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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well the weekend. It is welcome aboard as we work
our way through another weekend. Again, it's eight hundred and
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let's get back to the phone calls that you can
grab a line. We got Bill, Bill Welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Gary. I was listening before and you were talking about
cleaning out the overflow drain on a sink and like
a bathroom. Uh huh, And I was wondering before I
do it, I have a one of those little portable
tanks that you fill up with your air compressure when
you want to. Would be any reason I couldn't shoot
(01:46):
some air down there, And now.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I think that'd probably work, you.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Know, rather than go out and buy another tool, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Right right, No, I think I think that'd work. I'd
give it a try. I'd give it a try. It's
smelly or is it clogged or what's the issue.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Now?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I just periodically like to clean it out because I
use gel foam for shaving and sometime something gets brought
in there and you know how that goes.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
So right, right, So I guess that was what I was,
you know, concerning what we're trying to remove. Obviously the
air you know, the quick shot air plate, the things
that's good. If there's an impediment in there, If it's
just bacteria that's stuck to the gel and stuff like that,
that might be a little more difficult. But if there's
an impediment, I would think the the the air compression
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be fine.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Okay, all right, well, love the show, love we.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And forget so very good. Thank you much, Bill, appreciate it.
And let's go to Lisa. Lisa, welcome, Hi, how are
you doing fine? Thank you good.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
So we have a rustolium floor project that went kind
of bad. Tile in my bathroom is.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
In great shape.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
It's a rather large bathroom because it's in a condo
and the washer dryer stack is also in the bathroom.
So we use the white bristolium floor paint, if you will.
I don't know if that's the proper name. And basically
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it turned out a little sticky on the floor and
now like dirt is sticking to it, and it's gotten
better over time. We tried the grout to be gone
and nothing really seemed to work, but it didn't really
keep the dirt out either, So I feel like we
just need to start over and do something else. It's
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rostolium floor paint, so I think I have the jar rather.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Did you have to mix two cans of paint together
or anything? No?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
No, it comes as a sinking product.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Okay, okay, I wonder why it stayed sticky, and that's why.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I'm I mean, I'm wondering if maybe we should have
let it. It says to wait six hours between posts,
which we did, but I'm just wondering if maybe if
we would have left it alone a little longer.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
And then it's kind of a sounds like it's more
of a product question. I don't really know. Sometimes paints
can react funny in hot weather or very humid weather
where they're drying. There's actually what they call surfactants in paint,
which is a soap which will sometimes you know, gather
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along the top of the paint film and then when
it's humid, get real sticky and you know, not quite
feel like they're dry. Maybe that would be something if
it's a real humid day or a real hot day.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Okay, that makes sense, So maybe wait until the weather's
a little.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Cooler, well that, or scrub it all down. You can
remove surfactants if they're at the surface of it with
like tri sodium phosphate TSP. It's a powder with water.
Put it on there and take a street room and
just scrub the whole surface of it off, flush it
and see if it dries tack free.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Okay. And I could get this product at.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
The home sipo or any hardware store. Even grocery stores
will carry TSP. As far as the dirt in that
that that might be a little more challenging. Again, if
it is like surfactants as I think it may be
because of high humidity and it's soapy residue on that
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surface and it gets sticky, it would collect dirt, So
you might be able to remove a little bit of
the dirt and the surfactants and get back the way
it's supposed to be. I don't know if that is
for sure the answer or what's going on with the paint.
I don't think you know when you said if we
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let it dry a little longer between coats, Yeah, that
may come into play, especially again more so high humid areas.
Rather than heat, heat usually dries paint fast. Humidity or
water usually slows slows that down.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Okay, yeah, it is very very humid in BC and
in my condos, so I really didn't think of that factor.
Is there a way to do the grout line like
a ceiling because we did not do that in the
beginning or after the paint. Are we supposed to do
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a ground ceiling on tile?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Well I'm a little confused. Now, is this the same
floor in a garage or not? Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yes, it's the same floor in the bathroom. And it's
basically ok uh, the little square tiles. You know, it's
kind of outdated, but I mean they're in good shape
and they're white, so in theory they look nice. But
there is like a little groute line.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
So let me make sure I got this. So we
got a bathroom floor, small tile grout, and then we
use the rostoleum floor paint on top of that in
two coats, and then that's right. And then the question
should we have sealed the grout before we painted?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Right or after?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
No, no, you're no, no, you You wouldn't see before
because that paint needs to bite onto that grout, and
sealing it would be resistant, resisting it to grab or
it here. Okay, So not sealing it is good, and
then sealing it after you paint it does no good
at all because the pain itself is a ceiling. So
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you've painted the tile and you painted the grout, so
the grout is now sealed.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I see, okay, okay, so we'll try the CSP and
then if that doesn't work, should we start over this
winner and repaint it?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I think what I would do if the if the
trisulium phase, try tri solium phosphate doesn't get rid of
the stickiness. I would look on the back of your can.
There's probably a phone number with technical services for the
paint company. I would check with them to see what
they can tell you about that, because obviously, if it
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is a an acrylic or a water based product, or
even if it's an outcae criic, there's a reason that's
not drying. And I don't know what that reason would
be outside of surfactants.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I think.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Okay, okay, well, this has been so helpful.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Thank you so much, very good. Thank you appreciate it.
Take care all right. Let me give you the phone number.
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we go twenty minutes after the top of the AAR
and talking home improvement, feel free to join us if
you've got a question regarding your home, whether it's a project,
maintenance repair. It's eight hundred eighty two three eight two
five five and let's go to Kurt Kurt.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Welcome, Hey Kurt, Yes, sir, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
You bet.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Hey, I have luxury Kyle Vinyl flooring. I'm gonna put
down with mil a little heavier and I have some
old flooring three quarter inch hardwood tongue and group it's in.
