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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well, the weekends upon us. Welcome aboard, you're at home
with Gary Salvin, taking your calls about a little home improvement,
maintenance repair. As we well switch seasons and so we've
got a lot of summer projects we can kind of
wrap up. We got some fall up projects we got
to start thinking about. I got a couple in mind
that I want to talk about, and we'll take your
(00:53):
calls regarding your home maintenance or a project you're working on.
It's eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five,
go ahead and grab a line. We got several open
and justin welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah. So I had a question on my I think
it's part of my foundation. The bricks were my garage
lays on from the inside of my garage and the
concrete to the bricks, there's like holes in it, and
then of course in the outside you can see like
coming through. So obviously it's thrown for mice to get
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in and definitely fit through there. So I was wondering,
is if I can just mix up concrete and pour
it in there to steal it up.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Or tell me do any damage.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, well, tell me a little bit about these holes.
I mean, do you have any idea why they're there
or how they got there and how old is the
concrete and kind of what's going on not common, so
that's why I'm asking.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, so when I bought the house, it was already there.
So the house is I think.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Built in sixty seven, so it's a fairly old house.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
But yeah, when I bought the house, they were there,
so almost like I mean, I I don't know why
it's there.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
How big are they?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Literally I could stick I could probably stick my foot
in there, and that there's only a couple of them
on the outside, not the side that's connected to my house.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Mm hmm. Well to answer your question, I'm wondering what
the world that's therefore? Also right, So there's concrete. It's
a hole though, so it's surrounded by concrete.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
They have a concrete floor in my garage, but it's
the bricks that are going around my floor concrete and
where the garage sits.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
On So the hole is so usually you would have
the floor, you'd have a concrete foundation and a ledge
and the bricks would sit on the ledge.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, so it's right on like from where the concrete
floor meets okay to that foundation is kind of like
so it's just.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Like, okay, so in a in effect, it kind of
looks like a curb that's got a hole in it
beneath the brick to the floor. Right, okay, yep, all right,
I got I got a picture.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Now, so I know it's hard to explain.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah. So one the interesting thing about concrete, justin is
concrete doesn't really like to stick to concrete. So there's
a lot of specialty products that actually have bonding agents
in it and it here really well. So you wouldn't
just want to use like a bag of concrete mix
or a beg of sand mix. I'd get one of
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these specialty products and do you think you could put
a softball in it or a little bit small.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
A couple of tennis balls?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, okay, all right, so there's a couple of products
that come to mind which would be work really well.
Quick Crete makes a lot of different specially concrete patches,
and one of them is called anchoring cement. An anchoring
cement would be used like if you wanted to drill
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a hole and cement a bowl in there, like if
you put bolton chairs down in a stadium or something
that you could use that for that use, or if
the side of a concrete step cracked off, you could
actually create like a ball of this stuff and press
it on some nails to support it and dry and
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it would adhere to concrete. So I'm kind of thinking
the anchoring cement would work, and it would also be
one of the easier products to use. It's a powder.
You would mix it with water, just follow the directions.
You know, it comes in a little five pound pail
or three pound pail or something about that size. Uh,
mix with water, and you'd literally create or form a ball.
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You'd wear gloves and you could just go yeah, yeah, yeah,
and just kind of push it in there, kind of
trim it off with a taping knife or a trial
and uh, let her dry. It would be uh it
would have support from the you know, from the sides
of the concrete and the floor and the brick and
all that. It would just be a patch. That'd be
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option one. Option two.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I wouldn't have to sell it up or anything.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Well, I don't know. Yeah, well how deep. So when
you say so, let mean just so when you say deep,
you're talking that walls probably what four or five inches thick?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, Okay, I'd say maybe, oh that's half half up,
maybe six inches deep.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Maybe, Okay, all right, I think you'd be fine just
taking and creating a ball and stuffing it in there. Okay,
all right. So that's one idea. The other idea, and
I'm going to tell you a friend, I like the
anchoring cement idea better than the next one I'm gonna
talk about. The other one is it is a type
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of patch where if you get a crack in the
foundation and you want to hold back water from flowing
through the crack. It's hydraulic cement. It's a powder, it's
got a bonding agent in it. You mix it with water.
The negative on this is it dries really fast. I
mean it'll dry in two minutes. So you'd make a
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ball and you'd push that in and you'd have to
be working fast. And as it dries it expands a
little bit. It's gonna be more substantial. But I think
it's gonna be really difficult to work with, and I
think the anchoring cement would work great.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
All right, So anchoring cement, Yeah, yeah, I think so
well it works.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Sweet.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You don't recommend spring foaming there first, stuff fill it
up to kind of get up, just put that anchorage
in there.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I guess another question just having a little difficulty visualizing it.
If it's you know, as you describe, six inches deep
and you know, as tall as your hand and a
little wide, is there, is it all the way through?
I mean, can you take your you know, like a
metal rod and stick it all the way through? I
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mean you can see lights.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I can see on the outside. There's just a little
crack enough foundation, okay, so I can actually see lights
through it. And I definitely big enough where anything can
get through there.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
But well, you go up and look at that, or
go online even if you want it's it's quick crete
without the sea and look up anchoring cement. They may
have a video on it. Kind of get your feel
for it. I don't think there's going to be a
need for the foam. I think I just stuff it
full of concrete. I don't think it's going to take
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that much. I know it's deep and tall, but I
mean you could probably make a ball to size almost
of a basketball or maybe like a volleyball, so there'd
be enough there and just pack it in there, and
I think you'd be good to go.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, I'll give it a shot.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
All right, thank you, you bet, take care, bye bye.
And I talk a lot about different quick red products.
There's a quick creating and there's I see. One of
the things that's happening is Sacree, which is an old
standby product. They're getting into a little bit more specialty
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products also, and they're just you know, they're projects specific.
