September 15, 2024 • 45 mins
Gary wraps up Sunday with your calls, questions and tips.
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Speaker 1 (00:33):
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thank you very much for holding on. I appreciate it
and welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I can't hear you.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yep, I got you, yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Okay, yeah. I had a water tank leak on me
and the tank is in the garage on an adjacent
wall to the master bath.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
The water ran along the wall in the garage for
about fifteen twenty feet and I found the spot to
get under the the wall and went into the bathroom
underneath the vanity and on the carpet. We cleaned up
the carpet and everything and had the restoration person come in.
(02:08):
They tested it for a mold and anything else and
h he said, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
But.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
My daughter is still getting a musty smell when she
opens the cabinet doors on one end of the vanity
that's in there. What can I use to.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Get rid of the smell?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Well, there are there are certainly ways to do that
I talk about. So do you think there's mold under there?
Let me iss you that the old adage with mold
is if you can smell, there's some right, And he
tested it. How long after it was wet within the week,
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within a week, and how long has it been now?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
About five or six months?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh boy? Okay, Well, it should not be smelling musty
at this point, only because if there was mold, it
is dried out, I'm assuming, and that mold that is
there would be dormant. But that doesn't mean there is
an excessive mold spores in that area or in that cabinet.
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There's a product called AQM. It's Air Quality Manager. And
what it is, it's a little packet. This is very
easy to use, a little packet that is moistened with
water and it produces a chlorine dioxide very mild. You
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might smell just a hint of bleach for a while.
And you clip it onto a fan, a little box fan,
little rotating iscillating fan, and you blow this AQM into
the air, which oxidizes the mold spores in the air,
which eliminates the smell. Okay, pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
St She opens the cabinet door, right and.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I know there's people probably talking and thinking right now, well,
you can put some activated charcoal in there. Yeah, it
might do a little a little good. It might even
eliminate the smell for a while. There's also the same
people that make the aq M, and I don't want
to get you to buy a whole bunch of stuff here,
but they make one called odor Eliminator, which may help too.
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But I think on this one for what you have,
I think the AQM would be perfect. That website rich
is odor od o r x it so it's odor
xit dot com. The product is AQM. They make about
six seven different products. You can kind of read about
(05:05):
the different ones. They're all kind of different. And you know,
like the odor eliminators for very organic smells. You know,
if you had, you know, a dog and cat in
the house and they had some accidents, that'd be perfect
dead animals, perfect for the AQM really does. It's for
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like if somebody smoked in a car, in a room
or mold. These are good eliminators. So I would say
the AQM. Just get on their website kind of read about.
You can order it right there. I've used it before
for a vehicle with some smoke odors in it and
did quite nicely. Okay, very good, all righty, we'll give
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it a try. Very good. Thanks, take care, appreciate it,
and let's go to Alan Allen. Welcome.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Hey Gary, Yes, my my.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Wife and I love your show.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
We listen every weekend when we're driving around to broad
sales and such.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Thank you, and I really.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Appreciate your advice and your information. I have a you
have a farmhouse, Saint Mounted, honey, but your block countertop.
My wife does the the like vegetable oil.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Or mineral don't mineral oil? Mineral?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Yeah, she treats that at least once a month, But
there's it's the farmhouse sake barely fit on the countertop,
and there's like maybe an inch inch and a quarter
of space between the saint and the and the backsplash tile.
And I routed the backsplast pile, and I clocked the sink,
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and there's just the the grout is deteriorating and separating,
and and there's there's always it always gets back there,
which I guess is normal. But uh, there's like a
black I don't think it's black moles. Maybe it's coming
from behind the ground.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
But trying to figure out how I can, uh what.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I should put there, Like pull the sick out, maybe
put little pile back there between the counter the bagsplash
and the sink, or yeah, how can how can I
prevent that whatever that black thing is? I don't think
it's black mole.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Okay, So I mightd have missed a key part of
your question, but so let me just kind of repeat.
So you got the sink and then at the back
of the sink, we got a small piece of countertop.
Still is that correct?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah, there's a Yeah, that's a small piece the butcher
block countertop between the stake and the backsplash.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Okay, okay, So there there's no gap underneath that sink.
It it just is a little it's a place for
water to catch in that little strip, correct, yes, okay.
And is the black stuff you're seeing is it on
the countertop or is it right on the grout? I
heard you say the grout's failing.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
It's it's on the countertop.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Okay. And that's from just the water sitting.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, and does when she uses that mintal oil, she
obviously does that area, but it's once a it's once
a month, and that's probably getting wet daily. Correct, I
would say that's yes, okay, all right, So you want
(08:52):
to talk about the countertop, you want to talk about
the grout first. I think it's just the nature of
the beast, the way it's kind of set up. I
know ours is granted, but when I use the sprayer,
like i'm the sink, that area by the faucet handles
and the faucet itself does get wet also, and it's
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it stays wet unless you you know, you're always drying
it off or something along those lines. Of course, I'm
not experiencing what you're experiencing because it's stone. So I
would say one suggestion if it's if the grout's getting
kind of moldy or crumbly from that moisture too. A
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lot of times people always ask me is why wouldn't
they put a backsplash in? Do they grout it all
the way down to the countertop. But then I get
in older homes sometimes they're calked, and the reason is
because if it's always being invaded by water, you're going
to take that groud out and you calk that. So
that might be that might be something you want to
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take a look at least, you know, obviously you want
to do a good calking job with it. But if
you get a a grout removing tool which is like
a little uh kind of like utility knife with yeah, okay,
scrape all that out, Scrape it out the best you can,
and then just put a nice beat of acrylic, silk
and ice calking in there, and I think you'll help
(10:19):
or stop that whole grout issue. You can even get
it with microband which is mold, mold and mildew inhibitor.
