September 6, 2025 • 45 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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on Sunday Show, Hey, do you know anything about this
gutter brush?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Well, I sure do.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I probably had my home for I don't know, twelve
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the underground down spouts if you have them. In fact,
I saw the funniest thing yesterday. Was it a place
and a real nice big patio and there's a post
holding up a nice you know, covering, and the down
spouts going down and the elbows coming out, and about
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three inches in front of that is the underground pipe
in concrete. I would say that was a swing and
a miss. They didn't they they didn't quite line up,
and quite honestly, that was a trip hazard because the
pipe coming up out of the concrete was about an
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inch and a half above the concrete and again away
from the post, so it's kind of in a traffic pattern.
It's the crazy things you see, but there are also
the things that really need to be addressed. You know.
Falls are certainly a big issue for anybody, and tripping
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hazards are usually something that can be corrected. It's not
really it could be a maintenance issue, or it could
be a production issue, which is what I saw. So
again our numbers eight hundred eighty two three eight two
five five grab a line ron you lead us off today. Welcome,
(04:01):
Good morning Gary. How are you doing fine? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Hey, dare I got a piece of red oak three
quarter inch stick ten and a half feet by twenty
six wide? Want to I want to have it for
my new buyer top and all I want to do
is clear it? What do I do?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
So? So it's three quarters inch thick and how wide
is it?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Twenty six inches.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Twenty six inches? So wow, that's a big plank or you.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, we had made it up for me.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Wow, that's beautiful. So when you say clear it up,
what are you speaking of?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I don't want to stain it. I just want to
have the natural wood. I want to put a clear
coat on it.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Okay, all right, um boy, you got a lot of options.
I mean, oh I do. So you could you're athane it.
I don't know whether you need it or want it
shiny alcohol resistant. If that's a case. I was going
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to say a polyurethane would work. Fine.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I do want it shiny, okay. And yes, well there'll
be alcohol on it.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Okay, it's going to be a bar top. Okay, sure,
so maybe one of the things to do. And when
you say somebody made it up for you, is it
finished sanded? I mean, is it got a nice finish
on it right now? Not a ceiling, but yeah, nice
and smooth and sanded and all that.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
It feels actually very good.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yes, okay. So I think what I would do is
I would either I think i'd put a conditioner on
that wood first, and you could use a you can
get a wood conditioner. Min Wax makes one. You can
also make your own up. Uh, it's usually a shellac
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and denatured out a haul fifty to fifty and what
that's going to do, and it's not horribly necessary with
red oak because that's a pretty hard wood. But what
that'll do is that'll absorb and it'll even out whatever
porosity there is. Or you could also dilute that first
coat of yourthane. I would probably I mean, you can
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do it with a solvent based your thane, or you
can do it with a water based yourthane. Either one
would be acceptable. I would say the water base yourthane
has the benefit of you can put multiple coats on
in the same day. It will stay crystal clear. It's
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certainly got a harder finish than it had when it
was first introduced. And then the second option would be
a solvent based yourthane, which would require a code to day,
so you would put on a coat and then you
would come back with like a seven hundred six hundred
grip wet dry sandpaper, scratch it up, put a second
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coat on the next day, and then the third coat
the third day. So it just I'm an efficiency standpoint.
It's a little bit harder than your water base. So
you know, if you got the time. Maybe you could
go either way.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Though, I was going to ask you where the sanding
came in. So if I use a water based I
don't have to sand.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, you still have to sand. You still have to
say yeah, either way, do it quicker. Yeah, the dry
time is significantly different. It'll tell you on the can,
but it could be anywhere from two to four hours,
whereas your solving base will be overnight. Okay, yeah, two
or three coats on there, man, it'll be looking great.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
That's what I want to do. Appreciate your help, all.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Right, you bet take care all right when you're doing
a project like that, a quick thing. You know, there's
so many things about that. You know, good quality brush,
bristle brush, Um, we talked about sandy. Do not shake
up poly yourthane. You stir it's very slowly, no shaking,
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no paint shake or anything like that. Kim, welcome, Hey Kim.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Yes, I have a white siding, vinyl siding, and there
was it's there was a porch overhang and there was
a leak behind it which came down the siding and
it left a yellow stain straight down, like a yellow
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line straight down. Now I have the leak fixed but
how I was wondering if you had a recommendation to
clean that yellow stain.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Got any idea what that stains from water? Well, if
it's just water, you could just have you tried just
plain old soap, like a don liquid or something along newselines.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I have don. I tried dish soap, it wasn't done,
and I used that magic.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I'd be careful with that on that side that's siding.
I don't know if it would dull that surface. Usual
vinyl sighting does have a little bit of sheene to it.
That magic eraser does have a little bit of grid
to it, so I'd be careful. There are sighting cleaners
out there that are oxygenated bleach, which is you can
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also buy it where it's a powder. It's not chlorine bleach,
it's oxygenate bleach. There's a difference. You could mix that
with water, put it on, let's sit about ten minutes,
come back, scrub and rinse.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
The other thing you could try, possibly would be like
it's a real powerful detergent, stronger than your dish soap
and stuff. It's tri sodium phosphate. You get that the
hardware store. You can even get at the grocery store.
I think it's a powdery. You mix with water again,
apply it, let's sit about ten minutes, and then scrub.
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If it's just a water stain, you know any of
those that work quite quite nicely.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
A hard stain, it seems hard to get off.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Well, that's what I'm saying. Sometimes, Yeah, sometimes when you
have a leak like that, it's not just the water stain.
It could be some you know, where the water was.
It could be going over rusted flashing and it's kind
of a rust stain. It could be wood. It could
be the tannins and wood that have leaked and created
the stain on air. So what I would do The
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tri sodium phosphate probably the stronger detergent. You might want
to try that, and if it's still there after that,
you might cons or that it could be some rust
that has washed down on it. And there's a product
called iron out which will take care of russ stains.
That's why I kind of asked if you got any
idea what that stain is. But if it's just a
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water stain, a trisodium phosphate, or even if it is
a tanning stain, a trys sodium phosphated be a good
product to remove that.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
All right, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Thank you, take care all right. Time for our friend
mister Ron Wilson. He's going to talk about landscaping and gardening.
