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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well, it's the weekend. Welcome. You're at home with Gary Salvin.
Thanks for joining me another weekend getting a few things
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The weather's finally broke where I am at least for
a few days. So no excuse is not getting a
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few things done around the home. And I'm gonna give
you the phone number and you can grab a line
right away. They're wide open. It's eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. So looking forward to your
calls and just you and me up to about about
an hour and a half. Ron won't be with us today,
but I think we can. We can make it through
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the landscaping all by ourselves this weekend, and then we're
gonna talk a little humidity. We had that subject come
up a bunch over the last three weeks, and controlling
that and making your home healthy. You know, when you
have humidity and you have condensation, And apparently a lot
of people had that problem over the last two or
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three weeks, because we sure took a lot of phone
calls yesterday or last weekend about that. So we're going
to talk about keeping your home healthy because with condensation
and with mold spores and with organic materials in our house,
you got it, it can be. It can be an
unhealthy place, quite honestly. So we'll talk about controlling that
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humidity and taking some steps to have a healthy home.
In the meantime, though, it's your calls, and one of
the things I would like to say, the weather brook,
like I said in my Negla was my goodness, has
been glorious. It's been in the upper seventies. It's been wonderful, yeah,
compared to the like mid nineties. So I hope you
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got a chance to get out and just do what
I'm always talking about and that is to take that
walk around home. I did not. We had grandkids over
for about three days, so we didn't quite have the
time to do that. But I intend to do it
today and just make notes of well, what's changed and
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what needs your attention. And I got a whole list
of things that I'm going to check. I'll pass those along.
And of course if you have questions regarding maybe what
you found or something that's maybe been kicked, you know,
kick the can down the road for a while, don't
want to tagle that project, We'll be happy to take
that today too. So again our numbers eight hundred eight
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two three A two five five and Shelley's going to
start us off today.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Shelley, welcome, Hi Gary, thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
How nice is the weather?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Huh, yeah, gorgeous it is. I am calling because I
spend a lot of time having to cut weeds that
are my neighbor's weeds that are poking through the chain
link fence on both sides of me, and I don't
know if there's anything I can do. I really don't
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want to put up a wooden sense if I can
help it. Is there any kind of barrier or any
anything else you could suggest.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Well, you know, have you talked to your neighbors. Not really,
so one of the things you could do. I'm just
saying it would require a conversation and maybe they don't
care that the weeds are coming through. I mean, we
all have different different tolerance levels, right, But one of
the things, there are wheden grass killers out that can
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be sprayed, And to be real honest with you, you
could probably spray my I got different things around, like
a mailbox, post and different things I use it on
or around the utility things. And if I spray at
you know, mid spring, I usually don't have to spray
it again for the rest of the year till next
mid spring. Maybe I will do it in the fall.
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But really, if you had a wheden grass killer, and
you know, you said, I just want to do this fence,
you know line, you could you could spray that fence
line and probably get both sides real easy.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, I tell you a lot of what is coming
through is taller bushes and vines.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Mm hmm, well yeah, it would it would eliminate that. Also,
it would probably take more applications, but so you know
where I'm going with that. So that's option one. Let's
put that as option one. So when you're talking about
a fence that will keep things out, sure there's you know,
I mean not cheap, but there are certainly fences that
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you can put up, and I'm sure you've seen them
where they're like a cedar fence and at the top
maybe there's some lattice work or something along those lines.
You could certainly have something like that installed where it
would still be you know, it's not going to be underground.
It's going to be raised above the ground, so there's
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going to be a space at the bottom. So weed
could realistically still grow from that side and grow up
on either side. Outside of a complete barrier like a wall,
you know, the only thing other thing would be like
a you know, a concrete wall, not a concrete wall,
but a when am I thinking like a block wall,
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a stone wall, something along those lines.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Okay, And I mean I don't want to put up
a wooden fence, but would that do the trick if
I did?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Well, I don't think you're going to prevent any of this.
First of all, the wood fence is going to be
off the ground, say six inches, okay, So if it's
growing on the other side. Your question is could that
stuff grow underneath that fence? The answers yes, Okay. The
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best way is really just a control it and maybe
even killing off you know, whatever it is. I mean,
unless that's something they would want there, and then maybe
killing it off and putting in a weed fabric and
some like gravel that would eliminate it. That would probably
be the least expensive way to eliminate it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I like that idea.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Okay, So I think you just probably need to have
a conversation and see where they are on the thing.
And even if you ended up, you know, doing the work.
You know, again, it's going to take your conversations, Like
the weeds here on both sides of fence drive me nuts.
Just see where you go with it.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Okay, Okay, thank you so much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
All right, Shelly, thanks for the call, Take care, bye bye,
all right again. It's eight hundred eighty two three eight
two five five Pat, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Good morning, Gary morning. Need to come down to Delaware.
I've got a paint brush in my hand and I
think it will fit yours.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
You think I don't know? My hands are getting smaller.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Well, I'm left and right handed so it'll fit. But
who are you talking with Ron Wilson this morning about
his storm door not wanting to shut?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
It's got the hydraulic openings right, and I've got a
larson and mine will do that occasionally, and it's got
top bottom all fully stend him and lock him and
then give them a squirt, a little light squirt with
TV blasts or and then let them shut and open,
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open and shut a few times. And that's all the issue.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
So you're just lubricating the chef of that closer then.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Right, correct, it's not the closer that's bad. It just
needs a little but.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You know, and so also the screw at the end
of that. Is there a screw where you can make
an adjustment on that or not?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, but I can't figure those out, but I know.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
You got to.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You gotta do the TB blasts or first before you
start just in the screw.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Okay, all right, No, that's fair enough because you know,
especially if there's a screen door closers. You know, I said,
we had some grandkids over there and I had actually
used the screen doors, had left them in the open position.
And if you do that regularly, of course dust gets
on them and different things, and certainly do need cleaning
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and do need lubrication. So that's a great tip.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Okay, Well, come on down. I got plenty of beer
and paint.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Plenty of plenty of things on your to do list.
