September 13, 2025 • 39 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, best time of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
You did your home, didn't you.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It is about five years ago. It still looks good.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, yeah, it's held up quite nicely. Yes, all right,
let's get back to the phones. We got Megan, Megan welcome.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Hi Gary. Quick question for you. I am powerwashing a
super fence and I have a way to go. Not
sure I'm going to be able to stain it before
the weather changes. Okay, if I spray it was wet
and forget, you know, to hold what you know, so
I don't go backwards. Will I be able to stain
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it in the spring or will there still be residue
left over from wet and forget that. We'll react with
the stain.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
No, you should be able to stain it, certainly in
the in the springtime. Yeah, yeah, that residue should be gone.
How long you think it's going to take you to
wrap up that cedar fence?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Well, it took me a couple hours to it's on
the I mean there's I don't know if it's ever
been done. It's of course at my daughter's house. I
don't know if it's ever been done. And it's one
of those parental projects, yes, as we all do. So anyways,
they I it took me a couple hours to just
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get for like, well probably fifteen twenty feet done. So
it's gonna and I probably have I have a ways
to go because yah, so.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Tell me about this. What are you you're going to
restain it? Is that what you're going to do?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Okay, And and it's stayed. Now is it a solid
fence or is it a rail fence or what?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
It is one of those that it's like every other
panel is on the other side, like it's a cedar
fence with every it's got your main like support posts
in the middle. And then a panel on one side,
panel on the other panel like, uh, yeah, I know
there's a name for it.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I just yeah, yeah, I can visualize it.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So, yeah, if you sprayed Wet and Forget on there now,
and you know it's mil dewy and just kind of grungy,
it will eliminate its loss.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
It's everything out there.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, it'll you know, it's like uh Teresa said today
when we were talking, and it's you know, it's six weeks.
She said, two months, but it could be four weeks.
It really just depends. Right now. We also discussed is
a perfect time to do it, So it will.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It will eliminate it before spring.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
It will have a residual on it which will keep
it from reoccurring for up to a year, and and
so you'll be able to stain it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
You should have no problem with that at all.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Because I don't think the Wet and Thread Forget is
going to be strong enough to eat through everything by
next spring.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Even well.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Actually, one of the things I was going to even
interject in severe cases and I haven't had many, but
actually Teresa from Wet and Forget has told me different
projects they did where the moss was literally you know,
three quarters of an inch thick on a surface.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
That they would have to reapply a couple times.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
So it may be if it's if it's bad enough,
it may take a reapplication. But you know, you you
could even reapply mid November, you know it.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I wouldn't even have to waste, would You're you're suggesting
I don't even necessarily have to power wash right now?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh no, just.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Use the wet and forget. Yeah, just use the wet
forget sure, Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, in fact, you know, because the power washer is
cleaning the surface. But I'm telling you it's not totally
killing it. Some of those roots can still be into
that wood, and you know, with the wet and forget,
it's a total kill That's why you get that actual residual.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
So it's actually a better to do it that way.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Okay, all right, well then yeah, i'd be able to
get two quotes of if she's saying two months, then.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, you'd still have time. And you know, you could
do it a couple of different ways. You could do
that hose en spray, but they also make the wet
and forget in a concentrate where you can put it
in a and this is up to you. You can
put it in like a three gallon tank sprayer and
dilute it.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
And that's what I think i'd want to do. Yeah,
I think there's house is next door, and there's other
people's property on either side, which i'd want to be respectful.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, No, I think that'd be better. I agree.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Okay, all right, perfect washer away.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Good for something, all right, get you out of a job.
That's good for something, and people don't understand, but it
really does a better job than a power washer. And
believe me, nobody likes a powerwasher more than I do.
But sometimes it's really about the cleaner and the cleansers
you're using to get that total kill.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
All right, let's go to Larry. Larry welcome, Yeah, Hi,
thanks for taking my call. You're quite welcome.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
So let me explain. My son has a house built
two thousand and three, new built two thousand and three,
and it's Marvin windows, wooden windows, double on thermopane, and
he repainted. The windows are in great shape, but the
weather stripping is terrible. It's old and it's like a
too of you know. These are these are the tilt
in windows. It's like a tubular weather weather stripping kind
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of like a rubberized fabric that's decomposing, and then it
has a little fin that goes into a groove on
the side of the windows.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Uh huh.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Any, we're having trouble finding a replacement, Marvin isn't helping.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Hmm. That's surprising because that's exactly where I was going
to tell you to go, because that product was manufactured
just for their windows.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Yeah, so, well they really want to sell new windows,
why I know.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
But is there is So when you say Marvin isn't helping,
who's Marvin? Is this the place that's making them or
is this the place that's selling windows in your area?
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Well, that would be it the rep.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, I would go on their website. I don't know
if they list their weather stripping there or not, but
there's usually a phone number for technical services.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
And very popular windows.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
So they're great window.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, they're great windows, they really are. But I would
go to their website and even their corporate technical services
and see if you can find a plate. Sometimes they're
on the bottom if they pull out. Sometimes they're on
the sides of plate with a model number of the window. Sure,
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but I would work through the Corporation rather than the
showroom where they're trying to sell Marvin windows. The next
place I would look like. I know there is a
place in the city that I live in where there
is a window parts dealer. He is over six million
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parts from windows back over one hundred years. It's called
Pickens p I C K E N S. Pickens Windows Service.
If you have a place, you know with window parts,
I know there's Western Window Parts in Cleveland, also Ohio.
If there's one up there in Massachusetts, Larry, they may
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be able to direct you.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Also, Chicken, where are you What town are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I'm in Cincinnati. Oh okay, So another option for you.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Well, another option is, I mean, if I can't find
them locally here, then we contact them in Cincinnati and
I'm sure they've.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Got yeah, maybe they can help you or yeah yeah, sure, sure,
yes sir.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Great, all right, thanks for your hope.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You're quite welcome. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
All right, twelve fifteen it is. We'll take a break
and then we got Vicky and Todd. By the way,
if you'd like to jump on board, there's a spot
for you. It's eight hundred A two three A two
five five. Go ahead and grab a line. You're at
home with Gary Salvin right here on fifty five KRC,
the talk station. All right, talking a little home improvement.
(09:25):
Feel free to join us. I'd love to talk about
your project. And we got open lines, so go ahead
and grab a couple. We got Vicky, Vicky Welcome.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Hi, Hello in Cincinnati. Huh, I'm from around there.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
There you go, all right.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
We had two years ago, we had our driveway black topped.
Also we had a new roof and we had the
gutters planed out. I noticed this was all in a
few months time and everything like that. But I noticed
one of the ways windows, even after I had washed
it at least three times, it just doesn't come clean.