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Speaker 1 (14:13):
And back at it we go. Twenty two minutes after
the top of the air, You're at home with Garry Salivent.
Time to bring in Ron Wilson, our national landscape gardening guru.
Can I call you a guru?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
No, okay? How about knowledgeable?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Okay? Our knowledgeable gardening and general gaping guy? General, generally knowledgeable,
General Wilson.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
How don't you look at that kind of as you know,
the year, the hardware? How to guy generally know how
to take care of a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I'm pretty general general general, Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Is there any work to do in the arshoul? We
just call it a year.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Throw in the trowel, be done with it.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Oh my gosh, Can I talk about my river birchs
and I need counseling.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
You.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
This week, as I always do, something comes up and
someone sent me a picture They had just planted two
river birches about two weeks ago. And that wasn't why
I thought of you. But when you plant them this
time of the year, any kind of disturbance of that
root ball, you know what's going to happen. Right, They're
one of the first ones to turn yellow and brown
and drop their leaves. And I don't care how much
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you water them, that just happens. It's just a natural
reaction for that particular tree what they do, and that's
what they do. And so you know, I had to
explain that and say you're okay, stick with your watering
program and it'll be fine next spring. And I said,
and just ask Gary about them.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
So just to bring up to speed.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
By the way, they are a nice tree, used it
awful lot.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
They are.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
It's just that they will also reflect when it gets
really dry outside and they'll let you know.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
So here's my analogy, because they have two of them,
so there's probably between the two of them, there's probably
six trunks major branches, you want to say it, And.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Are those individual trees or multiple branches trunks coming out
of one roots.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Two individual trees or root balls.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But then there's no I mean coming out that's that clump.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Are that clump? There's like three or four?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Are those individual trees? Are those three or four coming
out of the same roots?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Three or four coming out of the same root ball? No?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
No, no, okay, actually individual plants?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Are they really? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
And that's why sometimes one you know, I say that
on a serious note, because sometimes one will conk out. Yeah,
it's it's its own root system down there. You got
to remember there's there's like three or four trees.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Actually, try not to get real close to them.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I know, you stay away anyway. I can tell you this.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Thing did not drop leaves in June because.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It was so wet, exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, And so there was twice as many, maybe four
times as many leaves on that tree. And when he
got dry, seventy of them turned yellow.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And dropped yep, right on my driveway. But you know
the good thing about my guard, you know the good
thing about that two things. One is they don't drop
them all.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
No, they didn't drop them all, and they will.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Eventually, and they will eventually, but they don't. They keep
some leaves on there. And secondly it gave you an
excuse to get the the blower out.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Boy, I'll tell you what. And and the rake, and
the was a lot of leaves, and then we finally
had some rain and there was a lot of wet leaves.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I'm surprised you don't have all those blowers. It turns,
it reverses and becomes a vacuum vacuum.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Those are sharp. Remember those big vacuums. They probably still
have them that had wheels on them.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Oh yeah, huge, Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Gosh, be like vacuuming your carpet, only it was a
big Oh. I love those. I don't have one, but
I love them like one. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I would you sweep everybody's yard?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Heck yeah, it'd be lucky.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
My pressure washer Gary's out morning.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
One hand, My big leaf sucker in the other.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Gary clean up that neighbors vacuum. Leaf vacuum is supposed
to be out there.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Why are all the rabbits running away from you? Speaking
of rabbits, I haven't seen any rabbits for a long time.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
You go, good for you.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
They took missus Sullivan's.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Started chewing on our plants.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
And you don't chew on Missus Sullivan's plants.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
A lot of things you don't do with Missus Sullivan,
and that's one of them.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
As paid the price though, keeps you in line.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well, you know, when people say how do you get
rid of rabbits? I know you probably tell them there's
you know, you throw a shoe at the brink onan
and hose it in real good. And I've never heard
you say take off your shoe and throw it at
the rabbit.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
They'll be gone.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
They are the words out, don't mess. How was that one?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I had told that story to more people. It's just
a funny story.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
People tell us that. You know, they go like, we
we like your company and everything. But really you're both
very entertaining with that.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Oh me.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
So you know, if you ever want to go to
the story, you just you just take a listen. I've
got one for you.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Oh yeah, mister Sullivan has quite a few.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
All right, Well that'll get rid of your rabbits.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You do me a favor. Yeah, when you're going across
seventy four to Indianapolis to visit Wave at my hometown Greensburg, Indiana.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I will do that. He to the Do at Best Show.
Looking forward to all the new products I get to see.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Can't wait to hear back from you.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
All right, Ron, Thanks buddy, Yeah, I appreciate it. Take
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maintenance or repair. It's eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five Grab a line. The phone lines are
wide open. In an hour from now, we're going to
have alex On and Alex o'hanley. He is our roofing
and gutter expert. We're going to talk about all kinds
of things. A lot of things that I already mentioned
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early this morning was you know, making sure the down
spout and the pipe that goes underground taking the water
away from your foundation is lined up and secured. It
seems simple enough, but you'd be surprised at how many
don't line up or used to line up last year,
but don't line up this year. And we're always talking
about claws clow gutters. If you do nothing else to
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your home between now and December, first clean out your gutters.
When they're clogged. It can be an extensive problem. You
can have damage. You could have rot to the wood.
You could have bugs getting into your home. It could
damage when the water can't be removed from the roof
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and away from the foundation. You could have damage to
the windows. You could have rot to the window sills,
you could have trim and soffet rot. You could have
water in your basement. I mean, it goes on and on.
And another thing we don't really think of much. We
don't hardly ever talk about it, and that is the
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pipe that's buried under the ground that's taking that water
away from that foundation. You need to keep debris out
of that also. And of course that debris is coming
right from the gutters and right from the down spouts.
