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Speaker 1 (00:31):
All right. The weekend, it is welcome aboard. You're at
home with Gary Salvin taking your calls, chatting about your home.
What's right, what's wrong, what needs your attention? And if
you're like any homeowner, there's probably a few things on
your list that you've got to get done. Mine right now.
This has been on my list for a while. I
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guess I'm not too excited about doing it, huh. And
that is the garage. It needs my attention. It's not horrible.
I'm a pretty organized guy. I don't hoard things, and
pretty pretty trimmed down on what we got. But I'd
just like to just reorganize, maybe paint some walls and
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spruce it up a tab. So maybe the next few
weeks we'll still have good weather and I can tackle that.
All right, Happy to hear about your projects again. It's
eight hundred and eighty two three eight two five five Mary,
you lead us off. Welcome, Good morning morning.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I had a problem with my toilet, and I called
the plumber and he came and in the tank. He
took out the ball that was in there, but they
went the water. It brings the ball up and shuts
it off.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Uhuh.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
He took that out and he puts some kind of
new contraption in there that controls both in and out
in one unit. Okay, don't I don't understand how it operates.
So should I be calling him and ask him to
send the instruct into the realization that's how that operates.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
You certainly have a right to do that, sure, I mean,
is it working all right? I mean when you flush,
you get the waste away and you get water in it.
But you know, if you want to know how it operates,
you could certainly call and see if he'll do that
for you.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Is this something new? Because I've never seen this before?
Because when I looked in the tank, I saw that
the ball was gone. That the ball that comes up
when the water goes to shut off. And I don't
know how the new unit works.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Oh I know what? Okay. So when you're talking the ball,
you're talking about the float. Yes, yeah, okay, So that
was connected with a little brass thread it rod that
screwed into a valve and now that's gone correct, right, Okay,
(02:53):
So what he put in was is what they call
a fluid master and a fluid masters. He also changed
out the valve and if you and I'm guessing, but
if you look at that valve U there is a
little plastic thing about the size of your fist, if
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you made a fist, it's about that size. And it
rides up and down. And the old way was when
that float got high enough and that armature was tied
to the valve. When it got high enough, it shut
off the water on the fluid master. That float goes
up and down that stanchion the valve itself, and when
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it goes high enough, it stops the water flow.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, but see it looks so different.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Oh yeah, they look totally different. They look totally different.
They've been out probably thirty thirty five years now, and
it's they're they're very those valves are very, very efficient.
And then you don't have that big clinky float laying
across the toilet. But it that's the way it works.
Instead of an armature on that valve, it just rides
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up and down the valve and shuts the water off. Accordingly,
there's a little diaphragm inside that valve. It's a pressure
on that's what shuts it off. All right, Thank you
much and Mike welcome, Hi Gary.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Hello, Yes, I'm trying to insulate the outside of my
concrete foundation. And I've determined that this poly iso phone
board has a six point eight R factor per inch,
and my question is what would be best to cover that,
like maybe a concrete board or what.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Well, so, what are you gonna do. You're gonna put
it on the foundation above grade outside?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yes, outside, above grade?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
What about putting it inside above grade?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
There's two We've done that before in one half and
there's the the worshpint dryer and too many utilities on
the inside.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Okay, I'm just trying to think. I guess you could
literally put anything over it. Really. I mean, you could
put T one eleven siding on some furring strips. You
could put that out there. You definitely want to cover
it up because animals are going to just scratch the
dickens out.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Of that thing, right, did you say T one hundred.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
T one eleven. So it's kind of like paneling, if
you will. It's about a half inch thick. It's kind
of like paneling we'd put on the inside of the house.
But it's it's raw wood. So you can paint it,
stain it and do whatever you want with it. You
can hang it vertically, you can hang it horizontally. Pretty versatile.
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And uh, you know, if you put up furring strips
onto that foundation, put your board or your phone boards
in between, that you should be able to just go
back and screw and glue the T one eleven right
to the ferring strips.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And what did you say that T one eleven is
made of.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
It's particle board.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Particle board okay, uh huh?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
And it looks you can get it like a rough cut,
you can get it smooth. I mean it's probably the
most you know, versatile exterior siding you can get.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Does it hold up to weather? And that this is
under the deck so it won't be as much weather on.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah it will. I'll give you a couple
of little tips once you get it painted and sealed
and everything, that the bottom strip. People always paint the facing,
but if that bottom strip is real close to the ground,
it will wick moisture up into the siding. So make
sure before you hang it you either paint the bottom
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of that or put clocking on the out of it
to make it as waterproof as you can so that
it doesn't wick up the moisture.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
So concrete board isn't maybe a good option, but.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well that's an option too. I mean there's all kinds
of options. I mean they even have which is very
very attractive. They even have stone that hangs on furring strips.
It's it's man made stone, which is pretty lightweight, has
rails you clip it on. You can do almost like
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a jigsaw type pattern of insulated sighting. Even it would
be an option. I mean you can go, you know.
I mean they even have a service where the company
will come and spray a texture on it. And it's
that type of foam, so there is no board, you know,
they just spray that on, so it's an insulator. It's
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also decorative. You know, it's going to cost you more
money than the way you're doing it. But there's a
lot of options.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
All right, appreciate the help.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
All right, very good, Thank you, take care bye bye bye. Yeah,
there is a lot of a lot of options and
a lot of things that different different looks, which probably
don't need. If it's under a deck, you could get
some LP siding. LP siding I think comes with a
twenty five year warranty. Same way, put up your furn strips,
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put in your foam, panels cover it up with an
LP siding, which is a smooth, very much a factory finish,
very much cosmically good looking. And they even have like
a a replica of the T one eleven siding in
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the LP siding catalog looks just like T one eleven.
