1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,240 Speaker 1: Best time of the day. I get to say good 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: afternoon and welcome to our number four. You're at home 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: with Gary Salvin. The sun is out. It looks warm. 4 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,479 Speaker 1: I'm inside. I can't tell you it looks warm. It 5 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:16,919 Speaker 1: looks great, says it's about fifty right now. Oh so 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: it's not that warm. It just looks warm. Man, Was 7 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: this a gloomy weak or wouldn't any boy? Oh jeez, 8 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: killing me, killing me? All right, let me open up 9 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: the phone lines. Danny's back so he can take your calls. 10 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. 11 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,200 Speaker 1: Go ahead and grab a line there, wide open. We'll 12 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 1: be happy to chat with you about your home project 13 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: this hour. Precision Pipeworks is the sponsor. 14 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 2: Uh. 15 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: You don't have to dig up your yard to fix 16 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: your sewer line. Precision Pipeworks. There are no dig There 17 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: are the sewer line repair experts in the Tri State. 18 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: You can say thousands, you can maintain your landscape. You 19 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: can get your problem fixed in hours, not days. Again, 20 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: the name of that is Precision Pipeworks. You can check 21 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,960 Speaker 1: them out at Precision pipeworks dot com. Tell them Gary 22 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 1: sent you, and uh, you know it's a problem you 23 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: don't want to have, but by golly, if you have it, 24 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: I guess we can minimize the pocketbook damage and landscaping 25 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: damage at the same time. So good luck with that. 26 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: I'm glad, uh right now, I don't have that problem. 27 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: It seems like if you own a home, you always 28 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: got one problem. That's one I don't have. All right. 29 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 1: Our number is eight hundred eight two three eight two 30 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: five five. Grab that line. Happy to chat with you 31 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: as we continue to talk about your home. We have 32 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: another hour to go, so uh, jump on board. Let's 33 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: go to don don welcome. 34 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 2: Okay, how you doing, sir? 35 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: Doing fine? I think good. 36 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, I just just hadn't. Couple of years ago, I 37 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 2: had a guy put decks on and unfortunately I find 38 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 2: out later you know, and I, you know, shame on 39 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 2: me because I didn't do my research and they didn't 40 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 2: do they didn't get permits or anything. And I'm concerned 41 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 2: about when I sell that house. You know, what's going 42 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 2: to happen. I got to make I don't know, you know, 43 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 2: because it's it's you know, a lot of decks I 44 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,359 Speaker 2: got put on, I got a I got had one, 45 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 2: two three, three decks put on and uh, you know, 46 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 2: it cost me pretty much money, and you know. 47 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I don't know what's gonna happen. I 48 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: think i'd be more concerned since there was no permits 49 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: and there was no uh you know, final blessing off 50 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: on the structure itself. Yeah, is to have it inspected 51 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: and just make sure it's up to speed. I think 52 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: that's probably more important and probably more likely to bite 53 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: you than the other. 54 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 2: And well, and you know, well, I've heard ny matters 55 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 2: about where the county that I lived in, or that 56 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 2: if you build something, you know, After I found this out, 57 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 2: I started checking around and they made people tear it down, 58 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 2: and I even was able to contact my former uh 59 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:20,679 Speaker 2: the former owner, and they said, you know that her 60 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 2: husband had built a foot stairs in and all this 61 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 2: stuff on going up a hill and built a little 62 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 2: shit up our little sitting place and he didn't get 63 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 2: it permit and somebody read it on him and he 64 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 2: went They went out and made him tear it down. Well, 65 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 2: what concerns me if I go to sell it, they're 66 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 2: going to check on all that and then I'm in big. 67 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: Well, I it sounds like they might in your county, 68 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: And I guess That's really what it comes down to. Now, 69 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: there's a couple of things we can do maybe to 70 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 1: get the information rather than going to the county and saying, hey, 71 00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: I play guilty, uh, which I'm all about transparency. Maybe 72 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: that's where you end up, but I'd rather not do that. 73 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: Let's just kind of think this thing through. Maybe it's 74 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: a matter. There's two other avenues I would consider, and 75 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 1: the first doesn't really address your issue, it addresses my issue. 76 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:25,359 Speaker 1: You could get a structural engineer or a or a 77 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: a home inspector having do a deck inspection. Let's make 78 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 1: sure that that thing is built the code, okay, because 79 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:40,679 Speaker 1: you know, getting the permits and everything is all about 80 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: the safety. You know, people all say it's about a 81 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,360 Speaker 1: money grab, but it's really about the safety. Is that 82 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: thing properly built right? And you know if you if 83 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 1: it gets blessed off that you know it's structurally sound, 84 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: it's done properly. Blah blah blah blah blah. 85 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 2: Well I can I can tell you not to interrupt you, 86 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,839 Speaker 2: but I can tell you that I did have somebody 87 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 2: come out and look a professional builder remodeler. I did 88 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 2: have them look at it. When I found all this 89 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 2: out and I thought I was going to be in trouble. 