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Speaker 1 (00:25):
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Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, hello there, how are you doing fine?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Oh great? I only I don't want to keep you
on too long. But we have a blackstone grill and
it's really rusted. How do you Is there anything you
can take that rust off or do you have to
you know, take a take something and just stand it off?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, yes, probably I would say that now, a blackstone grill,
I think I don't have one. They're all the rage
now is that the one with the flat cooking surface?
It's kind of like a yes, okay, I was going
to say, reminded me of a big electric skillet or something,
but yeah, okay, So where's it rusted? Is it rusted
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on this side the support of the girl or is
it the actual griddle area the whole thing?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
You know?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
So I don't know if I mean it was covered,
but I don't know if it's just the weather in
the winter.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, I don't know really what caused us.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So let me just kind of add something to that.
When you have a cover in winter and it goes
down and it probably comes pretty close to the patio
or the deck or whatever, sometimes damnness does get in
and it can't escape, So there's moisture condensation in there
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and it could cause rust, especially on like the side
tables or the hood or the frame. But I just
the one I'm concerned about is the cooking surface itself.
Isn't there like a teflon or whatever, you know, non
stick stuff?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I well, I think we can't use it.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Let's put it that way.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You know, you can't. I wouldn't even consider it. So
it's kind of all over enough to be able to
not want to.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Okay, so you're telling me it is on the cooking
service also, Yeah, so if we use something mechanically to
remove that rust on the cooking surface, it'll remove that
surface also though, won't it. Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I I didn't think about that, you know, So I
guess I just figured maybe there was something on the
market you could just put on there and just maybe
try to rub it off with your hand instead of
using a grinder.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Well yeah, yeah, Well there's there's a product called iron out, uh.
And it's a it's a liquid or it's a crystal
that you mix with hot water. Yeah, and you brush
it on and it dissolves rust. Now okay, and you're
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certainly going to have to remove any residue it's a
cooking surface. And but that particular product dissolves rust or
it creates a chemical reaction where it removes iron oxide.
That that I would assume, And I don't really know,
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I be honest with you, I think I would call
blackstone too, I you know, I think I don't think
there's any magic cure. I'll tell you that the iron
out might be, but it seems to me for it
to rust that much on a on the griddle surface,
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there's there's something going on there. It's either rusting because
it was covered and the condensation got up there and
rusting through the metal. I don't really know, but if
you're going to use the iron out, i'd really read
the directions really well to make sure that it's safe
to cook them. Okay it is. It's a very mild guess,
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but I think, you know, maybe neutralizing it afterwards is
going to be key. I don't think I would use
like a three odd steel or anything like that. It
would remove the rust, but I think it's also going
to remove that finish. Those girls aren't cheap, you know,
so that.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Would be I've heard of this before from other people
were having the same problems. Ye yeah, And I did
hear someone that did say they used to you know,
they they standed it off, you know, with a standard,
And I'm thinking, oh, I don't know, but you know,
I thought, well, okay, you know what good idea. I
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will call a blackstone and I will ask them how
to get it off. And also, can I ask you
one more question. Sure, we put in a new dock
at our cottage and it's all new woods. So what
would we cover that with so that it seals the wood?
They said you have to wait a year.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
So it's been a year, so okay.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So it depends. Sure, you would use a deck sealer.
It's really what you would use. Now. There's different types
of deck sealers. There's semi transparent where you stain it
like a redwood or a brown or a gray and
you can see the wood grain through it. Or there's
solid color stain, which looks like it's painted. So you
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can go either or on that. It really depends on
the look. The solid color stain comes in more colors.
It is designed to last a little longer because there's
more pigments in there, okay, which protects it from the sun,
and a dock has a lot of sun that's hitting it. Uh.
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Some people wanted to net look natural woods, so they
use the you know, redwood or cedar canyon brown.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well, if you put that on though, after say a
couple of years, would that happen to start the sun
make it like brittle where it's almost you know, how
it starts cracking off? Would that happen or what's cracking
off paint?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Yeah, the paint would that?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, So the sun is gonna be your biggest challenge.
The semi transparent. It goes into the wood and becomes
part of the wood and you can see the wood grain.
And all you would have to do to restain that is,
you know, to clean it and restain it. And it's
not going to appeal because it's part of the wood.
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The solid color stain. It's gonna last not two years,
could last four or five years. But when it fails,
it's a possibility that it will peel and then you
would have to strip that off. No thanks, So it
lasts longer, but the work is greater too much. Yeah,
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it's greater when it's done. So yeah, when you call Blackstone,
if you get their answer, please call Spack.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Oh I will and I you know, I thank you,
listen to you every saturday. You are great. Well, thank
you too many things that are so interesting and helpful
lot of people, and I know you're well appreciated.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Anyway, thank you and they have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You do the same. Take care all right, we'll take
a little break and if you'd like to join us,
it's eight hundred and eighty two three eight two five
to five at home with Gary Sullivan.
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Thanks, thank you.
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All right, Beck, here we go at home with Garriy Salvin.
Thank you for a caller who called and said, hey,
you know how to get rusted off of a Blackstone girl. No,
I don't. Again, especially on the cooking service I surface.
My recommendation was to call Blackstone. Heuse, cut up some potatoes,
rub them on the rust, cook the potatoes with some
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onions in a remove the rust. I don't know. I
don't have a Blackstone grill.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
But it sounds he sounded very knowledgeable.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, well that's awesome. Yeah, and you know, if you
want to give that a try, certainly do. If you
want to call Blackstone, certainly do.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
But I did know I wasn't going to recommend steel
wool over that surface because removing that probably wouldn't be
a really good idea. So thank you for that call.