Huh yeah, Well I'll tell you what I'll do. Pat,
I'll think about it all right, man. Thanks, tank care
bye bye. All right, we're talking home improvement as we
do each and every weekend, and I welcome you in.
It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
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Grab a line and we'll take a break. We'll come back.
We got Elizabeth and Steve and you. You're at home
with Gary Sullivan.
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Time to get your hands dirty with Gary Sullivan. Get
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with Gary Sullivan taking your calls regarding your home projects.
A little maintenance, a little repair, and uh, let's get
back to the phone calls, and we have Elizabeth. Elizabeth welcome.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Hello.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Yes, okay, I said Liz, So I was wasn't sure
if this is another person?
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Oh so I know, wrote a book about Uh, the
grass is always greener over the septic take, but mine
never has been until this year. Now I am in
a little MicroPlace where we have not had raine since June.
So the rest of the yard is just brown. But
it's great and I've never had that.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
What what does this mean?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
So this is the grass and the soil that's around
the septic.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Tank over it, it's just a dicetle green square square yep.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And I'm gonna ask you a really stupid question. But
that's not the color of the lid too, is it?
Because a lot of septic tank lids are green.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
It's definitely way down the lid must be two or three.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, it's you know a lot of times if you're
if there's if there's green grass and the rest of
the grass around it is dry, it usually indicates a leak.
So if you're meaning the soil either on top of
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the lid or right around the septic tank, is you know,
you know, real green, That wastewater is actually fertilizing the ground. One. Well,
I'm afraid of number two. It's getting wet, it's getting moisture,
so it's going to grow faster, it's going to be greener.
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So you know, I would have expect I mean, I
can't tell you exactly.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Fifty eight years old. I never had this issue before.
The our county just required us to have all this
inspection we had to pay for and I was inspected
like with in two years and it was supposed to
be just perfect. I mean, I got the sptic.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Cake is another cake, and then there's like hundreds of
feet of bleach lines and we've never had a problem.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
And I'm afraid that's what it is. But I don't
even know what to do about it. Do I call
a septic person?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Sure, just like they susp they inspected it to make
sure it was in good working or it was a
couple of years ago. You know, a lot of things
happened in a couple Yeah. Well, and so I would
call them and, uh, let them just take a look
at the area, and I'm sure they'll be able to
diagnose it. Uh you know, I I don't think it's condensation.
(16:08):
I do think there's probably a little leak which can
be I'm I'm I'm I'm just assuming now I can't
see it. They're gonna inspect that, They're going to find
out the why, why is it leaking, and how to
repair it. They'll give you an estimate on what's going
to take. Sometimes those leaks aren't that difficult to repair.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Uh yeah, it's just weird to take. It would leak down,
not up.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Well, that's why I'm saying. You know, whether there's just
a crack in it, or it's a connection, you know,
where the leech field meets the tank, or whether it's
just compensation. I don't know. It's probably not condensation. There
probably is a little leak. Then you got the water,
and you got the the waste water, which is the nutrients.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
Right, little fertile Well, that's that's you know I bombacks.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, yeah, you know your.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Friend Irma, your neighbor Irma up there, Dayton, there you go.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So yeah, i'd give them a call, lem take a
look at I wouldn't let it go because all those things,
all those things that aren't right usually get worse over time.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Yeah right, Okay, Well I was hoping there was some
some weird explanation, but.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well maybe there is.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
The only one is that the one that I was
afraid of? So probably, so.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Okay, all right, take take a look at it. Thank you,
Bye bye all right the phone numbers eight hundred at
eight two three eight two five five talking a little
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that kind of falls in line exactly what I was
talking about. When the weather it was saying, when the
weather's really nice, the ability to get out and see
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what's going on around your house. And then they have
to just be the subjict tank for sure. But you'll
be surprised. Maybe you won't be you'll find I can
almost guarantee you if you take a saunter around the house,
you will find something that just doesn't look great, something
that is changed, something that needs to be inspected, or
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maybe you can figure out what the problem is and
get it fixed. I find something every time I do it,
I know I do. And a lot of times it's
just you know, a connection on a like a gutter
or a downspout, or a crack and foundation or missing mortar.
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There's always something Peeling. Pain is an indication that there's
a problem going on. And it's not just over the
paint failed. Today's paints are really good. There's something causing that.
There's something probably pushing that pain off, and you got
to find out the why. You got to dig down,
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find out what's causing this, and then go ahead and
tackle the repair. But don't let it go. I've used
the phrase many times that five dollars repair today will
become fifty dollars and will become five hundred dollars and
some even beyond that. So when you see something doesn't
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look right, find out why, and then make the repair.
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hope you're enjoying the day. You're at home with Gary
Salvan getting a few things done around the home. If
you'd like to join us, do so. We're talking about
your home projects and Joel welcome. Hey, Joel, don't think
Joel's there. Let's go to Jim. Jim welcome.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
I've heard on your show once before, and I remember
the name. I've got a handicap rank. Actually concrete goes
up to a double door, and there's one time there's
a little board there and it's rotted out, and I
know you had something you could put in there and
to fill that crack.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
It's about a half inch wide kind of what list
is the door?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Is it?
Speaker 8 (23:20):
Actually?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
So it's a half inch wide and it's on the door,
So it's vertical crack.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
You know, it's between the door and the.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Ramp, all between the door and the ramp.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Yeah, just a little crack right in front of the door.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Actually, Okay, so the crack is actually in the ramp then.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Uh yeah, it's it was Uh, I guess it's just
a spacer between the concrete ramp and the door and.