As far as the the black in the countertop, I
do think it probably is mold or algae or something
some fungus that's growing in the wood. Because of the
(10:40):
amount of water so mineral spirits. Maybe we bump up
our protection a little bit. Uh maybe put a yeah,
just in that one area, make it a little more waterproof.
And I'm not talking about varnishing or poly your thane,
but maybe put like a tongue oil and rub a
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tongue oil into the wood there and make it a
little bit more of water protective. That water's either coming
in through the top through the mineral oil, which isn't
necessarily really waterproof, or that water was being absorbed by
the grout and coming in through the backside of that
butcher block and creating a growth in it, which would
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be underneath the surface. But it manifests itself on the surface.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
So you know, if I if I pull up this sake,
let's do it. I need to like seeing that butcher
block down to get rid of that.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Black well, that's what Since we don't really know where
it was entering, one of the things first would be
to scrape and calk and then maybe take like a
wet and forget disinfected and mold remover and soak that
butcher block right there and see if we can kill
whatever spores are in that, and then put a tongue
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oil over it so it's not growing up through the
tongue oil, we would prevent wait and forget for that application.
They do make a disinfectant mold eliminator. Yes, oh okay,
so and again, if it's coming from underneath, that will help.
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If it's coming from the top, it should help also.
And then we can take you know, maybe even go
a little stronger with like the tongue oil on the
top of it to make it a little more waterproof.
All right, thank you much, and we'll take a break.
We got Joel and Greg. If you'd like to join us,
do so. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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about your project or issues you may hey be heaving
around your home. Let's go to Joel. Joel, welcome, you know,
a good morning morning.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
Yes, I have a wooden poet, tongue and groove, and
about six inches from it to the poet, the hoard
is rotten, like four or five boards is rotten. So
we're digging out the rotten wood.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
So, uh.
Speaker 8 (16:27):
Thinking about using bondo to fill that in because I
can't find that define boards no more. The tongue and groom.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well do you think it is patchable? I mean a
good woody POxy patch uh could do the job. But
it really depends on how far gone that that wood is.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You know.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Well, yeah, I don't most all the rotten stuff out?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Yeah, you know you almost all way through?
Speaker 6 (17:02):
M h, Well that's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I guess that's what I'm asking you, Joel. Is you
see it, I don't in that wood that's all rotten.
Does it appear like it's patchable? I mean you say
it's almost all the way through?
Speaker 8 (17:18):
Yeah, yeah, nothing, I'm patch andnother thing about new bondo.
So what your suggestion as.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You used, Yeah, I would say what I would use
is what they call woody pos It's going to be
a little bit of a stronger patch. It's going to
allow you to make a larger patch than Bondo's going
to allow you to make. And again, you've got to
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have something that is a solid, firm base to actually
make the patch on. That's why I was asking, you know,
how much of the wood is actually gone, But if
you've got a good solid base, I would recommend woody Pox.
It's made by a company called Abatron. I've seen it
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in home depot. You can also order it online. It's
it's actually designed to be able to make a patch
really literally the size of a basketball, which is very
very unusual for any type of wood patch to be
able to accomplish that. Feet So again, it's called wood
Epox by Abatron, and I think that's gonna be what
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you're gonna end up hafing. The use it is. It
is sandable, drillable, stainable, paintable. It's just a question of
you know, whether you got enough wood there to create
the patch on there, and I'm gonna let you determine that.
Outside of that, it's a matter of you know, removing
the wood and you say you can't get that anymore.
(18:58):
I don't know if there's anybody that can and mill
that for you and come something close where they can
use new wood as a patch. That would be the
only other alternative that I can think of. All right,
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all right, back at it we go thirty three minutes
after the top of the hour. The weekend, it is well,
I hope you're getting a few things done, and at
the very least, if you got good weather, get outside
and enjoy it all right. Our phone numbers eight hundred
eight two three eight two five five love to talk
to you about your home projects or maybe an issue
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you're having around the home. And we're going to get
right back to the phone calls. We got Greg, Greg, welcome,
How you doing? Gary doing good? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
All right. I've got three things and none of them
said take much time. I've got a heavy duty chain
that's in good shape, but it's covered in rust. How
can I get rid of that rust on the chain?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
There's a couple of things. How big a chain is?
I mean, is it like got to go on a
big bucket or something like that?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Or yeah, I kind of asked, should I put it
down like a five gallon bucket and just put a
ton of peeb blaster in there or what?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Well? Blaster is what I would recommend. It's not the
PB blaster, but they got a rust dissolving solution. The
name kind of escapes me and kind of looking it
up right now, I got all the blaster products. I
don't know of that one, but that's what I would use.
It's four tools and things like that where you create
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a bath for it and you know, take care of
that problem. Uh, it is a rust removing I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
So it's peevy blasters rust dissolver. Yeah, okay, all right,
next question. I've got two steps made out of concrete,
probably a total of twenty square surface twenty square feet
surface area. Okay, years ago it had one coat of
paint put on it, but about half of those were off.
(24:46):
I'd like to repaint it and hopefully make it a
little bit more slip through. How do I go about
removing the what remaining paint is there? And what should
I used to repaint it?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
So? And this is is on concrete? Correct?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
And was it a latex paint? You know?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Or I have no idea?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Okay, how long ago did you do it?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Oh? I didn't do it. It was this was years
ago and it's flaking off. That that tells you anything.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Okay, Well, our options are we can grind it off,
or we can use a stripper and remove it with
a stripper. So I'd probably use something like smart strip
that's going to remove the bulk of it. You can
take and scrape off the loose, peeling paint, and where
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you have some areas where it's tightly adhered, just put
some smart strip on it. Most most of your hardware
stores have carried It's uh, there's really nothing on the
market that compares to it. In terms of effectiveness, so
it'll remove it. And then once we remove that, repainting it.
