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Speaker 2: Simon Stevenson, good morning.
Speaker 3: Good morning mane, how are you.
Speaker 2: I'm well, lovely to see you, as I was saying
Speaker 2: to you off air and nor Glass advertise here. I'm
Speaker 2: a very bad painter, but nor Glass I had to
Speaker 2: do some timber trim yep, and I thought I did
Speaker 2: a half decent job. I was careful, but typically for
Speaker 2: me that would leave a little bits of quite And
Speaker 2: it just looks so good And it's not me, it's
Speaker 2: the product. It just saves people like me who might
Speaker 2: otherwise think our paintings are snack Yep. It actually they're
Speaker 2: so good that they're pretty hard to stuff them up.
Speaker 3: Mate. It's Look, that's why I love the product so much,
Speaker 3: and I've been raving about it for years, is because
Speaker 3: not only are they a small Australian company, but just
Speaker 3: they make just the most amazing products, absolutely top notch. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's hard to find these days, really is Yes. I
Speaker 3: mean I use certain products from different paint companies because
Speaker 3: they've got some good products and some really bad ones.
Speaker 3: Yeah where nor Glass, I've gone through many of their products.
Speaker 3: Every one of them is second to none.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, outstanding one three, one eight seven three is
Speaker 2: the number we've got callers to get to. But before
Speaker 2: we do that, let's talk about paint. Sheene what is
Speaker 2: I guess we said there's low sheine high sen semiglass.
Speaker 2: They used to be flat when I was growing up.
Speaker 2: I don't every still is, Matt, what's the difference?
Speaker 3: Look, it's really important to know the difference and use
Speaker 3: them in the right spot. I mean, I was working
Speaker 3: on a heritage listed house this week. We had a
Speaker 3: big long hallway right and big set of doors down
Speaker 3: a far end of the hallway which let a lot
Speaker 3: of light shine right down that hallway. We painted the walls.
Speaker 3: Thought we'd doing in low sheene to start with, because
Speaker 3: we thought, okay, make them nice and washable, because low
Speaker 3: sheine's more washable than a flat or even a mat,
Speaker 3: and the mats are pretty good. But it shown up
Speaker 3: every little tiny hump and bump and you know, in
Speaker 3: the walls, and without completely skimming the entire wall and
Speaker 3: then sanding it, which would have been a huge amount
Speaker 3: of work, we just changed the sheene level. We went
Speaker 3: to a mate finish a little bit less sheen. The
Speaker 3: difference was incredible, and I just thought it might be
Speaker 3: important to let people know that, you know, like using
Speaker 3: that right sheen to get the right finish here after.
Speaker 3: So if you've got, you know, timberwork that might be
Speaker 3: a just a little bit old and imperfection, go to
Speaker 3: a semigloss. Don't use a full gloss because you really
Speaker 3: need top notch quality stuff when you're dealing with glosses bathrooms.
Speaker 3: Make sure you use a kitchen of bathroom paint, or
Speaker 3: at least a low sheine. And that's because of steam.
Speaker 3: I can't see you the amount of times I go
Speaker 3: into bathrooms. They're moldy and they've been painted in a
Speaker 3: flat paint which is porous and just going to trap
Speaker 3: all that mold and all that steam, and that's why
Speaker 3: they go moldy.
Speaker 2: So really important that that is such an interesting observation.
Speaker 2: I think many people would say, oh, lowchine would be
Speaker 2: the same as Matt yep or a flat finish. Obviously
Speaker 2: it's not absolutely not. Look you don't want to really
Speaker 2: use flats on walls. Matt is really good. It's that
Speaker 2: next step up. So there's a percentage.
Speaker 3: And look, even different paint companies will have different sheen
Speaker 3: levels and different percentage of sheen. So have a look
Speaker 3: at it when you go in, ask the question how
Speaker 3: much sheene do I get this? And you can sort
Speaker 3: of work out what's the best for you.
Speaker 2: What's eggshell?
Speaker 3: Eggshell is in between the mat and then the lo sheine.
Speaker 3: So you think about an egg and you look at it,
Speaker 3: you think, okay, there's no shine there, but there is.