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It's on the outside. The windows are not real old
or anything like that. Our house is about fifty some
years old, but this window will not get planed. I
don't know what I should do if there should be
something stronger than I use. And it's just like white
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spotches on the outside. Well, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well, a professional window cleaner would do this, And I
don't really always recommend it to people because you know,
it's it's a little scary when I tell you what
it is. They'll take a pail of water and they'll
put some dawn liquid soap in it, and they'll take.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
For steel wool.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
Okay, still will and they'll.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Keep that steel wool wet and they will clean it
with steel wool and soapy water. Now, you may not
want to do that because it's kind of scary. You
go scratch the glass or not. But that's how a professional.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Would clean that.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
What I'll ask people to do, which seems a little
bit safer, is to take a barkeeper's friend and water
on a cotton cloth and scrub with that. Barkeeper's friend
is oxalic acid. It's wood bleach.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It takes off.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Different you know, water, spots, pine tar. It will clean
it up fairly well too. Or you can try the
steel wool method.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Well, I probably would try the first. So how much
percentage wise? Barkeeper's friend and water and do I just
put it on there dry?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Well, you would wet the wet the cotton cloth and
sprinkle a little barkeeper's friend on.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Just keep working that in there. Yeah, just keeping some
of the powder.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Does it help if you go in circles or I
don't know, I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Just going to take a little elbow grease. I don't
think it matters which way you're going. You're just working
on the surface. It's not going to damage the glass
at all. But that that's probably what i'd use. That's
after I've used you know, you know, really good glass cleaners.
I talk about the Jaws glass cleaner all the time.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
It does good.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
But sometimes you know, if you get tar, you know
tar the pine trees near a house can get a
residue on there that's very difficult to remove. I haven't
had that issue, but I know that is an issue.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Well, let me ask you one more thing, if I
could thank you or hurry. We have a falsehood out
front and one in the back, and I use it
quite a bit for my flowers and so forth. And
I got bought a new hose and so forth, and
we and I noticed that even with hosts being taken off,
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I mean, excrewting the false doing the falset as tight
as I could get it, it drips, I mean, And
people say, well, you haven't had it tight enough. Well,
I know I do. And then we had someone come
and change the washes on it. And then even with that,
with that, I had a built container under it and
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it fills the whole milk container up and just probably
an hour or two hours. So he's going to come
and do something. He's he's a licensed plummer. I mean
we had n't we had it. He's not completely licensed,
That's what I'm saying. If you had that, what would
you recommend.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Well, I guess you got to figure out whether it's
coming from the hose or it's coming from underneath the
handle of the faucet.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
No, it's not coming from the hose because I've already
detached that. I touched that and he turned the water
off in our basement. Uh huh, so we wouldn't have
any drips. So we I think We've gone down all avenues.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
And it well, it sounds like it needs the washers
and the faucets changed or.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
That valve change he did that. He did that, he
changed the change, was right?
Speaker 7 (14:47):
Do that?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Before we realized it was before we realized there was
a league. I mean he did that because I you know,
I don't know. But so if he.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Changed whole faucet, well that'd be the next step. So
there's several It depends on the type of valve. So
it's hard for me to answer. If it's a regular
faucet outdoor faucet valve, there's a washer in there, which
is fairly conventional. You know, you take the nut off
underneath the handle, you pull out the stem, you replace
the washer at the bottom, and then there's a packing
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inside that nut which has to also be replaced because
that water could be coming and leaking from just underneath
the handle. So that's that type of faucet. If it's
the other type of faucet called a frostproof faucet, it
could be the stem that goes all the way back
into the house and that washer could be replaced, or
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there's also something in the handle there that.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Needs to be replaced.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
So there's a couple sets of washers into a couple
different types of faucets, and if that was done correctly,
it shouldn't leak, and if it does, I'd probably just
replace the faucet.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Okay, that's what we thought we were going to do
because I was concerned because the next day the MSD,
the water company, Loval Water Company was out in front
of my house. I thought, oh great, they can tell
well we have a.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Leak or something like that.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
They wouldn't have done that, wouldn't No.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yeah, I think so, I think so, Okay, let him
take a look at it.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Maybe it just needs some packing underneath that handle. You
just might bring that up to him and see if
you know, I know he changed the washers, but did
he Does it need some packing underneath that handle? That
may be the case.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Okay, well we'll kind of act like we know what
we're doing there.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
You go very much, all right, thank you, bye bye?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Not complicated, right, I mean not complicated. Uh, it could
very well be the leak. The frost proof faucet and
turn the water off from the outside, but those are
also designed. When you shut it off, that stem is
a ten to twelve inches long, and it's hitting the
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seat which is almost inside your home. That's the advantage
of it. And that faucet is tilted forward, so when
you shut it off and turn it off and that
hose isn't connected, it's going to drift for a little
bit of time, it's going to drip that water out
of that pipe. That's the advantage of it. It gets
that water out of the pipe for in the winter time,
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it doesn't freeze, expand and cause the problem inside that
fass it and inside that pipe, so maybe that washer
wasn't changed. I don't know. I think she's gonna get
to the bottom of it. All right, let's go to
Todd and he's got a tip for us. Todd, welcome.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I'm gonna try my best, Gary, alrighty, Okay, I had
a three service for thirty years. You're we're going back
to the real mower. So I'm gonna try to be
very simple and get to the point with the guy
with the reel mower. Okay, don't overthink it. Push type
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reel mower is the same that's used on a golf course.
Insane that chipped huge branches in a chipper. Don't worry
about the bevel, but take it completely opposite. I sharpened
my own chipper blades and my stump grinder blades. When
we did it at the city golf courses, they had
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lap lapping compound. So I'm gonna try to make it.
I'm gonna try to make this simple. Don't don't go
from the back of the blade down and get it perfect.
That doesn't matter. Go from the edge of the blade.
Just put the edge. There were's some gloves when you're
doing it because you're gonna slip. You can okay if
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it's it. And if you're really getting a sharp, you're
gonna learn a bad lesson, So it's okay, take your time.
You can either use a dremal. It doesn't have to
be perfect, but the only important part on a real blade,
which is the same as in a big industrial chipper.
And they'll tell you even in big grindings where you
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see logs jumping in there in the edge and sharp,
it doesn't matter. Don't worry about the bevel. But here's
the two important factors right here. There's a sheer plate
which has to have a right angle. It's a little
plate that it should be adjustable on that guy's reel number,
same thing as on fair way golf courses. That has
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to have a right angle. So when that blade of
grass or a limb gets caught in there, if it's
slightly rounded, it won't shear. It will beat it up,
and that causes more pressure. Even on a diesel motor,
on a chipper or a man pushing it you, that
has to have a right angle. It should be adjustable.
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It should be a right adjustable plate that goes across
when it goes across a blade of grass, just like
a limb pinches. It has to have a very small
gap in there so he can file that. Uh, that
has to be square, a right angle, and the blade
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go from the op from the from the cutting and back.
Don't worry about the bebble. That isn't a big They're
not shearing paper, he's just cutting pass. Does that sound like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah, I kind of got you. I'm be honest with you.