Speaker 10 (23:52):
It's rotted out.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
Uh some kind of a filler just to fill that end.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Uh yeah. I just want to make sure I'm getting
you the right thing. But there isn't a POxy wood
filler that I've talked about, you know many times. It's
called wood epos. Yeah. Now, depending on how rotted that
wood is, and I'm sure you can't really tell, but
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there's also it's companion product called liquid wood, And what
that does is you'll put that on first and it
hardens the dry rot, so it hardens the rotted wood,
and then you can come back with the woody pox,
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and then you've got a good stable base and you
can apply the wood a pox with a you know,
a putty knife something along those lines.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
Yeah, oh right, that sounds like that's sure because not
knowing what it's just.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
A fan crack.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
So okay, very good.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
I appreciate, thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I bet you bet take care. That's used a lot
in older homes, historic homes. It has one of the
only ones that I know where you can make a
patch on wood up to literally the size of a basketball.
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It was used a lot in historic homes. With a
big post and the wood down at the bottom of
the post. You could almost you know, remove some of
that and reshape it and you can stand it, drill it,
run a screw into it, painted good stuff, woody pos
It's made by a company called Abatron. All right, let's
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go to Steve. Steve, welcome, Hello, doing fine, sir, Thanks?
Speaker 11 (25:50):
All right, maybe seven years old. My wife and I
live in a ten year old home and we decided
to put new floor against three and we had to
take everything off of the floor and the store and
different areas so the workers could have room. Right, So
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I decided, like a dummy, I decided to put a
lot of stuff in my walk in shower with the
sliding doors.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Ok.
Speaker 11 (26:20):
And it's been there for three or four days, and
it's got a horrible odor coming through, and I'm afraid
it's some type of bacteria or mold and I'm going
to have to throw everything in the garbage that's in
that shower. But how do I take care of problem
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something like that?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Well? What kind of stuff? Can you tell? What is
it that smells? I mean, is it boxes, cardboard boxes?
Is it furniture? What's in there?
Speaker 11 (26:55):
Are you talking about the order odor?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Well? Yeah, the odor? Yeah? Where's that odor coming from?
Speaker 11 (27:02):
I wish I should have covered a drain in that shower,
and I think maybe the bacteria has affected and then
got into the cardboard boxes.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Okay, so there is cardboard boxes in there? Yeah, that
may be. I don't know if you need to throw
everything out, though, Steve, to be honest with you, I
think what I would do is the flooring finish now?
Speaker 11 (27:33):
No, okay, I'm still they're coming in one day.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Okay, So what kind of things are in the boxes?
Speaker 11 (27:43):
Oh? Various items. It would take too long for me
to tell you what?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
All? Right? Well is there any way to move them
to another location, like in a garage or something like that, or.
Speaker 11 (27:54):
No, that that would be transferring the fragrance, the horrible
fragrance from one place to another.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, but I'll give you a place to work. I mean,
you know, if you're asking, you know my opinion on it.
I think what I would do is get that stuff
out of the shower. A. It stinks. B you're going
to have workmen working in there. We got to move that.
We can worry about whether we save it or don't
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save it at a later time. Yes, you would be
transferring it. Cardboard is an organic material, even if there's
condensation or some moisture either up from the drain. Damp
cardboard stinks, and damp cardboard breeds mold. So if we
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can remove it from that environment, get it in an
area where we can dry it out. Mold goes dormant
when dry. So if we I'm just you know, spitballing here.
So is if we take a you know, several of
the boxes, put it in trash bags, don't leave it
in trash bags, carry it to the garage, spread it out,
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hang up a clothes line if it's closing and spread
it out, get some air in there, and put some water,
just water in that trap, in that drain. I really
think a lot of your smell will dissipate. You might
have to use some motor exit and spray that around.
But we got to get that cardboard out of there.
(29:30):
It's just gonna keep getting worse. To be honest with you,
I think you need to change that environment. And then
then let's worry about what needs to be thrown away
or what can be salvage. But let's get the working
area clean and fresh and get those winds out, windows open.
Speaker 11 (29:47):
Yeah, I was thinking about that. After I empty out
that all that stuff out of the shower, I was
gonna get a spray bottle full of hydrogen peroxide and
spray on the walls and all over inside that shower.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Mm hmmm mm hmmm. Yeah. I think I think you'll
probably have to do some cleaning even if you get
just a standard disinfectant and sprayed in there. And I
think that'd be real helpful too.
Speaker 11 (30:12):
Now where can I buy that order? X?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I'll tell you what you can do. Why don't we
do this? We could you could try the disinfectant and
wipe that down the order exit is usually bought at
ACE hardware stores or at a place uh or a website.
It's O d O r x I T dot com.
It's O d O r x I T dot com
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X the letter, Yes, sir, order x it.
Speaker 11 (30:47):
Dot com.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Okay, but yeah, start the process of getting that out
and and and and get those windows open. And quite honestly,
I think you'll it won't be as pungent as it
is now, would be my guest.
Speaker 11 (31:02):
All right, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
All Right, I have a goo and Steve, thank you.
All right, Uh, lines are open. It's eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five. I really I don't
really know what that odor is, you know, a dry trap,
but I don't know how long those boxes have been
in and shower hasn't been used. I doubt if it's
that really sounds like and I don't know if it's
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really the bacteria in a shower pipe. No, it seems
to me there's something in there that it was moisted,
that got the cardboard wed. It's kind of like cardboard. Uh,
maybe boxes that you head down in the basement and
there's a high humidity and they just start smelling. They
smell basement, Yu, and I think that's what's going on
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in this shower too. But yeah, you gotta remove it,
change that environment, and that maybe not when you're eighty
seven years old. That may not be too easy to do.
I get all that stuff out of there, though, and
get it into a dry garage and start drying it out.
