Gary Sullivan 8/31/2025 Hour 1

Gary's expert advice and tips along with your calls.

Episode Transcript

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Home with Gary Sullivan. All right, another weekend and uh
answering a few questions regarding your home. If you'd like

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to join us. Yesterday is a little busy and if
you had trouble getting through, today is the perfect time.
It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Yesterday we had a couple of questions on wet and
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if it's a little coolish and that's perfect for applying

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wet and forget on a roof or sidewalk patio or
driveway to get rid of mold, mildew, fungus, liking all
that good stuff. But we had a couple of questions
yesterday on the show, and you know a lot of
this information of courses on the labels and you can
also get it on their websites or on a can.

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I had a couple of people write me yesterday. Plus
our friend Harold in Alabama gave us a call yesterday
when we were talking about cushions on furniture and whether
that could be sprayed, and I told everybody I was
pretty sure, but do read the laybel one and Harold

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he's in the outdoor lawn furniture business, and he quickly
told us, yet, go ahead and use it. Not going
to be a problem. He tells his customers to do
the same. The other one was on it was a weird,
kind of a weird setup, but it kind of liked
the setup, but it was a weird setup. This fellow
had gutters with holes on him in them on purpose,

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which drained into his small fish pond, which is unique, right,
which is fine. And what he wanted to know though,
is he had moss and mildew on his roof and
he was going to spray with wet and forget and
if it, you know, as it rained and washed down
into the gutters. He wanted to know if that would

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do anything to the fish in a fish pond. I said, probably,
but not sure. Well, I hit somebody who had that,
well that same, not the same type of setup, but he,
I guess apparently didn't read the directions and had a
bad experience and took care of the fish. And he

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was saying, yeah, absolutely can't use it's on the label,
et cetera as my mistake, and I just wanted to
let you know. So, yeah, there's always precautions on labels
of products, and certainly always pays to read them, but
I just kind of wanted to readdress both of those
this morning and kind of get everybody on a right leg.
So what are we working on. I was reading some

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stuff yesterday afternoon after getting off the air and kind
of brought up an idea. It's been out for a
number of years, probably twenty years or so, but we
haven't really talked about it for a while, and I
kind of wanted to let you know that that's available.
I know there is quite a few people that have

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been talking about maybe replacing some deck boards, maybe replacing
all of the deck boards and putting in a new deck.
Two things I well, actually three things come to mind
that I want to mention to you. And by the way,
if you have a question, you can feel free to

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dial in the question or the things to do. Number
one is, if you're replacing the deck boards, you're going
to have obviously holes where the other deck boards were
nailed into the joice. Those need to be sealed. Pressure
treating is only into that wood so far, and of
course that nail or screw that was removed goes much

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deeper than the pressure treated would into. The pressure treating
into the wood only goes in so far. So when
you pull the deck boards off and those nails holes
are exposed, maybe we screw the decking in another places
and water gets in there. Of course, can go to
wood rock, whether it's pressure trade or not. So you've

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probably seen ads for joice tape, and it's a rubber
rice tape that goes over the top of the joyst
that should be installed before you put the boards down. Perfect.
That's one thing to consider. Another thing and not even
consider that's one thing to do. One thing to consider
is there are different types by different manufacturers of products

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that go between the joys that catch the water and
funnel the water to the edges of the deck. Why
would you do that. Well, if you had a second
story deck and you had this area below the deck
which could be used for storage, it could be used
for another sitting area. But if you have deck boards

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and there's a gap between the deck boards and of
course it's raining, you're not going to use it for
storage and you're not going to use it for a
sitting area, especially on days where it's raining. So these
there's different names deck below, below deck, and there's a
different brand. It's a guttering system that fits underneath the

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deck boards and treks has once almost like a vinyl
overlay where it's routing the water to the front edge
of the deck. So pretty cool stuff and something to consider.
The other thing to consider is if you are going
to go to the expense of new boards and everything,
really examine the structure of the deck itself. Pressure treated

