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Speaker 2: call right now. Hello am my friend, Hello mate, you're well,
Speaker 2: I'm well?
Speaker 3: Thank you good?
Speaker 2: Yeah, not too bad at all. We wanted to start
Speaker 2: off by talking about window tinting. I nearly said tindo winting.
Speaker 2: I don't know why, but I nearly did. Can I
Speaker 2: make a real difference to the temperature on the house
Speaker 2: against you? If we've got full sun and you don't
Speaker 2: want it, might you know what?
Speaker 4: Do you know what's amazing? We get our cars window tinted,
Speaker 4: don't we. Yeah, And we do that for temperature and
Speaker 4: a little bit of privacy too, and it's the same
Speaker 4: with your home. I had a house years ago. I
Speaker 4: had windows facing directly east, and in the morning.
Speaker 3: That lound room used to get so hot.
Speaker 4: I had window tinting done and I ended up taking
Speaker 4: all the blinds down and it was amazing because we
Speaker 4: had a bit of a view and we were able
Speaker 4: to take the blinds down because the blinds were there
Speaker 4: to try and stop the heat coming into the room.
Speaker 4: And it just made a massive difference. I reckon at
Speaker 4: least ten degrees difference in the mornings in that lound room,
Speaker 4: so my air conditioner didn't have to work so hard.
Speaker 4: And you know, the other thing is there's so many
Speaker 4: different tints now from almost completely clear tint.
Speaker 3: So if you do have a view, the clear.
Speaker 4: Tint is there and it's designed. You know, obviously it's
Speaker 4: not going to put a darkness on the windows. But
Speaker 4: what it does is it stops the UV coming through
Speaker 4: the glass. And the amounts of UV that comes through
Speaker 4: from the sun can damage things like carpet, timber, flooring, furniture,
Speaker 4: even curtains themselves. If you have curtains up for many years,
Speaker 4: they will break down from the UV.
Speaker 3: They'll just tend to fall apart.
Speaker 4: So thinking about getting your windows tinted can make a huge,
Speaker 4: huge difference to your home.
Speaker 2: Is it something you can do yourself or should you
Speaker 2: get an expert or trading or someone to do it
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 4: There are tints available at hardware stores that you can
Speaker 4: get yourself, but truly, I've tried to do it. It's
Speaker 4: not as easy as it looks, okay like really because.
Speaker 2: It is a thin film, isn't it. You've got to
Speaker 2: be and it's full of glue, so.
Speaker 4: It's a thin filmy so you know you've got to
Speaker 4: be able to cut it to size. Your glass has
Speaker 4: to be perfectly clean as well, so you've got to
Speaker 4: make sure that you run over the glass with a
Speaker 4: blade to clean any sort of imperfections off. You know,
Speaker 4: it's quite time consuming and to watch the professionals do it.
Speaker 3: It's one of those jobs where you know, there's a few.
Speaker 4: Jobs tiling, rendering, obviously electrical and plumbing, but also window tinting,
Speaker 4: which I think one of those ones to leave to professionals, definitely,
Speaker 4: but definitely worth looking at. And if you do have
Speaker 4: old window tints and you want to get it off,
Speaker 4: if it's starting to break down, because it does have
Speaker 4: a lifespan, put newspaper onto the glass internally, because window
Speaker 4: tints always are played from inside.
Speaker 3: Put newspaper on.
Speaker 4: The glass and then spray it with water and keep
Speaker 4: it wet for a good while, an hour or so,
Speaker 4: and then that tint.
Speaker 3: Will just peel right off. Is that right, that's a
Speaker 3: simple solution to give it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't know that, all right? One three one
Speaker 2: eight seven three Grace, good morning. How can we help you?
Speaker 5: Oh, good morning, Luke and Simon.
Speaker 3: Morning.
Speaker 5: Problem in the shower, recess one tile, the one that
Speaker 5: you tend to step onto getting in, is losing its
Speaker 5: surface ceramic and revealing the terra cotta color of the
Speaker 5: tile underneath.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's unusual.
Speaker 4: I mean the tiles are usually they got a glaze
Speaker 4: or something on them, and they shouldn't normally lose that.
Speaker 4: And I don't know why one one tile would have
Speaker 4: you tried giving it a really good clean to make
Speaker 4: sure that it is definitely losing its sheen.
Speaker 3: Just take oh.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, you can pick up a little sliver of it.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: So it's obviously breaking down. And look whether you can
Speaker 4: get a tiler to come in and replace one tile,
Speaker 4: It may be a little bit difficult.
