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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well, the weekend, it is welcome. You're at home with
Gary Salvan, marching through another weekend, getting a few things
done around the home. And I don't know, I hope
you got some great weather and you're part of the
country and maybe can tackle some of those projects. We've
had a couple of questions, you know. One of the
things we haven't talked about today, we haven't talked about
in the last month or so. And the beginning of
(00:58):
it seems like that's all we talked about, was controlling water,
controlling moisture, controlling humidity. Then all of a sudden, where
I'm at and in many parts of the country, we
hid you know, drought City, USA, and well that talk
quickly faded, which kind of brings me full circle. As
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you're thinking about, you know, things to work on around
your home, not that we're ever in a drought of
things to work on, but think back to maybe spring
this year, did you have in your part of the country,
if you had a rainy spring, if you had humidity issues,
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if you had moisture issues. Right now it's dry, it's
a good time to tackle that. And where I'm going
with this is we had a lot of lot of
calls on basements that we're leaking on cross spaces that
were smelly and moldy and mildew Here's the question, did
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you ever do anything about that? Those problems do not
fix themselves. They go away like on vacation. Bad thing
is you come back from vacation and those problems will resurface.
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So you know, if it's something that was, oh, it's
not a problem anymore. I'm not worrying about And then
you call me in January and say, I got this
leak in the cross space. It's making water puddle and
it only does it when it rains. Yes, I know that.
I know that, and you play that game for a while,
but eventually you got to fix it. So we can
take calls on that too. Our phone number is eight
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hundred eight two three eight two five five and Ron welcome.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Hello Gary, Yes sir, yes, uh what and forget I
have a cam on a couple of our products. My
house has a Dutch flap vinyl sighting with the foam
backing on it. My neighbor's house has hardyboard. We both
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had well technical term for probably would be dunk growing
on the ends of our house on the north end
took an hour and a half and whatn't forget and
gave it a month and mine was cleared up. He
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hired his cleaned professionally. They used a power washer day
later and seven hundred dollars His was finished also, And
for that I gladly waited a month for seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
The best is yet to come, yes, because his is
going to get discolored faster than yours will. Right if
they just use a pressure washer and a lot of
people do this. It cleans the dirt, it cleans the mildew,
it cleans the fungus, it cleans it up. But you're
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just blasting it off. It's going to regrow, right, you know. So,
like I said, the best is yet to come.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Exactly great. Yesterday, yesterday afternoon, my son used the web
and Forget window and screen cleaner on the windows, and
then came inside and used the Jaws glass cleaner on
the interior side of the windows. And it's uh, I'm
(04:55):
narrowly blind and I couldn't see what they effect it
had it was, but he said it was like the
glass nearly disappeared.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Is that right? Well, I'll tell you that outside spray
that works really well, and it's really easy, and that
jaw's cleaner. I always say it. It makes it look
like crystal. It really does, right.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, Yeah, it was very satisfactory and yeah, and uh, incidentally,
what and forget shower, there is another excellent product that
we're well satisfied with. And on the on my deck.
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I had talked to you a couple of times about
a company called Premire Deck Coding in Indianapolis. They put
a ceramic coating on your.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Decky, sir.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We decided we were going to go with that. They
put it on on the first and second of July. Okay,
the first day they stand in powerwashed and put two
light coats on. They came back the next day and
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on the floor they put on in steps they put
on two heavier coats. The second one had an anti
slip greeny type material in it. Nice And according to
my friends and neighbors and Grella, they it looks great.
And I hope it looks as good in the next
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ten years as it does in the first ten weeks.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Well, good luck to you. I hope it does too,
because I totally agree. We spend way too much time
working on our decks and I hope that solves that problem.
And you know, boy, I've seen in the last month
or two, I've seen I've seen a couple of really
nasty decks. I don't know why, but it's just a
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deck can be such an asset to the house. And uh,
it wasn't long we hit a Three weeks ago. I
had a company called Moisture shield On. They have a
probably called insta deck. Pretty cool. As long as you're
deck's in goods, solid shape, it can go right over
an existing deck. It's got almost like a tracking that
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the composite decking can go on the tracking over the
existing deck. You can even do it out in the
yard if you wanted, without a support system. Anyway, I'm digressing,
but we do seem to work awfully hard getting our
decks just the way we want them. Hey, Mark, how
are you hi? Good doing well? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
That's good. So a few callers ago you discuss a
penetration for an outside clacet and you mentioned to the
woman that she should use the expanding foam around the pipe.
