July 19, 2025 • 34 mins
Dean dives into how to side over stucco and safely remove it when needed. A caller gets expert advice on tackling a stubborn tree stump, and Dean shares why protecting outdoor copper pipes—especially those with rubber sleeves—is crucial. Then it’s off to the lake, where Dean explains how water agitation can help combat algae growth, and why understanding the nature of algae is key to keeping your water clean.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The
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All right, I'm just tempted to tell you leave me
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Let's talk to Ethan. Hey, Ethan, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Hey, good morning, Good morning, sir, good morning. All right?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Are you with me? We're ready to go?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
How can I help you?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I was wondering about putting up sighting over stucco. We
have an old house where we doing, and I wanted
to put some new sighting up, but I didn't know
if it needed to be ripped down all the way
to the studs, or if there's a way to put
it up over.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Stucco, there is. You know, the big issue with this
is the condition of the stucco. Right If the reason
you're doing this is because the stucco is deteriorating and
it's got issues, then we have to kind of give
it a different sort of attention. But okay, let's assume.
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Let's assume for the moment that the stucco is in
pretty decent shape. You're just trying to change the look
of the house.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Of course, of course, you can always start fresh and
tear off the stucco, get down to the studs, rewrap
the house, reflash the windows, and rewrap the house with
a vapor barrier so that we have have no moisture issues.
We got a nice fresh layer of protection, and then
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you can start the siding straight to the studs as
if you were doing a new build. That of course
is given in for a lot of people. When they
think through the rest of the implications of the process
of keeping the siding, they decide, you know what, let's
just demo out the stucco. Let's just tear the stucco off.
But yes, you can put sighting on top of stucco.
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The key is to use a process that we call sleepers.
Sleepers are simply a construction term or a wood that
will you know, that will screw in on top of
the siding. The screws will go through to the studs.
Usually sleepers start out as a horizontal members every few
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inches because you want to cross the studs and you
want to get good nailing. I said, nailing screw contact
through to each stud. Okay, so you put the sleepers on,
and those sleepers then are going to be the place
where the sighting mounts to. Now, when that happens, I
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like to over engineer the thing in terms of after
the sleepers, going ahead and putting another layer of wrap
on the house. You may want to put a layer
of board on the house depending on the kind of sighting.
Now sleepers, Horizontal sleepers work really really well if what
you're putting up is bat and board siding. In other words,
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if the sighting is going to go vertical, if we're
talking about horizontal, you know, shingle patterns of sighting, then
you have to literally go over the sleepers with another
sheet of goods so that you've got good nailing for
whatever pattern of sighting it is. There's examples of this
all over the interweb. You can go in and take
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a look on YouTube and see what pros are doing,
not just your average homeowner, go and see what pros
are doing how to handle it. And you don't worry
about the air gap, by the way, you actually want
it that that creates off the stucco because any moisture
that collects inside there, you want it to drain out
and not actually build up and constantly keep the stucco soaked.
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So yeah, you can. It gets a little tricky again
around the windows, not that you're doing any water ceiling
around the windows, just how you're going to return your
siding in so that it looks like it's making you
clear definite contact with the windows all the way around,
or if you have protruding windows sills with what we
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call dogg ears on them. So the point is there
are things that you've got to take into account. Most
people initially think, oh, gosh, I hope I can just
put the siding right over the stucco because I don't
want to go to all that trouble. But before you
know it. You realize it's actually quite a bit of
trouble to put siding on top of stucco. So you know,
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nine times out of ten, I'm gonna encourage you if
you really want to change the look of the house.
It's not that big of a deal. Yeah, it's a
couple of days if you've got to, if you're hiring
somebody to do this, it's a couple of days of
stucco demo and a lot of noise. And you know,
you take the paintings and artwork off the inside of
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the house so that nothing falls as people are banging
away on the outside wall, and then get a dumpster
and away goes the stucco and start fresh. That's gonna
be the easiest, least frustrating, best new results when it's
all said and done. But yeah, there are ways of
putting siding on top of stucco. It's just the sleeper system.
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There you go.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Awesome, Thank you very much, sir. I have a great day.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You are so welcome, sir. Thanks for being the first
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Let's talk to Mary. Hey, Mary, welcome.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Home, well, thank you, good morning. Have we took down
a tree and we have about a six inch twelve stump.
Luck over that I need to take out so I
could put another tree in, and I want some coaching
on how to do that.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Okay, who's they? They took it down? Or did you
say you took it down?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
My friends and I we took it down.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Oh okay, Well, good for you. Good on you guys.
What do you guys do? What do you guys do with?
How thick is the tree? How big is the tree?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
It was a sixteen inch at the base? Wow, yes
it was, but we had to unfortunately, we had to
take it down and it was just shedding too much
in the pool, and we want to replace it with
another lovely tree.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Much.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Good for you. Well, I'm very very happy. I'm very
proud of you for taking it down. I'm happy that
you're going to replace it with another tree and not
just get rid of it. Too many people just take
trees away and leave them themselves the poorer for not
replacing them. And trees are the number one most important
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feature of any landscape, So I'm glad. So if it's
just a matter of like you're going to put a
less messy tree in there so it doesn't fight with
the pool. As much I get that and absolutely there
you go. There you go, all right, all right, Mary.