So Alex is gonna take us through a whole checklist
of things to check to keep those gutters clean and
free flowing. And I'm going to tell you, you know,
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just take a look at the gutters. Are they sagging
away from your home? If you have the old nails
that go right through the gutters into the truss and
nails loose. Pull it out. You can go to the
hardware store. You can get gutter screws. They're a little
bit larger and you can just run a screw right
in there. I mean they're nine inches long, and it's
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not like you use a screwdriver. You can use a
square tip. Usually it's a square tip, not a Phillips tip,
but a square tip, and just drive those right in,
make them snug up against the sofet so water's not
getting behind them. So we're going to cover a lot
of that and hopefully save you some dollars for repairs
because you did the maintenance. All right, let's go to Diane.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
Diane, welcome, Oh Gary, I need your help right having
a new roof put up. And I've had three estimates
so far, and they go from twelve one thousand to
twenty eight thousand. And you know, this is not my
area of expertise, so I'm really struggling. I've tried to
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educate myself as best I can, so I'll tell you
I have a California bungalow and they say it's about
twenty two hundred square feet of roof with several dormers,
and I have an attic fan up there in a skylight.
So this last gentleman said, your roof is being cooked.
He never went up on the roof. He just saw
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it from the ground, and he said, you have very
little venting, and all I can see is one little
soft event. That's it. I have two and a half
foot overhangs and there's one little soft event on one of
the overhangs. Nothing else. There's probably some ridge bunting. Maybe
it is very hot in my attic. It's been converted
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to a bedroom, and where there is that one little event,
they've actually put up drywall in the closet, so I'm
not even sure that event is communicating. Yeah, exactly. So
this this gentleman is horrified that I have the events
and obviously feels I should put a bunch in, which
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I think is great. He kept going back and forth
between should we do ridge ben should we tell soft events.
He wants me to get rid of my attic fan completely,
which scares me because that's the only thing that makes
it livable up there. So basically he said, you can
keep the fan, but you're not ventilating properly because it's
not allowing the air to get in and out properly,
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which makes sense. But I wanted to hear your opinion. Okay, good, good,
I'm glad to.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Hear that, and I'll explain further. What's your other one? Say?
Speaker 8 (26:55):
Uh? The other one? The two guys told me to
take out the fan. One guy said it wasn't necess
Let me.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Just do a little you know, ventilation one oh one,
and it'd be easier than saying do this and don't
do that. So for an attic to be properly ventilated,
you need input air and you need a way to
export the air. So your soffadventing is bringing in the
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cooler air, which might be ninety eight degrees in the summer,
but it's cooler than probably the one hundred and forty degrees
you got in your attic, and Mother nature will not
let that attic air escape until you're bringing in air.
So you have soft adventing that's bringing it in, and
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then you have a ridge vent or turbines or shoe
box vents, And be honest with you, I don't care
what the vent looks like, okay, or which one you
go with, but you're creating a chimney effect. So the
cooler air, be it seventy degrees or ninety eight degrees,
is coming in at the lower areas of the attic.
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It should have a direct shot up into the attic,
not into a closet, which means you have no venting.
And then it's allowing the heated air in the attic
to rise, just like heated air. And a chimney goes
out the top, whether it's the ridge vent, whether it's
the fan, whether it's the turbans, And there's a formula
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for that. So for every three hundred square footprint, not
the square footage of the house, but the footprint of
the house, is one square foot of uninterrupted ventilation, and
you should probably have more ventilation. It's fifty to fifty
(28:52):
or sixty forty. If you're going to err on the side,
you would have more incoming air than outcoming air. And
I would say I would get rid of the fan,
and it's not it may not be necessary that maybe
that's your way of taking it out. But if you
just don't want to use the electricity and you don't
really need the fan, if you got a ridge vent
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or shoe box van or turbine vents, whatever that air
is being coming into the attic and going pushing the
hot air out. So however you accomplish that, that's fine.
Where people get in trouble is they don't have adequate
soft inventing and maybe you've got maybe somebody has a
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ridge vent, but they got a fan also, and then
what's happening is the air is coming in. That fan
is bringing that air in and it's going right out
the ridge vent. They're almost on the same level. It's
not lifting all that heated air at the bottom of
the attic, so you need that lower level to push
it all the way up to the top.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
Okay, so what if all the eves he's got nothing
but my upstairs is nothing but closets basically, so there's
no communication between the eves and anything that's not well.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
There's other things that you can do, and I don't
know if he included that in his estimate or not,
but it doesn't have to be in the sofa. You
could go up to like the second row of shingles
and they actually cut into the roof decking and put
a little vent there. Okay, and I forget the exact
name of them. They're not normally needed but in your
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case it may be.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
Okay. So he also, I also have two out of
three of the gentlemen telling me to get rid of
my skylight and have it replaced with a new one.
This guy told me that they have a twenty year life, and.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
That's probably true. But you know that's up to you, Okay,
you know if it's.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Because he can't guarantee, he can't guarantee the roof. If
I have a skylight that a bunch of tar around.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
It, well, yeah, you know, if it's had problems in
the past and it's twenty years old, you may be
wise while they're up there in that place in the
roof to replace it. That's the beauty, really, Diane, of
getting multiple estimates like you did. Yeah, because then you
will have people that are just roofers that are just
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trying to get the job because they're the least expensive bid.
But you're doing the right thing. You're questioning them, like
why do I need that? This other guy says I
don't need that. Well, here's here's the story. You know,
it's got a twenty year life, that's tall all around.
I'm putting a new roof on it. First place, I'm
going to say you're gonna have problems. Probably that skylight
doesn't need replacing right now. No, but I'm up there.
Speaker 8 (31:47):
It makes sense, okay. And do you think it's unreasonable
that that they don't go up on the roof to
examine it. They just look at it from the ground,
Or should I go with somebody that actually gets up
there and walks around. Does that make it differ?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
It did. When I put a roof on, I had
one roofer that did not go up on the roof.
In fact, I was in California, and when they did
my estimate, and I could see him on my security
light and he pulled up. He walked around the house
and I got the estimate, and one of the things
he had on his estimate didn't include flashing. Now, I'd
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always put flashing on if I had a new roof
put on. You don't have to do that. That's just
me and the next guy he had flashing put on.
