August 18, 2024 • 45 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well it's the weekend. Welcome aboard.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You're at home with Gary Salvin, and thanks for joining
me as we work together on getting some of those
projects done around the home. And happy to take your
call at eight hundred eight two three eight two five
five and jump on board. Happy to talk to you
about what you need to work on. All right, that
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being said, let's go to Robert. Robert welcome, Yes I
can hear me, Yes, sir, okay.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I got a question of my all my well water,
actually two questions. I got that hard water sediment on
the fixtures. Question is can that be filtered out? Next
problem of God is the nasty, nasty smell out of
all my cold water spickets mainly something to hob mainly
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cold like A yeah, well, I don't know do the
rotten smell? But I go to my barn which is
using the same well water, but now it has one
of those anti freeze spickets that the order is four
feet down before it comes up the pipe. No odor
in the barn at all. And my question is I
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think my pipes in my house must have bacterry in it.
It is it worth my while to try to rig
up some way to pump clorox or something to my
whole house and try to.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well, I think the first thing got to start. I mean,
how's the pipes? What kind of pipes you know?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
You mean they're all plastic pipes.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Now, yeah, I don't think that's your problem. I think
it's the water, the well itself. Has you asked first?
Is there a filter? Yeah, there is a filter. But
when was the last time you hit the water tested
to see what's going on?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Uh? Checked for whatever? Yeah, that was probably probably time
for that.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
But the but we had people come in twenty years ago,
fifteen years ago to sell me when it was expensive
water soft nerds, and I get tired of tote salt
up down the basement. They said it wouldn't use much salt.
Every two weeks I was toting salt down.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Well there's no way to filter out that that hard
water sediment.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying. You got to get
the well water tested. I mean, you got to find
out where you're at before you try to fix it.
You know, you got to find out how hard it is.
I'm sure everything you talk about is related to the
well water, from the smells to the hard water deposits
on the faucets, the whole works. I can't really explain,
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and I don't really know why you wouldn't be smelling
in the well or in the barn based on the
same you know, the same well and everything. Yeah, but
I would definitely one percent get that water tested. See
where you are on the hardness scale, where your pH
level is, you know, is it below seven, is it
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at seven? Is it over seven? Those all come into play,
And what's the taste like?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Is the taste.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Okay, yeah, my life won't drinking but it's not.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Okay, I've been. I've been.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I've been drinking it for twenty time years.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And gets somebody out there, you know, not to sell
you a water softener. That's not my intent. It may
not even be what you need. Sometimes just chlordinating the
well water and cleaning out that and maybe you need
a iron filter on the water coming into the house
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may alleviate some of that. But we can sit here
and spitball what you might need, but we can't tell
you what you need til you get the water tested
out of that well.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Okay, you know, it would be probably be a good
idea to draw water from the barn instead of drawing
it from that. Because of a pipe's got a lot
of bacteria in them, it's going to condaminate.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, I doubt if that pipe is plastic and it's
seven to ten years I don't think that it's the pipe.
If you told me it was galvanized pipe pipes.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
None of the pipes thirty years old.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Okay, all right, well again, start with the well. I
think you you're you're, you would be spinning your wheels
just guessing. Start with the well and let's see where
you're at.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Okay, it's probably probably a good idea.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I mean, you can have problems with wells without wells
city water, and you could have the pipes, the the
little pipes, the three ace copper line going from the
plastic house pipe into the faucet and have the the
gunk in the faucet not in the pipe at all,
you know, I mean, not in the plastic pipes.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
But the source.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Power every bathroom.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So it's not the hot water heater, because it'd be
the hot water and it'd probably be an anode rod
or a node rod. But I'm telling you, get get
a person out there to chlorinate that well and get
your water tested for minerals in there and go from there.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Well, and in winter time we don't notice it. Hot
summer it's worse.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Okay, that's where i'd started. All right, all right, you
bet you know.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I'm not gonna sit here and swear that I'm right,
but I'm gonna feel very strongly that's where it needs
to start and to just you know, that's it reminds
me of when we were. Now, I guess a lot
of people don't work on their cars, but back in
the day, you could work on all the cars and we.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Just be guessing.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And I looking back, it's like, wonder how many things
were replaced that didn't need replace me because we really
didn't know what we're doing, but we enjoyed working on
the cars. That's what that reminded me of. And when
you have started the source and work backwards, just don't
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guess that's something in the middle of the line. I'll
replace that. Let's find out for sure. Kathy, welcome, Well,
thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Sure taking my call.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I have beautiful concrete floors in both my garage and
my house. The rough concrete was ground down and to
bring up the aggregate underneath, and then it was finished
with a very shiny surface. The people that did that
are no longer in business. Now. I've found that there
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are areas where the finish is scratched or dulled from
walking or in the garage when hot tires have come
onto the surface. It's kind of peeled up. I've tried
going to the paint store and getting a shiny concrete
paint to put over it to try to finish the
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scratches and not dull it. But whatever the surfaces, it
reacts with the finish that they put on it and
becomes very mat and very dull rather than shining. Do
you have any ideas what I can do?
Speaker 6 (08:01):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
The reason I don't is because I don't know what's
going over that surface, right, Like I don't know what's
on there now. You say there's a reaction to the
new stuff you're putting on, it's reacting with the old stuff,
and we don't know what that is. Yeah, So I
think without knowing that again, we'll be guessing right, and
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we'll end up buying a lot of ceilers and things
we don't need. What I would do is I would investigate.
I'm gonna say this and it's going to sound like
a lot of work, and it's not. But I would
grind I would grind that protective ceilingt off, that clear off.
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You can rent a it's like a floor buffer with
a diamond pad that you would just grind that surface
off and then you would be able to apply any
type of gloss. You could get a slip resistant gloss
seiler if that's important. You could get you a high
gloss to really bring it back up. But for me
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to recommend a sealer that won't react with what's on
the floor, I can't because I don't know what's on
the floor.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Well, yeah, I'm looking at badly six thousand feet of
having to grind down and then redo it and it'll
be me too.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well, you know, I'll say a thousand square feet. It'll
probably take you an hour. So well, okay, you know
it could still be done. But no matter what seiler
I recommend, or your neighbor recommends, or a store recommends,
the first thing it's gonna say is remove existing finish.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
I'm the grinders. Do they have ones that have vacuum
bags attatched?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
So oh yeah, yeah, what I would do? What I
would do?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
So you can start kind of formulating the job is.