It's in good shape. But I'm gonna lay this three
eighths all the way on top of it. And I
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want to fasten that old flooring down with some screws
and I'll glue the three eighths. But what type of
fasteners would you recommend for that three eighths because screws
sometimes it chews up, you know, when you fasten them down,
it doesn't grip like maybe a flathead fastener would.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, So I'm a little confused. So you got LVT
flooring correct.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, I'm gonna be putting that.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Down, okay. And the LVT is that a glue down
or is that a clip together? It's going to be
a glue okay, and it is? And what are we
screwing down?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Then?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Are we screwing down? Rescrewing the wood floor down? Or
what are we What are we using screws for?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah? The three the old hardwood flooring. I just want
to make sure you know there's no squeaks before I
put that three eighths on top of it, okay?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
And is there is there squeaks now? Or is there
a concern that we need to add the fasters, and
we're covering that up too, so it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, there are squeaks in it, so and plus two,
some of it's queued up, you know what I mean,
like the ends on it, and I just want a
nice continuity all the way through this this you know
this flooring.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
So do you know when you're nailing that end and
you're going through that, I guess it's like an engineered
wood floor. Correct, it's got different layers of the wood floor.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It's just three quarter inch on top of your joistness.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Okay, so it's just three quarter wood, natural wood. It's
not engineered where there's like a plywood or anything, right, Okay,
And you're gonna mark where the joye are so we
know we're getting it into the joist exactly. Okay. You
could use like a twisted shank nail if you want,
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almost like.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
An under Yeah, twisted. Would you call it shank noil?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah? Yeah, shank no I was going to say a
shank nail or an underlayment nail. It doesn't really matter.
On the wood floor. We just want to make sure
that it's anchored tightly against the joys too, we can
minimize the squeak. So you know, you mark your choice
and then just put your you know, put your nails
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right along the joys and you should tighten it up
quite easily.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Right. And but how the same type of shank on
the three h plywood on top of the floor.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I mean that's where you're nowing it, right,
You're nawing it right through the wood into the joye.
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Right?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Okay, and then you're LVT you're gluing down correct exactly? Okay,
you should be good then.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
All right, hey, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
All right, you're quite welcome. Thank you. Good point here too.
And I'll do this for anybody that's doing a floor
or having a floor done, pay attention to like, for instance,
if you're having I just went through this, having carpet
laid in your family room or your office or bedroom
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or whatever before they come to your house for installation,
pay attention to the floor over the course of a
couple of weeks and see if there's any squeaks, any
saft spots, anything along those lines, because as they pull
that carpet and get rid of the pad, get rid
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of the carpet. You're you're like back, it's you know,
basic step one, right, and let the you know, the
carpet person can on the carpet. At that point, you
can tell them there are several areas in the room
where there are squeaks and you would like to have
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the underlayman. Don't let it be a surprise to the
carpet installer, Okay, don't. Don't get them on the day
and say, oh, you're supposed to tighten that up. But
let them know that since I have the carpet off
and I have the pad, and I'm putting in new carpeting,
what would be the charge to take those squeaks out
to kind of find out where it needs to be renailed.
(17:58):
Because it's a great opportunity, right, you don't get that
opportunity but every twenty years and let's get those things
taken care of while they're installing that. And we had
a carpet in a family room installed. It was about
a year or so ago, and there was a couple
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whereas it nothing really horrible, but there were certainly some
areas that had a little bit of give and had
some squeaks, whether the existing nails weren't hitting the joys,
or there wasn't an additional glue down on it or something.
But there was some areas that needed the attention. And
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when they pulled that carpet off and they pulled that
padding off, and there was you know, there was certainly
a little up charge for it. It was minimal, I thought,
but he was started marking the joye and kind of
looking at the nail penetration and then going, you know,
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and then making a determination that you know, I don't
think I got a figure, but let's just arbitrarily say
twenty five percent of the nails weren't hitting the joys.
So he kind of renailed those areas and oh my goodness,
what a difference it made. And uh, that's the time
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to do it, not while the carpet's there and not
right after it's been replaced, that's for sure. But you
got a real opportunity to correct those issues, all right.
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at it we go. Thirty three minutes after the top
of they are talking home improvement as we do every
Saturday and Sunday, and we do it from nine to
noon in nine to one on Saturday, so we got
plenty of time to take your calls. That's Eastern time.
Our numbers eight hundred eight two three eight two five
five and we got bar BARB Welcome.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Hi. I have an American standard whirlpool and I clean
it every two months, just like they suggest with bleached
dishwasher powder to the detergent.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
And I do not use the whirlpool, but I just
cleaned it just for the sake of cleaning it. So
my problem is though, that the outside jets always seem
to get moldy and or something black is in there.
And all I do is usually take showers. I never
take a bath, just showers. And I also use what
and forget what would cause the MOULDI less look and
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is there anything else I could do so that it
doesn't come up.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
So is this like a jetted jacuzzi tub?
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Yes, okay, And it has eight jets and then a
circular one with like a lot of little holes which
mold goes in there too or something.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Well, those jets in the water pipes there. It's an
enclosed plumbing system in the supply all right. The drain
is not on colpassing, but all your supply is. So
when you turn off the water, the water stays in
those pipes that you can't see and over you know,
(24:34):
since we you know, even using it as a shower
and stuff like that, we you know, you get flakes
of skin, and you get bacteria in that enclosed plumbing system,
and you get what is called biofilm, and biofilm begins
to congregate in the pipes and in the jets. It
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is black. It's a little slimy too. I don't know
if you can tell that, you'd be able to see it,
you know, in the pipes it's almost like a slimy
rubberized black. And bleach does not kill it. It may
clean off some surface where the jets are to a degree,
(25:17):
but it's not killing the biofilm. There's a product. It's
called Awesome. It's a h h so ome that kills biofilm.
It is designed to use it in wash machines, a
closed plumbing system, Jacuzzi tubs, those type of tubs, enclosed
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plumbing systems, hot tubs, enclosed plumbing systems, and wash machines.
Like I said, their website is a hh so me.
You can buy it there. You can buy it on Amazon.