90 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,840 Speaker 2: And they looked at it and the main thing they 91 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 2: found was that they didn't put flashing around the you know, 92 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 2: right where the yeah we're it mounts to the house. 93 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 2: They didn't put flashing on it. But you know, somebody's 94 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 2: the less you know, suggested to me that. But that 95 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 2: was going to cost me a lot of money to 96 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 2: have them do it, you know, and I thought, well, 97 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 2: and then uh, somebody said, well, you know, just take that. 98 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 2: You know, I don't want to do an advertisement for 99 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 2: that flex seal is it that put that or spray 100 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 2: that around up around your I can't met with a 101 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 2: band board or what I can't. 102 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 1: Without and without flashing that can lead to rot and 103 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: would rot anchoring your deck is a problem, right, And 104 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: I don't know Flexio is going to exacerbate or get 105 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: rid of that problem. It could do either depending. Yeah. 106 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,479 Speaker 2: Well, I know I've used it, you know, use the 107 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 2: stuff on like like water tanks and that kind of thing. 108 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 2: I mean it it holds. I mean I've had it 109 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 2: on some water tanks for like five years now and 110 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,720 Speaker 2: they still hold wonderfully, you know, out in the weather 111 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 2: all kinds of stuff, you know. 112 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: I thought, well, well, another option, you know, since you 113 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: know what it is, since you know it's not up 114 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 1: to code, it's going to be hard to go into 115 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 1: the deck and say, gee, I'm sorry, I never got 116 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 1: permits and they come out and say, we don't have fleshing. 117 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 1: You got to tear this down. I'm not saying they're 118 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 1: going to do that, but that would be reasonable, Okay, right, 119 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 1: so maybe the option. The other option would be maybe 120 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: contact a lawyer in that county, somebody that deals with 121 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 1: cantruction and ask them the same question you ask me, 122 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 1: what's the probability of you know, when I sell this 123 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: house and it goes through inspection, does it get to 124 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: the county? Do they you know, you know, express what 125 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: you're worried about and get their advice. 126 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 2: Okay, that sounds like that's good advice right there. So yeah, 127 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 2: I'll I'll look into that. Okay, Well, I appreciate your 128 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 2: time and talking. And uh. Only other thing that they 129 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 2: that they did find was the banisters the bottom, you know, 130 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 2: how the posts come up out right out of the ground. 131 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 2: They weren't I don't know, they weren't properly done, but 132 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 2: they're kind of you know, you push against they move, 133 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 2: you know. 134 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it could be a problem. Yeah, so usually 135 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: they would use a sona tube and create a pylon 136 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: and either either put a bracket and put your post 137 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: on top or sink your posts. So yeah, that would 138 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: be a problem. 139 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 2: Well, when I had I had somebody come out and 140 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 2: you know, look at it. You know, I don't want 141 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 2: to give their name, but you know, they came out, 142 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 2: looked at it, and they were good, and I thought, 143 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 2: pretty honest, but it didn't call. It cost me about 144 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 2: ten grand to do that. You know. I found out 145 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 2: later just that uh that you know, about the permit, 146 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, we'll shoot. I put all that extra 147 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 2: money in. Then I got it. You know what am 148 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 2: I going to do? You know? Then I'm out ten 149 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 2: thousand more dollars you know. 150 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, well it cost. 151 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 2: Me a lot to put those decks in. 152 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: That's why I said, that's you know, yeah, that's a 153 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: shame they didn't get permits on that. But yeah, well 154 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: you can find out what the you know, what the 155 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 1: probability of them checking that out. But I will say 156 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,959 Speaker 1: that if you sell the house, those two issues are 157 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: going to come up in the home inspection anyway. So 158 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: whether that gets the county I don't know, but it 159 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: will it will. So my my point is if it 160 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: comes up in the home inspection, it may cost you 161 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: that anyway. So all the playing that everybody does about permits, 162 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: this is the end result, this is what it's saving you. 163 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: Let's always give that some thought. All right, we're gonna 164 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 1: take a break in. Tim, I promise you'll be up first. 