I would go in and tell them the exact same story.
I have some high polished floors and there's a ceiler
on it. I don't know what it is, and I
want to reseal it. And I've tried to reseal it.
It's reacted with the existing seiler. So I think I
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need to remove that ceiling. And they're gonna say, yes,
you do, and then we can start looking at the
type of you know, grinders that are available for six
thousand square feet.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Okay, well, coll it very good.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Thank you much for the call. I appreciate it. Kathy,
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Speaker 1 (13:46):
Glenn welcome.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Yeah, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Very good. How can I help?
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Yeah, I was wondering I've been looking at some of
these advertisements for these UV lamps. Uh huh, they're supposed to.
They're supposed to help eliminate bacteria, mold, even supposed to
get rid of bed bugs and stuff. Have you had
any experience with that or do you know anything about
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any of that?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Well, I had a you know, I have had a
UV light installed in the duckwork.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
In my home.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It's probably been eight or ten years ago, and I
didn't really have a problem.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
This HVAC company.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Actually wanted me to test it for him, put it
in my home for free, And to be honest with you,
I didn't see a huge benefit for me to have that,
which begs me to ask you, why are you wanting
to put this in? And is there a problem with
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the duckwork? The smells people allergic to things, is there
molding the duckwork, or what's the purpose of putting it in?
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Well, my wife has several ellergies, she's very allergic to
she has asthma. And I know I know what you're
talking about. I saw an ad, you know, like ten
years ago where they like said it goes right to
the duck work. But these are like little lamps that
you can place around the house.
Speaker 9 (15:35):
Oh okay, and you you plug them in or turn
them on and say closed the door or turned on,
and you know, leave the house for a half hour
and come back.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
And you know, the ads all say that your air
smells fresher when you get home. And now they're advertising
to actually get rid of bed bugs and other insects
and stuff. So I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I'd hold my breath on the insect and get rid
of bed bugs and things like that. To be honest
with you, but let me ask you this. So when
people's and I'm not exactly familar with what lamp and
what brain you're talking about, but it sounds to me
what you've got is you've got a u V lamp
that produces some sort of like an ozone gas.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Yeah, you V light that actually it actually produces ozones.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Also, yes, yeah, yeah, So some people love that.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
My wife hates the smell of ozone, so so it
will produce a smell. Some people call it fresh air.
Other people say I hate to smell that. I don't
think really, you know, that's your long term answer. You
asked me in my opinion, So I'm going to give
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you my opinion. I think one of the things you
might take look at for people with asthma quite honestly,
is how clean is the duck work. I know this
is not what you were asking, but I've had a
lot of people ask me do I really need to
have my duckwork clean? Somebody in your house was suffering
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from allergies, and even my father fifteen years ago had
all kinds of allergies, and I said, well, dad, why
don't you have your duckwork clean? And that was a
huge help to them. So again we kind of get
back into the thing is allergens that are in the air.
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Let's eliminate the source. The source is probably from pollutid
air inside the house. The UV light's going to produce
an ozone gas which is going to override that. But
there's other things that I would look at and I'd
be cleaning the duckwork, have an allergen proof filters that
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can filter out smaller particles of getting, you know, into
the air and the home. There's even different products that
can be even sprayed in the home that would just
be not as permanent. I I think maybe this looks
like the pretty girl in a way, and you're gravitating
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to that, and it may work for you. I I
just have not had much much luck with ozone machines
or ozone lights. I don't mind them. I don't know
if they really did anything except create I smell that
I didn't mind, but my wife hated. I don't know
if that answers your question or not.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
All right, I know I do like furnace filters. I
always go with the higher quality and they've got the
static electricity and stuff right A. Don't know if that
seems to help or not.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah, well, I think you're going to come across the
same kind of thing I with your ozone light. I
think really trying to find out. We don't really know
if it's the air inside your house. The only way
we're going to know if it's the air inside your
house is having the air inside your house tested.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And I don't know how important that is.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Is there mold millde Is there anything that could be
causing the allergies? And the only thing I can come
to that would be big enough would be having duckwork
cleaned in the house.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I hope that helps.
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back at it we go thirty three minutes after the
top of the hour. I do want to revisit that
discussion because I feel like I didn't on the allergens.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
His wife have analergies. Do the UV.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Lamps work produces an ozone? People have strong opinions on ozone,
and I want to go over because I feel like
I didn't really answer his question. I think he wanted
to get those lamps and that's fine. His wife has asthma,
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and he's like, so, what do you know about him?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Do they work? Here?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Here's the here's the issue that I see. There's a
lot of things that can help. I don't want to
tell you go buy those UV lamps and your wife's
not gonna have asthma. There's a lot of things that
will help. We talk about the easy breathe where it
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pulls outdoor air in. It moves the polluted indoor air out,
reduces airborne particles eighty five percent. But will it help
his wife to a degree?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I know that probably will if we're actually removing that filters.
He said, I use the highest rated filters, not sure
if it does any good. Again, it's gonna help, but
I don't know if it's gonna do any good. I
mentioned the odor exit, the product called Mom's where it
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produces a gas and it eliminates the same thing, airborne particles.
You see the floaties in the air when the sun
shining through the windows. I don't know if it's gonna
take care of his wife's allergy issue. It's gonna help.
There's a lot of things that are gonna help, whether
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you know. So it really came down to me that
I've been preaching today. It seems like on several things,
you gotta go to the source. Same thing with the
Fellaws having trouble with the you know, well water, don't
concentrate on the pipes in your house. Go to the source.