And one of the things I'd just be mildly concerned about,
would uh And I don't know if they'd bothered or not,
but groundhog skunks they love to burrow and nest underneath decks,
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and whether they would compromise that, I don't know if
they'd have interest in it or not. All right, our
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time a year to paint exterior. And one of the
things that I'm seeing in my neighborhood, you may be
seeing the same in yours. And you've heard the phrase
a thousand times. I'm sure what goes around comes around.
Well what went around is coming around again, and that's
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white houses black trim. You've probably seen it pop up
in your neighborhood, and in my neighborhood there's been multiple
homes that aren't necessarily white, but they are brick with
black trim. It looks okay, it looks okay. You gotta
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be careful depending on how dark that brick is. But
I've seen a couple of people go ahead and paint
the brick. And I know I get asked that question,
can you really do it? Do you want to do it? Well,
you've got to answer that. I will tell you. It
really updates the appearance. It's clean, it's uniform, it can
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really modernize a home. It certainly brightens up the home.
And one other thing I mean, I talk about sealing
brick periodically, but paint can help shield the brick and
protect it from moisture and weathering. If it's properly applied.
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And of course when you put up and you have
a brick home, a lot of times you feel like
you're married to that color forever. So you're limited with trim, colors,
shutters and different things like that. Well that's not really
the case if you paint the brick. So you know,
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things to consider before taking your home and painting it out.
Is it's permanent. Once painted, nearly impossible to return the
look at natural brick, and make sure that that painted brick,
you know, make sure you patch if there's a missing mortar,
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make sure you do all that before you paint it.
And know it's going to require painting probably ever at
least every ten years. There'll be areas where it'll fail
and you'll have to touch it up. But a couple
of things to consider there. Yeah, welcome, Yes, yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
I got a interior door with my front door. We
had it installed over as well, over ten years ago.
I never got around to painting the term on the inside.
It's just basically pine wood and it's just bare wood.
And I've got some time to do a project, so
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I figured I need to know how would I prepare
prepare that wood before I put stain on it.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
So you're going to stain it then, yes, okay, Well
just make sure it's clean and probably taking a fine
sanding sponge going with the grain of that just lightly sanded.
You don't have to knock yourself out, but let's stand
out if there's any imperfections or fuzzes or anything along
those lines. Once it's stained. You did say it's fine.
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It's pine. So pine is uh is a little fickle.
It's got varying degrees of absorption in that wood, so
some pine really really accents the grain. So sometimes people
will put on a conditioner, a wood conditioner. You can
also make your own if you want. It's basically fifty
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percent lack and fifty percent natured alcohol. You'd put that
on the wood and what that'll do is that'll even
out the grain pattern. So you can do that or
not do that. That's up to you, okay, So it.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Would be okay to not not prep it, but just
clean it first and then put the correct on.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Correct.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
But then also to you, I would recommend to that
the prepit buy something that I could put on first.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
If you'd like to. You can put a wood conditioner
on which will make the grain more uniform.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Okay, and I can just get that any hardware store.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Words min Wax makes one called wood conditioner wood conditioners.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Okay, well, great, I appreciate it. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
You're quite welcome. Thank you, bye bye. And then, of
course your next step is when that conditioner dries, you
would put on a coat of stain. And there's different
kinds of stain. You'd want just a regular stain. Don't
get a your thane stain or a varnish stain. You
want something that's just going to penetrate. Put the stain on,
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take a cloth, rub it, make it look uniform, and
then you're protecting goes on. So there's you know, quite
a few steps at least four. So once you have
cleaned it, and if you choose to condition that wood
and then you apply your stain, your next one is
you got to make sure the drying time on that stain,
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and then you could apply your you're thinge protecting. And
then the question really becomes, uh, what what kind of
sheen do you want? You want it flat, you want
it satin, you wanted semi gloss, because that's going to
dictate what it's going to look like and if it's
next to the door, they're probably that's probably already stained,
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unless it was painted, but probably stained. You're gonna want
to match that same sheine. In other words, you don't
want to flat protecting on a door and a gloss trim.
I think that wouldn't look real good. So you want
to determine exactly what kind of sheen you currently have
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on that door, kind of match it up, and uh,
you know it should it should go together fine, but
that one condition whenever. You don't have to worry about
that with maples or oaks or anything along those lines.
But spruces pines, you know, and he's popular even not
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so much, but even some of your softer woods. Putting
on a wood conditioner again, you can mix it up.
It's a denatured alcohol and shellac. Fifty to fifteen. All right,
we'll take a break, come back, get some questions answered,
talk about some more projects as we continue. You're at
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Gerry Sullivan taking calls about your home projects. If you'd
like to join us, do so. It's eight hundred and
eighty two three eight, two five five, and uh, let's
go to Colorado and we have Linda.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Linda welcome, Hey, how are you today?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Doing fine?
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Good?
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Well, this is quite a project. I moved from Denver
to the country and I have a ranch style house.
I guess you'd talk it's a country house and I
have cedar Paulson and I think they're probably run by
six or a lap okay, and it's really weather than
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I love this color. It's kind of that cedar gold
and brown color mixed real weather. But I love it.
I'd better keep this color. But I want to protect
the wood. It's really dry. I'm debating. There has several
runs products in their it's my sensor not to put
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a season on the sealut tight you want wanted to breathe.
But I'm debating between the oil and the water mhm.
And it sounds like I hear about it. The water
rum protect it would be better because it would soak
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in more.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
He said, the water would soak in better.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Yeah, the oil would stand.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
On it more.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Yeah. Well, first of all, let me let me just
talk you through a couple of things. Number one is
the color that it is now you've said a couple
of times. It's dry and it's really weathered. So just
know that the dryness and the weathering of that cedar
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siding has influenced what the color that cedar sighting looks like. Okay,
oh I know, all right, So when we add, when
we paint or when we stain it, it's going to
be more uniform. I mean, you could come close to
it is. It's just going to look a little bit different.