I haven't sharpened one of those. I haven't had a
need to sharpen one of those. I go back to
my hardware days. There was a guy that used to
sharpen them and was kind of like a lost art
in the hardware business. And so I appreciate your comments.
I'd have to even stand there and look at it before.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
It makes it. But I know what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I can't visualize that right angle, but basically you're pinching it.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
That's how you're creating this shear.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Okay, So when chippers get really dull, even with the
diesel motor, I work for Askling for CG and E
for several years. That angle, that plate has to have
a right angle when that grass or a branch gets
caught in there, whether it's a real motor or a
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chipper blade, if that edge has a slightly rounded edge,
it'll even wear down a diesel motor. So only sharpen
the point of the edge. Don't worry about the bevel.
Just make sure that is very sharp. Wear some gloves
when you're doing. It's going to take you a half hour,
forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, that's a project. All right, thank you much.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I appreciate that. We'll see if he wants to tackle
that or not. I know, obviously you've worked on him
your whole life, so I get it. I can say
I've never sharpened a real mower or ee L, but
I understand what you're saying. All right, we'll take a
little break and come back and get some more questions answered.
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If you like to jump on board, do so. You're
at home with Gary.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Salvin right here on fifty five care see detalk station.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Back.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
How did we go at home with Gary Sealvan today?
We've had numerous.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Calls regarding roofing and sealing it and you've probably seen
commercials we can extend the life of your roof fifteen
years and stuff. I just and I've explained what it does,
and it's not for everybody, but probably for some people.
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But here's a good suggestion also, and especially this time
of year, take a look at try to figure out,
I should say, how old your roof is. A lot
of times we buy a roof and you know, the
warranties twenty five years, it's thirty years. Now we're starting
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to see some with even a longer warranty that is
on the product pretty much not on the installation unless
the person that's installing it's given you a warranty. But
that's why it's always so important to be dealing with
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a good quality roofer. You know somebody's going to respond
if there's an issue, and sometimes that's hard to find.
But if you're getting a roof, and I'm going to
be very general here, if you're buying a roof and
it's a thirty year warranty on the materials, there's pretty
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good chance it won't last thirty years, okay, And it's
important to be dealing with a roofer that can come
and take a look and inspect that roof. So maybe
your roof is a thirty year roof and it's twenty
years old. So it doesn't hurt to have it inspected
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by a qualified roofer to see where you're at, or
maybe you can kind.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Of inspect it.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
So what you're looking for we talked about it earlier,
is the coating that's on the shingle itself. That is
the protected that is the protectant for the shingle. Without
that granular's sand over the shingle itself, it is, it's
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at the mercy of the sun, So the ultraviolet rays
of the sun will make that shingle brittle, That shingle
will crack, it will curl.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
And corners will curl up. And that's telling.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
You, regardless of what the roofer tells you, that's telling
you it's in trouble. It's in the state of needing
to be replaced and then you can get so it
doesn't you know, just because you got a thirty year roof,
doesn't mean it's gonna last thirty years. Doesn't he mean
it's gonna last twenty eight years. I had a great
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quality roof, a great roofer put that on twenty three
years ago. And it's always nice when you're working with
somebody that you can trust come out and say, you
know what you probably go a couple more years. You're
gonna need a roof? Question I ask, and especially if
you're thinking about selling the house. Would this pass the
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test to a home inspector and the rufer may say
he's gonna have a problem that or yeah, you probably
get a couple two, three more years out of that,
and then you do what you wish. You know, it's
it's all your decision. But think about that roof, curling, cracking, raised, warped,
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missing shingles. Those are all signs that you got a
problem or you're gonna have a problem. And remember that roof,
what's it do? It covers everything in your house. So
I'm not here to sell you a roof. I'm just
telling you when you're dealing, you deal with a good
roofer and just don't take Oh I bought that house
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in and on nineteen ninety nine, I don't need a roof.
Well you don't know that. So periodically, have a somebody
come out and take a look at it. Sometimes there's
no charge on it, just just like you check out.
They may if it's a maybe somebody just out hustling roofs.
They may knock on your door, Oh you need a roof. Well,
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do you really? I don't know, so you want to
always double check that and keep an eye on I
already stood on the ground with the binoculars just kind
of scan over the surface of the roof and see
if I think there's a problem. All right, Next, we're
going to talk about we've talked a lot about paint today.
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How about you ever hear of a product called rhino
shield or if you're familiar with that, I have had
on my home and it's a phenomenal product. We're going
to talk to Todd Harville, he's with a rhino shield.
That'll be next as we continue. You're at home with
Gary Salvan right here on fifty five KR.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
See the talk station.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
All right, back at it we go at Home with
Gary Sullivan, taking you through another week and a quick reminder.
Back at it at nine am tomorrow with my friend
Danny producing. In the meantime, we got Todd Harville, he
is with rhino shield, and chat with him because we're
all talking about, you know, getting that home protected for fall.
(28:02):
We've talked about chimneys and sidewalks and decks and Todd.
Welcome again at Home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
Hey Gary, Thanks for having us on again today.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
You're quite welcome.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I was going to say, people talking about painting too,
but we got another alternative.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
It's rhino shield. It's what I have on my home.
And maybe tell everybody a little bit about what rhino
shield is.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
Yeah, Gary, rhino shield is a ceramic coating that has
an Elasta America resence. That is the primary makeup of
our coating, which just means in Layman's terms, it just
doesn't have the ability to harden. And if it doesn't
have the ability to harden, it has a real hard
time cracking and lifting appealing. That's why we get the
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longevity of the twenty five years that we promote the
warranty with.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah, that's a great warranty. And and folks, I know
that sounds like, you know, rocket science stuff, but this
is not a paint and it comes in colors. And
so I guess give me the advantages of having rhino
shield applied to your home versus paint, because rhino shield
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is applied by pros to begin with, right.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
So what's different.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
Big big box? Yeah, big box store paint is the
primary makeup of that paint is water. You have about
eighty percent water and about twenty percent solid materials. Rhino
Shield is seventy nine percent solid materials and twenty one
percent water. So you're when the water evaporates and it
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sets up on the home, you're left with about eighty
percent of solid material that's protecting your home versus twenty
percent that is made primarily with the clays and plasticizers
and those basically break down over time from the UV rays.
Rhino shield. You know, your walls will never get above
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ninety five degrees because of the ceramics that we have
in our coating, and it just looks good and it lasts,
you know, a long long time.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
So there is an energy conservation here in the Rhino shield.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
That's that's right. And we have an our value of
six point eighty nine that is reflective our value. So
you're putting a vapor barrier on your home, and it's
allowing your home to be able to breathe naturally without
any tangible liquids or weather going through our product and
you know, damaging your you know, your substrates that you
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might have.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Now, how's rhino shield applied?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
And again, this is a product that is professionally applied
it's not a do it yourself product.