So there are like three different ways to remove a stump,
and it all really depends on how patient you are,
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how much energy you've got that kind of thing. The
usually usually like if you had a tree service come
and pull that tree down, then what they would have
done is employ the most common method these days, which
is using a stump grinder to take out the stump.
And stump grinders are not just for pros these days.
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You can actually, you know, depending on your how comfortable
you are with or your son with rental equipment, you
can rent stump grinders at places like you know, home
depot and rental yards these days. It's it's really the
golden age of tool rentals right now. In fact, I
should look the stuff where you see see here, Uh yeah,
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that's okay, that's the purchase. Yeah, they're a walk behind
stump grinding. Stump grinder is basically just a you know,
gasoline powered engine that has lots of you know, kind
of gnarly blades out on the front, and you just
lay that down in there and what it'll start to
do is literally just grind away kind of wood chip
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that stump. That's the quickest, usually the quickest and most
convenient way, because you just keep at it until you've
worn it well down into the ground and you hit
dirt again, and there you go. Stump grinding the most
common way that pros pull out stumps, because they don't
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actually pull them out, they'll just kind of mulch them
right down into the soil, below the level of the
soil and so on. Again. You can rent that, you
can do that yourself, you can hire somebody to come
in and do it. It's not that big of a deal,
and that makes really quick work of its fast, it's efficient,
relatively clean. Second, as you might have guessed, would be
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manual removal, which means you're going to do a lot
of digging around that stump, get down under it as
much as you can open up a hole really really big.
And then you start identifying where those tap roots are
starting to come out of the stump, and you cut them,
whether you cut them with a chainsaw or an axe
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or something, and you start getting you know, around and
down and under the stump, maybe with some pride bars
to keep it going. I mean, it's a whole thing,
but you could, in theory, get a stump out pretty
pretty whole and pretty clean. Just I'm gonna you know,
I'm not pulling your leg on this one. A lot,
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it's a lot. That's a lot of work, and we've
done it before. Usually what happens is, here's the thing.
Usually what happens is it all works fine, and you're
you're rolling along and the thing starts getting really loose
and you've cut off like ten roots, and you think,
all right, we got this, we got this. It's about
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to pop out at any time unless that stump has
sent down a big old tap root right underneath it.
I mean right in the center down below where you
can't reach it with the saws, or you can't reach
it with the axes, you can't reach it with anything
because it's still way underneath the stump. And then you're
kind of stuck and you just got to sit there
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and try and pry it out. It's it can be
a whole thing. So that's why most people don't do
it that way. Now, if you're if you're out in
the open, you got a tractor or something, you know
you can you can you know, wrap some straps around
it or some chains around try and pull it out.
But here's what we've seen in the past, if it's
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got patio or decking around it or other if you yeah, yeah,
so you start to do that, and you grab one
of those roots and start pulling those roots up, and
next thing you know, oh great, great, we got the
stump out. We also just popped up the sidewalk right
next to you know, the patio area next to the
pool because one of the roots one. I went, so,
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I don't really recommend it, but you asked the question,
I don't want to give you a full and complete answer.
The last thing that is typically done for those who
just don't want to go to much effort for it
is there are chemical ways to remove stumps. And all
this means is there's the stump, you're going to drill
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holes into it, and you're going to apply down into
those holes some a chemical stump remover, which you know
it doesn't sound as it's not as nasty as it sounds.
It's just usually a mixture of potassium nitrate and it
allows that stump to start decomposing over time. So over
time means weeks or months that it decomposes and you'll
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be able to kind of knock it around and smash
it out and get it out eventually. So you've got
the overnight fix. You've got the hole try and pry
it out on your own and cut the roots fix,
and you've got the chemical removal. Let it just decompose
over time fix, depending on your schedule. But that's why
most people just do the stump grinder.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Okay, well we're gonna investigate that for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
All right, Mary, thank you so much for the call.
Good luck on that, and good luck on you know,
get yourself a nice beautiful tree to replace it in there,
and you will be thrilled that you're you still have
the shade and the beautiful tree, and the pool stays
cleaner as well. All Right, a quick break and then
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more of your calls. Your Home with Dean Sharp, the
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It is an all calls Saturday morning. I'm gonna give
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will figure it out together. All right, let's go back
to the phones. I want to talk to Kevin. Hey, Kevin,
welcome home, Kevin. Are you there? Are you with me? Bud?
(19:24):
I don't hear Kevin?
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You are there? You are there?
Speaker 5 (19:29):
You are Yeah, good morning, sir. Following up to last
week's show on HVAC systems, what the question is is
the copper tubing that goes between the outside air conditioning
unit to the inside blower unit. There's two copper lines.
Ones are really really small, I don't know, quarter inch
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or maybe three eighths and another one is a larger, wrapped,
insulated uh copper pipe, so wrapping has come off the pipe.
How important is that to get that back and covered?