That's number one. Number two choosing between solvent and water
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bass solvent base is actually going to penetrate into the
wood better than water.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
So solve it would be the oil.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Yes, yes, but but solvent based stains don't hold up
to the sun as good as water based stains. Oh really,
so the water based stain will actually last you longer
than a solvent based stain. Oh yeah. So now your challenge,
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or if somebody is going to do this project, your
challenge is to make sure that the water based stain
penetrates into that sea. And there's things you can do
to help that. There is you know, like wood decks,
they have a product it's called a wood brightener, and
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a wood brightener is a mild oxalic acid, and what
it does it opens the pores of the cedar, allowing
the water based stain to penetrate deeper into that wood.
Now it doesn't necessar necessarily have to be used. Sometimes
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just cleaning it real good. We'll get rid of any
dirt and you know it's pretty dry, so it's going
to absorb some. But if you're going to have somebody
do that, you might ask about that. So the wood
brighter kind of brightens that up a little bit first
before the stain is applied, right, and it does make
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it darker.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I'm sorry, would it make it darker?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
No, it'll actually well, it'll turn it more to the
original cedar color.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
Okay, because some of it on the south side is
there's a lot of good. It's like two stoys and
I have people will do it on that part. But
I did a chest at myself on my front deck
where I could reach it. But I like the colors
the way it is. But on the south side is
more than natural seedar color because it gets a lot more.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
So you'd want to see stain and I'd really recommend
using a you know, the water base because it's got
more ultraviolet light protection. So it stays that natural color longer.
And then if you got some black spots or something,
using that deck brightener will kind of bleach out those
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black spots and it will help it stay uniform in color.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
So could you just use that with a brush or
a roller? Could Okay, it's a wood brighter.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
But it's a wood brightener. It's it's a wood brightener.
That's what it's called wood brightener. And it's oxolic acid.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Solid acid. Okay, and you brush it onto, Yes.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
It's a crystal. You mix with water and brush it on,
let it sit, maybe scrub a little, hose it off.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
Well, now, the guys that I have looking on it
are really good that they which I hate.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
Yeah, well, you know what they could do and you
talk to them, you know, I mean, I don't know
what you know, how much pressure they're going to use
in anything else.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
But if you use an oxalic acid a deck brightener
in those dark spots or the whole house however they
want to do it, they could rinse with the powers
with the pressure washer. Uh you know, probably two thousand psi.
But they could certainly use the pressure washer also.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Instead of.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Well no, not, instead of not, instead of if you're
going to use that deck brightener. They can use the
pressure washer to rinse the decks brightener off instead of
scrubbing it. Bit.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
You can't just press it on the need that you
have to rinse it off.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Correct.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Okay, you know. So it sounds like I'm better off
with water.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Oh yeah, I think you are. I think you are.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Okay. I came down to that.
Speaker 10 (29:11):
I thought, well, there there, we can find one hundred people,
and fifty people will tell you, well, I want the
water base because it's gonna last longer.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
And then I can find you fifty people that are
I've never used water bas I'm gonna use the oil.
It penetrates down into that wood, you know. But I'm
telling you the facts are the water base will last longer,
the oil base will penetrate deeper. Bottom line, I prefer
the water bass. It drives faster, it's easier to apply,
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and it's gonna last longer. So that's that's the way
I'm looking at it. But like I said, I can
find just as many people that feel the other way. John, Welcome,
Yes to doing fine things.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
Gay sir, you're looking at I have a about a
twelve hundred square foot vinyl sided ranch.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (30:09):
It was painted probably about nine years ago with duration
from Shayan Williams Exterior.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
UH.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
And it held up really well. But it's faded over
the years. And I have a couple of things I
removed from from the vinyl that was like wiring and
stuff like that, and it left areas that wasn't painted.
And actually it actually faded a little bit over the years.
I was going to have it repainted here next week,
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we having some nice weather over here in Ohio. I
was thinking, well, I wanted to ask you would would
it be okay to just go over that again with
the duration?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (30:48):
To be honest with the eyepowerwashed this the vinyl siding
with that paint, and it it really had heered really well. Sure,
Like I said, I was going to have it repainted.
Was there any problem of going over that.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I don't see any problem at all.
Speaker 11 (31:01):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
No, I don't know when you've originally painted. Do you
remember anybody talking to you about a special tint?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
No?
Speaker 8 (31:11):
But I know you shouldn't. Why I've heard you shouldn't
add black into your tint. It's a lighter color. It's
like a lighter color grain.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
You stay in the same color range that you have now,
I'm sure you'll be fine. But if you wanted to
go like and I'm just thrown out, if you wanted
to go out like with a forest green, I would
talk to them about a product called color Safe, which
is a tinting process where it is more of a
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radiant barrier type tint so it's not going to create
heat and warp the siding. But if you're staying in
the same color field and you know you've headed up
for nine years, I think you'll be absolutely fine.
Speaker 8 (31:59):
Yeah, I'm going to try the color match it. Actually,
the gentleman that owned the house previously was a painter.
He really did a nice job on it, and I
like to keep it the same color. But it's not
a standard color from Sherian Williams. So it's the guy
that's gonna paint for me. It's going to have to
match it pretty close.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah, they can do it. They could do that pretty good.
Now will they be matching the faded color or will
they be matching the actual color that he used.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
Well, it's kind of funny if you ask, because down
the street the gentleman painted a building that he also owned,
and there's one side that wasn't exposed to the to
the weather in other words, the sun. Right, So I
was gonna have you know, I was going to ask
the gentleman to try to get that side of that
and pick that up. And the answer to your question is,
(32:45):
I'm gonna not going to try to match the fade.
I'm going to match the old color. Okay, the first color.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Yeah, boy, you can get I know they have computers
now that can give you almost an exact match. But
you need a paint about the size of a quarter
so that.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
That could be done.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (33:05):
One last question. They do have a little better paint.