He was on the roof and when I questioned him,
why do I need flashing? I was just doing it
just to you know, just to hear his story. And
he said, well, did the other guy tell you you
got some holes in the flashing? He said, no, the
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other guy didn't get on the roof. That's probably why
I go.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
So, yeah, you know, but you're seeing.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
More and more of that, people doing inspections with drones
and everything else. But yeah, maybe I'm at school.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
But one last opinion about my roof as I've got
these dormers and I have a family of raccoons that
now four generations have moved into this dormer area where
it meets the roof. The wood rots there because of
where the sun is and such, and I had one
guy said he would box that in basically, which might
not look very pretty, but it might work. The other
(33:18):
guy said, now you just put a bunch of you know,
steal up there and and and then cover it with
the shingles. He thinks it would be okay. You have
any opinion on rotting areas.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
No, I think I'd have to see that. I kind
of like the steal idea.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
You can do. Cool is you up there? You're in
euclid Apio. Ron Krueger at A plus Wildlife Control. He's
got an achron. I have him on this show a lot.
He's my expert. He does animal removal and restoration. Why
don't you get his opinion on that rather than a roofers? Okay, great, Yeah,
(33:58):
just call him tell me you and I talked on
the air and I think he'll give you a very
honest answer. Cool.
Speaker 8 (34:07):
Oh, thank you. I got one more roof for coming
out today, so I'm going to be ready. I really
appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Thank you, sir, You're quite welcome. Thank you. Bye bye.
All right, David and then James. If you'd like to
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we're heading up to Indianapolis. We're going to be broadcasting
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tomorrow broadcasting our show. All right, let's go to David.
Speaker 10 (38:11):
David welcome, Good morning, Gary, Thanks morning for you're taking
my call. I really enjoy your program.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 10 (38:18):
I have got a seventy approximately seventy foot long exposed
retaining wall, all concrete, and through time and age, it's
prosibly twenty years old. I it's developed some hairline cracks
along the top edge of it, and I would like
to find a product that I can seal and the
cracks and also seal the top of that, basically creating
(38:40):
a weatherproof cap for that retaining wall. Do you have
any recommendations.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Yeah, but be mindful too. If it is a wall,
there's a lot of moisture in that soil. Behind the wall,
which is contributing to it also, so we'll do the
best we can. There are ceilings for concrete, both vertically
and horizontally that will function almost like gore tex would.
(39:06):
It'll minimize penetration and it'll also exhaust moisture. So I
mentioned all the time there is and what you're looking
for is you're looking for a tripolymer breathable sealant. Now
sometimes you go to a hardware store and ask for that. Now,
(39:28):
look like you're from Mars or something. So there's a
website called masonry Defender dot com and they have a
it's a sidewalk and driveway ceiler, which is a breathable
sealant that minimizes moisture penetration. I would use that one.
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When you put this on, you won't even be able
to tell it's been applied, David. You'll just you can
either roll it on, brush it on. You can use
a tank sprayer and spray it on, which is what
I would do, and you're just missing it. You shouldn't
let it puddle, and obviously if it's vertical, it's not
(40:11):
gonna puddle. You're not really holding water back. You're allowing
that water to work its way through the concrete and
evaporate into the atmosphere. And yet you're minimizing I mean,
the concrete wall is still gonna get wet, but you're
minimizing how far it penetrates into that wall, be it
at the top or on the side. And that's what
(40:33):
I would use on that wall for a ceilant.
Speaker 10 (40:37):
And you said that's Masonrydefender dot com.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Yes, sir, and you're looking for the sidewalk and driveway ceiler,
which is the first product this show.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Okay, that sounds great, Gary.
Speaker 10 (40:52):
I really appreciate your information on this.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
I do enjoy your program very much.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Thank you, sir. Take care and a small crack so
you can use a little They make a product called
Zippit mortar comes in a little pouch. Just add water,
knead it and you can patch the vertical cracks with that.
You know you'd want him to be. You just push
that into the crack the top cracks. You could use
(41:18):
a liquid like a cracked sealant a cracked seal both
quick crete products and you could use those on air.
Quicker does make a breathable sealing also, and it's a
cure and seal. It will leave a satne finished to
it your choice. It is breathable, all right, James, welcome,
(41:41):
Hey James. I don't know. James is busy. It sounds
like nanny. He was just talking about. And it's one
of my pet peeves, not James, but his problem, and
that is outdoor carpet. We'll use it a lot, and
(42:01):
I see it a lot, especially in older homes where
that concrete service has really become compromised with cracks, spawling, discoloration,
and they put like an indoor outdoor carpeting on there
and it just it gets old. It curls up a
lot of times, it's taped down. That's stuff to get off.
(42:23):
And James, you there, Yes, I am here, all right?
What you got?
Speaker 7 (42:29):
All right, buddy?
Speaker 10 (42:30):
How you doing today?
Speaker 1 (42:31):
They're good?
Speaker 7 (42:32):
Probably four time and you bailed me out every time.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
All right.
Speaker 7 (42:35):
So I've got a porch that I'm doing up in Akron, Ohio.
It's a concrete The little concrete comes out and it's
got two steps off a bit.
Speaker 10 (42:45):
They put that.
Speaker 7 (42:47):
They blued that green into outdoor carpet on there. Yeah,
it's been there a long pride, I bet you over
fifteen years. So I pulled a little cornerback to see
what I was working with. And and it's true I
might chip out even I'm wondering, but if it dilligent,
you know a little pits in there, I'm sure it
might least some pits in there.
Speaker 6 (43:08):
Yeah, step process that.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Well with the glue on there, that's going to be
the challenge. There is adhesive removers and what you can
try first. There's different types of adhesives. The first thing
I do is probably get some adhesive remover and saturate
that carpet with that adhesive remover you got. The hardest
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part is getting that carpet up. You could try it
adhesive remover. You can also try a heat gun, but
be careful, let's not catch the carpet on fire. But
saturate that and then let's, you know, just start pulling
that carpet up. You're probably not going to get all
of it up crystal clean. You're probably going to have
(43:52):
to come back with the adhesive remover, just on the
adhesive and see if you can scrape it up. But
that would be step we can worry about kind of
patching the concrete in step two. If you got a
follow up question You're gonna have to sit tight, James.