(26:04):
Anything you paint it's going to be slippery. Okay, So
there's additives. Yeah, there's addiitives you can sprinkle on. There's
one called shark grip. There's also like a silica sand
that you can sprinkle on which will add some adhesion
to it after you put the coat on, still wet,
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you sprinkle that on. Or you've probably heard me talk
about Dice coatings in their product called roller Rock. It's
not a paint, it is a coating and it's virtually
slip resistant. And then they even have so you'd put
two coats a roller Rock on it, and then you
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would put a clear coating called track Safe over it.
It'll be very slip resistant. So that's an option. And
then I gave you the painting options where you can
add you know, the shark grip in there. As far
as your rusted chain, the name of that product is
called rust remover bath. How about that bath? Yeah, rust
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remover bath. Metal Rescue is the actual metal rescue rust
remover bath. So put it in a bucket and have
at it.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
All right, One last quick question do you. This may
not be your fortee. Do you know much about home
security systems?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Uh? Not a whole lot, but far away. See maybe
I can help you. Maybe not well.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
And I don't care if I'm install it or have
somebody else's sol it. But what I'd like to do
is get some high quality cameras, even if I just
get them one at a time and ad them later,
that are high definition, preferably color night vision, that I
can look at any of them, like say on my
phone anywhere an app. Yeah, uh, it's certain.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
And I don't I don't want like a a monthly
paid watching.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
It for me, right right? And this is yeah, yeah, sure.
There's a couple of them, and one of the biggest
ones out there. I don't know if I can say
it's the best visualized. But there's a you know, the
Ring line of products. And there's also one called Kuna
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k U n A I I I have two or
three Let's say I have I have the Ring doorbell,
I have a Ring camera, and then I have an
older Kuna one over my driveway, so I have three
of them. They're all on my phone.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
There. They can give you notifications if somebody you know
walks in the path. It can you know, it'll let
you know that you have a video that you can
check out. Sometimes it's my neighbor cutting my cutting the grass.
Sometimes it's a raccoon in the middle of the night.
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You can change the sensitivity. I'd highly recommend either one
of those. I'm sure there's some that maybe even have
better quality at that I don't know, but those for
a home, you know, they're they're perfect in my opinion.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Have you heard of have you heard of a company
called simply.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yeah, yeah, I haven't. I haven't done anything with Simply Safe,
but I hear nothing but good things on it. Okay,
so I don't think you'll hurt yourself with it. In fact,
I'll have to get a friend of mine, his son
actually uh in our city. He does a he does
(29:46):
smart homes. I'll have to have him on the show again.
I had him on a couple of years ago. But yeah,
I'll have to. And he kind of designs you know,
layouts for you know, cameras, and he can also do
smart homes in terms of smart home locks on the
front doors and smart home shades and you know, he
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incorporates all that together. But I have to have him
on there, but I've heard great things about the simply safe.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yes, okay, all right, thank you mister Sullivan. Hope you
have a good day and a good week.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
All right, you do the same, Thank you much. All right?
How about that mister Slivan stuffed? Any huh huh? You
like that? You're just shaking his head. Let's go to Michelle. Michelle, welcome,
Hi Harry, thanks for having me a question.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
My son put in some new front porch steps and
it's not treated wood, it's just regular regular woods. Can
we do we have to feel it? And how long
would it last or should we just feel it with
It's not as Thompson's brand, but we brought it, bought
a different brand of wood feeler.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
You know if it's regular, wouldn't it's not a pressure
treated I think for steps, I would like to see
you paint them. I just don't think sealing them is
is going to really offer you the protection you're looking for.
Speaker 9 (31:16):
Okay? Is there a special paint to paint them so
they're not slippery because they're front porch steps?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah? So pretty similar to the fella I was just
talking to where he was talking about a porch floor
that he was removing paint from and then going to
paint it. There are porch and floor paints, Okay, they've
been around for years. They've improved a lot. Sherman Williams
has them, Ben More has them. They're water based porch
(31:45):
and floor paints. And then you can use a product
like shark grip or silica sand that can be sprinkled
over the film of the paint, which will help them
be non slippery. I'm not going to call it say
they're slipproof, but they'll have some traction to it. Okay,
(32:08):
so that's what I would use it. And by the way,
in defense, if you were to use pressure treated wood
and use a stain on those, they'll still be slippery
and you wouldn't be you wouldn't have the ability to
use that shark grip or silica sand on the surface
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because what that type of stain does is it penetrates
into the wood and it seals that wood. Especially the
pressure tree wood and water can be that that wood
doesn't try out very fast and it becomes slippery. So
painting and using a shark grip might be a better option.
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I also talked to the Fella about a product called
roller rock. I'm just giving you ideas. Roller rock is
a coating. It's thicker than paint, and it is designed
to be slip resistant. You do two coats of roller
rock in a coat of a clear finish called track Safe,
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which makes it slip resistant.
Speaker 9 (33:19):
Okay, and I can use that on the raw wood.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yes, you can, you can, Okay, don't put the seiler
on it?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Well, what were you thinking about doing on there? Ce See,
I think the we don't.
Speaker 9 (33:32):
Really care at this point because there's so much work
that we're doing in the house, So it's mostly just
what's the best way to protect the wood and make
it sleep a slip resistant just because it's raw wood,
it's not pressure treated.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yeah, I would say, I would say the paint or
the roller rock is going to offer you the best
protection for that wood rather than a stain or a seiler.
Those ceilers get they're very short lived. The sun really
begins to degrade a seiler pretty much instantly, and after
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two or three years. If it's a clear seiler, you'll
be lucky if you get a year, and then that
wood doesn't have any protection like a pressure treated does.
So you're gonna make that wood very vulnerable.