Speaker 7 (30:53):
That's right when we when we go and assess the homes,
most of the time that we're going to spray the
building on there because the reason why we spray it
is that we're getting the consistency of the eight to
ten mills. When you brush in, you know, roll, you're
pulling the product and so you're really not at the
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thickness of mills that we're looking forward to be able
to get the longevity out of our coating. That's why
most of the time that we're going to spray it
on the home, and we do our due diligence to
make sure that plants and you know, landscaping and you know,
things that we're not supposed to paint is all covered
and protected so that we're getting the coverage where it
needs to be.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
You know, the our value six point eight nine.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
That's just want to make sure people understand the significance
of that. I know a lot of older homes prior
to the late seventies have no insulation in the walls.
And I've talked to different people mainly that are foamers
that can inject foam into walls and you know, depending
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on the case. If there's a one inch cavity and
you inject a foam in there, you're gonna get about
the same as right what you're talking about, Todd. So
that that is significant. And have people, I guess gotten
back to you and talked to you about the savings
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that they notice it or do they not notice it?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
As a matter of fact, I was just talking to
a customer yesterday that I hadn't spoke to him in
probably six years, and we did his house probably about
thirteen years ago. And the last time I was down
there checking on their house because I was listening to neighborhood,
she just organically just told me that, Todd, you can't
believe the savings that I have saved on our energy
bills by having your product on her home. And I
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was like, holy smokes, could you please repeat that.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Literary court like every hour on the street corner.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
Yeah, And and you know, it's just it's just it's
a remarkable products that breathe ability is so important to
a home to be able to ensure that that house
be able to breathe naturally, and it's really cool thing
about our product that allows that to do that.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
So how long does Rhino Shield last on a home?
I know you talked about the uv raises the sun.
I guess there's a bunch of things. You got fading,
you got, you know, potential potential fading with paints, you
got appealing with paints.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
What is how long you think the rhinos Shiel will last.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
Well, we guarantee it for twenty five years, so we're
in for it for that length of time, just like
with the customer. So the thing is with those walls
never going above ninety five degrees, which is huge, so
you're not going to see the fading like you do
on traditional paints that you will experience with Rhino Shield.
And it's just you know, the colors are richer. We
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use more pigments in our colors. The colors just look,
I mean, they just pop when we put them on homes.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Sure does it come in, is it flatter, does it
come in different sheines?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Or it does?
Speaker 7 (34:08):
And what we're looking for when we're done is an
eggshell sheene Okay, And we found out over the years
with darker colors and lighter colors, that color just it
looks perfect when it's on the home. Sometimes when you
get a high gloss. It just sometimes looks too shiny, right, uh,
And it looks and it looks wet. So that's the
reason why we use what we used to just to
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make sure that it doesn't look matt but it doesn't
look like a high gloss sounds like.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
The most difficult thing is picking out the colors.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
You got quite a few, yeah, And the really good
thing about that is all of our colors are to
be determined.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
And I tell people that don't get caught up with,
you know, panicking about the color, because if you pick
out the colors, it doesn't mean anything until we put
those colors on the wall and so you can physically
see it. And so you're making a very very informed
decision on the colors that you're looking for. And we
don't do anything until you're happy with those colors.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
So Todd, as I look as I drive around and houses,
I mean, we got houses that have everything on them.
You know, we got wood, we got cedar, we got stone,
we got brick, we got you know, aluminum sighting that
I mean, our houses has got all kinds of materials
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on it. What kind of substrates does the rhino shield
work on?
Speaker 7 (35:35):
It works on all substrates a side from glass like brick, stucco, hardyboards,
traditional you know, lap siding, pine and cedar and redwoods.
But the most important ingredient to our coating is the primer.
That's what gives you your longevity. That's what burns into
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the pores of what we're coating and it becomes part
of the substrate. So once it's on there, it's on there.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
One of the things I preach all the time, and
I don't care if it's patching concrete, ceiling, your deck,
painting or house or whatever. Preparation's the key. And how
do you address that You just mentioned your primer, you know,
I mean with the rhino shield. Do you get into
the calking the whole surface preparation?
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Kind of walk me through that.
Speaker 7 (36:27):
Yeah, when we first get to the job, initially the
crew they're going to pressure wash and they know what
tips to use to ensure that they're not creating damage
because we have tips that could blow out the mortar
of a brick wall very easily. If you don't know
what you're doing, then what we're going to do is
we're going to handscrape down the surfaces and what we're
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looking for is anything that's damaged or rotten rotten, there's
just no choice in the matter. We're going to remove
that wood and we're going to replace it, and then
as soon as that is completed, we're going to seal
it with an elastameric celant and we're going to make
sure it's overkill. We're going to make sure every little
crack and crevices is sealed to ensure that we're getting
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the twenty five years that were that we're promoting. And
once that is completed, we tape off the areas that
we're not coating and we're going to shoot it with
our primer and normally when that goes on, it goes
on looking like milk and then once it flashes, it
turns clear. So we spray to day. The next day,
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we're going to go and we're going to start applying
our top coat and the color that you picked, and
then you have a completed job. Usually traditionally we start
on Monday. We should have a job wrapped up by Friday.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
I'm going to ask you how long that job took,
and I you do all sizes and all types of homes.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
I guess, oh, yes, you know, we do commercial nine
story buildings to you know, little bungalows and one story
ranches and just small trim jobs, even nothing's too small.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
How far into the year do you apply? I guess
it depends on the good.
Speaker 7 (38:02):
Thing that you said that, because we're we're about sixty
days left in our season. Traditionally, over the years, you know,
we've been in Sincy for twenty years, we always wrap
up on Thanksgiving. Okay. And that being said, in what
we're doing is that from this ad that's being ran,
we're offering twenty percent off. Anybody calls and mentions this
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ad today and we can get him started and get
him finished by the year end.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
All right, twenty percent off. Can you give me the
phone number for Rhino Shield.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
Absolutely is eight five five rhinos zero.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Five rhinos zero five.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
All right, well, don't delay. We got great weather right now.
I'm sure you're quite busy.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
We're busy, we're smamped.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Right well, get back to work, okay.
Speaker 7 (38:54):
All right, thank you very much, Gary.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Thanks Tod, take care all right, Rhino Shield Cincinnati dot com.
Something you might want to consider it. I did I
put it on my home is probably? I guess I
gotta look at the date. I think it's five six
years something like that. The only thing I even did it.
You know, we were talking about the uh, fiberglass entry door.
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I even did that door. It looks awesome. The only
problem with it, Danny, you go find this hard to believe.