Suppose the Emerald from Williams would it be would it
be any uhs.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I have a hard time selling against Duration because it's
an excellent, excellent paint, so is Emerald. I guess a
couple of features Emerald has that Duration does not have
is uh. It has a little slower drying time, which
is good because some of those paints dry really fast
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in direct sunlight. So this has an extended drying time
and we're talking, you know, maybe a half hour instead
of it drying in five minutes. So that's one thing.
It's also more mildew resistance. So if you have an
area where there's a lot to mildew, those are the
two major differences.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
Yeah, you know what, that pressure washed the house every spring,
and you know it's it's been pretty resilient too.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah, well they're both great. Face. I've recommended one or
the other probably for twenty years by now more than
that probably.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
Okay, good stuffy. I appreciate your time, sir.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
All right, you bet, thank you. Take a little break.
We've got Kim and Mark as we continue at Home
with Gary Sullivan.
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and to the funds. We go Kim, Welcome, Hi, How
are you Gary? Doing fine? Thank you? Good?
Speaker 11 (37:34):
All right?
Speaker 12 (37:34):
I'm taking a look at my front steps. They granted yesterday.
The front of the steps, which is rough. It was
a green like mold and I took some simple green,
sprayed it and use the scrub rush and rinsed it
and it came up real good. The reason is around
my railings, which is a rought iron is like a rust
stain around it in the bricks in the front of
(37:55):
my steps and the walk, it's like there's a white stain.
Now we went forget to get.
Speaker 8 (38:00):
Rid of that.
Speaker 12 (38:01):
And what would cause the white stains on the brick?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
All right? You got a lot going on on that
front porch?
Speaker 12 (38:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Oh really? Okay, So the white stains, my guess, is
what they call efflorescence. And e fluorescence is in brick,
it's in masonry, it's in grouding, and it's lime and salt, okay.
And when it stays wet for periods of time, that
(38:33):
lime in salt blossoms and it looks like salt. I mean,
it looks kind of like a salt or a crystallization.
And there is a mild acid is what removes efflorescence.
Now let me just keep going here. And then for
(38:56):
the rust, there's a called iron away. Iron oway is
a crystal. You mix it with hot water and you
just take a paintbrush and just keep basting over that
iron out and you just keep and you just keep
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basting over that. Let me let me finish up. And
because I'm going to reverse back a little bit. So
you based over that and it eats the iron oxide
and it doesn't hurt the brick or anything, and it
dissolves the rust. So you would have you know, a
(39:36):
mild acid on that and the the for the iron
out for the rust. Now, there is a product that's
made by Quick Greek Kim and it's called rust An
Efflorescence Remover, and I've used it for efflorescence. I have
not used it for rust, but I would get a
(39:57):
bottle of that, follow the directions. It's actually a very
high detergent and I would clean that up with the
efflorescence rust remover. You can get it on Amazon, you
can get it at probably home depot lows uh and
get that and and clean that area up with that product.
(40:20):
And you know, you might even look at is the
whole stoop? Is it all brick? No?
Speaker 12 (40:29):
No, just the face of the face at the front
of the and then there's the granite steps.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
I thought, okay, okay, So you know, if it's all
a lot about that brick that's got those discolorations, you
might want to consider sealing the brick. I don't think
you're going to need to seal the grantite. You're just
getting some mildew. And and that's not a problem. You
got that cleaned up. That's not going to be a
(40:54):
big issue. It'll come back. All of it will come back.
The efflorescence will continue you. But you know, I think
if you get the efflorescence and russ remover, use that,
see how it does, and you got the solution for
the other and I think you'd be in good shape.
Speaker 12 (41:11):
All right, So forget, forget and forget.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Yeah, I don't think, you know, if it were a
bigger area or something like that and wet and forgets
not going to take care of the efflorescence. It's not
going to take care of the rust, take care of
the mildew. But it's a small batch. I think I'd
stay with what you got.
Speaker 12 (41:32):
Very good, Gary, all right, thank you much.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Take care, bye bye. All right, let's go to Mark Mark. Welcome. Hi.
Speaker 11 (41:40):
Gary. I know it may be a little earlier in
the year to talk about this, but I noticed that
Walmart already has their ice melt on the shelves, and
I wanted to talk about They have three different kinds
and they have the familiar press Stone brand, but I
couldn't find the ingredients anywhere on the label, it does
(42:02):
say that it has calcium chloride, but since it's relatively inexpensive,
I would assume it also has the sodium. And they
also have two different kinds of road runner ice smelt.
One has all three ingredients, sodium, calcium, and magnesium chloride.
(42:23):
But I think the one that most people want is
what they call pet friendly ice smelt, and it's just magnesium.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Chloride and you know your stuff mark because that is
the best to use it really is. It's the least
corrosive for driveways, it's safe with pets, has a low
melting you know temperature. I go crazy, quite honestly with
the ice melter. I don't want to put salt on
(42:53):
anything that's concrete. Yeah, And they can call it low
temperature melting, and they can have calcium chloride. But I'll
bet you if that ten pound bags under four bucks,
it's got sodium cloride in it too.
Speaker 11 (43:08):
That's why I figure the Prestone probably does. I couldn't
find it on the label.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
I m guess it does unless it's a great deal.
Speaker 11 (43:18):
Yeah. And by the way, that Coogan is a good product.
Tom Snyder used to talk about that on his TV show.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Oh is that right? Okay, Yeah, I've used that for years.
It does a real good job of you know, knocking
old dry pain up, and good for getting ballpoint inc
Off even magic markers. It's a it's a go to product,
no question. Well, thank you for putting up with me
this weekend. A little bit of a sore throat now
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you're often a cold and Danny boy had me covered.
I appreciate his efforts. And if you missed the conversation
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A lot of good information. All right, Good Lord willing Danny,
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All right. The weekend, it is welcome aboard. You're at
home with Gary Salvin taking your calls, chatting about your home.
What's right, what's wrong, what needs your attention? And if
you're like any homeowner, there's probably a few things on
your list that you've got to get done. Mine right now.