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woods lifespan, Well, it's probably around thirty years, say that's
a good number, twenty five to thirty years. And if
deck's already fifteen years and you're going to put in
a twenty five year warranty of deck boards or a
fifty year warranty. Now that moisture shield has you might

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want to consider let's just do the whole deck over,
and that might be something you want to do. Also,
I mentioned moisture shield. The fourth thing I want to
bring up is they have something called insta deck, which
is very intriguing to me. I haven't done anything with it,
but I'm certainly giving it some thought. I've been on

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their website and it can be used on bare ground,
which is not what I'm going to use it for.
It could be used as an overlay over the existing deck.
Now we're going to add some weight to it, so
we want to make sure that substructure is in good
shape and everything. But it's a tracking system that's applied

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on the top of the deck, and then the composite
decking fits in that tracking system, so we're not pulling
up boards, we're not worrying about all that. We're literally
doing an overlay over it. Pretty sharp can also be
used over concrete old patio where it's been patched and

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probably stained and everything else is going on it. You
can actually put this tracking system and then put the
decking right over the patio, and man, wouldn't that give
a whole different look maybe to the backyard area. And
that's really what I'm kind of looking as that petio
is twenty six years old, it's got a couple issues,

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nothing that's detrimental, but boy, what an incredible facelift that
would be so kind of looking into that. All right,
our phone number if you'd like to join us and
do so, it's eight hundred A two three A two
five five and happy to take your calls. Whether it's
decks or concrete, indoor painting, outdoor painting, calking, there's all

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kinds of things. And one of the things to pay attention.
I always kind of remind everybody as we go into
seasonal changes, and we've had a very hot summer and
a lot of areas and extreme temperatures. Hot and then cold,
tough on a garage door. If your garage door is
pretty noisy, loud, creaky, lubrication if it's been a while,

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might be necessary. And you don't do that just with
straight oil. You can do that with a teflon or
a silicone blaster makes a garage door lubricant, which is
a combination. Wipe the rails down, the hinges down with
the mental spirits and a cotton cloth, and then put
the teflon silicone or the garage door blaster product on there.

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Run the door back and forth. You will be amazed,
quite honestly, of how much quieter that door will be.
So that's good tip. As we head into the cooler
months and we maybe hopefully survived the warmer months, let's
start preparing for the next batch. So lubrication a garage
door if it's pretty loud and maybe nasty looking with

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gunk in the rails and the rollers, not a good
look and not real healthy for the grudge store. All right,
for your calls, you can dial us in and we'd
be happy to talk to you about your home improvement
project as we continue. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.

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they are at home with Gary Sullivan taking your calls
regarding a little home improvement. And one of the things
we talk about a lot is you know, the curb
appeal from the front of your house, and we talk
a lot about entry doors and kind of cleaning up
that whole area. A big trend over the last probably
twenty twenty five years is fiberglass doors, usually stained and

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then euthanes. And you know, when you get the eurothanes,
of course you want to use spa euthanes marine erthanes,
not a polyurethane. But over time they get a little tired,
like everything that has a coating on it. And I've
talked about how to rejuvenate those, but I've also talked
about painting them. And you know, we talk about the

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technique of staining or just adding a spa spar yourthane.
And we've also talked about stripping the doors and we haven't.
And we've talked about, you know, painting a door, but
we've really never really talked talked about color. And recently
I ran into a little article. I guess we're all

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curious or thinking about scratching our heads on what color
to go with the front door if we decided to
paint it, and this was I don't know, a little
philosophy on colors, and some countries really take the color
of their front door, very very seriously. But maybe in

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the US we're kind of looking for the curb appeal.
Maybe we don't want anything outlandish, or maybe we do
want something outlandish. But the colors, you know, for front
doors and what they represent red, a red front door.
We see a lot of red front doors. And again,
a good quality urathane trimm enamel is very resistant and

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longer serving the and say aspar your thing. But red
in a Chinese culture is considered a symbol good fortune.
It's used a lot in celebrations, important ceremonies, and a
red door is believed to invite positive energy. So if

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the color itself is like kohom to you and you're
looking for meaning, maybe red and then green I painted
my mind was I guess we would call it a
light wont of color, maybe a very dark golden oak.