Speaker 3: The other option would be maybe to paint that tile,
Speaker 3: and you need.
Speaker 4: To use a two pack of POxy something from an
Speaker 4: all glass or something. You could fill it and then
Speaker 4: paint it so it could match the tiles that are
Speaker 4: already there.
Speaker 3: So that is another option to think about.
Speaker 5: Oh do golly so yes, it wouldn't be a good
Speaker 5: idea to try and remove one tile, would.
Speaker 4: Look The problem you've got is if you're removing a
Speaker 4: floor tile that you're stepping on, you're then compromising the
Speaker 4: waterproof membrane underneath.
Speaker 3: So you're better off trying to repair if possible.
Speaker 2: Okay, good luck, Grace, thank you for calling on the
Speaker 2: text good a. Luke and Simon. A few weeks ago,
Speaker 2: Simon spoke about a sealer for putting in small cracks
Speaker 2: on concrete driveways. Simon, could you please mention the product
Speaker 2: name again, Dug on the Gold Coast.
Speaker 3: Okay, Doug.
Speaker 4: It was called ePIE Res one two three, so ep
Speaker 4: i r z epi res one two three. And it
Speaker 4: comes in like a tomato sauce bottle with a little tube,
Speaker 4: you know, and you just squirt it into that crack.
Speaker 4: It seeps the way down, and what you do is
Speaker 4: you keep going back and forth to the crack till
Speaker 4: it will not accept anymore.
Speaker 3: It does then foam up.
Speaker 4: A little bit and fill that crack up and it
Speaker 4: will then give it full strength back to normal.
Speaker 2: And when it foams up, does it go outside of
Speaker 2: the crack? Do you end up having it sound?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Look we did, we did it.
Speaker 4: We did a garage floor where we did end up
Speaker 4: sanding that because we ended up putting a coating over
Speaker 4: the top.
Speaker 3: Of the garage floor after wards. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And that depends on the size of the crack too.
Speaker 4: That is designed for hairline cracks.
Speaker 3: Or bigger, just a little bit bigger. You're not going
Speaker 3: to do something ten mils wide with that, Okay?
Speaker 2: And what's it called again?
Speaker 3: EPI Res one two three?
Speaker 2: Okay, Simon, I have an outdoor table that's stained and sealed.
Speaker 2: I want to paint it. What prep is required? And
Speaker 2: can I use water based paint?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 4: Yes, you can use a water based paint if it
Speaker 4: is stained and sealed. I would use an oil based
Speaker 4: primer on their first, so sand the coating. Make sure
Speaker 4: that you have got a solid surface to work from.
Speaker 4: Then use something you can use either the nor Glass
Speaker 4: Universal Primer their primer, or you can use something like
Speaker 4: Zinza Cover stain is another product you could use, and
Speaker 4: then you can go over wa the water base.
Speaker 3: I would go with a water based.
Speaker 4: Enamel, it's going to be a little bit harder wearing
Speaker 4: than just something like a Dulux weather shield, because when
Speaker 4: you put plates and cups and things down, you want
Speaker 4: to be a little bit harder wearing.
Speaker 2: Okay, good on your David. Hope that helps. Now give
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Speaker 2: eleven o'clock. Patricia, Good morning to you. How can we
Speaker 2: assist you?
Speaker 6: Good morning, Simon and Luke.
Speaker 5: I'd like to ask how what to do to the
Speaker 5: surface of tinted windows that have already have a Marx
Speaker 5: on them. But there's been a painter in and there
Speaker 5: are marks from the painter, and there's just a Mars
Speaker 5: on the tinted surface. It's been there a few years
Speaker 5: and I don't want to remove it.
Speaker 4: Okay, Simon, do you know if it is a water
Speaker 4: based paint that he's got on there, or if it
Speaker 4: is an oil based paint. Do you know that whether
Speaker 4: he's got what's on the surface of the tint.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's the water based paint. Okay, well no it's
Speaker 5: Molly No, it's not No, No, the windows were done
Speaker 5: with oiled window.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, if it's on the tint, there's nothing you can
Speaker 4: do to get it off. There's there's no remover that's
Speaker 4: going to take that off that won't damage the tint.
Speaker 4: So unfortunately, I think you're going to have to get
Speaker 4: the windows retinted again. If it was water based, I
Speaker 4: could definitely help you there, but oil based, No way.
Speaker 5: Can tell me what if it's water based from the
Speaker 5: plastering that's done earlier and not the other because there's
Speaker 5: been both tradesmen here.
