Gary Sullivan 8/17/2025 Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, welcome now our number two at home with
Gary Sullivan.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not a bad day, gonna be a little.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Tiny, tiny, tiny tiny bit cooler, not much though. It
doesn't look like the rain's going to affect us, so
maybe it is the day we tackle a project, either
inside or outside.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
You can give us a call. It's five one, three,
seven four nine fifty five hundred. We'll chat about you
and get you back to work at no time at all.
We'll do it all right here till noon on tippy
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well, it is the weekend. Welcome aboard. You're at home
with Gary Sullivan. Thanks for joining me, and well, feel
free to talk about your home projects.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
I know we all have some.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
With the weather we've had, even just watching some baseball
games or something on TV. There's more rain delays this
year than I've ever seen. And I know my backyard
where I live it is as green as it would
be in the middle of May. The bad news is
I'm cutting it a lot. This should be kind of

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the downtime of the year. All Right, our phone number
talking about your house, it's eight hundred eight two three
eight two five to five and Dan, welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Good morning, thank you for taking my call. You bet,
I'm looking at some of the fall specials that maybe
maybe coming along, and I'm thinking about getting a cordless powerwasher.
Your thoughts on that for light cleaning, Well.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Tell me what light cleaning cleaning is?

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Okay, just the garage door, some sidewalk cleaning. It's it's
not terribly dirty the sidewalk, but that's in you know,
outside decking with that trip's material. Thanks for that nature.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, I guess the thing to look at, Dan, I
mean when you say a cordless powerwasher, there's a lot
that goes into how effective a.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Powerwasher is.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
It's the gallons of water it can move through, permit it.
And it's also the PSI the pressure per square inch.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
So you know, if you're looking at just the.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Pressure one, i'd say you gotta have something at least
two thousand psi to do what you want to do.
And I don't know what the PSI on a cordless
powerwasher is. And then I would do kind of a
little bit of a study, like if I was going
to go out and buy a powerwasher, any powerwasher, anything

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I wanted, I'd probably go get about twenty four hundred
psi or twenty six hundred psi with nozzles.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
They would have a.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Forty degree of twenty five degree of fifteen degree and
a pinpoint zero degree nozzle. And it wouldn't just be
the wand. I'd get the wand and the disc where
you can put a disc down on the end and
it spins around and it's right on the surface. That's
the fastest you know, moving power washer you can do

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for a sidewalk, the driveways, decks, they're awesome. So, you know,
I don't know, I don't know how to answer the
cordless material, the power equipment that's out there. There's a
lot of really good cordless stuff, but it really depends

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on the pressure and how many gallons of water they're
moving through that.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Okay, well, you gave me a good idea about the
disc because I was thinking more of the nozzle. But
the disc would be great for the sidewalk.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
And the those things are so that it's so awesome.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
They really are. They're they're they're a deal maker for me.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Okay, Well, thank you again. I appreciate your help.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
All right, very good, thank you. Take care.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
I have to get some manufacturers of some uh pressure
washers on and chat with them.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, yeah, I hit one. And I hate to use names.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
And I will say it was five years ago and
they've advanced a lot of different I mean, the industry
as a wholes advanced a lot of different ones. But
it was a cordless uh pressure washer. I think it
was made by Homeworks w r X. And it was
for I mean they were they were very upfront, this
is for like washing your car, and he mentioned garage

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or it'd probably be perfect for that, and they sent
me one to try it, and not for me, it
was it was too it was too light, and you know,
looking at the gowns permitted and the pressure I think
the pressure on that was fifteen or no, not fifteen, yeah, fifteen.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
I forget now, fifteen.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Hundred maybe, Yeah, that's probably what it was, because I'm
benchmarking it at two fifteen hundred and I think they
make us seventeen fifty.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
It just wasn't enough.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
And when you're going to clean a deck or you're
gonna clean sidewalks, granted you don't need this much for
your car or even your sighting maybe or even maybe
your deck, but sidewalks and concrete, you better be two
thousand plus. All right, let's get to text text welcome, Oh, Mike, Mike, welcome.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Sorry, good morning, Yes, sir.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
So I've got a I want to ask you a
question about a home in Florida. We're replacing the LVP
I would put up the old floor. There was a
vapor barrier down, pulled the vapor of back, and there
was quite a bit of moisture on the floor. Some
of it I could take a broom and swish across.
It was some standing water there. We're getting ready to

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put new flooring down, and my question is would you
recommend doing some kind of sealer on the concrete before
we put the new vapor barrier down in a new
plank flooring down?