Speaker 9 (34:25):
Okay, okay, all right, thank you very much. I appreciate
all your help.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. All right, we'll take a break. Rick.
When we come back your batton, we'll continue. You're at
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back to the phones and Rick welcome, Good.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Morning, Gary. Hey, I got a concrete block, I know,
a concrete block basement that I'm gonna be painting the
walls with a stealer paint. And what I'm finding on
the basement concrete block, there's brown spots basically on the
first five feet. They're kind of all over the block.
They're into the concrete. I've treated it with a mildew
(38:14):
and mold and it seems to clean it up. Do
you know what that brown spot?
Speaker 3 (38:18):
That stuff is?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Well, mold. There's over three hundred different varieties of molds.
Certainly it could be mold. It could also be and
I'm guessing when you say the first you're talking about
like the first five rows of block.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Yeah, five six rows of blocks.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
It could just could be a water stain.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
No, it's a dry basement. It's there's not a drop
in there. I run delimited fires down there. I have,
you know, all kinds of stuff, but it doesn't seem
to be a wet basement.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Okay, and what did you what did you say you
cleaned it with?
Speaker 4 (38:52):
I cleaned it with a mold and mildew cleaner, oh okay,
and sprayed it on, scrubbed it on and cleaned it
right up. Okay, Probably I want to go on before
I before I steal it.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah, no, I would say that probably is uh molds.
And you know, but I do know if people have
a leaky issue with the basements, those blocks do stain
in a brown, but mold comes in green, pink, white, green,
I mean all kinds of colors. I'm sure brown's in there. Wow.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
How do you prevent that from happening in the basement?
I mean I have dehumidifiers I have, you know, I
have well, I feel like the hanging, I got all
kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
You know, Well, mold can't grow unless it has three things,
all right. It has mold spores. And mold spores are
in the air everywhere we go inside our house outside,
there are It's how the environment works. That's what breaks
down the leaves, the twigs, the stuff in woods, and
they're in your house too because they're everywhere. So it
(39:54):
needs mold spores. Uh, then it needs organic material. Organic
material is pretty much everywhere too. You have dirt, you
have dust, you have wood, you have paper on drywall,
you have you know, you have organic material. And then
you need moisture. That's why I asked. And moisture doesn't
(40:15):
necessarily come only in the form of water droplets or
running water or a leak. It can be humidity. I
remember a number of years ago I had mold on
actually headed on a on a fabric on a couch
(40:35):
in a basement. This is twenty years ago and long
before we really start focusing on humidity and molds and stuff.
And I got a humidic gauge and I had seventy
percent humidity in a basement and ended up getting an
easy breathe and I that's how I found easy breathe
(40:56):
in fact, and do you emidifire? And you know, we
got that moisture level down to fifty percent and I
didn't have more problem anymore. So when you're in a
cross space, I don't know if you got plastic on
the ground, but a vapor barrier on the.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
Yeah, it's a full basement.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Okay, okay, all right, all right, so you're probably doing
the right thing controlling the minute. Do you know what
kind of humidity you run down there?
Speaker 4 (41:29):
Yeah, I'm running about fifty. You know my damtifier turns
on it on fifty.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
I probably should get a meter out there, Yeah I.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Would, Yeah, I would. I got one in mine and
mine can run fifty. But then sometimes, you know, the
filter starts blinking and I can tell because the humidity
is up to like fifty eight percent. It just decreases
the airflow and humidity goes up.
Speaker 4 (41:54):
During the winter.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
There's nothing nothing, no, In fact, mine's unplugged. Now we're
high and dry here, so I had no need to
worry about that. But you know, if the molden mildew,
remover removed it. My guess is that's probably what it is.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Yeah, I'm going to seal it up with just it
might be overkilled.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
I mean it's like a dry lock paint or whatever
on or just to steal it up.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah, you know what. And second thought too, so that
those first five rows, that's also below grade. And there
is a huge amount of water vapor that enters through
basement walls during the course of a day. I mean
up to like eight to ten gallons of water vapor,
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so you probably got moisture. When you use that waterproofing paint.
That's gonna seal that transfer of water vapor. So you
may not only improve the cleanliness of that wall, you
may find that really helps with your dehumidification in the summertime.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
That'd be great, that would be perfect.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Yeah, it'd be neat to get a gauge in there
and see where it is now versus when you get
it all sealed up. Of course, probably pretty dry right now.
That'd be worth seeing. I think you'll see that decrease.
Speaker 4 (43:15):
Well, I'm gonna order one right after the show.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Very good. Thanks ricks, take care all right, and uh,
well that was a really fast weekend. They're all fast,
fast moving show. Uh yeah, you know. I started out,
I had old page of notes to pages and notes
for yesterday's show and today's and I literally got nowhere.
(43:39):
I had all these good trivia questions too, on color,
but I'm gonna save those for next week because eventually.
Speaker 6 (43:44):
We're gonna have a slow Sunday again and you're gonna
need well that or.
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It's going to be crummy weather and everybody's just gonna
lose interest in a little bit or a big football
game or something something. Our job is to answer questions,
help you and all, so take your calls to help
everybody else, and we else motivate you. So if you
haven't changed that filter on your air handler and it's
(44:10):
been going big time all summer because of the heat
and it's been sixty to ninety days, that might be
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and see how dirty that is every ninety days. Replace
it anyway. But you may find it's been running a
little bit more than usual and probably needs a new filter.
So we'll leave it. We'll leave our to do list
(44:33):
at that. Danny Boy, thank you very much. Another great weekend.
I appreciate your efforts, and I know the callers do also,
And good Lord William. We'll be back next weekend for
more At Home with Gary Sullivan.