We got the top of the hour coming up as
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Good morning Gary. How are you doing fine? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Hey, dare I got a piece of red oak three
quarter inch stick ten and a half feet by twenty
six wide? Want to I want to have it for
my new buyer top and all I want to do
is clear it? What do I do?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
So? So it's three quarters inch thick and how wide
is it?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Twenty six inches.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Twenty six inches? So wow, that's a big plank or you.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, we had made it up for me.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Wow, that's beautiful. So when you say clear it up,
what are you speaking of?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I don't want to stain it. I just want to
have the natural wood. I want to put a clear
coat on it.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Okay, all right, um boy, you got a lot of options.
I mean, oh I do. So you could you're athane it.
I don't know whether you need it or want it
shiny alcohol resistant. If that's a case. I was going
(05:08):
to say a polyurethane would work. Fine.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I do want it shiny, okay. And yes, well there'll
be alcohol on it.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Okay, it's going to be a bar top. Okay, sure,
so maybe one of the things to do. And when
you say somebody made it up for you, is it
finished sanded? I mean, is it got a nice finish
on it right now? Not a ceiling, but yeah, nice
and smooth and sanded and all that.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
It feels actually very good.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yes, okay. So I think what I would do is
I would either I think i'd put a conditioner on
that wood first, and you could use a you can
get a wood conditioner. Min Wax makes one. You can
also make your own up. Uh, it's usually a shellac
(05:59):
and denatured out a haul fifty to fifty and what
that's going to do, and it's not horribly necessary with
red oak because that's a pretty hard wood. But what
that'll do is that'll absorb and it'll even out whatever
porosity there is. Or you could also dilute that first
coat of yourthane. I would probably I mean, you can
(06:24):
do it with a solvent based your thane, or you
can do it with a water based yourthane. Either one
would be acceptable. I would say the water base yourthane
has the benefit of you can put multiple coats on
in the same day. It will stay crystal clear. It's
(06:50):
certainly got a harder finish than it had when it
was first introduced. And then the second option would be
a solvent based yourthane, which would require a code to day,
so you would put on a coat and then you
would come back with like a seven hundred six hundred
grip wet dry sandpaper, scratch it up, put a second
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coat on the next day, and then the third coat
the third day. So it just I'm an efficiency standpoint.
It's a little bit harder than your water base. So
you know, if you got the time. Maybe you could
go either way.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Though, I was going to ask you where the sanding
came in. So if I use a water based I
don't have to sand.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, you still have to sand. You still have to
say yeah, either way, do it quicker. Yeah, the dry
time is significantly different. It'll tell you on the can,
but it could be anywhere from two to four hours,
whereas your solving base will be overnight. Okay, yeah, two
or three coats on there, man, it'll be looking great.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
That's what I want to do. Appreciate your help, all.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Right, you bet take care all right when you're doing
a project like that, a quick thing. You know, there's
so many things about that. You know, good quality brush,
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up poly yourthane. You stir it's very slowly, no shaking,
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no paint shake or anything like that. Kim, welcome, Hey Kim.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Yes, I have a white siding, vinyl siding, and there
was it's there was a porch overhang and there was
a leak behind it which came down the siding and
it left a yellow stain straight down, like a yellow
(08:47):
line straight down. Now I have the leak fixed but
how I was wondering if you had a recommendation to
clean that yellow stain.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Got any idea what that stains from water? Well, if
it's just water, you could just have you tried just
plain old soap, like a don liquid or something along newselines.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I have don. I tried dish soap, it wasn't done,
and I used that magic.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I'd be careful with that on that side that's siding.
I don't know if it would dull that surface. Usual
vinyl sighting does have a little bit of sheene to it.
That magic eraser does have a little bit of grid
to it, so I'd be careful. There are sighting cleaners
out there that are oxygenated bleach, which is you can
(09:42):
also buy it where it's a powder. It's not chlorine bleach,
it's oxygenate bleach. There's a difference. You could mix that
with water, put it on, let's sit about ten minutes,
come back, scrub and rinse.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
The other thing you could try, possibly would be like
it's a real powerful detergent, stronger than your dish soap
and stuff. It's tri sodium phosphate. You get that the
hardware store. You can even get at the grocery store.
I think it's a powdery. You mix with water again,
apply it, let's sit about ten minutes, and then scrub.
(10:17):
If it's just a water stain, you know any of
those that work quite quite nicely.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
A hard stain, it seems hard to get off.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Well, that's what I'm saying. Sometimes, Yeah, sometimes when you
have a leak like that, it's not just the water stain.
It could be some you know, where the water was.
It could be going over rusted flashing and it's kind
of a rust stain. It could be wood. It could
be the tannins and wood that have leaked and created
the stain on air. So what I would do The
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tri sodium phosphate probably the stronger detergent. You might want
to try that, and if it's still there after that,
you might cons or that it could be some rust
that has washed down on it. And there's a product
called iron out which will take care of russ stains.
That's why I kind of asked if you got any
idea what that stain is. But if it's just a
(11:12):
water stain, a trisodium phosphate, or even if it is
a tanning stain, a trys sodium phosphated be a good
product to remove that.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
All right, Thank you very much.