Let's get the water tested. And so I mentioned the
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duck work in your home. If that duckwork hasn't been
cleaned for thirty years, I know there is I know
there is a lot of allergens in that duckwork, dust
and dart and debris, and probably an abundance of mold
and mildew.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Sports.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I know that's gonna be in there, so let's get
those cleaned first. Let's see where we're at. Probably your
filter is gonna help a little. Your eric's changing unit
is gonna help a little. It's gonna all these things
add up. But to put a couple of lamps in
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the house and think the problem is gonna go away,
I don't think that's reasonable, because we know all this
gunk is in the duckwork in the home, and if
she has an allergy issue, let's get that cleaned up first,
because it just may be a cycle of just blowing
that stuff around all the time. That's the going to
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the source, That's what I mean. I hope he caught
that in our conversation, But it does trouble me when
somebody thinks, you know, there's not Sometimes there's not a
quick answer, not an easy answer.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
All right, Greg, welcome, How are you doing, sir? Yes, sir, fine,
thank you?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
All right, I'll be quick so other callers can get
in a situation. A two story house turn into two
apartments and upstairs and downstairs, no issues with water, drainage
or anything. The upstairs apartment about a year ago, you
ever take might be a little more a little less,
but roughly a year ago, the bathroom water was just
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it was just not being used, So the water was
even turned off at the toilet. Well, is it such
that now I can just go back in turn that
water on at the toilet and start using it, or
do I need to do or check anything before I
start reusing that bathroom water and the water in the
kitchen and everything else has been working fine ever since. Yeah,
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there's no issue. It was just not being used.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Right right, No, you should be good. You should be good.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Is there a chance that maybe some hard water deposits
formed and it plugged that little three ace inch pipe
a little bit? Maybe, but I doubt it. I think
you'll be able to turn it on? And is there
water in the bowl and water in the tank currently?
Speaker 4 (27:25):
There was, but it's been so long since it was used,
it's all dried up.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Is there any sewer smell?
Speaker 4 (27:33):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Okay, so there's some water in there which is blocking
the sewer smell. So I turn it on. Yeah, I
think you'll be okay. Uh, you know, give it a try.
You shouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Surprised by anything.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
It should begin to fill the tank and you probably
you know, or fill the reservoir the tank, I guess,
and you know you're flushing that and putting up water
down into the bowl and it should you know, a
flush or two and water on, you should be good
to go.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
I don't need I add a shot of bleach or
anything to the water.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
The only thing that you might have problems since it's
all dried up is in evaporation has occurred. There may
be some calcium carbonate that gets into little holes underneath
the rim. And you know, if you it'll still fill up,
and it'll flush and it'll fill up, but maybe it
won't remove all the waste because there's a lot enough
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water going from the closet to the bowl because those
little ports are calcified.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Okay, but we won't not till we try.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
It, right, Okay, Well, hopefully I won't have you going
back next time.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
There you go, very good, Thank you much, all right,
and our phone numbers eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five Amy, welcome, Hi, thank you.
Speaker 10 (28:59):
I have got a question. I travel a lot, and
when I leave I always turn my hot water heater off.
I'm going fur or five weeks at a time, and
when I come home and turn it back on. The
water has a terrible sewer gas smell and it takes
a week or too far to go away. Is it okay?
(29:21):
I wouldn't there drink it? But is it? Is it
danger in that water?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Well, since you've turned it off, there's probably some bacteria
in it and that's what's causing the smell. What I
would do is most water heaters have a vacation setting
or just leave it on. It's you know, you can
shut the water off and just leave it on vacation setting.
That would be my advice. Are you getting the sewer
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guests smell from every hot water spiket?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Is that the deal?
Speaker 10 (29:55):
Yes? Actually is yes? Every hot water?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah, I think that's just the bacteria. I probably wouldn't
drink it, and I probably would just leave it on
the vacation mode and so it's gonna keep it keep
it hot, but it's not gonna be as hot, and
it's gonna recover real slow, so it's not costing you
a lot.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
But that's what I would do.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
That's why those vacation settings are there, so you can
leave it on and not have it cost you a
lot of money.
Speaker 10 (30:25):
But it's no danger in that water if you took
a bath in it, Well, if you took.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
A bath in it, I guess it'd be fine. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I don't know what's in the water, but it seems
to me if it was just sitting there not heated,
bacteria could grow in it, and I wouldn't take a chance.
At that point, I'd probably go ahead and sail.
Speaker 10 (30:46):
It's sewers.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
No, it's not sewer gas. It's probably some sort of
reaction with the anode rod which is causing a sulfuric
acid smell and the water just stinks and there's nothing
wrong with it. Or there's bacteria growing in the water
because it hasn't been heated and it's stagnant. So I
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don't know which one it is. But again we've passed
the other vacations. The next time you go and you're
gone for four or five weeks, just put it on
vacation mode and it should not have an odor to
it when you return.
Speaker 10 (31:26):
Okay, Well, you're a big camp and thank the Lord
bless you, and I'll advise you to keep us striking.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Very good. Thank you, Amy, appreciate the call. All right,
let's take a little break we'll come back and I
got some more tips on things around the home, and
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Speaker 1 (34:30):
And let's get back to the funds and Anna welcome.
Speaker 11 (34:34):
Hi, Gary, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
You're quite welcome.
Speaker 11 (34:37):
Hey, Hey, I was just wondering about two weeks ago,
I had a company come in and level the concrete,
my concrete in my driveway, and you know how they
put the little drill holes in, and I think they
shot foam underneath it, okay, And the two of the
concrete squares has a hairline crack, like you can see
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the drill a hole in the crack is just hairline
across the corner of two squares, and I was just
wondering if there's anything that I should do with that.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Hopefully did they patch the drill hole? I mean they
patch that with a concrete or something.
Speaker 11 (35:17):
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
And that's fine kind.
Speaker 11 (35:20):
Yeah, And it's just a hairline crack. You can see
the corner of the square of the driveway.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Okay, So could you get your could you take like
a pencil lead and put the pencil lead in there?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Is it that wide.