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and welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I can't hear you.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yep, I got you, yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Okay, yeah. I had a water tank leak on me
and the tank is in the garage on an adjacent
wall to the master bath.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
The water ran along the wall in the garage for
about fifteen twenty feet and I found the spot to
get under the the wall and went into the bathroom
underneath the vanity and on the carpet. We cleaned up
the carpet and everything and had the restoration person come in.
(02:08):
They tested it for a mold and anything else and
h he said, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
But.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
My daughter is still getting a musty smell when she
opens the cabinet doors on one end of the vanity
that's in there. What can I use to.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Get rid of the smell?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Well, there are there are certainly ways to do that
I talk about. So do you think there's mold under there?
Let me iss you that the old adage with mold
is if you can smell, there's some right, And he
tested it. How long after it was wet within the week,
(02:58):
within a week, and how long has it been now?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
About five or six months?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh boy? Okay, Well, it should not be smelling musty
at this point, only because if there was mold, it
is dried out, I'm assuming, and that mold that is
there would be dormant. But that doesn't mean there is
an excessive mold spores in that area or in that cabinet.
(03:27):
There's a product called AQM. It's Air Quality Manager. And
what it is, it's a little packet. This is very
easy to use, a little packet that is moistened with
water and it produces a chlorine dioxide very mild. You
(03:50):
might smell just a hint of bleach for a while.
And you clip it onto a fan, a little box fan,
little rotating iscillating fan, and you blow this AQM into
the air, which oxidizes the mold spores in the air,
which eliminates the smell. Okay, pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
St She opens the cabinet door, right and.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I know there's people probably talking and thinking right now, well,
you can put some activated charcoal in there. Yeah, it
might do a little a little good. It might even
eliminate the smell for a while. There's also the same
people that make the aq M, and I don't want
to get you to buy a whole bunch of stuff here,
but they make one called odor Eliminator, which may help too.
(04:43):
But I think on this one for what you have,
I think the AQM would be perfect. That website rich
is odor od o r x it so it's odor
xit dot com. The product is AQM. They make about
six seven different products. You can kind of read about
(05:05):
the different ones. They're all kind of different. And you know,
like the odor eliminators for very organic smells. You know,
if you had, you know, a dog and cat in
the house and they had some accidents, that'd be perfect
dead animals, perfect for the AQM really does. It's for
(05:26):
like if somebody smoked in a car, in a room
or mold. These are good eliminators. So I would say
the AQM. Just get on their website kind of read about.
You can order it right there. I've used it before
for a vehicle with some smoke odors in it and
did quite nicely. Okay, very good, all righty, we'll give
(05:52):
it a try. Very good. Thanks, take care, appreciate it,
and let's go to Alan Allen. Welcome.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Hey Gary, Yes, my my.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Wife and I love your show.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
We listen every weekend when we're driving around to broad
sales and such.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Thank you, and I really.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Appreciate your advice and your information. I have a you
have a farmhouse, Saint Mounted, honey, but your block countertop.
My wife does the the like vegetable oil.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Or mineral don't mineral oil? Mineral?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Yeah, she treats that at least once a month, But
there's it's the farmhouse sake barely fit on the countertop,
and there's like maybe an inch inch and a quarter
of space between the saint and the and the backsplash tile.
And I routed the backsplast pile, and I clocked the sink,
(06:53):
and there's just the the grout is deteriorating and separating,
and and there's there's always it always gets back there,
which I guess is normal. But uh, there's like a
black I don't think it's black moles. Maybe it's coming
from behind the ground.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
But trying to figure out how I can, uh what.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I should put there, Like pull the sick out, maybe
put little pile back there between the counter the bagsplash
and the sink, or yeah, how can how can I
prevent that whatever that black thing is? I don't think
it's black mole.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Okay, So I mightd have missed a key part of
your question, but so let me just kind of repeat.
So you got the sink and then at the back
of the sink, we got a small piece of countertop.
Still is that correct?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah, there's a Yeah, that's a small piece the butcher
block countertop between the stake and the backsplash.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Okay, okay, So there there's no gap underneath that sink.
It it just is a little it's a place for
water to catch in that little strip, correct, yes, okay.
And is the black stuff you're seeing is it on
the countertop or is it right on the grout? I
heard you say the grout's failing.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
It's it's on the countertop.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Okay. And that's from just the water sitting.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, and does when she uses that mintal oil, she
obviously does that area, but it's once a it's once
a month, and that's probably getting wet daily. Correct, I
would say that's yes, okay, all right, So you want
(08:52):
to talk about the countertop, you want to talk about
the grout first. I think it's just the nature of
the beast, the way it's kind of set up. I
know ours is granted, but when I use the sprayer,
like i'm the sink, that area by the faucet handles
and the faucet itself does get wet also, and it's
(09:13):
it stays wet unless you you know, you're always drying
it off or something along those lines. Of course, I'm
not experiencing what you're experiencing because it's stone. So I
would say one suggestion if it's if the grout's getting
kind of moldy or crumbly from that moisture too. A
(09:33):
lot of times people always ask me is why wouldn't
they put a backsplash in? Do they grout it all
the way down to the countertop. But then I get
in older homes sometimes they're calked, and the reason is
because if it's always being invaded by water, you're going
to take that groud out and you calk that. So
that might be that might be something you want to
(09:55):
take a look at least, you know, obviously you want
to do a good calking job with it. But if
you get a a grout removing tool which is like
a little uh kind of like utility knife with yeah, okay,
scrape all that out, Scrape it out the best you can,
and then just put a nice beat of acrylic, silk
and ice calking in there, and I think you'll help
(10:19):
or stop that whole grout issue. You can even get
it with microband which is mold, mold and mildew inhibitor.
As far as the the black in the countertop, I
do think it probably is mold or algae or something
some fungus that's growing in the wood. Because of the
(10:40):
amount of water so mineral spirits. Maybe we bump up
our protection a little bit. Uh maybe put a yeah,
just in that one area, make it a little more waterproof.