It's a little dusty and dirty. I gotta go out
and clean it.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
I noticed it yesterday. Get my bucket of water. It's
on my list for today.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Yes, sir, all right, nanny boy, thank you very much
for your efforts today, and good Lord Willing.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
We'll both be back tomorrow for more At Home with
Gary Sullivan
All right, best time of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
You did your home, didn't you.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It is about five years ago. It still looks good.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, yeah, it's held up quite nicely. Yes, all right,
let's get back to the phones. We got Megan, Megan welcome.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Hi Gary. Quick question for you. I am powerwashing a
super fence and I have a way to go. Not
sure I'm going to be able to stain it before
the weather changes. Okay, if I spray it was wet
and forget, you know, to hold what you know, so
I don't go backwards. Will I be able to stain
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it in the spring or will there still be residue
left over from wet and forget that. We'll react with
the stain.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
No, you should be able to stain it, certainly in
the in the springtime. Yeah, yeah, that residue should be gone.
How long you think it's going to take you to
wrap up that cedar fence?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Well, it took me a couple hours to it's on
the I mean there's I don't know if it's ever
been done. It's of course at my daughter's house. I
don't know if it's ever been done. And it's one
of those parental projects, yes, as we all do. So anyways,
they I it took me a couple hours to just
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get for like, well probably fifteen twenty feet done. So
it's gonna and I probably have I have a ways
to go because yah, so.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Tell me about this. What are you you're going to
restain it? Is that what you're going to do?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Okay, And and it's stayed. Now is it a solid
fence or is it a rail fence or what?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
It is one of those that it's like every other
panel is on the other side, like it's a cedar
fence with every it's got your main like support posts
in the middle. And then a panel on one side,
panel on the other panel like, uh, yeah, I know
there's a name for it.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I just yeah, yeah, I can visualize it.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So, yeah, if you sprayed Wet and Forget on there now,
and you know it's mil dewy and just kind of grungy,
it will eliminate its loss.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
It's everything out there.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, it'll you know, it's like uh Teresa said today
when we were talking, and it's you know, it's six weeks.
She said, two months, but it could be four weeks.
It really just depends. Right now. We also discussed is
a perfect time to do it, So it will.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It will eliminate it before spring.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
It will have a residual on it which will keep
it from reoccurring for up to a year, and and
so you'll be able to stain it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
You should have no problem with that at all.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Because I don't think the Wet and Thread Forget is
going to be strong enough to eat through everything by
next spring.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Even well.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Actually, one of the things I was going to even
interject in severe cases and I haven't had many, but
actually Teresa from Wet and Forget has told me different
projects they did where the moss was literally you know,
three quarters of an inch thick on a surface.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
That they would have to reapply a couple times.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
So it may be if it's if it's bad enough,
it may take a reapplication. But you know, you you
could even reapply mid November, you know it.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I wouldn't even have to waste, would You're you're suggesting
I don't even necessarily have to power wash right now?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh no, just.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Use the wet and forget. Yeah, just use the wet
forget sure, Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, in fact, you know, because the power washer is
cleaning the surface. But I'm telling you it's not totally
killing it. Some of those roots can still be into
that wood, and you know, with the wet and forget,
it's a total kill That's why you get that actual residual.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
So it's actually a better to do it that way.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Okay, all right, well then yeah, i'd be able to
get two quotes of if she's saying two months, then.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, you'd still have time. And you know, you could
do it a couple of different ways. You could do
that hose en spray, but they also make the wet
and forget in a concentrate where you can put it
in a and this is up to you. You can
put it in like a three gallon tank sprayer and
dilute it.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
And that's what I think i'd want to do. Yeah,
I think there's house is next door, and there's other
people's property on either side, which i'd want to be respectful.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, No, I think that'd be better. I agree.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Okay, all right, perfect washer away.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Good for something, all right, get you out of a job.
That's good for something, and people don't understand, but it
really does a better job than a power washer. And
believe me, nobody likes a powerwasher more than I do.
But sometimes it's really about the cleaner and the cleansers
you're using to get that total kill.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
All right, let's go to Larry. Larry welcome, Yeah, Hi,
thanks for taking my call. You're quite welcome.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
So let me explain. My son has a house built
two thousand and three, new built two thousand and three,
and it's Marvin windows, wooden windows, double on thermopane, and
he repainted. The windows are in great shape, but the
weather stripping is terrible. It's old and it's like a
too of you know. These are these are the tilt
in windows. It's like a tubular weather weather stripping kind
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of like a rubberized fabric that's decomposing, and then it
has a little fin that goes into a groove on
the side of the windows.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Uh huh.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Any, we're having trouble finding a replacement, Marvin isn't helping.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Hmm. That's surprising because that's exactly where I was going
to tell you to go, because that product was manufactured
just for their windows.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Yeah, so, well they really want to sell new windows,
why I know.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
But is there is So when you say Marvin isn't helping,
who's Marvin? Is this the place that's making them or
is this the place that's selling windows in your area?
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Well, that would be it the rep.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, I would go on their website. I don't know
if they list their weather stripping there or not, but
there's usually a phone number for technical services.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
And very popular windows.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
So they're great window.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, they're great windows, they really are. But I would
go to their website and even their corporate technical services
and see if you can find a plate. Sometimes they're
on the bottom if they pull out. Sometimes they're on
the sides of plate with a model number of the window. Sure,
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but I would work through the Corporation rather than the
showroom where they're trying to sell Marvin windows. The next
place I would look like. I know there is a
place in the city that I live in where there
is a window parts dealer. He is over six million
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parts from windows back over one hundred years. It's called
Pickens p I C K E N S. Pickens Windows Service.
If you have a place, you know with window parts,
I know there's Western Window Parts in Cleveland, also Ohio.
If there's one up there in Massachusetts, Larry, they may
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be able to direct you.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Also, Chicken, where are you What town are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I'm in Cincinnati. Oh okay, So another option for you.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Well, another option is, I mean, if I can't find
them locally here, then we contact them in Cincinnati and
I'm sure they've.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Got yeah, maybe they can help you or yeah yeah, sure, sure,
yes sir.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Great, all right, thanks for your hope.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You're quite welcome. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
All right, twelve fifteen it is. We'll take a break
and then we got Vicky and Todd. By the way,
if you'd like to jump on board, there's a spot
for you. It's eight hundred A two three A two
five five. Go ahead and grab a line. You're at
home with Gary Salvin right here on fifty five KRC,
the talk station. All right, talking a little home improvement.
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Feel free to join us. I'd love to talk about
your project. And we got open lines, so go ahead
and grab a couple. We got Vicky, Vicky Welcome.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Hi, Hello in Cincinnati. Huh, I'm from around there.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
There you go, all right.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
We had two years ago, we had our driveway black topped.
Also we had a new roof and we had the
gutters planed out. I noticed this was all in a
few months time and everything like that. But I noticed
one of the ways windows, even after I had washed
it at least three times, it just doesn't come clean.