There may be some limitations. That's my I haven't had
a need to do that, but just read, you know,
read the directions, make sure it makes sense. But I
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feel strongly that the anchorings meant be a great, great
product to use for that zacht issue. The big issue
is why is that there? I question, I wonder why
that's there? All right? Our phone number is eight hundred
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They are at home with Gary Sullivan and we're talking
about your home and maybe projects you're tackling. Feel free
to join us in fran Welcome, Hi, Hi, listen carefully.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
I thought to your talk with the midsecond person, and
I went online to see if I can't order that
from Walmart. They have so many products I couldn't tell
which was which, but I saw none that were two
for nineteen dollars with the cloth. So I don't know
what I'm to be looking for.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Well I don't either. I'm going by what he told
me too. I haven't looked it up, but he said
Walmart dot com.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Yea and uh, and there's a snow of them, and
there's all love furniture polishes with floor cleaner and all that,
but none that just says floor cleaner or none.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
That did you find Did you find the mill sick product?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yeah, That's what I'm talking about. These are all Mill
Sick products that I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Well, okay, so I'm pulling my notes out on what
I just said too, and I have to check. I'm
just going by what he told me. It says Walmart
dot Com trying to do so. So, what are you
looking for the furniture polish.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
No, I'm looking for the floor cleaner. But it might
be a furniture polish and floor cleaner.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
So let's see big sale one. We're two bottles in
a town nineteen ninety nine and free shipping.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Nineteen ninety nine of two bottles of anything.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Well, it doesn't say of anything. That's why I'm reading
my notes. It says two bottles and a towel. It
says total home cleaning mention, uh, mention the products the
furniture polish and wood cleaner, the stainless steel cleaner, the
leather vinyl. I don't know if it's the two cleaners
of the furniture polish or it's a combination.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
No, he was very specific that it was a poor cleaner.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Well, I'll tell you what I'll do, Fran because I'm
not going to be able to answer it right now.
What I'll do is I will look it up myself
at the bottom of the hour during the break and
if I can send some clarity your way. Keep listening
and I'll do just that, all right, thank you much. Yeah,
that's just the notes I have I have. I'm looking
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at it too, so all right, so Danny's checking it also,
and we will pass that along Walmart, dot Com, millsic MI,
I L S E K two bottles and a towel,
nineteen ninety nine and free shipping. Very good. Let's go
to Ken Ken Welcome.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Hello, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
You bet.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I've got a table wood table while not vanier, and
it had some coffee rings on us, so I stripped it.
I did just the top and now it's got a
big bass and all fur oldbilit nice looking table, well
(15:50):
I did. I've got like fifteen layers now between poli ere,
a thane and blaze, tied both clear. Like I said,
I stripped it down on the top, restained it waited
the amount of time, and then I proceeded with polyrathan.
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But every layer bubbles that and some of them just
ten in size, you know, but enough to where its
frustrained and give another coat, another coat. And then I
tried the glaze like they having bars and I'm just
about to a point where leave it as it is
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and just deal with it as it is. But how
do you polish that? How do you get it to
where it's nice and shiny and well.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
You don't polish poly your thane. So you buy the
You buy the machine either in a gloss of semigloss
or a sat that's number one. So you're buying it
the way it is labeled, which is designed out how
it's going to dry. If you're looking for a bar
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top finish, that's usually forty coats and it's not individually
put on. There are products where it's almost like a
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surface and dribute and spread it around with a plastic
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deep looking protect it and it is a your thane.
So that's how you'd get that bar finish. If you're
doing like what you're doing and you're concerned about the bubbles,
a couple things that happen that creates bubbles in your
thane is we're using a wrong type of brush. I mean,
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if it is a solvent based yourthane, you'd want to
use a euthane or a polyester brush. So you would
use a polyester brush, or you would use a pure
bristle brush. You would not use a nylon brush. And
a nylon brush will create bubbles in your thane. And
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as I said, a lot of times people will just
kind of stir up your thane re aggressively or they'll
shake the can, and that will embed the bubbles into
the yourthane itself. That when it's applied, those bubbles can
stay or they will release. They will diminish as it dries,
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but they'll leave a little crater in there and then
you'll stand and recoat. So the couple tips on eliminating
the bubbles would be, don't shake, don't stir aggressively, and
make sure you're using a bristle or polyester brush. If
you're going for the forty coat, look there's a specialty
product just for that. I can't think of the name
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of it, but it is. It'll say forty coats right
on the front of the label from the one I remember.
So I hope that helps Ken, and I can hear
your frustration after doing it, you know, twelve times with coats,
and you can certainly take a four hundred grip wet
dry paper and scuff that down and use the forty
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coat yourthane on top of that. Or you can use
a four hundred wet dry paper, scuff it up and
put another coat of your thane again, letting it settle
in the can for a while. Don't shake it up
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go thirty three minutes after the top of the R
all right, friend, all right, all right, I found I
have solved your miss on the on the on the Milsic.
Actually Danny found it. I don't know if I would
have found it. I am not gonna say it Fran's
fault because it is difficult to find on the website.
(23:04):
So here's how you do it. You go to your
Walmart dot com just just like you said, Okay, just
like you said, yes, and you type in Millsick It's
m I L S e K. And the first item
that pops up says Millsic Furniture polish and wood cleaner
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eleven dollars and twenty cents, all right.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
And it's gonna be the one with UH wood cleaner
with lemon oil.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah, it's the first one though, right, yeah, the first choice.
Go ahead and click on that, and then right when
it shows up after you click on, it shows that
big bottle. Right underneath that, there's like options of other
ways to buy it. There's a four pack and a
five pack on a single bottle, and you're in like
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a gallon size and a gallon size or half gallon size.
But in those options there's nineteen nine and you see
two bottles. Click on that and that's the specials and
the two towels as well, and two towels free shipping,
and you're good to go. So Walmart dot com, uh
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mill sick. Look underneath the bottle and you'll see these
little circles with other ways to buy it, the nineteen
ninety nine and it is right there, Danny Boy, good
detective work. I don't know if I would have seen that.