I appreciate it. All right, let's go to Matt.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Matt, welcome, Hey, Gary, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
So I've got a grudge floor with some decent kitting,
and I was looking to use the nice Codings product
called die Hard. Okay, my question, My question is do
I need to use their rock patch product?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yes? Yeah, because you're not going to have enough mill
on that die Hard. The rock patch is so easy
to use, Matt, definitely give it a try. You will
be addicted to it. It is a non cementatious product too,
which is really good because cements and concretes they don't
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like to stick to each other. This is a poly
product and you'll just be filling the divots in. You'll
be making it, you know, very nice, very smooth. And
that Diehard epoxy is that the one you're using. It's
the industrial epoxy is a very very good, solid product.
You so much better than pretty much anything else I've
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ever seen out there in terms of a POxy.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Okay, great, And should I put the rock patch pretty
much kind of floating out the entire floor or it's
just targeted for really Yeah, you can do it either way.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
It is designed to do every way. Either way. You
can either trial the whole surface or you can fill
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bad it is, how much you want to use. But
you know, if you just got some spawling in certain areas,
I'd just smooth out those areas and be done with it.
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All right, You're quite welcome, give us a full report
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and stuff like that. There's so many options the same
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All right, let's go to Gwen.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Gwen, welcome, Oh, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I enjoy your program.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I'm a single person, so every bit of information you
have I could use. My question is this. I have
a brick a small brick ranch house, and I recently,
about a month ago, I had a roof installed, which
they did a good job and everything, but they put
a fan in there. Now I don't remember if I
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had a fan there before, and if I did, I
certainly didn't hear it from one of my kitchen. Every
time I stand there, I could hear the thing humming,
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like later on in night. And I know that the
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outdoor temperature has been very hot and humid, though I
would expect the fan beyond. But the past couple of days,
I really we've had cool weather and the darn thing
still goes on, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, Well, those attic fans, you know, it's a question
really to find out who put that in and what
the settings are. Sometimes a fan in hot, humid weather
can run all the time because there's a thermostat and
there is a humid astat. So if there's a lot
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it's also pulling the heat out. Now, you know, you
want to keep your attic, you know, ideally, you know,
when it's really really hot out is you know, one
hundred degrees inside, and so you know, during this kind
of weather, between the humidity and the heat, it may
be running all the time.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Because my elect Bill, his skyride, you know, has gone
a lot and I noticed that used a lot more kilowatts.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You know, well you gotta have applis running.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
You know, right exactly, And we've had an exceptional uh
hot weather. My son did go up there shortly after
that because it was still going and so he did
just set uh the humidity to be a hire so
that it doesn't you know, supposedly doesn't kick in as fast,
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but it uh we had a couple of days of
cool weather and it still was running, you know, and
I just wondered, if there's something wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
With the fan, And well, the only way you're going
to know that, Gwen, is if you get a a
U MIDI stat up there and you can get it
where you know, it's got the screen downstairs, and you
got a sensor upstairs, and it'll tell you what the
humidity is in your attic and what the temperatures in
the attic, and you ask your son what he set
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it at in the winter. In the summertime, I would
set that humidity level at about fifty five, maybe even
sixty percent in that attic, and I'd probably set the
temperature at maybe one hundred and five and the winter
that'll be adjusted. So you want to know if it's
functioning properly, you know, you set those parameters and then
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you get you know, the sensor up there, which will
give you the readout to see if it's doing the job.
Or note, and maybe call the people that installed it
too for a readjustment. If that's necessary, We'll continue with
your calls. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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All right, back at it we go thirty three minutes
after the top of the hour. Getting a few things
done around the home this weekend, and if you'd like
to chat about your projects, certainly love to have you
step in, whether it's painting a little hunker your pairs,
sprucing up the garage. It's on my list. In the meantime,
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let's go to Brian. Brian, Welcome, hey y'all. How you
doing fine? Thank you, hey man.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
I'm just calling in reference to the lady that called
earlier about the blackstone grill. Yes, sir, it doesn't have
a coating on it.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Oh okay, it comes.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
It comes from the factory with a coating, but it's
nothing more than like a like an oil coating, okay speak.
It's basically an old fashioned black arm pot okay, for
lack of a better term.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah, yeah, well they rusted all the time. You're right.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
The way you care for it, it is quite simple.
You use it. There's two ways you can keep it
shiny clean, right, you heat it up, you dry it off,
and and you spray oil on it before you put
the cover to it. Or or you can cook seasoning,
you know, season the pot. You can seize in the
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blackstone grill the same way.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Ah, okay, all right, yeah, I wasn't. I was scared
to say it. All right, So, so how would you
get you know, I was a little confused whether it
was the cooking surface. She wasn't really saying that. I
kept asking and asking, So how would you how do
you treat your you obviously have one or know a
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lot about them, how do you maintain yours to be
in good cooking order?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Okay? So where if she is now I've been before,
what she's going to have to do to fix what
she has is basically just leave it dry, get some
scotch bright or sandpaper, sand all the rust off, okay, okay,
and then and then when you get down to where
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you think you have it, you put a little oil
on it. And then you keep saying and with a
scotch brite a scotch right.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Like a little vegetable oil something like that.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Yeah, yeah, a little light vegetable any kind of oil, right.
I wash, wash that all off, get it all clean.
And then at that point she's ready to cook back
on it, and she can either like I said, season
seizing it by getting it real hot, spray oil on it.
Get it hot, spray oil. Keep spraying oil until it
cooks that coating on it, at which point you just
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clean it. You don't want to clean it with soap.