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Speaker 1 (14:25):
No, okay? How about knowledgeable?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Okay? Our knowledgeable gardening and general gaping guy? General, generally knowledgeable,
General Wilson.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
How don't you look at that kind of as you know,
the year, the hardware? How to guy generally know how
to take care of a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I'm pretty general general general, Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Is there any work to do in the arshoul? We
just call it a year.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Throw in the trowel, be done with it.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Oh my gosh, Can I talk about my river birchs
and I need counseling.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
You.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
This week, as I always do, something comes up and
someone sent me a picture They had just planted two
river birches about two weeks ago. And that wasn't why
I thought of you. But when you plant them this
time of the year, any kind of disturbance of that
root ball, you know what's going to happen. Right, They're
one of the first ones to turn yellow and brown
and drop their leaves. And I don't care how much
(15:20):
you water them, that just happens. It's just a natural
reaction for that particular tree what they do, and that's
what they do. And so you know, I had to
explain that and say you're okay, stick with your watering
program and it'll be fine next spring. And I said,
and just ask Gary about them.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
So just to bring up to speed.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
By the way, they are a nice tree, used it
awful lot.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
They are.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
It's just that they will also reflect when it gets
really dry outside and they'll let you know.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
So here's my analogy, because they have two of them,
so there's probably between the two of them, there's probably
six trunks major branches, you want to say it, And.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Are those individual trees or multiple branches trunks coming out
of one roots.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Two individual trees or root balls.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But then there's no I mean coming out that's that clump.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Are that clump? There's like three or four?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Are those individual trees? Are those three or four coming
out of the same roots?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Three or four coming out of the same root ball? No?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
No, no, okay, actually individual plants?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Are they really? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
And that's why sometimes one you know, I say that
on a serious note, because sometimes one will conk out. Yeah,
it's it's its own root system down there. You got
to remember there's there's like three or four trees.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Actually, try not to get real close to them.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I know, you stay away anyway. I can tell you this.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Thing did not drop leaves in June because.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It was so wet, exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, And so there was twice as many, maybe four
times as many leaves on that tree. And when he
got dry, seventy of them turned yellow.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And dropped yep, right on my driveway. But you know
the good thing about my guard, you know the good
thing about that two things. One is they don't drop
them all.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
No, they didn't drop them all, and they will.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Eventually, and they will eventually, but they don't. They keep
some leaves on there. And secondly it gave you an
excuse to get the the blower out.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Boy, I'll tell you what. And and the rake, and
the was a lot of leaves, and then we finally
had some rain and there was a lot of wet leaves.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I'm surprised you don't have all those blowers. It turns,
it reverses and becomes a vacuum vacuum.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Those are sharp. Remember those big vacuums. They probably still
have them that had wheels on them.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Oh yeah, huge, Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Gosh, be like vacuuming your carpet, only it was a
big Oh. I love those. I don't have one, but
I love them like one. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I would you sweep everybody's yard?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Heck yeah, it'd be lucky.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
My pressure washer Gary's out morning.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
One hand, My big leaf sucker in the other.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Gary clean up that neighbors vacuum. Leaf vacuum is supposed
to be out there.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Why are all the rabbits running away from you? Speaking
of rabbits, I haven't seen any rabbits for a long time.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
You go, good for you.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
They took missus Sullivan's.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Started chewing on our plants.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
And you don't chew on Missus Sullivan's plants.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
A lot of things you don't do with Missus Sullivan,
and that's one of them.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
As paid the price though, keeps you in line.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well, you know, when people say how do you get
rid of rabbits? I know you probably tell them there's
you know, you throw a shoe at the brink onan
and hose it in real good. And I've never heard
you say take off your shoe and throw it at
the rabbit.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
They'll be gone.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
They are the words out, don't mess. How was that one?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I had told that story to more people. It's just
a funny story.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
People tell us that. You know, they go like, we
we like your company and everything. But really you're both
very entertaining with that.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Oh me.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
So you know, if you ever want to go to
the story, you just you just take a listen. I've
got one for you.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Oh yeah, mister Sullivan has quite a few.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
All right, Well that'll get rid of your rabbits.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You do me a favor. Yeah, when you're going across
seventy four to Indianapolis to visit Wave at my hometown Greensburg, Indiana.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I will do that. He to the Do at Best Show.
Looking forward to all the new products I get to see.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Can't wait to hear back from you.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
All right, Ron, Thanks buddy, Yeah, I appreciate it. Take
care and your calls. Next eight hundred eight two three
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maintenance or repair. It's eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five Grab a line. The phone lines are
wide open. In an hour from now, we're going to
have alex On and Alex o'hanley. He is our roofing
and gutter expert. We're going to talk about all kinds
of things. A lot of things that I already mentioned
(22:40):
early this morning was you know, making sure the down
spout and the pipe that goes underground taking the water
away from your foundation is lined up and secured. It
seems simple enough, but you'd be surprised at how many
don't line up or used to line up last year,
but don't line up this year. And we're always talking
about claws clow gutters. If you do nothing else to
(23:04):
your home between now and December, first clean out your gutters.
When they're clogged. It can be an extensive problem. You
can have damage. You could have rot to the wood.
You could have bugs getting into your home. It could
damage when the water can't be removed from the roof
(23:26):
and away from the foundation. You could have damage to
the windows. You could have rot to the window sills,
you could have trim and soffet rot. You could have
water in your basement. I mean, it goes on and on.
And another thing we don't really think of much. We
don't hardly ever talk about it, and that is the
(23:47):
pipe that's buried under the ground that's taking that water
away from that foundation. You need to keep debris out
of that also. And of course that debris is coming
right from the gutters and right from the down spouts.
So Alex is gonna take us through a whole checklist
of things to check to keep those gutters clean and
free flowing. And I'm going to tell you, you know,
(24:10):
just take a look at the gutters. Are they sagging
away from your home? If you have the old nails
that go right through the gutters into the truss and
nails loose. Pull it out. You can go to the
hardware store. You can get gutter screws. They're a little
bit larger and you can just run a screw right
in there. I mean they're nine inches long, and it's
(24:32):
not like you use a screwdriver. You can use a
square tip. Usually it's a square tip, not a Phillips tip,
but a square tip, and just drive those right in,
make them snug up against the sofet so water's not
getting behind them. So we're going to cover a lot
of that and hopefully save you some dollars for repairs
because you did the maintenance. All right, let's go to Diane.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
Diane, welcome, Oh Gary, I need your help right having
a new roof put up. And I've had three estimates
so far, and they go from twelve one thousand to
twenty eight thousand. And you know, this is not my
area of expertise, so I'm really struggling. I've tried to
(25:14):
educate myself as best I can, so I'll tell you
I have a California bungalow and they say it's about
twenty two hundred square feet of roof with several dormers,
and I have an attic fan up there in a skylight.
So this last gentleman said, your roof is being cooked.
