August 2, 2025 • 45 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
All right, weekends upon us. Welcome. You're at home with
Garry Sullivan. Thanks for joining me talking a little home improvement.
And let me give you the phone number. It's eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five. Feel free
to join us. Ask you a question about what you're
working on. And uh, weather's broke. Well it's not broke,
it's actually perfect. The bad stuff broke. And we've got
(00:55):
a great, great weekend to get some things done on
the outside of the home, so I hope you are
able to partake. All right, that being said, let's get
back to the phone calls. Join us now, grab the line.
We've got a couple open for you. Bill, Welcome, Hey Gary.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I talked to you previously about getting a stain off
the driveway and you suggested using kitty litter, and then crudcutter,
and then the last resort was something that's available online,
but I can't remember the name of it.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
All right, It's called the website.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Is ACT Cleaners dot com. An ACT so it's Act
act Cleaners dot com.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And you want the ACT cleaner and it comes in
all different sizes and what it is for everybody's just
listening to me for the first time. It's a it's
a living microbe and it's powder and you sprinkle it
on and it eats oil and grease. And they used
(02:02):
they used it in the BP oil spill. They use
it in refineries and when it's finished heating the oil
or the grease, it just it goes away. There is
no scrubbing, there is no rinsing. Don't have to worry
about it getting into the watershed or anything like that.
Very safe product to use.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Does it take long to do it or is it
something has to wait like when you use.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, it's it's not immediate. It's I used it in
a garage floor five years ago. I'd say it took
about two to three days. On the label, it'll tell
you that it will eliminate the oil stain in it
from one to twelve days. I believe it was mine
(02:54):
was gone and forget but not quite yeah, not quite
as long. Yeah, but it literally eats the oil. It's
a fascinating product. Act cleaner, Yes, sir, okay, if I
have time for one more question, sure, I need to
replace some seals on the bottom of my front door,
(03:15):
which is metal and the door to the garage which
is metal because the house was built in two thousand
and eight and it's starting to droop where it's ripped away.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Do those seals you have to take the door off
to do it?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, there's all different kinds of seals too that some
you have to get right from the manufacturer. Some of
them slide into a little groove and they're like little
thin fins. Okay okay, and sometimes you can't find them.
Sometimes they're difficult to get out, and getting the exact
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size is a problem. I'm not saying it is, but
it can be. So another option, just so you know,
it really depends on how involved you want to get
into it and how decorative it has to be. There
are boots where you can literally slide ride over the
bottom of the door.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
That has those fins as part of the boot, so
you're putting a new bottom on it and you don't
really have to take the door off. You can just
slide this little u channel with the weather stripping down
at the bottom of it and then just run the
screws in to the door and that'll see on the weather.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Would you still have to take the door off to
do it?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Well, Like I mind, you wouldn't because it's on a
threshold and when I open the door, there's probably two
or three inches of space, maybe inch and a half
or two probably, and you slide it on. So I
think what I would do is really just take a
you know, even if you take your hand and see
what kind of shape those fins they're in, or see
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if you can tug them and get them out. And
then if you still want to do those fins, you know,
you can take the door off to get them off,
or you can go to the website. The plate of
the manufacturer of the door is usually on the hinge
side of the side of the door. There'll be a
plate that usually has the manufacturer of that door, and
(05:23):
go to their website and see if you okay, get
the individual fins all.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Right, if you have one second. I heard something interesting
about people ordering stuff online. One of the reasons it's
really taking off. People are tired or going when they
do go to the store to have to get an
attendant to unlock something like razorable aids and like that.
So people just order it online. They're not that's with
it anyone.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I'm sure that's another one of the reasons. In fact,
you know, the other reason is even finding an attendant
can certainly come into play. And I'm all about shopping online,
do a lot of it, I have to admit, all right,
you too, Yeah, yeah, even if I know, like it's
a project that I'm going to tackle in you know,
(06:10):
in a week next weekend or two weekends from now,
and I'll start doing, you know a little bit of
research on exactly what I want and you know, in
a lot of cases. Yeah, I think I'll do that
next Friday and I'll order and just save me a trip.
All right, let's go to Matt. Matt welcome. Hey, Yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Kerry, thanks thanks for taking my call. I I called
in I don't know about two three weeks ago about
my HVAC and centralizing my upstairs and downstairs in my
old farmhouse. And after my company put a thermostead and
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upstairs and added some gadgets or whatever in the ductwork stampers. Yeah,
it is working, amazing.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
I should have done it twenty years.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
It's phenomenal, isn't it. I had a company.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
That downstairs and upstairs.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, I had a company that did that work just
probably ten years ago, and it was just kind of
starting really and I went and visited them, went and
visited their manufacturing, kind of got the whole story on
zone heating and cooling and you know dampers that are
you know, wireless thermostats, the whole gizmo that you know
all about. And the president of that company said, you know,
(07:46):
I just can't believe it. We have zone heating in
our cars, but we don't have them in our house.
And there's a there's a variable from the first floor
to the upstairs bedroom in new construction which is six
to seven degrees difference, and it doesn't make sense. And
(08:06):
he's right, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Well, I can. I don't know what thermostat you you
would recommend. I've never heard you say anything. Is the
thermostat that I have, and it's right on my iPhone.
I can oh, yeah, whenever I want to. I can
adjust both upstairs and downstairs.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Whenever I want to.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah. Yeah. And I'll tell you those those cloud based
things that we're seeing more and more in smart homes,
whether it's the you know, the sump pump or the
irrigation system, or the zone heating and cooling, they're phenomenal.
I mean, you're you're the working components are all programmed,
(08:52):
but you can change those from your phone anywhere. I mean,
it's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yeah, I'm I'm so, and now it's it wasn't cheap,
but right it was.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It was worth every penny.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yep, I agree. And another thing, Matt, it doesn't take
much to please us anymore. We can get happy real easy.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I needed that lab. That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah, you're right, all right, buddy, Thanks much for the call.
Appreciate it. It doesn't take much. In a new putter,
a new hammer, the zone, heating and cooling, it doesn't
take much. All right. Our phone number as we talk
a little home improvement, it's eight hundred and eight two
three eight two five five and Tim, you'll be up first.
