bye.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
All right.
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Busy day it is.
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Feel free to join us if you've got a question
regarding your home or home project. A little maintenance, little repair, Vicky.
Speaker 11 (36:58):
Welcome, Hello, Jerry, Hell, are you doing fine?
Speaker 12 (37:03):
Well?
Speaker 11 (37:03):
I have an addition to the conversation of the hour
with a nutter cleaning. And I'm going back about twenty
years and I did use the product that build the
previous collar mentioned the hit it was manufact I wasn't
sure who the manufacturer was years ago, so I looked
at it up online before I called in, and it
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looks Blackjack puts it out. But if you could let
your callers know the spelling is different. It's not bleached
white as you would think. It's b L E T
h E hyphened w I T E. And now they
sell it by the gal and so if they're looking
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Speaker 4 (37:51):
All right, well thank you for that, yep.
Speaker 11 (37:54):
But it worked great all those years ago.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Yeah, all right, all right, very good.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Thanks. In fact, as we were talking and also having
a break, I had a gosh, we haven't really got
into this conversation, I bet for fifteen years. I love
how and I had mentioned it and how it just
everybody still has that problem. Mine went away when I painted,
so I kind of quit talking about it.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
But I was.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Wondering during the break the one product that I and
I don't have the problem anymore, so I can't test it.
I've talked about the uh Jaws cream cleanser. It's undefeated
for me on what I've used it. I've used on stovetops,
I've used on toilets, I've used I even used it
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on scuffs on a leather car cushion. I don't know
what hit it and I couldn't get it off with anything.
I tried that and it removed it. So I don't
know if that would work on that, but that would
be awesome. And it's a It's worked on everything. Like
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I said, it's undefeated. So somebody has that blackish cast
on aluminum down spouts, gutters, vinyl windows, and you got
some of the Jaws cream cleanser. You're my field reporter. Okay,
I'd love to get your input on that. See if
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it worked.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
All right, let's go to Peter.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
Peter.
Speaker 12 (39:21):
Welcome, Hi Gary, thank you for taking my call. And
I was going to tell you that a glass cleaner
from Jaws is amazing. The second point was that that
green cleanser. I've yet to be defeated by it. I mean,
it's incredible.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Yeah, I was thinking that during the break. I thought
I wonder if that would do it. I feel pretty
good about saying it probably will.
Speaker 12 (39:44):
Oh yeah, it really. I don't know what's in itself,
but man, it works. We're trying to spruce up the
front porch and you know, paint the floor and so forth.
But we've got the old outdoor carpet that just extends
from the door right over the steps. The rest of
the porch doesn't have anything. It's the original porch, that's
cement porch, but it's got that old yellow, hard glue
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under there. My understanding is you're really going to have
to grind that off. And when that's ground off, I'm
concerned that the texture note won't unless they can make
it a really smooth surface. I don't know that it
would you know, match up with the.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Rest well smooth. If they grind it off, it will
be smooth. So you can't worry about just doing the glue.
You're going to have to do that whole landing area
under their carpet.
Speaker 12 (40:36):
Yeah, okay, so even putting it just using standard porch paint,
so when they do it, there's not going to be
big circles left there. They should be able to do
it smooth enough to make it.
Speaker 9 (40:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Yeah, And it really depends on what you're using too,
you say paint, there's other things that are coatings that
are a little thicker. They can put you know, almost
a surface down as thick as a credit card, which
would hide that and even cover up very small spider cracks.
So you know, it depends on the type of coating
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you put on. For instance, if you if you ground
that glue off and then came back with the dice
roller rock or the diceterrezo, that'd be slip resistance.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
It's a coating and it'd cover all that up.
Speaker 12 (41:25):
I'm sure it would, And I'm I'm confident that's a
great product. I'm not trying to put too much into
it dollarwise. But would porch paint a couple of coats
not the adequate.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
I don't know. I guess it depends on I mean,
you can try it. It's not going to be that
unsightful for you. And I don't even know what kind
of texture you have on there now. I mean, if
it's a broom finish or it's just it's just.
Speaker 12 (41:53):
A smooth, smooth finish like they put down in nineteen
sixty eight, then.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Probably a couple of coats of porch finish should probably
be fine.
