September 27, 2025 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Let me give you the phone number. It's eight hundred
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and grab a line. We'll talk about your home projects.
We'll also have Ron Wilson on today talking about well
maybe a little fall clean up, kind of ending the
gardening and maybe landscaping season. We'll have Ron Krueger from
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A plus Wildlife Control on. We'll talk about critters and
they're looking for a home right now, and Ron will
help us keep them out of the house and keep
them outside in mother nature, because that can become a
expensive proposition if they get into your home. So we'll
chat with Ron about that. In the meantime, happy to
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talk about your home projects. Also, this past week went
down to the Zalar Pump company talk about Zalor sump
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So anyway, thanks for heaving us down. All right, you
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got the phone number, Go ahead and grab a line
and David welcome David, Yeah, go ahead, yes, sir, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Hey, So I'm standing my deck put on about five
years ago, kind of had like a tinted paint sealer
put on that I believe it was sprayed on and
it only lasted like two years and it was really
chipping up. So I'm kind of in the process of
standing it all off. Now, Okay, you know, is there
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any kind of real great product to go back on,
you know, hopefully get ten years out of well or so.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
So tell me about the product that you had on.
So when you said tinted, was it a paint was
it a solid color stain? Because if it were a
penetrating stain where it goes into the wood, were into
the wood and shows the grain, and you know it
comes in cedar, redwood, et cetera, that should be in
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the wood that should never peel off. If that's what you.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Had, well, I mean it was a Sherman Williams product.
It was in during the time when we were building
the house. You know, we were kind of just passing
information along, and you know, it was we thought it
was known to the person painting it and the people
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mixing the paint that it was going on, you know,
an exterior deck. But it was a semi transparent you know,
stain and paint. I guess as well. But I mean,
now when I'm out there standing on it, it's coming
off like you know, it's a single layer, tight like
it didn't really necessarily soak into.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
The wood right right, Well, that that's my fear. So
there is either stain or there is paint. There's not
a stain paint, if you will. So pain is usually coating.
Stain penetrates into the pores of the wood, it becomes
part of the wood. Now, you said a couple of
things that you know, red flag when it was done
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when I was building a house. So it's it's pressure
treated wood on that deck, I'm sure. And if it
is a semi transparent stain and it's peeling off and
it appears to have never got in the wood, that's
probably exactly what happened. My guess is that wood really
hadn't dried out, It hadn't really seasoned to be able
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to accept a stain, so it laid on the surface.
It's not designed to lay on the surface. The UV
rays of the sun kind of bake it and it
begins to crack and peel, and I think that's what
you have.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, I mean that sounds right because I mean it
it gets a lot of sun and you know, most
all the weather, there's not really shaded by anything. You know,
the part of it's covered and held up better, but
certainly the portion that's uncovered, you know, deteriorated.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah. So so removing that is, you know, either chemically
or mechanically is obviously the key. That pressure treated wood
of course is treated with that pressure treatment and moisture
and water and all that. So it just probably couldn't
go into the wood. And then again laying there and
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being exposed to the sun, it began to peel off.
So get it off. You're doing the right thing. The
question is is what do you want to apply next.
So the wood is been there for a while, it's
dried out. If you go with a semi transparent stain, David,
and it's in an environment, like you said, you know,
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very very little protection from the sun et cetera. You're
gonna get about three years out of that period. If
you go to a solid color stain which appears to
be like a wood or like a paint over that wood,
you might get five six years out of that. So
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there's nothing, you know, with that amount of sunlight for
a semi transparent. It just doesn't have enough body to
hold up against the sun. I mean if in the
darker color, the better. Like if you put a clear
seiler on there for a for a deck in the
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environment that you have, you'd be lucky if you got
more than a year out of it.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Now, loly, I guess if I were to do a
clear sailor and it wouldn't show what it's still like that,
it's not on there, right, Could I go out there
with a spryre once a year and apply from the
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clear seiler, yeah, paint.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It like that. Yeah yeah. So if you have that's
one of the advantages of a semi transparent is you
don't have to sand. It should penetrate into the wood.
So let's say you did it in clear or let's
say you did it in a redwood or a seedar. Look,
you could apply that and I'll give you a couple
of little tips to help it even penetrate into the wood,
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even though that wood is you know, good and dry.
Using a deck brightener opens up the pores of the wood.
It's a mild exolic acid which opens up the pors
and allows it to absorb into the wood. Okay. And
let's say you get to two years out of it, okay,
and it's a redwood the next time and it starts fading,
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it starts looking worn. You would clean it with a
deck cleaner, which is you know, you know, oxygen, aate bleach,
and I'd stay away from the pressure washer except just
a rinse, but use that and then use the deck
brightener that opens up the pores of the wood and
then you you know, allow It depends where you're using
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a solvent deck sealer or you're using a water base.
You could have to wait two days or you could
have to wait two hours, and you could apply the
stain and there is no standing, there is no coating.
See I think, and again it I'm taking kind of
what you told me in assuming that you had a
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semi transparent stain that was designed to go into the
wood and it couldn't because that dry that would it
not dried out? Okay, so you know, once you get
all that heeling and get that off, and then you
would use you know, oxolic acid to open up those
pores and then go ahead and apply your semi transparent stain.
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I think you'll be fine. All right, Thank you much
for the call. I appreciate it. And when you're doing
a big project of building the house and building a deck,
you know, everybody wants to get it done. Get out
of the way. I'm guessing that's what happened, all right,
Ron Wilson, he's up next. We'll talk a little landscaping.
You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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Well, we all need help on the inside our home
and also on the outside, and join us. Now is
Ron Wilson, and he is, I say, our gardening guru.