Is that the cooling part of the system.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Well, what that is is what we call both of
those pipes, the large and the small one together, and
that's what we call the refrigerate line set. Okay, and
I'm not going to belabor the purpose of the line set,
but yeah, that's where your refrigerant is flowing and there
is energy exchange happening. That's Those are the ones carrying
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the refrigerant from inside back out to the condenser where
it's condensed down again and then it sends it back
inside and it does the job cooling the house, and
it's ideal. It's ideal to have it wrapped as thoroughly
as possible because it just helps. It helps that line
sweats that it doesn't leak. It sweats just because it's
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either cooler than the air around it and condenses water
against to it, or it's warmer and sometimes it's cool
and warm. One of those is going to be freezing
cold hopefully when you're running your AC. That's how you
know your AC is running effectively. So we protect those
lines as much as we can. Now, when I say that,
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you just need to know they're copper lines, and copper
is naturally corrosion resistance and not affected by ultraviolet rays.
So if a little bit of the copper is exposed,
it's not the end of the world. The sun isn't
going to break it down. It's not prematurely aging the
copper or anything like that. But for the sake of
temperature transfer and the efficiency of the system, it's always
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a good idea to have any part of it that's
exposed wrapped in insulation and then with some weatherproof tape
on top of the insulation in order to hold the
insulation in place and just keep it all bundled up
really nice, so it's nothing to panic about that somehow
you're exposing the system to damage or degradation. But yeah,
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it's designed to be as well insulated around those lines
as possible, just to max the efficiency of the system.
So if you've lost some of that, you can get
that kind of stuff right off the shelf at a
big box store like Depot or Low's or your local
plumbing supply or hardware store with some weatherproof tape and
just wrap it up. You don't have to call an
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ecy guy out there to do it. It's just literally,
it's that simple. Cover it in the insulation, wrap around it,
and cover it up.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I know what I'm doing today.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
All right, Kevin, Good luck with that. My friend and
I love conscientious homeowners. I love them. I love them. Okay,
we've got d D on the line, you know what.
I'm just going to pick up Dede's call, and then
we're gonna hang tight her and I both and take
a quick break and we'll get back to it. But
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Dee D, good morning, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Hi, how you doing. I didn't Minnesota at the leak.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Okay, so which one? Ten? There's ten thousand of them.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
My here, pick one. It's probably right. So hey, real quick,
back here, people burn their stumps out.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Oh, I know, I believe me. I didn't want to
say that. I didn't want to say that because in
Southern California I can get in trouble by saying, oh, yeah,
I just burn it, just burn it. Just be responsible
for the next billion dollar wildfire in southern California, I
get please exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. So do we
have LGA at the lake? That's a shore? I tried.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
I have to agitate the water, so I tried the
sprinkler trick, Sprinklaer hose Springklaer hopes that kind of thing,
But there's not a water pressure coming from the house
to actually make the spring for his work. I do
have electricity down, yeah, but I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Okay, yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
UH have to keep it moving. So the.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
How how large of an area do you need? I mean,
do you have a little inlet? Is it just an
open shoreline where you're at?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
What?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
What have you got? Are you in a cove out
in a bay. You're in a bay. You're in a bay.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Okay, yeah, but my company is probably fifty feet across.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Got you. Okay, all right, guess what, everybody, We're gonna
see if we can solve d D's algae agitation problem
in Minnesota. But we're gonna do it on the other
side of the break. So d D, you hang tight
and we'll we'll see, we'll see, we'll see if if
I get stumped with this one. No, no, not gonna happen.
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Let's take a quick break and get back to the phones.
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper,
Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Here to remind you, as
always that when it comes to your home, design matters most.
Design matters most. And what I mean by that is
not just on the purely architectural level, but of course
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that is the first application of that concept architecturally speaking,
when it comes to transforming your place. Design design, design, design,
Put in the effort, put in the creativity. Talk to
the creatives that you need to to work out the
design transforming a home, truly transforming a home into something spectacular,
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into something that's truly customed to your life. It involves
design good design, correcting flow, correcting balance symmetry, visually maximizing
space efficiency inside a house. And yeah, you're going to
be maybe spending some extra money that you weren't planning
on for design profession to do their job. But but
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once they've done it, they may literally save you the
need to do an addition to expand the square footage
just by rearranging what you've got. Design matters most. It
also matters most when it comes to just solving problems,
really thinking it through and getting the right design for
the problem that you're experiencing. Not unlike our friend DEDI,
(26:24):
who let me see if i've I hope I haven't
hung up on her.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Ded?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Are you still with me?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yes, there you go. So Ddie's listening from Minnesota. She
lives next to a lake, because you can't not live
next to a lake in Minnesota. I've been told, legally speaking,
you have to live next to a lake. And she's
got about fifty feet of shore front and the lake
gets very still at times, and so she gets algae
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blooms and it all forms across in front, and she
doesn't want that. And so the question was, how do
we agitate lake water and not have this algae all
piling up on our section of shoreline. And so yet
again here's where design matters most. A thoughtful approach to this.