Let's start there, all right, You got the phone number,
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grab a line. We got Todd and we'll take a break,
and then we'll have Joe and you if you'd like
to join us as we talk about your home. You're
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It is welcome aboard at Home with Gary Sullivan. As
we take your calls regarding home projects, feel free to
join us. We got open lines and let's go to
Todd Todd Welcome.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Hi, Gary. I talked to you last weekend. I had
a real high humidity in the lower level of the house,
like eighty one eighty four right, and you suggest that
I turned the fan off for the furnace right.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Put it on at a Mattica, Yes, and.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
It worked perfectly Thursday night. What turned it on? All
night at fifty one degrees. That's what it read. In
the morning, I emptied the tank and about nine o'clock
it was when I said, seventy four percent humidity, but
in ten minutes it was down to fifty seven. And
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that's been a repeat. This morning has said sixty four
degrees after I emptied it, and in ten minutes was
down to fifty four.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Wow, okay, we're on the right track. Yes, so we
keep lowering. It'll take a while to get all that
down too, because you know, any you know, cardboard would
drivewall that all absorbs some of that moisture. It'll take
some time. It'll take a week or so to get
all of it out of there. But you should start
enjoying a pretty good relative humidity of you know, fifty
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to fifty five years.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
The air conditioner also is is I have to It
used to be seventy three, seventy four right now it's
on seventy five because it's that moisture had to be
removed to get it better.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Right.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Also, one day I did, would't I ask you? The
humidifier keeps running even it used to shut off at
like fifty five, but now it keeps keeps running even
though it's down to fifty one.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
So one question there is there should be a humid
astat on that on that humidifier. I don't know why
it used to shut off and it wouldn't now, So
is there a setting for the humidity on the do
humidify that you have? In other words, you can set
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it at like forty eight percent or fifty five percent.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
I don't see anything on the top of the machine
that says that. I'll to get the directions out and take.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
All Yeah, yeah, check. There should be and maybe that
setting has changed. I don't know. I don't know. Mine's
got a regular humidity setting, which is a humid of
stat whord it dictates whether it needs to turn off
or on. My guess is that's what it is. Yeah,
well that's great news. That's great. Sure, Yeah, yeah, that's
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that's it's amazing to me. And it's also amazing that
nobody's talking about.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
That, I know ever doing thing to keep it running
all the time. But that's that's not the answer, you're yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
The answer, yeah, auto, it goes very good. Todd, thanks
for the follow up. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
My pleasure to Curry.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Thank you, Take care, bye bye. All right, there you go.
I'm another voto of confidence on that little tail. And again,
a lot of times your calls precipitate another solution, which
we're always more than willing to hear. And that particular call,
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if I looked at all the thirty nine years of
doing the show, that's probably one of the more significant
tips that I received. And quite honestly, when the tip
was given, I wasn't necessarily a believer. But I've had
more and more people as I've dispensed that knowledge call
back like Todd has with an affirmative yes, that works.
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And again let me repeat. If you're running high humidity
in your home and the air conditioner's going, and that
humidity seventy five percent, you know it's supposed to be
in a summer around fifty five percent, check the fan
on the central air. You have two choices on manual on,
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manual on or auto. In the summertime, you want it
on auto. It only turns the fan on when the
air conditioner's going. If you put it on on, it's
pulling the moisture out of the air. The coils are wet,
but the fan's still going, so it's blown. It right
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back up through the house, like I said, giving that
information out, and a lot of people have been kind
enough to call back with a report like Todd just did, saying, yeah,
start driving my humidity level down right now. Wintertime you
can turn it on on, you know, I don't care,
but not auto auto in the summertime. All right, let's
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go to Joe. Joe.
Speaker 10 (40:10):
Welcome, Thank you, Gary. How you doing today?
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Doing fine? Thanks good?
Speaker 10 (40:17):
Yeah, two questions about my front door. The storm door
is aluminum door. It's like a chocolate brown and it's
kind of oxidized. The brown has has faded, and I
was one of our general any products here to bring
that back.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Clean it up, make it on aluminum. Really, I mean
you can, you can kind of clean it up. I
would use something like triy sodium phosphate in water and
scrub it and you'll remove some oxidation. You could also,
I'm just warning you, you could also remove some of
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the pain, because that's what's going on now. Paint is oxidizing.
This is going to clean up the oxidation, but it
may clean up the paint too. The real way to
get rid of the problem is to do just what
I was saying. Using the tricenium phosphate, clean up the
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oxidation and then go ahead and paint it because the
paints that are you can buy will not oxidize like
that paint that's on there, and they're much more fade resistant,
and you could go that direction. So if it cleans
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it up, you're done and you're living. Right. If it
cleans it up and doesn't really it looks a little blotching.
You can see some of the aluminum. Well, you get
a bonus around, you get a painted.
Speaker 10 (41:52):
Yeah, okay, Well I was just hoping to sprace up
on there and take that off there.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
But you can try different things like simple green and
purple power. It may clean up some of that, but
the strongest stuff really is the Trey Soniam puss fate.
Speaker 10 (42:10):
Yeah, okay, I think I have some of that in
the gridge.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
So there you go.
Speaker 10 (42:16):
Two diet coached please. And my other question, if I'm sorry,
I'm a nine here at the at the Wendy's the
uh my other question. At the entry door. It's a
fiberglass door and many years ago my wife stained it.
Speaker 7 (42:32):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (42:32):
It's got like a wood fiber look to it, and
it's all faded too. Okay, And so I was thinking
about painting it, painting it or restaining. I'm kind of
leaning towards painting and matching the shutters.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Yeah, you can certainly paint that. And also you may
find out that you don't have to restain that you knew,
but you do have to re varnish or re your thane.
Here's a little test. Go home and take your hose
and just get that front door wet. And if it
looks like, wow, that looks really great, then what you
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can do is you can just put another coat or
two of a SPA euthane. Make sure it SPA yourthane
or marine yourthane, not polyrthane, and put a coat or
two over it. And and that's that's that's how you
could redo it. Now, if you want to paint it,
that's fine, And there's all kinds of things you can use.