And as a flying contractor for the past forty years,
(08:17):
I can't tell you how irritated I get one than
people use experanding foam around the pipes because that sticks
to the pipe and and it makes it nearly impossible
to remove in the future when when you have to
change that for some reason.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That's not real brittle and just scrape off.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
No refetation, because you have a hole through the wood
and it sticks to the pipe and the wood and
it drives pretty solid, So it makes it almost impossible
to remove that, especially if it's one of those frost
free claucets. It's probably better to use something like, you know,
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regular the pink insulation, something that can be removed these
if that penetration needs to be worked on. Yeah, because
that stuff does I really hazard.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah, yeah, I hear you. I hear you. Now. Now
now my mind's wondering. I wonder if because there's two
different types of foams, and it's funny you bring this up,
because I was even thinking, Oh, one of the things
I didn't tell her is there's different types of foams,
and there's different expansion rates on foams. And the euthane
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foams is the ones that expands like time seven. Then
there's window and door foam, which is acrylic, which only
expands one and a half times. And I wonder if
there's a difference in removing that pipe depending on the
phone unless.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
You're most people are just gonna go grab that stuff called.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Great stuff, and that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah, And I can tell you that stuff sticks like crazy,
and it's impossible. If I have to have to remove
a pipe, yeah that's got the stuff on it, it
makes it nearly impossible and it's really hard to work.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, I got another question to ask you,
because you've intrigued me. Have you ever had one where
there was foam that was easily easier to remove than
the other or No?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
No, okay, that's anything. I mean, it's grateful for installing
windows and stuff like that, but yeah, any any pipes
that you have to remove in the future that's got
that stuff on it, It's just it drives me absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I'll back off that. You like that about as much
as you like a POxy plumbing repair.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, I appreciate that, all right. I just wanted to
give you my two cents.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Well, thank you, I appreciate that very much. Take care,
all right. Well, we'll stay away from that. Then. It
was interesting when he said that, or when I had
that call, I was thinking, oh, I forgot to tell
her not to use the real high rate of expansion.
Not so much about removing the pipe, because I wasn't
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aware of that, but more from a standpoint of it,
kind of making a basketball on the outside of that hole.
So anyway, thank you, Mark, I appreciate. All right, let's
take a break. We'll come back. We got Lynn and
Mike and Tim and if you'd like to join us,
do so. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
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Salmon for twenty two minutes after the top of the arm,
we're taking your calls regarding your home projects and maintenance
and repair and whatever you'd like to talk about in
terms of taking care of that home. That is the
for most of us, the biggest investment we'll make. And
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just like we uh, well, watch our money, we got
to watch our home and let's get back to those
phone calls again. It's eight hundred eighty two three eighty
two five five. Linda welcome.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Hello.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Yes, hi Gary, Hi, I have a question for you
about We bumped out the front of our house a
few years, like ten years ago, and put cedar siding
on the little bump out, and then I painted it
with something that was supposed to be protect the wood
from the sun because it's on the west side of
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the house and gets the hot afternoon sun. Well, it
didn't just coat the wood. It turned in an orange color,
which we never liked. So all these years later now
we want to do something to make that look nicer,
maybe stain it darker. But I look at it and
the stuff is like peel, not peeling, but flaking or something.
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Do we have to scrub that off of there before.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
We stay in the wood?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah? Yeah, I guess the first question is do you
know what you put on there?
Speaker 6 (15:36):
No, I don't have the can anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Was it a stain?
Speaker 6 (15:41):
It wasn't, except I'm sorry. Yeah, but it was gonna
put a little bit of color on it to protect
it from the hot sun.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Well, so we really like to look at the cedar,
but we didn't like how it looked.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
After we hated it, it made an orange.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Looking Yes, so we're using a couple of different words
that are gonna play a key factor in how we
take care of the problem. Okay, so your last thing,
you said, we painted it, and I know what you mean.
You brush this on. But there's there's several things. There's
a semi transparent stain that can look like walling, it
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can look like cedar. You can still see the texture,
you can see the wood grain. That's called a semi
transparent stain. And then there's you know, clear protectants like
polyurethanes and things like that that keep the natural color.
Then there's paint, you know, regular paint where it hides
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the ceedar. It's just a color, so it sounds and
paint a peal youu athane o peal. A semi transparent
stain usually won't peel. It'll soak into the wood, unless
too much was applied, then it'll lay on the surface
and it will peel. So think about that and then
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also think what you wanted to look like. Of the
three that I mentioned, the one that'll hold up the
best will be paint. And if you paint it, it'll
last ten years plus and you won't have to strip it.
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If you use the semi transparent stain. We're going to
need to strip that. And it's a bigger it's a
bigger project, that's all.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
That sounds like what's on there though it wasn't supposed
to hide the cedar, the grain of it or anything, Okay,
And then you want to keep it that way?
Speaker 7 (17:54):
Yes, we would if we could.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, well, I mean you can do anything. It's just
the the project's just bigger, that's all. So i'd almost
have to see it, whether I would think you could
see in that off or whether you would have to
use a stripper. There is a deck stripper for wood
decks that removes semi transparent stain, but a semi transparent stain.
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The advantage of that is you should be able to
put it on and put it on and put it on.
You might be doing it every three to four years,
but you should never have to strip it unless it's
over applied and it sounds like it is that or
it's a your thinge yeah, so I think where you're at,
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where you're at, then I think is if you want
it to be a wood stain color and see the grain,
using like a deck stripper to remove that, followed by
what they call a deck brightener, which is an oxalic acid,
open up the pores and then applying an exterior woodstains
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is probably what you're looking at if you were going
to paint it light standing, get rid of the flakiness
and use a self priming page. All right, we'll take
a break and come back. We got Tim and Mike.
If you'd like to join us, do so. It's eight
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let's get back to the phones. If you'd like to
join us, do so. We got a couple spots for you.
Mike welcome. Hey, yes, sir.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
I got I got two questions. One has to do
with this. I put it. I put it on as
weather stripping yesterday. It's been in my garage for years
in a coil in a plastic bag, but not the
bag it came in, so I don't know where I
got it or when.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
But it's not like the thick, the thick.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Weather stripping that's kind of soft and real flexible. It's
about three sixty inch inch wide black rubber or it
looks and feels like rubber strip in about an h
inch thick. But it's sticky on both sides. Do you
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know what that would be?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I don't none on both sides. And it isn't adhesive
or like a tape or something. Is just not the
rubber that would be breaking down would it and get sticky?