And I'm not talking about varnishing or poly your thane,
but maybe put like a tongue oil and rub a
(11:02):
tongue oil into the wood there and make it a
little bit more of water protective. That water's either coming
in through the top through the mineral oil, which isn't
necessarily really waterproof, or that water was being absorbed by
the grout and coming in through the backside of that
butcher block and creating a growth in it, which would
(11:26):
be underneath the surface. But it manifests itself on the surface.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
So you know, if I if I pull up this sake,
let's do it. I need to like seeing that butcher
block down to get rid of that.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Black well, that's what Since we don't really know where
it was entering, one of the things first would be
to scrape and calk and then maybe take like a
wet and forget disinfected and mold remover and soak that
butcher block right there and see if we can kill
whatever spores are in that, and then put a tongue
(12:04):
oil over it so it's not growing up through the
tongue oil, we would prevent wait and forget for that application.
They do make a disinfectant mold eliminator. Yes, oh okay,
so and again, if it's coming from underneath, that will help.
(12:26):
If it's coming from the top, it should help also.
And then we can take you know, maybe even go
a little stronger with like the tongue oil on the
top of it to make it a little more waterproof.
All right, thank you much, and we'll take a break.
We got Joel and Greg. If you'd like to join us,
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about your project or issues you may hey be heaving
around your home. Let's go to Joel. Joel, welcome, you know,
a good morning morning.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
Yes, I have a wooden poet, tongue and groove, and
about six inches from it to the poet, the hoard
is rotten, like four or five boards is rotten. So
we're digging out the rotten wood.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
So, uh.
Speaker 8 (16:27):
Thinking about using bondo to fill that in because I
can't find that define boards no more. The tongue and groom.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well do you think it is patchable? I mean a
good woody POxy patch uh could do the job. But
it really depends on how far gone that that wood is.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You know.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Well, yeah, I don't most all the rotten stuff out?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Yeah, you know you almost all way through?
Speaker 6 (17:02):
M h, Well that's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I guess that's what I'm asking you, Joel. Is you
see it, I don't in that wood that's all rotten.
Does it appear like it's patchable? I mean you say
it's almost all the way through?
Speaker 8 (17:18):
Yeah, yeah, nothing, I'm patch andnother thing about new bondo.
So what your suggestion as.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You used, Yeah, I would say what I would use
is what they call woody pos It's going to be
a little bit of a stronger patch. It's going to
allow you to make a larger patch than Bondo's going
to allow you to make. And again, you've got to
(17:48):
have something that is a solid, firm base to actually
make the patch on. That's why I was asking, you know,
how much of the wood is actually gone, But if
you've got a good solid base, I would recommend woody Pox.
It's made by a company called Abatron. I've seen it
(18:12):
in home depot. You can also order it online. It's
it's actually designed to be able to make a patch
really literally the size of a basketball, which is very
very unusual for any type of wood patch to be
able to accomplish that. Feet So again, it's called wood
Epox by Abatron, and I think that's gonna be what
(18:36):
you're gonna end up hafing. The use it is. It
is sandable, drillable, stainable, paintable. It's just a question of
you know, whether you got enough wood there to create
the patch on there, and I'm gonna let you determine that.
Outside of that, it's a matter of you know, removing
the wood and you say you can't get that anymore.
(18:58):
I don't know if there's anybody that can and mill
that for you and come something close where they can
use new wood as a patch. That would be the
only other alternative that I can think of. All right,
thank you much for the call. If you'd like to
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after the top of the hour. The weekend, it is well,
I hope you're getting a few things done, and at
the very least, if you got good weather, get outside
and enjoy it all right. Our phone numbers eight hundred
eight two three eight two five five love to talk
to you about your home projects or maybe an issue
(23:16):
you're having around the home. And we're going to get
right back to the phone calls. We got Greg, Greg, welcome,
How you doing? Gary doing good? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
All right. I've got three things and none of them
said take much time. I've got a heavy duty chain
that's in good shape, but it's covered in rust. How
can I get rid of that rust on the chain?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
There's a couple of things. How big a chain is?
I mean, is it like got to go on a
big bucket or something like that?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Or yeah, I kind of asked, should I put it
down like a five gallon bucket and just put a
ton of peeb blaster in there or what?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Well? Blaster is what I would recommend. It's not the
PB blaster, but they got a rust dissolving solution. The
name kind of escapes me and kind of looking it
up right now, I got all the blaster products. I
don't know of that one, but that's what I would use.
It's four tools and things like that where you create
(24:15):
a bath for it and you know, take care of
that problem. Uh, it is a rust removing I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
So it's peevy blasters rust dissolver. Yeah, okay, all right,
next question. I've got two steps made out of concrete,
probably a total of twenty square surface twenty square feet
surface area. Okay, years ago it had one coat of
paint put on it, but about half of those were off.
(24:46):
I'd like to repaint it and hopefully make it a
little bit more slip through. How do I go about
removing the what remaining paint is there? And what should
I used to repaint it?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
So? And this is is on concrete? Correct?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
And was it a latex paint? You know?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Or I have no idea?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Okay, how long ago did you do it?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Oh? I didn't do it. It was this was years
ago and it's flaking off. That that tells you anything.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Okay, Well, our options are we can grind it off,
or we can use a stripper and remove it with
a stripper. So I'd probably use something like smart strip
that's going to remove the bulk of it. You can
take and scrape off the loose, peeling paint, and where
(25:39):
you have some areas where it's tightly adhered, just put
some smart strip on it. Most most of your hardware
stores have carried It's uh, there's really nothing on the
market that compares to it. In terms of effectiveness, so
it'll remove it. And then once we remove that, repainting it.