Speaker 12 (42:00):
So maybe I won't have to recap it with all
of the men. I've heard you tell people that before.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Yeah, I don't think so. I don't think so. I mean,
and those grinders, you can use different grits of removal too.
You could also chemically remove it. There's some adhesive removers.
I know blue Bear makes an adhesive remover that.
Speaker 12 (42:21):
I did that exactly. That's a good product except as
extremely labor intensive.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Everybody says grinding, but that's the easiest.
Speaker 4 (42:31):
Way to do it, to be honest, the grinding, yep, absolutely.
Speaker 12 (42:35):
Okay, well, I really appreciate your advice. Thank you for
a good show.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Thank you, take care, bye bye. All right. Well, you know,
when you have adhesives or anything on a surface and
you're going with paint, the first thing you read on
a cant is remove the existing finish. And if it's adhesive, absolutely,
and if it's a white or tan adhesive that doesn't
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contain asbestos, or there's a really good chance it does
not contain asbestos. It's more of a multipurpose latex adhesive.
If you get the old tiles like we had somebody
talk about earlier down in a basement and then they
were loosening and the black adhesives there, it's a good
chance that tile and that adhesive contains asbestos. So grinding
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may not be an option for you. And then you
shift to chemically remove it. So mechanically or chemically, and
when you say grind it off, grind that paint finish off,
people think, oh my gosh. But I'm telling you it
might be a little more expensive. You got to get
the equipment, rent the equipment. But I'll tell you what,
it's easier than trying to chemically remove it. My opinion,
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Speaker 4 (44:21):
You can spray.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Cups, glasses, plates with Jaws. Just wipe, rinse it clean,
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Pretty good stuff. College student may not use it, but
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Speaker 1 (44:32):
Them up some and see what happens.
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five five, and we're going to get back to the
phone calls because we get some folks that want to
talk about home issues and Joette, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Good morning, Gary morning.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Thank you for taking my call. I have listened to
you for years and years and have gained so much knowledge.
Thank you so many tips. And I'm calling today because
I think a few years back I heard you talk
with someone about cleaning outside of their eaves tross and
maybe using a white wall tire cleaner we have. We
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are right now in the process of having new sighting
installed on our house, and they took all of our
eavestross down and they're only a couple of years old,
so they will be going back up, but they're dirty,
and we thought we would clean them before they go
back up.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Can you Yeah, no, I think you're right. We've talked
about that. They're not Every cleaner works on those gutters
and down spouts. Is it a blackish grayish film?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah? It is.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, so you can use like you know, there's different
tucks like simple green things that just doesn't clean it off.
So one of the things I found that worked, and
I guess you can still get it now. I you'd
probably have to look it up is Wesley's white wall
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white nerd tire cleaner white wall tire clean I don't
even know if they make white wall tires anymore, but
it worked great. I mean it really did work great.
I know there's a product like spick and Span that
worked really good.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
So I would try that.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I use the white wall cleaner on my numerous times.
The really interesting thing here, folks, is somebody actually told
me that that was a fungus, and I can't tell
you if that's true or not true. It probably is true,
and you find it also on aluminum and vinyl replacement windows.
(03:21):
But the interesting thing is a number of years ago
we painted the house the trim and we painted the gutters,
and I've never had that problem since because of the
mill sides they put in paint.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Okay, so interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Not trying to talk you into painting your down spouts
are your gutters, but I found it pretty interesting.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, okay, well we will try some of this and
see what it does.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Very good.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Thanks for the call, appreciate it, Take care, bye bye.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Let's go to Bob.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Bob Welcome, Hello Gary, how are you going doing fine?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Sarah? Thanks?
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Ye, just kind of question ahead. About twenty years ago,
I put down some laminar flooring and I when I
put it down, they said that you could put something,
you could spread something on it to keep out the
noise of when you walk across it, and you could
put everything's in between the tongue and groops. But I
forgot what that was.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And do you know, I can't think of the name
of it. I know there is something out there. I
think it might have been called quiet Zone.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Quiet Zone.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Don't better nickel on that, but I think that's what
the name of it was.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Okay, quiet zone. Okay, maybe get that at like a
hardware store on those Yeah, I'd.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Probably even check on the internet make sure I got
that name right first. But you know, I would say
probably more like a big box store rather than a
hardware store. Minards might have it too. I think it
was a Corning product. If I'm not mistaken, you are correct. Okay,
(05:08):
it is called the Owens Corning Quiet Zone. Yeah, okay, fantastic.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
That's great because I run the vacuum over and my
wife runs a vacuum over.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
That helps, But it's just paying to walk across it.