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You can use the Sherman Williams uh Sherman Williams Emerald,
which is regular house paint. You can get a cord
of that. You can do it in flat, you can
do it in satin. You can do it in semi gloss,
or if you want it to look really like an
old fashioned oil base painted door. They make a trim
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a euthane trimm enamel, Emerald euthane trim enamel, so the
Euthane trimm enamo or the Emerald house pain, either one
of those will work their self priming. Just clean it,
scratch it up a little bit with about a six
hundred grit wet dry paper and have that. All right.
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Hope that helps you enjoy that windys. Well, all right,
we'll continue with your calls. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 5 (44:56):
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The weather's finally broke where I am at least for
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few things done around the home. And I'm gonna give
you the phone number and you can grab a line
right away. They're wide open. It's eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. So looking forward to your
calls and just you and me up to about about
an hour and a half. Ron won't be with us today,
but I think we can. We can make it through
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the landscaping all by ourselves this weekend, and then we're
gonna talk a little humidity. We had that subject come
up a bunch over the last three weeks, and controlling
that and making your home healthy. You know, when you
have humidity and you have condensation, And apparently a lot
of people had that problem over the last two or
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three weeks, because we sure took a lot of phone
calls yesterday or last weekend about that. So we're going
to talk about keeping your home healthy because with condensation
and with mold spores and with organic materials in our house,
you got it, it can be. It can be an
unhealthy place, quite honestly. So we'll talk about controlling that
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humidity and taking some steps to have a healthy home.
In the meantime, though, it's your calls, and one of
the things I would like to say, the weather brook,
like I said in my Negla was my goodness, has
been glorious. It's been in the upper seventies. It's been wonderful, yeah,
compared to the like mid nineties. So I hope you
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got a chance to get out and just do what
I'm always talking about and that is to take that
walk around home. I did not. We had grandkids over
for about three days, so we didn't quite have the
time to do that. But I intend to do it
today and just make notes of well, what's changed and
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what needs your attention. And I got a whole list
of things that I'm going to check. I'll pass those along.
And of course if you have questions regarding maybe what
you found or something that's maybe been kicked, you know,
kick the can down the road for a while, don't
want to tagle that project, We'll be happy to take
that today too. So again our numbers eight hundred eight
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two three A two five five and Shelley's going to
start us off today.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Shelley, welcome, Hi Gary, thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
How nice is the weather?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Huh, yeah, gorgeous it is. I am calling because I
spend a lot of time having to cut weeds that
are my neighbor's weeds that are poking through the chain
link fence on both sides of me, and I don't
know if there's anything I can do. I really don't
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want to put up a wooden sense if I can
help it. Is there any kind of barrier or any
anything else you could suggest.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Well, you know, have you talked to your neighbors. Not really,
so one of the things you could do. I'm just
saying it would require a conversation and maybe they don't
care that the weeds are coming through. I mean, we
all have different different tolerance levels, right, But one of
the things, there are wheden grass killers out that can
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be sprayed, And to be real honest with you, you
could probably spray my I got different things around, like
a mailbox, post and different things I use it on
or around the utility things. And if I spray at
you know, mid spring, I usually don't have to spray
it again for the rest of the year till next
mid spring. Maybe I will do it in the fall.
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But really, if you had a wheden grass killer, and
you know, you said, I just want to do this fence,
you know line, you could you could spray that fence
line and probably get both sides real easy.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, I tell you a lot of what is coming
through is taller bushes and vines.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Mm hmm, well yeah, it would it would eliminate that. Also,
it would probably take more applications, but so you know
where I'm going with that. So that's option one. Let's
put that as option one. So when you're talking about
a fence that will keep things out, sure there's you know,
I mean not cheap, but there are certainly fences that
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you can put up, and I'm sure you've seen them
where they're like a cedar fence and at the top
maybe there's some lattice work or something along those lines.
You could certainly have something like that installed where it
would still be you know, it's not going to be underground.
It's going to be raised above the ground, so there's
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going to be a space at the bottom. So weed
could realistically still grow from that side and grow up
on either side. Outside of a complete barrier like a wall,
you know, the only thing other thing would be like
a you know, a concrete wall, not a concrete wall,
but a when am I thinking like a block wall,
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a stone wall, something along those lines.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Okay, And I mean I don't want to put up
a wooden fence, but would that do the trick if
I did?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Well, I don't think you're going to prevent any of this.
First of all, the wood fence is going to be
off the ground, say six inches, okay, So if it's
growing on the other side. Your question is could that
stuff grow underneath that fence? The answers yes, Okay. The
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best way is really just a control it and maybe
even killing off you know, whatever it is. I mean,
unless that's something they would want there, and then maybe
killing it off and putting in a weed fabric and
some like gravel that would eliminate it. That would probably
be the least expensive way to eliminate it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I like that idea.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Okay, So I think you just probably need to have
a conversation and see where they are on the thing.
And even if you ended up, you know, doing the work.
You know, again, it's going to take your conversations, Like
the weeds here on both sides of fence drive me nuts.
Just see where you go with it.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Okay, Okay, thank you so much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
All right, Shelly, thanks for the call, Take care, bye bye,
all right again. It's eight hundred eighty two three eight
two five five Pat, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Good morning, Gary morning. Need to come down to Delaware.
I've got a paint brush in my hand and I
think it will fit yours.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
You think I don't know? My hands are getting smaller.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Well, I'm left and right handed so it'll fit. But
who are you talking with Ron Wilson this morning about
his storm door not wanting to shut?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
It's got the hydraulic openings right, and I've got a
larson and mine will do that occasionally, and it's got
top bottom all fully stend him and lock him and
then give them a squirt, a little light squirt with
TV blasts or and then let them shut and open,
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open and shut a few times. And that's all the issue.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
So you're just lubricating the chef of that closer then.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Right, correct, it's not the closer that's bad. It just
needs a little but.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You know, and so also the screw at the end
of that. Is there a screw where you can make
an adjustment on that or not?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, but I can't figure those out, but I know.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
You got to.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You gotta do the TB blasts or first before you
start just in the screw.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Okay, all right, No, that's fair enough because you know,
especially if there's a screen door closers. You know, I said,
we had some grandkids over there and I had actually
used the screen doors, had left them in the open position.