At that point, you just kind of you know, after
you use it, you clean it all off the best
you can, wipe it down and then to maintain the
same thing if you go to the shiny surface, because
a lot of people don't. I mean, I know a
lot of people want to scrub everything.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
They cook them on.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Fine, I get it. That point you spray oil. You
you you you cook with it, you clean it off,
you turn your fire back on, you heat up, you
heat it up. Get it. You know, a couple hundred degrees,
cook all the moisture out of it, and when it's
cooling off, you spray oil on it.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, yeah, well your analogy, I wouldn't. I don't have one,
and I'm not saying I wouldn't want one, but I
don't have one. They're yeah, yeah, they are, and I
know they're very trendy right now. I know a lot
of people use them, and I didn't know what that
surface was. Your analogy of a cast iron fry pan
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is perfect because you know, find me a fry pan.
You know, an old skillet. It's cast iron that doesn't
have a little rust on it. You know, you're always
seasoning them. So I appreciate that analogy, and I certainly
appreciate man.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Look at you have a wonderful shore. I listen to
you every Saturday morning. I don't I'm not from the
Kentucky area, but but yeah, you're You're worth tuning into.
You do help a whole lot of people.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
So thank you, my friend. Take care. All right, very good?
All right, let's go to Sandy. Sandy, welcome.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
Hi. Gary. Just want to tell you to kind of
follow up on the last gentleman's comment. Your program is
so informative, well, so, thank you so much for being there.
My question is regarding blacktop asphalt driveway. I need to
have mine resealed.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
And I've heard controversy between the type you buy in
hon depot, which is water based, and if you have
a professional do it it's an oil base. Correct, which
is better?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Describe better to me?
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Well, kind of lasts longer, be more durable.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, I would say the professional will probably be more durable,
but it'll be it will probably fade a little faster,
but its protection will be equal or better.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Okay. So and I think you hit on what I'm
looking at. Yeah, I really want the protection too, right.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
So one of the things that you know, they took
the like cold tar out of it. They're more acrylics,
the ones that last seven and ten years. I mean,
they're very very good, and they're super easy to apply
for the do it yourselfer. And the beautiful thing about
that is you know they they warranted for ten years
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from fading. Okay, it's going to give you the protection.
It's going to keep the sun from you know, bleaching
that out. I would say the cold tar base by
a professional company is going to have deeper penetration, but
it's going to be more likely to turn gray. I
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used to always say when I was a kid, We
put asphalt seiler on our driveways every year, maybe every
two years, and we did it just because it was faded.
There wasn't anything wrong with it. Was sealed, but it
didn't look suburban black. It didn't look beautiful, so I
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think we just sealed it, ye know. So you know,
the marketing companies looked and cold tarred, you know, is
off gases, and people don't always like that, And all
of a sudden they're developing and the technology and science
became where you could get a finish that would stay
blacker longer and be easy to apply. So they both
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have their places.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
So cold tar would be a deeper penetration, it would
become one.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
It would probably become more one of the driveway itself,
whereas the one and I'm saying it's going to be
more resistant to the UV is more of a coding
so and it isn't acrylic, so it's going to you know, flexible.
It's just not kind of go into the asphalt is deep,
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but it may look better longer.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
Okay, And with driving then onto a garage floor, any
difference in the two coatings with any kind of if.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
You wait till it's dry, you're you're, you're all right.
You may have a bigger issue with the coal tar
the professionally applied with you know, maybe some oils okay,
being drug in again, they've taken a lot of that
out too. I mean, it's not like the old sealers
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that used to be where you could if you had
a white linoium kitchen, you'd have a brown stain in it.
We're kind of past that. I think that the secret
really is if you want to do it yourself and
and save the money, I would get the ten year
warranted product the top of the line, easier to apply.
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It's going to last long, it doesn't track. If you
want to have it professionally applied, I think you're more
than fine to have it professionally applied. I don't think
you're giving up a whole lot.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Okay, Well, thank you. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Very good. I hope that helps. Thanks. All right, all right,
first time today we got empty line. So I encourage
you if you want to talk about Oh, I don't
know whether it's patching the concrete or standing in the
deck or fixing the gutters. We've got a lot going on,
or just taking a walk around the home and you
(31:39):
find in some of the things that didn't look right.
I will tell you one thing I would check, and
it's it's kind of whatever your house is, you know,
if it's a brick house or if it's a wood
sighting house, I would really look at at your mortar,
(32:02):
see if there's any missing mortar pieces, See if there's
any cracked mortar or cracked brick. If you're looking at
your wood sighting, take a look at that those seams
or along the soppets the way they're miterd the forty
five degree ninety degree miter seams on the sofets, because
(32:25):
over time as those have been painted, well, there's been
some expansion contraction going on our homes all the time,
and eventually that paint film breaks in those areas and
maybe the wood shrinks a little bit. There's gaps, there's gaps,
and what are we always talking about. We're talking about
(32:47):
keeping the moisture out of our houses. So getting up
there with some calking and repainting. Eh, I know we
don't want to do that, but we don't always just
paint to change the color of our We paint it
to protect it, to waterproof it. To seal it up
(33:08):
and with brick. You know when we started about the
late seventies putting wheepholes down at the bottom of the brick.
That's those little screens about every six vertical mortar joint.
And if moisture gets behind a brick, it supposedly has
a place to escape. In most cases it does. But
(33:29):
before that, if you got missing mortar joint, that moisture
gets behind that brick, it's there. It's not getting out,
it's being reabsorbed by the brick or it's trying to
fight it. Remember wet searches for dry As Erica was
saying from Easy Breathe, same happens when that water gets
(33:50):
behind the brick. Is there a house wrap on there?
I don't know. We weren't doing that years and years
ago either. So you got to pay attention to those things.
You will make sure you're not missing any mortar or
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Speaker 8 (37:42):
Gary. One comment on that grill, and then I've.