He never went up on the roof. He just saw
(25:35):
it from the ground, and he said, you have very
little venting, and all I can see is one little
soft event. That's it. I have two and a half
foot overhangs and there's one little soft event on one of
the overhangs. Nothing else. There's probably some ridge bunting. Maybe
it is very hot in my attic. It's been converted
(25:58):
to a bedroom, and where there is that one little event,
they've actually put up drywall in the closet, so I'm
not even sure that event is communicating. Yeah, exactly. So
this this gentleman is horrified that I have the events
and obviously feels I should put a bunch in, which
(26:19):
I think is great. He kept going back and forth
between should we do ridge ben should we tell soft events.
He wants me to get rid of my attic fan completely,
which scares me because that's the only thing that makes
it livable up there. So basically he said, you can
keep the fan, but you're not ventilating properly because it's
not allowing the air to get in and out properly,
(26:42):
which makes sense. But I wanted to hear your opinion. Okay, good, good,
I'm glad to.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Hear that, and I'll explain further. What's your other one? Say?
Speaker 8 (26:55):
Uh? The other one? The two guys told me to
take out the fan. One guy said it wasn't necess
Let me.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Just do a little you know, ventilation one oh one,
and it'd be easier than saying do this and don't
do that. So for an attic to be properly ventilated,
you need input air and you need a way to
export the air. So your soffadventing is bringing in the
(27:27):
cooler air, which might be ninety eight degrees in the summer,
but it's cooler than probably the one hundred and forty degrees
you got in your attic, and Mother nature will not
let that attic air escape until you're bringing in air.
So you have soft adventing that's bringing it in, and
(27:48):
then you have a ridge vent or turbines or shoe
box vents, And be honest with you, I don't care
what the vent looks like, okay, or which one you
go with, but you're creating a chimney effect. So the
cooler air, be it seventy degrees or ninety eight degrees,
is coming in at the lower areas of the attic.
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It should have a direct shot up into the attic,
not into a closet, which means you have no venting.
And then it's allowing the heated air in the attic
to rise, just like heated air. And a chimney goes
out the top, whether it's the ridge vent, whether it's
the fan, whether it's the turbans, And there's a formula
(28:30):
for that. So for every three hundred square footprint, not
the square footage of the house, but the footprint of
the house, is one square foot of uninterrupted ventilation, and
you should probably have more ventilation. It's fifty to fifty
(28:52):
or sixty forty. If you're going to err on the side,
you would have more incoming air than outcoming air. And
I would say I would get rid of the fan,
and it's not it may not be necessary that maybe
that's your way of taking it out. But if you
just don't want to use the electricity and you don't
really need the fan, if you got a ridge vent
(29:14):
or shoe box van or turbine vents, whatever that air
is being coming into the attic and going pushing the
hot air out. So however you accomplish that, that's fine.
Where people get in trouble is they don't have adequate
soft inventing and maybe you've got maybe somebody has a
(29:34):
ridge vent, but they got a fan also, and then
what's happening is the air is coming in. That fan
is bringing that air in and it's going right out
the ridge vent. They're almost on the same level. It's
not lifting all that heated air at the bottom of
the attic, so you need that lower level to push
it all the way up to the top.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
Okay, so what if all the eves he's got nothing
but my upstairs is nothing but closets basically, so there's
no communication between the eves and anything that's not well.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
There's other things that you can do, and I don't
know if he included that in his estimate or not,
but it doesn't have to be in the sofa. You
could go up to like the second row of shingles
and they actually cut into the roof decking and put
a little vent there. Okay, and I forget the exact
name of them. They're not normally needed but in your
(30:35):
case it may be.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
Okay. So he also, I also have two out of
three of the gentlemen telling me to get rid of
my skylight and have it replaced with a new one.
This guy told me that they have a twenty year life, and.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
That's probably true. But you know that's up to you, Okay,
you know if it's.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Because he can't guarantee, he can't guarantee the roof. If
I have a skylight that a bunch of tar around.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
It, well, yeah, you know, if it's had problems in
the past and it's twenty years old, you may be
wise while they're up there in that place in the
roof to replace it. That's the beauty, really, Diane, of
getting multiple estimates like you did. Yeah, because then you
will have people that are just roofers that are just
(31:23):
trying to get the job because they're the least expensive bid.
But you're doing the right thing. You're questioning them, like
why do I need that? This other guy says I
don't need that. Well, here's here's the story. You know,
it's got a twenty year life, that's tall all around.
I'm putting a new roof on it. First place, I'm
going to say you're gonna have problems. Probably that skylight
doesn't need replacing right now. No, but I'm up there.
Speaker 8 (31:47):
It makes sense, okay. And do you think it's unreasonable
that that they don't go up on the roof to
examine it. They just look at it from the ground,
Or should I go with somebody that actually gets up
there and walks around. Does that make it differ?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
It did. When I put a roof on, I had
one roofer that did not go up on the roof.
In fact, I was in California, and when they did
my estimate, and I could see him on my security
light and he pulled up. He walked around the house
and I got the estimate, and one of the things
he had on his estimate didn't include flashing. Now, I'd
(32:21):
always put flashing on if I had a new roof
put on. You don't have to do that. That's just
me and the next guy he had flashing put on.
He was on the roof and when I questioned him,
why do I need flashing? I was just doing it
just to you know, just to hear his story. And
he said, well, did the other guy tell you you
got some holes in the flashing? He said, no, the
(32:43):
other guy didn't get on the roof. That's probably why
I go.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
So, yeah, you know, but you're seeing.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
More and more of that, people doing inspections with drones
and everything else. But yeah, maybe I'm at school.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
But one last opinion about my roof as I've got
these dormers and I have a family of raccoons that
now four generations have moved into this dormer area where
it meets the roof. The wood rots there because of
where the sun is and such, and I had one
guy said he would box that in basically, which might
not look very pretty, but it might work. The other
(33:18):
guy said, now you just put a bunch of you know,
steal up there and and and then cover it with
the shingles. He thinks it would be okay. You have
any opinion on rotting areas.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
No, I think I'd have to see that. I kind
of like the steal idea.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
You can do. Cool is you up there? You're in
euclid Apio. Ron Krueger at A plus Wildlife Control. He's
got an achron. I have him on this show a lot.