Speaker 3: It's a little bit more of a washable thing.
Speaker 2: Did you tell the difference when you're looking at a wall.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, Like you try to look down the
Speaker 3: edge of a wall and sort of get a bit
Speaker 3: of an idea of what sort of sheen level it is. Yeah,
Speaker 3: But like I say, and generally when you put lo
Speaker 3: sheine paint on a wall or something like that, it
Speaker 3: will be shinier when you first put it on. It
Speaker 3: will dull down. Over a period of time, like a
Speaker 3: week or two, it'll start to lose a little bit
Speaker 3: of that sheen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, great information. One, three, one, eight, seven, and three.
Speaker 2: Good morning Ray, How can we help?
Speaker 4: Hello? Good morning morning Ray. I have I have a
Speaker 4: water leak underneath the kitchen seek and it's ruined all
Speaker 4: the cupboards. So I want to know who I get
Speaker 4: in to try and fix that up. I don't want
Speaker 4: to replace the whole kitchen. I just want to fix
Speaker 4: up those bank of cupboards that have suffered from the
Speaker 4: water damage.
Speaker 3: Look, I don't know whether you're going to find a
Speaker 3: kitchen company to do that. It's probably quite a small job.
Speaker 3: A handyman might be able to He might be able
Speaker 3: to remove parts of a cupboard and then build you
Speaker 3: one to match. That would probably be where I would go,
Speaker 3: as you know, a good handy man and should be
Speaker 3: able to do that sort of work, or a carpenter.
Speaker 3: You don't need to build it, definitely not. Some of
Speaker 3: the smaller kitchen companies might do it, but I think
Speaker 3: you might be better off with a handyman.
Speaker 2: The trouble is, I don't know if this is your issue, Ray,
Speaker 2: but you're seeing even in bathroom vanities that you might
Speaker 2: buy them, and they've got particle board, and some water
Speaker 2: gets in and all of a sudden it breaks it down.
Speaker 2: What happened to you is that like that, Ray?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so that the climbing sprung a leak and
Speaker 4: it was spraying water inside the car and I didn't
Speaker 4: realize it was until the water started leaking out the
Speaker 4: front of the car. And when I'm inside the whole
Speaker 4: particle board or whatever it is, it's all swelled up
Speaker 4: and deteriorating.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know why kitchen companies, and I know
Speaker 3: there are different grades of cupboards you can get when
Speaker 3: you order through a kitchen company, but I don't understand
Speaker 3: why kitchen companies, especially for under sinks, yes, don't use
Speaker 3: something that's one hundred percent waterproof, you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: it doesn't it make common sense to say, right that
Speaker 3: area could spring a leak, let's put something in there
Speaker 3: that doesn't get affected by it.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hello rocket knock knock knock. Hey guys, thank you, Ray, Paul,
Speaker 2: good morning. How can we help you, mate?
Speaker 7: Good morning morning, Simon program.
Speaker 3: Thanks thanks, so we have.
Speaker 7: My question relates to a timber deck. It's a large
Speaker 7: kimber deck at the back of our house. Yep, it's painted.
Speaker 7: It's painted. We want to change the color to a
Speaker 7: timber look. So my question is, would you recommend stripping
Speaker 7: it all back, which has got a problem with the
Speaker 7: paint in between the timber planks, or just repainting over
Speaker 7: it to get that timber look.
Speaker 3: Okay, So when you say paint, it's a solid paint
Speaker 3: finish correct, correct? Okay? And has it got nails or
Speaker 3: screws in the timber?
Speaker 7: Good question. It's got screws, okay, screws, A.