He didn't want to be a guru. He likes to
just be yard boy. Yard boy. What in the world's
going on?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Whyn't even mister Carman, are you sir? I have a
question for you. I mean, by the way, whatever col
do you have, whatever is giving you? This is a
really deep tone. I know it's a it's very perfect.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I just wish it sounds like Barry White, very little
berry White.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
There.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
You might want to sing to missus sollivon today.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I'm not singing to anybody.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I got a question for you. Would you eat honey
that was produced from other bugs excrements?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well, when you ask it like that, no, but I
would ask you, is this gonna kill me? Make me sick?
Maybe me sneeze, make me feel better? Should make you
feel better? And no, I would taste it.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
It's honey, it should make you feel better.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Then I would taste it. Okay, would you try some?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Absolutely, I can't wait. I haven't tried it yet, Okay, okay.
I just found out about it this week. Now, who
in the world, And we had this insect that's yeah,
moving through our area, and it's going to move through
the midway in mideast, mid Midwest, all the over the place.
I'll get it right here in a minute. And it's
called the spotted lantern fly, and we have it now
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in Cincinnati, and it's in Columbus, Cleveland's and other states.
And this thing is like an aphid on steroids, beautiful insect.
It's big, but it's a it's a sucking insect. So
when they get on trees and that they they can
really take out a lot of juice and they take
it out so fast they can't they don't digest all that.
They just shoot it out the other end what they
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don't use. So that's and so when you have and
they have scale and aphids and that that's what you get.
And then sometimes that turns black and it's called sooty mold.
But that's the honeydew from these insects, insects, yeah, personally
or just your plants. And so this huge, this huge
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spotted lanternfly, which probably the coolest bug I've ever seen
in appearance, Yes, yeah, gives off so much of this honeydew.
The bees now late in the season are going and
collecting that honeydew for nectar because it's so sweet.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
The bees are collecting it.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Yeah, the honey bees are actually collecting that as nectar
from the flowers, taking it back and producing honey in
their eyes so quickly that the bee keeper can't keep
up with it.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Really.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Yeah, and it's a dark color, kind of like if
they were at a buckwheat field. Buckwheat p u is
a dark colored honey. It's kind of a sorghum flavor.
This has more of a smoky flavor. But it is
they've not determined it's from the spotted lantern fly honeydew.
So I just, you know, I kind of said, you
know as well, it's bug poop, But that's what it.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Is, ron and you're increasing age. Yes, what I would
suggest to you, yes, is that you become a beekeeper. No,
I've assisted, huh, and you can call it yard boys.
I don't know. Lantern fly poop? Is that what you
want to say? Could be? Wow, you could have a
good retirement with that.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
And I don't. I don't like getting stung, and I
I you know, I assisted a beekeeper for a couple
of years and fortunately I didn't get stung.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
But but neat suits and everything.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
But one of the beekeepers this morning said she accidentally
put on the wrong socks the other day and they
will come after it. When she's taken to a park
because they're aggressive when they're you're taking that. They got
up under her sock stung or almost twenty six times.
She's used to it. It happens. She understands it's her fault.
She's still scratching out, but she said that her knees
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and her hips felt so much better. About five hours
after she got stung. She said, there is just a
you know, testimony on the great use of.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
B venom. You know there was with folks that had ms. Yeah,
it was with b stings exactly. I remember my camera
man a lot of research done on that. He actually
did that. He swore by it. Yeah, hmmm, well I
think I know what we're talking about. So where do
you think this is going conversation?
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Well, it's just interesting. You know, we're trying to get
the spot of lantern fly. Not a good thing where
you know it's it's easily controlled. It's become a major
nuisance and will become more of a major nuisance, especially
for grapegrowers, say vulnerable a lot. It get on all
kinds of things, but tree of Heaven stinctree, that's their
host tree. So yeah, so if you chop that weed
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tree down, you get rid of their host tree. But
they move by egg masses. They liked female likes the
lay eggs on railroad cars and cars and things like that,
so they move quickly through areas. I was in Cleveland
last week and they're everywhere up there. It's crazy. They're everywhere,
like on plants or all over the like. Well, the
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sidewalk was interesting. You get these little blurps where people
have been stepping on them. Yeah, so yeah, but it's that.
But either thought that was interesting that they're actually taking
advantage of that very sweet nectar and making honey out
of it.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I would say, look forward to a Kruger's near.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
You, coming coming to a store near you. Yeah, spotted
lantern fly honey.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
So there you go. You are just a fountain knight.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
By the way, you said something about fall clean up,
because fall, you know, shutting down. We aren't even close, man,
Come on, we got a.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Long way to go still.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
We still are planting. Fall season last until November or longer.
So get out there and plant.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I'll be quiet, all right, all right, thank you you.
Met Ron Wilson online dot com. You can learn about
spotted lantern fly honey. We'll call that all right. Your
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Speaker 1 (22:01):
All right, back at it, we go at home with
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from the summertime. Cold weather is coming at some point.
Who knows when we can certainly talk about the interior
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and getting ready for cold weather. And I think if
maybe we're not going to get ready for cold weather,
and I mean by that, maybe we're not going to
start worrying about it. We're not going to worry about
the insulation we have in our home. We're going to
worry about maybe not how well home ventilated or home is,
(23:09):
whether our door needs weather stripping. I heard something funny
the other day. If you can see light it round
your door, that means you need weather stripping. Yeah, And
you know it doesn't really sound like a really big deal,
does it. I mean the weather right now is like great,
You're forgetting that day when it's very cold and very windy,
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and how that cold weather is going to infiltrate your home.
And you know what's going on with the cost energy.
I've been reading, you know, the masses complaining, and I
know the prices are going up. But what have you
done to help yourself? Have you checked the insulation up
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in the attic? Have you checked to see if you
have ventilation into the attic? Have you checked to see
if that ventilation is operating? What do I mean by that?