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is eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
spot open for you and let's go to Tim Tim Welcome,
Hi Gary, Hello.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Hey, I have a question about the vinyl coding or
panels that you can put on the outside of your foundation,
you know anything about?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
No, the vinyl ones, they do not. I I know
about the brick ones. There's brick ones. Now there's synthetic stone,
and then there's even a almost like a spray stucco
I've seen used, which is a poly based product. But
the vinyl ones I haven't seen, so I'm not familiar
with them. Have you done any reading on it? Is it?
(13:26):
Is it like a Is it like a vinyl sighting
that's kind of put together like a jigsaw puzzle? Per chance?
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Actually I saw them in a local hardware store, okay,
and one of the big one of the bigger stores,
and they're actually a regular vinyl panel that looked like brick,
or you can get them to look like okay, direct whatever.
And I have a part of my outside foundation there
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that I have to repay all the time, and I
just want to cover it.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm guessing, and I don't know. I
know what you're talking about now. And I've also seen
where they hang a little bit like a regular vinyl sighting,
the insulated vinyl sighting, I should say, so usually there
(14:23):
is like firring strips or a metal channel. I just
don't know. Which one it is. But you know, the
only thing to be a little concerned about, and you
can check it out, is its resistance to fading. That's
real important. That's one of the knocks I think on
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some darker color vinyls. Vinyl in the darker colors, and
maybe these panels too, they oxidize. You know how the
fellow was talking about the brown aluminum door that was
on aluminum, but it was brown vinyl. Sighting oxidizes also,
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so you definitely want to one.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
One house in town had the around the bottom of
the porch and around the bottom of the front. I
noticed that someone had put these panels on. They looked
really nice, uh huh, And they've been there last three
years or so.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Okay, okay, was it a darker color tim Yes, okay,
well that's good. You know, I don't know if there's
some other panels maybe that are inferior to that. That's
why I'm saying check it out. But you know, if
it's three years dark vinyl actually oxidizes in like six months. Yeah,
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so if it's looking good after three years, it's probably
gonna be looking good for a while.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
What's what's another alternative? I mean, painting that and over again.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Well there's a bunch. Yeah. So so there is a
there's actually several franchises that do it nationally where they
come in with a truck and it's a it's a
poly I would say, a polyurethane spray with a texture.
(16:24):
I mean they literally clean and use like a marity
acid on the concrete and then they'll spray this texture,
this polytexture product where it looks like stucco on the bottom.
So that's pretty attractive. It doesn't look uh, it doesn't
look cheap, you know, it looks like it's kind of
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part of the house. That's one option, and then the
other is a little bit more expensive, a little bit
more involved, and that's it's really synthetic stone and synthetic block.
So it's lightweight and it's it's hung on a channel,
clipped on a channel. Quite honestly, probably a little bit
more expensive than vinyl panels. I think Rosetta is one brand.
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It is very very real looking and so that's two options.
And then another option. You hear me talk about roller rock,
and I usually talk about it in terms of patio
floors or garage floors. They make one called roller Rock
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It's it's it's thick that it's a do it yourself
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a lot of options. And what I would do is
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I would read about those vinyl panels or even if
you knocked on door and say, hey, do you know
what brand that was? You know, and you know, get something,
you know, if you're satisfied with that, I'd pursue it.
I'm just kind of giving you a watch out a
little bit of it's vinyl. We want to make sure
it's like a pure vinyl and it's not gonna oxidize
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and fade.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
I kind of like the the idea of the codings better.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah. Okay, well I don't have a name on that.
But if you google, I don't have a name of
a franchise, I know there's multiple ones out there. I
would just google that and you know, coatings for foundations,
poly codings for foundations, uh, poly codings for Foundations service,
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you know something like that. You'll you'll get some names
on that. Check that out, check and check out that.
You know the vinyl things, and the rosetta is the
stone and the brick, and that's a little bit more involved.
And then the other one is die dai h coadings
not to do it yourself? Alright, all right, good luck,
take care, all right, I don't get your heartgoing. See
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he'll be excited too. It doesn't take much to make
us happy, all right. Hey, coming up, we're going to
talk about the healthier of your home. Keep making it tighter,
we keep trapping pollutants. Well. Erica Lacroix from Easybree's going
to be joining us and always interesting and a little
scary too, but we'll learn what's new in the world
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of a healthy, happy home. That's next.
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Speaker 1 (22:41):
Oh, it is that time of year. It started about
two weeks ago when you say, Danny start getting a
lot of calls about humidity, Yes, sir, and I've been
in the process of whinying for the last two to
three weeks about how hot human it is.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
I would say, whining, you complaining like a like complaining,
so you know, when it's hot and humid, and then
we start having problems with humidity inside our home, and
then that breeds other problems.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
And that also means I call Erica laqual from Easy
Breathe and say, hey, we got to talk about making
our home that healthy, happy, happy place again. And Erica,
welcome again that home with Gary Salvin. How you doing.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
I'm great, Gary, happy to be here, thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah. Man. We started getting humidity calls by the abundance
about two weeks ago, and well why not. I mean
all I was doing was raining in ninety degrees and
that's not good. So why don't just start let's talk
about humidity inside homes to start, Why does the air
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get so humid in our homes?
Speaker 9 (24:00):
Well, that's a great question. Obviously, part of what's going
on is it's relative what's happening outside, right, so during
during times like this, this really becomes the forefront. But
humidity is something that we're always battling within our structures.
Specifically when it comes to the foundation, a basement, a
crawl space, those tend to be the areas of biggest
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concern when it comes to humidity, not only because there's
a lack of airflow and they're very stagnant environments, but
there's actually a transmission from the soil. The moisture in
the soil absorbs into that relatively drier space. And I'm
talking about the vapor, that water, vapor, that humidity. We're
not talking about the liquid water that trickles across the floor,
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bubbles up through the cracks that is, that's the bulk water.