Speaker 9 (37:45):
Got a concrete question.
Speaker 8 (37:46):
Okay, the fellow that call in about cleaning that grill
that about six times after his steps put oil on it,
oil on it, and you mentioned one time vegetable oil.
I think you need to emphasize that he was talking
about cooking oil. And I know it makes common sense
to you and me and a whole lot of people somewhere.
(38:08):
Somebody's heard his section and he just says, put oil
on it, and they're going to put w D forty
on it the oil, right, So I think the listeners
need to know he's he's talking about cooking oil. Okay,
Now my question on a concrete. Uh, and you gave
me advice on this before. But last winter I'm in Louisville.
(38:34):
We had an ice storm and then a snowstorm on
top of the ice that was frozen on the concrete.
Then it stayed really cold for two or three weeks. Well,
the corners on my front porch, concrete front porch is
about six feet deep seven feet wide, cracked off during
that time. After everything thought, and I've got a concrete
(38:58):
man coming in to fix it, and he told me
what happened was that there were a hairline craft in
those corners and the water got in there and in
that cold weather it froze and it's broken the concrete
off and the thing. Our house was built nineteen fifty five,
so it's an old porch. My question is, I was thinking,
(39:19):
in anticipation of the next winter, putting some kind of
concrete seiler all over that porch and the steps leading
up to it. Would that make sense?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Sure, it'll help, it'll help, And where it really help,
as if you have an ice storm and somebody throws
some salt on there or something all the seiler what
it's going to do is it's going to minimize the
penetration of the water into the slab. Okay, so so
(39:51):
it'll dry out faster. The water won't go is deep
into the concrete. If there's a salty brine solution from
rock salt or ice melters on their you know it's
going to help protect it. So yes, a lot of
times we're always preaching, you know, see all your concrete surfaces,
especially in areas that get you know, some snow and
(40:15):
some ice, so it's a protected it would be make
sure it's breathable.
Speaker 8 (40:21):
All right, that's my question. What would you recommend anything?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
So there are there's all different kinds of seilers. I
tell everybody. There's a website. It's called Masonry Defender and
they and I love it just because it's simple. They
have project specific seilers and the first one they show
(40:47):
is driveway and sidewalk ceiler, And that's exactly what you want.
It's a tripolymer of silicone. It's breathable. It's not going
when when when I mean breatheable is it's cortex. Water
doesn't penetrate into the concrete as deeply. And the water
that does penetrate into the concrete, it can exhaust out
(41:09):
through the sealer. It's pretty cool, okay, so that's what
you want.
Speaker 8 (41:14):
It is a is a Mastroydefender dot com or yes, sir,
And it's the first one the driveway and sidewalk seiler.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
And there's you know, the same ones when you go
to home depot or ace hardware or whatever. You know,
they've got tripolymer sealers that are breathable too. It's just
that it's not that simple to find. You gotta read
all the labels.
Speaker 8 (41:40):
Okay, excellent advice. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Gary, You're quite welcome. Thank you, bye bye. All right,
let's go to Damien. Damien welcome. Hello, Yes, sir.
Speaker 9 (41:54):
I'm calling about insulation in the attic. I've got so
many questions. Just so, there's spray foam, which is open cell,
closed cell. There's a bad insulation, there's blown in insulation.
What considerations like do I need to vent the hot
(42:18):
water heaters? I've got three hot water heaters in the
attic and then also a gas fired furnace up there.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Well, let me give you a brief one here. And
you're in an area where you could do all kinds
of things. Okay, So open cell and closed cell. That's
basically foam that is a vapor barrier or not a
vapor barrier, okay, So the open cell transfers moisture in
(42:53):
and out. And closed cell that you would use like
on a floor of an attic, you don't want to
really have that happen, so that would be a closed cell.
So that's what that means. As far as blown in
insulation or batting insulation, you know, batting is always going
(43:15):
to have a seam, okay when it butts up to
the joys, whereas blown in will fill it entirely. There
won't be seams, but they're they're all very effective. The
if you're asking me what would do better, foam is
probably going to do the best because for every inch
(43:38):
of thickness, it's about an R seven higher rating than
say a blown in cellulose or a blown in fiberglass
is about and are two point five per inch of thickness.
But now I'm really going to confuse you. You ready,
(43:58):
a lot in the Southeast, we're seeing what they call
whole house encapsulation, and especially if you're heating and cooling
units and water heaters are in the attic, And what
that means is they do the underside of the roof,
the sides, and they have no ventilation. It becomes kind
(44:22):
of parts of the whole house encapsulation is just that
it's all encapsulating. So what I would do is I
would read about whole house encapsulation, and then on the
other one, if you want to go blown in or batting,
just don't use a faced product. If there's insulation down
(44:43):
on the floor. Music's playing. I hope that helps Damien
and get you on the right path there. Barry and Dan,
you'll be up next. On the other side of the break,
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eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. All right,
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Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, hello there, how are you doing fine?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Oh great? I only I don't want to keep you
on too long. But we have a blackstone grill and
it's really rusted. How do you Is there anything you
can take that rust off or do you have to
you know, take a take something and just stand it off?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, yes, probably I would say that now, a blackstone grill,
I think I don't have one. They're all the rage
now is that the one with the flat cooking surface?
It's kind of like a yes, okay, I was going
to say, reminded me of a big electric skillet or something,
but yeah, okay, So where's it rusted? Is it rusted
(02:03):
on this side the support of the girl or is
it the actual griddle area the whole thing?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
You know?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
So I don't know if I mean it was covered,
but I don't know if it's just the weather in
the winter.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, I don't know really what caused us.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So let me just kind of add something to that.