I've had a lot of people say, oh, I have
soffa venting, But then I went up in the attic
and I checked and I can't see any light. And
then I just pulled some of that venting down and
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it's solid wood behind that, So you have no ventilation.
So what's that mean? That means in the summertime, that
attic's probably one hundred and forty degrees plus. That means
that bedroom or multiple bedrooms underneath that attic are very
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uncomfortable and costing you money because we can't get the
temperature down in the summertime to satisfy the thermostat, which
can and you used to call for cold air. That's
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costing your money. What about in the wintertime ventilation. Jeez,
that's going to be cold up there. Yeah, you want
it to be chilly up there, that's for sure. It's
probably still not going to get below freezing. And then
with good insulation. But if it's not ventilated and you
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have the warm air inside your home and it's finding
its way into the attic, you could create condensation, and
you could create mold, another big problem. So I just
bring that up maybe to inspire you a little bit
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to take action to at least find out what's going
on upstairs in that attic. How much insulation you have,
You can find out how much you need, real easy.
Department of Energy has map of the United States tells
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between the in the walls, the exterior walls. You can
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of thickness that has an R value of about two
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and a half. So you can find out what you're
recommended our value is, and then find out how much
insulation you got and where you stand and what needs
to be added. All right, Our phone numbers eight hundred
eight two three eight two five five Diane, Welcome, Hi Gary.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
I talked to you a few weeks ago about my
attic that has no stop adventing. Because there's a way
to do any ventilation. I thought i'd give you a
follow up. He asked me to let you know. So
I was having I was having the roof redone and
had many different ideas on what kind of venting to
put up there. But unfortunately, the way the guy fixed
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the bedroom, which is the entire attic, it's one big
room with cathedral ceilings and skylights, there was no way
to communicate that soft eventing into the actual room or
to the rafters. Yeah, so I had a ventilation expert
come out, supposedly who actually did seem like he really
knew what he was telling me, and I thank you
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for telling me before he came out. So it turns
out he went into all the cross spaces and the
guy that built this area put double insulation all the
way up as far as he could see, and he said,
the problem is if we put soft vents in there,
it's not going to get to the rafters because of
the fact that the entire all the walls and ceilings
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are all double double insulated as far as he's concerned.
So so he said, I'm glad you're not going to
take the fan out, because the first guy told me
to take the attic fan out. He said, not only
do you need that fan, we need to put a second.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Fan up there, right right.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
So unfortunately though they couldn't figure out where to put
a second fan that made any sense. So basically we
just got a more powerful the most powerful fan. We
forget is what we're going to do there doing so yeah, right,
So that's my story. I also talk to your friend
Ron from the Wildlife Place because I had all the
raccoon problems and he did tell me what he suggested,
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and the folks that are going to do the roof
actually kind of had the same idea. So I think again,
the education you gave me and Ron gave me was
very helpful. When you don't know what's your point of
what you're.
Speaker 8 (28:51):
Talking to me.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
And you know, one of the things that I guess
sometimes I forget in the conversations. There's so many architectural
changes of homes over the years, so you know, a
lot of times I just tried to talk in general
terms of what we're trying to do right, because you know,
like the old cape CODs that were building the forties
and they got the hip wall up in the attic
and somebody turn that into a bedroom. Those are virtually
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impossible to ventilate, and so there's always challenges. In fact,
you mentioned Ron Krueger from A plus Wildlife Control. I'm
having him on today. We'll have him on again at
the bottom of the next hour, because that's becoming in
my book, what I'm hearing from people, that's becoming a
bigger and bigger problem. So we'll go through that. And
(29:36):
I'm glad you got at least a plan on what
you can do, because you know, anything's better than what
we had. And you know, you're the person said two fans.
I don't know the layout, but that sounds reasonable, and
you're right. If you can't get two fans in their
proper places, a higher CFM to move even more air.
That'd be fine, and I think you'll notice the difference.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Yeah, well if I did. When I had my ac redone,
I had a bigger trunk line put up there. Uh huh,
so that at least I could get more air in
the summertime, because it does get awful hot. So sure
the things. Again, your education helped me hold my own
against these guys were telling me things I didn't quite understand.
So thanks that. I'm look forward to hearing around this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Very good and thank you. Take care, bye bye, all right,
and you can have a line we can chat about
your home. It's eight hundred eight two three A two
five five. You know, one of the most simple things
we can do. I mean, it doesn't cost much, it
doesn't take much time. I don't know how you do
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in terms of replacing the filters on your air handler.
But in the dead of winter, the peak of summer
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You're at home with Gary Salvin talking about our home,
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five five and let's go to Jeff. Jeff Welcome, Good morning, Gary.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
I hope you feeling better today.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Sir, just sound terrible right now, but don't feel horrible.
Thank you?
Speaker 8 (35:05):
Yes, sir, Hey, I just wanted to comment you had
a collar last week that had an unfortunate incident where
somebody had opened up a door and put a hole
in their drywall, and you had mentioned that product Eclipse.
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Yes, sir, and I had a hole in the wall.
Speaker 8 (35:21):
For six to eight months. I was moving some things
around put a small hole in the wall, and I'm like,
I'm gonna try it. So I went and grabbed one,
threw it up. There followed the direction and you put
the first coat of paint on it. And there's a
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I had bought a couple. I bought a couple of them,
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Yeah. My wife, my wife got home, she's like, I
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Yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
So now my question for you is in my basement now,
My home's about forty five years old, adjacent to the driveway.
In the basement, it's non finished. It's cinder block. Every
two years or so, it starts, you know, the paint
starts flaking and we get some black spots on it, this,
that and the other, and I got to scrape it
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and repaint it. Is there a good ceiling paint, paint,
seilers type of thing that I can put on and
then repaint over that. It's not to do it every
two years.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
So when you paint, what are you painting the walls
or the ceiling part?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (36:46):
No, just a wall. You know, it's the cinder block,
cinder block wall, and it's adjacent to the driveway, so
I know I'm probably getting water from outside, which I understand.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Yeah. So is that is that block there?