Speaker 11 (35:35):
Barely?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (35:37):
It's hairline.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (35:38):
Is it gonna you think it'll spread?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
And I don't know whether you know it wasn't there
before they drilled.
Speaker 11 (35:47):
It correct right, because you can see it goes straight
through where that concrete drilling part was.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
So I don't know. I don't know if it'll spread.
You know, concrete will spread that that's now weakest part
of the concrete when that hole was drilled. I mean
I would do the same thing you did. I mean,
the concrete leveling is a great process. I'd keep an
eye on that crack if it got to a point
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where let's do it this way. If it got to
a point where I could take a pencil and just
put the lead in, so maybe it's a sixteenth of
an inch wide, I would get a product called crack seal.
It's a cork jug. Unfortunately, it's as small as it
comes in and it's got a little spout at the
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top about as thick as a milkshake, and you just
put a little beat of that over the crack. It
weeps into the crack and it levels itself. So it's
you know, it's a liquid, it'll seek its own level.
But if it's real, if it's a hairline, I'd leave
it be until it got bigger. If it gets bigger,
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because once you put that on, are actually draw attention
because it's probably not going to perfectly match the concrete.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Number one, And to be honest.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
With you, it's you know, unless there's going to be
a lot of water introduced to underneath that sleigh of
a concrete, there's really nothing that's that's really bad about it.
So I'd let it be until it got large enough
to put a pencil let in it.
Speaker 11 (37:21):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
All right, Anna, all right, take care, thanks, all right,
let's go to Eileen.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Eileen, welcome, Thank you Gary.
Speaker 12 (37:31):
My husband and I were really close to purchasing a
cluster home. We went to see it again last night
with my son in law and it's a finished basement.
It's a walkout basement and we noticed huge black ants
coming in through the double doors that lead to the outside.
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My son in law is very talented in many areas,
and he started looking up into the ceiling and areas
that he could find, and he found ants there also.
And he's concerned because the gentleman that owned the home
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prior finished the basement himself and he was able to
find some block on the wall and he noticed that
the insulation is right up against the block wall, and
then he went ahead and put like a dry wall
or finishing wall on top of that. So we're very concerned,
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and I wanted your opinion whether that's something that we
should worry about. I mean, there were ants literally crawling
back under the floor, so we didn't see any the
first time we were there, and so what do you think.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
What's your well, I think the black ants, it's a
carpenter ant. They're they're huge compared to an ant. Black
ants live in uh dead wood, they're they're all all
pest ants included, are doing nothing more in life than
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searching for water and food. Okay, so you always find
them marching around. A carpenter ant. They're one of the
few ants that have multiple nurseries, so they a lot
of time you'll find them in a dead tree branch
that is wet, moist and rotting, and they can have
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satellite nurseries. So as they're they're looking for food and water,
but they can also reproduce and create another colony, and
they would be looking for a damp area, so I
would be making sure that we have no leaky foundation
or anything along those lines. Ants can be taken care of,
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you know, I mean, there's certainly ways to eliminate those ants.
You're probably going to have the home inspected if you
were to purchase.
Speaker 12 (40:16):
I was inspected. I'm sorry to interrupt, but it was
inspected because the home had a contract on it prior
to us looking at it, and the buyer bapped out,
but she won't tell us why, and we have not
seen that inspection report. So yeah, it's kind of a
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great The first thing.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
You want to do then, is they can you know,
the seller can have an inspection done for you, or
they can share that inspection report with you. Okay, you know,
if it's you know, I mean, I've had an invasion
of black carpenter ants probably twenty years ago in our
older home, and you know the problem was there was
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a their colony under the threshold of the front door.
You know, and it wasn't a big deal. Once I
figured out where they were, you know, I could eliminate
them real easy. And I not only eliminated them, I
eliminated the threshold. I mean, the whole thing was a
fifteen dollars deal. But you know that was me. So
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you know, you know, if there's other problems. My suspect
is there's probably not. But I don't know that. Somebody's
got to get in there and inspect what's going on
with the antser get a pest control company out there
to see if they can rid the ants. The way
ants colonies are taken care of is there are different
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types of food. Remember they're looking for water and food,
and there's food that are carbohydrates and foods that are proteins.
Depending on the temperatures, ants will want they change their diets.
So they have these these products where they take that
food back to the colony. Because everything revolves around the queen,
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you got to kill the queen and eventually you're eradicate
the ants. Now, whether they are taken to you to
another problem. I'm not worried about the ants. I'm worried
about is there another problem, And there may or may
not be right, right, they live in deadwood, that's moist,
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but they're always foraging for moisture and food.
Speaker 12 (42:34):
So okay, well, no one's living in the house and
they haven't lived in the house in six months, so yeah,
that's the only I mean, we were ready to write
a contract and everything, and then we brought the black ants.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
And always you can always write a contract and you know,
based on you know, a home inspection, you know, I mean,
nothing's final til that's done. That's why it was so
interesting during the housing you know, where there's a low
supply of housing, people are buying houses without doing home inspections. Wow,
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you know, because they want to get the deal right.
And you know that I want that house and somebody's
going to overbid me, and you know, I don't think
that's a good idea. I mean, I'd rather pay more
and have it inspected. You bet.
Speaker 12 (43:22):
That's totally what we believe too. All Right, Gary, I
so enjoy your show. You're so helpful. Thank you, John,
enjoy the rest of the day. Thank you prety much.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Appreciate it. All right.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
So, yeah, have inspected and find out those ants again
they may just be forging. Obviously, there's an ant problem.
We know that we don't know if there's a term
I problem. We don't know if they're forging and going
to an area of the home that is compromised, but
we're going to find out before we do the deal.
Danny boy, thank you very much. It was a great weekend.