That's a different discussion. But that humidity is evident even
in dry basements that don't have or dry crawl space,
that have no water intrusion, they just have the liquid
water intrusion. Talking about that vapor. So, you know, there's
a law of thermodynamics and physics that says that wet
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moves to dry. Like when you put a paper towel
on a spill on the counter. You know, the spill
doesn't that the towel doesn't make the the towel doesn't
make the water dry. The water makes the towel wet. Right,
Wet moves to dry. So the air in this in
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the space is relatively drier compared to the moisture in
the soil, especially when it rains and we have higher
water tables, there's a higher concentration of that in the soil,
so we have more of that migration into that basement
or crawl space space. That's probably the biggest contributor to
high humidity.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, and there's a there's there's a ton of moisture
or vapor going through the walls in a basement or
crawl space, or through the floor or through the ground.
Do you got any idea how much water vapor? I mean,
(26:06):
if we condensed all that, would it be a five
gallon bucket of water.
Speaker 9 (26:12):
Actually, it can be anywhere between ten to fifteen gallons
a day really, So like think of that milk gallon, right,
ten to fifteen of those a day is being absorbed
in the form of water vapor into the average basement
or cross space. Yeah, that's a lot. No wonder, right,
no wonder.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
We'll get into what it makes the basement stink. But
it also makes our home kind of uncomfortable. Last week
I was preaching, you know, if you can get your
humidity under control, you can probably set your air conditioner
seventy six seventy eight if you run seventy percent, humidity
probably got set seventy two or seventy three.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
Right, Yes, that discussion is one we're having a lot
as well. That relationship between your air conditioner and the humidity.
It's you know, that's what you need to.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Do, you're right, Gary, Right, Well, I preach the humidity
levels inside your home thirty five percent in the winter
and maybe fifty five percent in the summer. That's where
you want to be. And homeowners could really help themselves
by getting a couple humidity guides, maybe one in the basement,
one on the first floor, because as the problem gets
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bad in the basement, that's where the water's going through
the walls, or the water vapors going through the walls,
But it marches all the way up to the different
levels of the house.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Sure does.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Yeah, you know there's that you know again another law
of physics, not to be too technical, but you know
that that heat rising, that stack effect where the heat
rises up through the home and it drags that humidity
right up with it. That's why when you open the
basement steps, you open the door of the basement, of
the latch of the cross space, you get hit right
away and that's because that air is being drawn up.
(28:00):
So you're right, you know, that increased humidity you can have,
you know, the discussion between what's going on upstairs and
how it relates to downstairs, and what's going on downstairs
and how it relates to upstairs. There's a whole story
there that you know, we educate folks to on the daily.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Right, Well, we talked about the smells. We've talked about
you know, just the uncomfortable costing us more money because
it's too humid. But high humidity, I gosh. I've had
friends that have had this problem, especially like if they
had a house in Florida and it's set, you know,
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just sad during the summertime, they weren't going down and
they didn't leave the air conditioner on low enough and
there was mold growing on the furniture. Does this happen
in our homes if we're living in.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
Them, It sure can, absolutely. You know, that humidity level
is key. Humidity above a certain point, and there some
discussion between like fifty five and sixty percent humidity is
what mold needs to thrive. So in order to keep
mold and mildews and odors and bacteria and funguts and
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pests and all those naziness. You know, if we keep
that humidity level low enough, those things won't thrive. They
don't have the conditions necessary to grow. So, you know,
I know it's a big problem. But if we can
just look at it from maybe like a thirty thousand
foot view and say, okay, we need to maintain healthy
humidity levels throughout our entire structure, that's the number one
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way you can prevent mold from happening in the first place.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Now, of course our air conditioners a big do you meidifier,
and then there's portable do you medifiers, And of course
our homes continue to get tight because I've been preaching
after seeing a couple of my electric bills this summer,
like holy cow, we got to do something. So we're
talking about more insulation, But then that drives up the
(30:04):
humidity levels, and that always brings me to your product.
We need we need to have some ventilation, and it
needs to be controlled. We can't open all the windows.
Speaker 9 (30:18):
Especially when it's been like this, right, It's so you're right, yeah,
so you don't want to open the windows when it's raining,
and you know, opening the windows has more of a
sucking you know component than it does blowing out right
open the windows and it draws the air in. So
we don't really get much ventilation just by opening windows
(30:39):
unless you've got specific cross breezes with you know, two
different windows directly across from each other. So you're right,
ventilation is a key component to an overall healthy home,
but specifically when it comes to you know, managing indoor pollutants,
which humidity is one of the ones the top of
mind right now.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Sure, sure, so you're exactly right, because again, your analogy
with moistures drawn to dry. So if you're sitting with
ninety three degrees outside in eighty five percent humidity and
you open the windows, guess what your humidity is inside
your home. So there's a little science involved here, folks.
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And Erica's been with Easybreed gosh, twenty years longer.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I lose track twenty two, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Twenty two. Well, so you've seen this whole industry grow
this controlled ventilation. You don't filter it, you control.
Speaker 9 (31:37):
The ventilation, correct, Yeah, there's no reason to spend the
extra money to filter or you know, do any sort
of modification to the molecular structure like condense it into
the liquid form like a standard to humidifier does. Easy
Breed we approach it by simple ventilation so it keeps
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operational costs very low. We're removing the air in its
whole state. So if it's humid, sticky damp air, we're
removing that sticky, damp, humid air to the outside, making
room for cleaner, dryer air to come down and replace it.
So it's more of an air exchange by using ventilation
at the very lowest level as the driving force behind
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that air exchange and pollutant removal.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Sure, so it's been replaced. Sure there's some outdoor air,
but it's a minimal amount. How many times does an
easy Breed change out the air in your home? I
mean a few times.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
A day absolutely.
Speaker 9 (32:36):
It usually depends on the size of the structure, but
anywhere between three to six times a day you'll have
complete air exchanges. You know, we don't move the air
faster than the HVAC system conditions it. We want to
be very clear about that. We don't tack the existing
you know, air handler. We don't want to do that.
We want the air handler to do its job, and
(32:56):
we just borrow enough of that air, bring it down,
so you place the bad, sticky, polluted air with a cleaner,
dryer air quality from the upper levels.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Correct, It makes so much sense. And we're we focused
just the last ten minutes on humidity. There's other pollutants
in our in our homes all the time. We use aerosols,
and we got furniture and carpeting, there's off gassing. There's
pollutants in our home anyway.