Speaker 8 (36:59):
Yes, center block?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yeah, okay, So are you using what interior or exterior
paint like a latex paint.
Speaker 8 (37:07):
Actually just interior paint.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Yeah? Yeah, there is waterproofing paint. In fact, there's waterproofing
paint that can even be tinted that will stop not
only water vapor from coming through that wall, but also
moisture up to ten pounds per square inch, which is
pretty sizable. The issue is the issue is we've painted
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it now, so you know we have a barrier between
there and the block. So I'm sure without reading the label,
the first thing the waterproofing paint's going to say is
for bare concrete or removing the existing finish. Right.
Speaker 8 (37:53):
Well, the area is only probably four foot by four foot,
so I could hand it down back to the center block.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Okay. Well, it's an old that's been out for one
hundred years probably. It's called dry lock. You may have
heard of it.
Speaker 8 (38:10):
I actually have.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yeah, yeah, you get about one hundred square feet per gallon.
It is a Portland cement based synthetic rubber based paint
and very effective. And you can actually have that tinted also.
Hopefully the people in the store know that. But if
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they have like because it comes in white, I think
some people will have gray also, but white is usually
what you'll find in the stores.
Speaker 8 (38:42):
And that's what my basement is.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
It's white, okay, And even if you want to add
a little tint. So if let's say their formula to
get the XYZ color calls for an ounce of mustard
colored tint, you would put in half that amount and
you'll come very close.
Speaker 8 (38:59):
Well, thank you, sir, I appreciate that and what makes
my life much easier.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
There you go, great hope. All right, all right, thanks,
take care bye. All right again, it's a one hundred
eight two three eight two five five and Jason welcome. Yes,
how you doing doing fine?
Speaker 9 (39:17):
So I'm sure this is probably a pretty easy one
for you. But I've been to a few few locations
and you know, they're unable to provide a good solution.
Bought a house from an elderly lady that passed away
nineteen sixty one. I think the vinyl.
Speaker 6 (39:34):
Siding on there is probably from the early nineties, and
you know, so I want to be cautious and not
to damage the vinyl.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
It's a yellow vinyl.
Speaker 6 (39:43):
And but at some point she had the fences painted
with you know, wood stain, brown wood stain, and it
was splattered all over the vinyl. So I was wondering
if you might be able to give me some ideas
on how to remove that brown wood stain off the
vinyl damage.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah, yeah, So you don't know what that was. In
other words, you don't know whether that was an oil
base or a water base. Staying correct.
Speaker 10 (40:13):
I don't and that's that's you know again, I'm just
I'm trying not to use acid or something that's gonna
damage the acid.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Yeah, and acid isn't gonna do it. There's there's products
out there. Do you have a lot of It is
just a little bit here and there or.
Speaker 10 (40:27):
What you know, it's one of those like as you
walk into the entrance of the back of the house,
right right next to the door, it's splattered all over
the side corner there, and uh, I'm only hacking probably
three feet by three feet.
Speaker 11 (40:44):
Type area, you know, But it's just it's such an
area that it's just an isore. But if I screw
up the guy, if I threw the vinyl up, you know,
it's gonna be even more ofgan isore.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Yeah. Well, there is a paint stripper, Okay, a paint stripper.
Usually you can't strip stain because it's penetrated into the wood.
But we don't have wood, and we have stain on it,
so we know it's right on the surface. So there
is a paint stripper called smart strip, Advantage or advance.
(41:21):
It's one or the other. I can't recall smart Strip
Advanced or advanced. Okay, Danny said, get some of that
and what you'll do. And there's also so you would
brush that onto the surface in the newer environmentally friendly
and they also have like a paper that you could
put over that once you brush that on, so it's
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kind of thick, you brush it on, it's not gonna
hurt the vinyl. It comes in a vinyl bottle and
put that paper on. Let's sit you know, I don't know,
do it in the evening and tear it off in
the morning and you'll probably lift that stain right off
if nothing else. Once you pull that off, you're going
to pull off some of it and then just try
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soap and water and see if you can't remove it.
That's what I'd use.
Speaker 6 (42:10):
Wow, it's just one step then, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Just you know, read the label. In fact, the manufacturer
has called Dumont Global. Okay, so you can go to
Dumont it's one M Dumont Global dot com and look
for the smart strip advantage. Now it's gonna not say
take a stain off vinyl sighting, I guarantee you. But
just read how you would remove paint with that particular
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product and follow those directions.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (42:41):
I really appreciate it because everything I was watching on
YouTube was about.
Speaker 6 (42:45):
Six or seven steps, and I was just, you know,
concerned about damaging the vinyl paint.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Ye, I'd give that a try. I think you'd have
a pretty good chance to remove it. I guarantee you
it's not going to be on the direction that this
will do it, but I feel pretty certain it will.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
I'm gonna give it a shot.
Speaker 6 (43:04):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
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Let me give you the phone number. It's eight hundred
eight two three eight two five five, so go ahead
and grab a line. We'll talk about your home projects.
We'll also have Ron Wilson on today talking about well
maybe a little fall clean up, kind of ending the
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expensive proposition if they get into your home. So we'll
chat with Ron about that. In the meantime, happy to
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talk about your home projects. Also, this past week went
down to the Zalar Pump company talk about Zalor sump
pumps and grinder pumps a lot, and it is I
probably have been down there in the last fifteen years,
probably three or four times, and it is amazing, first
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pride of the employees and the quality control and it
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you that's why they that's why Plumber recommend them, right,
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you know, where people open it up and it works
versus oh we got a bad pump that rarely rarely happens.