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yes, for sure. So where was this water? Was this
on the slab the concrete slab?

Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah. As soon as I pulled the paint up,
within five or ten minutes, the floor was completely dry
and nothing came through the vapor. The barrier did its job.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
It was a.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Purgo water resistant cool kind of mat they had down,
so nothing came above that. The floor was perfect. I
was kind of surprised to see it. No mold, no musty.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Smell good for you. Plain water, yeah, good for you.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, you know, it wouldn't hurt to put something under
there because usually in a concrete slab there's a vapor
barrier underneath the slab, which you know eliminates.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
So if it's an older home, everything gets old, it deteriorates,
so you know, maybe it's deteriorated or maybe there were
seams in it. I don't know, but something was going
on to get through the concrete. And yeah, the vapor
bearrier did work, and that's great. There is a product
made by dry Lock. You'll find it pretty much any

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hardware store. They have it for walls which are white,
but they've got a new one out. It's clear and
it is it will hold back I think it's fifteen.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Psi, so that's.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Fifteen pounds per square incial water pressure. So it can
hold back some water. And I would just you know,
i'd just give it a code or two on the
surface of that slab, and you know, you check that
box right, and no water should be able to get
through that. And even after it drives, you can take

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plastic on top of that and see if you get
a water droplets, but you shouldn't you know, once you
get that down there, it's kind of like a liquid
vapor barrier, which was never really available until about five
seven years ago.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
So is that a top seiler or is that the
kind of penetrate.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Suit that's a top seiler. So most of your penetrating
seilers are breathable by design to be used outside, especially
in colder climates.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
You don't want to trap the moisture in the slab, okay,
But in.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
This case a top siler, we want to push it
back down to the ground.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yep, yep, I certainly will because and I'm really kind
of surprised you didn't have some problem with the Purgo
that's water resistant. I can see if you didn't have
any problem with a water proof Purgo, but there's a
difference in that, and so I'm glad you didn't run
into any problems because you get mold grown under any
floor carpet, you know, that's a problem.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yeah, we did mold kit test and all that and
so that and it was I mean, it was it
was clean.

Speaker 5 (09:07):
There was nothing on the floor.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
But we tested any way to come back negative, I
mean nothing at all.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
That's great, that's great that it's a precaution.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
Thanks for the advice.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yep, good enough. Thanks take care, all right, all right,
we'll take a break.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
In the text.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
I promise you'll be coming up first, and then Mason.
As we continue. You're at Home with Gary Sullivan.

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Speaker 1 (10:02):
All right, let's get back to work as we're talking
a little home improvement. And by the way, during the
course of the week, if you're looking for some company,
maybe some information, you can always go to the iHeart
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at Home with.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Garry Sullivan, and we have each hour of the show
on there.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
And if you missed a couple hours or something you
can pick up, might pick up a good tip to
save you a little money or make your project a
little bit easier.

Speaker 10 (10:35):
All right, Tex, Welcome, Hey Gary, I've got four poles
on my front porch. They're encapsulated with some type of
finyl you don't make them look a little fancier, and
they haven't been painted in a long time, and I'm
wondering what could I use to clean them where the

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paint would adhere to it better.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
So is this like a vinyl sighting or is this
like a capped product because there's some PVC products out there.

Speaker 10 (11:10):
Yeah, it's like a two piece, you know, it goes
around the four before and snaps together, makes them look
you know a little a little more fancy area.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
So you you would say it's kind of on the
line of a vinyl sighting.

Speaker 10 (11:24):
Yeah, I would say vinyl. I really don't know.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
You know, Okay, do you have a do you have
a You probably don't have a scrap piece of that,
do you No?

Speaker 10 (11:35):
Sure, don't?

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Uh huh. I would.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
I'll give you some tips, but I would take a
picture of it and maybe go to like a Sherman
Williams store because the product I'm going to recommend they
have and say, hey, this is what I'm trying to paint.
It's like a vinyl sighting, but snaps together and have
a picture of it so they can kind of kind
of get them an idea. All right, so that type

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of like and I'm going to just kind of work
my way into like the vinyl.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Sighting that type of material. The color's baked all the
way through, but vinyl siding and vinyl oxidizes with the
sun and it's it's probably not all that dirty.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
It might be, but it's definitely got a lot of
oxidation on it, and we want to remove that. And
then we also want to use a specific kind of
paint so that it doesn't absorb the heat and warp,
especially if you use in a darker color. So for
removing oxidation, they have an actual a cleaner for removing