When you have a cover in winter and it goes
down and it probably comes pretty close to the patio
or the deck or whatever, sometimes damnness does get in
and it can't escape, So there's moisture condensation in there
(02:43):
and it could cause rust, especially on like the side
tables or the hood or the frame. But I just
the one I'm concerned about is the cooking surface itself.
Isn't there like a teflon or whatever, you know, non
stick stuff?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I well, I think we can't use it.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Let's put it that way.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You know, you can't. I wouldn't even consider it. So
it's kind of all over enough to be able to
not want to.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Okay, so you're telling me it is on the cooking
service also, Yeah, so if we use something mechanically to
remove that rust on the cooking surface, it'll remove that
surface also though, won't it. Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I I didn't think about that, you know, So I
guess I just figured maybe there was something on the
market you could just put on there and just maybe
try to rub it off with your hand instead of
using a grinder.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Well yeah, yeah, Well there's there's a product called iron out, uh.
And it's a it's a liquid or it's a crystal
that you mix with hot water. Yeah, and you brush
it on and it dissolves rust. Now okay, and you're
(04:13):
certainly going to have to remove any residue it's a
cooking surface. And but that particular product dissolves rust or
it creates a chemical reaction where it removes iron oxide.
That that I would assume, And I don't really know,
(04:35):
I be honest with you, I think I would call
blackstone too, I you know, I think I don't think
there's any magic cure. I'll tell you that the iron
out might be, but it seems to me for it
to rust that much on a on the griddle surface,
(04:57):
there's there's something going on there. It's either rusting because
it was covered and the condensation got up there and
rusting through the metal. I don't really know, but if
you're going to use the iron out, i'd really read
the directions really well to make sure that it's safe
to cook them. Okay it is. It's a very mild guess,
(05:18):
but I think, you know, maybe neutralizing it afterwards is
going to be key. I don't think I would use
like a three odd steel or anything like that. It
would remove the rust, but I think it's also going
to remove that finish. Those girls aren't cheap, you know,
so that.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Would be I've heard of this before from other people
were having the same problems. Ye yeah, And I did
hear someone that did say they used to you know,
they they standed it off, you know, with a standard,
And I'm thinking, oh, I don't know, but you know,
I thought, well, okay, you know what good idea. I
(05:58):
will call a blackstone and I will ask them how
to get it off. And also, can I ask you
one more question. Sure, we put in a new dock
at our cottage and it's all new woods. So what
would we cover that with so that it seals the wood?
They said you have to wait a year.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
So it's been a year, so okay.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So it depends. Sure, you would use a deck sealer.
It's really what you would use. Now. There's different types
of deck sealers. There's semi transparent where you stain it
like a redwood or a brown or a gray and
you can see the wood grain through it. Or there's
solid color stain, which looks like it's painted. So you
(06:42):
can go either or on that. It really depends on
the look. The solid color stain comes in more colors.
It is designed to last a little longer because there's
more pigments in there, okay, which protects it from the sun,
and a dock has a lot of sun that's hitting it. Uh.
(07:04):
Some people wanted to net look natural woods, so they
use the you know, redwood or cedar canyon brown.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well, if you put that on though, after say a
couple of years, would that happen to start the sun
make it like brittle where it's almost you know, how
it starts cracking off? Would that happen or what's cracking
off paint?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Yeah, the paint would that?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, So the sun is gonna be your biggest challenge.
The semi transparent. It goes into the wood and becomes
part of the wood and you can see the wood grain.
And all you would have to do to restain that is,
you know, to clean it and restain it. And it's
not going to appeal because it's part of the wood.
(07:56):
The solid color stain. It's gonna last not two years,
could last four or five years. But when it fails,
it's a possibility that it will peel and then you
would have to strip that off. No thanks, So it
lasts longer, but the work is greater too much. Yeah,
(08:16):
it's greater when it's done. So yeah, when you call Blackstone,
if you get their answer, please call Spack.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Oh I will and I you know, I thank you,
listen to you every saturday. You are great. Well, thank
you too many things that are so interesting and helpful
lot of people, and I know you're well appreciated.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Anyway, thank you and they have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You do the same. Take care all right, we'll take
a little break and if you'd like to join us,
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All right, Beck, here we go at home with Garriy Salvin.
Thank you for a caller who called and said, hey,
you know how to get rusted off of a Blackstone girl. No,
I don't. Again, especially on the cooking service I surface.
My recommendation was to call Blackstone. Heuse, cut up some potatoes,
rub them on the rust, cook the potatoes with some
(11:58):
onions in a remove the rust. I don't know. I
don't have a Blackstone grill.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
But it sounds he sounded very knowledgeable.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, well that's awesome. Yeah, and you know, if you
want to give that a try, certainly do. If you
want to call Blackstone, certainly do.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
But I did know I wasn't going to recommend steel
wool over that surface because removing that probably wouldn't be
a really good idea. So thank you for that call.
I appreciate it. All right, let's go to Matt.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Matt, welcome, Hey, Gary, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
So I've got a grudge floor with some decent kitting,
and I was looking to use the nice Codings product
called die Hard. Okay, my question, My question is do
I need to use their rock patch product?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yes? Yeah, because you're not going to have enough mill
on that die Hard. The rock patch is so easy
to use, Matt, definitely give it a try. You will
be addicted to it. It is a non cementatious product too,
which is really good because cements and concretes they don't
(13:18):
like to stick to each other. This is a poly
product and you'll just be filling the divots in. You'll
be making it, you know, very nice, very smooth. And
that Diehard epoxy is that the one you're using. It's
the industrial epoxy is a very very good, solid product.