Some pool and spa stores have it also, and you
don't use much. It's like a couple of teaspoons. Follow
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the directions and it will gross you out. You'll fill
that tub with water, You'll put this Awesome in there.
You will run the jets and all this black junk
is going to be flushed out of there and it
will kill the biofilm. And then you'll drain it and
then you'll filled back up and you'll run the jets
(26:23):
and clear just to kind of rinse it out. Does
a great job, and it will clean that out and
it will clean it out for a while till the
biofilm begins to build again.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Okay, so that should help with the outer jets looking.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Maybe sure, sure, if it's on the surface, you may
have to use some of that. You know some have
you used You said you used bleach. Did you use
the bleach on the outer parts of those jets, because
that could just be mulled but inside that system. As
soon as you' said black, I knew it was the
bile film and it's a very common issue with those
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kind of tubs.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
I usually take an old toothbrush and put soap on
it and then just try to clean the jets as
well as I can on the outside.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Well, you go ahead. I mean when I said to
the bleach doesn't kill the biofilm, it doesn't. But on
those outside jets, that could just be a mold and
a mildew. If you want to take some bleach with
a toothbrush rather than soap and clean the outside jets
with that even before you use the Awesome and see
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if that cleans up the jets, you can certainly try that,
and I would, but then I would use the Awesome
to flush out that flush out those pipes.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
My other question would be the stopper on the staff tub.
Is you know it's got the lever and closes it
if it's getting super hart or I could hear that
the water is sort of draining out when I have
to fill it up to do the jets and that,
do I have to get a.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Whole new.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Drain system then for that? Since the look it's hard
with the lever and you could hear the water going.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Well, it sounds like if you can hear the water going,
it sounds like it's not being it's not ceiling, it's
not being.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
So right, and it's it's way. It's probably twenty years old.
I've been there for thirteen years, so I just wondered,
you know, you could just hear it like trickling out.
So I didn't know if it was just like time
to get a new one.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Well, there's all different kinds of stoppers. The first thing
I would do is when you hear trickling, now what
happens if you push down on the top. Does it
engage then does it feel like it quits seeping out
at that point? Because if it I have to you know,
if that's the case, there might just be some hard water.
There's like I said, there's different kinds. Some just line
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up and drop and there's a rubber seal underneath. The
other ones have a little lever and it's spring loaded
and if hard water deposits accumulate on their it keeps
that from functioning. And you could use some pbe blaster
on there to kind of free that up. Why don't
we start with you know, when you fill up the
tub again and you hear it leaking just pushed down,
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if it's one of those that you have to you know,
you have to drop down or push down and see
if that seals it up. If it's the one that
has a lever in a spring, let's make sure we
got it all the way that lever up all the
way to push it down. Let's see if we can
manually seal it, and then let's work on maybe using
(29:51):
like a lubricant or a hard water product, a product
that would lubricate areas where there's a lot of hard
water deposits it's on the spring or the lever to
enable it to do that without a little extra help.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Okay, yeah, because like it's getting super hard to push
it down, and if I hear it like leaking a little,
I have to really push it apart and then push
it back down again, and then it usually staffs.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Then Okay, Okay, I just want.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
To know, so if that's the case. If that's the case,
and you can kind of get it to seal again.
There there's a product you may have heard me talking about.
It's called Peebe Blaster, and it's a lubricant for rusted
or hard water deposits that have made mechanisms not work fluidly.
(30:45):
You get some Pebe blaster when you lift it up
and you expose that mechanism, spray that down real good.
Let's sit for a couple hours and then see if
that doesn't loosen things up.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
Okay, all right, very good, Thank you very much. I
appreciate your help.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. All right, Yeah, busy for sure.
Let's go to Lynn Lynn.
Speaker 9 (31:11):
Welcome, Thank you. Yes, I live in Florida. Need I
say more about mold and you'll do? Advertised on TV.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
I was going to write it.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
Down and I didn't. And now my memory is they're
advertising a new thing, especially on the Weather channel, where
you order this thing and you hook it into your
air conditioner drain and it keeps that draining. Now, I
have mine professionally cleaned out twice a year, and I
don't have a problem. But my friend just lost a
(31:48):
bedroom hardwood floor and a hall floor because her air
conditioner drain plugged up and she didn't know what she's
She just is on her own, so she doesn't have
a man or another woman around that knows everything. But anyway,
(32:09):
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And then have you heard of it?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I'm not familiar with it. I mean, what what is
the product? And I'm sure it works. And to be
honest with you, those drains. I do the same thing.
I have my uh furnace and air conditioner serviced every year,
and that's one of the air handlers actually up in
an attic on a pan.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
And so you really, you really don't want to have
that thing get clogged up because it's gonna be different
to the ceiling. So you know, they flush that out
and blow that out and put a bleach in there and.
Speaker 8 (32:52):
Or a bleach.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah, anybody to do bleach, right, because I'll break down the.
Speaker 9 (32:59):
Pipe, yes, and the glue and then the fumes whatever
can get into your coils and then you're yeah. I
have built quite a few houses myself.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Personally, I've misspoken. I meant that little cattle tablet.
Speaker 9 (33:16):
But everybody uses bleach. I have a dear friend who
owns an air conditioning company here, and I've even asked
him the other day about this new thing on TV.
He hasn't heard of it.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, I haven't either, So what's it do? Is it
a chemical? Or what does it do? I missed that part.
Speaker 9 (33:36):
It's I don't know what it is. It shows a
canister like that you put you put it right on
top of that drain. It looks like it screws in,
and I'm so sorry, but it was like, I I come,
I like a little eye.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yeah you know, not a cat. I don't. I don't
know the name of it. Maybe somebody, what do you
see the advertisement on TV? Like the Weather channel or
something like that.
Speaker 9 (34:05):
Yeah, they're constant. And then my friend said he saw
it on another channel.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Okay, well maybe somebody knows you. They'll call in. Let's
do that. Maybe somebody will call if you know the
name of that product. I haven't seen it. I have
no idea what it does, nor do I know the
name of it. So if you know that it's eight
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we go ten minutes before the top of the air
talking a little home improvement. And Mark's been on hold.