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Speaker 6 (45:00):
The pacame
Well it's the weekend. Welcome aboard.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You're at home with Gary Salvin, and thanks for joining
me as we work together on getting some of those
projects done around the home. And happy to take your
call at eight hundred eight two three eight two five
five and jump on board. Happy to talk to you
about what you need to work on. All right, that
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being said, let's go to Robert. Robert welcome, Yes I
can hear me, Yes, sir, okay.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I got a question of my all my well water,
actually two questions. I got that hard water sediment on
the fixtures. Question is can that be filtered out? Next
problem of God is the nasty, nasty smell out of
all my cold water spickets mainly something to hob mainly
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cold like A yeah, well, I don't know do the
rotten smell? But I go to my barn which is
using the same well water, but now it has one
of those anti freeze spickets that the order is four
feet down before it comes up the pipe. No odor
in the barn at all. And my question is I
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think my pipes in my house must have bacterry in it.
It is it worth my while to try to rig
up some way to pump clorox or something to my
whole house and try to.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well, I think the first thing got to start. I mean,
how's the pipes? What kind of pipes you know?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
You mean they're all plastic pipes.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Now, yeah, I don't think that's your problem. I think
it's the water, the well itself. Has you asked first?
Is there a filter? Yeah, there is a filter. But
when was the last time you hit the water tested
to see what's going on?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Uh? Checked for whatever? Yeah, that was probably probably time
for that.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
But the but we had people come in twenty years ago,
fifteen years ago to sell me when it was expensive
water soft nerds, and I get tired of tote salt
up down the basement. They said it wouldn't use much salt.
Every two weeks I was toting salt down.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Well there's no way to filter out that that hard
water sediment.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying. You got to get
the well water tested. I mean, you got to find
out where you're at before you try to fix it.
You know, you got to find out how hard it is.
I'm sure everything you talk about is related to the
well water, from the smells to the hard water deposits
on the faucets, the whole works. I can't really explain,
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and I don't really know why you wouldn't be smelling
in the well or in the barn based on the
same you know, the same well and everything. Yeah, but
I would definitely one percent get that water tested. See
where you are on the hardness scale, where your pH
level is, you know, is it below seven, is it
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at seven? Is it over seven? Those all come into play,
And what's the taste like?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Is the taste.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Okay, yeah, my life won't drinking but it's not.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Okay, I've been. I've been.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I've been drinking it for twenty time years.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And gets somebody out there, you know, not to sell
you a water softener. That's not my intent. It may
not even be what you need. Sometimes just chlordinating the
well water and cleaning out that and maybe you need
a iron filter on the water coming into the house
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may alleviate some of that. But we can sit here
and spitball what you might need, but we can't tell
you what you need til you get the water tested
out of that well.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Okay, you know, it would be probably be a good
idea to draw water from the barn instead of drawing
it from that. Because of a pipe's got a lot
of bacteria in them, it's going to condaminate.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, I doubt if that pipe is plastic and it's
seven to ten years I don't think that it's the pipe.
If you told me it was galvanized pipe pipes.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
None of the pipes thirty years old.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Okay, all right, well again, start with the well. I
think you you're you're, you would be spinning your wheels
just guessing. Start with the well and let's see where
you're at.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Okay, it's probably probably a good idea.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I mean, you can have problems with wells without wells
city water, and you could have the pipes, the the
little pipes, the three ace copper line going from the
plastic house pipe into the faucet and have the the
gunk in the faucet not in the pipe at all,
you know, I mean, not in the plastic pipes.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
But the source.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Power every bathroom.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So it's not the hot water heater, because it'd be
the hot water and it'd probably be an anode rod
or a node rod. But I'm telling you, get get
a person out there to chlorinate that well and get
your water tested for minerals in there and go from there.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Well, and in winter time we don't notice it. Hot
summer it's worse.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Okay, that's where i'd started. All right, all right, you
bet you know.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I'm not gonna sit here and swear that I'm right,
but I'm gonna feel very strongly that's where it needs
to start and to just you know, that's it reminds
me of when we were. Now, I guess a lot
of people don't work on their cars, but back in
the day, you could work on all the cars and we.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Just be guessing.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And I looking back, it's like, wonder how many things
were replaced that didn't need replace me because we really
didn't know what we're doing, but we enjoyed working on
the cars. That's what that reminded me of. And when
you have started the source and work backwards, just don't
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guess that's something in the middle of the line. I'll
replace that. Let's find out for sure. Kathy, welcome, Well,
thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Sure taking my call.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I have beautiful concrete floors in both my garage and
my house. The rough concrete was ground down and to
bring up the aggregate underneath, and then it was finished
with a very shiny surface. The people that did that
are no longer in business. Now. I've found that there
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are areas where the finish is scratched or dulled from
walking or in the garage when hot tires have come
onto the surface. It's kind of peeled up. I've tried
going to the paint store and getting a shiny concrete
paint to put over it to try to finish the
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scratches and not dull it. But whatever the surfaces, it
reacts with the finish that they put on it and
becomes very mat and very dull rather than shining. Do
you have any ideas what I can do?
Speaker 6 (08:01):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
The reason I don't is because I don't know what's
going over that surface, right, Like I don't know what's
on there now. You say there's a reaction to the
new stuff you're putting on, it's reacting with the old stuff,
and we don't know what that is. Yeah, So I
think without knowing that again, we'll be guessing right, and
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we'll end up buying a lot of ceilers and things
we don't need. What I would do is I would investigate.
I'm gonna say this and it's going to sound like
a lot of work, and it's not. But I would
grind I would grind that protective ceilingt off, that clear off.
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You can rent a it's like a floor buffer with
a diamond pad that you would just grind that surface
off and then you would be able to apply any
type of gloss. You could get a slip resistant gloss
seiler if that's important. You could get you a high
gloss to really bring it back up. But for me
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to recommend a sealer that won't react with what's on
the floor, I can't because I don't know what's on
the floor.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Well, yeah, I'm looking at badly six thousand feet of
having to grind down and then redo it and it'll
be me too.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well, you know, I'll say a thousand square feet. It'll
probably take you an hour. So well, okay, you know
it could still be done. But no matter what seiler
I recommend, or your neighbor recommends, or a store recommends,
the first thing it's gonna say is remove existing finish.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
I'm the grinders. Do they have ones that have vacuum
bags attatched?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
So oh yeah, yeah, what I would do? What I
would do?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
So you can start kind of formulating the job is.