And if you do that regularly, of course dust gets
on them and different things, and certainly do need cleaning
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and do need lubrication. So that's a great tip.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Okay, Well, come on down. I got plenty of beer
and paint.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Plenty of plenty of things on your to do list.
Huh yeah, Well I'll tell you what I'll do. Pat,
I'll think about it all right, man. Thanks, tank care
bye bye. All right, we're talking home improvement as we
do each and every weekend, and I welcome you in.
It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
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Grab a line and we'll take a break. We'll come back.
We got Elizabeth and Steve and you. You're at home
with Gary Sullivan.
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All right, back at it would go. You're at home
with Gary Sullivan taking your calls regarding your home projects.
A little maintenance, a little repair, and uh, let's get
back to the phone calls, and we have Elizabeth. Elizabeth welcome.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Hello.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Yes, okay, I said Liz, So I was wasn't sure
if this is another person?
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Oh so I know, wrote a book about Uh, the
grass is always greener over the septic take, but mine
never has been until this year. Now I am in
a little MicroPlace where we have not had raine since June.
So the rest of the yard is just brown. But
it's great and I've never had that.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
What what does this mean?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
So this is the grass and the soil that's around
the septic.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Tank over it, it's just a dicetle green square square yep.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And I'm gonna ask you a really stupid question. But
that's not the color of the lid too, is it?
Because a lot of septic tank lids are green.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
It's definitely way down the lid must be two or three.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, it's you know a lot of times if you're
if there's if there's green grass and the rest of
the grass around it is dry, it usually indicates a leak.
So if you're meaning the soil either on top of
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the lid or right around the septic tank, is you know,
you know, real green, That wastewater is actually fertilizing the ground. One. Well,
I'm afraid of number two. It's getting wet, it's getting moisture,
so it's going to grow faster, it's going to be greener.
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So you know, I would have expect I mean, I
can't tell you exactly.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Fifty eight years old. I never had this issue before.
The our county just required us to have all this
inspection we had to pay for and I was inspected
like with in two years and it was supposed to
be just perfect. I mean, I got the sptic.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Cake is another cake, and then there's like hundreds of
feet of bleach lines and we've never had a problem.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
And I'm afraid that's what it is. But I don't
even know what to do about it. Do I call
a septic person?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Sure, just like they susp they inspected it to make
sure it was in good working or it was a
couple of years ago. You know, a lot of things
happened in a couple Yeah. Well, and so I would
call them and, uh, let them just take a look
at the area, and I'm sure they'll be able to
diagnose it. Uh you know, I I don't think it's condensation.
(16:08):
I do think there's probably a little leak which can
be I'm I'm I'm I'm just assuming now I can't
see it. They're gonna inspect that, They're going to find
out the why, why is it leaking, and how to
repair it. They'll give you an estimate on what's going
to take. Sometimes those leaks aren't that difficult to repair.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Uh yeah, it's just weird to take. It would leak down,
not up.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Well, that's why I'm saying. You know, whether there's just
a crack in it, or it's a connection, you know,
where the leech field meets the tank, or whether it's
just compensation. I don't know. It's probably not condensation. There
probably is a little leak. Then you got the water,
and you got the the waste water, which is the nutrients.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
Right, little fertile Well, that's that's you know I bombacks.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, yeah, you know your.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Friend Irma, your neighbor Irma up there, Dayton, there you go.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So yeah, i'd give them a call, lem take a
look at I wouldn't let it go because all those things,
all those things that aren't right usually get worse over time.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Yeah right, Okay, Well I was hoping there was some
some weird explanation, but.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well maybe there is.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
The only one is that the one that I was
afraid of? So probably, so.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Okay, all right, take take a look at it. Thank you,
Bye bye all right the phone numbers eight hundred at
eight two three eight two five five talking a little
home improvement as we uh, you know, whenever you see
that kind of falls in line exactly what I was
talking about. When the weather it was saying, when the
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hope you're enjoying the day. You're at home with Gary
Salvan getting a few things done around the home. If
you'd like to join us, do so. We're talking about
your home projects and Joel welcome. Hey, Joel, don't think
Joel's there. Let's go to Jim. Jim welcome.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
I've heard on your show once before, and I remember
the name. I've got a handicap rank. Actually concrete goes
up to a double door, and there's one time there's
a little board there and it's rotted out, and I
know you had something you could put in there and
to fill that crack.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
It's about a half inch wide kind of what list
is the door?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Is it?
Speaker 8 (23:20):
Actually?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
So it's a half inch wide and it's on the door,
So it's vertical crack.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
You know, it's between the door and the.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Ramp, all between the door and the ramp.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Yeah, just a little crack right in front of the door.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Actually, Okay, so the crack is actually in the ramp then.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Uh yeah, it's it was Uh, I guess it's just
a spacer between the concrete ramp and the door and.
Speaker 10 (23:52):
It's rotted out.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
Uh some kind of a filler just to fill that end.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Uh yeah. I just want to make sure I'm getting
you the right thing. But there isn't a POxy wood
filler that I've talked about, you know many times. It's
called wood epos. Yeah. Now, depending on how rotted that
wood is, and I'm sure you can't really tell, but
(24:19):
there's also it's companion product called liquid wood, And what
that does is you'll put that on first and it
hardens the dry rot, so it hardens the rotted wood,
and then you can come back with the woody pox,
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and then you've got a good stable base and you
can apply the wood a pox with a you know,
a putty knife something along those lines.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
Yeah, oh right, that sounds like that's sure because not
knowing what it's just.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
A fan crack.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
So okay, very good.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
I appreciate, thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I bet you bet take care. That's used a lot
in older homes, historic homes. It has one of the
only ones that I know where you can make a
patch on wood up to literally the size of a basketball.