Speaker 3: Lot of screws, okay, a lot of screws. Look, you
Speaker 3: can get companies to come in and you know they
Speaker 3: do floor sanding. My floor sander does this and I've
Speaker 3: got him about to do a deck for me. But
Speaker 3: it's big wide boards. So it's the one forty wide
Speaker 3: boards and it is screwed down. Hopefully the screws are
Speaker 3: below the timber, the surface of the timber, because otherwise
Speaker 3: you've got to set the you know, pull the screws out,
Speaker 3: put them back, you know, counter sync them so they
Speaker 3: go a little bit lower. But you can get those
Speaker 3: decks sanded and then start to oil them again if
Speaker 3: that's what you'd like to go. Just remember, if you
Speaker 3: are going to oil tom it is a constant maintenance
Speaker 3: thing where paint work will last you a lot longer
Speaker 3: than an oil finish, So you really need to weigh
Speaker 3: up the options of that if you do want to
Speaker 3: go down the paint road. I have used a Cabot's
Speaker 3: deck paint, so not a Cabot's deck oil. That's been
Speaker 3: really good, really good. It's probably one of the best
Speaker 3: paints I've seen, because you've got to You can't go
Speaker 3: using something like du Luxe weather shield on a deck
Speaker 3: to paint because it's too soft and you cannot walk
Speaker 3: on it. It's sticky and it's just it'll end up
Speaker 3: making a mess. You need something a little bit harder wearing.
Speaker 3: So the cabin scene is.
Speaker 7: From a cost perspective, doesn't it, And also I don't
Speaker 7: have to stand down the deck as well.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and look, give it a really good pressure wash
Speaker 3: and then you know, I think use that Cabot's deck
Speaker 3: stuff down works really really well. I'm a big fan
Speaker 3: of it. And pick a timber color, something that's sort
Speaker 3: of natural to the bush, something that goes real well.
Speaker 3: I think you'd be really happy with it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Paul, best of luck. And in two of
Speaker 2: oiling a deck, you and I have spoken about it
Speaker 2: at a water based oil which yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, look there's a few out there now. I've used
Speaker 3: one called Spa and Deck, which I'm a big fan of.
Speaker 3: It's a water based product and you actually wet the timber.
Speaker 3: If it's bear timber, you wet the timber first before
Speaker 3: applying the coat. So it's really crazy and you can
Speaker 3: do three or four coats in one day.
Speaker 2: Oh that's me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all over it.
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Speaker 2: So Pam, how can we help you this morning? Good morning,
Speaker 2: Good morning, Pam.
Speaker 6: Oh, good morning guys. I have this. I've been told
Speaker 6: I need underpinning. I have this crack from one end
Speaker 6: of the wall in the land room. Only that one
Speaker 6: wall from one end right across, not in a straight line,
Speaker 6: just coming down. I did bring one place, they said,
Speaker 6: oh no, I range someone else. They did come out,
Speaker 6: they said, yes, you need underpinning. We'll send you the forms.
Speaker 6: Never heard from them again, right a few times. I
Speaker 6: don't know who else to ring.
Speaker 3: All right, Pam, what area are you in? I mean
Speaker 3: and Russell Lee okay.
Speaker 6: And they're all older homes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Look, can you do me a favor? Send
Speaker 3: me an email if you can, Simon at Simon's House
Speaker 3: dot com dot au, and I'll see if I can
Speaker 3: sort this out for you.
Speaker 2: And Pam, don't hang up, kitty. We'll talk to you
Speaker 2: off here to make sure you can do that. We'll
Speaker 2: find a way for you to do that, so don't
Speaker 2: hang up. To stay right there. Gooday, Bob, good hi mate?
Speaker 2: Can we help Bob.
Speaker 8: Well, I've got a odds through bathroom that was painted
Speaker 8: in December twenty three, and it was painted with Taurman's
Speaker 8: I think a water paper specifically for bathrooms. Now there's
Speaker 8: spots of mold coming in it. What's the best thing
Speaker 8: to coin it with? That's what I'd like to know.
Speaker 3: Eighty percent vinegar and twenty percent water. That will kill
Speaker 3: the spores of the mold and stop it coming back.
Speaker 3: So just make a mixture of that up and just
Speaker 3: wash that over the walls and then leave it sit
Speaker 3: for about fifteen minutes and then give it a rinse.
Speaker 3: That will solve the problem completely. It'll kill those spores,
Speaker 3: all right, Simon, thanks sure.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Good on, Bob. Morning Pat, how can we assist?
Speaker 5: Yes, good morning, Simon. Morning. Look, Hi, I've got a
Speaker 5: concrete patio out the back that's got cracks in it
Speaker 5: that the water seeps away through. And I was wondering
Speaker 5: what I could seal it with.