You so much better than pretty much anything else I've
(13:40):
ever seen out there in terms of a POxy.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Okay, great, And should I put the rock patch pretty
much kind of floating out the entire floor or it's
just targeted for really Yeah, you can do it either way.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
It is designed to do every way. Either way. You
can either trial the whole surface or you can fill
in the divots like if you have spawling, So you
could do it as a patch or you could do
it as a whole coating, and just no matter how
bad it is, how much you want to use. But
you know, if you just got some spawling in certain areas,
I'd just smooth out those areas and be done with it.
(14:21):
All right, You're quite welcome, give us a full report
when you're finished. But it's good stuff, good stuff. And
when you're working on garage floors, that's been a subject
we've covered a lot. There's so so many options out
there for you. Remember when a person was talking about
(14:42):
the coatings for foundations and I was talking about the
different options from fauxt stone to brick, to coatings that
recommend it, some of the dice products to spread stone
and stuff like that. There's so many options the same
on garage floors. And remember they all so have that
product and it might be something you be interested in.
(15:05):
It's called track safe. It's a clear seiler which is
slip resistant and that can be used over linoium. It
can be used over wood, it can you use over concrete,
it can be used over an epoxy finish. And because
you know when you start, even if you painted in
(15:28):
a garage floor. They can get slippery when wet, and
the track Safe will you know, make it very slip resistant.
Number one. And if you want different looks, the epoxy's one.
The roller rock where it has variations of colors, that's one,
(15:49):
and you can use track safe over both. You could
even use an acid stain if you wanted to keep
the regular concrete per se, or if you want to
just have it look like concrete and go over it
with the track safe, that would be That would be good.
(16:10):
All right, let's go to Gwen.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Gwen, welcome, Oh, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I enjoy your program.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I'm a single person, so every bit of information you
have I could use. My question is this. I have
a brick a small brick ranch house, and I recently,
about a month ago, I had a roof installed, which
they did a good job and everything, but they put
a fan in there. Now I don't remember if I
(16:40):
had a fan there before, and if I did, I
certainly didn't hear it from one of my kitchen. Every
time I stand there, I could hear the thing humming,
you know, And also it sounds very frequently. I mean
it sounded like from seven thirty in the morning to
like later on in night. And I know that the
(17:03):
outdoor temperature has been very hot and humid, though I
would expect the fan beyond. But the past couple of days,
I really we've had cool weather and the darn thing
still goes on, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, Well, those attic fans, you know, it's a question
really to find out who put that in and what
the settings are. Sometimes a fan in hot, humid weather
can run all the time because there's a thermostat and
there is a humid astat. So if there's a lot
of humidity in your attic, it's pulling that out and
(17:40):
it's also pulling the heat out. Now, you know, you
want to keep your attic, you know, ideally, you know,
when it's really really hot out is you know, one
hundred degrees inside, and so you know, during this kind
of weather, between the humidity and the heat, it may
be running all the time.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Because my elect Bill, his skyride, you know, has gone
a lot and I noticed that used a lot more kilowatts.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You know, well you gotta have applis running.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
You know, right exactly, And we've had an exceptional uh
hot weather. My son did go up there shortly after
that because it was still going and so he did
just set uh the humidity to be a hire so
that it doesn't you know, supposedly doesn't kick in as fast,
(18:33):
but it uh we had a couple of days of
cool weather and it still was running, you know, and
I just wondered, if there's something wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
With the fan, And well, the only way you're going
to know that, Gwen, is if you get a a
U MIDI stat up there and you can get it
where you know, it's got the screen downstairs, and you
got a sensor upstairs, and it'll tell you what the
humidity is in your attic and what the temperatures in
the attic, and you ask your son what he set
(19:03):
it at in the winter. In the summertime, I would
set that humidity level at about fifty five, maybe even
sixty percent in that attic, and I'd probably set the
temperature at maybe one hundred and five and the winter
that'll be adjusted. So you want to know if it's
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All right, back at it we go thirty three minutes
after the top of the hour. Getting a few things
done around the home this weekend, and if you'd like
to chat about your projects, certainly love to have you
step in, whether it's painting a little hunker your pairs,
sprucing up the garage. It's on my list. In the meantime,
(23:05):
let's go to Brian. Brian, Welcome, hey y'all. How you
doing fine? Thank you, hey man.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
I'm just calling in reference to the lady that called
earlier about the blackstone grill. Yes, sir, it doesn't have
a coating on it.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Oh okay, it comes.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
It comes from the factory with a coating, but it's
nothing more than like a like an oil coating, okay speak.
It's basically an old fashioned black arm pot okay, for
lack of a better term.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah, yeah, well they rusted all the time. You're right.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
The way you care for it, it is quite simple.
You use it. There's two ways you can keep it
shiny clean, right, you heat it up, you dry it off,
and and you spray oil on it before you put
the cover to it. Or or you can cook seasoning,
you know, season the pot. You can seize in the
(24:10):
blackstone grill the same way.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Ah, okay, all right, yeah, I wasn't. I was scared
to say it. All right, So, so how would you
get you know, I was a little confused whether it
was the cooking surface. She wasn't really saying that. I
kept asking and asking, So how would you how do
you treat your you obviously have one or know a
(24:34):
lot about them, how do you maintain yours to be
in good cooking order?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Okay? So where if she is now I've been before,
what she's going to have to do to fix what
she has is basically just leave it dry, get some
scotch bright or sandpaper, sand all the rust off, okay, okay,
and then and then when you get down to where
(25:00):
you think you have it, you put a little oil
on it. And then you keep saying and with a
scotch brite a scotch right.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Like a little vegetable oil something like that.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Yeah, yeah, a little light vegetable any kind of oil, right.
I wash, wash that all off, get it all clean.
