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Speaker 2: Simon sitting next to me, how are you doing?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 2: May yourself very well? Indeed, that's good. We're talking about
Speaker 2: fillers today. Yes, and I had a jip rock wall
Speaker 2: I had to repair and gosh, I'm hopeless of that.
Speaker 2: I am just hopeless. I put too much filler in.
Speaker 2: I'm frightened to stand it in case I strip it
Speaker 2: all out. I'm just hopeless. But does it come down
Speaker 2: to the right filler?
Speaker 4: Look it does?
Speaker 5: I mean, there's a lot of differ from fillers and
Speaker 5: making sure you use the correct one.
Speaker 4: For your job.
Speaker 5: But you know, like you just said, I come across
Speaker 5: so many people doing it that put too much filler one,
Speaker 5: so they're wasting product. They're also then have to send
Speaker 5: all that product back, so they're just taking way much
Speaker 5: too much time. They're going to cause too much dust.
Speaker 5: So if you are filling nail holes chip rock areas,
Speaker 5: two tight skims, you know, just put enough filler on
Speaker 5: that you need without going too much.
Speaker 4: We had six thousand nail.
Speaker 3: Holes to fill this week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I calculated it by measuring one row and then
Speaker 5: it worked out. So we had a roughly roughly about
Speaker 5: six thousand nail holes to fill this week.
Speaker 4: You've got the you know, the the chippies there with.
Speaker 3: Their nail guns going going berserk.
Speaker 5: It's not like the days with the old hammer where
Speaker 5: they don't want to hammer too many in there.
Speaker 3: When the guns come back back back back, Yeah, painter's nightmare.
Speaker 2: So escape skim.
Speaker 5: So we're you a filler and it was a gloss filler,
Speaker 5: so it's designed for.
Speaker 2: Small hole loss filler.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it sort of stops too much bleeding through
Speaker 5: the paint sort of things.
Speaker 2: It's something you mix up.
Speaker 4: No, no, it comes in a container.
Speaker 5: It's a polypiller product we used, and it's it's a
Speaker 5: great product.
Speaker 4: It's designed for water.
Speaker 5: You know, water outside, use it inside as well. Try
Speaker 5: as fast. But the thing is, I said to the guys,
Speaker 5: make sure you do a really tight skim. We use
Speaker 5: a flexible blade. Make sure you do a tight skim
Speaker 5: because there's going to be less sanding. I made a
Speaker 5: plastic blade, steel blade, just really flexible one, and I said,
Speaker 5: virtually fill the hole and then just wipe all excess off.
Speaker 5: It's going to save us a lot of work of sandy,
Speaker 5: even though we're using sanders to do the job. But
Speaker 5: you know, it's just going to it's just going to
Speaker 5: take a lot less time when it comes down to
Speaker 5: sort of fixing it. And I thought it'd be a
Speaker 5: really good time to just explain to people with that
Speaker 5: because i've you know, even the guy on the job.
Speaker 5: The carpenters were doing a bit of filling and he
Speaker 5: said to the carpenters, mate, leave that to the painters
Speaker 5: with you stop right now because where they did fill
Speaker 5: was looking pretty ugly.
Speaker 2: So I end up with not quite well, a mound
Speaker 2: that's clearly visible off the wall, and I sand it
Speaker 2: and sand it and get smooth, and then I painted
Speaker 2: and it's still it's still prominent. The idea is to
Speaker 2: not have that prominence and meant to look like the wall.
Speaker 5: You're better off putting multiple coats of filler on right, right,
Speaker 5: and thinner coats.
Speaker 4: You think about that too.
Speaker 5: It's going to dry faster being a thinner coats and fill,
Speaker 5: it's not going to shrink. Sometimes if you put too
Speaker 5: much fill on, they can then when they when they're drying,
Speaker 5: they'll shrink and they'll actually crack. So, yeah, you're better
Speaker 5: off multiple coats, drying faster and less sanding. Yeah, much
Speaker 5: better job.
Speaker 2: Just don't want to let Mitch know we're not talking
Speaker 2: about the filler that your well as you refer to her,
Speaker 2: your ex wife might have used. This is filling.
Speaker 3: This is for timber and jip rock, not for facial products.
Speaker 2: Now, dare you turn this show into that? Steve? How
Speaker 2: can we help you?