165 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: If you'd like to join us. It's eight hundred eighty 166 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: two three A two five five at home with Gary 167 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 1: Salvin right here in fifty five care see de talk 168 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: station all right, talking our way through the weekend, and 169 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: we're talking about your house. If you'd like to join us, 170 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 1: please do. It's eight hundred eight two three eight two 171 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 1: five five all right, Uh yeah, grab a line. They're 172 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: open so we can chat. We'll be with you till 173 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: one o'clock today and then mister Donnovan will be in 174 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:42,320 Speaker 1: to help you with your auto. Let's go to Tim. 175 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: Tim welcome, Hey. 176 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 3: Gary, appreciate taking my call. I have a question about 177 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 3: a washing machine. Drain the rest the rest of the 178 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 3: house drains fine, the showers, the saints, the commos, everything, 179 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 3: and we can do a small load, but then when 180 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 3: we put anything larger a medium or large or extra large, 181 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 3: it starts backing up out of the top of the 182 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,959 Speaker 3: pipe behind the washing machine. I think there might be 183 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 3: some roots maybe in the and the pipe that goes 184 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 3: out to the sewer system that is causing it to 185 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 3: back up that much water. Is there something that I 186 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 3: can put in there that would get rid of those 187 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 3: roots in the in the pipe. 188 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: About the only thing you can put down really, I mean, 189 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 1: you can prevent roots from growing, but once they're there, 190 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: tim the only way you're really going to get them 191 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: out is to you know, snake them out or grind 192 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 1: them out. And then the next step is the question. 193 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: The next question is how how the roots get in there? 194 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 1: You know, is the pipe with clay pipe and it's cracked? 195 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 1: Is it a clay pipe and it's separated? You know, 196 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 1: we have a lot of clay and that happens a lot. 197 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 1: So I would say, you know, you get somebody like 198 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: our friends of Rotor Uter who we had on the 199 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: show today, and snake that down there and see really 200 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 1: what you have because you're just guessing. I mean, I 201 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: don't know, maybe in an elbow there's an old sock 202 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 1: that's snagged on something. I don't know, something's impeding the 203 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: flow of the water. Obviously, when you get large volumes, 204 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: it's having a problem. Now, let me just go a 205 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: step further. Depending on the type of house, the size 206 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:48,319 Speaker 1: of house, and everything else, there's usually just one waistline 207 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 1: which goes down and throughout the house. Everything's kind of 208 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: tied into it. And then when it goes underground, you know, 209 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 1: they're all dealing with with the same issues. Right, So 210 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: again we get back to if there is roots, if 211 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: there is a separation in the pipe, If that is 212 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: the problem, I guess it would be because of the 213 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 1: volume of the water that's going down. But the only 214 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: way we're gonna know is we're gonna have to run 215 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 1: a snake through there, or run You're gonna run a 216 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 1: camera through there first and then end up running power 217 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 1: snake down through it. 218 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 3: If that is the problem, can they just go in 219 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 3: if they have to? 220 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:34,680 Speaker 2: I mean, I'd hate for them. 221 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:38,200 Speaker 3: To replace the entire line from the house all the 222 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,319 Speaker 3: way out to the sewer, you know that where it 223 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 3: dumps into the sewer. But can they just replace sections 224 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 3: of it or. 225 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: Well, there's different there's different things. Yeah, that's a great question. Actually, 226 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 1: I mentioned a company that sponsored this hour of the show. 227 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 1: It's called Precision Pipeworks, and what they do is they 228 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 1: do a liner. So if the if they if you 229 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:09,559 Speaker 1: get if you get it all cleaned out, and let's 230 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:15,080 Speaker 1: just say the pipe is crushed, it's misaligned. In other words, 231 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: the pipe has issues. Okay, you can replace it. It 232 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:27,439 Speaker 1: would depend but it depends on the type of pipe 233 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 1: that's underneath there too, So it depends whether they could 234 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: replace a section of it, or whether they have to 235 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: replace the whole line, or whether like Precision Pipe Works 236 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: can come in and actually put in It's a thermal 237 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: sock is what it is. So they you know, rot 238 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:52,559 Speaker 1: Ruter cleans it out, says, oh, you got to crush pipe. 239 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 1: We can fix this, and here's what this costs. You 240 00:13:56,360 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: can check with Precision. We have this thermal pipe, see 241 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 1: what the cost is. And what they do is they'll 242 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 1: just put this sock down the whole line, they'll inflate it, 243 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,960 Speaker 1: they'll heat it, and it'll just basically line the whole pipe. 244 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 1: It's kind of like a pipe within a pipe, and 245 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 1: you know, then you don't have to even dig up 246 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: the yard, and the reason they exist is what happens 247 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 1: if it goes underneath a driveway right when don't want 248 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: to be digging up the driveway and I'm playing worst 249 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: case scenario, but tim, quite honestly, it starts with you know, 250 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: rotor Reuter or a plumber out there, running a scope 251 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: down there, seeing what you got, snaking it out, and 252 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 1: then making a decision. Then then if it is the 253 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: pipe and it can't, you know, sometimes roots get in 254 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: just because there's a little joint there and once they 255 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 1: snake it out, every six months you'll be putting something 256 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: down the toilet to prevent and burn back root growth. 