Speaker 9 (33:22):
Oh, absolutely, humidity. Like you said, humidity seems to be
top of mind right now, but overall, indoor air quality
gets significantly improved. Are testing over the last you know,
twenty plus years has shown a decrease in airborne pollutants,
which is basically everything that's floating in the air. Those
airborne pollutants get a reduction of about eighty five percent
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once we start ventilating the air because the air no
longer is stagnant. There's a very gentle breeze that allows
for that air exchange, so nothing has the ability to
concentrate and build up to unhealthy levels like humidity, danders,
out ergen bacterias, those types of things.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Well, you got about ten more myths for me. We
can take a break and come back and talk a
little bit more about the easy breath fair enough, let
me do that, and we'll continue our discussion with Erica.
From easy breathe and the moisture and the pollutants that
we trap in our homes. This is important stuff and
(34:26):
I for the last twenty some years, have watched this
industry become very very important, just as Erica has. And
I think people are catching on. But if you've been
on the fence about doing something about it by increasing
the ventilation, maybe today's the day. All right, we'll continue
with Erica. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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Breathe is with us when talking about how an easy
breed works and how to maintain healthy humidity levels. Again,
it expels the damp, polluted air, the toxic air from
the lowest level of your home wherever the problem is,
to the outside and replaces the bad air with cleaner air,
(37:47):
ventilates the home and again that air exchange you you know,
occurs you know, six, eight, ten times a day. And Erica,
you have a special going on right now. I want
to make sure we tell everybody about that. It's true.
The month of August. So if people been hearing us
talk about it over the years, the month of August
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is the time to take advantage of the special you're offering.
Speaker 9 (38:14):
Absolutely the big summer sale. It's two hundred and fifty
dollars off the Easy Breeds, whether it's for your basement,
your cross space, we have a garage system, and this
month we're giving away two free humidity monitors with every
Easy Brief purchase, along with a humidity guide for homeowners
to really help people understand the best way to manage
(38:38):
their home with regards to humidity and understanding the relationship
between outdoor and indoor and upstairs and downstairs and actually
give you ways to help monitor that. So, yeah, we're
very excited about that. We've been having this conversation with
homeowners for years now and thought this would be a
great way to help further the knowledge.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Sure, and one of the cool things is, you know
we can't pollutants. Sometimes we can't smell pollutants. It might
irritate our eyes or our throats or something. But with
the humidity monitors, you can see it. I know. Yet
the last weekend when somebody call it, they go, like,
my basement humidity seventy five percent, and I said, well,
(39:17):
what's upstairs? I don't know. I said, well move that
thing upstairs, because it could be seventy five percent upstairs,
and thank goodness, it was like fifty eight percent, so
it was still downstairs. But it's going to get upstairs.
So if you know that information, you can really, you know,
you can really help control it. Now the easy breathe,
(39:40):
is there any maintenance on this device?
Speaker 4 (39:44):
No?
Speaker 9 (39:44):
You know, the easy breed is is a ventilation system,
so drawing the air off the lowest level of the
floor of the basement or cross space, and it's evacuated
it to the outside through a six inch hole, very
similar to the dryer vent. You know, it's got a
vent with the flaps, so when the airstream is being exhausted,
it's open and if for any reason, the unit cycles
(40:06):
on and off because it is governed by a humid
as stat so if it reaches that desired level, little clothes,
and the only thing that we ask is maybe every
other month or every three months, you vacuum around the
base where the intake is because those larger particles are
sometimes the little tumble weeds of hair or hat hair,
tends to accumulate, right.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Right, right, what's the cost of the electricity on this?
I mean, I know de amidifiers are expensive to operate.
Where's the easy breath come in there?
Speaker 9 (40:42):
Yeah, that's a great question. We get that asked all
the time because folks are used to paying thirty, forty, fifty, sixty,
sometimes one hundred dollars a month depending on how many
do humidifiers are running the easy breath because it's so
simple and we're not spending a lot of energy to
modify the air, whether to filter it or condense it
or run it through you know UV zappers, we're simply
(41:04):
exhausting it. So the easy breath is very economical and
only two to four dollars a month, So it's the
cost of like a thirty watt light bulb. Yeah, we're very,
very energy efficient, so no concerns with regard to operation
costs at all.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Are there different sizes of an easy breath?
Speaker 9 (41:23):
Yes, we have various units systems for various applications. So
whether it's going into a basement or crawl space or garage,
you know, we've got various models that service the specific
needs of the context where it's being installed.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Okay, is there a warranty on the easy Breath?
Speaker 9 (41:41):
Yeah, so best in the business.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Gary.
Speaker 9 (41:43):
We have a ten year warranty, which you know, we've
had this now for over twenty years, and we still
find ourselves one of the best in the business. It's
very very rare to find a ten year warranty on
any sort of home. Apply we're going strong at ten years. Yeah,
and they live well beyond that, you know.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Just to let you know that mine's well over town.
We've had fifteen years.
Speaker 9 (42:05):
Sure, that's right.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Yeah, it's still going strong. Check it. I check it
every now and then. I always tell the story. One
day I can. You can barely hear it. By the way,
it's not loud, folks. You can put it right down
in the theater in the basement if you wanted to.
But I unplugged it one year. It's like, does this
thing really working or what? You know? It's been so
(42:27):
nice and I unplugged it. Within a day. You could
smell it. You could just smell a little bit of dampness.
You could smell it and plug it right back in
and and gone. So how about the installation If you're
pulling air out, that tells me we gotta we got
to go through the brick or the foundation or something.
Speaker 9 (42:48):
Yeah, oftentimes you know, the right above the rim joys
the still played area. That's generally we don't we don't
prefer going through brick, but certainly that is an area
if that's the only, you know, place we have to drill.
But yeah, it's a six inchroll just like your dryer vent,
creating that penetration to allow the airstream. So, you know,
we offer professional install Our DIY kit is very very popular.
(43:13):
Lots of DIY homeowners to have the ability to do this,
so we have a do it yourself installation kit that
we offer. But also you know that's not in the
cards for you. We do have a network of professional
installers throughout the country that can we can you know,
marry you with one of those and get this installed.
It only takes about an hour and a half to
two hours. It isn't you know, huge you know, time commitment.