And another another question, bathroom noise anyway, anyway to cut
down the noise coming from a bathroom.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
The only other thing I could think of would be
howld's the house? Uh?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Thirty years old?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Thirty years old? There's installation in the walls, even though
they're interior walls.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Let's see, I don't know there's insulation. I don't know
if there's installation on the interior walls. The exterior, there's yeah,
so you.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Know trying, you know, you know that's but once the
walls are up, I mean, that's it, right. I mean
you can get you can get sound deadening insulation for
the walls, but it's installed, you know, as the walls
being built. There's different mats that are sound deadening mats,
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like if you had a carpeting or something along those lines.
But there there's all kinds of sound deadening, but most
of it's used during remodeling or new builds.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Okay, nothing you can put on the.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Wall, Nothing that I can think of off the top of
my head.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
No.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I mean there's acoustical clocking. There's even acoustical calcking that's
used with double sheets of drywall. So like if you
wanted to get like a quarter inch drywall and put
it over the existing water, you use an acoustical clocking
between the two pieces of drywall, which works as a
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sound deadener and not opening up the wall, but you
are covering up the wall.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Okay, okay, that might work too good. Yeah, So one
final question. This morning, you're talking to Ron about a
boxwood and the yellow jackets that were all over the boxwood.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
I think Ron was talking to.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Buggy Joe at that point. I don't think I was
involved in that conversation, okay, And I was in the
other room, so I didn't hear that. But I did
catch a little bit of his bald faced hornets and
different things like that, but didn't catch that one.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
I came downstairs and heard gotch that doesn't sound okay?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
All right, very good, thanks Bob. All right, let me
give you the phone number. You can grab a line.
Then we have Jack and John come in your way
if you'd like to join us as we talked a
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back in it we go eighteen minutes after the top there,
of course, we're talking home and provement and how important
that is. And I think if you own a house,
you understand how important it is. You also understand how
fast things fail, and you also understand that they come
(11:31):
in waves. Sometimes you can go two or three years.
And I have a problem you're looking for problems. You
don't see a problem in other years. It's like they
never stop coming at you. Well, we're here for you
and we can talk about maybe your projects or your issues.
So grab a line and we'll talk to Jack.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Jack. Welcome, Hello, Gary, Hello.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
To talk with you.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
Yeah, So I'm moved in your community where we we
have a long wooden bridge that connects a couple areas
and it's probably one hundred and fifty foot long or so.
There was a long bridge, got some water running under it,
probably about twenty seven years old, and we want to
(12:17):
go and seal that. But you know, I've sealed my
decks and stuff in the years past, not a big issue.
But with the bridge here, we've got the water with it,
we've got us covered in trees, is flying along trees
or on both sides of it. So let's looking for
some guidance on boath to seal to use and also
(12:40):
you know there something can we put sand in that
seal or something to help them prove traction on the
on the on the planks, because gosh, in the winter
time it's pretty cooky over there.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So is this bridge, is this a pressure treated wood.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
It is, but as I said, it's you know, it's
twenty seven years old, so it's quite worn.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
And this pressure treated wood, has it been maintained? I mean,
has it been sealed periodically?
Speaker 8 (13:15):
I think it may have been. I don't know the
whole history, being a resident new resident, but it's it
appears to be very you know that the sun exposed
parts are quite you know, the grain's quite opened up
and you know, not in great shape.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Well, I guess the first thing you got to decide
is what kind of finish do you want to put
on it? Do you want to have it where it
looks like a wood tone, where it's a semi transparent
it's going into the wood and you know, adding some
pigment to it, which is also adding some protecting to it,
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protecting it from the sun, and it's penetrated down into
the wood.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
It's option one.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Option two is more of a solid color stain. It's
more of a film that's laying on the surface of
the of the pressure duted wood. It's biting into it,
but it's not becoming part of it like a wood
toned stain wood. Okay, So that's option two. Then there's
(14:24):
an option three, which is a real thick coating and
it's more of a temporary coating and it's good for
grain being really rough, but you usually use that as
if you're going to replace that floor boarding in about
three or four years and you're just trying to get
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you to that three or four year mark, and it's
a little expensive, but that's that's out there also, So
that'd be option three. Option four is to replace the wood.