257 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 1: So I've given you the whole swing of events that 258 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: could be, you know, and there might not even be 259 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 1: any roots. It might just be you know, one of 260 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 1: the things we have problems with in wastelines right now 261 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 1: is is wipes, baby wipes and all kinds of wipes 262 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: like that. It could be that I don't know what 263 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 1: it is. You're not going to know to you, Okay, 264 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: get a camera down and see what's going on. 265 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 3: All right, you've helped a bunch. 266 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 2: I appreciate you, sir. 267 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: All right, you bet you have a great Thanksgiving Tim 268 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: all right again, it's eight hundred eight two three eight 269 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: two five five, and of course we're talking about your home, 270 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: and boy, there's just you know, a lot going on. 271 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: In fact, one of the things that is going to 272 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 1: go on real soon here in the next two weeks 273 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: is h I've already seen it. It's it's not quite 274 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 1: in full board, but it's coming is exterior home decorating. 275 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: And I am just well, I know it's a growing industry. 276 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 1: I know it's a growing bit business, but I'm still 277 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: just amazed the professional decorating that's taken place on houses, 278 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 1: I mean everywhere, especially newer subdivisions. And not against it, 279 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I'm just surprised that people, quite honestly, 280 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 1: can afford a couple thousand dollars to have their home 281 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 1: decorated for four weeks. They look beautiful, My gosh, they 282 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 1: look tremendous. But I have noticed that they're you know, 283 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: I mean, it's it is everybody. A lot of pest 284 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: control companies they do that. Now, window washers they do that. Now. 285 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: There are a lot of people in that business, and 286 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 1: but a lot of us still decorate our homes ourselves. 287 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 1: Some of us don't decorate our homes at all. So 288 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: I've got some tips on just safety and things to 289 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: conce as. I was chatting with Ron Wilson today, He's like, 290 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:05,919 Speaker 1: you know, I don't do that much anymore, but I 291 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 1: used to. I just kind of throw him up there 292 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,640 Speaker 1: and get he hated it. I was talking with Tom 293 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 1: Brenneman the other day on our Thursday Morning tips, and 294 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:18,320 Speaker 1: he's going, oh, I just absolutely despise that when my 295 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 1: wife says it's time time to start decorating the outside, Well, 296 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 1: I can't say I despise it. I kind of enjoy it. 297 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 1: If it's not ten degrees outside and it looks like 298 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: this afternoon it's above fifty. Tomorrow it's a little bit 299 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:41,400 Speaker 1: further above fifty, and Monday it's above fifteen. Now it's 300 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: going to rain somewhere in there. We all know that. 301 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: But if you're going to be decorating, maybe that's when 302 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 1: you want to decorate. And I've got some tips for 303 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 1: you in terms of safety, mainly the no nos and 304 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: it starts with the ladder, so we'll cover that when 305 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 1: I come back, along with your calls. It's eight hundred 306 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:08,360 Speaker 1: eight two three eight two five five and you're at 307 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 1: home with Garry Salvin right here. I'm fifty five cares 308 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 1: De talk station, all right, talking a little home improvement. 309 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:17,440 Speaker 1: Happy to take your cause. It's eight hundred day two 310 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:20,159 Speaker 1: three eight two five five. You know, just kind of 311 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: thinking about the wash machine, and you know, we kind 312 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: of got on a tangent and right away, like many times, 313 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 1: when we have a problem, we go to the worst 314 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,679 Speaker 1: case scenario, right and in a lot of cases it 315 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,879 Speaker 1: is tree routes. Don't don't get me wrong, but there's 316 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:40,120 Speaker 1: other things to consider, quite honestly. And maybe the first 317 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:43,120 Speaker 1: step is, you know, find out where that clean out 318 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: plug is on that waistline and get a drum auger 319 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:52,400 Speaker 1: and just kind of, you know, run a drum auger 320 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 1: down there. It's only about a three ace inch half 321 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:59,239 Speaker 1: inch snake. It's you're doing it. Not the easiest thing 322 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 1: in the world, not my favorite project, but you might 323 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: just see if and see if that results. Maybe it's 324 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: not even in you know, he's the one that suggested 325 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 1: that it was the roots, but he really didn't have 326 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: any way to tell me for sure as the roots. 327 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:15,439 Speaker 1: He didn't run a camera down there. And then I 328 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 1: got on the tangent with a camera and then he 329 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 1: was back out in the yard. But you know, as 330 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 1: a step one if before you want to call anybody, 331 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: you know, if you want to use a little drain 332 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 1: snake and a drum auger and take the clean out 333 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 1: port if you can get to clean outport on that waistline, 334 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: usually down in the basement. Maybe that's where the laundry 335 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: line is too. I don't know where. It could be 336 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:41,879 Speaker 1: upstairs and down and they're using that waistline run it 337 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: down through there. It might be there's a branch line 338 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: that then goes to the main sewer that could be clogged. 