So anyway, thanks for heaving us down. All right, you
(03:18):
got the phone number, Go ahead and grab a line
and David welcome David, Yeah, go ahead, yes, sir, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Hey, So I'm standing my deck put on about five
years ago, kind of had like a tinted paint sealer
put on that I believe it was sprayed on and
it only lasted like two years and it was really
chipping up. So I'm kind of in the process of
standing it all off. Now, Okay, you know, is there
(03:52):
any kind of real great product to go back on,
you know, hopefully get ten years out of well or so.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
So tell me about the product that you had on.
So when you said tinted, was it a paint was
it a solid color stain? Because if it were a
penetrating stain where it goes into the wood, were into
the wood and shows the grain, and you know it
comes in cedar, redwood, et cetera, that should be in
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the wood that should never peel off. If that's what you.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Had, well, I mean it was a Sherman Williams product.
It was in during the time when we were building
the house. You know, we were kind of just passing
information along, and you know, it was we thought it
was known to the person painting it and the people
(04:48):
mixing the paint that it was going on, you know,
an exterior deck. But it was a semi transparent you know,
stain and paint. I guess as well. But I mean,
now when I'm out there standing on it, it's coming
off like you know, it's a single layer, tight like
it didn't really necessarily soak into.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
The wood right right, Well, that that's my fear. So
there is either stain or there is paint. There's not
a stain paint, if you will. So pain is usually coating.
Stain penetrates into the pores of the wood, it becomes
part of the wood. Now, you said a couple of
things that you know, red flag when it was done
(05:33):
when I was building a house. So it's it's pressure
treated wood on that deck, I'm sure. And if it
is a semi transparent stain and it's peeling off and
it appears to have never got in the wood, that's
probably exactly what happened. My guess is that wood really
hadn't dried out, It hadn't really seasoned to be able
(05:55):
to accept a stain, so it laid on the surface.
It's not designed to lay on the surface. The UV
rays of the sun kind of bake it and it
begins to crack and peel, and I think that's what
you have.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, I mean that sounds right because I mean it
it gets a lot of sun and you know, most
all the weather, there's not really shaded by anything. You know,
the part of it's covered and held up better, but
certainly the portion that's uncovered, you know, deteriorated.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah. So so removing that is, you know, either chemically
or mechanically is obviously the key. That pressure treated wood
of course is treated with that pressure treatment and moisture
and water and all that. So it just probably couldn't
go into the wood. And then again laying there and
(06:57):
being exposed to the sun, it began to peel off.
So get it off. You're doing the right thing. The
question is is what do you want to apply next.
So the wood is been there for a while, it's
dried out. If you go with a semi transparent stain, David,
and it's in an environment, like you said, you know,
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very very little protection from the sun et cetera. You're
gonna get about three years out of that period. If
you go to a solid color stain which appears to
be like a wood or like a paint over that wood,
you might get five six years out of that. So
(07:45):
there's nothing, you know, with that amount of sunlight for
a semi transparent. It just doesn't have enough body to
hold up against the sun. I mean if in the
darker color, the better. Like if you put a clear
seiler on there for a for a deck in the
(08:06):
environment that you have, you'd be lucky if you got
more than a year out of it.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Now, loly, I guess if I were to do a
clear sailor and it wouldn't show what it's still like that,
it's not on there, right, Could I go out there
with a spryre once a year and apply from the
(08:36):
clear seiler, yeah, paint.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It like that. Yeah yeah. So if you have that's
one of the advantages of a semi transparent is you
don't have to sand. It should penetrate into the wood.
So let's say you did it in clear or let's
say you did it in a redwood or a seedar. Look,
you could apply that and I'll give you a couple
of little tips to help it even penetrate into the wood,
(08:59):
even though that wood is you know, good and dry.
Using a deck brightener opens up the pores of the wood.
It's a mild exolic acid which opens up the pors
and allows it to absorb into the wood. Okay. And
let's say you get to two years out of it, okay,
and it's a redwood the next time and it starts fading,
(09:23):
it starts looking worn. You would clean it with a
deck cleaner, which is you know, you know, oxygen, aate bleach,
and I'd stay away from the pressure washer except just
a rinse, but use that and then use the deck
brightener that opens up the pores of the wood and
then you you know, allow It depends where you're using
(09:44):
a solvent deck sealer or you're using a water base.
You could have to wait two days or you could
have to wait two hours, and you could apply the
stain and there is no standing, there is no coating.
See I think, and again it I'm taking kind of
what you told me in assuming that you had a
(10:05):
semi transparent stain that was designed to go into the
wood and it couldn't because that dry that would it
not dried out? Okay, so you know, once you get
all that heeling and get that off, and then you
would use you know, oxolic acid to open up those
pores and then go ahead and apply your semi transparent stain.
(10:28):
I think you'll be fine. All right, Thank you much
for the call. I appreciate it. And when you're doing
a big project of building the house and building a deck,
you know, everybody wants to get it done. Get out
of the way. I'm guessing that's what happened, all right,
Ron Wilson, he's up next. We'll talk a little landscaping.
You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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He didn't want to be a guru. He likes to
just be yard boy. Yard boy. What in the world's
going on?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
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do you have, whatever is giving you? This is a
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There.
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You might want to sing to missus sollivon today.
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I'm not singing to anybody.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I got a question for you. Would you eat honey
that was produced from other bugs excrements?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well, when you ask it like that, no, but I
would ask you, is this gonna kill me? Make me sick?
Maybe me sneeze, make me feel better? Should make you
feel better? And no, I would taste it.
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It's honey, it should make you feel better.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Then I would taste it. Okay, would you try some?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Absolutely, I can't wait. I haven't tried it yet, Okay, okay.