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Now one of the classic tricks for doing this that
I actually find doesn't really work all that well. And
Deed I think has discovered it too, which is the
whole sprinkler thing, the whole rainbird thing out. The idea
is if you agitate the surface water, the algae breaks
up and it doesn't have a chance to collect and
form large mats and all of that. And that's true,
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but it's also water that you're spending. Even if you're
on a research pump and sprinklers into the lake, it
just doesn't usually get it done. So she's found that
that doesn't work for her. And so you're sitting here thinking, oh,
you know where most of our listeners congregate in southern California.
You're like, wow, I don't really have a problem with
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lake water, Dean. But here's the thing. You would think
maybe we have no idea what we're doing with this here,
But universally, Bedie, this is the situation. I'm a custom
home designer. We do a lot of a state level
homes and so I have been called upon to deal
with the fact that there's a very large pond on
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an state And the ponds are even worse than lakes
when it comes to this, because they're a big enough
body of water to be a problem and a small
enough body of water to be a real problem because
they don't get much of any flow going on. So
if everybody just kind of closes their eyes and thinks
about the last time they saw a large pond in
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a controlled environment, like, for instance, you know at a
Japanese garden or someplace where you've gone to a park
and there's a pond. If you close your eyes, you can
think about it. The chances of you seeing this device
where you don't actually see the device itself, you just
see the effect, and that is an agitator or an
an aerator. Okay, so d D for you, there are
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a couple of options. You know, the water pressure isn't great.
You don't need water pressure. What you need is the electricity.
You said, you got electricity down there, so you are
in a prime position to get this done the right way.
What you're looking for is a surface aerator or actually
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there are two I should back that up. There are
surface aeriators, and these are devices that literally they have
a pump built into them and they float. They float
like a float ring, and you would you would set
one out on the surface of the water. It's like
a ring. It looks like a ring. Okay, the pump
is all sealed up underneath, and you would set one
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out on the surface of the water and you would
basically tether it with a weight down to the bottom
the you know, your your lake bottom where you are,
so it's kind of floating there like a buoy, permanently
anchored in place. You run a power line to it,
and you know to worry about it. I mean, it's
super long cord and all water sealed and watertight. So
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you power it up and it will sit there and
actually take air out of the air and blow it
down underneath itself and agitate the surface water. So it
looks like a little fountain kind of, but it really,
I mean really agitates the water. And one of these
guys can handle I don't know, like a more than
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an acre of water agitation and algae control. That's why
in so many instances when you go to a public
park and you see a pond in the middle of
a public park, you see some kind of water feature
out there in the middle. That's not just an architect thinking, oh,
wouldn't it be lovely to have some water spring up
in the middle. No, that's how they're controlling the algae
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bloom on that lake, because ariating the water is what
offsets the balance that wants the algae to grow. You
can do this just offshore for your section of shoreline
and do the same thing, but there are two types,
and you want to investigate it. You've got the surface
float that you anchor down to the lake bottom and
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get it going and you see all that activity on
the surface. Or there are bottom agitators and they basically
they do the same thing. They are run by a
remote pump, so the pump is out of the water somewhere.
So if there's a boat house, if there's a shack
down there by the shore, if there's a place to
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keep that, then you've got basically kind of an air
compressor that's running there, an airline down to a ring
or a pad that's sitting lake bottom, and then the
whole column of bubbles come up from it and aerate
that area by the way. The fish love it too,
I mean the fish dig it. It's a way of
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keeping it's a way of attracting them and keeping fish
kill off from algae blooms happening on your end of
the lakes. So you got bottom ones that run a
column of bubbles up through the water and then agitate
the surface and they better aerate just the water in
your area, and you got top ones that just do
a better job of churning up the surface. Both are
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just electricity driven and depending on the size of the
area that you want to deal with, and that is
going to determine the price. But you can believe it
or not. Look up pond aerator or lake aeriator on
Amazon and you can find some of these guys for sale.
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But generally speaking, you're going to spend between let's say,
three hundred and fifty and fifteen hundred dollars on them,
depending on what kind of setup you want and what
you're comfortable with. Yeah, it's not it's not cheap, but
it gets it done. I mean, it really does get
it done. So how's that deity?
Speaker 6 (32:55):
That sounds great? But quick question, Yeah, they actually make
ex extension cords that can go underwater.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yes, b'am, no, it's not it's not. Let me just jesus, Okay,
we got to run to a break, so I'll just
explain this bit right before we take off.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
DDI.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yes, they do and know it's not dangerous. Anybody who
has a swimming pool has a pool light at the
end of their swimming pool. That pool light has a
completely one hundred percent waterproof cord running through it out
of the back of the pool light that runs several
feet twenty thirty sometimes fifty feet through conduit filled with
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water all the way up to a plug that's sitting
up above the level of the deck. So anybody who
has a swimming pool has one of these underground underwater
extension cords permanently attached and functioning in their home, and
no nobody ever gets electrocuted by it. So yeah, we
know how to do that, and you don't have to
worry about that. Those things are they're easy to deal with,
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and these aerators are come build in with those kinds
of power supplies to them, so you don't have to worry.