339 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: It might not even be in the main sewer line, 340 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 1: I guess, is where I'm going. We were, you know, 341 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: just we're talking about the roots because he brought it up. 342 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: But that is something you know, you might want to 343 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:13,520 Speaker 1: check before you start calling anybody else. Also, modern washers 344 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:19,640 Speaker 1: there they discharge water much faster, more pressure, more volume, 345 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: and some of the old I mean I've seen old 346 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: wastelines not even two inches, and you know it can 347 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:33,880 Speaker 1: overwhelm that. Now it sounds like there's something that just started. 348 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,359 Speaker 1: So I'm kind of lean that probably is the tree roots, 349 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,720 Speaker 1: but kind of wanted to talk about. You know, when 350 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: there's plumbing, there's never one just answer, there's usually multiple answers, 351 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: so I wanted to pass that along. All right, if 352 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 1: you'd like to chat about your project, please do. In 353 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 1: the meantime, I'm going to start with a little chat 354 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,199 Speaker 1: about safety and decorations. I know many of you're going 355 00:20:56,280 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: to be tackling that project. Tackling that project and the 356 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: next probably two weeks. First thing, I hope you took 357 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 1: my advice a year ago, five years ago, two years ago, 358 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,719 Speaker 1: and that is don't store your lights in the attic. 359 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:21,479 Speaker 1: Hopefully you didn't. And the why is because that attic 360 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,639 Speaker 1: and I don't care whether you have ventilation or not, 361 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: that attic's still going to be one hundred hundred and 362 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,680 Speaker 1: ten degrees. If you've got good ventilation, it's going to 363 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,640 Speaker 1: be that. If you've got no ventilation, that attic it's 364 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 1: going to be one hundred and forty hundred and fifty degrees. 365 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:41,159 Speaker 1: Outdoor lights for the that you'd be hanging on the 366 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: outside of your house are not made for that. They're 367 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:50,719 Speaker 1: not made for longevity. They're not commercial wiring, and they 368 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,959 Speaker 1: get very brittle and they get cracks in them, So 369 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 1: if you store them up there, it behooves you to 370 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:04,160 Speaker 1: pull them out and inspect the wires before you plug 371 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 1: them in. Inspect the sockets. You're liable to find cracks 372 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 1: in the wire and cracks in the socket at those temperatures. 373 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: All right, If you don't, great, just don't storm up there. 374 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,399 Speaker 1: Next year, plug them in, test them, make sure everything's 375 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 1: good to go. The worst thing to do is start 376 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,679 Speaker 1: decorating and then find out they don't work. Okay, so 377 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: test them the next thing. If you're going to be 378 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: on a ladder, when we were talking about this earlier, 379 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: safety is certainly the key, and finding or looking at 380 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:43,120 Speaker 1: the ladder you have is important. If it's an extension ladder, 381 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 1: you're going to want to have that extend beyond the 382 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:50,919 Speaker 1: gutter by three feet. You're going to want to make 383 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:54,400 Speaker 1: sure it's stable. You're going to make sure somebody's out 384 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: there with you. You're also going to read the label 385 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: on the side of the ladder. You may not know, 386 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: but there's three types of letders. There's a type one, two, 387 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 1: and three, and they have weight limits. Usually there's probably 388 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 1: four types now. Usually a standard weight limit on a 389 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:20,199 Speaker 1: ladder is usually about two hundred pounds. If you're more 390 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:24,199 Speaker 1: than two hundred pounds, you shouldn't climb up on that ladder. 391 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 1: They have them for two twenty five two fifty three 392 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: hundred pounds. Also check for cracks and the steps. I'm 393 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 1: telling you for uh accidents in an emergency room. Ladders 394 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: number one. Okay, So you want to inspect the ladder, 395 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,959 Speaker 1: make sure you have the right kind of ladder. If 396 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 1: you're doing it on a step ladder. Again, you want 397 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:53,320 Speaker 1: to make sure it's on secure footing. Somebody's out there 398 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 1: and we don't stand on the top, you know, the 399 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: one with the with the little labelan that says this 400 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,280 Speaker 1: is not a step. Yep, that means it's not a 401 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 1: step when you're using a ladder. Three points of contact 402 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: that's the key. Two feet, one arm or one foot 403 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:11,679 Speaker 1: and two hands. But I don't know how you're going 404 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: to hang the lights. But three points of contact. Not 405 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 1: too We don't going to lean over it. We want 406 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 1: to keep the ladder, you know, at least halfway in 407 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: the middle of our body. So that's a little ladder safety. Also, 408 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 1: a good slope three feet away from the wall. Good slope, 409 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 1: not straight up, not leaning back too far and so 410 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 1: there's the ladder. Now there's some for the electrical issues 411 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,440 Speaker 1: of the lights too, and we'll talk about that after 412 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 1: we chat with Pat. 413 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 4: Welcome good after me and Gary. 414 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,120 Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I want to follow. 