If I was shopping for it, I might have seen it,
but looking it up, I wouldn't have seen it. I
do a lot of orders on Walmart dot com So
that helps. There you go, there, you go. Yes, that's
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the answer. All right. So it's not front page news,
but it is there, all right. Our phone number, uh,
and plenty of time to jump on board before we
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you know, one of the things, I just want to
squeeze one more big summer project in. And I know
a lot of people I guess I will use the
word dread, dread doing the project of renovating their deck.
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I think we all like a wood deck on our house,
and we all hate cleaning it and sealing it. And
I know many of you have went in other directions
and looked at some of the composites. But one of
the things you might consider, and I've been talking about this,
it seems like more and more when you think of
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a wood deck, you think of redwood, cedar, brown like
a canyon brown, dark brown, a gray. Those are your
primary colors for staining a deck. And when how long
it lasts is totally dependent on how the sun hits
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that deck in the summertime, because when it is a
semi transparent. That means that pigmentation that seiler is going
down into the wood, so it's not like a nice
thick coating. The really cool part about it is is
there's never any scraping, there's never any standing when it
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needs to be redone, you clean it and you just
stain it. Prep work minimal. But the longevity of that
semi transparent stain just isn't that long. If you've got
a western southern facing, and I know for a fact,
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in fact, i'm investigating one right now. I've got a
couple of conference calls this week on a semi transparent
with a little bit more longevity, and I'll learn a
little bit more about it if it if it looks good,
and we'll try some and we'll talk about it. But
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I think for the most part, what you can expect
is a deck stain that's going to last you about
legitimately maybe three years. How long will you wait before
you restain it? In maybe six years, But it'll start
getting tired after about three. So there's options, and sometimes
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those options don't really appeal to people because they don't
want that kind of look. And what I'm talking about
is is a solid color stain. Solid color stain has
its advantages. In other words, it's going to be much
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much much more fake resistance and a semi transparent but
covers up the wood grain and it looks painted. You'll
double the lifespan of the life of that stain, but
it'll look painted. And since it is a coating in
that pigmentation is not built into that wood, you run
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the risk of maybe doing some prep work before you
add another coating. So you have to will appeal well,
you know, well you have to stand it off, will you,
you know, have to address those issues. Maybe maybe, So
it's kind of ying and yang. Right. One offers really
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easy of clean and recoat, no problem, the other one
a little bit more prep work. And but it's gonna
last longer, so you can you can go whichever way
you'd like to go on that if it doesn't And
I made it sound like everybody hates solid color stain
and that's not true. But I just see more people
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than just a few years ago, maybe gravitating to that
because it is, you know it. We don't want to
really recode our deck every two to three years. Some
of the latex I know, I talked about the DeFi
wood stain, which is a water based, semi transparent two
coat wet on wet, so you don't let it dry.
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You do like ten square feet and redo ten square feet.
You get an extra season out of it, which is fine,
but if the you know, regular deck sailer is going
to last you two years, the lighter it is the color,
the lighter it is, the shorter lifespan. It has the
darker brown that I talked about. Even though it's penetrating,
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there's more pigment, so there's more UV resistance. So keep
that in mind, and so you have choices. The one
thing not really crazy about, and you know that because
I've talked about that in the past, is some of
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the restoration products which are very thick. It's almost like
a pace, if you will. When those came on the market,
and I guess maybe they're back to kind of telling
people this, which is true. It is a restoration product
to buy you time before those boards have to be replaced.
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In other words, if you have decking boards that have
cracks in them and they're exposed, remember that pressure treatment
only goes down so far into the wood, so when
the board cracks and by the way, it's cracking because
it doesn't have the protection, the maintenance hasn't been done
on it. It's a semi transparent. Let's say it's been
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eight years since anybody did anything. The grain rate, the
wood cracks, and in that crack, in that crevice, there's
no pressure treatment in there because it only goes down
so far it goes down. Maybe it doesn't go down
a quarter of an inch, so the board starts rotting
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even though it's pressure treated wood. And then somebody goes, well,
we'll get this restoration product. It's so thick, it'll fill
that crevice, it'll cot it. It does, it does, but
it's so thick and it's solid color. So the wood
grain once again goes away. But the issues we have
with that is it really gripping onto the wood deck.
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Now there's people that have used their listening going carry
you're crazy, you know mine, I've had it for five years.
It looks wonderful, great, but I can tell you that
it is challenging. And that means you did a really, really,
really good job of prepping it, following it to the
letter of the wall and talking about the cleaners to use,
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talk about deck brainers, which is a deck brainer is
kind of like an oxalid message that opens up the
pores of the wood, allowing that thicker coating to grip
or bite onto that wood. Follow those directions to a t.
But if you are just done with, you know, coating
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that wood deck every three years, or it starts looking
bad after three years, you really need to think about
maybe your call switch into a solid color stain. You'll
double the life of it. And I'll give you another
option here. If you have an older deck and you
got the rails and you got the spindles, I've seen
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this done and it looks really nice. Do the rails
in the spindles with a solid color stain, and do
the floorboards with a semi transparent so it kind of
looks like a hardwood floor. Then and then you've got
the painted walls or in this case, painted spindles and railings.
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That's a good look. And then you've got you've got
a longer time frame on those rails and spindles, which
are certainly more labor intensive. And to recoate the floorboards,
just cleaning them and then recoat not too bad. So
give yourself some options. Know what the alternatives are, know
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what the ramifications of those alternatives are, and then make
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up the weekend. Rand. Welcome, Hi Gary.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
I've got a question about you. Heard you talking about
se and I also heard you mentioned projects that you
I was trying to do. And I get this one
done for the snowflies and that ceiling cealing my concrete.
But I have I've exposed aggregate patios around the house.