(25:20):
It was used a lot in historic homes. With a
big post and the wood down at the bottom of
the post. You could almost you know, remove some of
that and reshape it and you can stand it, drill it,
run a screw into it, painted good stuff, woody pos
It's made by a company called Abatron. All right, let's
(25:43):
go to Steve. Steve, welcome, Hello, doing fine, sir, Thanks?
Speaker 11 (25:50):
All right, maybe seven years old. My wife and I
live in a ten year old home and we decided
to put new floor against three and we had to
take everything off of the floor and the store and
different areas so the workers could have room. Right, So
(26:12):
I decided, like a dummy, I decided to put a
lot of stuff in my walk in shower with the
sliding doors.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Ok.
Speaker 11 (26:20):
And it's been there for three or four days, and
it's got a horrible odor coming through, and I'm afraid
it's some type of bacteria or mold and I'm going
to have to throw everything in the garbage that's in
that shower. But how do I take care of problem
(26:41):
something like that?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Well? What kind of stuff? Can you tell? What is
it that smells? I mean, is it boxes, cardboard boxes?
Is it furniture? What's in there?
Speaker 11 (26:55):
Are you talking about the order odor?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Well? Yeah, the odor? Yeah? Where's that odor coming from?
Speaker 11 (27:02):
I wish I should have covered a drain in that shower,
and I think maybe the bacteria has affected and then
got into the cardboard boxes.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Okay, so there is cardboard boxes in there? Yeah, that
may be. I don't know if you need to throw
everything out, though, Steve, to be honest with you, I
think what I would do is the flooring finish now?
Speaker 11 (27:33):
No, okay, I'm still they're coming in one day.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Okay, So what kind of things are in the boxes?
Speaker 11 (27:43):
Oh? Various items. It would take too long for me
to tell you what?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
All? Right? Well is there any way to move them
to another location, like in a garage or something like that, or.
Speaker 11 (27:54):
No, that that would be transferring the fragrance, the horrible
fragrance from one place to another.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, but I'll give you a place to work. I mean,
you know, if you're asking, you know my opinion on it.
I think what I would do is get that stuff
out of the shower. A. It stinks. B you're going
to have workmen working in there. We got to move that.
We can worry about whether we save it or don't
(28:23):
save it at a later time. Yes, you would be
transferring it. Cardboard is an organic material, even if there's
condensation or some moisture either up from the drain. Damp
cardboard stinks, and damp cardboard breeds mold. So if we
(28:45):
can remove it from that environment, get it in an
area where we can dry it out. Mold goes dormant
when dry. So if we I'm just you know, spitballing here.
So is if we take a you know, several of
the boxes, put it in trash bags, don't leave it
in trash bags, carry it to the garage, spread it out,
(29:07):
hang up a clothes line if it's closing and spread
it out, get some air in there, and put some water,
just water in that trap, in that drain. I really
think a lot of your smell will dissipate. You might
have to use some motor exit and spray that around.
But we got to get that cardboard out of there.
(29:30):
It's just gonna keep getting worse. To be honest with you,
I think you need to change that environment. And then
then let's worry about what needs to be thrown away
or what can be salvage. But let's get the working
area clean and fresh and get those winds out, windows open.
Speaker 11 (29:47):
Yeah, I was thinking about that. After I empty out
that all that stuff out of the shower, I was
gonna get a spray bottle full of hydrogen peroxide and
spray on the walls and all over inside that shower.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Mm hmmm mm hmmm. Yeah. I think I think you'll
probably have to do some cleaning even if you get
just a standard disinfectant and sprayed in there. And I
think that'd be real helpful too.
Speaker 11 (30:12):
Now where can I buy that order? X?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I'll tell you what you can do. Why don't we
do this? We could you could try the disinfectant and
wipe that down the order exit is usually bought at
ACE hardware stores or at a place uh or a website.
It's O d O r x I T dot com.
It's O d O r x I T dot com
(30:41):
X the letter, Yes, sir, order x it.
Speaker 11 (30:47):
Dot com.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Okay, but yeah, start the process of getting that out
and and and and get those windows open. And quite honestly,
I think you'll it won't be as pungent as it
is now, would be my guest.
Speaker 11 (31:02):
All right, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
All Right, I have a goo and Steve, thank you.
All right, Uh, lines are open. It's eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five. I really I don't
really know what that odor is, you know, a dry trap,
but I don't know how long those boxes have been
in and shower hasn't been used. I doubt if it's
that really sounds like and I don't know if it's
(31:26):
really the bacteria in a shower pipe. No, it seems
to me there's something in there that it was moisted,
that got the cardboard wed. It's kind of like cardboard. Uh,
maybe boxes that you head down in the basement and
there's a high humidity and they just start smelling. They
smell basement, Yu, and I think that's what's going on
(31:49):
in this shower too. But yeah, you gotta remove it,
change that environment, and that maybe not when you're eighty
seven years old. That may not be too easy to do.
I get all that stuff out of there, though, and
get it into a dry garage and start drying it out.