This has been on my list for a while. I
(00:51):
guess I'm not too excited about doing it, huh. And
that is the garage. It needs my attention. It's not horrible.
I'm a pretty organized guy. I don't hoard things, and
pretty pretty trimmed down on what we got. But I'd
just like to just reorganize, maybe paint some walls and
(01:12):
spruce it up a tab. So maybe the next few
weeks we'll still have good weather and I can tackle that.
All right, Happy to hear about your projects again. It's
eight hundred and eighty two three eight two five five Mary,
you lead us off. Welcome, Good morning morning.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I had a problem with my toilet, and I called
the plumber and he came and in the tank. He
took out the ball that was in there, but they
went the water. It brings the ball up and shuts
it off.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Uhuh.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
He took that out and he puts some kind of
new contraption in there that controls both in and out
in one unit. Okay, don't I don't understand how it operates.
So should I be calling him and ask him to
send the instruct into the realization that's how that operates.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
You certainly have a right to do that, sure, I mean,
is it working all right? I mean when you flush,
you get the waste away and you get water in it.
But you know, if you want to know how it operates,
you could certainly call and see if he'll do that
for you.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Is this something new? Because I've never seen this before?
Because when I looked in the tank, I saw that
the ball was gone. That the ball that comes up
when the water goes to shut off. And I don't
know how the new unit works.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Oh I know what? Okay. So when you're talking the ball,
you're talking about the float. Yes, yeah, okay, So that
was connected with a little brass thread it rod that
screwed into a valve and now that's gone correct, right, Okay,
(02:53):
So what he put in was is what they call
a fluid master and a fluid masters. He also changed
out the valve and if you and I'm guessing, but
if you look at that valve U there is a
little plastic thing about the size of your fist, if
(03:14):
you made a fist, it's about that size. And it
rides up and down. And the old way was when
that float got high enough and that armature was tied
to the valve. When it got high enough, it shut
off the water on the fluid master. That float goes
up and down that stanchion the valve itself, and when
(03:36):
it goes high enough, it stops the water flow.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, but see it looks so different.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Oh yeah, they look totally different. They look totally different.
They've been out probably thirty thirty five years now, and
it's they're they're very those valves are very, very efficient.
And then you don't have that big clinky float laying
across the toilet. But it that's the way it works.
Instead of an armature on that valve, it just rides
(04:05):
up and down the valve and shuts the water off. Accordingly,
there's a little diaphragm inside that valve. It's a pressure
on that's what shuts it off. All right, Thank you
much and Mike welcome, Hi Gary.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Hello, Yes, I'm trying to insulate the outside of my
concrete foundation. And I've determined that this poly iso phone
board has a six point eight R factor per inch,
and my question is what would be best to cover that,
like maybe a concrete board or what.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Well, so, what are you gonna do. You're gonna put
it on the foundation above grade outside?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yes, outside, above grade?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
What about putting it inside above grade?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
There's two We've done that before in one half and
there's the the worshpint dryer and too many utilities on
the inside.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Okay, I'm just trying to think. I guess you could
literally put anything over it. Really. I mean, you could
put T one eleven siding on some furring strips. You
could put that out there. You definitely want to cover
it up because animals are going to just scratch the
dickens out.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Of that thing, right, did you say T one hundred.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
T one eleven. So it's kind of like paneling, if
you will. It's about a half inch thick. It's kind
of like paneling we'd put on the inside of the house.
But it's it's raw wood. So you can paint it,
stain it and do whatever you want with it. You
can hang it vertically, you can hang it horizontally. Pretty versatile.
(05:53):
And uh, you know, if you put up furring strips
onto that foundation, put your board or your phone boards
in between, that you should be able to just go
back and screw and glue the T one eleven right
to the ferring strips.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And what did you say that T one eleven is
made of.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
It's particle board.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Particle board okay, uh huh?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
And it looks you can get it like a rough cut,
you can get it smooth. I mean it's probably the
most you know, versatile exterior siding you can get.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Does it hold up to weather? And that this is
under the deck so it won't be as much weather on.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah it will. I'll give you a couple
of little tips once you get it painted and sealed
and everything, that the bottom strip. People always paint the facing,
but if that bottom strip is real close to the ground,
it will wick moisture up into the siding. So make
sure before you hang it you either paint the bottom
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of that or put clocking on the out of it
to make it as waterproof as you can so that
it doesn't wick up the moisture.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
So concrete board isn't maybe a good option, but.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well that's an option too. I mean there's all kinds
of options. I mean they even have which is very
very attractive. They even have stone that hangs on furring strips.
It's it's man made stone, which is pretty lightweight, has
rails you clip it on. You can do almost like
(07:34):
a jigsaw type pattern of insulated sighting. Even it would
be an option. I mean you can go, you know.
I mean they even have a service where the company
will come and spray a texture on it. And it's
that type of foam, so there is no board, you know,
they just spray that on, so it's an insulator. It's
(07:57):
also decorative. You know, it's going to cost you more
money than the way you're doing it. But there's a
lot of options.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
All right, appreciate the help.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
All right, very good, Thank you, take care bye bye bye. Yeah,
there is a lot of a lot of options and
a lot of things that different different looks, which probably
don't need. If it's under a deck, you could get
some LP siding. LP siding I think comes with a
twenty five year warranty. Same way, put up your furn strips,
(08:33):
put in your foam, panels cover it up with an
LP siding, which is a smooth, very much a factory finish,
very much cosmically good looking. And they even have like
a a replica of the T one eleven siding in
(08:55):
the LP siding catalog looks just like T one eleven.
And one of the things I'd just be mildly concerned about,
would uh And I don't know if they'd bothered or not,
but groundhog skunks they love to burrow and nest underneath decks,
(09:16):
and whether they would compromise that, I don't know if
they'd have interest in it or not. All right, our
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back to work in no time at all, so perfect
time a year to paint exterior. And one of the
things that I'm seeing in my neighborhood, you may be
seeing the same in yours. And you've heard the phrase
a thousand times. I'm sure what goes around comes around.