(43:37):
So it's a it's a great little project and makes
a big, big improvement. You know, people ask this all
the time. Like you said, it's so hard to see this,
but you can feel it. And a great analogy is
when you're taking a shower and you don't turn on
your vent your bathroom fan right, figure out how humid
and sticky that gets. So that's what's happening in your
basement and left years and years of accumulation. No wonder
(43:59):
it gets much.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Might well take great take advantage of this sale again.
Call easy Breathe you give him a call on Monday
morning and it's eight six six eight two two seventy
three twenty eight. That's eight sixty six eight two two
seventy three twenty eight, and have a conversation with him.
If you've heard us talking about it in the past,
(44:22):
maybe it's time to do something again. That's two hundred
and fifty dollars off plus two free humidity monitors a
humidity guide for you, and that's sales during the month
of August, Erica. Thank you so much for joining us today.
Certainly appreciate your time.
Speaker 9 (44:39):
Thank you, Gary.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
All right, I have a going by bye. All right, Uh,
your call's next at eight hundred and eight two three
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able to partake. All right, that being said, let's get
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We've got a couple open for you. Bill, Welcome, Hey Gary.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I talked to you previously about getting a stain off
the driveway and you suggested using kitty litter, and then crudcutter,
and then the last resort was something that's available online,
but I can't remember the name of it.
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have time for one more question, sure, I need to
replace some seals on the bottom of my front door,
(03:15):
which is metal and the door to the garage which
is metal because the house was built in two thousand
and eight and it's starting to droop where it's ripped away.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Do those seals you have to take the door off
to do it?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, there's all different kinds of seals too that some
you have to get right from the manufacturer. Some of
them slide into a little groove and they're like little
thin fins. Okay okay, and sometimes you can't find them.
Sometimes they're difficult to get out, and getting the exact
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size is a problem. I'm not saying it is, but
it can be. So another option, just so you know,
it really depends on how involved you want to get
into it and how decorative it has to be. There
are boots where you can literally slide ride over the
bottom of the door.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
That has those fins as part of the boot, so
you're putting a new bottom on it and you don't
really have to take the door off. You can just
slide this little u channel with the weather stripping down
at the bottom of it and then just run the
screws in to the door and that'll see on the weather.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Would you still have to take the door off to
do it?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Well, Like I mind, you wouldn't because it's on a
threshold and when I open the door, there's probably two
or three inches of space, maybe inch and a half
or two probably, and you slide it on. So I
think what I would do is really just take a
you know, even if you take your hand and see
what kind of shape those fins they're in, or see
(05:00):
if you can tug them and get them out. And
then if you still want to do those fins, you know,
you can take the door off to get them off,
or you can go to the website. The plate of
the manufacturer of the door is usually on the hinge
side of the side of the door. There'll be a
plate that usually has the manufacturer of that door, and
(05:23):
go to their website and see if you okay, get
the individual fins all.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Right, if you have one second. I heard something interesting
about people ordering stuff online. One of the reasons it's
really taking off. People are tired or going when they
do go to the store to have to get an
attendant to unlock something like razorable aids and like that.
So people just order it online. They're not that's with
it anyone.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I'm sure that's another one of the reasons. In fact,
you know, the other reason is even finding an attendant
can certainly come into play. And I'm all about shopping online,
do a lot of it, I have to admit, all right,
you too, Yeah, yeah, even if I know, like it's
a project that I'm going to tackle in you know,
(06:10):
in a week next weekend or two weekends from now,
and I'll start doing, you know a little bit of
research on exactly what I want and you know, in
a lot of cases. Yeah, I think I'll do that
next Friday and I'll order and just save me a trip.
All right, let's go to Matt. Matt welcome. Hey, Yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Kerry, thanks thanks for taking my call. I I called
in I don't know about two three weeks ago about
my HVAC and centralizing my upstairs and downstairs in my
old farmhouse. And after my company put a thermostead and
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it is working, amazing.
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I should have done it twenty years.
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It's phenomenal, isn't it. I had a company.
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That downstairs and upstairs.
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Yeah, I had a company that did that work just
probably ten years ago, and it was just kind of
starting really and I went and visited them, went and
visited their manufacturing, kind of got the whole story on
zone heating and cooling and you know dampers that are
you know, wireless thermostats, the whole gizmo that you know
all about. And the president of that company said, you know,
(07:46):
I just can't believe it. We have zone heating in
our cars, but we don't have them in our house.
And there's a there's a variable from the first floor
to the upstairs bedroom in new construction which is six
to seven degrees difference, and it doesn't make sense. And
(08:06):
he's right, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Well, I can. I don't know what thermostat you you
would recommend. I've never heard you say anything. Is the
thermostat that I have, and it's right on my iPhone.
I can oh, yeah, whenever I want to. I can
adjust both upstairs and downstairs.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Whenever I want to.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah. Yeah. And I'll tell you those those cloud based
things that we're seeing more and more in smart homes,
whether it's the you know, the sump pump or the
irrigation system, or the zone heating and cooling, they're phenomenal.
I mean, you're you're the working components are all programmed,
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but you can change those from your phone anywhere. I mean,
it's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yeah, I'm I'm so, and now it's it wasn't cheap,
but right it was.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It was worth every penny.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I'm telling you right now.
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Yep, I agree. And another thing, Matt, it doesn't take
much to please us anymore. We can get happy real easy.
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I needed that lab. That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah, you're right, all right, buddy, Thanks much for the call.
Appreciate it. It doesn't take much. In a new putter,
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Hi Gary, Hello.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Hey, I have a question about the vinyl coding or
panels that you can put on the outside of your foundation,
you know anything about?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
No, the vinyl ones, they do not. I I know
about the brick ones. There's brick ones. Now there's synthetic stone,
and then there's even a almost like a spray stucco
I've seen used, which is a poly based product. But
the vinyl ones I haven't seen, so I'm not familiar
with them. Have you done any reading on it? Is it?
(13:26):
Is it like a Is it like a vinyl sighting
that's kind of put together like a jigsaw puzzle? Per chance?
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Actually I saw them in a local hardware store, okay,
and one of the big one of the bigger stores,
and they're actually a regular vinyl panel that looked like brick,
or you can get them to look like okay, direct whatever.