So which direction are you thinking about going?
Speaker 8 (15:05):
Well, right now, it's it's not much about how it looks.
It's just trying to preserve what we have for as
long as we can.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Okay, So would you want it to look like pain
or do you want it to look natural? And then
you know, like a semi transparent stain.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Yeah, I think a semi transparent stain would be the best,
uh best option for us.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
So the semi transparent stain certainly offers protection. It doesn't
really hide anything, but you know, it'll it'll look good,
it'll give it protection and you know, we got to
address a couple of the issue. We have to clean it.
And you can clean it with a regular deck cleaner,
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which is an oxygenated bleach you've probably heard me say
that a million times. Which is a sodium per carbonate.
And what you do is it's a powder. You mix
it with water, you spray it onto the surface as
you let it sit about ten minutes, and you scrub
it off in rents. Don't use a pressure washer on it.
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A lot of people are going to do that. But
if you got it open grained and things, you're just
really forcing water into areas that may not want to
have water forced into it. If you use a pressure
pressure washer and insist on using what I would do
is I would use the sodium precarbonate again augen bleach,
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mix it, put it all over the deck, the rails
and everything else, let it sit about ten minutes and
use the pressure washer two thousand PSI nothing stronger than
that and a forty degree nozzle, and that'll take place
of the scrubbing and the rinsing, and that will open
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up the pores of the wood.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
You might have to.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Do some light sanding where the grain is raised. Do
not oversand because when you sand, you'll burnish the surface.
Burnish the surface means you'll kind of seal over. It
won't accept as much stain as it needs to accept.
So clean it with the oxygen ade bleach and then
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come back with what they call a deck brightener. A
deck brightener is oxalic acid. You're not gonna get burned
from its very very.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
It's wood bleach.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
And what that'll do is that'll kay kind of bring
it back a little bit to its natural color, get
really out of the gray. It is also spread on
and scrubbed off, and then go ahead and use your
your semi transparent stain, whatever one you want to use, okay.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
And so the steps in between cleaning all that wood
and then stealing it, obviously you want to dry first
before you seal it. But how long can you wait
before the seal goes on after cleaning it.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
If you're using a latex or akryllic deck sealer, you
only have to wait two hours. If you're using a
sod of solvent based sealer or an i'll get acrylic
which is a solvent in acrylic, you got to wait
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two days, okay, to make sure that it's going to
penetrate in.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
If you wait longer than that, for instance.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
No problem, no problem, no problem.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
It's not going to get that dirty that fast.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
Okay, awesome, all right, One other quick question for you
talking about cleaning gutters before? Uh huh would when and
forget spray.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
It does not take it off. It does not take
it off. Okay, No, I like to tell you it does,
but it doesn't.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
Yeah, that's a problem for me too.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yep, I hear you. The tire bleach is the best
thing I found, and just put it on. Let's sit
for a while. It's gonna take some elbow grease, but
it'll come off.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
All right. Thank you much for the call. I appreciate it.
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Thirty three minutes after the top, they are at home
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a few things done around the home and Granpa line.
When one's available, we got John John Welcome.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Hi Gary, we love your show.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
Kind of referencing back to the caller that you had
about the dry lock. We live on a slope lot
and the front of the home picks us toward the
toward the back. In the front there, we have a
French drain that was installed maybe five years ago, and
that French drain wrapped around the corner of the home.
(23:10):
And for about five years we've had some water come in,
not really very much, maybe two foot either side of
that corner.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
It would when it.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
Was mostly damp as opposed to standing water. But we
had a guy come out and we worked that French drain.
He said it was done improperly. And uh, we had
a storm here about two weeks back that that gave
us about four inches of rain, was a pretty good storm,
and we had just about two inches of dampness come
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in either side of that corner. And I'm wondering if
the if the dry lock, if I cut drywall out,
say you know, a foot either side of that corner
and on the floor and painted that, if that would
stop that.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Well, if it's under ten pounds per square inch, it
will hasn't really taken care of the problem though, so
and I say that not trying to be as smart ally.