Speaker 9 (24:26):
No, it's because it's had the plastic backing on one side.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
For years and.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
I left some of it on. I left some of
the plastic on because if it's sticky on each side.
Then the door when it closes, it could pull it
loose and it sticks to the door. But the thing
is now it's still sticky on the side that's visible,
but it's not real sticky, and it seems a lot
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more secure against the door jam than when I put
it on yesterday. So I don't think it's gonna come loose.
But I'm just wondering if it's actually weather stripping or not.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
It doesn't sound like it's weather stripping. And again I
can't see it, so I don't know, but it doesn't
make sense that it would be weather stripping. It sounds
to me like it's something And I'll just like if
you had a pickup truck and you were putting like
a camper top on there, and you need it sticky
on both sides and you need to to you know,
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get some sort of sealant or seal there. Sounds like
that it'd be you something like that, but not for
a door.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
Okay. And then my question I called last week about
the sharpening the line where yeah, yeah, yeah, right, and.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
I wanted I I was told that maybe a.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
Shoot, what do you call it?
Speaker 8 (26:01):
The thing, uh, the thing that you sharpen knives on.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
A stone, a file or a stone not a file.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
It's it's like, I can't think of it. It's only
got one name, one word in the name, and it's
a short word. Oh, a wetstone. M do you think that?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Well, yeah, I mean it can work. I think the
problem is that blade is curved, and I think that's
where the problem becomes. If if memory search and this
goes back away. So and it's not anything I really
got involved in, but it seems like there was a
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jig or something that you had to use with a
type of stone or file, but a whetstone. Yeah, but
I don't know if that's going to lay flush on
that blade. That's what makes it so difficult to sharpen.
So I guess. And you know, wetstones are great for
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sharpening blades and knives and things, but I don't think
it's going to work on a real mower. That's our
ee l more so. Anyway, I obviously you haven't found
anybody sharpen that. If anybody knows of anybody that still
can sharpen that, I mean, he's out of Colorado. I'm
just curious if there's I guess somebody can do it.
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He said he found somebody. I think it was one
hundred miles away. It might be a good deal. Philip, welcome.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
Hello. Yes, I had a question about a roof. I
have a dimensional asphalt shingle roof that we've had in
place since two thousand and one, okay, and we had
issues with the mold. We had it cleaned and over
the years a lot of that's come off, so I
think it's warm quicker than what it should have because
it was like a fifty year shingle. I'll have that
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chance of that. But we've seen a product, and we've
had some leaks, and we've seen a product that it's
a silicone base that goes over the roof. A friend
of ours had used it. We've seen it out of
a couple places, but they only have it in bright white.
Do you have any recommendations other than say, putting metal
or another roof on, or would something like that just
kind of get us through for a little bit, or
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you would you not recommend that stuff at all?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Well, boy, that's a loaded question. Fifty year roofs are
there's a few out there now? Was there really a
shingled roof that was warranted for fifty years and two
thousand and one, it.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Might have been thirty thirty five, so I.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Think thirty years was probably about it. If my memory's
serving me. Thirty year shingle was a dimensional shingle, which
is pretty good. My thirty year roof less than about
twenty four years, which is I would say between twenty
four and twenty seven is really what you're going to
get out of it. U for that type of roof
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with a slope shingle roof, at this point, i'd replace it.
But to answer your question, I don't know of a
product that would be used for that that you would
apply yourself. There is a company out there, some online,
but yeah, yeah, I'm just not familiar with something you
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would use for yourself. There is a company that has
a product that they apply called roof Max and roof Max.
What it does is it's a ceilant that glues the
or refortifies the granular protection on the surface of the shingle,
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which can be applied. Does work. It lasts for five years.
You could reapply it every five years, but it really
depends on the state of failure that your roof's in.
So they'll come out look at it and say yes
it'll work or no it will not, based on what
you're telling me. I'm saying it's probably past that point,
(30:18):
but I don't Again, I can't see it, but it
sounds like it might be past that. But it's called
roof Max and it's not for everybody, but certainly fills
a niche. You know, if somebody's got a big investment,
they're only going to be there a couple of years.
Maybe that's the way you want to go without putting
a whole roof on.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
Okay, all right, any recommendations on metal roof anything to
stay away from, or.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I'll tell you. There's a very informative website I send
everybody to. It is just metalroofing dot com. It's the
Association Metal Roofing would be my dream. I love metal
roofing and you will get a fifty year one warranty
out of that. You'll get twenty five year on the
finish in fifty years on the performance. But I don't
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know about staying away from. You know, your range is
huge anymore? Uh, it's energy efficient, wind and fire certainly
has great benefits. You can have it where it looks
like shingles. You can have it blue. I mean, so
it's going to depend on where you leave live and
(31:29):
you know, if there's any uh, you know, if you
live in a suburban area, there may be an h
o A. You might want to run and buy them
before you do it. But you can also have it
looked like a shingled roof. But no, I think they're
they're wonderful, about two and a half times the cost. Uh,
but you know, probably be the last roof you ever buy. Right, Okay,
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I appreciate it dot com very good, thank you, thank you,
bet By. All right, breaks in order. We got uh,
Joni and Meghan and Mary and if you'd like to
join us, do so. It's eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five year at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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Thanks for joining me, talk little home improvement and if
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feel free to join us. It's eight hundred A two
three A two five five and Danny's ready to take
your call Mary welcome.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Hi there, Hello, can you hear hi? Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
I can?