Let's get to Mark, Mark. Welcome, Hello, Gary, How are
you today? Doing fine? Thanks?
Speaker 8 (37:46):
Oh that's good and great show.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Hey.
Speaker 8 (37:47):
I caught the end of a call a little while
ago about a guy was interested in getting the house insulated. Okay,
I live in the Cleveland area and I bought the
house in eighty six. It's a nineteen sixty house and
my first gas bill was like one hundred and thirty dollars.
It needed windows put new windows, and it didn't make
much difference. Early nineties, mid nineties. I was going to
(38:11):
side the house and I saw an ad and decided
to get the blow or the frome insulation put in.
I had that insulation put in. It's still there. My
gas bill is incredibly low. The walls still feel warm
to the touch in the wintertime. I have the whole
house is heated. The insulation is incredible and he'll save
(38:33):
a ton of money two thousand to get it done.
But they drove droke holes right into the house and
then plugged them right back up, and then I got
out sided after that and I never had a problem
with it. It was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you, in those homes, I totally
one thousand percent agree with you. I was actually at
a It was an old Victorian home, probably built in
the thirties, and they'd put one in also, but this
thing was so leaky and there was no insulation to walls,
not very little in the attic. And I was there
(39:09):
in the morning watching them kind of getting started, and
you know, got the whole lay of the land of
how they were going to tackle this project. And everything
came back around three in the afternoon. It's a big house.
Three in the afternoon they were they were wrapping the
project up. And when I walked in that house, this
was kind of late fall. Walked in that house, I
instantly could I could feel the difference, not just hot
(39:33):
and cold, I could feel the stillness. Question There was
a busy, busy road and it was dead quiet in
this house. And I went, It's the first thing I
picked up. You were right.
Speaker 8 (39:47):
It did get quieter too, And and now I just
had other new windows put in and we're on a
tide street, but it's still very quiet. And again, my
heating bills are fantastic.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
I paid.
Speaker 8 (39:57):
I paid much less heating bill now than I did
almost forty years ago. And that's incredible considering the costs. Right, Yeah,
and at the time it was really I don't know that.
I don't remember the price. I think it costs you
maybe a thousand bucks. I'm sure it's quite a bit
more than that.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Well, the payback five years ago. Yeah, like he goes, well,
I'm looking at something to do it inexpensively. Well, the
whole world's looking for that. But I'm telling you, yeah,
and you're telling me too. You're you're paying out this
money to the energy company. If you get it in Slade,
you're gonna pay very little or less to the energy company.
You may be paying it to the insulation company. But
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eventually that bill is going away and your way ahead
of done.
Speaker 8 (40:40):
Right. And I noticed one other thing real quick is
that I did have to I have my kitchening modeled.
They cleaned it out of that area and put the
house wrap in and I know it's the kitchen is
a little bit a little bit different because the phone
was not replaced on that particular area of the house.
They just put the house wrap up and stuff. It
was the regular phone. It is a big difference.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Yeah, I mean it does not only does it have
the R value, but the biggest thing is is it
eliminates the draft because it's a mildly expandable foam, so
you eliminate the draft. Hey, great point. I appreciate that call,
very good, Thank you. Take care. Yeah, if you're in
an older home. Even my my my daughter, she had
(41:26):
an older home and had an addition put on and
had part of the house torn down even kind of reconstructed.
It is down in Charlotte, where you know, there's a
lot of that. There are a lot of it going
on throughout the United States. And she was asking me
about the pham insulation. She's like, you know, it's another
(41:49):
couple of thousand dollars more than the fiberglass, and you know,
what should I do? And it's like, you can't afford
not to do that the phone right now, And it's
been probably three or four years now, and she marvels
at it, same thing, same things we talked about. If
you're on the fence, get off it. It's worth it.
(42:11):
All right, let's go to Tim. Tim welcome, Hey, how
are you today? Doing fine? Thank you?
Speaker 10 (42:20):
I got a question. I used to be a painter
and I'm painting a trailer wall and the walls are
kind of like a vinyl. I used to put gripper.
Benjamin Moore had a product called Gripper, and now they're closed.
They're no longer in my area. So I was wondering,
is there another product? Maybe eighth or Balthar has a
(42:42):
product that's.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Yeah, there's some and yeah. The one thing you can do,
quite honestly, is you can you could probably get that
gripper online, which might be an option for you. The
other one is go to there's one made by Zenzer.
I forget the exact name of the product, but it
(43:04):
is a type of product where you can make that
transition over vinyl for painting, and it's a it's a
primary I just I'd have to go to their website
to find the exact name of the product. It's made
by Zenzer, though.
Speaker 10 (43:19):
It's called is it called stick.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Called what.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
Sticks?
Speaker 10 (43:25):
And flag firm or it's even used for.
Speaker 5 (43:29):
Talent and stuff.
Speaker 10 (43:29):
I saw some of that in h at a far ware,
so I wonder if I could probably use that.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
I would think that's it, but I'd have to read
it to be sure. I just I just can't recall
the name of the product. I just remember it's made
by Zenzer, and that may be it. But just just
do a quick read on that label. I think it'll
help us bat both. It's really it's just making that transition.
(43:56):
I'm sure that's it. I just I'm not going to
tell you it is if I'm not one hundred percent sure.
Speaker 10 (44:01):
But you wouldn't put that fender cover stain on it.
With that doll based cover sting. You wouldn't put that
on there.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
I don't think there's any need for that, I really don't.
I think you just need an adhesion type based primer.