I just found out about it this week. Now, who
in the world, And we had this insect that's yeah,
moving through our area, and it's going to move through
the midway in mideast, mid Midwest, all the over the place.
I'll get it right here in a minute. And it's
called the spotted lantern fly, and we have it now
(14:44):
in Cincinnati, and it's in Columbus, Cleveland's and other states.
And this thing is like an aphid on steroids, beautiful insect.
It's big, but it's a it's a sucking insect. So
when they get on trees and that they they can
really take out a lot of juice and they take
it out so fast they can't they don't digest all that.
They just shoot it out the other end what they
(15:04):
don't use. So that's and so when you have and
they have scale and aphids and that that's what you get.
And then sometimes that turns black and it's called sooty mold.
But that's the honeydew from these insects, insects, yeah, personally
or just your plants. And so this huge, this huge
(15:27):
spotted lanternfly, which probably the coolest bug I've ever seen
in appearance, Yes, yeah, gives off so much of this honeydew.
The bees now late in the season are going and
collecting that honeydew for nectar because it's so sweet.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
The bees are collecting it.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Yeah, the honey bees are actually collecting that as nectar
from the flowers, taking it back and producing honey in
their eyes so quickly that the bee keeper can't keep
up with it.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Really.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Yeah, and it's a dark color, kind of like if
they were at a buckwheat field. Buckwheat p u is
a dark colored honey. It's kind of a sorghum flavor.
This has more of a smoky flavor. But it is
they've not determined it's from the spotted lantern fly honeydew.
So I just, you know, I kind of said, you
know as well, it's bug poop, But that's what it.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Is, ron and you're increasing age. Yes, what I would
suggest to you, yes, is that you become a beekeeper. No,
I've assisted, huh, and you can call it yard boys.
I don't know. Lantern fly poop? Is that what you
want to say? Could be? Wow, you could have a
good retirement with that.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
And I don't. I don't like getting stung, and I
I you know, I assisted a beekeeper for a couple
of years and fortunately I didn't get stung.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
But but neat suits and everything.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
But one of the beekeepers this morning said she accidentally
put on the wrong socks the other day and they
will come after it. When she's taken to a park
because they're aggressive when they're you're taking that. They got
up under her sock stung or almost twenty six times.
She's used to it. It happens. She understands it's her fault.
She's still scratching out, but she said that her knees
(17:08):
and her hips felt so much better. About five hours
after she got stung. She said, there is just a
you know, testimony on the great use of.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
B venom. You know there was with folks that had ms. Yeah,
it was with b stings exactly. I remember my camera
man a lot of research done on that. He actually
did that. He swore by it. Yeah, hmmm, well I
think I know what we're talking about. So where do
you think this is going conversation?
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Well, it's just interesting. You know, we're trying to get
the spot of lantern fly. Not a good thing where
you know it's it's easily controlled. It's become a major
nuisance and will become more of a major nuisance, especially
for grapegrowers, say vulnerable a lot. It get on all
kinds of things, but tree of Heaven stinctree, that's their
host tree. So yeah, so if you chop that weed
(18:03):
tree down, you get rid of their host tree. But
they move by egg masses. They liked female likes the
lay eggs on railroad cars and cars and things like that,
so they move quickly through areas. I was in Cleveland
last week and they're everywhere up there. It's crazy. They're everywhere,
like on plants or all over the like. Well, the
(18:25):
sidewalk was interesting. You get these little blurps where people
have been stepping on them. Yeah, so yeah, but it's that.
But either thought that was interesting that they're actually taking
advantage of that very sweet nectar and making honey out
of it.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I would say, look forward to a Kruger's near.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
You, coming coming to a store near you. Yeah, spotted
lantern fly honey.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
So there you go. You are just a fountain knight.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
By the way, you said something about fall clean up,
because fall, you know, shutting down. We aren't even close, man,
Come on, we got a.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Long way to go still.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
We still are planting. Fall season last until November or longer.
So get out there and plant.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I'll be quiet, all right, all right, thank you you.
Met Ron Wilson online dot com. You can learn about
spotted lantern fly honey. We'll call that all right. Your
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with this. We have I have still many projects left
from the summertime. Cold weather is coming at some point.
Who knows when we can certainly talk about the interior
(22:45):
and getting ready for cold weather. And I think if
maybe we're not going to get ready for cold weather,
and I mean by that, maybe we're not going to
start worrying about it. We're not going to worry about
the insulation we have in our home. We're going to
worry about maybe not how well home ventilated or home is,
(23:09):
whether our door needs weather stripping. I heard something funny
the other day. If you can see light it round
your door, that means you need weather stripping. Yeah, And
you know it doesn't really sound like a really big deal,
does it. I mean the weather right now is like great,
You're forgetting that day when it's very cold and very windy,
(23:32):
and how that cold weather is going to infiltrate your home.
And you know what's going on with the cost energy.
I've been reading, you know, the masses complaining, and I
know the prices are going up. But what have you
done to help yourself? Have you checked the insulation up
(23:57):
in the attic? Have you checked to see if you
have ventilation into the attic? Have you checked to see
if that ventilation is operating? What do I mean by that?
I've had a lot of people say, oh, I have
soffa venting, But then I went up in the attic
and I checked and I can't see any light. And
then I just pulled some of that venting down and
(24:17):
it's solid wood behind that, So you have no ventilation.
So what's that mean? That means in the summertime, that
attic's probably one hundred and forty degrees plus. That means
that bedroom or multiple bedrooms underneath that attic are very
(24:42):
uncomfortable and costing you money because we can't get the
temperature down in the summertime to satisfy the thermostat, which
can and you used to call for cold air. That's
(25:03):
costing your money. What about in the wintertime ventilation. Jeez,
that's going to be cold up there. Yeah, you want
it to be chilly up there, that's for sure. It's
probably still not going to get below freezing. And then
with good insulation. But if it's not ventilated and you
(25:27):
have the warm air inside your home and it's finding
its way into the attic, you could create condensation, and
you could create mold, another big problem. So I just
bring that up maybe to inspire you a little bit
(25:50):
to take action to at least find out what's going
on upstairs in that attic. How much insulation you have,
You can find out how much you need, real easy.