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When I got.

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Tired of just reapplying your thans every couple of years,
just so that I didn't have to strip that whole door,
I wanted to protect it. I chose it's almost a
spruce color. Now when I say green, I'm not talking

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to forest green. It's almost a spruce color. And I
did it because there was a little spruce bush in
front of the door by about ten feet, and I
thought it would complement. It looks very nice. But green
is a great color in terms of fun Shui principles.
It can promote family health, nurturing relationships. The natural color

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of green can activate the wood elements, stimulating growth, vitality,
and feeling rejuvenation. So again, if you're looking for meanings,
sometimes the meaning of colors will help you come to
a conclusion of which way you want to go. Spruce
is kind of combination blue green, So not really sure

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what that means, but blue that evokes the feeling you know,
the sky, water can bring luck, tranquility can help your
and we all could use this help your home to
feel perfectly calm and peaceful in a schwang Wi principle.

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Whereas a dark navy blue can establish a protective energy
for your home's entrance, So thinking about that also stability
and blue. I see a lot of blue doors, and
I guess the most popular color. I don't know if
it would be red. I think maybe black would be
one of the more popular colors for front doors. It's

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also a lucky one that color is associated, of course
with strength, and power, sophistication, and we're really seeing color
palettes for exteriors of homes and interiors also, but more
noticeable if you're driving through a neighborhood, because you start
seeing homes change colors, and that is black and white.

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A white house with black accents, black windows, black shutters,
a black door, and I love that look. And looking
back at some old childhood photos, our house was black
and white years ago, and that's kind of and a resurgence.
My daughter redid her whole house about four years ago

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and incorporate a lot of the black and white also,
so that might be something of strength and sophistication. And
if it kind of goes in with the decor of
your home, a black entry door, a yellow entry door,
that kind of screams I think different. But it stands

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for happiness and good fortune and abundance and joy and optimism.
Surely can energize your home and attract positive relationships and prosperity.
So that's what yellow is standing for. But it's going
to I think depend I would say it's I don't

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know if it's really a popular color. I've certainly seen
yellow doors and the last one would be a purple
front door. And that's a statement of wealth and prosperity,
also a symbol of creativity and I love the last
part of it open mindness. So maybe purple would be
the color. Also kind of a spiritual color. So those

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are the meaning of colors. And if you want to
incorport in the front door, well you might take those
into consideration before choosing that color. All right, Talking Home Improvement,
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Com and back at it.

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We go at home with Gary Sullivan kind of doing
some summer jobs, talking about some follies jobs. Yesterday we
had a lot of conversation regarding getting your chimney ready,
and Uh, I'm gonna kind of pound on that for
the next six weeks because it's so very important. You
start calling chimney sweeps the first week in November. Good
luck getting them out for the holidays. Uh, maybe you'll

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get lucky, maybe you won't. But that's there, really super
busy time. Always talk about planning ahead. Let's get him
out there and uh, well over the next four or
five six weeks, let them clean and inspect that chimney.
And anyway, we were kind of going through the whole
thing on what you're inspecting and cleaning and you want
to get a chimney sweet that's CSIA certified. And we

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talked about chimney fires, and you know a lot of
people don't realize, well, first of all, clean chimneys don't
catch fire. Chimneys that have not been maintained or a
periodic cleaned have a risk of catching fire. And when

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a chimney catches fire, it's the creosote that usually catches
fire and the inside of the chimney that produces I
was talking about how in some cases, you know, crack
the liner and it's not the first fire to get you,
it's the second one. And the temperatures inside a chimney fire,
I said, sometimes you don't even know you had one.