You know, we have the stone columns at the back
where the where the uh, where the wood columns come down,
(37:17):
the woodlocks come down. There's stone columns all around the
base of it too, and those are you know, the
full rock and the mortar. And I realized that, uh,
although I'm not particularly doing very different types of products,
I'm still doing. I'm still doing a little bit different
if if there's a ceiler that would be good for
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all of those.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Boys. That's a real good question.
Speaker 6 (37:46):
So on the one kind of mortar once kind of
full of yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
So on the so I'll start with the big question,
the exposed aggregate. I'm not sure what you used in
the ass, but for most disposed aggregate, it's treated a
lot like a stamp concrete or a stone seiler, and
that means it's a coating type sealer. A lot of
times I'm talking about, you know, just a regular concrete
(38:15):
driveway or something. Then you would use a penetrating a
penetrating finish where you can't even see that it's on there.
But for exposed aggregat or stamp concrete, you're going to
have a sheine to it. It's going to be very attractive.
It's really going to make that exposed aggregate really pop,
and that's what you want. And you know, then the
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next question is, well can I use that on that
stone in that mortar? And I guess you can because
of the stone, because if you put a penetrating seiler
on that ran, it's not going to penetrate into the stone.
It's too dense and it would int the mortar, but
it wouldn't the stone, So that's foxstone.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
I don't know if I told you that.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Okay, Okay, now I didn't say. I'm glad you did
say that. So then my question back to you. And
because they're all they're different. As I was explaining to
somebody that faust stone is is really a growing product line,
so there's a lot of different types. Does that phone
stone that you have does it does it have to
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be sealed?
Speaker 6 (39:30):
I don't know for the truth. I got it so
long ago and I picked up a couple of pallets
I drove over to Missoula and got from a contractor.
So it was just kind of one of those type
of barn deals. But it's just that I noticed where
we put it in about five years ago. When we did,
we stealed it the first year and then it's been
(39:50):
in four years now. This last year, I didn't seal
it again. It's been it's been three years now, and
where there was cracks starting and everything, and I had
a few of them that I tested that I didn't
put the seal on, and they by far do better
when they're sealed as far as the little cracks and okay,
the moisture and stuff, okay, And.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
So it seems to have helped these out a lot.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Okay, Okay, the whole calm.
Speaker 6 (40:13):
Not just a rock that's that's a stone and all
the mortar, especially around it.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
So it could be limestone which would require a seal
or a stone type sealer. But I think it sounds
to me and you you'll be able to answer this
real quick. I'm sure you don't know the type of
sealer used. But when you applied that on there, could
you tell there was any application of anything on there?
(40:37):
Could you see it didn't make it.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Shiny or it was shiny?
Speaker 6 (40:41):
It was it was shiny. It was shiny, I think
it was. It was also water soluble, hmm.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
So it could be like an aqua seal product which
will leave a film on there, and that would be
a water base. There's also in viral seal I believe
even is the name of it. That would be a
water baschine product also. So obviously you can tell I
don't have an exact product to recommend to you, because
(41:12):
the ones I was going to recommend were it had achine,
it would coat certainly exposed aggregate, but that's a solvent base.
So I think there is one called enviros seal. If
I'm not mistaken, I'd have to look it up, but
if you want to do a little research on that
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would be the one i'd probably send you after that
is an acrylic or a water base. And I don't
know why it wouldn't be able to use it on both.
The reason it's got a gloss on the floor for
the exposed aggregate, as I said, because it's got to
coat it. It can't just go through the rock. And
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if and if it's got a sheene, it's got to
be a solid which lays on the surface. Makes sense, Well,
well that'll makes it.
Speaker 6 (42:02):
Yeah, that all makes sense. And then like I said,
it's it's probably the best scenario would be to treat
these separately. But you get to this time of year
and you don't have your products down and you're going, yikes,
I better do I better cover as much ground as
I can to keep that. It's the same old thing
we always talked about, keep that water.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Well, it's all about the water. That's no question about
That's no question about that. Actually, that particular company that
I mentioned on. I'm actually having a team's call with
them this week to learn a little bit more about it.
It's a specific type of product for real special cases,
and I'll have more next week. But that's about as
(42:43):
good as I can do for you this week.
Speaker 6 (42:45):
Well, I appreciate it, and as always I'm listening. I
appreciate your help.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
All right, you bet, take care, and I appreciate your call.
Don't use that snow word. We don't. We don't want
to hear that for a while, though. I did notice
in a couple of the passes in the Rockies. Of
course we had some snow already, so we had what
we had some. Oh I said that word, didn't. Oh yeah, hey,
(43:10):
here's one last project I'll give you. Okay, if you
lived in your home for a while, the one thing
you probably know is if you had problems with pipes
that freeze. I'm not talking in the last year maybe
it wasn't cold enough, but over the last ten years,
you know where your problem areas are in your home.
Pipes that may be exposed to the temperatures more so
(43:33):
than others. So right now is the time to think
about those those areas. I'm sure you corrected them after
that water frozen the pipes and you got it all
wrapped and everything. But right now is a really good
time to just double check them, make sure that that
rap is on there, make sure they're inslaved, make sure
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they're protected, because there's nothing worse than having that problem
and got to solve the problem and wrap the problem.
Check it now and make sure they're protected from the
cold temperatures that we have for our future. All right,
Danny boy, great job, thanks again for looking at Walmart
up and that mill sick could say again. You go
to Walmart dot com. You go to the furniture Polish
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and wood cleaner. There's one bottle eleven twenty. Click on that.
Right underneath it, you'll see a two pack and that's
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to go with it. So thank you, Danny. I appreciate it.
All right, Good lord, willing back next week for more
At Home with Garry Sullivan.
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Well, the weekends upon us. Welcome aboard, you're at home
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Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah. So I had a question on my I think
it's part of my foundation. The bricks were my garage
lays on from the inside of my garage and the
concrete to the bricks, there's like holes in it, and
then of course in the outside you can see like
coming through. So obviously it's thrown for mice to get
(01:27):
in and definitely fit through there. So I was wondering,
is if I can just mix up concrete and pour
it in there to steal it up.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Or tell me do any damage.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, well, tell me a little bit about these holes.