I don't think you need a cover stain. The only
time you use the cover stain would be if you
had a substance that would bleed through paint, such as
ink tar water stains. Then I would use that, But
(44:33):
not a need. You just need something that The gripper
is a great name. By the way, you said me,
he sticks as too I'm sure that's probably along the
same lines in the war if if it's recommended on
tile also all right, Mike will get your call on
the other side and we'll get Nick and if you'd
like to join us, do so. It's eight hundred eight
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let's get back to the phone calls that you can
grab a line. We got Bill, Bill Welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Gary. I was listening before and you were talking about
cleaning out the overflow drain on a sink and like
a bathroom. Uh huh, And I was wondering before I
do it, I have a one of those little portable
tanks that you fill up with your air compressure when
you want to. Would be any reason I couldn't shoot
(01:46):
some air down there, And now.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I think that'd probably work, you.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Know, rather than go out and buy another tool, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Right right, No, I think I think that'd work. I'd
give it a try. I'd give it a try. It's
smelly or is it clogged or what's the issue.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Now?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I just periodically like to clean it out because I
use gel foam for shaving and sometime something gets brought
in there and you know how that goes.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
So right, right, So I guess that was what I was,
you know, concerning what we're trying to remove. Obviously the
air you know, the quick shot air plate, the things
that's good. If there's an impediment in there, If it's
just bacteria that's stuck to the gel and stuff like that,
that might be a little more difficult. But if there's
an impediment, I would think the the the air compression
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be fine.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Okay, all right, well, love the show, love we.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And forget so very good. Thank you much, Bill, appreciate it.
And let's go to Lisa. Lisa, welcome, Hi, how are
you doing fine? Thank you good.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
So we have a rustolium floor project that went kind
of bad. Tile in my bathroom is.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
In great shape.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
It's a rather large bathroom because it's in a condo
and the washer dryer stack is also in the bathroom.
So we use the white bristolium floor paint, if you will.
I don't know if that's the proper name. And basically
(03:24):
it turned out a little sticky on the floor and
now like dirt is sticking to it, and it's gotten
better over time. We tried the grout to be gone
and nothing really seemed to work, but it didn't really
keep the dirt out either, So I feel like we
just need to start over and do something else. It's
(03:54):
rostolium floor paint, so I think I have the jar rather.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Did you have to mix two cans of paint together
or anything? No?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
No, it comes as a sinking product.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Okay, okay, I wonder why it stayed sticky, and that's why.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I'm I mean, I'm wondering if maybe we should have
let it. It says to wait six hours between posts,
which we did, but I'm just wondering if maybe if
we would have left it alone a little longer.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
And then it's kind of a sounds like it's more
of a product question. I don't really know. Sometimes paints
can react funny in hot weather or very humid weather
where they're drying. There's actually what they call surfactants in paint,
which is a soap which will sometimes you know, gather
(04:54):
along the top of the paint film and then when
it's humid, get real sticky and you know, not quite
feel like they're dry. Maybe that would be something if
it's a real humid day or a real hot day.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Okay, that makes sense, So maybe wait until the weather's
a little.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Cooler, well that, or scrub it all down. You can
remove surfactants if they're at the surface of it with
like tri sodium phosphate TSP. It's a powder with water.
Put it on there and take a street room and
just scrub the whole surface of it off, flush it
and see if it dries tack free.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Okay. And I could get this product at.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
The home sipo or any hardware store. Even grocery stores
will carry TSP. As far as the dirt in that
that that might be a little more challenging. Again, if
it is like surfactants as I think it may be
because of high humidity and it's soapy residue on that
(06:02):
surface and it gets sticky, it would collect dirt, So
you might be able to remove a little bit of
the dirt and the surfactants and get back the way
it's supposed to be. I don't know if that is
for sure the answer or what's going on with the paint.
I don't think you know when you said if we
(06:22):
let it dry a little longer between coats, Yeah, that
may come into play, especially again more so high humid areas.
Rather than heat, heat usually dries paint fast. Humidity or
water usually slows slows that down.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Okay, yeah, it is very very humid in BC and
in my condos, so I really didn't think of that factor.
Is there a way to do the grout line like
a ceiling because we did not do that in the
beginning or after the paint. Are we supposed to do
(07:03):
a ground ceiling on tile?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Well I'm a little confused. Now, is this the same
floor in a garage or not? Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yes, it's the same floor in the bathroom. And it's
basically ok uh, the little square tiles. You know, it's
kind of outdated, but I mean they're in good shape
and they're white, so in theory they look nice. But
there is like a little groute line.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
So let me make sure I got this. So we
got a bathroom floor, small tile grout, and then we
use the rostoleum floor paint on top of that in
two coats, and then that's right. And then the question
should we have sealed the grout before we painted?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Right or after?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
No, no, you're no, no, you You wouldn't see before
because that paint needs to bite onto that grout, and
sealing it would be resistant, resisting it to grab or
it here. Okay, So not sealing it is good, and
then sealing it after you paint it does no good
at all because the pain itself is a ceiling. So
(08:19):
you've painted the tile and you painted the grout, so
the grout is now sealed.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I see, okay, okay, so we'll try the CSP and
then if that doesn't work, should we start over this
winner and repaint it?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I think what I would do if the if the
trisulium phase, try tri solium phosphate doesn't get rid of
the stickiness. I would look on the back of your can.
There's probably a phone number with technical services for the
paint company. I would check with them to see what
they can tell you about that, because obviously, if it
(08:57):
is a an acrylic or a water based product, or
even if it's an outcae criic, there's a reason that's
not drying. And I don't know what that reason would
be outside of surfactants.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I think.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Okay, okay, well, this has been so helpful.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Thank you so much, very good. Thank you appreciate it.
Take care all right. Let me give you the phone number.
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we go twenty minutes after the top of the AAR
and talking home improvement, feel free to join us if
you've got a question regarding your home, whether it's a project,
maintenance repair. It's eight hundred eighty two three eight two
five five and let's go to Kurt Kurt.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Welcome, Hey Kurt, Yes, sir, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
You bet.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Hey, I have luxury Kyle Vinyl flooring. I'm gonna put
down with mil a little heavier and I have some
old flooring three quarter inch hardwood tongue and group it's in.