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Sometimes you can hear the roar of the fire, but
the temperatures can be in the two thousand degrees fahrenheit.
It literally melt the mortar and crack the tiles and
cause liners to collapse and damage the outer masonry material.
In other words, the brick the mortar most often tiles

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crack and the mortars displaced, which provides that pathway again
for the flames to reach the combustionable wood frame of
the house. Like I said, one one chimney fire probably
won't harmed at home. Second one could burn it down,
and that's that's pretty scary stuff. So how do you
find out if you had a chimney fire. I'm sure

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you're not going to inspect it, but the chimney sweep
will inspect it. He'll be able to see if he
had a chimney fire. But there that's inside the chimney,
inside the actual chimney itself. Rather than just black, it'll
actually have like rainbow colored streaks through it that go

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into the chimney and off the kreaso. So it's kind
of almost like a scorch mark.

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That damper.

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If the damper closes off the chimney and stuff like that,
it's usually a metal plate. With temperatures that high that
damper can be warped. So that's certainly something you can
tell pretty easily, quite honestly, on a bright, sunny day
you close the damper, stick your head in the fire

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box and look up. If you start seeing blue sky
or light, probably a good chance at one time you
had a chimney fire. So also look at the top
of the chimney. I always talk about inspecting for cracked
brick and mortar and also the the chimney cap. Those.
You know, if you stand down on the ground with

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a pair of binoculars and really take a look at
those areas, you'll be able to see if you see
a you know, the chimney cap or the rain cap.
You know, if it's discorded and distorted, you know, warped
and discolored, that's a sign of a chimney fire. Find
any debris on the roof around the chimney that can

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be a sign that there was a fire. So again
it's something that should be inspected and taken care of
this time of year rather than the middle of the winter.
But safety is the key, and you know who you
are if you're one that occasionally builds a fire, or

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whether you're heating your home with the fireplace all year long,
you know, if that's the case, you want to have
that thing inspected and clean annually and now's the time
to act on it. It's really hard to act on
it when it's a beautiful summer day. But now is
the time to really start addressing those needs. And I

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was talking about going into you know, cooler months and
talking about the garage door. The other thing is the concrete.
I mean, we get calls all the time on cracks
and concrete, ceiling, concrete. Yeah, you want to be prepared.
Now's the time to do it. Most concrete sealers will

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last you probably three years. In most cases. You want
a breathable concrete sealer. You want to have the ability
to exhaust water vapor from the ground out through the
concrete slab, but you also want to minimize the penetration

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of water into that slab. I'd like to refer to
it as gortex for your concrete sidewalk because that's kind
of what it is. And if you live in cold
weather temperatures that are regions that's really really important. A
breathable sealer is perfect. And a breathable sealer in most
cases you can't even tell that it's on the concrete surface.

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You can put it on with a tank sprayer, not
a power sprayer, but a tank sprayer, not an airless sprayer,
a tank sprayer, and all you're doing is really wetting
down the surface. Obviously you want to clean it and
everything first pressure washer or wet and forget. However you
want to clean, it's up to you. And then use

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the breathable masonry sealer tanksprayer. Moisten the surface. Don't let
it puddle, otherwise it'll be shiny. So it's to wet
the surface down and penetrate into the capillaries of the concrete,
protecting the concrete. Again, cold weather and climates you use

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salt and ice melts and things. It protects it from that.
If you have real hot, humid areas and you get
a lot of molds and mildews. I'm not going to
say it's going to prevent that, but it'll help it
because it will drive faster and won't stay wet longer,
which is producing the mold to mildew in the fungus.