I mean, do you have any idea why they're there
or how they got there and how old is the
concrete and kind of what's going on not common, so
that's why I'm asking.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, so when I bought the house, it was already there.
So the house is I think.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Built in sixty seven, so it's a fairly old house.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
But yeah, when I bought the house, they were there,
so almost like I mean, I I don't know why
it's there.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
How big are they?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Literally I could stick I could probably stick my foot
in there, and that there's only a couple of them
on the outside, not the side that's connected to my house.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Mm hmm. Well to answer your question, I'm wondering what
the world that's therefore? Also right, So there's concrete. It's
a hole though, so it's surrounded by concrete.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
They have a concrete floor in my garage, but it's
the bricks that are going around my floor concrete and
where the garage sits.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
On So the hole is so usually you would have
the floor, you'd have a concrete foundation and a ledge
and the bricks would sit on the ledge.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, so it's right on like from where the concrete
floor meets okay to that foundation is kind of like
so it's just.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Like, okay, so in a in effect, it kind of
looks like a curb that's got a hole in it
beneath the brick to the floor. Right, okay, yep, all right,
I got I got a picture.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Now, so I know it's hard to explain.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah. So one the interesting thing about concrete, justin is
concrete doesn't really like to stick to concrete. So there's
a lot of specialty products that actually have bonding agents
in it and it here really well. So you wouldn't
just want to use like a bag of concrete mix
or a beg of sand mix. I'd get one of
(03:42):
these specialty products and do you think you could put
a softball in it or a little bit small.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
A couple of tennis balls?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, okay, all right, so there's a couple of products
that come to mind which would be work really well.
Quick Crete makes a lot of different specially concrete patches,
and one of them is called anchoring cement. An anchoring
cement would be used like if you wanted to drill
(04:14):
a hole and cement a bowl in there, like if
you put bolton chairs down in a stadium or something
that you could use that for that use, or if
the side of a concrete step cracked off, you could
actually create like a ball of this stuff and press
it on some nails to support it and dry and
(04:37):
it would adhere to concrete. So I'm kind of thinking
the anchoring cement would work, and it would also be
one of the easier products to use. It's a powder.
You would mix it with water, just follow the directions.
You know, it comes in a little five pound pail
or three pound pail or something about that size. Uh,
mix with water, and you'd literally create or form a ball.
(05:03):
You'd wear gloves and you could just go yeah, yeah, yeah,
and just kind of push it in there, kind of
trim it off with a taping knife or a trial
and uh, let her dry. It would be uh it
would have support from the you know, from the sides
of the concrete and the floor and the brick and
all that. It would just be a patch. That'd be
(05:27):
option one. Option two.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I wouldn't have to sell it up or anything.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Well, I don't know. Yeah, well how deep. So when
you say so, let mean just so when you say deep,
you're talking that walls probably what four or five inches thick?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, Okay, I'd say maybe, oh that's half half up,
maybe six inches deep.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Maybe, Okay, all right, I think you'd be fine just
taking and creating a ball and stuffing it in there. Okay,
all right. So that's one idea. The other idea, and
I'm going to tell you a friend, I like the
anchoring cement idea better than the next one I'm gonna
talk about. The other one is it is a type
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of patch where if you get a crack in the
foundation and you want to hold back water from flowing
through the crack. It's hydraulic cement. It's a powder, it's
got a bonding agent in it. You mix it with water.
The negative on this is it dries really fast. I
mean it'll dry in two minutes. So you'd make a
(06:36):
ball and you'd push that in and you'd have to
be working fast. And as it dries it expands a
little bit. It's gonna be more substantial. But I think
it's gonna be really difficult to work with, and I
think the anchoring cement would work great.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
All right, So anchoring cement, Yeah, yeah, I think so
well it works.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Sweet.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You don't recommend spring foaming there first, stuff fill it
up to kind of get up, just put that anchorage
in there.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I guess another question just having a little difficulty visualizing it.
If it's you know, as you describe, six inches deep
and you know, as tall as your hand and a
little wide, is there, is it all the way through?
I mean, can you take your you know, like a
metal rod and stick it all the way through? I
(07:29):
mean you can see lights.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I can see on the outside. There's just a little
crack enough foundation, okay, so I can actually see lights
through it. And I definitely big enough where anything can
get through there.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
But well, you go up and look at that, or
go online even if you want it's it's quick crete
without the sea and look up anchoring cement. They may
have a video on it. Kind of get your feel
for it. I don't think there's going to be a
need for the foam. I think I just stuff it
full of concrete. I don't think it's going to take
(08:05):
that much. I know it's deep and tall, but I
mean you could probably make a ball to size almost
of a basketball or maybe like a volleyball, so there'd
be enough there and just pack it in there, and
I think you'd be good to go.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, I'll give it a shot.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
All right, thank you, you bet, take care, bye bye.
And I talk a lot about different quick red products.
There's a quick creating and there's I see. One of
the things that's happening is Sacree, which is an old
standby product. They're getting into a little bit more specialty
(08:44):
products also, and they're just you know, they're projects specific.