Speaker 6: Well, Good morning Simon, and good morning. Look a wonderful
Speaker 6: segment you've got here, and thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 6: I've got so I have a problem. I've got a
Speaker 6: pool that was used in Pebble Crute and it's got
Speaker 6: a beachfront entryway to it, and on the beach the
Speaker 6: beachfront part under Pebble Crute was there's no chance in
Speaker 6: the world you can slip over there. It wouldn't matter
Speaker 6: how much Graham or whatever was there. I've recoded it
Speaker 6: in the Duels for Pools Glass breeding product and it
Speaker 6: is absolutely beautiful. But it doesn't matter how clean I
Speaker 6: make the beachfront.
Speaker 2: Entryway, it is still slippery as.
Speaker 6: You know what. So and I contacted an Or Glass
Speaker 6: about this. I mean, I've been of I listen to
Speaker 6: this program every week and before you before you're breaking,
Speaker 6: after your return and a North Glass has been the
Speaker 6: greatest thing on earth. But they reply to me to
Speaker 6: the extent of they didn't. They couldn't provide me with
Speaker 6: an answer as to what to do it. So I
Speaker 6: simply dump the water, you know, cleaning the boot front
Speaker 6: entryway and you know it's something with a bit of
Speaker 6: grit on it, so when you're getting out of the pool,
Speaker 6: you don't go bum up. And that's what I'm that's
Speaker 6: the problem because someone could actually really hurt themselves or
Speaker 6: or you know, if someone's there at my place on
Speaker 6: their own. You know, they could bang their head and go.
Speaker 6: They could be the end of them.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: I look, I know all about banging heads because I
Speaker 3: did it this week.
Speaker 4: On the concrete.
Speaker 5: So not real good mate, to be honest with you,
Speaker 5: I think that is this area you're talking about, is
Speaker 5: it going to be underwater where you're slipping?
Speaker 6: It's always underwater? Okay, Okay, so it's only a gradual slope, right,
Speaker 6: But the gradual slope is it can get slippery yep,
Speaker 6: and like and when I walk up with your trab,
Speaker 6: walk up there and you just walk out standing up again?
Speaker 4: So are you saying the pebble crete?
Speaker 2: See I've now got the duels for pool.
Speaker 6: Okay, so the glass booded product, I read to put
Speaker 6: something on top of that product. So you've got a
Speaker 6: bit of bit of purchase when you're trying to get
Speaker 6: out of the pool.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 5: So what I have done I have painted a few
Speaker 5: swimming pools previously. And when i've painted them, when I've
Speaker 5: done steps, and I learned this from a pool painter.
Speaker 5: We coated the swimming pool and when we did the steps,
Speaker 5: we actually got coarse salt and we dropped the salt
Speaker 5: into the paint while it was wet, and it would
Speaker 5: make little holes in the paint work. And then when
Speaker 5: you filled the swimming pool up, the salt would disappear
Speaker 5: and leave a grit and leave a little bit.
Speaker 4: Of a rough surface. And it was fantastic. It worked
Speaker 4: really really well.
Speaker 5: Now, whether you can do something like that with this area,
Speaker 5: you need to put another coat of something down, You
Speaker 5: need some sort of aggregate in there. But whether this
Speaker 5: pulls I don't know the product you've used, but whether
Speaker 5: it's something you can coat on put some of that
Speaker 5: rough salt in it and create a bit of a
Speaker 5: rough area.
Speaker 2: You mean, like rock salt the biggest absolutely.
Speaker 5: So, yeah, some core salt, you know, it sat in
Speaker 5: there and then once you've filled the water up, the
Speaker 5: salt disappeared and left these little.
Speaker 4: Crators And it worked on real, worked one real.
Speaker 5: So I just don't know. Maybe you can send me
Speaker 5: some information via email a little bit more and maybe
Speaker 5: we can discuss it a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Excellent, Steve, stay there, mate, and Kitty will give you
Speaker 2: the way to contact Simon with more information. That's amazing.
Speaker 5: Oh, look the things you learn from trading, you know,
Speaker 5: from other trades that I learned. Yeah, it's just great,
Speaker 5: you know, you get some information on that to do something.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Serena, Oh, good morning, Simon. We have a
Speaker 7: problem with discoloring off.
Speaker 8: Roof tiles and the riches.