Well what went around is coming around again, and that's
(12:58):
white houses black trim. You've probably seen it pop up
in your neighborhood, and in my neighborhood there's been multiple
homes that aren't necessarily white, but they are brick with
black trim. It looks okay, it looks okay. You gotta
(13:19):
be careful depending on how dark that brick is. But
I've seen a couple of people go ahead and paint
the brick. And I know I get asked that question,
can you really do it? Do you want to do it? Well,
you've got to answer that. I will tell you. It
really updates the appearance. It's clean, it's uniform, it can
(13:40):
really modernize a home. It certainly brightens up the home.
And one other thing I mean, I talk about sealing
brick periodically, but paint can help shield the brick and
protect it from moisture and weathering. If it's properly applied.
(14:01):
And of course when you put up and you have
a brick home, a lot of times you feel like
you're married to that color forever. So you're limited with trim, colors,
shutters and different things like that. Well that's not really
the case if you paint the brick. So you know,
(14:22):
things to consider before taking your home and painting it out.
Is it's permanent. Once painted, nearly impossible to return the
look at natural brick, and make sure that that painted brick,
you know, make sure you patch if there's a missing mortar,
(14:45):
make sure you do all that before you paint it.
And know it's going to require painting probably ever at
least every ten years. There'll be areas where it'll fail
and you'll have to touch it up. But a couple
of things to consider there. Yeah, welcome, Yes, yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
I got a interior door with my front door. We
had it installed over as well, over ten years ago.
I never got around to painting the term on the inside.
It's just basically pine wood and it's just bare wood.
And I've got some time to do a project, so
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I figured I need to know how would I prepare
prepare that wood before I put stain on it.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
So you're going to stain it then, yes, okay, Well
just make sure it's clean and probably taking a fine
sanding sponge going with the grain of that just lightly sanded.
You don't have to knock yourself out, but let's stand
out if there's any imperfections or fuzzes or anything along
those lines. Once it's stained. You did say it's fine.
(16:01):
It's pine. So pine is uh is a little fickle.
It's got varying degrees of absorption in that wood, so
some pine really really accents the grain. So sometimes people
will put on a conditioner, a wood conditioner. You can
also make your own if you want. It's basically fifty
(16:24):
percent lack and fifty percent natured alcohol. You'd put that
on the wood and what that'll do is that'll even
out the grain pattern. So you can do that or
not do that. That's up to you, okay, So it.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Would be okay to not not prep it, but just
clean it first and then put the correct on.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Correct.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
But then also to you, I would recommend to that
the prepit buy something that I could put on first.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
If you'd like to. You can put a wood conditioner
on which will make the grain more uniform.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Okay, and I can just get that any hardware store.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Words min Wax makes one called wood conditioner wood conditioners.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Okay, well, great, I appreciate it. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
You're quite welcome. Thank you, bye bye. And then, of
course your next step is when that conditioner dries, you
would put on a coat of stain. And there's different
kinds of stain. You'd want just a regular stain. Don't
get a your thane stain or a varnish stain. You
want something that's just going to penetrate. Put the stain on,
(17:36):
take a cloth, rub it, make it look uniform, and
then you're protecting goes on. So there's you know, quite
a few steps at least four. So once you have
cleaned it, and if you choose to condition that wood
and then you apply your stain, your next one is
you got to make sure the drying time on that stain,
(17:58):
and then you could apply your you're thinge protecting. And
then the question really becomes, uh, what what kind of
sheen do you want? You want it flat, you want
it satin, you wanted semi gloss, because that's going to
dictate what it's going to look like and if it's
next to the door, they're probably that's probably already stained,
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unless it was painted, but probably stained. You're gonna want
to match that same sheine. In other words, you don't
want to flat protecting on a door and a gloss trim.
I think that wouldn't look real good. So you want
to determine exactly what kind of sheen you currently have
(18:41):
on that door, kind of match it up, and uh,
you know it should it should go together fine, but
that one condition whenever. You don't have to worry about
that with maples or oaks or anything along those lines.
But spruces pines, you know, and he's popular even not
(19:03):
so much, but even some of your softer woods. Putting
on a wood conditioner again, you can mix it up.
It's a denatured alcohol and shellac. Fifty to fifteen. All right,
we'll take a break, come back, get some questions answered,
talk about some more projects as we continue. You're at
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Gerry Sullivan taking calls about your home projects. If you'd
like to join us, do so. It's eight hundred and
eighty two three eight, two five five, and uh, let's
go to Colorado and we have Linda.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Linda welcome, Hey, how are you today?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Doing fine?
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Good?
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Well, this is quite a project. I moved from Denver
to the country and I have a ranch style house.
I guess you'd talk it's a country house and I
have cedar Paulson and I think they're probably run by
six or a lap okay, and it's really weather than
(22:59):
I love this color. It's kind of that cedar gold
and brown color mixed real weather. But I love it.
I'd better keep this color. But I want to protect
the wood. It's really dry. I'm debating. There has several
runs products in their it's my sensor not to put
(23:24):
a season on the sealut tight you want wanted to breathe.
But I'm debating between the oil and the water mhm.
And it sounds like I hear about it. The water
rum protect it would be better because it would soak
(23:44):
in more.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
He said, the water would soak in better.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Yeah, the oil would stand.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
On it more.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Yeah. Well, first of all, let me let me just
talk you through a couple of things. Number one is
the color that it is now you've said a couple
of times. It's dry and it's really weathered. So just
know that the dryness and the weathering of that cedar
(24:16):
siding has influenced what the color that cedar sighting looks like. Okay,
oh I know, all right, So when we add, when
we paint or when we stain it, it's going to
be more uniform. I mean, you could come close to
it is. It's just going to look a little bit different.