And I have a part of my outside foundation there
(13:57):
that I have to repay all the time, and I
just want to cover it.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm guessing, and I don't know. I
know what you're talking about now. And I've also seen
where they hang a little bit like a regular vinyl sighting,
the insulated vinyl sighting, I should say, so usually there
(14:23):
is like firring strips or a metal channel. I just
don't know. Which one it is. But you know, the
only thing to be a little concerned about, and you
can check it out, is its resistance to fading. That's
real important. That's one of the knocks I think on
(14:46):
some darker color vinyls. Vinyl in the darker colors, and
maybe these panels too, they oxidize. You know how the
fellow was talking about the brown aluminum door that was
on aluminum, but it was brown vinyl. Sighting oxidizes also,
(15:07):
so you definitely want to one.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
One house in town had the around the bottom of
the porch and around the bottom of the front. I
noticed that someone had put these panels on. They looked
really nice, uh huh, And they've been there last three
years or so.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Okay, okay, was it a darker color tim Yes, okay,
well that's good. You know, I don't know if there's
some other panels maybe that are inferior to that. That's
why I'm saying check it out. But you know, if
it's three years dark vinyl actually oxidizes in like six months. Yeah,
(15:49):
so if it's looking good after three years, it's probably
gonna be looking good for a while.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
What's what's another alternative? I mean, painting that and over again.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Well there's a bunch. Yeah. So so there is a
there's actually several franchises that do it nationally where they
come in with a truck and it's a it's a
poly I would say, a polyurethane spray with a texture.
(16:24):
I mean they literally clean and use like a marity
acid on the concrete and then they'll spray this texture,
this polytexture product where it looks like stucco on the bottom.
So that's pretty attractive. It doesn't look uh, it doesn't
look cheap, you know, it looks like it's kind of
(16:47):
part of the house. That's one option, and then the
other is a little bit more expensive, a little bit
more involved, and that's it's really synthetic stone and synthetic block.
So it's lightweight and it's it's hung on a channel,
clipped on a channel. Quite honestly, probably a little bit
more expensive than vinyl panels. I think Rosetta is one brand.
(17:13):
It is very very real looking and so that's two options.
And then another option. You hear me talk about roller rock,
and I usually talk about it in terms of patio
floors or garage floors. They make one called roller Rock
spreadstone in Terrezo and it's not a pain, it's a coating.
(17:34):
It's it's it's thick that it's a do it yourself
product with a lifespan of about fifteen years. And that's
it Dice Coatings, It's daich Cooatings dot Com. So there's
a lot of options. And what I would do is
(17:56):
I would read about those vinyl panels or even if
you knocked on door and say, hey, do you know
what brand that was? You know, and you know, get something,
you know, if you're satisfied with that, I'd pursue it.
I'm just kind of giving you a watch out a
little bit of it's vinyl. We want to make sure
it's like a pure vinyl and it's not gonna oxidize
(18:17):
and fade.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
I kind of like the the idea of the codings better.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah. Okay, well I don't have a name on that.
But if you google, I don't have a name of
a franchise, I know there's multiple ones out there. I
would just google that and you know, coatings for foundations,
poly codings for foundations, uh, poly codings for Foundations service,
(18:45):
you know something like that. You'll you'll get some names
on that. Check that out, check and check out that.
You know the vinyl things, and the rosetta is the
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Speaker 1 (22:41):
Oh, it is that time of year. It started about
two weeks ago when you say, Danny start getting a
lot of calls about humidity, Yes, sir, and I've been
in the process of whinying for the last two to
three weeks about how hot human it is.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
I would say, whining, you complaining like a like complaining,
so you know, when it's hot and humid, and then
we start having problems with humidity inside our home, and
then that breeds other problems.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
And that also means I call Erica laqual from Easy
Breathe and say, hey, we got to talk about making
our home that healthy, happy, happy place again. And Erica,
welcome again that home with Gary Salvin. How you doing.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
I'm great, Gary, happy to be here, thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah. Man. We started getting humidity calls by the abundance
about two weeks ago, and well why not. I mean
all I was doing was raining in ninety degrees and
that's not good. So why don't just start let's talk
about humidity inside homes to start, Why does the air
(23:56):
get so humid in our homes?
Speaker 9 (24:00):
Well, that's a great question. Obviously, part of what's going
on is it's relative what's happening outside, right, so during
during times like this, this really becomes the forefront. But
humidity is something that we're always battling within our structures.
Specifically when it comes to the foundation, a basement, a
crawl space, those tend to be the areas of biggest
(24:22):
concern when it comes to humidity, not only because there's
a lack of airflow and they're very stagnant environments, but
there's actually a transmission from the soil. The moisture in
the soil absorbs into that relatively drier space. And I'm
talking about the vapor, that water, vapor, that humidity. We're
not talking about the liquid water that trickles across the floor,
(24:44):
bubbles up through the cracks that is, that's the bulk water.
That's a different discussion. But that humidity is evident even
in dry basements that don't have or dry crawl space,
that have no water intrusion, they just have the liquid
water intrusion. Talking about that vapor. So, you know, there's
a law of thermodynamics and physics that says that wet
(25:06):
moves to dry. Like when you put a paper towel
on a spill on the counter. You know, the spill
doesn't that the towel doesn't make the the towel doesn't
make the water dry. The water makes the towel wet. Right,
Wet moves to dry. So the air in this in
(25:27):
the space is relatively drier compared to the moisture in
the soil, especially when it rains and we have higher
water tables, there's a higher concentration of that in the soil,
so we have more of that migration into that basement
or crawl space space. That's probably the biggest contributor to
high humidity.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, and there's a there's there's a ton of moisture
or vapor going through the walls in a basement or
crawl space, or through the floor or through the ground.
Do you got any idea how much water vapor? I mean,
(26:06):
if we condensed all that, would it be a five
gallon bucket of water.
Speaker 9 (26:12):
Actually, it can be anywhere between ten to fifteen gallons
a day really, So like think of that milk gallon, right,
ten to fifteen of those a day is being absorbed
in the form of water vapor into the average basement
or cross space. Yeah, that's a lot. No wonder, right,
no wonder.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
We'll get into what it makes the basement stink. But
it also makes our home kind of uncomfortable. Last week
I was preaching, you know, if you can get your
humidity under control, you can probably set your air conditioner
seventy six seventy eight if you run seventy percent, humidity
probably got set seventy two or seventy three.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
Right, Yes, that discussion is one we're having a lot
as well. That relationship between your air conditioner and the humidity.