You got to install them properly, but you don't have
to worry about it, Okay, Dee dye. Thank you for
your question. Awesome question, awesome call. I love ones that
are just out of the ordinary. All right, y'all, we're
gonna get back to it up next. More calls your
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this I had a fun week this week. Oh really,
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And I brought some of them in for a segment
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do I dare ask what adult novelties are? No back
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Oh yeah, manufacturers, distributors and media, all of that stuff.
People show up. It's a trade show. Okay, all right, okay,
it is fun, but it's also educational. I bet it is.
The swag bags must be amazing. They are. I actually
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got my Christmas gifts for everybody.
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Oh my god.
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All right, I'm just tempted to tell you leave me
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PG for you. Okay, thank you, appreciate it. Sitting across
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Where is she? Good Lord? That girl these days uh,
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We'll hear from Tina in just a bit. All right,
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Let's talk to Ethan. Hey, Ethan, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Hey, good morning, Good morning, sir, good morning. All right?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Are you with me? We're ready to go?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
How can I help you?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I was wondering about putting up sighting over stucco. We
have an old house where we doing, and I wanted
to put some new sighting up, but I didn't know
if it needed to be ripped down all the way
to the studs, or if there's a way to put
it up over.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Stucco, there is. You know, the big issue with this
is the condition of the stucco. Right If the reason
you're doing this is because the stucco is deteriorating and
it's got issues, then we have to kind of give
it a different sort of attention. But okay, let's assume.
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Let's assume for the moment that the stucco is in
pretty decent shape. You're just trying to change the look
of the house.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Of course, of course, you can always start fresh and
tear off the stucco, get down to the studs, rewrap
the house, reflash the windows, and rewrap the house with
a vapor barrier so that we have have no moisture issues.
We got a nice fresh layer of protection, and then
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you can start the siding straight to the studs as
if you were doing a new build. That of course
is given in for a lot of people. When they
think through the rest of the implications of the process
of keeping the siding, they decide, you know what, let's
just demo out the stucco. Let's just tear the stucco off.
But yes, you can put sighting on top of stucco.
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The key is to use a process that we call sleepers.
Sleepers are simply a construction term or a wood that
will you know, that will screw in on top of
the siding. The screws will go through to the studs.
Usually sleepers start out as a horizontal members every few
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inches because you want to cross the studs and you
want to get good nailing. I said, nailing screw contact
through to each stud. Okay, so you put the sleepers on,
and those sleepers then are going to be the place
where the sighting mounts to. Now, when that happens, I
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like to over engineer the thing in terms of after
the sleepers, going ahead and putting another layer of wrap
on the house. You may want to put a layer
of board on the house depending on the kind of sighting.
Now sleepers, Horizontal sleepers work really really well if what
you're putting up is bat and board siding. In other words,
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if the sighting is going to go vertical, if we're
talking about horizontal, you know, shingle patterns of sighting, then
you have to literally go over the sleepers with another
sheet of goods so that you've got good nailing for
whatever pattern of sighting it is. There's examples of this
all over the interweb. You can go in and take
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a look on YouTube and see what pros are doing,
not just your average homeowner, go and see what pros
are doing how to handle it. And you don't worry
about the air gap, by the way, you actually want
it that that creates off the stucco because any moisture
that collects inside there, you want it to drain out
and not actually build up and constantly keep the stucco soaked.
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So yeah, you can. It gets a little tricky again
around the windows, not that you're doing any water ceiling
around the windows, just how you're going to return your
siding in so that it looks like it's making you
clear definite contact with the windows all the way around,
or if you have protruding windows sills with what we
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call dogg ears on them. So the point is there
are things that you've got to take into account. Most
people initially think, oh, gosh, I hope I can just
put the siding right over the stucco because I don't
want to go to all that trouble. But before you
know it. You realize it's actually quite a bit of
trouble to put siding on top of stucco. So you know,
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nine times out of ten, I'm gonna encourage you if
you really want to change the look of the house.
It's not that big of a deal. Yeah, it's a
couple of days if you've got to, if you're hiring
somebody to do this, it's a couple of days of
stucco demo and a lot of noise. And you know,
you take the paintings and artwork off the inside of
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the house so that nothing falls as people are banging
away on the outside wall, and then get a dumpster
and away goes the stucco and start fresh. That's gonna
be the easiest, least frustrating, best new results when it's
all said and done. But yeah, there are ways of
putting siding on top of stucco. It's just the sleeper system.
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There you go.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Awesome, Thank you very much, sir. I have a great day.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You are so welcome, sir. Thanks for being the first
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Let's talk to Mary. Hey, Mary, welcome.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Home, well, thank you, good morning. Have we took down
a tree and we have about a six inch twelve stump.
Luck over that I need to take out so I
could put another tree in, and I want some coaching
on how to do that.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Okay, who's they? They took it down? Or did you
say you took it down?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
My friends and I we took it down.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Oh okay, Well, good for you. Good on you guys.
What do you guys do? What do you guys do with?