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Okay, Sorry, I started driving again. So I got a
front door that I wanted to paint. And it's one
of those front doors. It's got like the wood green
finish okay, but and with the like an oval window
in the middle. And it's not wood, correct, right, it's not.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Wood, okay.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
And what's coming it's it's flaking off. Somebody probably you're
a thane. I've been there twelve years and I haven't
done anything to it other than wipe it down.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Well, now I was thinking, can I paint it?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
You can? You can. So what you have is you
have a fiberglass entry door and you can paint. You
can stain, you can. My guess is it was factory stained.
And they have a special your thane that they use
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on those doors. They use a spar your thane or
a marine your thinge. You wouldn't use a polyurethane doesn't
have enough UV resistance to the sun, and it breaks down,
it gets little tiny pinholes in it, and before it
gets too bad, you could you know, use like a
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wet dry sandpaper and you know make you know, rough
it up just a little bit and reapply a spar
a marine your thinge. Once it starts peeling, you're pretty
much at that point where you're gonna strip off that
finish or you're gonna lightly saying that you're gonna have
to make it smooth. You don't want to see any
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of the peeling or anything along nose lines.
Speaker 5 (37:07):
Yeah, it's got the grain kind of thing though.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Right, well, that you're not going to change. I mean
that wood grain will kind of it'll kind of show.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
I'm sorry, what type of paint could I put on it?
After I stand it and clean it all down.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Yeah, well, you got a couple of choices. It depends
what you want it to look like. You can use.
I'll use the Sherman Williams brand. I'm most familiar with that.
They have one called Emerald, which comes in a flat,
comes in a satin, comes in a semi gloss. You
could certainly use that. It's got a little bit a
little bit of texture to it, but not significant. Or
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if you wanted to look very smooth, like a good
oil based paint, very smooth, there's a shrew William's product.
It's also the Emerald category. But it's not the house paint.
It's the Emerald eurethane trim enamel. It's a little slower
drying so you can brush it out better and it's smoother.
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And it comes again. This one comes in a satin
semigloss or gloss.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
So it's got to be that enamel kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Well, it doesn't have to be the first one I
mentioned was regular house.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Paint, which is oh okay.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
The Emerald house paint, which comes in flat satin or semigloss.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Well, I was thinking about painting and a color, so
not wood.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Well, they all come in colors. I mean, you have
a choice of any color you want really on either
one of those.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
To go talk to the guy at Sherwin Williams.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
They yeah, So, like I said, he'll have a regular
house paint that you can you know, it's self priming.
You'll have to get the peeling paint or the peeling
cealan there, and then you can use a regular house paint,
whether the Emerald or their house super paint, you know,
just regular house paint, or you can use a modified
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acrylic enamo, or you can use like the Emerald, you're
thane trimming namo. I mean pretty much, any exterior paint
is going to work on that door. It's just really
what you.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
Want, okay, So any exterior paint will work off.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yes, yes, you know, whether you have to prime it
or not will depend on the one you pick, because
like the Emerald is self priming, this super paint would
not be self priming. You'd have to put a primer
on first. So, like I said, it really depends on
the finish you're looking for. And from there and the
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cost of the paint will factor in and then you
can go from there. But all of them will stick.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
Okay, Well, hopefully they have a little because that's all
I got the paint.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
All you need is a court and they will have
a court of it.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
All right, Well I will, I will go there.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Very good, all right, thank you much, appreciate it. Yes,
and remember and I preach it all the time, and
I can't preach it enough. Preperation, preparation of the surface
is the key to success. That's step one. Once you
have it properly prepared, and you know it is fiberglass,
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so you can use you know, the the the the
demod global paint strippers that we were talking about last week.
You can certainly use that the smart strip smart strip
advantage that'll take that finish off. And then it really
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depends on the quality of paint you want, and there
are difference in prices, I'm telling you, and it's crazy,
but you know you'll think it's crazy, but that that
Emerald urthane trimming animal is probably thirty five dollars a
can a court there's probably one hundred dollars a gallon.
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It's fantastic, it's smooth, and that would be my ideal.
That doesn't mean it has to be yours. Then there's
the Emerald house paint, and then the super paint, and
then a modified oil and the curlykeing anmals. I mean
you can use them all. Some are going to hold
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up to the sun. What kind of facing do you have?
So yeah, you'll have choice of products, but the key,
the key is the prep. And it's always the case
if you don't have a good, clean, bondable surface, you're
gonna be dissatisfied. And there's things to consider too if
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you've got there's so many products out there now it
really depends on the facing of the house too. But
like that Emerald house paint that I was talking about
they have some an emerald house paint and a duration
house paint, both show Williams products. One you don't want
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to use when ends ninety degrees in the sun because
it'll dry in a minute, in a hot minute, whereas
the Emerald has a slower drying time. Now you say,
what difference does it make? Well, the difference is if
you're going to brush that paint, and I'm talking a
good quality brush. I know I'm preaching having it dry
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less quickly is going to allow you to get a
better film of paint on that door. You don't want
to dry too fast. So choosing that pain as is,
and it's very important. It's just like having that substrate
properly prepared. In the wood green, you'll still see the
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wood green, it just won't be wood color. You'll see
the graining because that graining, and a lot of the doors,
not all of them, but a lot of the doors.