Speaker 3: If you look, you need to paint it probably, and
Speaker 3: there is a product called sports coat. Now it is
Speaker 3: a waterproof membrane, but you're able to walk over it. Okay.
Speaker 3: So it's a really thick rubberized sort of painting. And
Speaker 3: they paint and they use it for like tennis courts
Speaker 3: and things like that. But it'll stretch and it'll be
Speaker 3: able to give you seal that. So it is something
Speaker 3: you're going to have to paint in a color, all right.
Speaker 3: There's a company called color Maker Industries. They're the ones
Speaker 3: that make it. But it's absolutely brilliant and it is walkable.
Speaker 3: So you just roll that on the surface and it'll
Speaker 3: fill up all those cracks and it'll stop water getting
Speaker 3: in as well.
Speaker 5: Yes, because they're up to six millimeters wide some of them.
Speaker 3: Oh that's quite wid.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's why I was wondering there anything I could
Speaker 5: put in the crack.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, if they're that wide, you might need something else.
Speaker 3: You're probably going to need some sort of concrete filler
Speaker 3: for that. Now I know that if Bunnings do carry
Speaker 3: some in bottles that you can fill crack in concrete.
Speaker 3: So it's in the waterproofing section of Bunnings, and I'm
Speaker 3: pretty sure that the company that makes it is better
Speaker 3: B E. T. T. A. I don't remember the name
Speaker 3: of the product, but if you go there, it's in
Speaker 3: little bottles, almost like a tomato sauce bottle with a
Speaker 3: little nozzle out of it and you can just squeeze
Speaker 3: that into the crack and it will fill it.
Speaker 2: Excellent. That's sports the best of luck, Pats, thank you.
Speaker 2: That sports code sounds like a good product, you know,
Speaker 2: if you buy it in white, if they give you
Speaker 2: a pink carnation. I've been waiting all day for that. Christina,
Speaker 2: How can we assist.
Speaker 5: Chris, Christina?
Speaker 2: But good morning, good morning, good morning morning.
Speaker 8: Good morning.
Speaker 6: This is Christina. I have a problem with my windows.
Speaker 8: The rubber at the bottom of the window falling through
Speaker 8: them from the brick work and there's a big gap. Now,
Speaker 8: how do I fix that?
Speaker 3: Are you talking about aluminum windows? So you'll have a
Speaker 3: flashing at the bottom of the window. Is that what
Speaker 3: you're talking about where it goes on to the concrete. Okay,
Speaker 3: so that's probably torn at the bottom. You may need
Speaker 3: to try and find the brand of window. I don't
Speaker 3: know whether something like Clark Rubber might be able to
Speaker 3: supply you with something like that. And I know that
Speaker 3: the Bunnings now are carrying a big range of different
Speaker 3: rubbers supplies down there in any section. I just bought
Speaker 3: some from the bottom of a garage door. So try
Speaker 3: Bunnings first have a look there. They may be able
Speaker 3: to replace it or go to Clark Rubber, and if not,
Speaker 3: you're going to have to get a window manufacturer and
Speaker 3: see what they win with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Christina, best of luck. Thank you so much for calling.
Speaker 1: Gee.
Speaker 2: We're being all over the joint today, have great questions.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Thanks mate.
Speaker 2: Listeners. Is there a difference between cleaning vinegar and actual
Speaker 2: vinegar when it comes to killing mold?
Speaker 3: Asks Matt, No, not that I know of. I don't
Speaker 3: know whether the cleaning v might be a little bit stronger,
Speaker 3: but the recipe I was given by a mold expert
Speaker 3: many years ago was the eighty percent white vinegar and
Speaker 3: twenty percent water and I've used it and it works fantastic.
Speaker 2: In ten seconds or less. What treatment to a wooden
Speaker 2: outdoor furniture going moldy during due to high humidity in Bunderberg?
Speaker 3: Okay, So I would clean the surface down with a
Speaker 3: timber reviver first, and then you can put things like
Speaker 3: waxes or oils on the timber as well, and that'll
Speaker 3: stop it from going moldy. You want to stop that
Speaker 3: moisture getting into the timber.
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