How thick is the tree? How big is the tree?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
It was a sixteen inch at the base? Wow, yes
it was, but we had to unfortunately, we had to
take it down and it was just shedding too much
in the pool, and we want to replace it with
another lovely tree.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Much.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Good for you. Well, I'm very very happy. I'm very
proud of you for taking it down. I'm happy that
you're going to replace it with another tree and not
just get rid of it. Too many people just take
trees away and leave them themselves the poorer for not
replacing them. And trees are the number one most important
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feature of any landscape, So I'm glad. So if it's
just a matter of like you're going to put a
less messy tree in there so it doesn't fight with
the pool. As much I get that and absolutely there
you go. There you go, all right, all right, Mary.
So there are like three different ways to remove a stump,
and it all really depends on how patient you are,
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how much energy you've got that kind of thing. The
usually usually like if you had a tree service come
and pull that tree down, then what they would have
done is employ the most common method these days, which
is using a stump grinder to take out the stump.
And stump grinders are not just for pros these days.
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You can actually, you know, depending on your how comfortable
you are with or your son with rental equipment, you
can rent stump grinders at places like you know, home
depot and rental yards these days. It's it's really the
golden age of tool rentals right now. In fact, I
should look the stuff where you see see here, Uh yeah,
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that's okay, that's the purchase. Yeah, they're a walk behind
stump grinding. Stump grinder is basically just a you know,
gasoline powered engine that has lots of you know, kind
of gnarly blades out on the front, and you just
lay that down in there and what it'll start to
do is literally just grind away kind of wood chip
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that stump. That's the quickest, usually the quickest and most
convenient way, because you just keep at it until you've
worn it well down into the ground and you hit
dirt again, and there you go. Stump grinding the most
common way that pros pull out stumps, because they don't
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actually pull them out, they'll just kind of mulch them
right down into the soil, below the level of the
soil and so on. Again. You can rent that, you
can do that yourself, you can hire somebody to come
in and do it. It's not that big of a deal,
and that makes really quick work of its fast, it's efficient,
relatively clean. Second, as you might have guessed, would be
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manual removal, which means you're going to do a lot
of digging around that stump, get down under it as
much as you can open up a hole really really big.
And then you start identifying where those tap roots are
starting to come out of the stump, and you cut them,
whether you cut them with a chainsaw or an axe
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or something, and you start getting you know, around and
down and under the stump, maybe with some pride bars
to keep it going. I mean, it's a whole thing,
but you could, in theory, get a stump out pretty
pretty whole and pretty clean. Just I'm gonna you know,
I'm not pulling your leg on this one. A lot,
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it's a lot. That's a lot of work, and we've
done it before. Usually what happens is, here's the thing.
Usually what happens is it all works fine, and you're
you're rolling along and the thing starts getting really loose
and you've cut off like ten roots, and you think,
all right, we got this, we got this. It's about
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to pop out at any time unless that stump has
sent down a big old tap root right underneath it.
I mean right in the center down below where you
can't reach it with the saws, or you can't reach
it with the axes, you can't reach it with anything
because it's still way underneath the stump. And then you're
kind of stuck and you just got to sit there
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and try and pry it out. It's it can be
a whole thing. So that's why most people don't do
it that way. Now, if you're if you're out in
the open, you got a tractor or something, you know
you can you can you know, wrap some straps around
it or some chains around try and pull it out.
But here's what we've seen in the past, if it's
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got patio or decking around it or other if you yeah, yeah,
so you start to do that, and you grab one
of those roots and start pulling those roots up, and
next thing you know, oh great, great, we got the
stump out. We also just popped up the sidewalk right
next to you know, the patio area next to the
pool because one of the roots one. I went, so,
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I don't really recommend it, but you asked the question,
I don't want to give you a full and complete answer.
The last thing that is typically done for those who
just don't want to go to much effort for it
is there are chemical ways to remove stumps. And all
this means is there's the stump, you're going to drill
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holes into it, and you're going to apply down into
those holes some a chemical stump remover, which you know
it doesn't sound as it's not as nasty as it sounds.
It's just usually a mixture of potassium nitrate and it
allows that stump to start decomposing over time. So over
time means weeks or months that it decomposes and you'll
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be able to kind of knock it around and smash
it out and get it out eventually. So you've got
the overnight fix. You've got the hole try and pry
it out on your own and cut the roots fix,
and you've got the chemical removal. Let it just decompose
over time fix, depending on your schedule. But that's why
most people just do the stump grinder.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Okay, well we're gonna investigate that for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
All right, Mary, thank you so much for the call.
Good luck on that, and good luck on you know,
get yourself a nice beautiful tree to replace it in there,
and you will be thrilled that you're you still have
the shade and the beautiful tree, and the pool stays
cleaner as well. All Right, a quick break and then
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It is an all calls Saturday morning. I'm gonna give
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to the phones. I want to talk to Kevin. Hey, Kevin,
welcome home, Kevin. Are you there? Are you with me? Bud?
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I don't hear Kevin?
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You are there? You are there?
Speaker 5 (19:29):
You are Yeah, good morning, sir. Following up to last
week's show on HVAC systems, what the question is is
the copper tubing that goes between the outside air conditioning
unit to the inside blower unit. There's two copper lines.
Ones are really really small, I don't know, quarter inch
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or maybe three eighths and another one is a larger, wrapped,
insulated uh copper pipe, so wrapping has come off the pipe.