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It's on the outside. The windows are not real old
or anything like that. Our house is about fifty some
years old, but this window will not get planed. I
don't know what I should do if there should be
something stronger than I use. And it's just like white
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spotches on the outside. Well, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well, a professional window cleaner would do this, And I
don't really always recommend it to people because you know,
it's it's a little scary when I tell you what
it is. They'll take a pail of water and they'll
put some dawn liquid soap in it, and they'll take.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
For steel wool.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
Okay, still will and they'll.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Keep that steel wool wet and they will clean it
with steel wool and soapy water. Now, you may not
want to do that because it's kind of scary. You
go scratch the glass or not. But that's how a professional.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Would clean that.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
What I'll ask people to do, which seems a little
bit safer, is to take a barkeeper's friend and water
on a cotton cloth and scrub with that. Barkeeper's friend
is oxalic acid. It's wood bleach.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It takes off.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Different you know, water, spots, pine tar. It will clean
it up fairly well too. Or you can try the
steel wool method.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Well, I probably would try the first. So how much
percentage wise? Barkeeper's friend and water and do I just
put it on there dry?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Well, you would wet the wet the cotton cloth and
sprinkle a little barkeeper's friend on.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Just keep working that in there. Yeah, just keeping some
of the powder.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Does it help if you go in circles or I
don't know, I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Just going to take a little elbow grease. I don't
think it matters which way you're going. You're just working
on the surface. It's not going to damage the glass
at all. But that that's probably what i'd use. That's
after I've used you know, you know, really good glass cleaners.
I talk about the Jaws glass cleaner all the time.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
It does good.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
But sometimes you know, if you get tar, you know
tar the pine trees near a house can get a
residue on there that's very difficult to remove. I haven't
had that issue, but I know that is an issue.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Well, let me ask you one more thing, if I
could thank you or hurry. We have a falsehood out
front and one in the back, and I use it
quite a bit for my flowers and so forth. And
I got bought a new hose and so forth, and
we and I noticed that even with hosts being taken off,
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I mean, excrewting the false doing the falset as tight
as I could get it, it drips, I mean, And
people say, well, you haven't had it tight enough. Well,
I know I do. And then we had someone come
and change the washes on it. And then even with that,
with that, I had a built container under it and
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it fills the whole milk container up and just probably
an hour or two hours. So he's going to come
and do something. He's he's a licensed plummer. I mean
we had n't we had it. He's not completely licensed,
That's what I'm saying. If you had that, what would
you recommend.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Well, I guess you got to figure out whether it's
coming from the hose or it's coming from underneath the
handle of the faucet.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
No, it's not coming from the hose because I've already
detached that. I touched that and he turned the water
off in our basement. Uh huh, so we wouldn't have
any drips. So we I think We've gone down all avenues.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
And it well, it sounds like it needs the washers
and the faucets changed or.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
That valve change he did that. He did that, he
changed the change, was right?
Speaker 7 (14:47):
Do that?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Before we realized it was before we realized there was
a league. I mean he did that because I you know,
I don't know. But so if he.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Changed whole faucet, well that'd be the next step. So
there's several It depends on the type of valve. So
it's hard for me to answer. If it's a regular
faucet outdoor faucet valve, there's a washer in there, which
is fairly conventional. You know, you take the nut off
underneath the handle, you pull out the stem, you replace
the washer at the bottom, and then there's a packing
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inside that nut which has to also be replaced because
that water could be coming and leaking from just underneath
the handle. So that's that type of faucet. If it's
the other type of faucet called a frostproof faucet, it
could be the stem that goes all the way back
into the house and that washer could be replaced, or
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there's also something in the handle there that.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Needs to be replaced.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
So there's a couple sets of washers into a couple
different types of faucets, and if that was done correctly,
it shouldn't leak, and if it does, I'd probably just
replace the faucet.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Okay, that's what we thought we were going to do
because I was concerned because the next day the MSD,
the water company, Loval Water Company was out in front
of my house. I thought, oh great, they can tell
well we have a.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Leak or something like that.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
They wouldn't have done that, wouldn't No.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yeah, I think so, I think so, Okay, let him
take a look at it.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Maybe it just needs some packing underneath that handle. You
just might bring that up to him and see if
you know, I know he changed the washers, but did
he Does it need some packing underneath that handle? That
may be the case.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Okay, well we'll kind of act like we know what
we're doing there.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
You go very much, all right, thank you, bye bye?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Not complicated, right, I mean not complicated. Uh, it could
very well be the leak. The frost proof faucet and
turn the water off from the outside, but those are
also designed. When you shut it off, that stem is
a ten to twelve inches long, and it's hitting the
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seat which is almost inside your home. That's the advantage
of it. And that faucet is tilted forward, so when
you shut it off and turn it off and that
hose isn't connected, it's going to drift for a little
bit of time, it's going to drip that water out
of that pipe. That's the advantage of it. It gets
that water out of the pipe for in the winter time,
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it doesn't freeze, expand and cause the problem inside that
fass it and inside that pipe, so maybe that washer
wasn't changed. I don't know. I think she's gonna get
to the bottom of it. All right, let's go to
Todd and he's got a tip for us. Todd, welcome.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I'm gonna try my best, Gary, alrighty, Okay, I had
a three service for thirty years. You're we're going back
to the real mower. So I'm gonna try to be
very simple and get to the point with the guy
with the reel mower. Okay, don't overthink it. Push type
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reel mower is the same that's used on a golf course.
Insane that chipped huge branches in a chipper. Don't worry
about the bevel, but take it completely opposite. I sharpened
my own chipper blades and my stump grinder blades. When
we did it at the city golf courses, they had
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lap lapping compound. So I'm gonna try to make it.
I'm gonna try to make this simple. Don't don't go
from the back of the blade down and get it perfect.
That doesn't matter. Go from the edge of the blade.
Just put the edge. There were's some gloves when you're
doing it because you're gonna slip. You can okay if
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it's it. And if you're really getting a sharp, you're
gonna learn a bad lesson, So it's okay, take your time.
You can either use a dremal. It doesn't have to
be perfect, but the only important part on a real blade,
which is the same as in a big industrial chipper.
And they'll tell you even in big grindings where you
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see logs jumping in there in the edge and sharp,
it doesn't matter. Don't worry about the bevel. But here's
the two important factors right here. There's a sheer plate
which has to have a right angle. It's a little
plate that it should be adjustable on that guy's reel number,
same thing as on fair way golf courses. That has
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to have a right angle. So when that blade of
grass or a limb gets caught in there, if it's
slightly rounded, it won't shear. It will beat it up,
and that causes more pressure. Even on a diesel motor,
on a chipper or a man pushing it you, that
has to have a right angle. It should be adjustable.
(20:03):
It should be a right adjustable plate that goes across
when it goes across a blade of grass, just like
a limb pinches. It has to have a very small
gap in there so he can file that. Uh, that
has to be square, a right angle, and the blade
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go from the op from the from the cutting and back.
Don't worry about the bebble. That isn't a big They're
not shearing paper, he's just cutting pass. Does that sound like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah, I kind of got you. I'm be honest with you.
I haven't sharpened one of those. I haven't had a
need to sharpen one of those. I go back to
my hardware days. There was a guy that used to
sharpen them and was kind of like a lost art
in the hardware business. And so I appreciate your comments.