(26:04):
Anything you paint it's going to be slippery. Okay, So
there's additives. Yeah, there's addiitives you can sprinkle on. There's
one called shark grip. There's also like a silica sand
that you can sprinkle on which will add some adhesion
to it after you put the coat on, still wet,
(26:26):
you sprinkle that on. Or you've probably heard me talk
about Dice coatings in their product called roller Rock. It's
not a paint, it is a coating and it's virtually
slip resistant. And then they even have so you'd put
two coats a roller Rock on it, and then you
(26:47):
would put a clear coating called track Safe over it.
It'll be very slip resistant. So that's an option. And
then I gave you the painting options where you can
add you know, the shark grip in there. As far
as your rusted chain, the name of that product is
called rust remover bath. How about that bath? Yeah, rust
(27:09):
remover bath. Metal Rescue is the actual metal rescue rust
remover bath. So put it in a bucket and have
at it.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
All right, One last quick question do you. This may
not be your fortee. Do you know much about home
security systems?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Uh? Not a whole lot, but far away. See maybe
I can help you. Maybe not well.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
And I don't care if I'm install it or have
somebody else's sol it. But what I'd like to do
is get some high quality cameras, even if I just
get them one at a time and ad them later,
that are high definition, preferably color night vision, that I
can look at any of them, like say on my
phone anywhere an app. Yeah, uh, it's certain.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
And I don't I don't want like a a monthly
paid watching.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
It for me, right right? And this is yeah, yeah, sure.
There's a couple of them, and one of the biggest
ones out there. I don't know if I can say
it's the best visualized. But there's a you know, the
Ring line of products. And there's also one called Kuna
(28:23):
k U n A I I I have two or
three Let's say I have I have the Ring doorbell,
I have a Ring camera, and then I have an
older Kuna one over my driveway, so I have three
of them. They're all on my phone.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
There. They can give you notifications if somebody you know
walks in the path. It can you know, it'll let
you know that you have a video that you can
check out. Sometimes it's my neighbor cutting my cutting the grass.
Sometimes it's a raccoon in the middle of the night.
(29:03):
You can change the sensitivity. I'd highly recommend either one
of those. I'm sure there's some that maybe even have
better quality at that I don't know, but those for
a home, you know, they're they're perfect in my opinion.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Have you heard of have you heard of a company
called simply.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yeah, yeah, I haven't. I haven't done anything with Simply Safe,
but I hear nothing but good things on it. Okay,
so I don't think you'll hurt yourself with it. In fact,
I'll have to get a friend of mine, his son
actually uh in our city. He does a he does
(29:46):
smart homes. I'll have to have him on the show again.
I had him on a couple of years ago. But yeah,
I'll have to. And he kind of designs you know,
layouts for you know, cameras, and he can also do
smart homes in terms of smart home locks on the
front doors and smart home shades and you know, he
(30:08):
incorporates all that together. But I have to have him
on there, but I've heard great things about the simply safe.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yes, okay, all right, thank you mister Sullivan. Hope you
have a good day and a good week.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
All right, you do the same, Thank you much. All right?
How about that mister Slivan stuffed? Any huh huh? You
like that? You're just shaking his head. Let's go to Michelle. Michelle, welcome,
Hi Harry, thanks for having me a question.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
My son put in some new front porch steps and
it's not treated wood, it's just regular regular woods. Can
we do we have to feel it? And how long
would it last or should we just feel it with
It's not as Thompson's brand, but we brought it, bought
a different brand of wood feeler.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
You know if it's regular, wouldn't it's not a pressure
treated I think for steps, I would like to see
you paint them. I just don't think sealing them is
is going to really offer you the protection you're looking for.
Speaker 9 (31:16):
Okay? Is there a special paint to paint them so
they're not slippery because they're front porch steps?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah? So pretty similar to the fella I was just
talking to where he was talking about a porch floor
that he was removing paint from and then going to
paint it. There are porch and floor paints, Okay, they've
been around for years. They've improved a lot. Sherman Williams
has them, Ben More has them. They're water based porch
(31:45):
and floor paints. And then you can use a product
like shark grip or silica sand that can be sprinkled
over the film of the paint, which will help them
be non slippery. I'm not going to call it say
they're slipproof, but they'll have some traction to it. Okay,
(32:08):
so that's what I would use it. And by the way,
in defense, if you were to use pressure treated wood
and use a stain on those, they'll still be slippery
and you wouldn't be you wouldn't have the ability to
use that shark grip or silica sand on the surface
(32:30):
because what that type of stain does is it penetrates
into the wood and it seals that wood. Especially the
pressure tree wood and water can be that that wood
doesn't try out very fast and it becomes slippery. So
painting and using a shark grip might be a better option.
(32:53):
I also talked to the Fella about a product called
roller rock. I'm just giving you ideas. Roller rock is
a coating. It's thicker than paint, and it is designed
to be slip resistant. You do two coats of roller
rock in a coat of a clear finish called track Safe,
(33:15):
which makes it slip resistant.
Speaker 9 (33:19):
Okay, and I can use that on the raw wood.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yes, you can, you can, Okay, don't put the seiler
on it?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Well, what were you thinking about doing on there? Ce See,
I think the we don't.
Speaker 9 (33:32):
Really care at this point because there's so much work
that we're doing in the house, So it's mostly just
what's the best way to protect the wood and make
it sleep a slip resistant just because it's raw wood,
it's not pressure treated.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yeah, I would say, I would say the paint or
the roller rock is going to offer you the best
protection for that wood rather than a stain or a seiler.
Those ceilers get they're very short lived. The sun really
begins to degrade a seiler pretty much instantly, and after
(34:10):
two or three years. If it's a clear seiler, you'll
be lucky if you get a year, and then that
wood doesn't have any protection like a pressure treated does.