I would go in and tell them the exact same story.
I have some high polished floors and there's a ceiler
on it. I don't know what it is, and I
want to reseal it. And I've tried to reseal it.
It's reacted with the existing seiler. So I think I
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need to remove that ceiling. And they're gonna say, yes,
you do, and then we can start looking at the
type of you know, grinders that are available for six
thousand square feet.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Okay, well, coll it very good.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Thank you much for the call. I appreciate it. Kathy,
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We got a spot for you. It's eight hundred eight
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Thank you, thank you well.
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shall return and we have Glenn.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Glenn welcome.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Yeah, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Very good. How can I help?
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Yeah, I was wondering I've been looking at some of
these advertisements for these UV lamps. Uh huh, they're supposed to.
They're supposed to help eliminate bacteria, mold, even supposed to
get rid of bed bugs and stuff. Have you had
any experience with that or do you know anything about
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any of that?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Well, I had a you know, I have had a
UV light installed in the duckwork.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
In my home.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It's probably been eight or ten years ago, and I
didn't really have a problem.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
This HVAC company.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Actually wanted me to test it for him, put it
in my home for free, And to be honest with you,
I didn't see a huge benefit for me to have that,
which begs me to ask you, why are you wanting
to put this in? And is there a problem with
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the duckwork? The smells people allergic to things, is there
molding the duckwork, or what's the purpose of putting it in?
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Well, my wife has several ellergies, she's very allergic to
she has asthma. And I know I know what you're
talking about. I saw an ad, you know, like ten
years ago where they like said it goes right to
the duck work. But these are like little lamps that
you can place around the house.
Speaker 9 (15:35):
Oh okay, and you you plug them in or turn
them on and say closed the door or turned on,
and you know, leave the house for a half hour
and come back.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
And you know, the ads all say that your air
smells fresher when you get home. And now they're advertising
to actually get rid of bed bugs and other insects
and stuff. So I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I'd hold my breath on the insect and get rid
of bed bugs and things like that. To be honest
with you, but let me ask you this. So when
people's and I'm not exactly familar with what lamp and
what brain you're talking about, but it sounds to me
what you've got is you've got a u V lamp
that produces some sort of like an ozone gas.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Yeah, you V light that actually it actually produces ozones.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Also, yes, yeah, yeah, So some people love that.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
My wife hates the smell of ozone, so so it
will produce a smell. Some people call it fresh air.
Other people say I hate to smell that. I don't
think really, you know, that's your long term answer. You
asked me in my opinion, So I'm going to give
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you my opinion. I think one of the things you
might take look at for people with asthma quite honestly,
is how clean is the duck work. I know this
is not what you were asking, but I've had a
lot of people ask me do I really need to
have my duckwork clean? Somebody in your house was suffering
(17:17):
from allergies, and even my father fifteen years ago had
all kinds of allergies, and I said, well, dad, why
don't you have your duckwork clean? And that was a
huge help to them. So again we kind of get
back into the thing is allergens that are in the air.
(17:40):
Let's eliminate the source. The source is probably from pollutid
air inside the house. The UV light's going to produce
an ozone gas which is going to override that. But
there's other things that I would look at and I'd
be cleaning the duckwork, have an allergen proof filters that
(18:02):
can filter out smaller particles of getting, you know, into
the air and the home. There's even different products that
can be even sprayed in the home that would just
be not as permanent. I I think maybe this looks
like the pretty girl in a way, and you're gravitating
(18:25):
to that, and it may work for you. I I
just have not had much much luck with ozone machines
or ozone lights. I don't mind them. I don't know
if they really did anything except create I smell that
I didn't mind, but my wife hated. I don't know
if that answers your question or not.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
All right, I know I do like furnace filters. I
always go with the higher quality and they've got the
static electricity and stuff right A. Don't know if that
seems to help or not.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah, well, I think you're going to come across the
same kind of thing I with your ozone light. I
think really trying to find out. We don't really know
if it's the air inside your house. The only way
we're going to know if it's the air inside your
house is having the air inside your house tested.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And I don't know how important that is.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Is there mold millde Is there anything that could be
causing the allergies? And the only thing I can come
to that would be big enough would be having duckwork
cleaned in the house.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I hope that helps.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
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back at it we go thirty three minutes after the
top of the hour. I do want to revisit that
discussion because I feel like I didn't on the allergens.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
His wife have analergies. Do the UV.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Lamps work produces an ozone? People have strong opinions on ozone,
and I want to go over because I feel like
I didn't really answer his question. I think he wanted
to get those lamps and that's fine. His wife has asthma,
(23:01):
and he's like, so, what do you know about him?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Do they work? Here?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Here's the here's the issue that I see. There's a
lot of things that can help. I don't want to
tell you go buy those UV lamps and your wife's
not gonna have asthma. There's a lot of things that
will help. We talk about the easy breathe where it
(23:28):
pulls outdoor air in. It moves the polluted indoor air out,
reduces airborne particles eighty five percent. But will it help
his wife to a degree?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I know that probably will if we're actually removing that filters.
He said, I use the highest rated filters, not sure
if it does any good. Again, it's gonna help, but
I don't know if it's gonna do any good. I
mentioned the odor exit, the product called Mom's where it
(24:07):
produces a gas and it eliminates the same thing, airborne particles.
You see the floaties in the air when the sun
shining through the windows. I don't know if it's gonna
take care of his wife's allergy issue. It's gonna help.
There's a lot of things that are gonna help, whether
(24:29):
you know. So it really came down to me that
I've been preaching today. It seems like on several things,
you gotta go to the source. Same thing with the
Fellaws having trouble with the you know, well water, don't
concentrate on the pipes in your house. Go to the source.