I'd have to even stand there and look at it before.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
It makes it. But I know what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I can't visualize that right angle, but basically you're pinching it.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
That's how you're creating this shear.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Okay, So when chippers get really dull, even with the
diesel motor, I work for Askling for CG and E
for several years. That angle, that plate has to have
a right angle when that grass or a branch gets
caught in there, whether it's a real motor or a
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chipper blade, if that edge has a slightly rounded edge,
it'll even wear down a diesel motor. So only sharpen
the point of the edge. Don't worry about the bevel.
Just make sure that is very sharp. Wear some gloves
when you're doing. It's going to take you a half hour,
forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, that's a project. All right, thank you much.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I appreciate that. We'll see if he wants to tackle
that or not. I know, obviously you've worked on him
your whole life, so I get it. I can say
I've never sharpened a real mower or ee L, but
I understand what you're saying. All right, we'll take a
little break and come back and get some more questions answered.
(22:18):
If you like to jump on board, do so. You're
at home with Gary.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Salvin right here on fifty five care see detalk station.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Back.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
How did we go at home with Gary Sealvan today?
We've had numerous.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Calls regarding roofing and sealing it and you've probably seen
commercials we can extend the life of your roof fifteen
years and stuff. I just and I've explained what it does,
and it's not for everybody, but probably for some people.
(22:55):
But here's a good suggestion also, and especially this time
of year, take a look at try to figure out,
I should say, how old your roof is. A lot
of times we buy a roof and you know, the
warranties twenty five years, it's thirty years. Now we're starting
(23:16):
to see some with even a longer warranty that is
on the product pretty much not on the installation unless
the person that's installing it's given you a warranty. But
that's why it's always so important to be dealing with
(23:37):
a good quality roofer. You know somebody's going to respond
if there's an issue, and sometimes that's hard to find.
But if you're getting a roof, and I'm going to
be very general here, if you're buying a roof and
it's a thirty year warranty on the materials, there's pretty
(23:59):
good chance it won't last thirty years, okay, And it's
important to be dealing with a roofer that can come
and take a look and inspect that roof. So maybe
your roof is a thirty year roof and it's twenty
years old. So it doesn't hurt to have it inspected
(24:23):
by a qualified roofer to see where you're at, or
maybe you can kind.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Of inspect it.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
So what you're looking for we talked about it earlier,
is the coating that's on the shingle itself. That is
the protected that is the protectant for the shingle. Without
that granular's sand over the shingle itself, it is, it's
(24:51):
at the mercy of the sun, So the ultraviolet rays
of the sun will make that shingle brittle, That shingle
will crack, it will curl.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
And corners will curl up. And that's telling.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
You, regardless of what the roofer tells you, that's telling
you it's in trouble. It's in the state of needing
to be replaced and then you can get so it
doesn't you know, just because you got a thirty year roof,
doesn't mean it's gonna last thirty years. Doesn't he mean
it's gonna last twenty eight years. I had a great
(25:27):
quality roof, a great roofer put that on twenty three
years ago. And it's always nice when you're working with
somebody that you can trust come out and say, you
know what you probably go a couple more years. You're
gonna need a roof? Question I ask, and especially if
you're thinking about selling the house. Would this pass the
(25:52):
test to a home inspector and the rufer may say
he's gonna have a problem that or yeah, you probably
get a couple two, three more years out of that,
and then you do what you wish. You know, it's
it's all your decision. But think about that roof, curling, cracking, raised, warped,
(26:16):
missing shingles. Those are all signs that you got a
problem or you're gonna have a problem. And remember that roof,
what's it do? It covers everything in your house. So
I'm not here to sell you a roof. I'm just
telling you when you're dealing, you deal with a good
roofer and just don't take Oh I bought that house
(26:40):
in and on nineteen ninety nine, I don't need a roof.
Well you don't know that. So periodically, have a somebody
come out and take a look at it. Sometimes there's
no charge on it, just just like you check out.
They may if it's a maybe somebody just out hustling roofs.
They may knock on your door, Oh you need a roof. Well,
(27:02):
do you really? I don't know, so you want to
always double check that and keep an eye on I
already stood on the ground with the binoculars just kind
of scan over the surface of the roof and see
if I think there's a problem. All right, Next, we're
going to talk about we've talked a lot about paint today.
(27:22):
How about you ever hear of a product called rhino
shield or if you're familiar with that, I have had
on my home and it's a phenomenal product. We're going
to talk to Todd Harville, he's with a rhino shield.
That'll be next as we continue. You're at home with
Gary Salvan right here on fifty five KR.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
See the talk station.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
All right, back at it we go at Home with
Gary Sullivan, taking you through another week and a quick reminder.
Back at it at nine am tomorrow with my friend
Danny producing. In the meantime, we got Todd Harville, he
is with rhino shield, and chat with him because we're
all talking about, you know, getting that home protected for fall.
(28:02):
We've talked about chimneys and sidewalks and decks and Todd.
Welcome again at Home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
Hey Gary, Thanks for having us on again today.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
You're quite welcome.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I was going to say, people talking about painting too,
but we got another alternative.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
It's rhino shield. It's what I have on my home.
And maybe tell everybody a little bit about what rhino
shield is.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
Yeah, Gary, rhino shield is a ceramic coating that has
an Elasta America resence. That is the primary makeup of
our coating, which just means in Layman's terms, it just
doesn't have the ability to harden. And if it doesn't
have the ability to harden, it has a real hard
time cracking and lifting appealing. That's why we get the
(28:46):
longevity of the twenty five years that we promote the
warranty with.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah, that's a great warranty. And and folks, I know
that sounds like, you know, rocket science stuff, but this
is not a paint and it comes in colors. And
so I guess give me the advantages of having rhino
shield applied to your home versus paint, because rhino shield
(29:16):
is applied by pros to begin with, right.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
So what's different.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
Big big box? Yeah, big box store paint is the
primary makeup of that paint is water. You have about
eighty percent water and about twenty percent solid materials. Rhino
Shield is seventy nine percent solid materials and twenty one
percent water. So you're when the water evaporates and it
(29:45):
sets up on the home, you're left with about eighty
percent of solid material that's protecting your home versus twenty
percent that is made primarily with the clays and plasticizers
and those basically break down over time from the UV rays.
Rhino shield. You know, your walls will never get above
(30:06):
ninety five degrees because of the ceramics that we have
in our coating, and it just looks good and it lasts,
you know, a long long time.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
So there is an energy conservation here in the Rhino shield.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
That's that's right. And we have an our value of
six point eighty nine that is reflective our value. So
you're putting a vapor barrier on your home, and it's
allowing your home to be able to breathe naturally without
any tangible liquids or weather going through our product and
you know, damaging your you know, your substrates that you
(30:42):
might have.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Now, how's rhino shield applied?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
And again, this is a product that is professionally applied
it's not a do it yourself product.