Speaker 6: What would I do if it wore the.
Speaker 4: Water based If you can get to a Mito ten
Speaker 4: store or an inspiration paints or something, get a product
Speaker 4: called lift off and it has got an acrylic paint remover,
Speaker 4: and try spraying some on a cloth and rubbing it
Speaker 4: on the surface. Just try an inconspicuous area first, just
Speaker 4: to you know, just so it doesn't checked, it doesn't
Speaker 4: damage the tint, but it should work.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's that called lift So lift off.
Speaker 4: And it is the acrylic paint remover of it so
Speaker 4: it works really really well.
Speaker 2: Now this note from Lisa, Thank you Lisa. We were
Speaker 2: hoping to lay laminate floorboards over our existing timber floor,
Speaker 2: the original ones when we bought the house. But the
Speaker 2: floor isn't level so the new boards won't be flush
Speaker 2: and the installers can't give a guarantee on them. What
Speaker 2: options do we have other than ripping up the existing
Speaker 2: boards and replacing them. We have the option of tiling.
Speaker 2: How does that work on existing flooring? Is that easier
Speaker 2: with regards to our leveling issue?
Speaker 4: Okay, so you can't tile over floorboards. It has to
Speaker 4: be like a cement sheet to get tile over, Otherwise
Speaker 4: those those tiles will crack when it comes to your
Speaker 4: floorboards that you're putting over the top. There are self
Speaker 4: leveling products, but I don't know how that's going to
Speaker 4: go sticking to the floorboards either. So land Co make
Speaker 4: a self leveling product. I would contact land Co themselves.
Speaker 4: It's available at the hardware stores and ask them if
Speaker 4: you can put that over a timber floor. And what
Speaker 4: you do is you mix up at a bucket and
Speaker 4: pour it itself levels over that surface. So that's what
Speaker 4: they use for leveling. Your other option is maybe try
Speaker 4: a vinyl. People forget about vinyl.
Speaker 3: Vinyl is an amazing option and you can get it
Speaker 3: that looks like timber. Yeah, I love it. It's warm
Speaker 3: under the feet, it's a bit softer than timber.
Speaker 4: Before you can spill a bucket of water and it's
Speaker 4: not going to be affected. I really think people just
Speaker 4: forget about vinyl all the time.
Speaker 3: It's not like the sixties.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: I showed you those hybrid square hybrid vinyl granite looking
Speaker 2: flooring I put on in the in the laundry, and
Speaker 2: you are so right, and you think vinyl vinyl, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to put liner. It doesn't have to be
Speaker 2: that at all.
Speaker 4: It's nothing like what it was in the sixties. I
Speaker 4: mean there is ones that.
Speaker 2: Look that you and I were around in the sixties. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: that's only what people tell us.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: All right, So vinyl is an option and land code
Speaker 2: is at l A N get it right, Yeah, all right, Peter,
Speaker 2: good morning, good morning.
Speaker 6: How are you going?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 6: Good good, Yeah, thanks for taking the call. Look, there's
Speaker 6: there's an issue I've got with some walls in a unit.
Speaker 6: So there was some pairs of the roof because waters
Speaker 6: water was coming down the walls that's been repaired, it's
Speaker 6: been painted through the insurance. But now when we look
Speaker 6: at the wall, there seems to be it looks like
Speaker 6: water marks still down the wall even though it's been painted,
Speaker 6: but it doesn't seem to be wet.
Speaker 4: I'm just wondering when you say water marks is when
Speaker 4: you say water marks is like a brown light brown
Speaker 4: stain coming through something like that brown?
Speaker 6: What you what it looks like. It looks like it's streaking,
Speaker 6: It's like a lighter color.
Speaker 4: Okay, So what what I'd say is happening is you're
Speaker 4: getting something bleeding through that paint. They've probably just gone
Speaker 4: straight over with an acrylic paint. You need to prime
Speaker 4: that surface with a stained seiler something like the zin
Speaker 4: Zabin b i N that's completely going to solve that issue.
Speaker 4: And then you go over with the acrylic paints. So
Speaker 4: whoever did the painting hasn't done the job properly. They
Speaker 4: haven't solved the stain issue first.
Speaker 2: Okay, if you've got to go back and do that,
Speaker 2: go back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I'd contact the insurance company and so listen,
Speaker 4: that's this is not right.
Speaker 3: It needs to be fixed.
Speaker 2: Properly, Okay, right, see how you go with that, Peter. Now,
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