Let's get the water tested. And so I mentioned the
(24:52):
duck work in your home. If that duckwork hasn't been
cleaned for thirty years, I know there is I know
there is a lot of allergens in that duckwork, dust
and dart and debris, and probably an abundance of mold
and mildew.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Sports.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I know that's gonna be in there, so let's get
those cleaned first. Let's see where we're at. Probably your
filter is gonna help a little. Your eric's changing unit
is gonna help a little. It's gonna all these things
add up. But to put a couple of lamps in
(25:34):
the house and think the problem is gonna go away,
I don't think that's reasonable, because we know all this
gunk is in the duckwork in the home, and if
she has an allergy issue, let's get that cleaned up first,
because it just may be a cycle of just blowing
that stuff around all the time. That's the going to
(25:55):
the source, That's what I mean. I hope he caught
that in our conversation, But it does trouble me when
somebody thinks, you know, there's not Sometimes there's not a
quick answer, not an easy answer.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
All right, Greg, welcome, How are you doing, sir? Yes, sir, fine,
thank you?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
All right, I'll be quick so other callers can get
in a situation. A two story house turn into two
apartments and upstairs and downstairs, no issues with water, drainage
or anything. The upstairs apartment about a year ago, you
ever take might be a little more a little less,
but roughly a year ago, the bathroom water was just
(26:41):
it was just not being used, So the water was
even turned off at the toilet. Well, is it such
that now I can just go back in turn that
water on at the toilet and start using it, or
do I need to do or check anything before I
start reusing that bathroom water and the water in the
kitchen and everything else has been working fine ever since. Yeah,
(27:03):
there's no issue. It was just not being used.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Right right, No, you should be good. You should be good.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Is there a chance that maybe some hard water deposits
formed and it plugged that little three ace inch pipe
a little bit? Maybe, but I doubt it. I think
you'll be able to turn it on? And is there
water in the bowl and water in the tank currently?
Speaker 4 (27:25):
There was, but it's been so long since it was used,
it's all dried up.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Is there any sewer smell?
Speaker 4 (27:33):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Okay, so there's some water in there which is blocking
the sewer smell. So I turn it on. Yeah, I
think you'll be okay. Uh, you know, give it a try.
You shouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Surprised by anything.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
It should begin to fill the tank and you probably
you know, or fill the reservoir the tank, I guess,
and you know you're flushing that and putting up water
down into the bowl and it should you know, a
flush or two and water on, you should be good
to go.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
I don't need I add a shot of bleach or
anything to the water.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
The only thing that you might have problems since it's
all dried up is in evaporation has occurred. There may
be some calcium carbonate that gets into little holes underneath
the rim. And you know, if you it'll still fill up,
and it'll flush and it'll fill up, but maybe it
won't remove all the waste because there's a lot enough
(28:32):
water going from the closet to the bowl because those
little ports are calcified.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Okay, but we won't not till we try.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
It, right, Okay, Well, hopefully I won't have you going
back next time.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
There you go, very good, Thank you much, all right,
and our phone numbers eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five Amy, welcome, Hi, thank you.
Speaker 10 (28:59):
I have got a question. I travel a lot, and
when I leave I always turn my hot water heater off.
I'm going fur or five weeks at a time, and
when I come home and turn it back on. The
water has a terrible sewer gas smell and it takes
a week or too far to go away. Is it okay?
(29:21):
I wouldn't there drink it? But is it? Is it
danger in that water?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Well, since you've turned it off, there's probably some bacteria
in it and that's what's causing the smell. What I
would do is most water heaters have a vacation setting
or just leave it on. It's you know, you can
shut the water off and just leave it on vacation setting.
That would be my advice. Are you getting the sewer
(29:49):
guests smell from every hot water spiket?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Is that the deal?
Speaker 10 (29:55):
Yes? Actually is yes? Every hot water?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah, I think that's just the bacteria. I probably wouldn't
drink it, and I probably would just leave it on
the vacation mode and so it's gonna keep it keep
it hot, but it's not gonna be as hot, and
it's gonna recover real slow, so it's not costing you
a lot.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
But that's what I would do.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
That's why those vacation settings are there, so you can
leave it on and not have it cost you a
lot of money.
Speaker 10 (30:25):
But it's no danger in that water if you took
a bath in it, Well, if you took.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
A bath in it, I guess it'd be fine. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I don't know what's in the water, but it seems
to me if it was just sitting there not heated,
bacteria could grow in it, and I wouldn't take a chance.
At that point, I'd probably go ahead and sail.
Speaker 10 (30:46):
It's sewers.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
No, it's not sewer gas. It's probably some sort of
reaction with the anode rod which is causing a sulfuric
acid smell and the water just stinks and there's nothing
wrong with it. Or there's bacteria growing in the water
because it hasn't been heated and it's stagnant. So I
(31:09):
don't know which one it is. But again we've passed
the other vacations. The next time you go and you're
gone for four or five weeks, just put it on
vacation mode and it should not have an odor to
it when you return.
Speaker 10 (31:26):
Okay, Well, you're a big camp and thank the Lord
bless you, and I'll advise you to keep us striking.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Very good. Thank you, Amy, appreciate the call. All right,
let's take a little break we'll come back and I
got some more tips on things around the home, and
if you'd like to join us, do so. You're at
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Speaker 1 (34:30):
And let's get back to the funds and Anna welcome.
Speaker 11 (34:34):
Hi, Gary, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
You're quite welcome.
Speaker 11 (34:37):
Hey, Hey, I was just wondering about two weeks ago,
I had a company come in and level the concrete,
my concrete in my driveway, and you know how they
put the little drill holes in, and I think they
shot foam underneath it, okay, And the two of the
concrete squares has a hairline crack, like you can see
(34:59):
the drill a hole in the crack is just hairline
across the corner of two squares, and I was just
wondering if there's anything that I should do with that.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Hopefully did they patch the drill hole? I mean they
patch that with a concrete or something.
Speaker 11 (35:17):
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
And that's fine kind.
Speaker 11 (35:20):
Yeah, And it's just a hairline crack. You can see
the corner of the square of the driveway.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Okay, So could you get your could you take like
a pencil lead and put the pencil lead in there?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Is it that wide.
Speaker 11 (35:35):
Barely?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (35:37):
It's hairline.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (35:38):
Is it gonna you think it'll spread?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
And I don't know whether you know it wasn't there
before they drilled.