It's actually embrassed into that fiberglass door. So it's not
super smooth. So if it's not super smooth, you'd probably
want a satin or a flat, probably don't want a gloss.
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So a lot to consider. Nothing's easy, right, A lot
to consider all right. We'll take your calls in the
next hour. We got Megan and Vicki and Todd and Larry.
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Well, the weekend, it is welcome. You're at home with
Gary Salvan, marching through another weekend, getting a few things
done around the home. And I don't know, I hope
you got some great weather and you're part of the
country and maybe can tackle some of those projects. We've
had a couple of questions, you know. One of the
things we haven't talked about today, we haven't talked about
in the last month or so. And the beginning of
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it seems like that's all we talked about, was controlling water,
controlling moisture, controlling humidity. Then all of a sudden, where
I'm at and in many parts of the country, we
hid you know, drought City, USA, and well that talk
quickly faded, which kind of brings me full circle. As
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you're thinking about, you know, things to work on around
your home, not that we're ever in a drought of
things to work on, but think back to maybe spring
this year, did you have in your part of the country,
if you had a rainy spring, if you had humidity issues,
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if you had moisture issues. Right now it's dry, it's
a good time to tackle that. And where I'm going
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calls on basements that we're leaking on cross spaces that
were smelly and moldy and mildew Here's the question, did
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you ever do anything about that? Those problems do not
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So you know, if it's something that was, oh, it's
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I know that, and you play that game for a while,
but eventually you got to fix it. So we can
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Hello Gary, Yes sir, yes, uh what and forget I
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took an hour and a half and whatn't forget and
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The best is yet to come, yes, because his is
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it cleans the fungus, it cleans it up. But you're
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just blasting it off. It's going to regrow, right, you know. So,
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had it was, but he said it was like the
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I had talked to you a couple of times about
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Speaker 1 (05:50):
Decky, sir.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We decided we were going to go with that. They
put it on on the first and second of July. Okay,
the first day they stand in powerwashed and put two
light coats on. They came back the next day and
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on the floor they put on in steps they put
on two heavier coats. The second one had an anti
slip greeny type material in it. Nice And according to
my friends and neighbors and Grella, they it looks great.
And I hope it looks as good in the next
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ten years as it does in the first ten weeks.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Well, good luck to you. I hope it does too,
because I totally agree. We spend way too much time
working on our decks and I hope that solves that problem.
And you know, boy, I've seen in the last month
or two, I've seen I've seen a couple of really
nasty decks. I don't know why, but it's just a
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deck can be such an asset to the house. And uh,
it wasn't long we hit a Three weeks ago. I
had a company called Moisture shield On. They have a
probably called insta deck. Pretty cool. As long as you're
deck's in goods, solid shape, it can go right over
an existing deck. It's got almost like a tracking that
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the composite decking can go on the tracking over the
existing deck. You can even do it out in the
yard if you wanted, without a support system. Anyway, I'm digressing,
but we do seem to work awfully hard getting our
decks just the way we want them. Hey, Mark, how
are you hi? Good doing well? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
That's good. So a few callers ago you discuss a
penetration for an outside clacet and you mentioned to the
woman that she should use the expanding foam around the pipe.
And as a flying contractor for the past forty years,
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I can't tell you how irritated I get one than
people use experanding foam around the pipes because that sticks
to the pipe and and it makes it nearly impossible
to remove in the future when when you have to
change that for some reason.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That's not real brittle and just scrape off.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
No refetation, because you have a hole through the wood
and it sticks to the pipe and the wood and
it drives pretty solid, So it makes it almost impossible
to remove that, especially if it's one of those frost
free claucets. It's probably better to use something like, you know,
(09:01):
regular the pink insulation, something that can be removed these
if that penetration needs to be worked on. Yeah, because
that stuff does I really hazard.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah, yeah, I hear you. I hear you. Now. Now
now my mind's wondering. I wonder if because there's two
different types of foams, and it's funny you bring this up,
because I was even thinking, Oh, one of the things
I didn't tell her is there's different types of foams,
and there's different expansion rates on foams. And the euthane
(09:34):
foams is the ones that expands like time seven. Then
there's window and door foam, which is acrylic, which only
expands one and a half times. And I wonder if
there's a difference in removing that pipe depending on the
phone unless.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
You're most people are just gonna go grab that stuff called.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Great stuff, and that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah, And I can tell you that stuff sticks like crazy,
and it's impossible. If I have to have to remove
a pipe, yeah that's got the stuff on it, it
makes it nearly impossible and it's really hard to work.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, I got another question to ask you,
because you've intrigued me. Have you ever had one where
there was foam that was easily easier to remove than
the other or No?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
No, okay, that's anything. I mean, it's grateful for installing
windows and stuff like that, but yeah, any any pipes
that you have to remove in the future that's got
that stuff on it, It's just it drives me absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I'll back off that. You like that about as much
as you like a POxy plumbing repair.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, I appreciate that, all right. I just wanted to
give you my two cents.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Well, thank you, I appreciate that very much. Take care,
all right. Well, we'll stay away from that. Then. It
was interesting when he said that, or when I had
that call, I was thinking, oh, I forgot to tell
her not to use the real high rate of expansion.