That's number one. Number two choosing between solvent and water
(24:40):
bass solvent base is actually going to penetrate into the
wood better than water.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
So solve it would be the oil.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Yes, yes, but but solvent based stains don't hold up
to the sun as good as water based stains. Oh really,
so the water based stain will actually last you longer
than a solvent based stain. Oh yeah. So now your challenge,
(25:17):
or if somebody is going to do this project, your
challenge is to make sure that the water based stain
penetrates into that sea. And there's things you can do
to help that. There is you know, like wood decks,
they have a product it's called a wood brightener, and
(25:39):
a wood brightener is a mild oxalic acid, and what
it does it opens the pores of the cedar, allowing
the water based stain to penetrate deeper into that wood.
Now it doesn't necessar necessarily have to be used. Sometimes
(26:04):
just cleaning it real good. We'll get rid of any
dirt and you know it's pretty dry, so it's going
to absorb some. But if you're going to have somebody
do that, you might ask about that. So the wood
brighter kind of brightens that up a little bit first
before the stain is applied, right, and it does make
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it darker.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I'm sorry, would it make it darker?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
No, it'll actually well, it'll turn it more to the
original cedar color.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
Okay, because some of it on the south side is
there's a lot of good. It's like two stoys and
I have people will do it on that part. But
I did a chest at myself on my front deck
where I could reach it. But I like the colors
the way it is. But on the south side is
more than natural seedar color because it gets a lot more.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
So you'd want to see stain and I'd really recommend
using a you know, the water base because it's got
more ultraviolet light protection. So it stays that natural color longer.
And then if you got some black spots or something,
using that deck brightener will kind of bleach out those
(27:19):
black spots and it will help it stay uniform in color.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
So could you just use that with a brush or
a roller? Could Okay, it's a wood brighter.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
But it's a wood brightener. It's it's a wood brightener.
That's what it's called wood brightener. And it's oxolic acid.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Solid acid. Okay, and you brush it onto, Yes.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
It's a crystal. You mix with water and brush it on,
let it sit, maybe scrub a little, hose it off.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
Well, now, the guys that I have looking on it
are really good that they which I hate.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
Yeah, well, you know what they could do and you
talk to them, you know, I mean, I don't know
what you know, how much pressure they're going to use
in anything else.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
But if you use an oxalic acid a deck brightener
in those dark spots or the whole house however they
want to do it, they could rinse with the powers
with the pressure washer. Uh you know, probably two thousand psi.
But they could certainly use the pressure washer also.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Instead of.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Well no, not, instead of not, instead of if you're
going to use that deck brightener. They can use the
pressure washer to rinse the decks brightener off instead of
scrubbing it. Bit.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
You can't just press it on the need that you
have to rinse it off.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Correct.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Okay, you know. So it sounds like I'm better off
with water.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Oh yeah, I think you are. I think you are.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Okay. I came down to that.
Speaker 10 (29:11):
I thought, well, there there, we can find one hundred people,
and fifty people will tell you, well, I want the
water base because it's gonna last longer.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
And then I can find you fifty people that are
I've never used water bas I'm gonna use the oil.
It penetrates down into that wood, you know. But I'm
telling you the facts are the water base will last longer,
the oil base will penetrate deeper. Bottom line, I prefer
the water bass. It drives faster, it's easier to apply,
(29:44):
and it's gonna last longer. So that's that's the way
I'm looking at it. But like I said, I can
find just as many people that feel the other way. John, Welcome,
Yes to doing fine things.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
Gay sir, you're looking at I have a about a
twelve hundred square foot vinyl sided ranch.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (30:09):
It was painted probably about nine years ago with duration
from Shayan Williams Exterior.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
UH.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
And it held up really well. But it's faded over
the years. And I have a couple of things I
removed from from the vinyl that was like wiring and
stuff like that, and it left areas that wasn't painted.
And actually it actually faded a little bit over the years.
I was going to have it repainted here next week,
(30:37):
we having some nice weather over here in Ohio. I
was thinking, well, I wanted to ask you would would
it be okay to just go over that again with
the duration?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (30:48):
To be honest with the eyepowerwashed this the vinyl siding
with that paint, and it it really had heered really well. Sure,
Like I said, I was going to have it repainted.
Was there any problem of going over that.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I don't see any problem at all.
Speaker 11 (31:01):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
No, I don't know when you've originally painted. Do you
remember anybody talking to you about a special tint?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
No?
Speaker 8 (31:11):
But I know you shouldn't. Why I've heard you shouldn't
add black into your tint. It's a lighter color. It's
like a lighter color grain.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
You stay in the same color range that you have now,
I'm sure you'll be fine. But if you wanted to
go like and I'm just thrown out, if you wanted
to go out like with a forest green, I would
talk to them about a product called color Safe, which
is a tinting process where it is more of a
(31:42):
radiant barrier type tint so it's not going to create
heat and warp the siding. But if you're staying in
the same color field and you know you've headed up
for nine years, I think you'll be absolutely fine.
Speaker 8 (31:59):
Yeah, I'm going to try the color match it. Actually,
the gentleman that owned the house previously was a painter.
He really did a nice job on it, and I
like to keep it the same color. But it's not
a standard color from Sherian Williams. So it's the guy
that's gonna paint for me. It's going to have to
match it pretty close.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah, they can do it. They could do that pretty good.
Now will they be matching the faded color or will
they be matching the actual color that he used.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
Well, it's kind of funny if you ask, because down
the street the gentleman painted a building that he also owned,
and there's one side that wasn't exposed to the to
the weather in other words, the sun. Right, So I
was gonna have you know, I was going to ask
the gentleman to try to get that side of that
and pick that up. And the answer to your question is,
(32:45):
I'm gonna not going to try to match the fade.
I'm going to match the old color. Okay, the first color.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Yeah, boy, you can get I know they have computers
now that can give you almost an exact match. But
you need a paint about the size of a quarter
so that.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
That could be done.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (33:05):
One last question. They do have a little better paint.