415 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 4: Up with the individual that was having issues with his 416 00:24:54,880 --> 00:25:01,640 Speaker 4: washing machine draining. Yes, have a similar issue. And finally 417 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 4: came to really a bad situation when I'm plunging the 418 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 4: commode upstairs and my wife's on it one downstairs and 419 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:17,639 Speaker 4: she was getting a bow dight. But I thought maybe, 420 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:20,439 Speaker 4: you know, I had had a septic cleaned down in 421 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,640 Speaker 4: a few years and it turned out tree roots had 422 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 4: grown into the baffle where the pipe entered into the 423 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 4: septic tank. 424 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 3: M hm. 425 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,640 Speaker 4: And once they cleaned that out, it was like opening 426 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 4: a faucet. 427 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 1: Yeah, he had an actual sewer line, Pat, but I 428 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 1: hear you. I mean that's why my first suggestion, it 429 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 1: probably would have solved both of our problems, is getting 430 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 1: a camera inspection down in there. He was guessing there 431 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 1: was tree roots in there, and quite honestly, in our 432 00:25:55,160 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 1: area with the type of soil, the just some of 433 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,720 Speaker 1: the homes, tree roots are on the number one culprit 434 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 1: with that problem. So you know, we kind of got 435 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,919 Speaker 1: on a tangent all the way out into the sewer line. 436 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 1: But you know, with plumbing, it could be all kinds 437 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: of things, and a septic tank is a whole nother ballgame. 438 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, but there have been like an evergreen shrubbery in 439 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:26,399 Speaker 4: the in the vicinity of the sewer line, and I 440 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 4: think that's one of the roots were coming. So and 441 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 4: you know, people aren't going to like this, probably use 442 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 4: copper sulfate. 443 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 1: You know. The product that I was talking about using 444 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,119 Speaker 1: is aerobic product and it is called per sulfate. It's 445 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:42,880 Speaker 1: ninety eight percent calper sulfate. 446 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, and I haven't had an issue with that in twelve. 447 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,920 Speaker 1: Years, as long as you stay on top of it, 448 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,880 Speaker 1: because you know, once they're in and they start maturing, 449 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,440 Speaker 1: and the roots are just going there because there's water, 450 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 1: right and if there's an opening and they get in there, 451 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 1: they're not going to the pipe. But if there's a 452 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: little bit of opening, they'll get in there and they 453 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:08,560 Speaker 1: grow inside, no question. And that copper sulfe just burns 454 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 1: those back a little bit. 455 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 4: Yeah, A certain times evergreen even though the you know, 456 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 4: it's been removed, the roots still grow for years. 457 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,120 Speaker 1: I agreed. I had a beautiful It was a blue spruce. 458 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,399 Speaker 1: It was a bush. That bush got about six feet 459 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 1: wide and about ten feet tall. I took it out 460 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: about two years ago and the roots are still growing. 461 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, okay, I wish them luck and that's 462 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 4: my experience. 463 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 1: I appreciate it, Thank you much. Take care all right, 464 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 1: And yeah, I wanted to get that on because, yeah, 465 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: you can control them, but those pipes do move. Like 466 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 1: I'm always talking about my down spouts in the pipe 467 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,120 Speaker 1: that goes under the ground. If we have a six 468 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 1: week drought in August and Septem, I guarantee you that 469 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 1: pipe will get a little out of a line and 470 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,880 Speaker 1: I have to get out there and work that back 471 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: into square. So we were talking about how you know 472 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:12,639 Speaker 1: a little bit of ladder safety s there's a lot 473 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 1: of people to be cleaning out their gutters and hanging 474 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:21,200 Speaker 1: out some Christmas lights and things like that, and ladder 475 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 1: safety certainly key. Inspecting the chords, like I talked about, 476 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 1: that's important. Also outdoor extension cords. Make sure they are 477 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 1: outdoor extension cords. Every year I see lamp cords, extension cords, 478 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 1: I go crazy whenever I see it. They're outside they're 479 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 1: laying on the ground. No, no, no, but we'll get 480 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 1: to that in a minute. The extension cords, make sure 481 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:54,400 Speaker 1: they're ul rated. Exterior extension cords, all right. Make sure 482 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: you have inspected those, just like you inspected the lights. 483 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 1: No cracks. And when you're hanging extension cords or distributing 484 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 1: Christmas lights, traut the bushes and things like that. Two things. 485 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 1: Do not lay the extension cords on the ground. Do 486 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 1: not let the Christmas light cords lay on the ground, 487 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: because I can almost I got surprised one year. Rabbits 488 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: will bite those. They're soy oil. And those extension cords, 489 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 1: they're soy oil for sure. And the Christmas light cords. 490 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 1: And even if there are a couple inches off the ground, 491 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 1: a rabbit will cut through those. I'm telling you it'll 492 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 1: look like somebody took a diagonal ply and cut it. 493 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: And I'm not joking about that. So keep them off 494 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 1: the ground, keep them inspected. And gfi's if the Christmas 495 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:57,880 Speaker 1: lights are protected by a GFI ground false circuit interrupter GFCI, 496 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: if you will, you're not going to have problems. I 497 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 1: mean it's going to in a nanosecond. Cut that circuit, 498 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 1: cut the juice to the to the to the to 499 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:16,760 Speaker 1: the to the lights, and everybody blames the outlet and 500 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 1: it's not the outlet. It's supposed to do that, and 501 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 1: what you probably got is moisture somewhere. You got moisture. 