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So having done and you know you don't want to
do it, wins ninety eight degrees because of evaporation, but
you get a nice, you know, fally summer day, eighty degrees,
perfect weather, perfect weather. If you want to have an
extra set of hands with you when you're doing that project.
Maybe not a bad idea. You can be putting the

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product down with the tanks prayer, having a friend with
a paintbrush in hand. If it begins to puddle, doesn't
penetrate into that concrete quite as fast as you think
it should. You know, get that brush out and just
literally forcing that seiler into the concrete. That's what that

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brush you'll do keeps it from puddling. Great idea. So again,
you shouldn't even be able to tell that there's a
seiler on there. Now there's some of you I know
that are wanting You don't necessarily want a big, shiny driveway.
That's more for maybe Gara, but maybe you want a

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little satney. Look, there are satin sealers that are breathable.
I know Quick Creek makes one, and it is It
can be applied exactly the same way that I just
talked about the penetrating one. This does penetrate, but at
least a little shimmer of satne finish on the surface

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of the concrete so you can actually see it. And
a lot of people feel that is very attractive. A
lot of people use that also on pav driveways or
paver patios, just that satin sheen. That might be a
good thing to consider also, but again, that weather we'll
eventually change. It will change probably pretty rapidly whenever we

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head to the next season. So maybe you got I
don't know, six eight weeks get that project done. It
might be if it's been a while since you've done it,
I would say go ahead and do it. If you
have concrete where you have stamp concrete or exposed aggregate concrete,
you'd probably want more of a gloss seiler. That's a

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whole different ballgame. It's a shiny finish, so it accents
that stamp. Look at acts sense that exposed aggregate lifespan
still about three years, probably not going to get five
out of it, but that is something that can be

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applied with a roller. Probably the best way you could
do a brush. They also have some deck ceiling brushes
that you could use for that type of seiler on
concrete or on paverstones. So if it's been a while
since you've done it, I would just encourage you to

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take a look at it. All right to our phone
number if you'd like to talk about your home improvement project.
Love to have you. It's eight hundred eight two three
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Speaker 1 (34:52):
All right, back in it.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
We go at home with Gary Salvan. We're thirteen minutes
before the noon hour and taking your calls regarding a
little home and movement. Our phone numbers eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five and uh, let's go
to Melanie.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
Melanie, welcome, good morning, Gary love the show.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (35:13):
I was calling about your front doors. You were talking
about painting front doors. Uh huh My. My parents have
a metal door on the front of their home and
the sun bakes it, and for years that thing would
chip and my dad would take it off and he
would stand it and he would paint it, and then
it dawns on me one day. You know, Dad, you

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you restore cars, Why don't you take that metal door
to your shop, paint it and put clear coat on.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
It, you know what?

Speaker 4 (35:41):
And he did that, and that door has not been
painted in fifteen years.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
You know what, Melanie, this is no kid. My very
first house, I had the exact same I did the
exact same thing, and it was a metal door, and
I can't even remember the color of it anymore a
long time ago, but it peeled and it would get
so hot that the plastic moldings I think it was

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a pie's metal door, and this is a long time ago,
and the plastic molding was literally melting. And I went
and pulled that molding off, and I started trying to
patch it, and I was kind of making a disaster.
And finally somebody said to me, why don't you take
it to an auto body shop. Let him just kind
of smooth that out for you and paint it. And man,

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I'll tell you what, it was gorgeous. And I never
touched it again. Eventually we sold the house, but it
was amazing that that is a great tip if you
have a metal door. It used to be because it
was in the hardware business at that point and people
had metal doors and didn't take it to a body shop.
The only thing I ever found that really worked well

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on that was the old red heavy duty primer. So
I tell people strip it down and then put that
not great primer on, but the heavy red metal primer
on there, and then put it in a enammel on there,
and that would do pretty good. But nothing's going to
beat that. The body shop.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
Thanks Gary.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
All right, take care, thanks for the call, appreciate it.
You can join us. It's eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five. Yesterday we got another thing again,
getting a house ready for cooler temperatures and even really
for hot temperatures too. But you know, mice will start
trying to get into the house. Maybe already have mice

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in the house, but we're talking about doors and talking
about checking the weather stripping. A mouse can get into
a hole the size of a nickel. Some people say
a dime.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
Maybe my mice are fat, but we'll say a nickel.
And check those door sweeps on metal doors, wood doors,
garage doors, and make sure not only you know, make
sure that they're a in good shape, they're pliable, they're ceiling,