Department of Energy has map of the United States tells
the different zones and what the R value should be
in your attic. The R value what should be in
(26:11):
between the in the walls, the exterior walls. You can
go to a big box storem just find that same
map on any role of insulation. And if you're using
fiberglass blown in insulation, it's like an for every inch
of thickness that has an R value of about two
(26:34):
and a half. So you can find out what you're
recommended our value is, and then find out how much
insulation you got and where you stand and what needs
to be added. All right, Our phone numbers eight hundred
eight two three eight two five five Diane, Welcome, Hi Gary.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
I talked to you a few weeks ago about my
attic that has no stop adventing. Because there's a way
to do any ventilation. I thought i'd give you a
follow up. He asked me to let you know. So
I was having I was having the roof redone and
had many different ideas on what kind of venting to
put up there. But unfortunately, the way the guy fixed
(27:15):
the bedroom, which is the entire attic, it's one big
room with cathedral ceilings and skylights, there was no way
to communicate that soft eventing into the actual room or
to the rafters. Yeah, so I had a ventilation expert
come out, supposedly who actually did seem like he really
knew what he was telling me, and I thank you
(27:36):
for telling me before he came out. So it turns
out he went into all the cross spaces and the
guy that built this area put double insulation all the
way up as far as he could see, and he said,
the problem is if we put soft vents in there,
it's not going to get to the rafters because of
the fact that the entire all the walls and ceilings
(27:57):
are all double double insulated as far as he's concerned.
So so he said, I'm glad you're not going to
take the fan out, because the first guy told me
to take the attic fan out. He said, not only
do you need that fan, we need to put a second.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Fan up there, right right.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
So unfortunately though they couldn't figure out where to put
a second fan that made any sense. So basically we
just got a more powerful the most powerful fan. We
forget is what we're going to do there doing so yeah, right,
So that's my story. I also talk to your friend
Ron from the Wildlife Place because I had all the
raccoon problems and he did tell me what he suggested,
(28:38):
and the folks that are going to do the roof
actually kind of had the same idea. So I think again,
the education you gave me and Ron gave me was
very helpful. When you don't know what's your point of
what you're.
Speaker 8 (28:51):
Talking to me.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
And you know, one of the things that I guess
sometimes I forget in the conversations. There's so many architectural
changes of homes over the years, so you know, a
lot of times I just tried to talk in general
terms of what we're trying to do right, because you know,
like the old cape CODs that were building the forties
and they got the hip wall up in the attic
and somebody turn that into a bedroom. Those are virtually
(29:14):
impossible to ventilate, and so there's always challenges. In fact,
you mentioned Ron Krueger from A plus Wildlife Control. I'm
having him on today. We'll have him on again at
the bottom of the next hour, because that's becoming in
my book, what I'm hearing from people, that's becoming a
bigger and bigger problem. So we'll go through that. And
(29:36):
I'm glad you got at least a plan on what
you can do, because you know, anything's better than what
we had. And you know, you're the person said two fans.
I don't know the layout, but that sounds reasonable, and
you're right. If you can't get two fans in their
proper places, a higher CFM to move even more air.
That'd be fine, and I think you'll notice the difference.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Yeah, well if I did. When I had my ac redone,
I had a bigger trunk line put up there. Uh huh,
so that at least I could get more air in
the summertime, because it does get awful hot. So sure
the things. Again, your education helped me hold my own
against these guys were telling me things I didn't quite understand.
So thanks that. I'm look forward to hearing around this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Very good and thank you. Take care, bye bye, all right,
and you can have a line we can chat about
your home. It's eight hundred eight two three A two
five five. You know, one of the most simple things
we can do. I mean, it doesn't cost much, it
doesn't take much time. I don't know how you do
(30:41):
in terms of replacing the filters on your air handler.
But in the dead of winter, the peak of summer
man is that important. You want that good airflow going
to all areas of the home. And even when if
you have a tune up, a furnace tuneup, and you've
(31:02):
had issues with upstairs bedrooms or bedrooms under an attic
in the summertime, in the wintertime, talk to your HVAC
company and see what kind of things they can do
to incorporate to get you more comfort in that area,
because there are things there. There are many things. Actually.
(31:27):
You can change the damper kind of settings going upstairs
versus going downstairs, change the distribution of conditioned air. You
can do wireless thermostats in the bedroom that would be helpful.
And you can change your filter on a regular basis,
because as it gets dirty, you don't have as much
(31:49):
air movement getting to those rooms. So something to keep
in mind. All right, eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five Jeff, you'll be up first and you're
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You're at home with Gary Salvin talking about our home,
whether it's maintenance or repair, little remodeling. Happy to take
your call at eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five and let's go to Jeff. Jeff Welcome, Good morning, Gary.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
I hope you feeling better today.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Sir, just sound terrible right now, but don't feel horrible.
Thank you?
Speaker 8 (35:05):
Yes, sir, Hey, I just wanted to comment you had
a collar last week that had an unfortunate incident where
somebody had opened up a door and put a hole
in their drywall, and you had mentioned that product Eclipse.
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Yes, sir, and I had a hole in the wall.
Speaker 8 (35:21):
For six to eight months. I was moving some things
around put a small hole in the wall, and I'm like,
I'm gonna try it. So I went and grabbed one,
threw it up. There followed the direction and you put
the first coat of paint on it. And there's a
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make sure you hold the rest of the patch because
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the patch will pulled right up the wall. So anyway,
I had bought a couple. I bought a couple of them,
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Yeah. My wife, my wife got home, she's like, I
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Yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
So now my question for you is in my basement now,
My home's about forty five years old, adjacent to the driveway.