So you're gonna make that wood very vulnerable.
Speaker 9 (34:25):
Okay, okay, all right, thank you very much. I appreciate
all your help.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. All right, we'll take a break. Rick.
When we come back your batton, we'll continue. You're at
home with Gary Sullivan.
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back to the phones and Rick welcome, Good.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Morning, Gary. Hey, I got a concrete block, I know,
a concrete block basement that I'm gonna be painting the
walls with a stealer paint. And what I'm finding on
the basement concrete block, there's brown spots basically on the
first five feet. They're kind of all over the block.
They're into the concrete. I've treated it with a mildew
(38:14):
and mold and it seems to clean it up. Do
you know what that brown spot?
Speaker 3 (38:18):
That stuff is?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Well, mold. There's over three hundred different varieties of molds.
Certainly it could be mold. It could also be and
I'm guessing when you say the first you're talking about
like the first five rows of block.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Yeah, five six rows of blocks.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
It could just could be a water stain.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
No, it's a dry basement. It's there's not a drop
in there. I run delimited fires down there. I have,
you know, all kinds of stuff, but it doesn't seem
to be a wet basement.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Okay, and what did you what did you say you
cleaned it with?
Speaker 4 (38:52):
I cleaned it with a mold and mildew cleaner, oh okay,
and sprayed it on, scrubbed it on and cleaned it
right up. Okay, Probably I want to go on before
I before I steal it.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah, no, I would say that probably is uh molds.
And you know, but I do know if people have
a leaky issue with the basements, those blocks do stain
in a brown, but mold comes in green, pink, white, green,
I mean all kinds of colors. I'm sure brown's in there. Wow.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
How do you prevent that from happening in the basement?
I mean I have dehumidifiers I have, you know, I
have well, I feel like the hanging, I got all
kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
You know, Well, mold can't grow unless it has three things,
all right. It has mold spores. And mold spores are
in the air everywhere we go inside our house outside,
there are It's how the environment works. That's what breaks
down the leaves, the twigs, the stuff in woods, and
they're in your house too because they're everywhere. So it
(39:54):
needs mold spores. Uh, then it needs organic material. Organic
material is pretty much everywhere too. You have dirt, you
have dust, you have wood, you have paper on drywall,
you have you know, you have organic material. And then
you need moisture. That's why I asked. And moisture doesn't
(40:15):
necessarily come only in the form of water droplets or
running water or a leak. It can be humidity. I
remember a number of years ago I had mold on
actually headed on a on a fabric on a couch
(40:35):
in a basement. This is twenty years ago and long
before we really start focusing on humidity and molds and stuff.
And I got a humidic gauge and I had seventy
percent humidity in a basement and ended up getting an
easy breathe and I that's how I found easy breathe
(40:56):
in fact, and do you emidifire? And you know, we
got that moisture level down to fifty percent and I
didn't have more problem anymore. So when you're in a
cross space, I don't know if you got plastic on
the ground, but a vapor barrier on the.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
Yeah, it's a full basement.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Okay, okay, all right, all right, so you're probably doing
the right thing controlling the minute. Do you know what
kind of humidity you run down there?
Speaker 4 (41:29):
Yeah, I'm running about fifty. You know my damtifier turns
on it on fifty.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
I probably should get a meter out there, Yeah I.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Would, Yeah, I would. I got one in mine and
mine can run fifty. But then sometimes, you know, the
filter starts blinking and I can tell because the humidity
is up to like fifty eight percent. It just decreases
the airflow and humidity goes up.
Speaker 4 (41:54):
During the winter.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
There's nothing nothing, no, In fact, mine's unplugged. Now we're
high and dry here, so I had no need to
worry about that. But you know, if the molden mildew,
remover removed it. My guess is that's probably what it is.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Yeah, I'm going to seal it up with just it
might be overkilled.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
I mean it's like a dry lock paint or whatever
on or just to steal it up.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah, you know what. And second thought too, so that
those first five rows, that's also below grade. And there
is a huge amount of water vapor that enters through
basement walls during the course of a day. I mean
up to like eight to ten gallons of water vapor,
(42:39):
so you probably got moisture. When you use that waterproofing paint.
That's gonna seal that transfer of water vapor. So you
may not only improve the cleanliness of that wall, you
may find that really helps with your dehumidification in the summertime.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
That'd be great, that would be perfect.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Yeah, it'd be neat to get a gauge in there
and see where it is now versus when you get
it all sealed up. Of course, probably pretty dry right now.
That'd be worth seeing. I think you'll see that decrease.
Speaker 4 (43:15):
Well, I'm gonna order one right after the show.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Very good. Thanks ricks, take care all right, and uh,
well that was a really fast weekend. They're all fast,
fast moving show. Uh yeah, you know. I started out,
I had old page of notes to pages and notes
for yesterday's show and today's and I literally got nowhere.
(43:39):
I had all these good trivia questions too, on color,
but I'm gonna save those for next week because eventually.
Speaker 6 (43:44):
We're gonna have a slow Sunday again and you're gonna
need well that or.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
It's going to be crummy weather and everybody's just gonna
lose interest in a little bit or a big football
game or something something. Our job is to answer questions,
help you and all, so take your calls to help
everybody else, and we else motivate you. So if you
haven't changed that filter on your air handler and it's
(44:10):
been going big time all summer because of the heat
and it's been sixty to ninety days, that might be
something you want to just pull out, take a look
and see how dirty that is every ninety days. Replace
it anyway. But you may find it's been running a
little bit more than usual and probably needs a new filter.
So we'll leave it. We'll leave our to do list
(44:33):
at that. Danny Boy, thank you very much. Another great weekend.
I appreciate your efforts, and I know the callers do also,
And good Lord William. We'll be back next weekend for
more At Home with Gary Sullivan.
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