It's you know, that's what you need to.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Do, you're right, Gary, Right, Well, I preach the humidity
levels inside your home thirty five percent in the winter
and maybe fifty five percent in the summer. That's where
you want to be. And homeowners could really help themselves
by getting a couple humidity guides, maybe one in the basement,
one on the first floor, because as the problem gets
(27:26):
bad in the basement, that's where the water's going through
the walls, or the water vapors going through the walls,
But it marches all the way up to the different
levels of the house.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Sure does.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Yeah, you know there's that you know again another law
of physics, not to be too technical, but you know
that that heat rising, that stack effect where the heat
rises up through the home and it drags that humidity
right up with it. That's why when you open the
basement steps, you open the door of the basement, of
the latch of the cross space, you get hit right
away and that's because that air is being drawn up.
(28:00):
So you're right, you know, that increased humidity you can have,
you know, the discussion between what's going on upstairs and
how it relates to downstairs, and what's going on downstairs
and how it relates to upstairs. There's a whole story
there that you know, we educate folks to on the daily.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Right, Well, we talked about the smells. We've talked about
you know, just the uncomfortable costing us more money because
it's too humid. But high humidity, I gosh. I've had
friends that have had this problem, especially like if they
had a house in Florida and it's set, you know,
(28:38):
just sad during the summertime, they weren't going down and
they didn't leave the air conditioner on low enough and
there was mold growing on the furniture. Does this happen
in our homes if we're living in.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
Them, It sure can, absolutely. You know, that humidity level
is key. Humidity above a certain point, and there some
discussion between like fifty five and sixty percent humidity is
what mold needs to thrive. So in order to keep
mold and mildews and odors and bacteria and funguts and
(29:13):
pests and all those naziness. You know, if we keep
that humidity level low enough, those things won't thrive. They
don't have the conditions necessary to grow. So, you know,
I know it's a big problem. But if we can
just look at it from maybe like a thirty thousand
foot view and say, okay, we need to maintain healthy
humidity levels throughout our entire structure, that's the number one
(29:35):
way you can prevent mold from happening in the first place.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Now, of course our air conditioners a big do you meidifier,
and then there's portable do you medifiers, And of course
our homes continue to get tight because I've been preaching
after seeing a couple of my electric bills this summer,
like holy cow, we got to do something. So we're
talking about more insulation, But then that drives up the
(30:04):
humidity levels, and that always brings me to your product.
We need we need to have some ventilation, and it
needs to be controlled. We can't open all the windows.
Speaker 9 (30:18):
Especially when it's been like this, right, It's so you're right, yeah,
so you don't want to open the windows when it's raining,
and you know, opening the windows has more of a
sucking you know component than it does blowing out right
open the windows and it draws the air in. So
we don't really get much ventilation just by opening windows
(30:39):
unless you've got specific cross breezes with you know, two
different windows directly across from each other. So you're right,
ventilation is a key component to an overall healthy home,
but specifically when it comes to you know, managing indoor pollutants,
which humidity is one of the ones the top of
mind right now.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Sure, sure, so you're exactly right, because again, your analogy
with moistures drawn to dry. So if you're sitting with
ninety three degrees outside in eighty five percent humidity and
you open the windows, guess what your humidity is inside
your home. So there's a little science involved here, folks.
(31:20):
And Erica's been with Easybreed gosh, twenty years longer.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I lose track twenty two, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Twenty two. Well, so you've seen this whole industry grow
this controlled ventilation. You don't filter it, you control.
Speaker 9 (31:37):
The ventilation, correct, Yeah, there's no reason to spend the
extra money to filter or you know, do any sort
of modification to the molecular structure like condense it into
the liquid form like a standard to humidifier does. Easy
Breed we approach it by simple ventilation so it keeps
(31:58):
operational costs very low. We're removing the air in its
whole state. So if it's humid, sticky damp air, we're
removing that sticky, damp, humid air to the outside, making
room for cleaner, dryer air to come down and replace it.
So it's more of an air exchange by using ventilation
at the very lowest level as the driving force behind
(32:21):
that air exchange and pollutant removal.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Sure, so it's been replaced. Sure there's some outdoor air,
but it's a minimal amount. How many times does an
easy Breed change out the air in your home? I
mean a few times.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
A day absolutely.
Speaker 9 (32:36):
It usually depends on the size of the structure, but
anywhere between three to six times a day you'll have
complete air exchanges. You know, we don't move the air
faster than the HVAC system conditions it. We want to
be very clear about that. We don't tack the existing
you know, air handler. We don't want to do that.
We want the air handler to do its job, and
(32:56):
we just borrow enough of that air, bring it down,
so you place the bad, sticky, polluted air with a cleaner,
dryer air quality from the upper levels.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Correct, It makes so much sense. And we're we focused
just the last ten minutes on humidity. There's other pollutants
in our in our homes all the time. We use aerosols,
and we got furniture and carpeting, there's off gassing. There's
pollutants in our home anyway.
Speaker 9 (33:22):
Oh, absolutely, humidity. Like you said, humidity seems to be
top of mind right now, but overall, indoor air quality
gets significantly improved. Are testing over the last you know,
twenty plus years has shown a decrease in airborne pollutants,
which is basically everything that's floating in the air. Those
airborne pollutants get a reduction of about eighty five percent
(33:45):
once we start ventilating the air because the air no
longer is stagnant. There's a very gentle breeze that allows
for that air exchange, so nothing has the ability to
concentrate and build up to unhealthy levels like humidity, danders,
out ergen bacterias, those types of things.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Well, you got about ten more myths for me. We
can take a break and come back and talk a
little bit more about the easy breath fair enough, let
me do that, and we'll continue our discussion with Erica.