Speaker 11 (35:47):
It correct right, because you can see it goes straight
through where that concrete drilling part was.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
So I don't know. I don't know if it'll spread.
You know, concrete will spread that that's now weakest part
of the concrete when that hole was drilled. I mean
I would do the same thing you did. I mean,
the concrete leveling is a great process. I'd keep an
eye on that crack if it got to a point
(36:14):
where let's do it this way. If it got to
a point where I could take a pencil and just
put the lead in, so maybe it's a sixteenth of
an inch wide, I would get a product called crack seal.
It's a cork jug. Unfortunately, it's as small as it
comes in and it's got a little spout at the
(36:34):
top about as thick as a milkshake, and you just
put a little beat of that over the crack. It
weeps into the crack and it levels itself. So it's
you know, it's a liquid, it'll seek its own level.
But if it's real, if it's a hairline, I'd leave
it be until it got bigger. If it gets bigger,
(36:57):
because once you put that on, are actually draw attention
because it's probably not going to perfectly match the concrete.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Number one, And to be honest.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
With you, it's you know, unless there's going to be
a lot of water introduced to underneath that sleigh of
a concrete, there's really nothing that's that's really bad about it.
So I'd let it be until it got large enough
to put a pencil let in it.
Speaker 11 (37:21):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
All right, Anna, all right, take care, thanks, all right,
let's go to Eileen.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Eileen, welcome, Thank you Gary.
Speaker 12 (37:31):
My husband and I were really close to purchasing a
cluster home. We went to see it again last night
with my son in law and it's a finished basement.
It's a walkout basement and we noticed huge black ants
coming in through the double doors that lead to the outside.
(37:56):
My son in law is very talented in many areas,
and he started looking up into the ceiling and areas
that he could find, and he found ants there also.
And he's concerned because the gentleman that owned the home
(38:16):
prior finished the basement himself and he was able to
find some block on the wall and he noticed that
the insulation is right up against the block wall, and
then he went ahead and put like a dry wall
or finishing wall on top of that. So we're very concerned,
(38:39):
and I wanted your opinion whether that's something that we
should worry about. I mean, there were ants literally crawling
back under the floor, so we didn't see any the
first time we were there, and so what do you think.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
What's your well, I think the black ants, it's a
carpenter ant. They're they're huge compared to an ant. Black
ants live in uh dead wood, they're they're all all
pest ants included, are doing nothing more in life than
(39:20):
searching for water and food. Okay, so you always find
them marching around. A carpenter ant. They're one of the
few ants that have multiple nurseries, so they a lot
of time you'll find them in a dead tree branch
that is wet, moist and rotting, and they can have
(39:44):
satellite nurseries. So as they're they're looking for food and water,
but they can also reproduce and create another colony, and
they would be looking for a damp area, so I
would be making sure that we have no leaky foundation
or anything along those lines. Ants can be taken care of,
(40:06):
you know, I mean, there's certainly ways to eliminate those ants.
You're probably going to have the home inspected if you
were to purchase.
Speaker 12 (40:16):
I was inspected. I'm sorry to interrupt, but it was
inspected because the home had a contract on it prior
to us looking at it, and the buyer bapped out,
but she won't tell us why, and we have not
seen that inspection report. So yeah, it's kind of a
(40:36):
great The first thing.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
You want to do then, is they can you know,
the seller can have an inspection done for you, or
they can share that inspection report with you. Okay, you know,
if it's you know, I mean, I've had an invasion
of black carpenter ants probably twenty years ago in our
older home, and you know the problem was there was
(40:57):
a their colony under the threshold of the front door.
You know, and it wasn't a big deal. Once I
figured out where they were, you know, I could eliminate
them real easy. And I not only eliminated them, I
eliminated the threshold. I mean, the whole thing was a
fifteen dollars deal. But you know that was me. So
(41:19):
you know, you know, if there's other problems. My suspect
is there's probably not. But I don't know that. Somebody's
got to get in there and inspect what's going on
with the antser get a pest control company out there
to see if they can rid the ants. The way
ants colonies are taken care of is there are different
(41:45):
types of food. Remember they're looking for water and food,
and there's food that are carbohydrates and foods that are proteins.
Depending on the temperatures, ants will want they change their diets.
So they have these these products where they take that
food back to the colony. Because everything revolves around the queen,
(42:09):
you got to kill the queen and eventually you're eradicate
the ants. Now, whether they are taken to you to
another problem. I'm not worried about the ants. I'm worried
about is there another problem, And there may or may
not be right, right, they live in deadwood, that's moist,
(42:29):
but they're always foraging for moisture and food.
Speaker 12 (42:34):
So okay, well, no one's living in the house and
they haven't lived in the house in six months, so yeah,
that's the only I mean, we were ready to write
a contract and everything, and then we brought the black ants.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
And always you can always write a contract and you know,
based on you know, a home inspection, you know, I mean,
nothing's final til that's done. That's why it was so
interesting during the housing you know, where there's a low
supply of housing, people are buying houses without doing home inspections. Wow,
(43:10):
you know, because they want to get the deal right.
And you know that I want that house and somebody's
going to overbid me, and you know, I don't think
that's a good idea. I mean, I'd rather pay more
and have it inspected. You bet.
Speaker 12 (43:22):
That's totally what we believe too. All Right, Gary, I
so enjoy your show. You're so helpful. Thank you, John,
enjoy the rest of the day. Thank you prety much.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Appreciate it. All right.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
So, yeah, have inspected and find out those ants again
they may just be forging. Obviously, there's an ant problem.
We know that we don't know if there's a term
I problem. We don't know if they're forging and going
to an area of the home that is compromised, but
we're going to find out before we do the deal.
Danny boy, thank you very much. It was a great weekend.
(43:56):
Remember each and every hour this weekend shows available b
podcast where you get your podcast or my blog at
Garysulivan online dot com. Good Lord Willing, Danny and I'll
both be back next weekend for more at Home with
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