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they're not torn, they're not brittle, they're not cracked, that
they're up against the threshold that the garage seals. I know,
they always seem to have a tendency to work. They're
in a channel. In fact, I always love the fact
that Clope has the exact same door seal they've hit
since I think nineteen thirty five. The good news is

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there's only one of them for clope doors, whereas some
other ones. You know, you got to figure out the
configuration of the seal and everything else, but clope, there's
just one one door seal. But getting those out, straighten
them out, getting them cleaned, replace them periodically, because that
vinyl does get brittle, it does crack, it gets torn,

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and it will leave an opening for a mouse stander
of the house. You can even get a threshold for
a garage door maybe you have some uneven concrete, rather
than getting out a patching compound and putting a layer

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of concrete over the concrete, which sounds like a good
idea but doesn't look so good, and maybe you get
it too high in one place. In other words, don't
do that. It's easy if you can get like a
little rubberized threshold, and you can even shim it where
you can get it really nice and level, and that
door will rest on that. You have an adjustment on

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your door opener to create that seal against the concrete
or against the threshold, and making that really tight again
if you've got an insulated door, helps keep that garage
above freezing or let's say below ninety five, which is

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helpful for the energy bill. So you got added benefits
there and fairly easy to do. I don't know if
you ever replace those seals or door sweeps or I'll
tell you another thing is in the like the man
door next to it, or the back door, even the
front door. A lot of times we'll have a aluminum
threshold where the door when it's closed will compress a

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rubber gasket. So the aluminum thresholds on the on the floor,
and the gasket is a little i'd say an inch wide.
They come in different sizes to it. It's a little
bubble of vinyl and as the door closes, it compresses
the vinyl and it creates that seal. From an energy standpoint,

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very good, keeping mice out, very good. It's a pretty
good substantial seal. But boy, you talk about something out
of side out of mine, that rubber seal on that threshold,
you're not gonna pay too much attention to it until
you like trip over it. But again, periodically wiping that down,

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keeping the dirt off and stuff like that, and just
kind of take a quick glance and inspect it and
when it needs to be replaced, to replace it, there's
probably I'm gonna guess I don't know the exact number,
but I'm gonna say eight different configurations that fit into
a track on those aluminum thresholds, and they're usually like

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a little V groove on each side. You can work
that end out and then you can just simply pull
that seal straight out, bring that seal, or at least
part of that seal into the hardware store to make
sure you get the right configuration. There are a couple
of different configurations for it to slide into the metal threshold,

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and you know when you pull that out, you also
expose the screws for that threshold. You go aha and
tighten those screws up again, mineral spirits in a cotton
cloth and clean that track out real good. All would
be very beneficial in tackling that particular project. And while

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you're at it, really taking a look at the whole door.
Last week we were talking about getting a door in alignment,
and you can really start if it's a little snug.
You can really start by just going around with a
screwdriver in tightening the screws of the hinges so you
got three hinges on that size, and then go ahead

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and tighten both on the jam and on the door
don't tighten them too much where you strip them, but
you may find there's one already stripped. You may find
that they're loose. If you don't find anything and it's
still not perfectly aligned, you can actually loosen the screws
and put some spacers. Toothpicks work well behind the hinge,

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and then tightening the screws at that point it'll just
be enough adjustment to realign it. Once you loosen the
screws and kind of position the door, you'll you'll get
to feel of it right away and you'll see what
needs to be shimmed. But if the screw is stripped,
toothpicks and a little wood glue work really really well.

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There's other little tips that golf tea, but that's a
maple and that's a hardwood. Sometimes I always said golf
teas were pretty good because they're tapered, pull a little
glue in that hole and put that golf tea in there,
and then just cut it flush. But I have also
found that that can be Sometimes I'll end up taking
a small drill bit and then drilling into that golf

(43:44):
tea to curate a pilot hole so that the screw
fits in there, so tooth picture won't have to do that.
So that might be something that will solve that particular problem. Hey,
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