Not so much about removing the pipe, because I wasn't
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aware of that, but more from a standpoint of it,
kind of making a basketball on the outside of that hole.
So anyway, thank you, Mark, I appreciate. All right, let's
take a break. We'll come back. We got Lynn and
Mike and Tim and if you'd like to join us,
do so. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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phone calls again. It's eight hundred eighty two three eighty
two five five. Linda welcome.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Hello.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Yes, hi Gary, Hi, I have a question for you
about We bumped out the front of our house a
few years, like ten years ago, and put cedar siding
on the little bump out, and then I painted it
with something that was supposed to be protect the wood
from the sun because it's on the west side of
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the house and gets the hot afternoon sun. Well, it
didn't just coat the wood. It turned in an orange color,
which we never liked. So all these years later now
we want to do something to make that look nicer,
maybe stain it darker. But I look at it and
the stuff is like peel, not peeling, but flaking or something.
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Do we have to scrub that off of there before.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
We stay in the wood?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah? Yeah, I guess the first question is do you
know what you put on there?
Speaker 6 (15:36):
No, I don't have the can anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Was it a stain?
Speaker 6 (15:41):
It wasn't, except I'm sorry. Yeah, but it was gonna
put a little bit of color on it to protect
it from the hot sun.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Well, so we really like to look at the cedar,
but we didn't like how it looked.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
After we hated it, it made an orange.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Looking Yes, so we're using a couple of different words
that are gonna play a key factor in how we
take care of the problem. Okay, so your last thing,
you said, we painted it, and I know what you mean.
You brush this on. But there's there's several things. There's
a semi transparent stain that can look like walling, it
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can look like cedar. You can still see the texture,
you can see the wood grain. That's called a semi
transparent stain. And then there's you know, clear protectants like
polyurethanes and things like that that keep the natural color.
Then there's paint, you know, regular paint where it hides
(16:43):
the ceedar. It's just a color, so it sounds and
paint a peal youu athane o peal. A semi transparent
stain usually won't peel. It'll soak into the wood, unless
too much was applied, then it'll lay on the surface
and it will peel. So think about that and then
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also think what you wanted to look like. Of the
three that I mentioned, the one that'll hold up the
best will be paint. And if you paint it, it'll
last ten years plus and you won't have to strip it.
(17:28):
If you use the semi transparent stain. We're going to
need to strip that. And it's a bigger it's a
bigger project, that's all.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
That sounds like what's on there though it wasn't supposed
to hide the cedar, the grain of it or anything, Okay,
And then you want to keep it that way?
Speaker 7 (17:54):
Yes, we would if we could.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, well, I mean you can do anything. It's just
the the project's just bigger, that's all. So i'd almost
have to see it, whether I would think you could
see in that off or whether you would have to
use a stripper. There is a deck stripper for wood
decks that removes semi transparent stain, but a semi transparent stain.
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The advantage of that is you should be able to
put it on and put it on and put it on.
You might be doing it every three to four years,
but you should never have to strip it unless it's
over applied and it sounds like it is that or
it's a your thinge yeah, so I think where you're at,
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where you're at, then I think is if you want
it to be a wood stain color and see the grain,
using like a deck stripper to remove that, followed by
what they call a deck brightener, which is an oxalic acid,
open up the pores and then applying an exterior woodstains
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is probably what you're looking at if you were going
to paint it light standing, get rid of the flakiness
and use a self priming page. All right, we'll take
a break and come back. We got Tim and Mike.
If you'd like to join us, do so. It's eight
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just kind of catch up and just conversation on different
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maybe a little bit easier, feel free to pick that up.
Danny's got it all listed out. It's on the iHeart
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(23:01):
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the show and the products it might be something you
want to catch up on. All right, Having said that,
let's get back to the phones. If you'd like to
join us, do so. We got a couple spots for you.
Mike welcome. Hey, yes, sir.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
I got I got two questions. One has to do
with this. I put it. I put it on as
weather stripping yesterday. It's been in my garage for years
in a coil in a plastic bag, but not the
bag it came in, so I don't know where I
got it or when.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
But it's not like the thick, the thick.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Weather stripping that's kind of soft and real flexible. It's
about three sixty inch inch wide black rubber or it
looks and feels like rubber strip in about an h
inch thick. But it's sticky on both sides. Do you
(24:12):
know what that would be?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I don't none on both sides. And it isn't adhesive
or like a tape or something. Is just not the
rubber that would be breaking down would it and get sticky?
Speaker 9 (24:26):
No, it's because it's had the plastic backing on one side.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
For years and.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
I left some of it on. I left some of
the plastic on because if it's sticky on each side.
Then the door when it closes, it could pull it
loose and it sticks to the door. But the thing
is now it's still sticky on the side that's visible,
but it's not real sticky, and it seems a lot
(24:57):
more secure against the door jam than when I put
it on yesterday. So I don't think it's gonna come loose.
But I'm just wondering if it's actually weather stripping or not.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
It doesn't sound like it's weather stripping. And again I
can't see it, so I don't know, but it doesn't
make sense that it would be weather stripping. It sounds
to me like it's something And I'll just like if
you had a pickup truck and you were putting like
a camper top on there, and you need it sticky
on both sides and you need to to you know,
(25:28):
get some sort of sealant or seal there. Sounds like
that it'd be you something like that, but not for
a door.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
Okay. And then my question I called last week about
the sharpening the line where yeah, yeah, yeah, right, and.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
I wanted I I was told that maybe a.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
Shoot, what do you call it?