In the basement, it's non finished. It's cinder block. Every
two years or so, it starts, you know, the paint
starts flaking and we get some black spots on it, this,
that and the other, and I got to scrape it
(36:28):
and repaint it. Is there a good ceiling paint, paint,
seilers type of thing that I can put on and
then repaint over that. It's not to do it every
two years.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
So when you paint, what are you painting the walls
or the ceiling part?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (36:46):
No, just a wall. You know, it's the cinder block,
cinder block wall, and it's adjacent to the driveway, so
I know I'm probably getting water from outside, which I understand.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Yeah. So is that is that block there?
Speaker 8 (36:59):
Yes, center block?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yeah, okay, So are you using what interior or exterior
paint like a latex paint.
Speaker 8 (37:07):
Actually just interior paint.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Yeah? Yeah, there is waterproofing paint. In fact, there's waterproofing
paint that can even be tinted that will stop not
only water vapor from coming through that wall, but also
moisture up to ten pounds per square inch, which is
pretty sizable. The issue is the issue is we've painted
(37:35):
it now, so you know we have a barrier between
there and the block. So I'm sure without reading the label,
the first thing the waterproofing paint's going to say is
for bare concrete or removing the existing finish. Right.
Speaker 8 (37:53):
Well, the area is only probably four foot by four foot,
so I could hand it down back to the center block.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Okay. Well, it's an old that's been out for one
hundred years probably. It's called dry lock. You may have
heard of it.
Speaker 8 (38:10):
I actually have.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yeah, yeah, you get about one hundred square feet per gallon.
It is a Portland cement based synthetic rubber based paint
and very effective. And you can actually have that tinted also.
Hopefully the people in the store know that. But if
(38:33):
they have like because it comes in white, I think
some people will have gray also, but white is usually
what you'll find in the stores.
Speaker 8 (38:42):
And that's what my basement is.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
It's white, okay, And even if you want to add
a little tint. So if let's say their formula to
get the XYZ color calls for an ounce of mustard
colored tint, you would put in half that amount and
you'll come very close.
Speaker 8 (38:59):
Well, thank you, sir, I appreciate that and what makes
my life much easier.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
There you go, great hope. All right, all right, thanks,
take care bye. All right again, it's a one hundred
eight two three eight two five five and Jason welcome. Yes,
how you doing doing fine?
Speaker 9 (39:17):
So I'm sure this is probably a pretty easy one
for you. But I've been to a few few locations
and you know, they're unable to provide a good solution.
Bought a house from an elderly lady that passed away
nineteen sixty one. I think the vinyl.
Speaker 6 (39:34):
Siding on there is probably from the early nineties, and
you know, so I want to be cautious and not
to damage the vinyl.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
It's a yellow vinyl.
Speaker 6 (39:43):
And but at some point she had the fences painted
with you know, wood stain, brown wood stain, and it
was splattered all over the vinyl. So I was wondering
if you might be able to give me some ideas
on how to remove that brown wood stain off the
vinyl damage.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah, yeah, So you don't know what that was. In
other words, you don't know whether that was an oil
base or a water base. Staying correct.
Speaker 10 (40:13):
I don't and that's that's you know again, I'm just
I'm trying not to use acid or something that's gonna
damage the acid.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Yeah, and acid isn't gonna do it. There's there's products
out there. Do you have a lot of It is
just a little bit here and there or.
Speaker 10 (40:27):
What you know, it's one of those like as you
walk into the entrance of the back of the house,
right right next to the door, it's splattered all over
the side corner there, and uh, I'm only hacking probably
three feet by three feet.
Speaker 11 (40:44):
Type area, you know, But it's just it's such an
area that it's just an isore. But if I screw
up the guy, if I threw the vinyl up, you know,
it's gonna be even more ofgan isore.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Yeah. Well, there is a paint stripper, Okay, a paint stripper.
Usually you can't strip stain because it's penetrated into the wood.
But we don't have wood, and we have stain on it,
so we know it's right on the surface. So there
is a paint stripper called smart strip, Advantage or advance.
(41:21):
It's one or the other. I can't recall smart Strip
Advanced or advanced. Okay, Danny said, get some of that
and what you'll do. And there's also so you would
brush that onto the surface in the newer environmentally friendly
and they also have like a paper that you could
put over that once you brush that on, so it's
(41:44):
kind of thick, you brush it on, it's not gonna
hurt the vinyl. It comes in a vinyl bottle and
put that paper on. Let's sit you know, I don't know,
do it in the evening and tear it off in
the morning and you'll probably lift that stain right off
if nothing else. Once you pull that off, you're going
to pull off some of it and then just try
(42:05):
soap and water and see if you can't remove it.
That's what I'd use.
Speaker 6 (42:10):
Wow, it's just one step then, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Just you know, read the label. In fact, the manufacturer
has called Dumont Global. Okay, so you can go to
Dumont it's one M Dumont Global dot com and look
for the smart strip advantage. Now it's gonna not say
take a stain off vinyl sighting, I guarantee you. But
just read how you would remove paint with that particular
(42:36):
product and follow those directions.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (42:41):
I really appreciate it because everything I was watching on
YouTube was about.
Speaker 6 (42:45):
Six or seven steps, and I was just, you know,
concerned about damaging the vinyl paint.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Ye, I'd give that a try. I think you'd have
a pretty good chance to remove it. I guarantee you
it's not going to be on the direction that this
will do it, but I feel pretty certain it will.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
I'm gonna give it a shot.
Speaker 6 (43:04):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
All right, quick, thank you, take care bye bye. Yeah,
that's uh, that would probably work really really well. Hey.
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