502 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: Buy that outlet in that outlet at the connections of 503 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 1: the cords and the lights. Don't wrap them with electrical tape. 504 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 1: If you want to wrap them with serante sirane wrap, 505 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: that's fine. But if it's not protected, then you're in danger. 506 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 1: If you don't have by the way, the ground false 507 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: circuit interrupted. That's the outlet which has the red button 508 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 1: the black button, and people, oh my gosh, my my 509 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 1: lights don't work all this this outlet's no good and 510 00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 1: if it doesn't reset, it will. We'll reset, but it's 511 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 1: going to take time. It's got to dry out. So 512 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,680 Speaker 1: the good chance is not the outlet. It can be, 513 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 1: but it's a good chance. It's not. It's what it's protecting. 514 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 1: It's doing what it's supposed to do. Give it some time, 515 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: Give it the time to dry out, and then try 516 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 1: to see if it works without anything plugged in and 517 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 1: reset it. Get an outdoor cover on that receptacle, and 518 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 1: you can also try and plug it into another GFI 519 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 1: see if you can get the lights on. They're not 520 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 1: all wired and downstream or anything. So a couple of 521 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 1: things to check there, and to be safe if you 522 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 1: don't have any protection of GFI in your house. They 523 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: do make extension cords with GFI in the extension cord. 524 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 1: Be safe this holiday, all right, our phone numbers eight 525 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,880 Speaker 1: hundred eight two three A two five five. You're at 526 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 1: home with car. You solving right here in fifty five 527 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,719 Speaker 1: KRC the talk station. All right, I get it. 528 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 2: We go. 529 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 1: Not bad looking day out there right now for the 530 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 1: time of year, right, it's always factoring the time of year. 531 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:15,080 Speaker 1: Not a bad at all. Man. After Thanksgiving, you probably 532 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,200 Speaker 1: heard on the news it's like this big storm, this 533 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,200 Speaker 1: big storm. I hear this big storm. I start thinking 534 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:21,240 Speaker 1: like a foot. 535 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 4: Of snow and maybe twenty below or something. 536 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's like four solid days of rain. So 537 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 1: I'm just giving your heads up. It's like the Tuesday 538 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving not looking great. Hey, we're so we kind 539 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 1: of marries back to what we were talking about, and 540 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:39,240 Speaker 1: that is getting our exterior of our homes decorated. Maybe 541 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 1: in the next three days might be a good idea. 542 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: A little early, but it might be a good idea. 543 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,200 Speaker 1: We don't really want to wait to the middle of 544 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 1: December when it's probably going to be ten. So we 545 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: were talking about safety and gfi's and different things. A 546 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,239 Speaker 1: couple other things I want to run by is it 547 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 1: goes back to the extension course. That is the focus 548 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:00,160 Speaker 1: of a lot of problems that we run into with 549 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:05,840 Speaker 1: accidents and problems around the house during during the holidays. 550 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 1: And make sure if you got extension chords outside and 551 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,080 Speaker 1: you're running around the door, make sure they're not getting 552 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 1: pinched by the door, back by the hinges, anything along 553 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:19,480 Speaker 1: noselanes where you can break that insulation a big problem. 554 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,160 Speaker 1: Obviously if you have a GFI that you're a little protected, 555 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:27,000 Speaker 1: but if you're not plugged into a GFI, you're not protected. 556 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 1: Another old way and people used to do it all 557 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 1: the time. Hopefully they don't anymore. We've tried to get 558 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,719 Speaker 1: the word out. You know what a plug body is. 559 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,720 Speaker 1: You take out a light bulb when you screw in 560 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,920 Speaker 1: this thing where the light goes, and then you can 561 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,040 Speaker 1: just put an extension cord right in there. Bingo. Yes, 562 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,680 Speaker 1: there's no GFI on that you are not protected. You 563 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:55,040 Speaker 1: are probably there's a possibility you're not even grounded, So 564 00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 1: don't do that. If you use an extension chords inside, 565 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 1: make sure they're at least sixteen gauge. I hate those 566 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,840 Speaker 1: eighteen gauge. I don't know how much amperg you're gonna pull, 567 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:10,400 Speaker 1: but get a little sixteen gauge extension cord. Do not 568 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,840 Speaker 1: run it under a carpet. Do not even run it 569 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,960 Speaker 1: under a throw rug. Do not, you know, run it 570 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,600 Speaker 1: at an entrance to a room unless you're going up 571 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,960 Speaker 1: and around the door and out the other side on 572 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:30,839 Speaker 1: the jam. Just from a safety standpoint, that's the way 573 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,920 Speaker 1: you want to run it. Also, I know a lot 574 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:37,600 Speaker 1: of people will put reese on doors. There's all kinds 575 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: of way to do it. I will tell you. I 576 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,840 Speaker 1: know a lot of you have nice wood doors with 577 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,279 Speaker 1: a very nice finish on there. Or maybe you have 578 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:51,240 Speaker 1: those beautiful fiberglass doors that look just like exotic wood. 579 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 1: I mean, they're beautiful. Be careful with the the metal 580 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:04,920 Speaker 1: wreathangers and some of them. The manufacturers got a little 581 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 1: a little better with them. They've started encasing like a 582 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,520 Speaker 1: plastic sleeve that goes over them, but I still see 583 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 1: them out there. They're just metal and you put a 584 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 1: wreath on, you put that little clip over the door. 585 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:20,960 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say it's always going to happen. I'm 586 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,600 Speaker 1: just telling you to be careful with it, because I've 587 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,440 Speaker 1: seen some doors get scratched with those. Also on the 588 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:32,680 Speaker 1: back of the wreath, if you have a wire frame 589 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:37,200 Speaker 1: to that wreath, and that'll be usually well, I guess 590 00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,879 Speaker 1: it could be unartificial too. I usually see them on liveries. 