Let's start there, all right, You got the phone number,
(32:12):
grab a line. We got Todd and we'll take a break,
and then we'll have Joe and you if you'd like
to join us as we talk about your home. You're
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It is welcome aboard at Home with Gary Sullivan. As
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join us. We got open lines and let's go to
Todd Todd Welcome.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Hi, Gary. I talked to you last weekend. I had
a real high humidity in the lower level of the house,
like eighty one eighty four right, and you suggest that
I turned the fan off for the furnace right.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Put it on at a Mattica, Yes, and.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
It worked perfectly Thursday night. What turned it on? All
night at fifty one degrees. That's what it read. In
the morning, I emptied the tank and about nine o'clock
it was when I said, seventy four percent humidity, but
in ten minutes it was down to fifty seven. And
(36:00):
that's been a repeat. This morning has said sixty four
degrees after I emptied it, and in ten minutes was
down to fifty four.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Wow, okay, we're on the right track. Yes, so we
keep lowering. It'll take a while to get all that
down too, because you know, any you know, cardboard would
drivewall that all absorbs some of that moisture. It'll take
some time. It'll take a week or so to get
all of it out of there. But you should start
enjoying a pretty good relative humidity of you know, fifty
(36:32):
to fifty five years.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
The air conditioner also is is I have to It
used to be seventy three, seventy four right now it's
on seventy five because it's that moisture had to be
removed to get it better.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Right.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Also, one day I did, would't I ask you? The
humidifier keeps running even it used to shut off at
like fifty five, but now it keeps keeps running even
though it's down to fifty one.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
So one question there is there should be a humid
astat on that on that humidifier. I don't know why
it used to shut off and it wouldn't now, So
is there a setting for the humidity on the do
humidify that you have? In other words, you can set
(37:19):
it at like forty eight percent or fifty five percent.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
I don't see anything on the top of the machine
that says that. I'll to get the directions out and take.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
All Yeah, yeah, check. There should be and maybe that
setting has changed. I don't know. I don't know. Mine's
got a regular humidity setting, which is a humid of
stat whord it dictates whether it needs to turn off
or on. My guess is that's what it is. Yeah,
well that's great news. That's great. Sure, Yeah, yeah, that's
(37:51):
that's it's amazing to me. And it's also amazing that
nobody's talking about.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
That, I know ever doing thing to keep it running
all the time. But that's that's not the answer, you're yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
The answer, yeah, auto, it goes very good. Todd, thanks
for the follow up. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
My pleasure to Curry.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Thank you, Take care, bye bye. All right, there you go.
I'm another voto of confidence on that little tail. And again,
a lot of times your calls precipitate another solution, which
we're always more than willing to hear. And that particular call,
(38:35):
if I looked at all the thirty nine years of
doing the show, that's probably one of the more significant
tips that I received. And quite honestly, when the tip
was given, I wasn't necessarily a believer. But I've had
more and more people as I've dispensed that knowledge call
back like Todd has with an affirmative yes, that works.
(39:01):
And again let me repeat. If you're running high humidity
in your home and the air conditioner's going, and that
humidity seventy five percent, you know it's supposed to be
in a summer around fifty five percent, check the fan
on the central air. You have two choices on manual on,
(39:26):
manual on or auto. In the summertime, you want it
on auto. It only turns the fan on when the
air conditioner's going. If you put it on on, it's
pulling the moisture out of the air. The coils are wet,
but the fan's still going, so it's blown. It right
(39:46):
back up through the house, like I said, giving that
information out, and a lot of people have been kind
enough to call back with a report like Todd just did, saying, yeah,
start driving my humidity level down right now. Wintertime you
can turn it on on, you know, I don't care,
but not auto auto in the summertime. All right, let's
(40:09):
go to Joe. Joe.
Speaker 10 (40:10):
Welcome, Thank you, Gary. How you doing today?
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Doing fine? Thanks good?
Speaker 10 (40:17):
Yeah, two questions about my front door. The storm door
is aluminum door. It's like a chocolate brown and it's
kind of oxidized. The brown has has faded, and I
was one of our general any products here to bring
that back.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Clean it up, make it on aluminum. Really, I mean
you can, you can kind of clean it up. I
would use something like triy sodium phosphate in water and
scrub it and you'll remove some oxidation. You could also,
I'm just warning you, you could also remove some of
(40:57):
the pain, because that's what's going on now. Paint is oxidizing.
This is going to clean up the oxidation, but it
may clean up the paint too. The real way to
get rid of the problem is to do just what
I was saying. Using the tricenium phosphate, clean up the
(41:17):
oxidation and then go ahead and paint it because the
paints that are you can buy will not oxidize like
that paint that's on there, and they're much more fade resistant,
and you could go that direction. So if it cleans
(41:37):
it up, you're done and you're living. Right. If it
cleans it up and doesn't really it looks a little blotching.
You can see some of the aluminum. Well, you get
a bonus around, you get a painted.
Speaker 10 (41:52):
Yeah, okay, Well I was just hoping to sprace up
on there and take that off there.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
But you can try different things like simple green and
purple power. It may clean up some of that, but
the strongest stuff really is the Trey Soniam puss fate.
Speaker 10 (42:10):
Yeah, okay, I think I have some of that in
the gridge.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
So there you go.
Speaker 10 (42:16):
Two diet coached please. And my other question, if I'm sorry,
I'm a nine here at the at the Wendy's the
uh my other question. At the entry door. It's a
fiberglass door and many years ago my wife stained it.
Speaker 7 (42:32):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (42:32):
It's got like a wood fiber look to it, and
it's all faded too. Okay, And so I was thinking
about painting it, painting it or restaining. I'm kind of
leaning towards painting and matching the shutters.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Yeah, you can certainly paint that. And also you may
find out that you don't have to restain that you knew,
but you do have to re varnish or re your thane.
Here's a little test. Go home and take your hose
and just get that front door wet. And if it
looks like, wow, that looks really great, then what you
(43:07):
can do is you can just put another coat or
two of a SPA euthane. Make sure it SPA yourthane
or marine yourthane, not polyrthane, and put a coat or
two over it. And and that's that's that's how you
could redo it. Now, if you want to paint it,
that's fine, And there's all kinds of things you can use.
(43:29):
You can use the Sherman Williams uh Sherman Williams Emerald,
which is regular house paint. You can get a cord
of that. You can do it in flat, you can
do it in satin. You can do it in semi gloss,
or if you want it to look really like an
old fashioned oil base painted door. They make a trim
(43:52):
a euthane trimm enamel, Emerald euthane trim enamel, so the
Euthane trimm enamo or the Emerald house pain, either one
of those will work their self priming. Just clean it,
scratch it up a little bit with about a six
hundred grit wet dry paper and have that. All right.
(44:13):
Hope that helps you enjoy that windys. Well, all right,
we'll continue with your calls. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 5 (44:56):
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