Speaker 7: Need re cementing. Do you have anybody that's reliable? And
Speaker 7: you know, I'm a bit scared. We're you know, we're
Speaker 7: not young. You know, we don't want to just get
Speaker 7: somebody from the paper or what.
Speaker 5: And look, I totally understand where you're coming from. Can
Speaker 5: you tell me what area you're from? What suburb Kelly Kelly. Look,
Speaker 5: I don't have anybody in Kellyville, the Kellyville area. What
Speaker 5: I can suggest is possibly go to a roofing company,
Speaker 5: somebody that supplies roof tiles. It is roof tiles you're
Speaker 5: dealing with. I guess yes, you know, maybe one of
Speaker 5: the companies, the smaller companies that supply, because they will
Speaker 5: supply to tradesmen, right, they will supply the roof tiles.
Speaker 5: And if you go there and say, listen, do you
Speaker 5: do you any one you can recommend, because see they
Speaker 5: get the tilers to come in, they usually have a
Speaker 5: pretty good idea. Who's good, who's not you know who's
Speaker 5: a bit dodgy.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean. I've done that myself.
Speaker 5: If I've needed a tradesperson, I'll go into a company.
Speaker 5: And we're not talking about Bunnings. We're talking about, you know,
Speaker 5: a small roofing company and ask them that way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's sometimes it works.
Speaker 2: Advice. Yeah, I've done that, my soul.
Speaker 5: I've done it with tilers. I've gone to a tile
Speaker 5: shop yeah and said can I have six recommendations?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you get them.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: There you go, Serena, best of luck, Thank you for
Speaker 2: your call. It's coming up to thirteen to eleven. We
Speaker 2: better say, get at a gill or sorry, Jill, Hi, Jilly, how.
Speaker 4: Good mate yourself?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 9: Good listen. I've seen in the last week some bubbling
Speaker 9: of the paint down the bottom of the wall near
Speaker 9: the skirting board.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 9: And I just wonder whether I should scrape that back
Speaker 9: and let it breathe or what should I do?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Absolutely I would do that. What's the other side of
Speaker 5: that wall? Is it a bathroom or a kitchen? U?
Speaker 2: Neither.
Speaker 9: It's double brick, okay, so it's an outside walls. No, No,
Speaker 9: it's internal. So on the other side I've got. It's
Speaker 9: kind of in between a bathroom and a bedroom.
Speaker 5: Okay, so the wall, the other side of the wall
Speaker 5: that you're talking about could be the bathroom.
Speaker 9: Is that what you're saying, could be the bathroom or
Speaker 9: half half, but it's the bathroom door.
Speaker 2: It's not the plumbing.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, but there might be some plumbing through there.
Speaker 5: There could be some water issue on the floor getting
Speaker 5: leaking through. I would say that there's an issue in
Speaker 5: the bathroom with a waterproof membrane. Somewhere, there's water getting
Speaker 5: into that wall and it's it's actually soaking into the
Speaker 5: double brick and then it's causing the bubble bubbling of
Speaker 5: the paint. So you need to find out what's causing it.
Speaker 5: What I would do is turn all the taps off
Speaker 5: at home and go and look at your water meter.
Speaker 5: That's the first thing to check, because if you've got
Speaker 5: a leak behind the wall that's not due to tap washer,
Speaker 5: which is possibly that could be a leak behind a wall,
Speaker 5: you know, That's what I'd be checking. And also what
Speaker 5: I find is in showers where the taps are sometimes
Speaker 5: where the cover plate is that covers the spindles, water
Speaker 5: can get behind those and get into the holes where
Speaker 5: the tap screw in and it can leak down the
Speaker 5: back of the wall.
Speaker 4: So that's another issue.
Speaker 2: Right, how do you you can there is a device
Speaker 2: with which you can measure moisture, isn't there?
Speaker 8: Is it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But do they work?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Absolutely they do.
Speaker 5: I've got one so they you know, you'll put two
Speaker 5: prongs onto it and it'll give you a percentage of
Speaker 5: how much moisture. But we know there's moisture there because
Speaker 5: there's bubbling paint. Paint doesn't bubble for no reason. It's
Speaker 5: usually moisture that's causing it. So it's a matter of
Speaker 5: now finding why the water is getting in there, whether
Speaker 5: it's a membrane breakdown, a pipe or leaking in from
Speaker 5: somewhere else.