There may be some limitations. That's my I haven't had
a need to do that, but just read, you know,
read the directions, make sure it makes sense. But I
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feel strongly that the anchorings meant be a great, great
product to use for that zacht issue. The big issue
is why is that there? I question, I wonder why
that's there? All right? Our phone number is eight hundred
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They are at home with Gary Sullivan and we're talking
about your home and maybe projects you're tackling. Feel free
to join us in fran Welcome, Hi, Hi, listen carefully.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
I thought to your talk with the midsecond person, and
I went online to see if I can't order that
from Walmart. They have so many products I couldn't tell
which was which, but I saw none that were two
for nineteen dollars with the cloth. So I don't know
what I'm to be looking for.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Well I don't either. I'm going by what he told
me too. I haven't looked it up, but he said
Walmart dot com.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Yea and uh, and there's a snow of them, and
there's all love furniture polishes with floor cleaner and all that,
but none that just says floor cleaner or none.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
That did you find Did you find the mill sick product?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yeah, That's what I'm talking about. These are all Mill
Sick products that I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Well, okay, so I'm pulling my notes out on what
I just said too, and I have to check. I'm
just going by what he told me. It says Walmart
dot Com trying to do so. So, what are you
looking for the furniture polish.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
No, I'm looking for the floor cleaner. But it might
be a furniture polish and floor cleaner.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
So let's see big sale one. We're two bottles in
a town nineteen ninety nine and free shipping.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Nineteen ninety nine of two bottles of anything.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Well, it doesn't say of anything. That's why I'm reading
my notes. It says two bottles and a towel. It
says total home cleaning mention, uh, mention the products the
furniture polish and wood cleaner, the stainless steel cleaner, the
leather vinyl. I don't know if it's the two cleaners
of the furniture polish or it's a combination.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
No, he was very specific that it was a poor cleaner.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Well, I'll tell you what I'll do, Fran because I'm
not going to be able to answer it right now.
What I'll do is I will look it up myself
at the bottom of the hour during the break and
if I can send some clarity your way. Keep listening
and I'll do just that, all right, thank you much. Yeah,
that's just the notes I have I have. I'm looking
(15:04):
at it too, so all right, so Danny's checking it also,
and we will pass that along Walmart, dot Com, millsic MI,
I L S E K two bottles and a towel,
nineteen ninety nine and free shipping. Very good. Let's go
to Ken Ken Welcome.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Hello, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
You bet.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I've got a table wood table while not vanier, and
it had some coffee rings on us, so I stripped it.
I did just the top and now it's got a
big bass and all fur oldbilit nice looking table, well
(15:50):
I did. I've got like fifteen layers now between poli ere,
a thane and blaze, tied both clear. Like I said,
I stripped it down on the top, restained it waited
the amount of time, and then I proceeded with polyrathan.
(16:13):
But every layer bubbles that and some of them just
ten in size, you know, but enough to where its
frustrained and give another coat, another coat. And then I
tried the glaze like they having bars and I'm just
about to a point where leave it as it is
(16:37):
and just deal with it as it is. But how
do you polish that? How do you get it to
where it's nice and shiny and well.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
You don't polish poly your thane. So you buy the
You buy the machine either in a gloss of semigloss
or a sat that's number one. So you're buying it
the way it is labeled, which is designed out how
it's going to dry. If you're looking for a bar
(17:09):
top finish, that's usually forty coats and it's not individually
put on. There are products where it's almost like a
very thick maple syrup that you pour it onto the
surface and dribute and spread it around with a plastic
spatula which will give you that real shiny, really thick,
(17:31):
deep looking protect it and it is a your thane.
So that's how you'd get that bar finish. If you're
doing like what you're doing and you're concerned about the bubbles,
a couple things that happen that creates bubbles in your
thane is we're using a wrong type of brush. I mean,
(17:54):
if it is a solvent based yourthane, you'd want to
use a euthane or a polyester brush. So you would
use a polyester brush, or you would use a pure
bristle brush. You would not use a nylon brush. And
a nylon brush will create bubbles in your thane. And
(18:16):
as I said, a lot of times people will just
kind of stir up your thane re aggressively or they'll
shake the can, and that will embed the bubbles into
the yourthane itself. That when it's applied, those bubbles can
stay or they will release. They will diminish as it dries,
(18:39):
but they'll leave a little crater in there and then
you'll stand and recoat. So the couple tips on eliminating
the bubbles would be, don't shake, don't stir aggressively, and
make sure you're using a bristle or polyester brush. If
you're going for the forty coat, look there's a specialty
product just for that. I can't think of the name
(19:00):
of it, but it is. It'll say forty coats right
on the front of the label from the one I remember.
So I hope that helps Ken, and I can hear
your frustration after doing it, you know, twelve times with coats,
and you can certainly take a four hundred grip wet
dry paper and scuff that down and use the forty
(19:22):
coat yourthane on top of that. Or you can use
a four hundred wet dry paper, scuff it up and
put another coat of your thane again, letting it settle
in the can for a while. Don't shake it up
and use the correct rush. All right, We'll continue with
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all right, friend, all right, all right, I found I
have solved your miss on the on the on the Milsic.
Actually Danny found it. I don't know if I would
have found it. I am not gonna say it Fran's
fault because it is difficult to find on the website.
(23:04):
So here's how you do it. You go to your
Walmart dot com just just like you said, Okay, just
like you said, yes, and you type in Millsick It's
m I L S e K. And the first item
that pops up says Millsic Furniture polish and wood cleaner
(23:25):
eleven dollars and twenty cents, all right.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
And it's gonna be the one with UH wood cleaner
with lemon oil.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah, it's the first one though, right, yeah, the first choice.
Go ahead and click on that, and then right when
it shows up after you click on, it shows that
big bottle. Right underneath that, there's like options of other
ways to buy it. There's a four pack and a
five pack on a single bottle, and you're in like
(23:52):
a gallon size and a gallon size or half gallon size.
But in those options there's nineteen nine and you see
two bottles. Click on that and that's the specials and
the two towels as well, and two towels free shipping,
and you're good to go. So Walmart dot com, uh
(24:13):
mill sick. Look underneath the bottle and you'll see these
little circles with other ways to buy it, the nineteen
ninety nine and it is right there, Danny Boy, good
detective work. I don't know if I would have seen that.
If I was shopping for it, I might have seen it,
but looking it up, I wouldn't have seen it. I
do a lot of orders on Walmart dot com So
that helps. There you go, there, you go. Yes, that's
(24:37):
the answer. All right. So it's not front page news,
but it is there, all right. Our phone number, uh,
and plenty of time to jump on board before we
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three eight two five five. Feel free to go ahead
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(24:59):
you know, one of the things, I just want to
squeeze one more big summer project in. And I know
a lot of people I guess I will use the
word dread, dread doing the project of renovating their deck.