It's in good shape. But I'm gonna lay this three
eighths all the way on top of it. And I
(13:15):
want to fasten that old flooring down with some screws
and I'll glue the three eighths. But what type of
fasteners would you recommend for that three eighths because screws
sometimes it chews up, you know, when you fasten them down,
it doesn't grip like maybe a flathead fastener would.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, So I'm a little confused. So you got LVT
flooring correct.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, I'm gonna be putting that.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Down, okay. And the LVT is that a glue down
or is that a clip together? It's going to be
a glue okay, and it is? And what are we
screwing down?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Then?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Are we screwing down? Rescrewing the wood floor down? Or
what are we What are we using screws for?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah? The three the old hardwood flooring. I just want
to make sure you know there's no squeaks before I
put that three eighths on top of it, okay?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
And is there is there squeaks now? Or is there
a concern that we need to add the fasters, and
we're covering that up too, so it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, there are squeaks in it, so and plus two,
some of it's queued up, you know what I mean,
like the ends on it, and I just want a
nice continuity all the way through this this you know
this flooring.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
So do you know when you're nailing that end and
you're going through that, I guess it's like an engineered
wood floor. Correct, it's got different layers of the wood floor.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It's just three quarter inch on top of your joistness.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Okay, so it's just three quarter wood, natural wood. It's
not engineered where there's like a plywood or anything, right, Okay,
And you're gonna mark where the joye are so we
know we're getting it into the joist exactly. Okay. You
could use like a twisted shank nail if you want,
(15:22):
almost like.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
An under Yeah, twisted. Would you call it shank noil?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah? Yeah, shank no I was going to say a
shank nail or an underlayment nail. It doesn't really matter.
On the wood floor. We just want to make sure
that it's anchored tightly against the joys too, we can
minimize the squeak. So you know, you mark your choice
and then just put your you know, put your nails
(15:52):
right along the joys and you should tighten it up
quite easily.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Right. And but how the same type of shank on
the three h plywood on top of the floor.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I mean that's where you're nowing it, right,
You're nawing it right through the wood into the joye.
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Right?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Okay, and then you're LVT you're gluing down correct exactly? Okay,
you should be good then.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
All right, hey, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
All right, you're quite welcome. Thank you. Good point here too.
And I'll do this for anybody that's doing a floor
or having a floor done, pay attention to like, for instance,
if you're having I just went through this, having carpet
laid in your family room or your office or bedroom
(16:48):
or whatever before they come to your house for installation,
pay attention to the floor over the course of a
couple of weeks and see if there's any squeaks, any
saft spots, anything along those lines, because as they pull
that carpet and get rid of the pad, get rid
(17:11):
of the carpet. You're you're like back, it's you know,
basic step one, right, and let the you know, the
carpet person can on the carpet. At that point, you
can tell them there are several areas in the room
where there are squeaks and you would like to have
(17:34):
the underlayman. Don't let it be a surprise to the
carpet installer, Okay, don't. Don't get them on the day
and say, oh, you're supposed to tighten that up. But
let them know that since I have the carpet off
and I have the pad, and I'm putting in new carpeting,
what would be the charge to take those squeaks out
to kind of find out where it needs to be renailed.
(17:58):
Because it's a great opportunity, right, you don't get that
opportunity but every twenty years and let's get those things
taken care of while they're installing that. And we had
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when they pulled that carpet off and they pulled that
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a little up charge for it. It was minimal, I thought,
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looking at the nail penetration and then going, you know,
(19:03):
and then making a determination that you know, I don't
think I got a figure, but let's just arbitrarily say
twenty five percent of the nails weren't hitting the joys.
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of they are talking home improvement as we do every
Saturday and Sunday, and we do it from nine to
noon in nine to one on Saturday, so we got
plenty of time to take your calls. That's Eastern time.
Our numbers eight hundred eight two three eight two five
five and we got bar BARB Welcome.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Hi. I have an American standard whirlpool and I clean
it every two months, just like they suggest with bleached
dishwasher powder to the detergent.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
And I do not use the whirlpool, but I just
cleaned it just for the sake of cleaning it. So
my problem is though, that the outside jets always seem
to get moldy and or something black is in there.
And all I do is usually take showers. I never
take a bath, just showers. And I also use what
and forget what would cause the MOULDI less look and
(23:46):
is there anything else I could do so that it
doesn't come up.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
So is this like a jetted jacuzzi tub?
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Yes, okay, And it has eight jets and then a
circular one with like a lot of little holes which
mold goes in there too or something.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Well, those jets in the water pipes there. It's an
enclosed plumbing system in the supply all right. The drain
is not on colpassing, but all your supply is. So
when you turn off the water, the water stays in
those pipes that you can't see and over you know,
(24:34):
since we you know, even using it as a shower
and stuff like that, we you know, you get flakes
of skin, and you get bacteria in that enclosed plumbing system,
and you get what is called biofilm, and biofilm begins
to congregate in the pipes and in the jets. It
(24:55):
is black. It's a little slimy too. I don't know
if you can tell that, you'd be able to see it,
you know, in the pipes it's almost like a slimy
rubberized black. And bleach does not kill it. It may
clean off some surface where the jets are to a degree,
(25:17):
but it's not killing the biofilm. There's a product. It's
called Awesome. It's a h h so ome that kills biofilm.
It is designed to use it in wash machines, a
closed plumbing system, Jacuzzi tubs, those type of tubs, enclosed
(25:40):
plumbing systems, hot tubs, enclosed plumbing systems, and wash machines.
Like I said, their website is a hh so me.
You can buy it there. You can buy it on Amazon.
Some pool and spa stores have it also, and you
don't use much. It's like a couple of teaspoons. Follow
(26:03):
the directions and it will gross you out. You'll fill
that tub with water, You'll put this Awesome in there.