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oxidation off vinyl. If you can't find that, I think
Sherman Williams has it. If you can't, and then they
have a specific product I can't think of the name
of it. If you can't find it or they don't know,
try souting phosphate, which is an old fashioned cleaner.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Mixing it with water and scrubbing it with that will
remove oxidation also, And then you could use like the
Sherman Williams Emerald House paint.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
It comes in a flat of satin.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
A semi gloss, any type of machine that you want.
And they have a specific tint for paint that's going
to be used over vinyl. And what that tint is
is it is a.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
It's a reflective paint.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
In other words, it'll they'll tell you if you're picking
this color, we definitely want to use this tint because
it's a They have them graded out depending on how
much heat a color can absorb. So there's a scale
and that'll tell them what what what tint to use

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in the emerald paint.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
And then you could paint that.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
You could paint in dark green if you wanted to,
and it would just it's like a radiant barrier type ten,
so it'll just bounce that heat off so it can
be painted and that's what you would use.

Speaker 10 (14:12):
Okay, Hey, thanks for the idea.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
You're quite welcome. Thanks tax call any time. Appreciate it,
all right. So, and that goes on vinyl shutters too.
If you use on vinyl shutters and you want a
darker shutter, that tense very important.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Mason, welcome, Hi, can you hear me?

Speaker 10 (14:31):
Good?

Speaker 2 (14:31):
I can.

Speaker 11 (14:34):
They shut off my radio? So I didn't have the
reverb thing going on.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
All right.

Speaker 11 (14:39):
Uh, my wife and I back in October, and this
deck built on the front of our house, and it's
twelve by twenty and it has a huge roof over
that because we had a new roof put on too,
a metal roof, Okay, so they extended the metal roof
right over top of it.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
It's beautiful, great, but.

Speaker 11 (15:03):
Getting different conflicting information about when I'm supposed to stay
in it and what I'm supposed to stay in it with. Yeah,
my wife and I would love to have the transparent
where it brings out the wood green and everything like that. Okay,
but some people say that because it is in direct

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sunlight and I live in Florida, that I'll be doing
that every year.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Well, you might be doing it every two or three years.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
I don't know if it's clear. You'll probably do it
every year when that roof's extended. Does it create some
shade on that.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yes?

Speaker 11 (15:45):
Yes, well yeah, only one time it really gets hammered
with the sun is summertime in the afternoon, so it
hits the one side of it but not the other.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Well, let me answer that real quick, because as usual,
run out of time. There's a brand called DeFi d
f Y. You can look this up DeFi woodstain dot com.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
It is a water base system.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
I think it's a two code system, though somebody told
me they just changed it to a one code system.
So you're going to have to read that. That's going
to give you an extra year's worth of life it has.
It's got actually zinc oxide in so it's got protection
from the sun.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
On a deck stain, you get an extra year out
of that.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
If it's covered, it should last longer. But if it's
getting an afternoon sun in Florida during the summertime, it's
going to cancel.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
That out pretty quick. But that'll be the longest lasting.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
So you can use it, and quite honestly, you know,
if you get tired of doing that every two years,
every three years, every four years, guess what, you can
just use a solid color stain on it at that point.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
So you know, we'll we'll leave.

Speaker 11 (17:03):
Be better off with the solid color just to start
with and forget it.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Well, I'll let you make that decision.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
I mean, if you want to give it a whirl
and see what it is, there won't be any you know,
transformation being I'll tell you what if you use a
solid color stain. You're going to probably have to wait
nine months to a year. The way you find out
is take a tablespoon of water, put it on the wood.
If it disappears in forty five seconds, you're good.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
To use either stain you want. We'll continue at home
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It's eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five
and let's go to uh Dave Dave.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Welcome, Hey, Gary, sir, I have is there? Yep? I'm here?

Speaker 5 (19:37):
Okay, sorry.

Speaker 9 (19:39):
I have two window wells that face thatis to have
both have substantial overhang, and I've been in my house.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
About eighteen months.