And then at that point she's ready to cook back
on it, and she can either like I said, season
seizing it by getting it real hot, spray oil on it.
Get it hot, spray oil. Keep spraying oil until it
cooks that coating on it, at which point you just
(25:32):
clean it. You don't want to clean it with soap.
At that point, you just kind of you know, after
you use it, you clean it all off the best
you can, wipe it down and then to maintain the
same thing if you go to the shiny surface, because
a lot of people don't. I mean, I know a
lot of people want to scrub everything.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
They cook them on.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Fine, I get it. That point you spray oil. You
you you you cook with it, you clean it off,
you turn your fire back on, you heat up, you
heat it up. Get it. You know, a couple hundred degrees,
cook all the moisture out of it, and when it's
cooling off, you spray oil on it.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, yeah, well your analogy, I wouldn't. I don't have one,
and I'm not saying I wouldn't want one, but I
don't have one. They're yeah, yeah, they are, and I
know they're very trendy right now. I know a lot
of people use them, and I didn't know what that
surface was. Your analogy of a cast iron fry pan
(26:33):
is perfect because you know, find me a fry pan.
You know, an old skillet. It's cast iron that doesn't
have a little rust on it. You know, you're always
seasoning them. So I appreciate that analogy, and I certainly
appreciate man.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Look at you have a wonderful shore. I listen to
you every Saturday morning. I don't I'm not from the
Kentucky area, but but yeah, you're You're worth tuning into.
You do help a whole lot of people.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
So thank you, my friend. Take care. All right, very good?
All right, let's go to Sandy. Sandy, welcome.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
Hi. Gary. Just want to tell you to kind of
follow up on the last gentleman's comment. Your program is
so informative, well, so, thank you so much for being there.
My question is regarding blacktop asphalt driveway. I need to
have mine resealed.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
And I've heard controversy between the type you buy in
hon depot, which is water based, and if you have
a professional do it it's an oil base. Correct, which
is better?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Describe better to me?
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Well, kind of lasts longer, be more durable.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, I would say the professional will probably be more durable,
but it'll be it will probably fade a little faster,
but its protection will be equal or better.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Okay. So and I think you hit on what I'm
looking at. Yeah, I really want the protection too, right.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
So one of the things that you know, they took
the like cold tar out of it. They're more acrylics,
the ones that last seven and ten years. I mean,
they're very very good, and they're super easy to apply
for the do it yourselfer. And the beautiful thing about
that is you know they they warranted for ten years
(28:32):
from fading. Okay, it's going to give you the protection.
It's going to keep the sun from you know, bleaching
that out. I would say the cold tar base by
a professional company is going to have deeper penetration, but
it's going to be more likely to turn gray. I
(28:53):
used to always say when I was a kid, We
put asphalt seiler on our driveways every year, maybe every
two years, and we did it just because it was faded.
There wasn't anything wrong with it. Was sealed, but it
didn't look suburban black. It didn't look beautiful, so I
(29:13):
think we just sealed it, ye know. So you know,
the marketing companies looked and cold tarred, you know, is
off gases, and people don't always like that, And all
of a sudden they're developing and the technology and science
became where you could get a finish that would stay
blacker longer and be easy to apply. So they both
(29:35):
have their places.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
So cold tar would be a deeper penetration, it would
become one.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
It would probably become more one of the driveway itself,
whereas the one and I'm saying it's going to be
more resistant to the UV is more of a coding
so and it isn't acrylic, so it's going to you know, flexible.
It's just not kind of go into the asphalt is deep,
(30:04):
but it may look better longer.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
Okay, And with driving then onto a garage floor, any
difference in the two coatings with any kind of if.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
You wait till it's dry, you're you're, you're all right.
You may have a bigger issue with the coal tar
the professionally applied with you know, maybe some oils okay,
being drug in again, they've taken a lot of that
out too. I mean, it's not like the old sealers
(30:38):
that used to be where you could if you had
a white linoium kitchen, you'd have a brown stain in it.
We're kind of past that. I think that the secret
really is if you want to do it yourself and
and save the money, I would get the ten year
warranted product the top of the line, easier to apply.
(31:01):
It's going to last long, it doesn't track. If you
want to have it professionally applied, I think you're more
than fine to have it professionally applied. I don't think
you're giving up a whole lot.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Okay, Well, thank you. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Very good. I hope that helps. Thanks. All right, all right,
first time today we got empty line. So I encourage
you if you want to talk about Oh, I don't
know whether it's patching the concrete or standing in the
deck or fixing the gutters. We've got a lot going on,
or just taking a walk around the home and you
(31:39):
find in some of the things that didn't look right.
I will tell you one thing I would check, and
it's it's kind of whatever your house is, you know,
if it's a brick house or if it's a wood
sighting house, I would really look at at your mortar,
(32:02):
see if there's any missing mortar pieces, See if there's
any cracked mortar or cracked brick. If you're looking at
your wood sighting, take a look at that those seams
or along the soppets the way they're miterd the forty
five degree ninety degree miter seams on the sofets, because
(32:25):
over time as those have been painted, well, there's been
some expansion contraction going on our homes all the time,
and eventually that paint film breaks in those areas and
maybe the wood shrinks a little bit. There's gaps, there's gaps,
and what are we always talking about. We're talking about
(32:47):
keeping the moisture out of our houses. So getting up
there with some calking and repainting. Eh, I know we
don't want to do that, but we don't always just
paint to change the color of our We paint it
to protect it, to waterproof it. To seal it up
(33:08):
and with brick. You know when we started about the
late seventies putting wheepholes down at the bottom of the brick.
That's those little screens about every six vertical mortar joint.