You will run the jets and all this black junk
is going to be flushed out of there and it
will kill the biofilm. And then you'll drain it and
then you'll filled back up and you'll run the jets
(26:23):
and clear just to kind of rinse it out. Does
a great job, and it will clean that out and
it will clean it out for a while till the
biofilm begins to build again.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Okay, so that should help with the outer jets looking.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Maybe sure, sure, if it's on the surface, you may
have to use some of that. You know some have
you used You said you used bleach. Did you use
the bleach on the outer parts of those jets, because
that could just be mulled but inside that system. As
soon as you' said black, I knew it was the
bile film and it's a very common issue with those
(27:05):
kind of tubs.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
I usually take an old toothbrush and put soap on
it and then just try to clean the jets as
well as I can on the outside.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Well, you go ahead. I mean when I said to
the bleach doesn't kill the biofilm, it doesn't. But on
those outside jets, that could just be a mold and
a mildew. If you want to take some bleach with
a toothbrush rather than soap and clean the outside jets
with that even before you use the Awesome and see
(27:38):
if that cleans up the jets, you can certainly try that,
and I would, but then I would use the Awesome
to flush out that flush out those pipes.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
My other question would be the stopper on the staff tub.
Is you know it's got the lever and closes it
if it's getting super hart or I could hear that
the water is sort of draining out when I have
to fill it up to do the jets and that,
do I have to get a.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Whole new.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Drain system then for that? Since the look it's hard
with the lever and you could hear the water going.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Well, it sounds like if you can hear the water going,
it sounds like it's not being it's not ceiling, it's
not being.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
So right, and it's it's way. It's probably twenty years old.
I've been there for thirteen years, so I just wondered,
you know, you could just hear it like trickling out.
So I didn't know if it was just like time
to get a new one.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Well, there's all different kinds of stoppers. The first thing
I would do is when you hear trickling, now what
happens if you push down on the top. Does it
engage then does it feel like it quits seeping out
at that point? Because if it I have to you know,
if that's the case, there might just be some hard water.
There's like I said, there's different kinds. Some just line
(29:06):
up and drop and there's a rubber seal underneath. The
other ones have a little lever and it's spring loaded
and if hard water deposits accumulate on their it keeps
that from functioning. And you could use some pbe blaster
on there to kind of free that up. Why don't
we start with you know, when you fill up the
tub again and you hear it leaking just pushed down,
(29:29):
if it's one of those that you have to you know,
you have to drop down or push down and see
if that seals it up. If it's the one that
has a lever in a spring, let's make sure we
got it all the way that lever up all the
way to push it down. Let's see if we can
manually seal it, and then let's work on maybe using
(29:51):
like a lubricant or a hard water product, a product
that would lubricate areas where there's a lot of hard
water deposits it's on the spring or the lever to
enable it to do that without a little extra help.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Okay, yeah, because like it's getting super hard to push
it down, and if I hear it like leaking a little,
I have to really push it apart and then push
it back down again, and then it usually staffs.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Then Okay, Okay, I just want.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
To know, so if that's the case. If that's the case,
and you can kind of get it to seal again.
There there's a product you may have heard me talking about.
It's called Peebe Blaster, and it's a lubricant for rusted
or hard water deposits that have made mechanisms not work fluidly.
(30:45):
You get some Pebe blaster when you lift it up
and you expose that mechanism, spray that down real good.
Let's sit for a couple hours and then see if
that doesn't loosen things up.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
Okay, all right, very good, Thank you very much. I
appreciate your help.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. All right, Yeah, busy for sure.
Let's go to Lynn Lynn.
Speaker 9 (31:11):
Welcome, Thank you. Yes, I live in Florida. Need I
say more about mold and you'll do? Advertised on TV.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
I was going to write it.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
Down and I didn't. And now my memory is they're
advertising a new thing, especially on the Weather channel, where
you order this thing and you hook it into your
air conditioner drain and it keeps that draining. Now, I
have mine professionally cleaned out twice a year, and I
don't have a problem. But my friend just lost a
(31:48):
bedroom hardwood floor and a hall floor because her air
conditioner drain plugged up and she didn't know what she's
She just is on her own, so she doesn't have
a man or another woman around that knows everything. But anyway,
(32:09):
do you know it's is that eye something a little eye?
And then have you heard of it?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I'm not familiar with it. I mean, what what is
the product? And I'm sure it works. And to be
honest with you, those drains. I do the same thing.
I have my uh furnace and air conditioner serviced every year,
and that's one of the air handlers actually up in
an attic on a pan.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
And so you really, you really don't want to have
that thing get clogged up because it's gonna be different
to the ceiling. So you know, they flush that out
and blow that out and put a bleach in there and.
Speaker 8 (32:52):
Or a bleach.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah, anybody to do bleach, right, because I'll break down the.
Speaker 9 (32:59):
Pipe, yes, and the glue and then the fumes whatever
can get into your coils and then you're yeah. I
have built quite a few houses myself.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Personally, I've misspoken. I meant that little cattle tablet.
Speaker 9 (33:16):
But everybody uses bleach. I have a dear friend who
owns an air conditioning company here, and I've even asked
him the other day about this new thing on TV.
He hasn't heard of it.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, I haven't either, So what's it do? Is it
a chemical? Or what does it do? I missed that part.
Speaker 9 (33:36):
It's I don't know what it is. It shows a
canister like that you put you put it right on
top of that drain. It looks like it screws in,
and I'm so sorry, but it was like, I I come,
I like a little eye.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yeah you know, not a cat. I don't. I don't
know the name of it. Maybe somebody, what do you
see the advertisement on TV? Like the Weather channel or
something like that.
Speaker 9 (34:05):
Yeah, they're constant. And then my friend said he saw
it on another channel.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Okay, well maybe somebody knows you. They'll call in. Let's
do that. Maybe somebody will call if you know the
name of that product. I haven't seen it. I have
no idea what it does, nor do I know the
name of it. So if you know that it's eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five. All right,
we're gonna take a break. Mark you'll lead us off
(34:32):
when we come back here at Home with Gary Sullivan.
Help for your home is.
Speaker 7 (34:36):
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(37:33):
we go ten minutes before the top of the air
talking a little home improvement. And Mark's been on hold.