Speaker 13 (19:49):
And I've never had any issue. Both have a little
bit of sudden driving that I've never well paid too
much attention to. And the past week or two is
you may have also experienced. Here in the Southwest, we've
had a couple of bouts of flash flood type heavy
heavy rain that short amount of time. And in the

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one on the left inside I noticed, luckily I caught
it fairly soon, but the glass block window in the
window will, they each have those little mini windows, and
the water was kind of creeping in. I get outside
and the window will is filled up with water, and

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so I get to grab the FAM pump real quick
get it out of there. And then I realized, after
all this was done, there's a four inch drain type
in that window will, which I wasn't aware of. And
I've never noticed any sort of collection in that window
well until recently. So my question to you is, again, facey,

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so you don't really get our water rain from the
east blown in and it has over hang to kind
of fix this. And I also have a couple of
drains in the back and side yard that plant fluckering
water and I'm presimably they're connected to that drain and
there's some sort of package maybe going to the street
where exits. I'm also guessing that that drain in the

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wind will has been kind of plugged with dirt and
grime and it finally broke through with this flash flood rain.
So again my question is do you see an issue
as a fix to buy a bag of concrete, mix
it up in a five gallon bucket and plug that
snowhel drain or would you try to clear out somehow

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connected drain.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
There's a whole, a whole bunch of answers to those questions.
So the first thing when you say there's an overhang
over the window, well, what you're saying is usually when
it rains really hard, there's kind of cup over it.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
So that shouldn't fill up my window.

Speaker 7 (22:02):
Well, well I've.

Speaker 13 (22:06):
I haven't yet even purchased the window will because with
the overhang of the I should say the overhang of
the roof, there's never been even in the heaviest ring.
Most I get like missy water moisture, but nothing even
even chilling a.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Coup Well, you know, it could be coming up from
ground water and have nothing to do. I mean, it
has everything to do with the amount of rain and
how much rain we've had. It could be that the
water is not getting into the window well. It could
be that the water is getting in the window well
and the and the drain is simply plugged. It could
also be that the other pipes that you're using to

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move water and control the water, uh, maybe they're clogged,
maybe they're not connected like they used to be, and
they're spilling all that water and you're raising the water
table and it's just coming up up that drain or
it's just coming up.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Through the rocks.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
The only way you would know that is to have
somebody run cameras down those pipes to see if they're
intact and you know, in good shape.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
At the very least.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
I would try to go ahead and clean out that
drain the best I can and go on the assumption that,
you know, if that drain was opened, I wouldn't have
this problem. If it continued, then you're going to know
that the water's being routed from the pipes and it's
always going to go the pay path of the least resistance.
So if you got an open drain and it's you know,

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it's going to come up there, right, So you know,
you can run.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
A snake down there. If it's a PVC pipe Schedule
twenty or forty. If it's the.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Black corrugated pipe, you're probably going to have a little
bit more difficulty cleaning that out.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Okay, so you can tell that, Yeah, you.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Can run a snake down there and see if there's
any blockage, or again, you know, getting somebody out there
and scope all those pipes just to see what kind
of shape they're in, or like I said, there was
a lot of answers to that question. Or get a
cover over that window well and see if it stops,
or or you still have that problem, you know, I
mean window wells are basically there to get light in

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the basement.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
Sure.

Speaker 13 (24:24):
Yeah, So just an additional note on that. When it
happened the first time, like a week and a half
to go. The second heavy heavy rain was this past
two day. So I'm kind of on duty on standby, right,
and I went out there ready to tackle it and
get that phone as on there, and I literally watched

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it bubble up through the pipe and then started pretty rapidly.

Speaker 11 (24:49):
Filling up that window.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
Well.

Speaker 13 (24:50):
Yeah, heavy rain, So it's definitely coming through that PVC
for it.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah, so it sounds like it's not blocked.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
It just sounds like it's a path of least RESI
distance for the water. So those pipes underground near that,
they may not be really connected, or they're clogged or
you know, something to the point, they're not moving that
water away from your foundation and it's pouring it all

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in the ground underneath that wind a well, and the
path of least resistance as it comes up is that pipe.
It's not creating a pond in the ground. It's that pipe.
So my guess is based on what you're telling me,
it really is probably the other, uh, the other piping underground,
which you can't see it. So you can rent a

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camera and scope them yourself, or you can get you know,
a plumber out there to do just that.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
All right, I hope that helps.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
And yeah, those things can you know, sometimes you just
talk them through, talk them through, talking through. Remember, water
takes a path of least resistance. Jeff, welcome, Hey.