Suppose the Emerald from Williams would it be would it
be any uhs.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I have a hard time selling against Duration because it's
an excellent, excellent paint, so is Emerald. I guess a
couple of features Emerald has that Duration does not have
is uh. It has a little slower drying time, which
is good because some of those paints dry really fast
(33:41):
in direct sunlight. So this has an extended drying time
and we're talking, you know, maybe a half hour instead
of it drying in five minutes. So that's one thing.
It's also more mildew resistance. So if you have an
area where there's a lot to mildew, those are the
two major differences.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
Yeah, you know what, that pressure washed the house every spring,
and you know it's it's been pretty resilient too.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah, well they're both great. Face. I've recommended one or
the other probably for twenty years by now more than
that probably.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
Okay, good stuffy. I appreciate your time, sir.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
All right, you bet, thank you. Take a little break.
We've got Kim and Mark as we continue at Home
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and to the funds. We go Kim, Welcome, Hi, How
are you Gary? Doing fine? Thank you? Good?
Speaker 11 (37:34):
All right?
Speaker 12 (37:34):
I'm taking a look at my front steps. They granted yesterday.
The front of the steps, which is rough. It was
a green like mold and I took some simple green,
sprayed it and use the scrub rush and rinsed it
and it came up real good. The reason is around
my railings, which is a rought iron is like a rust
stain around it in the bricks in the front of
(37:55):
my steps and the walk, it's like there's a white stain.
Now we went forget to get.
Speaker 8 (38:00):
Rid of that.
Speaker 12 (38:01):
And what would cause the white stains on the brick?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
All right? You got a lot going on on that
front porch?
Speaker 12 (38:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Oh really? Okay, So the white stains, my guess, is
what they call efflorescence. And e fluorescence is in brick,
it's in masonry, it's in grouding, and it's lime and salt, okay.
And when it stays wet for periods of time, that
(38:33):
lime in salt blossoms and it looks like salt. I mean,
it looks kind of like a salt or a crystallization.
And there is a mild acid is what removes efflorescence.
Now let me just keep going here. And then for
(38:56):
the rust, there's a called iron away. Iron oway is
a crystal. You mix it with hot water and you
just take a paintbrush and just keep basting over that
iron out and you just keep and you just keep
(39:16):
basting over that. Let me let me finish up. And
because I'm going to reverse back a little bit. So
you based over that and it eats the iron oxide
and it doesn't hurt the brick or anything, and it
dissolves the rust. So you would have you know, a
(39:36):
mild acid on that and the the for the iron
out for the rust. Now, there is a product that's
made by Quick Greek Kim and it's called rust An
Efflorescence Remover, and I've used it for efflorescence. I have
not used it for rust, but I would get a
(39:57):
bottle of that, follow the directions. It's actually a very
high detergent and I would clean that up with the
efflorescence rust remover. You can get it on Amazon, you
can get it at probably home depot lows uh and
get that and and clean that area up with that product.
(40:20):
And you know, you might even look at is the
whole stoop? Is it all brick? No?
Speaker 12 (40:29):
No, just the face of the face at the front
of the and then there's the granite steps.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
I thought, okay, okay, So you know, if it's all
a lot about that brick that's got those discolorations, you
might want to consider sealing the brick. I don't think
you're going to need to seal the grantite. You're just
getting some mildew. And and that's not a problem. You
got that cleaned up. That's not going to be a
(40:54):
big issue. It'll come back. All of it will come back.
The efflorescence will continue you. But you know, I think
if you get the efflorescence and russ remover, use that,
see how it does, and you got the solution for
the other and I think you'd be in good shape.
Speaker 12 (41:11):
All right, So forget, forget and forget.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Yeah, I don't think, you know, if it were a
bigger area or something like that and wet and forgets
not going to take care of the efflorescence. It's not
going to take care of the rust, take care of
the mildew. But it's a small batch. I think I'd
stay with what you got.
Speaker 12 (41:32):
Very good, Gary, all right, thank you much.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Take care, bye bye. All right, let's go to Mark Mark. Welcome. Hi.
Speaker 11 (41:40):
Gary. I know it may be a little earlier in
the year to talk about this, but I noticed that
Walmart already has their ice melt on the shelves, and
I wanted to talk about They have three different kinds
and they have the familiar press Stone brand, but I
couldn't find the ingredients anywhere on the label, it does
(42:02):
say that it has calcium chloride, but since it's relatively inexpensive,
I would assume it also has the sodium. And they
also have two different kinds of road runner ice smelt.
One has all three ingredients, sodium, calcium, and magnesium chloride.
(42:23):
But I think the one that most people want is
what they call pet friendly ice smelt, and it's just magnesium.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Chloride and you know your stuff mark because that is
the best to use it really is. It's the least
corrosive for driveways, it's safe with pets, has a low
melting you know temperature. I go crazy, quite honestly with
the ice melter. I don't want to put salt on
(42:53):
anything that's concrete. Yeah, And they can call it low
temperature melting, and they can have calcium chloride. But I'll
bet you if that ten pound bags under four bucks,
it's got sodium cloride in it too.
Speaker 11 (43:08):
That's why I figure the Prestone probably does. I couldn't
find it on the label.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
I m guess it does unless it's a great deal.
Speaker 11 (43:18):
Yeah. And by the way, that Coogan is a good product.
Tom Snyder used to talk about that on his TV show.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Oh is that right? Okay, Yeah, I've used that for years.
It does a real good job of you know, knocking
old dry pain up, and good for getting ballpoint inc
Off even magic markers. It's a it's a go to product,
no question. Well, thank you for putting up with me
this weekend. A little bit of a sore throat now
(43:50):
you're often a cold and Danny boy had me covered.
I appreciate his efforts. And if you missed the conversation
with Ron Krueger a one pest control about wildlife that
gets in your attic, do the iHeart app and take
a listen to us. Is just probably ten to fifteen minutes.
A lot of good information. All right, Good Lord willing Danny,
(44:11):
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