I'm just saying there's more water there than they're supposed
to be right. And dry lock, as I said, it
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can hold back ten pounds of water pressure per square inch.
The dry lock clear.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
So better.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
You know, I've said many times on this show, John,
and it's very much the truth. It's not really about
water proofing, it's about water control. So reworking the French
strain is a great idea. You know, I'm always talking
about the killer gs. You know, make sure you have
grading away from the house. Gutters aren't clogged, ground water
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isn't present, and sometimes that's the Sometimes that's very complicated,
and you can have success in it. I remember this
was a long time ago. I had a crack and
a foundation in one of the houses. I went in
and patched it. When people tell me that, now I go, well,
so where'd that water go? I patched it. What happened
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is it cracked a couple of feet down the foundation
and I patched it, and at one time I patched
it two or three times, put dry lock on it,
and it never leaked again. Now I don't know what
changed outside, but something changed outside. So you're better trying
to work on a source and think of the dry
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lock as more of an insurance.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
It might work. Well.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
We worked, we worked on the source. We had a
guy redo the French drain and it made a huge,
huge difference.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I mean it was like.
Speaker 9 (25:52):
A tsunami storm that we had four inches of heavy
rain and all we had was just maybe an end
see side of that crack, and it was just damp.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Well, if it's just damp and there's not much flowing,
you know, into the basement or something, give it a try.
You got nothing to lose. I mean, it's a gallon
of waterproof paint.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Right.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
Is there a particular dry lock product that that I
would use?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
They make several and you could use. They make a
dry lock that comes in white and gray. They make
a dry lock clear which can also be used on
floors and walls, and then they make I think it's
a dry lock Max. Should have to go to their website.
The dry lock Max is the one that holds up
the ten psi. I think the other one's eight psi.
Speaker 9 (26:47):
Okay, so that Max would give me the best protection.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah, okay, well, yeah, exactly, I would just give it
a try. Obviously, there's still a little dampness, there's still
some puddling, not much pressure, or it would actually crack
or start flowing through the wall.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
It's just damp.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
That's actually how they're in store display functions is it's
a cement block that's hollow, and they got a water
pump pumping water into it. And on the outside, half
of it's in dry lock and half of it's just
playing and the waters flowing through the concrete block and
it stopped on the other side.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
Where the drive a block foundation too, by the way.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, yeah, so it can hold water. So i'd give
it a try. I you know, there's no guarantee, but
i'd give.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
It a try.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
We will do that.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Thank Gary, all right.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
You bet take care might and Bill.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Welcome, Thank you for taking my call. The name of
that bleach product that they had you talked about for
using on guglers was made by Wesley's, Yes, sir, and
it was called it was called bleach White.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
That was now. I don't know. If I lived in
Cleveland years ago and they were big, that's where Wesley's
was made. I don't know if it's still made or not.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
But I don't either. I don't either. That's what I
used to use on mine. That was one of the
only things I only ever had luck with now. I
have had other people, other callers have called me over
the years and say, gosh, what was that. I think
Purple Power.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Was one, and.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
There was another one, but I can't remember exactly what
it was.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Well, they come and they go, and they get bought out,
they change their names.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
You know, change the formula. I get it.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Yeah, Like I said, I don't know if it's available
anymore or not. But it worked. Well, you know, things
kind of diminished where they went away from white walls.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
But well, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
If you had a car or particularly an SUV that
had raised letters with an at X or whatever, you
would use it on that. My question is, I have
a uh jacuzzi in the master bathroom and the access
panels that you are on either side of the door
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that have yellowed. Is you know where you open them
up when you want to service it that Is there
anything that removes that yellowing or does that go all
the way?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That's just yellowing. I mean you could paint it, okay,
but that's just in the surface. I mean that's in
the materials. It's just you know, there's a minimum amount
of titanium that's in there. That keeps whites from yellowing.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
I see, and that's the same the same thing that
we had, Like you know, all your computers before we
went to flat screens, we're all pretty much beige and
over the years they've all gone yellow too.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Oh yeah, yep, exactly, all right.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Just didn't know if it was anything to clean it up, but.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Nope, it's kind of built into the plastic. So appreciate
the call.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
All right.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Our phone number is eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five Jason, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Hi Gary, Yes, sir, when my home, when my home
was built, the north and south side were bricked and
the east and north sides were siding. Now that the
neighborhood has built up, I would like to brick the
east side of my home. What kind of project am
I getting into? Can I have a quick list of materials, procedures,
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level of difficulty and costs?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Well? Are you going to do this yourself?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Well, that's what I'm thinking. Yes, I would like to try.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Have you done brick before, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
A little bit babbled in someod.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Okay, Well, I don't know if I can give you
a cost it. I mean, I think the first thing
would do is howld's a house right now?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
It was built in ninety seven. On the side of
the house, I'm looking at about fifty to sixty square feet.