Speaker 14 (25:56):
How you doing doing fine. I'm a hitting technician. They
used to and they used to work for a company
up north, and the gentleman just called about oil propaine
and so forth and so on. An important factor everybody
you should should consider the cost factor that you see
that you're buying. Originally doesn't matter much. Your teams can

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only run at certain percent efficiencies. Oil even at best,
can run it around eighty five and ninety nineties. Pushing
it okay, p pain propaane you can get one hundred
percent efficiency, well, ninety two to ninety four. You never
get one hundred percent out of everything right. The most
important factor is the amount of BTUs your house needs

(26:38):
to heat. So what happened to this? A gallon of
oil produces about one hundred and forty thousand BTUs per gallon,
where propain only produces about seventy nine. So what happens
is that it would cost you twice as much to run,
or you would use twice as much pro pain as

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you would oil. Similarly, with natural gas, natural gas burns
at one hundred thousand, so you'd burned one point five
or so units in comparison to oil. Price makes a
difference for most people. However, in a short factor and
I had a customer that did this. He wanted his
house one hundred percent propeine. I told him he was
going to double his cost for the heating season. It

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did be panicked. So the number one thing to look
at is this, if his house has natural gas, he
can compensate by changing his stove, which uses electricity. That's
one to one. If it uses electricity, convert your stove,
convert your hot water, you can convert your your heating system.

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And the gas companies, if he has natural gas, will
give you a break on the price, which compensates for everything.
So the important factor is B two years. Get that
analyzed by any heating company.

Speaker 11 (27:56):
They can come in.

Speaker 14 (27:57):
They can do a B to you factor on his own.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
So yeah, so when we went to a break, I
was using those numbers because I you know, I found them,
and so my analogy was as it was by the
way his house was heated by fue oil, because what
started the conversation is he was replacing the tank.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Okay, so he was he was vacillating.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Maybe there's a better option, and this is why we
find more fuel oil in Boston and Cleveland, the northern cities.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
I would assume.

Speaker 14 (28:33):
Correct, correct, because because you have right.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Right, And that's kind of way I left it with
him after the break, So very good that's that's very helpful.
All right, you do the same. Thanks call anytime, Jeff.
I really appreciate that. Thank you, all right. So, yeah,
and he's saying kind of what we recapped on was

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you got to look at the cost of BTUs, and
of course he brings up the good point you got
to know how a bt US you're using.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Then you'll find out exactly how much more it's going
to cost.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
And of course fuel oil over the course of time,
it goes up and down, but it sounds like that's
always going to be from a monetary and the things
the least expensive way to go is with the fuel oil.
All right, let's take a break, we'll come back. We
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Speaker 9 (30:26):
John welcome, Hey Gary, thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
You're welcome.

Speaker 9 (30:33):
I've got an older house with a unfinished basement. It's
got the stone foundation walls around it, probably at least
eighteen inches stick. I'm not sure, but I I have
a lot of humidity down there, and I separate it.
I separate it from the upper house, so I don't

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think it.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
But I'm running with the humidifier.

Speaker 9 (30:59):
It's probably twenty five thirty square feet, whatever that comes
out to be. But I was thinking about either.

Speaker 5 (31:09):
Some kind of dry locked product on.

Speaker 9 (31:12):
The walls or I don't know a lot about the
easy breed system. I know you advertise it a lot,
but I don't know exactly what it is.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Do you have a suggestion, Yeah, because I don't think
the easy breathe is going to be your solution. Okay,
First of all, an easy breed should be used in
a space or a home that is air conditioned. It's conditioned, okay,
so that's puting some moisture out.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
That's the biggest de amid of fire. There is the.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Second issue with the easy Breed. What is it is
a stone foundation. So I forget exactly what the gallon
age is, but it's some incredible number like eight to
twelve gallons of water vapor passed through our founder walls daily. Well,
you could probably double that with a stone foundation. Okay,
so that's going to be an issue too. But I

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will say, if you want to people all the time
saying to me like why do I have to call them?
Why can't I just order it? Because they're going to make.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Sure that this is really going to help you.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
So if you want to call them, you know it's
the letter E letter Z breed dot com. You get
on their website and no have a phone number. But
that's my thoughts on the Easy Breath. As far as
you know, minimizing the uh, the humidity in there, certainly
the dry lock would be helpful.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Is there a floor in the basement. It's not a
dirt floor. It's not a real old house, isn't.

Speaker 9 (32:47):
No, it's a it's a former concrete floor, okay, and
it has a sump pump. And the only time I
have any water coming on the top that concrete is
when it's just been raining for like two or three
weeks straight. Otherwise it all it all runs under the

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concrete into the samp and it gets pumped out.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Do you think that the water that shows up during
heavy rains is because it's coming through the slab or
is it coming in between the seam of the stone
wall and the floor.