Speaker 8 (26:01):
The thing, uh, the thing that you sharpen knives on.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
A stone, a file or a stone not a file.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
It's it's like, I can't think of it. It's only
got one name, one word in the name, and it's
a short word. Oh, a wetstone. M do you think that?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Well, yeah, I mean it can work. I think the
problem is that blade is curved, and I think that's
where the problem becomes. If if memory search and this
goes back away. So and it's not anything I really
got involved in, but it seems like there was a
(26:46):
jig or something that you had to use with a
type of stone or file, but a whetstone. Yeah, but
I don't know if that's going to lay flush on
that blade. That's what makes it so difficult to sharpen.
So I guess. And you know, wetstones are great for
(27:08):
sharpening blades and knives and things, but I don't think
it's going to work on a real mower. That's our
ee l more so. Anyway, I obviously you haven't found
anybody sharpen that. If anybody knows of anybody that still
can sharpen that, I mean, he's out of Colorado. I'm
just curious if there's I guess somebody can do it.
(27:30):
He said he found somebody. I think it was one
hundred miles away. It might be a good deal. Philip, welcome.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
Hello. Yes, I had a question about a roof. I
have a dimensional asphalt shingle roof that we've had in
place since two thousand and one, okay, and we had
issues with the mold. We had it cleaned and over
the years a lot of that's come off, so I
think it's warm quicker than what it should have because
it was like a fifty year shingle. I'll have that
(28:00):
chance of that. But we've seen a product, and we've
had some leaks, and we've seen a product that it's
a silicone base that goes over the roof. A friend
of ours had used it. We've seen it out of
a couple places, but they only have it in bright white.
Do you have any recommendations other than say, putting metal
or another roof on, or would something like that just
kind of get us through for a little bit, or
(28:22):
you would you not recommend that stuff at all?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Well, boy, that's a loaded question. Fifty year roofs are
there's a few out there now? Was there really a
shingled roof that was warranted for fifty years and two
thousand and one, it.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Might have been thirty thirty five, so I.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Think thirty years was probably about it. If my memory's
serving me. Thirty year shingle was a dimensional shingle, which
is pretty good. My thirty year roof less than about
twenty four years, which is I would say between twenty
four and twenty seven is really what you're going to
get out of it. U for that type of roof
(29:08):
with a slope shingle roof, at this point, i'd replace it.
But to answer your question, I don't know of a
product that would be used for that that you would
apply yourself. There is a company out there, some online,
but yeah, yeah, I'm just not familiar with something you
(29:29):
would use for yourself. There is a company that has
a product that they apply called roof Max and roof Max.
What it does is it's a ceilant that glues the
or refortifies the granular protection on the surface of the shingle,
(29:51):
which can be applied. Does work. It lasts for five years.
You could reapply it every five years, but it really
depends on the state of failure that your roof's in.
So they'll come out look at it and say yes
it'll work or no it will not, based on what
you're telling me. I'm saying it's probably past that point,
(30:18):
but I don't Again, I can't see it, but it
sounds like it might be past that. But it's called
roof Max and it's not for everybody, but certainly fills
a niche. You know, if somebody's got a big investment,
they're only going to be there a couple of years.
Maybe that's the way you want to go without putting
a whole roof on.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
Okay, all right, any recommendations on metal roof anything to
stay away from, or.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I'll tell you. There's a very informative website I send
everybody to. It is just metalroofing dot com. It's the
Association Metal Roofing would be my dream. I love metal
roofing and you will get a fifty year one warranty
out of that. You'll get twenty five year on the
finish in fifty years on the performance. But I don't
(31:08):
know about staying away from. You know, your range is
huge anymore? Uh, it's energy efficient, wind and fire certainly
has great benefits. You can have it where it looks
like shingles. You can have it blue. I mean, so
it's going to depend on where you leave live and
(31:29):
you know, if there's any uh, you know, if you
live in a suburban area, there may be an h
o A. You might want to run and buy them
before you do it. But you can also have it
looked like a shingled roof. But no, I think they're
they're wonderful, about two and a half times the cost. Uh,
but you know, probably be the last roof you ever buy. Right, Okay,
(31:53):
I appreciate it dot com very good, thank you, thank you,
bet By. All right, breaks in order. We got uh,
Joni and Meghan and Mary and if you'd like to
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through the weekend, we are getting a lot of ideas
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Thanks for joining me, talk little home improvement and if
you've got a question regarding a project around your home,
feel free to join us. It's eight hundred A two
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your call Mary welcome.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Hi there, Hello, can you hear hi? Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
I can?
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Okay, Sorry, I started driving again. So I got a
front door that I wanted to paint. And it's one
of those front doors. It's got like the wood green
finish okay, but and with the like an oval window
in the middle. And it's not wood, correct, right, it's not.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Wood, okay.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
And what's coming it's it's flaking off. Somebody probably you're
a thane. I've been there twelve years and I haven't
done anything to it other than wipe it down.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Well, now I was thinking, can I paint it?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
You can? You can. So what you have is you
have a fiberglass entry door and you can paint. You
can stain, you can. My guess is it was factory stained.