And if moisture gets behind a brick, it supposedly has
a place to escape. In most cases it does. But
(33:29):
before that, if you got missing mortar joint, that moisture
gets behind that brick, it's there. It's not getting out,
it's being reabsorbed by the brick or it's trying to
fight it. Remember wet searches for dry As Erica was
saying from Easy Breathe, same happens when that water gets
(33:50):
behind the brick. Is there a house wrap on there?
I don't know. We weren't doing that years and years
ago either. So you got to pay attention to those things.
You will make sure you're not missing any mortar or
anything along nose lines. All right, Our phone numbers eight
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before the top of They are talking home improvement, as
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go to Andy. Andy, welcome, Thank you.
Speaker 8 (37:42):
Gary. One comment on that grill, and then I've.
Speaker 9 (37:45):
Got a concrete question.
Speaker 8 (37:46):
Okay, the fellow that call in about cleaning that grill
that about six times after his steps put oil on it,
oil on it, and you mentioned one time vegetable oil.
I think you need to emphasize that he was talking
about cooking oil. And I know it makes common sense
to you and me and a whole lot of people somewhere.
(38:08):
Somebody's heard his section and he just says, put oil
on it, and they're going to put w D forty
on it the oil, right, So I think the listeners
need to know he's he's talking about cooking oil. Okay,
Now my question on a concrete. Uh, and you gave
me advice on this before. But last winter I'm in Louisville.
(38:34):
We had an ice storm and then a snowstorm on
top of the ice that was frozen on the concrete.
Then it stayed really cold for two or three weeks. Well,
the corners on my front porch, concrete front porch is
about six feet deep seven feet wide, cracked off during
that time. After everything thought, and I've got a concrete
(38:58):
man coming in to fix it, and he told me
what happened was that there were a hairline craft in
those corners and the water got in there and in
that cold weather it froze and it's broken the concrete
off and the thing. Our house was built nineteen fifty five,
so it's an old porch. My question is, I was thinking,
(39:19):
in anticipation of the next winter, putting some kind of
concrete seiler all over that porch and the steps leading
up to it. Would that make sense?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Sure, it'll help, it'll help, And where it really help,
as if you have an ice storm and somebody throws
some salt on there or something all the seiler what
it's going to do is it's going to minimize the
penetration of the water into the slab. Okay, so so
(39:51):
it'll dry out faster. The water won't go is deep
into the concrete. If there's a salty brine solution from
rock salt or ice melters on their you know it's
going to help protect it. So yes, a lot of
times we're always preaching, you know, see all your concrete surfaces,
especially in areas that get you know, some snow and
(40:15):
some ice, so it's a protected it would be make
sure it's breathable.
Speaker 8 (40:21):
All right, that's my question. What would you recommend anything?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
So there are there's all different kinds of seilers. I
tell everybody. There's a website. It's called Masonry Defender and
they and I love it just because it's simple. They
have project specific seilers and the first one they show
(40:47):
is driveway and sidewalk ceiler, And that's exactly what you want.
It's a tripolymer of silicone. It's breathable. It's not going
when when when I mean breatheable is it's cortex. Water
doesn't penetrate into the concrete as deeply. And the water
that does penetrate into the concrete, it can exhaust out
(41:09):
through the sealer. It's pretty cool, okay, so that's what
you want.
Speaker 8 (41:14):
It is a is a Mastroydefender dot com or yes, sir,
And it's the first one the driveway and sidewalk seiler.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
And there's you know, the same ones when you go
to home depot or ace hardware or whatever. You know,
they've got tripolymer sealers that are breathable too. It's just
that it's not that simple to find. You gotta read
all the labels.
Speaker 8 (41:40):
Okay, excellent advice. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Gary, You're quite welcome. Thank you, bye bye. All right,
let's go to Damien. Damien welcome. Hello, Yes, sir.
Speaker 9 (41:54):
I'm calling about insulation in the attic. I've got so
many questions. Just so, there's spray foam, which is open cell,
closed cell. There's a bad insulation, there's blown in insulation.
What considerations like do I need to vent the hot
(42:18):
water heaters? I've got three hot water heaters in the
attic and then also a gas fired furnace up there.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Well, let me give you a brief one here. And
you're in an area where you could do all kinds
of things. Okay, So open cell and closed cell. That's
basically foam that is a vapor barrier or not a
vapor barrier, okay, So the open cell transfers moisture in
(42:53):
and out. And closed cell that you would use like
on a floor of an attic, you don't want to
really have that happen, so that would be a closed cell.
So that's what that means. As far as blown in
insulation or batting insulation, you know, batting is always going
(43:15):
to have a seam, okay when it butts up to
the joys, whereas blown in will fill it entirely. There
won't be seams, but they're they're all very effective. The
if you're asking me what would do better, foam is
probably going to do the best because for every inch
(43:38):
of thickness, it's about an R seven higher rating than
say a blown in cellulose or a blown in fiberglass
is about and are two point five per inch of thickness.
But now I'm really going to confuse you. You ready,
(43:58):
a lot in the Southeast, we're seeing what they call
whole house encapsulation, and especially if you're heating and cooling
units and water heaters are in the attic, And what
that means is they do the underside of the roof,
the sides, and they have no ventilation. It becomes kind
(44:22):
of parts of the whole house encapsulation is just that
it's all encapsulating. So what I would do is I
would read about whole house encapsulation, and then on the
other one, if you want to go blown in or batting,
just don't use a faced product. If there's insulation down
(44:43):
on the floor. Music's playing. I hope that helps Damien
and get you on the right path there. Barry and Dan,
you'll be up next. On the other side of the break,
we'll continue at home with Garry Sullivan.
Speaker 5 (45:13):
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