Speaker 7 (30:53):
That's right when we when we go and assess the homes,
most of the time that we're going to spray the
building on there because the reason why we spray it
is that we're getting the consistency of the eight to
ten mills. When you brush in, you know, roll, you're
pulling the product and so you're really not at the
(31:14):
thickness of mills that we're looking forward to be able
to get the longevity out of our coating. That's why
most of the time that we're going to spray it
on the home, and we do our due diligence to
make sure that plants and you know, landscaping and you know,
things that we're not supposed to paint is all covered
and protected so that we're getting the coverage where it
needs to be.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
You know, the our value six point eight nine.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
That's just want to make sure people understand the significance
of that. I know a lot of older homes prior
to the late seventies have no insulation in the walls.
And I've talked to different people mainly that are foamers
that can inject foam into walls and you know, depending
(31:59):
on the case. If there's a one inch cavity and
you inject a foam in there, you're gonna get about
the same as right what you're talking about, Todd. So
that that is significant. And have people, I guess gotten
back to you and talked to you about the savings
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that they notice it or do they not notice it?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
As a matter of fact, I was just talking to
a customer yesterday that I hadn't spoke to him in
probably six years, and we did his house probably about
thirteen years ago. And the last time I was down
there checking on their house because I was listening to neighborhood,
she just organically just told me that, Todd, you can't
believe the savings that I have saved on our energy
bills by having your product on her home. And I
(32:48):
was like, holy smokes, could you please repeat that.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Literary court like every hour on the street corner.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
Yeah, And and you know, it's just it's just it's
a remarkable products that breathe ability is so important to
a home to be able to ensure that that house
be able to breathe naturally, and it's really cool thing
about our product that allows that to do that.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
So how long does Rhino Shield last on a home?
I know you talked about the uv raises the sun.
I guess there's a bunch of things. You got fading,
you got, you know, potential potential fading with paints, you
got appealing with paints.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
What is how long you think the rhinos Shiel will last.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
Well, we guarantee it for twenty five years, so we're
in for it for that length of time, just like
with the customer. So the thing is with those walls
never going above ninety five degrees, which is huge, so
you're not going to see the fading like you do
on traditional paints that you will experience with Rhino Shield.
And it's just you know, the colors are richer. We
(33:53):
use more pigments in our colors. The colors just look,
I mean, they just pop when we put them on homes.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Sure does it come in, is it flatter, does it
come in different sheines?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Or it does?
Speaker 7 (34:08):
And what we're looking for when we're done is an
eggshell sheene Okay, And we found out over the years
with darker colors and lighter colors, that color just it
looks perfect when it's on the home. Sometimes when you
get a high gloss. It just sometimes looks too shiny, right, uh,
And it looks and it looks wet. So that's the
reason why we use what we used to just to
(34:31):
make sure that it doesn't look matt but it doesn't
look like a high gloss sounds like.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
The most difficult thing is picking out the colors.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
You got quite a few, yeah, And the really good
thing about that is all of our colors are to
be determined.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
And I tell people that don't get caught up with,
you know, panicking about the color, because if you pick
out the colors, it doesn't mean anything until we put
those colors on the wall and so you can physically
see it. And so you're making a very very informed
decision on the colors that you're looking for. And we
don't do anything until you're happy with those colors.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
So Todd, as I look as I drive around and houses,
I mean, we got houses that have everything on them.
You know, we got wood, we got cedar, we got stone,
we got brick, we got you know, aluminum sighting that
I mean, our houses has got all kinds of materials
(35:30):
on it. What kind of substrates does the rhino shield
work on?
Speaker 7 (35:35):
It works on all substrates a side from glass like brick, stucco, hardyboards,
traditional you know, lap siding, pine and cedar and redwoods.
But the most important ingredient to our coating is the primer.
That's what gives you your longevity. That's what burns into
(35:57):
the pores of what we're coating and it becomes part
of the substrate. So once it's on there, it's on there.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
One of the things I preach all the time, and
I don't care if it's patching concrete, ceiling, your deck,
painting or house or whatever. Preparation's the key. And how
do you address that You just mentioned your primer, you know,
I mean with the rhino shield. Do you get into
the calking the whole surface preparation?
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Kind of walk me through that.
Speaker 7 (36:27):
Yeah, when we first get to the job, initially the
crew they're going to pressure wash and they know what
tips to use to ensure that they're not creating damage
because we have tips that could blow out the mortar
of a brick wall very easily. If you don't know
what you're doing, then what we're going to do is
we're going to handscrape down the surfaces and what we're
(36:48):
looking for is anything that's damaged or rotten rotten, there's
just no choice in the matter. We're going to remove
that wood and we're going to replace it, and then
as soon as that is completed, we're going to seal
it with an elastameric celant and we're going to make
sure it's overkill. We're going to make sure every little
crack and crevices is sealed to ensure that we're getting
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the twenty five years that were that we're promoting. And
once that is completed, we tape off the areas that
we're not coating and we're going to shoot it with
our primer and normally when that goes on, it goes
on looking like milk and then once it flashes, it
turns clear. So we spray to day. The next day,
(37:29):
we're going to go and we're going to start applying
our top coat and the color that you picked, and
then you have a completed job. Usually traditionally we start
on Monday. We should have a job wrapped up by Friday.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
I'm going to ask you how long that job took,
and I you do all sizes and all types of homes.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
I guess, oh, yes, you know, we do commercial nine
story buildings to you know, little bungalows and one story
ranches and just small trim jobs, even nothing's too small.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
How far into the year do you apply? I guess
it depends on the good.
Speaker 7 (38:02):
Thing that you said that, because we're we're about sixty
days left in our season. Traditionally, over the years, you know,
we've been in Sincy for twenty years, we always wrap
up on Thanksgiving. Okay. And that being said, in what
we're doing is that from this ad that's being ran,
we're offering twenty percent off. Anybody calls and mentions this
(38:26):
ad today and we can get him started and get
him finished by the year end.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
All right, twenty percent off. Can you give me the
phone number for Rhino Shield.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
Absolutely is eight five five rhinos zero.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Five rhinos zero five.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
All right, well, don't delay. We got great weather right now.
I'm sure you're quite busy.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
We're busy, we're smamped.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Right well, get back to work, okay.
Speaker 7 (38:54):
All right, thank you very much, Gary.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Thanks Tod, take care all right, Rhino Shield Cincinnati dot com.
Something you might want to consider it. I did I
put it on my home is probably? I guess I
gotta look at the date. I think it's five six
years something like that. The only thing I even did it.
You know, we were talking about the uh, fiberglass entry door.
(39:18):
I even did that door. It looks awesome. The only
problem with it, Danny, you go find this hard to believe.
It's a little dusty and dirty. I gotta go out
and clean it.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
I noticed it yesterday. Get my bucket of water. It's
on my list for today.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Yes, sir, all right, nanny boy, thank you very much
for your efforts today, and good Lord Willing.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
We'll both be back tomorrow for more At Home with
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