From easy breathe and the moisture and the pollutants that
we trap in our homes. This is important stuff and
(34:26):
I for the last twenty some years, have watched this
industry become very very important, just as Erica has. And
I think people are catching on. But if you've been
on the fence about doing something about it by increasing
the ventilation, maybe today's the day. All right, we'll continue
with Erica. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
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Breathe is with us when talking about how an easy
breed works and how to maintain healthy humidity levels. Again,
it expels the damp, polluted air, the toxic air from
the lowest level of your home wherever the problem is,
to the outside and replaces the bad air with cleaner air,
(37:47):
ventilates the home and again that air exchange you you know,
occurs you know, six, eight, ten times a day. And Erica,
you have a special going on right now. I want
to make sure we tell everybody about that. It's true.
The month of August. So if people been hearing us
talk about it over the years, the month of August
(38:09):
is the time to take advantage of the special you're offering.
Speaker 9 (38:14):
Absolutely the big summer sale. It's two hundred and fifty
dollars off the Easy Breeds, whether it's for your basement,
your cross space, we have a garage system, and this
month we're giving away two free humidity monitors with every
Easy Brief purchase, along with a humidity guide for homeowners
to really help people understand the best way to manage
(38:38):
their home with regards to humidity and understanding the relationship
between outdoor and indoor and upstairs and downstairs and actually
give you ways to help monitor that. So, yeah, we're
very excited about that. We've been having this conversation with
homeowners for years now and thought this would be a
great way to help further the knowledge.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Sure, and one of the cool things is, you know
we can't pollutants. Sometimes we can't smell pollutants. It might
irritate our eyes or our throats or something. But with
the humidity monitors, you can see it. I know. Yet
the last weekend when somebody call it, they go, like,
my basement humidity seventy five percent, and I said, well,
(39:17):
what's upstairs? I don't know. I said, well move that
thing upstairs, because it could be seventy five percent upstairs,
and thank goodness, it was like fifty eight percent, so
it was still downstairs. But it's going to get upstairs.
So if you know that information, you can really, you know,
you can really help control it. Now the easy breathe,
(39:40):
is there any maintenance on this device?
Speaker 4 (39:44):
No?
Speaker 9 (39:44):
You know, the easy breed is is a ventilation system,
so drawing the air off the lowest level of the
floor of the basement or cross space, and it's evacuated
it to the outside through a six inch hole, very
similar to the dryer vent. You know, it's got a
vent with the flaps, so when the airstream is being exhausted,
it's open and if for any reason, the unit cycles
(40:06):
on and off because it is governed by a humid
as stat so if it reaches that desired level, little clothes,
and the only thing that we ask is maybe every
other month or every three months, you vacuum around the
base where the intake is because those larger particles are
sometimes the little tumble weeds of hair or hat hair,
tends to accumulate, right.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Right, right, what's the cost of the electricity on this?
I mean, I know de amidifiers are expensive to operate.
Where's the easy breath come in there?
Speaker 9 (40:42):
Yeah, that's a great question. We get that asked all
the time because folks are used to paying thirty, forty, fifty, sixty,
sometimes one hundred dollars a month depending on how many
do humidifiers are running the easy breath because it's so
simple and we're not spending a lot of energy to
modify the air, whether to filter it or condense it
or run it through you know UV zappers, we're simply
(41:04):
exhausting it. So the easy breath is very economical and
only two to four dollars a month, So it's the
cost of like a thirty watt light bulb. Yeah, we're very,
very energy efficient, so no concerns with regard to operation
costs at all.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Are there different sizes of an easy breath?
Speaker 9 (41:23):
Yes, we have various units systems for various applications. So
whether it's going into a basement or crawl space or garage,
you know, we've got various models that service the specific
needs of the context where it's being installed.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Okay, is there a warranty on the easy Breath?
Speaker 9 (41:41):
Yeah, so best in the business.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Gary.
Speaker 9 (41:43):
We have a ten year warranty, which you know, we've
had this now for over twenty years, and we still
find ourselves one of the best in the business. It's
very very rare to find a ten year warranty on
any sort of home. Apply we're going strong at ten years. Yeah,
and they live well beyond that, you know.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Just to let you know that mine's well over town.
We've had fifteen years.
Speaker 9 (42:05):
Sure, that's right.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Yeah, it's still going strong. Check it. I check it
every now and then. I always tell the story. One
day I can. You can barely hear it. By the way,
it's not loud, folks. You can put it right down
in the theater in the basement if you wanted to.
But I unplugged it one year. It's like, does this
thing really working or what? You know? It's been so
(42:27):
nice and I unplugged it. Within a day. You could
smell it. You could just smell a little bit of dampness.
You could smell it and plug it right back in
and and gone. So how about the installation If you're
pulling air out, that tells me we gotta we got
to go through the brick or the foundation or something.
Speaker 9 (42:48):
Yeah, oftentimes you know, the right above the rim joys
the still played area. That's generally we don't we don't
prefer going through brick, but certainly that is an area
if that's the only, you know, place we have to drill.
But yeah, it's a six inchroll just like your dryer vent,
creating that penetration to allow the airstream. So, you know,
we offer professional install Our DIY kit is very very popular.
(43:13):
Lots of DIY homeowners to have the ability to do this,
so we have a do it yourself installation kit that
we offer. But also you know that's not in the
cards for you. We do have a network of professional
installers throughout the country that can we can you know,
marry you with one of those and get this installed.
It only takes about an hour and a half to
two hours. It isn't you know, huge you know, time commitment.
(43:37):
So it's a it's a great little project and makes
a big, big improvement. You know, people ask this all
the time. Like you said, it's so hard to see this,
but you can feel it. And a great analogy is
when you're taking a shower and you don't turn on
your vent your bathroom fan right, figure out how humid
and sticky that gets. So that's what's happening in your
basement and left years and years of accumulation. No wonder
(43:59):
it gets much.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Might well take great take advantage of this sale again.
Call easy Breathe you give him a call on Monday
morning and it's eight six six eight two two seventy
three twenty eight. That's eight sixty six eight two two
seventy three twenty eight, and have a conversation with him.
If you've heard us talking about it in the past,
(44:22):
maybe it's time to do something again. That's two hundred
and fifty dollars off plus two free humidity monitors a
humidity guide for you, and that's sales during the month
of August, Erica. Thank you so much for joining us today.
Certainly appreciate your time.
Speaker 9 (44:39):
Thank you, Gary.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
All right, I have a going by bye. All right, Uh,
your call's next at eight hundred and eight two three
eight two five five year at home with Gary Sullivan.
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