(25:20):
I think we all like a wood deck on our house,
and we all hate cleaning it and sealing it. And
I know many of you have went in other directions
and looked at some of the composites. But one of
the things you might consider, and I've been talking about this,
it seems like more and more when you think of
(25:41):
a wood deck, you think of redwood, cedar, brown like
a canyon brown, dark brown, a gray. Those are your
primary colors for staining a deck. And when how long
it lasts is totally dependent on how the sun hits
(26:05):
that deck in the summertime, because when it is a
semi transparent. That means that pigmentation that seiler is going
down into the wood, so it's not like a nice
thick coating. The really cool part about it is is
there's never any scraping, there's never any standing when it
(26:26):
needs to be redone, you clean it and you just
stain it. Prep work minimal. But the longevity of that
semi transparent stain just isn't that long. If you've got
a western southern facing, and I know for a fact,
(26:48):
in fact, i'm investigating one right now. I've got a
couple of conference calls this week on a semi transparent
with a little bit more longevity, and I'll learn a
little bit more about it if it if it looks good,
and we'll try some and we'll talk about it. But
(27:08):
I think for the most part, what you can expect
is a deck stain that's going to last you about
legitimately maybe three years. How long will you wait before
you restain it? In maybe six years, But it'll start
getting tired after about three. So there's options, and sometimes
(27:36):
those options don't really appeal to people because they don't
want that kind of look. And what I'm talking about
is is a solid color stain. Solid color stain has
its advantages. In other words, it's going to be much
(27:58):
much much more fake resistance and a semi transparent but
covers up the wood grain and it looks painted. You'll
double the lifespan of the life of that stain, but
it'll look painted. And since it is a coating in
that pigmentation is not built into that wood, you run
(28:23):
the risk of maybe doing some prep work before you
add another coating. So you have to will appeal well,
you know, well you have to stand it off, will you,
you know, have to address those issues. Maybe maybe, So
it's kind of ying and yang. Right. One offers really
(28:44):
easy of clean and recoat, no problem, the other one
a little bit more prep work. And but it's gonna
last longer, so you can you can go whichever way
you'd like to go on that if it doesn't And
I made it sound like everybody hates solid color stain
and that's not true. But I just see more people
(29:07):
than just a few years ago, maybe gravitating to that
because it is, you know it. We don't want to
really recode our deck every two to three years. Some
of the latex I know, I talked about the DeFi
wood stain, which is a water based, semi transparent two
coat wet on wet, so you don't let it dry.
(29:29):
You do like ten square feet and redo ten square feet.
You get an extra season out of it, which is fine,
but if the you know, regular deck sailer is going
to last you two years, the lighter it is the color,
the lighter it is, the shorter lifespan. It has the
darker brown that I talked about. Even though it's penetrating,
(29:54):
there's more pigment, so there's more UV resistance. So keep
that in mind, and so you have choices. The one
thing not really crazy about, and you know that because
I've talked about that in the past, is some of
(30:14):
the restoration products which are very thick. It's almost like
a pace, if you will. When those came on the market,
and I guess maybe they're back to kind of telling
people this, which is true. It is a restoration product
to buy you time before those boards have to be replaced.
(30:34):
In other words, if you have decking boards that have
cracks in them and they're exposed, remember that pressure treatment
only goes down so far into the wood, so when
the board cracks and by the way, it's cracking because
it doesn't have the protection, the maintenance hasn't been done
on it. It's a semi transparent. Let's say it's been
(30:56):
eight years since anybody did anything. The grain rate, the
wood cracks, and in that crack, in that crevice, there's
no pressure treatment in there because it only goes down
so far it goes down. Maybe it doesn't go down
a quarter of an inch, so the board starts rotting
(31:19):
even though it's pressure treated wood. And then somebody goes, well,
we'll get this restoration product. It's so thick, it'll fill
that crevice, it'll cot it. It does, it does, but
it's so thick and it's solid color. So the wood
grain once again goes away. But the issues we have
with that is it really gripping onto the wood deck.
(31:41):
Now there's people that have used their listening going carry
you're crazy, you know mine, I've had it for five years.
It looks wonderful, great, but I can tell you that
it is challenging. And that means you did a really, really,
really good job of prepping it, following it to the
letter of the wall and talking about the cleaners to use,
(32:05):
talk about deck brainers, which is a deck brainer is
kind of like an oxalid message that opens up the
pores of the wood, allowing that thicker coating to grip
or bite onto that wood. Follow those directions to a t.
But if you are just done with, you know, coating
(32:28):
that wood deck every three years, or it starts looking
bad after three years, you really need to think about
maybe your call switch into a solid color stain. You'll
double the life of it. And I'll give you another
option here. If you have an older deck and you
got the rails and you got the spindles, I've seen
(32:51):
this done and it looks really nice. Do the rails
in the spindles with a solid color stain, and do
the floorboards with a semi transparent so it kind of
looks like a hardwood floor. Then and then you've got
the painted walls or in this case, painted spindles and railings.
(33:15):
That's a good look. And then you've got you've got
a longer time frame on those rails and spindles, which
are certainly more labor intensive. And to recoate the floorboards,
just cleaning them and then recoat not too bad. So
give yourself some options. Know what the alternatives are, know
(33:38):
what the ramifications of those alternatives are, and then make
a decision. And we look like we got plenty of
great weather to get that project still done, so don't
put it off till next year. All right? Eight hundred
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eleven minutes before the top of the art talking home improvement,
and let's get back to the phones, kind of wrap
up the weekend. Rand. Welcome, Hi Gary.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
I've got a question about you. Heard you talking about
se and I also heard you mentioned projects that you
I was trying to do. And I get this one
done for the snowflies and that ceiling cealing my concrete.