Does that sound like a lot to tackle on my own.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
No, but I think they're one of the things.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Here would be my suggestion, which is not going to
answer your question, but here's my suggestion. Sure, there's been
a lot of changing, or a lot of innovation in
stone and brick products for homes. So rather than thinking
about this as a I'm going to remove the sighting
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and I'm going to install brick on my house, take
a look at some of these new materials. They're faux
brick and there's faux stone. You see them on all
new construction now. And the reason that the industry went
that way is it's hard.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
To find good masons.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
They're they're in short supply, so we have to come
up with things that make this project easier. And I'm
telling you this is honest to God truth. You can
stand next to that stuff and you can take your
fist and knock on you would never know it's not.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
A brick wall.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Well, I'm sold. I'm going with the faux bricky. Wonder
how difficult. That may be to match up to the
existence well that I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
That I don't know, and maybe maybe you can go
with a stone on the side. You see a lot
of mixed substrates now on homes. I mean there's some
of them. I think it's overused. There's cedar, there's brick,
there's stone, there's metal. It's like enough of that, But
I mean it is a trend to use different ones,
and maybe a stone side it might look pretty cool. Yeah,
(32:59):
just google that, spend some time. They're usually put on
almost like horizontal metal, uh firring strips. That's kind of
a cool way of saying it.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
So it's relatively it's pretty easy to put up. Just
just take a look at it. And it's also very lightweight.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
So it's a whole different it's a whole different genre,
but it's really satisfying the needs in the industry right now.
And I think that might be a perfect product for
you if you want to try it yourself.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Absolutely, Gary, Hey, all right, that's why we call you
very good.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Thank you, all right, bye, take care, bye bye.
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Busy day it is.
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Speaker 11 (36:58):
Welcome, Hello, Jerry, Hell, are you doing fine?
Speaker 12 (37:03):
Well?
Speaker 11 (37:03):
I have an addition to the conversation of the hour
with a nutter cleaning. And I'm going back about twenty
years and I did use the product that build the
previous collar mentioned the hit it was manufact I wasn't
sure who the manufacturer was years ago, so I looked
at it up online before I called in, and it
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looks Blackjack puts it out. But if you could let
your callers know the spelling is different. It's not bleached
white as you would think. It's b L E T
h E hyphened w I T E. And now they
sell it by the gal and so if they're looking
it up online to buy it, okay, just so they
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have the spelling correctly on it.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
All right, well thank you for that, yep.
Speaker 11 (37:54):
But it worked great all those years ago.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Yeah, all right, all right, very good.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Thanks. In fact, as we were talking and also having
a break, I had a gosh, we haven't really got
into this conversation, I bet for fifteen years. I love
how and I had mentioned it and how it just
everybody still has that problem. Mine went away when I painted,
so I kind of quit talking about it.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
But I was.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Wondering during the break the one product that I and
I don't have the problem anymore, so I can't test it.
I've talked about the uh Jaws cream cleanser. It's undefeated
for me on what I've used it. I've used on stovetops,
I've used on toilets, I've used I even used it
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on scuffs on a leather car cushion. I don't know
what hit it and I couldn't get it off with anything.
I tried that and it removed it. So I don't
know if that would work on that, but that would
be awesome. And it's a It's worked on everything. Like
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I said, it's undefeated. So somebody has that blackish cast
on aluminum down spouts, gutters, vinyl windows, and you got
some of the Jaws cream cleanser. You're my field reporter. Okay,
I'd love to get your input on that. See if
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it worked.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
All right, let's go to Peter.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
Peter.