591 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,760 Speaker 1: You can get little some adhesive pads and protect that door. 592 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,720 Speaker 1: If they're just hanging over the glass, you're probably okay, 593 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,520 Speaker 1: but be careful that it's not scratching the finish on 594 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:58,279 Speaker 1: a painted and or stained door. And if you are 595 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,320 Speaker 1: going to put them on the glass and you're using 596 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:07,680 Speaker 1: a suction cup, here's a good little tip. I know 597 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:12,600 Speaker 1: three M makes those pull off hooks. They're very good. 598 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,319 Speaker 1: But I still see a lot of suction cups used. 599 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,960 Speaker 1: If you're gonna use a suction cup on there, because 600 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,360 Speaker 1: we're going to have temperature changes and humidity changes in 601 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:26,759 Speaker 1: those suction cups. They don't always have the suction that 602 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,000 Speaker 1: we think they have. But if you have a little 603 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,319 Speaker 1: dab of silicone clear colocking and put it in there 604 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,360 Speaker 1: and put that right on that glass and let it 605 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,880 Speaker 1: sit for a day. I know you're thinking, I'm crazy. 606 00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,839 Speaker 1: That will come off. It'll take a razor blade, but 607 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,520 Speaker 1: you can get it off and that thing ain't going anywhere. 608 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,640 Speaker 1: You're cutting through the silicon. So a little little tip 609 00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,640 Speaker 1: for you there, very little, but you'll be glad you 610 00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,080 Speaker 1: did it rather than having a fall. You know what 611 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,960 Speaker 1: happened to me one time dan wreath out on the 612 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:06,560 Speaker 1: front and there were some oh what were they finches? 613 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:11,040 Speaker 1: Purple finches. Yeah, they would hang out in the wreath 614 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:18,520 Speaker 1: and guess what happened when somebody came over. They decided 615 00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:22,800 Speaker 1: they wanted to come to the party too. Oh man. Yeah. Yeah. 616 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,799 Speaker 1: So you know you put those refes out there. They're 617 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,520 Speaker 1: pretty inviting for the wildlife too. All right, Well, we 618 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:33,960 Speaker 1: started off with firewood how it should be stored, and 619 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,640 Speaker 1: we've kind of ended up talking about reees and how 620 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,879 Speaker 1: we should do that. One other thing I was telling 621 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,200 Speaker 1: you earlier in the show. We were talking about the 622 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:49,840 Speaker 1: good temperature, the most common temperature for heat and a 623 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,640 Speaker 1: house sixty eight degrees, and I was talking about making 624 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:58,120 Speaker 1: sure like our thermostats off two degrees. So if we 625 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,640 Speaker 1: said it at seventy, all my thermometers in my house 626 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:05,480 Speaker 1: are showing sixty eight degrees. My thermostat shows seventy. It 627 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:10,080 Speaker 1: eats to seventy, but it's sixty eight degrees, so something 628 00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:13,800 Speaker 1: you might want to check. You may like sixty eight degrees, 629 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,279 Speaker 1: you may not like sixty eight degrees, but that's that's 630 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,800 Speaker 1: where it is. Make sure those furnaces, the furnace filters 631 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:24,839 Speaker 1: are cleaned, make sure the filters are changed if it's 632 00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:29,600 Speaker 1: a pleated filter every ninety days. Otherwise you're just paying 633 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,759 Speaker 1: for that furnace to work harder and get that air 634 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:39,239 Speaker 1: to satisfy that thermostat throughout the home. And it won't be. 635 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:41,880 Speaker 1: It won't be if you're running a dirty filter, and 636 00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:46,120 Speaker 1: you're gonna have more activity in your home over the 637 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,680 Speaker 1: next two months than probably any other time of the year. 638 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,720 Speaker 1: So I usually do the pleated filters about every sixty 639 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,680 Speaker 1: days and take a look. And next time you're down 640 00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,799 Speaker 1: the basement, take a look up at the duckwork where 641 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:02,040 Speaker 1: the seams are. If there's the apps, there's holes there, 642 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,960 Speaker 1: or anything along those lines, you're losing the air that 643 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,279 Speaker 1: you just paid the heat, and you're losing it in 644 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:12,960 Speaker 1: the basement. And you can actually tape up those joints 645 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:20,360 Speaker 1: with aluminum tape and it's like a thicker millage of 646 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:24,319 Speaker 1: Reynolds wrap, only it's just like two inches wide. It 647 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,799 Speaker 1: looks like duct tape, but it's aluminum and it's got 648 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,320 Speaker 1: an adhesive on it. That's a great way to tape 649 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,920 Speaker 1: those joints and save the heated air that you just 650 00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,160 Speaker 1: paid for. All Right, Danny, boy, it looks like that's 651 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,920 Speaker 1: gonna wrap it up to Donna. Mister Donovan will be 652 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,760 Speaker 1: in next to help you with your with your car. 653 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,640 Speaker 1: And yeah, cold weather bothers that too. Well, Danny, it 654 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,560 Speaker 1: was fun today and good Lord Willing, we'll be back 655 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,800 Speaker 1: at it tomorrow for more At Home with Gary Sullivan.