But I have I've exposed aggregate patios around the house.
You know, we have the stone columns at the back
where the where the uh, where the wood columns come down,
(37:17):
the woodlocks come down. There's stone columns all around the
base of it too, and those are you know, the
full rock and the mortar. And I realized that, uh,
although I'm not particularly doing very different types of products,
I'm still doing. I'm still doing a little bit different
if if there's a ceiler that would be good for
(37:39):
all of those.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Boys. That's a real good question.
Speaker 6 (37:46):
So on the one kind of mortar once kind of
full of yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
So on the so I'll start with the big question,
the exposed aggregate. I'm not sure what you used in
the ass, but for most disposed aggregate, it's treated a
lot like a stamp concrete or a stone seiler, and
that means it's a coating type sealer. A lot of
times I'm talking about, you know, just a regular concrete
(38:15):
driveway or something. Then you would use a penetrating a
penetrating finish where you can't even see that it's on there.
But for exposed aggregat or stamp concrete, you're going to
have a sheine to it. It's going to be very attractive.
It's really going to make that exposed aggregate really pop,
and that's what you want. And you know, then the
(38:40):
next question is, well can I use that on that
stone in that mortar? And I guess you can because
of the stone, because if you put a penetrating seiler
on that ran, it's not going to penetrate into the stone.
It's too dense and it would int the mortar, but
it wouldn't the stone, So that's foxstone.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
I don't know if I told you that.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Okay, Okay, now I didn't say. I'm glad you did
say that. So then my question back to you. And
because they're all they're different. As I was explaining to
somebody that faust stone is is really a growing product line,
so there's a lot of different types. Does that phone
stone that you have does it does it have to
(39:25):
be sealed?
Speaker 6 (39:30):
I don't know for the truth. I got it so
long ago and I picked up a couple of pallets
I drove over to Missoula and got from a contractor.
So it was just kind of one of those type
of barn deals. But it's just that I noticed where
we put it in about five years ago. When we did,
we stealed it the first year and then it's been
(39:50):
in four years now. This last year, I didn't seal
it again. It's been it's been three years now, and
where there was cracks starting and everything, and I had
a few of them that I tested that I didn't
put the seal on, and they by far do better
when they're sealed as far as the little cracks and okay,
the moisture and stuff, okay, And.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
So it seems to have helped these out a lot.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Okay, Okay, the whole calm.
Speaker 6 (40:13):
Not just a rock that's that's a stone and all
the mortar, especially around it.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
So it could be limestone which would require a seal
or a stone type sealer. But I think it sounds
to me and you you'll be able to answer this
real quick. I'm sure you don't know the type of
sealer used. But when you applied that on there, could
you tell there was any application of anything on there?
(40:37):
Could you see it didn't make it.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Shiny or it was shiny?
Speaker 6 (40:41):
It was it was shiny. It was shiny, I think
it was. It was also water soluble, hmm.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
So it could be like an aqua seal product which
will leave a film on there, and that would be
a water base. There's also in viral seal I believe
even is the name of it. That would be a
water baschine product also. So obviously you can tell I
don't have an exact product to recommend to you, because
(41:12):
the ones I was going to recommend were it had achine,
it would coat certainly exposed aggregate, but that's a solvent base.
So I think there is one called enviros seal. If
I'm not mistaken, I'd have to look it up, but
if you want to do a little research on that
(41:33):
would be the one i'd probably send you after that
is an acrylic or a water base. And I don't
know why it wouldn't be able to use it on both.
The reason it's got a gloss on the floor for
the exposed aggregate, as I said, because it's got to
coat it. It can't just go through the rock. And
(41:53):
if and if it's got a sheene, it's got to
be a solid which lays on the surface. Makes sense, Well,
well that'll makes it.
Speaker 6 (42:02):
Yeah, that all makes sense. And then like I said,
it's it's probably the best scenario would be to treat
these separately. But you get to this time of year
and you don't have your products down and you're going, yikes,
I better do I better cover as much ground as
I can to keep that. It's the same old thing
we always talked about, keep that water.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Well, it's all about the water. That's no question about
That's no question about that. Actually, that particular company that
I mentioned on. I'm actually having a team's call with
them this week to learn a little bit more about it.
It's a specific type of product for real special cases,
and I'll have more next week. But that's about as
(42:43):
good as I can do for you this week.
Speaker 6 (42:45):
Well, I appreciate it, and as always I'm listening. I
appreciate your help.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
All right, you bet, take care, and I appreciate your call.
Don't use that snow word. We don't. We don't want
to hear that for a while, though. I did notice
in a couple of the passes in the Rockies. Of
course we had some snow already, so we had what
we had some. Oh I said that word, didn't. Oh yeah, hey,
(43:10):
here's one last project I'll give you. Okay, if you
lived in your home for a while, the one thing
you probably know is if you had problems with pipes
that freeze. I'm not talking in the last year maybe
it wasn't cold enough, but over the last ten years,
you know where your problem areas are in your home.
Pipes that may be exposed to the temperatures more so
(43:33):
than others. So right now is the time to think
about those those areas. I'm sure you corrected them after
that water frozen the pipes and you got it all
wrapped and everything. But right now is a really good
time to just double check them, make sure that that
rap is on there, make sure they're inslaved, make sure
(43:54):
they're protected, because there's nothing worse than having that problem
and got to solve the problem and wrap the problem.
Check it now and make sure they're protected from the
cold temperatures that we have for our future. All right,
Danny boy, great job, thanks again for looking at Walmart
up and that mill sick could say again. You go
to Walmart dot com. You go to the furniture Polish
(44:17):
and wood cleaner. There's one bottle eleven twenty. Click on that.
Right underneath it, you'll see a two pack and that's
offered at nineteen ninety nine free shipping and two towels
to go with it. So thank you, Danny. I appreciate it.
All right, Good lord, willing back next week for more
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