Speaker 12 (39:21):
Welcome, Hi Gary, thank you for taking my call. And
I was going to tell you that a glass cleaner
from Jaws is amazing. The second point was that that
green cleanser. I've yet to be defeated by it. I mean,
it's incredible.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Yeah, I was thinking that during the break. I thought
I wonder if that would do it. I feel pretty
good about saying it probably will.
Speaker 12 (39:44):
Oh yeah, it really. I don't know what's in itself,
but man, it works. We're trying to spruce up the
front porch and you know, paint the floor and so forth.
But we've got the old outdoor carpet that just extends
from the door right over the steps. The rest of
the porch doesn't have anything. It's the original porch, that's
cement porch, but it's got that old yellow, hard glue
(40:08):
under there. My understanding is you're really going to have
to grind that off. And when that's ground off, I'm
concerned that the texture note won't unless they can make
it a really smooth surface. I don't know that it
would you know, match up with the.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Rest well smooth. If they grind it off, it will
be smooth. So you can't worry about just doing the glue.
You're going to have to do that whole landing area
under their carpet.
Speaker 12 (40:36):
Yeah, okay, so even putting it just using standard porch paint,
so when they do it, there's not going to be
big circles left there. They should be able to do
it smooth enough to make it.
Speaker 9 (40:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Yeah, And it really depends on what you're using too,
you say paint, there's other things that are coatings that
are a little thicker. They can put you know, almost
a surface down as thick as a credit card, which
would hide that and even cover up very small spider cracks.
So you know, it depends on the type of coating
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you put on. For instance, if you if you ground
that glue off and then came back with the dice
roller rock or the diceterrezo, that'd be slip resistance.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
It's a coating and it'd cover all that up.
Speaker 12 (41:25):
I'm sure it would, And I'm I'm confident that's a
great product. I'm not trying to put too much into
it dollarwise. But would porch paint a couple of coats
not the adequate.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
I don't know. I guess it depends on I mean,
you can try it. It's not going to be that
unsightful for you. And I don't even know what kind
of texture you have on there now. I mean, if
it's a broom finish or it's just it's just.
Speaker 12 (41:53):
A smooth, smooth finish like they put down in nineteen
sixty eight, then.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Probably a couple of coats of porch finish should probably
be fine.
Speaker 12 (42:00):
So maybe I won't have to recap it with all
of the men. I've heard you tell people that before.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Yeah, I don't think so. I don't think so. I mean,
and those grinders, you can use different grits of removal too.
You could also chemically remove it. There's some adhesive removers.
I know blue Bear makes an adhesive remover that.
Speaker 12 (42:21):
I did that exactly. That's a good product except as
extremely labor intensive.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Everybody says grinding, but that's the easiest.
Speaker 4 (42:31):
Way to do it, to be honest, the grinding, yep, absolutely.
Speaker 12 (42:35):
Okay, well, I really appreciate your advice. Thank you for
a good show.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Thank you, take care, bye bye. All right. Well, you know,
when you have adhesives or anything on a surface and
you're going with paint, the first thing you read on
a cant is remove the existing finish. And if it's adhesive, absolutely,
and if it's a white or tan adhesive that doesn't
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contain asbestos, or there's a really good chance it does
not contain asbestos. It's more of a multipurpose latex adhesive.
If you get the old tiles like we had somebody
talk about earlier down in a basement and then they
were loosening and the black adhesives there, it's a good
chance that tile and that adhesive contains asbestos. So grinding
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may not be an option for you. And then you
shift to chemically remove it. So mechanically or chemically, and
when you say grind it off, grind that paint finish off,
people think, oh my gosh. But I'm telling you it
might be a little more expensive. You got to get
the equipment, rent the equipment. But I'll tell you what,
it's easier than trying to chemically remove it. My opinion,
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disinfected for decks, chairs, bookshelves, light fixtures, and then they
got one. We haven't really talked much about the Jaws disspray.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
You can spray.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Cups, glasses, plates with Jaws. Just wipe, rinse it clean,
put it away.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
Pretty good stuff. College student may not use it, but
you can pack.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Them up some and see what happens.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
All right, we'll continue with your calls. You're at home
with Gary Cell the time.
Speaker 7 (44:50):
Start a project and don't know how to finish it,
Call Gary at one eight two three talk. You're at
home with Gary Soliva
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