How important is that to get that back and covered?
Is that the cooling part of the system.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Well, what that is is what we call both of
those pipes, the large and the small one together, and
that's what we call the refrigerate line set. Okay, and
I'm not going to belabor the purpose of the line set,
but yeah, that's where your refrigerant is flowing and there
is energy exchange happening. That's Those are the ones carrying
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the refrigerant from inside back out to the condenser where
it's condensed down again and then it sends it back
inside and it does the job cooling the house, and
it's ideal. It's ideal to have it wrapped as thoroughly
as possible because it just helps. It helps that line
sweats that it doesn't leak. It sweats just because it's
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either cooler than the air around it and condenses water
against to it, or it's warmer and sometimes it's cool
and warm. One of those is going to be freezing
cold hopefully when you're running your AC. That's how you
know your AC is running effectively. So we protect those
lines as much as we can. Now, when I say that,
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you just need to know they're copper lines, and copper
is naturally corrosion resistance and not affected by ultraviolet rays.
So if a little bit of the copper is exposed,
it's not the end of the world. The sun isn't
going to break it down. It's not prematurely aging the
copper or anything like that. But for the sake of
temperature transfer and the efficiency of the system, it's always
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a good idea to have any part of it that's
exposed wrapped in insulation and then with some weatherproof tape
on top of the insulation in order to hold the
insulation in place and just keep it all bundled up
really nice, so it's nothing to panic about that somehow
you're exposing the system to damage or degradation. But yeah,
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it's designed to be as well insulated around those lines
as possible, just to max the efficiency of the system.
So if you've lost some of that, you can get
that kind of stuff right off the shelf at a
big box store like Depot or Low's or your local
plumbing supply or hardware store with some weatherproof tape and
just wrap it up. You don't have to call an
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ecy guy out there to do it. It's just literally,
it's that simple. Cover it in the insulation, wrap around it,
and cover it up.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I know what I'm doing today.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
All right, Kevin, Good luck with that. My friend and
I love conscientious homeowners. I love them. I love them. Okay,
we've got d D on the line, you know what.
I'm just going to pick up Dede's call, and then
we're gonna hang tight her and I both and take
a quick break and we'll get back to it. But
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Dee D, good morning, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Hi, how you doing. I didn't Minnesota at the leak.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Okay, so which one? Ten? There's ten thousand of them.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
My here, pick one. It's probably right. So hey, real quick,
back here, people burn their stumps out.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Oh, I know, I believe me. I didn't want to
say that. I didn't want to say that because in
Southern California I can get in trouble by saying, oh, yeah,
I just burn it, just burn it. Just be responsible
for the next billion dollar wildfire in southern California, I
get please exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. So do we
have LGA at the lake? That's a shore? I tried.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
I have to agitate the water, so I tried the
sprinkler trick, Sprinklaer hose Springklaer hopes that kind of thing,
But there's not a water pressure coming from the house
to actually make the spring for his work. I do
have electricity down, yeah, but I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Okay, yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
UH have to keep it moving. So the.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
How how large of an area do you need? I mean,
do you have a little inlet? Is it just an
open shoreline where you're at?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
What?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
What have you got? Are you in a cove out
in a bay. You're in a bay. You're in a bay.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Okay, yeah, but my company is probably fifty feet across.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Got you. Okay, all right, guess what, everybody, We're gonna
see if we can solve d D's algae agitation problem
in Minnesota. But we're gonna do it on the other
side of the break. So d D, you hang tight
and we'll we'll see, we'll see, we'll see if if
I get stumped with this one. No, no, not gonna happen.
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Let's take a quick break and get back to the phones.
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(25:38):
into something that's truly customed to your life. It involves
design good design, correcting flow, correcting balance symmetry, visually maximizing
space efficiency inside a house. And yeah, you're going to
be maybe spending some extra money that you weren't planning
on for design profession to do their job. But but
(26:03):
once they've done it, they may literally save you the
need to do an addition to expand the square footage
just by rearranging what you've got. Design matters most. It
also matters most when it comes to just solving problems,
really thinking it through and getting the right design for
the problem that you're experiencing. Not unlike our friend DEDI,
(26:24):
who let me see if i've I hope I haven't
hung up on her.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Ded?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Are you still with me?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yes, there you go. So Ddie's listening from Minnesota. She
lives next to a lake, because you can't not live
next to a lake in Minnesota. I've been told, legally speaking,
you have to live next to a lake. And she's
got about fifty feet of shore front and the lake
gets very still at times, and so she gets algae
(26:50):
blooms and it all forms across in front, and she
doesn't want that. And so the question was, how do
we agitate lake water and not have this algae all
piling up on our section of shoreline. And so yet
again here's where design matters most. A thoughtful approach to this.
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Now one of the classic tricks for doing this that
I actually find doesn't really work all that well. And
Deed I think has discovered it too, which is the
whole sprinkler thing, the whole rainbird thing out. The idea
is if you agitate the surface water, the algae breaks
up and it doesn't have a chance to collect and
form large mats and all of that. And that's true,
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but it's also water that you're spending. Even if you're
on a research pump and sprinklers into the lake, it
just doesn't usually get it done. So she's found that
that doesn't work for her. And so you're sitting here thinking, oh,
you know where most of our listeners congregate in southern California.