Speaker 2: All right, one three one eight seven three to have
Speaker 2: a chat to Simon. We'll take a break back after this.
Speaker 2: It's eleven to eleven, eight to eleven times getting a way.
Speaker 2: Nathaniel Smith is CEO of Master Plumbers Association of New
Speaker 2: South Wales. Is called through Simon Nathaniel, good to chat
Speaker 2: again and you can help us out with where we
Speaker 2: should send people that want licensed plumbers.
Speaker 6: Mate, Yes, thank you, Luke, thank you, Simon, thank you.
Speaker 10: Important that you use license plumber if you have any
Speaker 10: plumbing issues, and the best way to do that is
Speaker 10: to go to master Plumbers dot com dot au and
Speaker 10: search for find a plumber and in that segment of
Speaker 10: the website you just put your postcode and you'll find
Speaker 10: a local licensed plumber. All about plumbers are licensed, they've
Speaker 10: got company licenses and they.
Speaker 11: Follow a code of ethnics.
Speaker 5: Yeah, excellent, fantastic mate. I really appreciate that. And as
Speaker 5: you said, you know, don't do plumbing yourself. Absolutely you
Speaker 5: need a license plumber. It's not something you're allowed to
Speaker 5: do yourself. Yeah, it is something you have to have
Speaker 5: a plumber to do.
Speaker 2: So thanks Nathaniel. Good to chat mate Bob online. One.
Speaker 2: We have to be quick with callers with apologies. Bob.
Speaker 2: How can we help you, mate?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I had a branch on the tree fall down
Speaker 11: onto the roof and crack the tile and with all
Speaker 11: the ryme came through and it splended on the ceiling,
Speaker 11: came through the insulation bat yep, and there's a big
Speaker 11: stain on the ceiling. I was just wondering do I
Speaker 11: have to replace that or can you as long.
Speaker 5: As long as there's no bowing to the ceiling, you know,
Speaker 5: as long as it hasn't collapsed at all, and it's
Speaker 5: only a stain itself, you need to put a stained
Speaker 5: ceiler on there. I use something called zinsap bin b
Speaker 5: i N. It's a red and white label, so it's
Speaker 5: a methylated spirits based paint and it will hold back
Speaker 5: those stains. So that's what you used to hold the
Speaker 5: stain back, and then you can put on a ceiling
Speaker 5: paint over the top.
Speaker 2: All right, best of Like Bob bros. How can we
Speaker 2: help you this morning?
Speaker 8: Yes, good morning, Simon Luke.
Speaker 4: Good one.
Speaker 8: I have very slippery tiles in both my bathrooms and
Speaker 8: here's a rubber mass in the show. But I'm still
Speaker 8: terrified at going to fall. Is there anything I can
Speaker 8: put on the tiles other than ripping them up that
Speaker 8: would make them less slippery?
Speaker 5: Look, you can try a product called d T a
Speaker 5: anti slip, available at a tile shops sometimes at Bunnings
Speaker 5: or might a ten might carry it as well. So
Speaker 5: it's the three letters d T a anti slip. And
Speaker 5: what you do is you actually put that onto the surface,
Speaker 5: let it sit for fifteen minutes. And it microscopically etches
Speaker 5: the surface of your tiles. It says in the directions
Speaker 5: to do an inconspicuous area. So if you've got a
Speaker 5: spare tile, first try it out, okay, before you go
Speaker 5: doing the whole bathroom.
Speaker 2: Okay, So dta anti slip yep Ross. I've got the
Speaker 2: same problem in Feares and I'll be doing that in
Speaker 2: the next week. And thank you so much for calling, Margaret.
Speaker 2: Don't hang up to stay there. I'm sure Simon'll chat
Speaker 2: to you briefly on the way out. Good to see you, mate,
Speaker 2: Good to see you mate. I'm glad you survived the
Speaker 2: four you told us about that. People got to be careful,
Speaker 2: don't Well.
Speaker 5: Look, I've contacted the ladder company. I found a little
Speaker 5: bit of a designed faulge in the ladder.
Speaker 4: Which I think needs to be changed. Well, see what happens.
Speaker 2: We'll maybe talk about this next week. See you mate.
Speaker 2: Thanks great stuff, Thank you Simon Stevenson