Speaker 9 (33:21):
It is primarily coming through what seams are in the slab.
If it is just a huge amount of rain, then
I'll see some coming through the stone, okay, But it
has to be a lot of rain, all right, all.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Right, So we're not going to be able to do
too much with that, but we can certainly, you know,
use the dry lock clear on the floor. That would
be where I'd start. It's kind of what I was
talking to the other person about it. It's got I
think it can hold back fifteen psile water, So if
you have a higher water table or you know, due

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to increasing rain.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
It will help hold that back. However, it's it sounds
like it's not coming up through the floor.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Because it's coming through the seam, and that that's you know,
kind of a different ball game because it's two separate things.
Using dry lock on stone, you'd really be using it
on the.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Probably the mortar.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
The stone is dense enough where there's not going to
be a whole lot of water going through stone. But
if there's a lot of mortar, it's going to be
going through the mortar. And mortar, especially in a home
that's older, you know it has issues too, right, I
mean missing mortar, soft mortar.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
You can paint the dry lock on that.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
In fact, you can use the same clear on there.
But I don't know about coating the whole thing. I
don't know how smooth it is either, but certainly doing
the mortar would hold back that amount of pressure.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
I don't know how much pressure there is.

Speaker 9 (34:54):
I don't believe there's a lot of pressure either on
coming up from the floor or on the wall.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Probably not the floor because it was being relieved by
that having that seam. Again, remember water takes a path
of least resistance. It's going to be easier to flow
through that seam. Then it's going to be pushing up
water through that concrete floor. So it's probably coming through
the seam, which minimizes the height of the water beneath
that slab.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Makes sense to me.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yeah, so you know, if you didn't want to put
anything there, that's what I'm saying, I.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
I you know, really what you need.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
You need pipes underneath the slab, I mean, and then
taking that to the to the sump well pumping away
from the house. That's how you would control that water
table beneath the slab.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
But if it's not.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Coming through the slab and it's coming through that seam,
I don't know any other way you would really catch
that unless you put another sump pump in in that area.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
That might work too.

Speaker 9 (35:55):
Well, No, I don't. I don't think another sump because
this whole occurs like twice twice a year that that
I see it coming up and that and like I said,
it has to be a lot of continuous rain. But
otherwise it stays under the concrete and the pump takes
it out just fine. Okay, So I it sounds sounds

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reasonable to feel that the concrete just as a little precaution.
But then I do think something needs to be on
because it's it's staying.

Speaker 4 (36:31):
There.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
Well, it could just be the water vapor. Yeah, you know, I.

Speaker 9 (36:36):
Mean, but I believe it's coming through the wall through
the stone foundation.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Well, I'm sure there's solid concrete, poor concrete walls. Again,
eight to twelve gallons of water vapor a day.

Speaker 9 (36:50):
Not solid.

Speaker 5 (36:51):
This is yeah, this is stone founder.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
So, like I said, for a stone foundation, you.

Speaker 7 (36:56):
Can almost double that, right, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
You know, so there are different insulated boards. I don't
I don't know what to tell you. Outside the dry
lock can be applied. But again, it's not coming through
a stone, It's coming through the mortar.

Speaker 9 (37:14):
Right, And I would almost have to I almost have
to coach the whole thing too. Yeah, it would be
too hard to do just.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
The mortar right? Which which?

Speaker 9 (37:22):
Which is doable?

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Yeah, you can do that, and you can clear.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
If you didn't, you know, leave the integrity of the
color and the texture and everything up.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
You could use the dry lock clear.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
And again the clear well, they just brought it on
about it just brought it on about six seven years ago,
so it's relatively new.

Speaker 10 (37:45):
Well, I might I might.

Speaker 9 (37:46):
Give that company a call and talk to some of
those professions and see if they if they think that's
a doable job.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Again, you know it has it's limitations too. Again ten
to fifteen psi. So you know, I don't know how
much water pressure is behind there, and.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Neither will they.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yeah, you know, so it's going to help, yes, will
it eliminate the problem? They'll know, So hope that helps. Again,
that's interesting. Two calls, and it really I can't I
can't emphasize enough how important it is with the the.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Path of leash resistance.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Like if a water company, a waterproofing.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Company was going to do that, I'm guessing but.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
They're going to probably trench the floor all the way
around the perimeter that lay pipe, okay, and route that
right to the sump well so that it catches it
before it starts building up on the sides of the
foundation and having the wall leaked in.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
That's my guess where the water's coming from. All right,
we'll continue with your calls. Dill Us up, Keith, and
Ken you'll be up first. You're at Home with Gary Sullivan.

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