You're like, wow, I don't really have a problem with
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lake water, Dean. But here's the thing. You would think
maybe we have no idea what we're doing with this here,
But universally, Bedie, this is the situation. I'm a custom
home designer. We do a lot of a state level
homes and so I have been called upon to deal
with the fact that there's a very large pond on
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an state And the ponds are even worse than lakes
when it comes to this, because they're a big enough
body of water to be a problem and a small
enough body of water to be a real problem because
they don't get much of any flow going on. So
if everybody just kind of closes their eyes and thinks
about the last time they saw a large pond in
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a controlled environment, like, for instance, you know at a
Japanese garden or someplace where you've gone to a park
and there's a pond. If you close your eyes, you can
think about it. The chances of you seeing this device
where you don't actually see the device itself, you just
see the effect, and that is an agitator or an
an aerator. Okay, so d D for you, there are
(29:03):
a couple of options. You know, the water pressure isn't great.
You don't need water pressure. What you need is the electricity.
You said, you got electricity down there, so you are
in a prime position to get this done the right way.
What you're looking for is a surface aerator or actually
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there are two I should back that up. There are
surface aeriators, and these are devices that literally they have
a pump built into them and they float. They float
like a float ring, and you would you would set
one out on the surface of the water. It's like
a ring. It looks like a ring. Okay, the pump
is all sealed up underneath, and you would set one
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out on the surface of the water and you would
basically tether it with a weight down to the bottom
the you know, your your lake bottom where you are,
so it's kind of floating there like a buoy, permanently
anchored in place. You run a power line to it,
and you know to worry about it. I mean, it's
super long cord and all water sealed and watertight. So
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you power it up and it will sit there and
actually take air out of the air and blow it
down underneath itself and agitate the surface water. So it
looks like a little fountain kind of, but it really,
I mean really agitates the water. And one of these
guys can handle I don't know, like a more than
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an acre of water agitation and algae control. That's why
in so many instances when you go to a public
park and you see a pond in the middle of
a public park, you see some kind of water feature
out there in the middle. That's not just an architect thinking, oh,
wouldn't it be lovely to have some water spring up
in the middle. No, that's how they're controlling the algae
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bloom on that lake, because ariating the water is what
offsets the balance that wants the algae to grow. You
can do this just offshore for your section of shoreline
and do the same thing, but there are two types,
and you want to investigate it. You've got the surface
float that you anchor down to the lake bottom and
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get it going and you see all that activity on
the surface. Or there are bottom agitators and they basically
they do the same thing. They are run by a
remote pump, so the pump is out of the water somewhere.
So if there's a boat house, if there's a shack
down there by the shore, if there's a place to
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keep that, then you've got basically kind of an air
compressor that's running there, an airline down to a ring
or a pad that's sitting lake bottom, and then the
whole column of bubbles come up from it and aerate
that area by the way. The fish love it too,
I mean the fish dig it. It's a way of
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keeping it's a way of attracting them and keeping fish
kill off from algae blooms happening on your end of
the lakes. So you got bottom ones that run a
column of bubbles up through the water and then agitate
the surface and they better aerate just the water in
your area, and you got top ones that just do
a better job of churning up the surface. Both are
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just electricity driven and depending on the size of the
area that you want to deal with, and that is
going to determine the price. But you can believe it
or not. Look up pond aerator or lake aeriator on
Amazon and you can find some of these guys for sale.
(32:36):
But generally speaking, you're going to spend between let's say,
three hundred and fifty and fifteen hundred dollars on them,
depending on what kind of setup you want and what
you're comfortable with. Yeah, it's not it's not cheap, but
it gets it done. I mean, it really does get
it done. So how's that deity?
Speaker 6 (32:55):
That sounds great? But quick question, Yeah, they actually make
ex extension cords that can go underwater.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yes, b'am, no, it's not it's not. Let me just jesus, Okay,
we got to run to a break, so I'll just
explain this bit right before we take off.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
DDI.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yes, they do and know it's not dangerous. Anybody who
has a swimming pool has a pool light at the
end of their swimming pool. That pool light has a
completely one hundred percent waterproof cord running through it out
of the back of the pool light that runs several
feet twenty thirty sometimes fifty feet through conduit filled with
(33:36):
water all the way up to a plug that's sitting
up above the level of the deck. So anybody who
has a swimming pool has one of these underground underwater
extension cords permanently attached and functioning in their home, and
no nobody ever gets electrocuted by it. So yeah, we
know how to do that, and you don't have to
worry about that. Those things are they're easy to deal with,
(33:58):
and these aerators are come build in with those kinds
of power supplies to them, so you don't have to worry.
You got to install them properly, but you don't have
to worry about it, Okay, Dee dye. Thank you for
your question. Awesome question, awesome call. I love ones that
are just out of the ordinary. All right, y'all, we're
gonna get back to it up next. More calls your
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