And they have a special your thane that they use
(36:16):
on those doors. They use a spar your thane or
a marine your thinge. You wouldn't use a polyurethane doesn't
have enough UV resistance to the sun, and it breaks down,
it gets little tiny pinholes in it, and before it
gets too bad, you could you know, use like a
(36:40):
wet dry sandpaper and you know make you know, rough
it up just a little bit and reapply a spar
a marine your thinge. Once it starts peeling, you're pretty
much at that point where you're gonna strip off that
finish or you're gonna lightly saying that you're gonna have
to make it smooth. You don't want to see any
(37:03):
of the peeling or anything along nose lines.
Speaker 5 (37:07):
Yeah, it's got the grain kind of thing though.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Right, well, that you're not going to change. I mean
that wood grain will kind of it'll kind of show.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
I'm sorry, what type of paint could I put on it?
After I stand it and clean it all down.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Yeah, well, you got a couple of choices. It depends
what you want it to look like. You can use.
I'll use the Sherman Williams brand. I'm most familiar with that.
They have one called Emerald, which comes in a flat,
comes in a satin, comes in a semi gloss. You
could certainly use that. It's got a little bit a
little bit of texture to it, but not significant. Or
(37:53):
if you wanted to look very smooth, like a good
oil based paint, very smooth, there's a shrew William's product.
It's also the Emerald category. But it's not the house paint.
It's the Emerald eurethane trim enamel. It's a little slower
drying so you can brush it out better and it's smoother.
(38:15):
And it comes again. This one comes in a satin
semigloss or gloss.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
So it's got to be that enamel kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Well, it doesn't have to be the first one I
mentioned was regular house.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Paint, which is oh okay.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
The Emerald house paint, which comes in flat satin or semigloss.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Well, I was thinking about painting and a color, so
not wood.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Well, they all come in colors. I mean, you have
a choice of any color you want really on either
one of those.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
To go talk to the guy at Sherwin Williams.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
They yeah, So, like I said, he'll have a regular
house paint that you can you know, it's self priming.
You'll have to get the peeling paint or the peeling
cealan there, and then you can use a regular house paint,
whether the Emerald or their house super paint, you know,
just regular house paint, or you can use a modified
(39:11):
acrylic enamo, or you can use like the Emerald, you're
thane trimming namo. I mean pretty much, any exterior paint
is going to work on that door. It's just really
what you.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
Want, okay, So any exterior paint will work off.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yes, yes, you know, whether you have to prime it
or not will depend on the one you pick, because
like the Emerald is self priming, this super paint would
not be self priming. You'd have to put a primer
on first. So, like I said, it really depends on
the finish you're looking for. And from there and the
(39:51):
cost of the paint will factor in and then you
can go from there. But all of them will stick.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
Okay, Well, hopefully they have a little because that's all
I got the paint.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
All you need is a court and they will have
a court of it.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
All right, Well I will, I will go there.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Very good, all right, thank you much, appreciate it. Yes,
and remember and I preach it all the time, and
I can't preach it enough. Preperation, preparation of the surface
is the key to success. That's step one. Once you
have it properly prepared, and you know it is fiberglass,
(40:32):
so you can use you know, the the the the
demod global paint strippers that we were talking about last week.
You can certainly use that the smart strip smart strip
advantage that'll take that finish off. And then it really
(40:54):
depends on the quality of paint you want, and there
are difference in prices, I'm telling you, and it's crazy,
but you know you'll think it's crazy, but that that
Emerald urthane trimming animal is probably thirty five dollars a
can a court there's probably one hundred dollars a gallon.
(41:15):
It's fantastic, it's smooth, and that would be my ideal.
That doesn't mean it has to be yours. Then there's
the Emerald house paint, and then the super paint, and
then a modified oil and the curlykeing anmals. I mean
you can use them all. Some are going to hold
(41:35):
up to the sun. What kind of facing do you have?
So yeah, you'll have choice of products, but the key,
the key is the prep. And it's always the case
if you don't have a good, clean, bondable surface, you're
gonna be dissatisfied. And there's things to consider too if
(41:56):
you've got there's so many products out there now it
really depends on the facing of the house too. But
like that Emerald house paint that I was talking about
they have some an emerald house paint and a duration
house paint, both show Williams products. One you don't want
(42:20):
to use when ends ninety degrees in the sun because
it'll dry in a minute, in a hot minute, whereas
the Emerald has a slower drying time. Now you say,
what difference does it make? Well, the difference is if
you're going to brush that paint, and I'm talking a
good quality brush. I know I'm preaching having it dry
(42:46):
less quickly is going to allow you to get a
better film of paint on that door. You don't want
to dry too fast. So choosing that pain as is,
and it's very important. It's just like having that substrate
properly prepared. In the wood green, you'll still see the
(43:08):
wood green, it just won't be wood color. You'll see
the graining because that graining, and a lot of the doors,
not all of them, but a lot of the doors.
It's actually embrassed into that fiberglass door. So it's not
super smooth. So if it's not super smooth, you'd probably
want a satin or a flat, probably don't want a gloss.
(43:31):
So a lot to consider. Nothing's easy, right, A lot
to consider all right. We'll take your calls in the
next hour. We got Megan and Vicki and Todd and Larry.
And if you'd like to join us police do Our
phone number is eight hundred and eight two three eight
two five five. And if they haven't tried to wit
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how wonderful it is, and we learned a little bit
about it. Also, it's available of Loewe's Walmart. Ace and
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