He's my expert. He does animal removal and restoration. Why
don't you get his opinion on that rather than a roofers? Okay, great, Yeah,
(33:58):
just call him tell me you and I talked on
the air and I think he'll give you a very
honest answer. Cool.
Speaker 8 (34:07):
Oh, thank you. I got one more roof for coming
out today, so I'm going to be ready. I really
appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Thank you, sir, You're quite welcome. Thank you. Bye bye.
All right, David and then James. If you'd like to
join us, do so. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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home with Gary Sullivan taking your calls. By the way,
we're heading up to Indianapolis. We're going to be broadcasting
tomorrow's show from the Do It Best Trade Show, which
is independent hardware dealers from across the country, internationally even
and we will have quite a lot, hopefully quite a
(37:28):
lot of interviews and talking about different products that can
make your projects go easier. And if you're a regular
listener of the show, you know exactly what that show
format will look like. But we'll all be learning a
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old friends that can make your projects go a little
(37:49):
bit easier. And that will be tomorrow's show. Looking forward
to that particular broadcast, and if you miss it, you
can pick it up on the iHeart app. It'll be
a podcast. Then it'll say to do it best Hardware
trade show and you can take a listen. But we
have three hours on the floor of the convention Center
tomorrow broadcasting our show. All right, let's go to David.
Speaker 10 (38:11):
David welcome, Good morning, Gary, Thanks morning for you're taking
my call. I really enjoy your program.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 10 (38:18):
I have got a seventy approximately seventy foot long exposed
retaining wall, all concrete, and through time and age, it's
prosibly twenty years old. I it's developed some hairline cracks
along the top edge of it, and I would like
to find a product that I can seal and the
cracks and also seal the top of that, basically creating
(38:40):
a weatherproof cap for that retaining wall. Do you have
any recommendations.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Yeah, but be mindful too. If it is a wall,
there's a lot of moisture in that soil. Behind the wall,
which is contributing to it also, so we'll do the
best we can. There are ceilings for concrete, both vertically
and horizontally that will function almost like gore tex would.
(39:06):
It'll minimize penetration and it'll also exhaust moisture. So I
mentioned all the time there is and what you're looking
for is you're looking for a tripolymer breathable sealant. Now
sometimes you go to a hardware store and ask for that. Now,
(39:28):
look like you're from Mars or something. So there's a
website called masonry Defender dot com and they have a
it's a sidewalk and driveway ceiler, which is a breathable
sealant that minimizes moisture penetration. I would use that one.
(39:51):
When you put this on, you won't even be able
to tell it's been applied, David. You'll just you can
either roll it on, brush it on. You can use
a tank sprayer and spray it on, which is what
I would do, and you're just missing it. You shouldn't
let it puddle, and obviously if it's vertical, it's not
(40:11):
gonna puddle. You're not really holding water back. You're allowing
that water to work its way through the concrete and
evaporate into the atmosphere. And yet you're minimizing I mean,
the concrete wall is still gonna get wet, but you're
minimizing how far it penetrates into that wall, be it
at the top or on the side. And that's what
(40:33):
I would use on that wall for a ceilant.
Speaker 10 (40:37):
And you said that's Masonrydefender dot com.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Yes, sir, and you're looking for the sidewalk and driveway ceiler,
which is the first product this show.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Okay, that sounds great, Gary.
Speaker 10 (40:52):
I really appreciate your information on this.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
I do enjoy your program very much.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Thank you, sir. Take care and a small crack so
you can use a little They make a product called
Zippit mortar comes in a little pouch. Just add water,
knead it and you can patch the vertical cracks with that.
You know you'd want him to be. You just push
that into the crack the top cracks. You could use
(41:18):
a liquid like a cracked sealant a cracked seal both
quick crete products and you could use those on air.
Quicker does make a breathable sealing also, and it's a
cure and seal. It will leave a satne finished to
it your choice. It is breathable, all right, James, welcome,
(41:41):
Hey James. I don't know. James is busy. It sounds
like nanny. He was just talking about. And it's one
of my pet peeves, not James, but his problem, and
that is outdoor carpet. We'll use it a lot, and
(42:01):
I see it a lot, especially in older homes where
that concrete service has really become compromised with cracks, spawling, discoloration,
and they put like an indoor outdoor carpeting on there
and it just it gets old. It curls up a
lot of times, it's taped down. That's stuff to get off.
(42:23):
And James, you there, Yes, I am here, all right?
What you got?
Speaker 7 (42:29):
All right, buddy?
Speaker 10 (42:30):
How you doing today?
Speaker 1 (42:31):
They're good?
Speaker 7 (42:32):
Probably four time and you bailed me out every time.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
All right.
Speaker 7 (42:35):
So I've got a porch that I'm doing up in Akron, Ohio.
It's a concrete The little concrete comes out and it's
got two steps off a bit.
Speaker 10 (42:45):
They put that.
Speaker 7 (42:47):
They blued that green into outdoor carpet on there. Yeah,
it's been there a long pride, I bet you over
fifteen years. So I pulled a little cornerback to see
what I was working with. And and it's true I
might chip out even I'm wondering, but if it dilligent,
you know a little pits in there, I'm sure it
might least some pits in there.
Speaker 6 (43:08):
Yeah, step process that.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Well with the glue on there, that's going to be
the challenge. There is adhesive removers and what you can
try first. There's different types of adhesives. The first thing
I do is probably get some adhesive remover and saturate
that carpet with that adhesive remover you got. The hardest
(43:31):
part is getting that carpet up. You could try it
adhesive remover. You can also try a heat gun, but
be careful, let's not catch the carpet on fire. But
saturate that and then let's, you know, just start pulling
that carpet up. You're probably not going to get all
of it up crystal clean. You're probably going to have
(43:52):
to come back with the adhesive remover, just on the
adhesive and see if you can scrape it up. But
that would be step we can worry about kind of
patching the concrete in step two. If you got a
follow up question You're gonna have to sit tight, James.
We got the top of the hour coming up as
we continue. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
Time to get your hands dirty with Gary Sullivan. Give
him a call at one eight hundred and eighty two
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Speaker 1 (45:01):
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