Let's get to Mark, Mark. Welcome, Hello, Gary, How are
you today? Doing fine? Thanks?
Speaker 8 (37:46):
Oh that's good and great show.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Hey.
Speaker 8 (37:47):
I caught the end of a call a little while
ago about a guy was interested in getting the house insulated. Okay,
I live in the Cleveland area and I bought the
house in eighty six. It's a nineteen sixty house and
my first gas bill was like one hundred and thirty dollars.
It needed windows put new windows, and it didn't make
much difference. Early nineties, mid nineties. I was going to
(38:11):
side the house and I saw an ad and decided
to get the blow or the frome insulation put in.
I had that insulation put in. It's still there. My
gas bill is incredibly low. The walls still feel warm
to the touch in the wintertime. I have the whole
house is heated. The insulation is incredible and he'll save
(38:33):
a ton of money two thousand to get it done.
But they drove droke holes right into the house and
then plugged them right back up, and then I got
out sided after that and I never had a problem
with it. It was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you, in those homes, I totally
one thousand percent agree with you. I was actually at
a It was an old Victorian home, probably built in
the thirties, and they'd put one in also, but this
thing was so leaky and there was no insulation to walls,
not very little in the attic. And I was there
(39:09):
in the morning watching them kind of getting started, and
you know, got the whole lay of the land of
how they were going to tackle this project. And everything
came back around three in the afternoon. It's a big house.
Three in the afternoon they were they were wrapping the
project up. And when I walked in that house, this
was kind of late fall. Walked in that house, I
instantly could I could feel the difference, not just hot
(39:33):
and cold, I could feel the stillness. Question There was
a busy, busy road and it was dead quiet in
this house. And I went, It's the first thing I
picked up. You were right.
Speaker 8 (39:47):
It did get quieter too, And and now I just
had other new windows put in and we're on a
tide street, but it's still very quiet. And again, my
heating bills are fantastic.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
I paid.
Speaker 8 (39:57):
I paid much less heating bill now than I did
almost forty years ago. And that's incredible considering the costs. Right, Yeah,
and at the time it was really I don't know that.
I don't remember the price. I think it costs you
maybe a thousand bucks. I'm sure it's quite a bit
more than that.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Well, the payback five years ago. Yeah, like he goes, well,
I'm looking at something to do it inexpensively. Well, the
whole world's looking for that. But I'm telling you, yeah,
and you're telling me too. You're you're paying out this
money to the energy company. If you get it in Slade,
you're gonna pay very little or less to the energy company.
You may be paying it to the insulation company. But
(40:34):
eventually that bill is going away and your way ahead
of done.
Speaker 8 (40:40):
Right. And I noticed one other thing real quick is
that I did have to I have my kitchening modeled.
They cleaned it out of that area and put the
house wrap in and I know it's the kitchen is
a little bit a little bit different because the phone
was not replaced on that particular area of the house.
They just put the house wrap up and stuff. It
was the regular phone. It is a big difference.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Yeah, I mean it does not only does it have
the R value, but the biggest thing is is it
eliminates the draft because it's a mildly expandable foam, so
you eliminate the draft. Hey, great point. I appreciate that call,
very good, Thank you. Take care. Yeah, if you're in
an older home. Even my my my daughter, she had
(41:26):
an older home and had an addition put on and
had part of the house torn down even kind of reconstructed.
It is down in Charlotte, where you know, there's a
lot of that. There are a lot of it going
on throughout the United States. And she was asking me
about the pham insulation. She's like, you know, it's another
(41:49):
couple of thousand dollars more than the fiberglass, and you know,
what should I do? And it's like, you can't afford
not to do that the phone right now, And it's
been probably three or four years now, and she marvels
at it, same thing, same things we talked about. If
you're on the fence, get off it. It's worth it.
(42:11):
All right, let's go to Tim. Tim welcome, Hey, how
are you today? Doing fine? Thank you?
Speaker 10 (42:20):
I got a question. I used to be a painter
and I'm painting a trailer wall and the walls are
kind of like a vinyl. I used to put gripper.
Benjamin Moore had a product called Gripper, and now they're closed.
They're no longer in my area. So I was wondering,
is there another product? Maybe eighth or Balthar has a
(42:42):
product that's.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Yeah, there's some and yeah. The one thing you can do,
quite honestly, is you can you could probably get that
gripper online, which might be an option for you. The
other one is go to there's one made by Zenzer.
I forget the exact name of the product, but it
(43:04):
is a type of product where you can make that
transition over vinyl for painting, and it's a it's a
primary I just I'd have to go to their website
to find the exact name of the product. It's made
by Zenzer, though.
Speaker 10 (43:19):
It's called is it called stick.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Called what.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
Sticks?
Speaker 10 (43:25):
And flag firm or it's even used for.
Speaker 5 (43:29):
Talent and stuff.
Speaker 10 (43:29):
I saw some of that in h at a far ware,
so I wonder if I could probably use that.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
I would think that's it, but I'd have to read
it to be sure. I just I just can't recall
the name of the product. I just remember it's made
by Zenzer, and that may be it. But just just
do a quick read on that label. I think it'll
help us bat both. It's really it's just making that transition.
(43:56):
I'm sure that's it. I just I'm not going to
tell you it is if I'm not one hundred percent sure.
Speaker 10 (44:01):
But you wouldn't put that fender cover stain on it.
With that doll based cover sting. You wouldn't put that
on there.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
I don't think there's any need for that, I really don't.
I think you just need an adhesion type based primer.
I don't think you need a cover stain. The only
time you use the cover stain would be if you
had a substance that would bleed through paint, such as
ink tar water stains. Then I would use that, But
(44:33):
not a need. You just need something that The gripper
is a great name. By the way, you said me,
he sticks as too I'm sure that's probably along the
same lines in the war if if it's recommended on
tile also all right, Mike will get your call on
the other side and we'll get Nick and if you'd
like to join us, do so. It's eight hundred eight
(44:55):
two three eight two five five. Yere at home with Gary.
So little bit.
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