1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:01,960 Speaker 1: Well, the best time of the day. I get a 2 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: sicket afternoon and welcome to our number four. You're at 3 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: home with Gary Salvin talking a little home improvement as 4 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: we march our way through a weekend. And boy, I'll 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: tell you what we had a it was a quick fall. 6 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: I didn't think we would have the beautiful colors of 7 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:22,439 Speaker 1: the leaf changing since we kind of were into a 8 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: drought and we kind of had yo yo weather and 9 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: in that a lot of last minute rainfall kind of 10 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: just brightened everything up. And they were green last week. 11 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 1: Well they were a little cool. They were somewhat colored 12 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: last week, but they my big ash trees probably lost 13 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: eighty percent of the leaves this week, which means they're 14 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: waiting for me. All right, let me give you the 15 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: phone number you can grab a line. It's eight hundred 16 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: eight two three eight two five five. It's me and 17 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: you up till the one o'clock hour, so feel free 18 00:00:54,880 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: to grab a line. Scott, Welcome, Verry. 19 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 2: Thanks taking my call. I love the show. This is 20 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,679 Speaker 2: hopefully a very easy one for you. I've got some 21 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 2: outdoor patio furniture. It's like wrought iron looking it gets 22 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 2: it just looks tired a lot gets you know, dirty, 23 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 2: and so I use a product called Sheila Shine and 24 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 2: that gives it like an oil thing, but it it it. 25 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 2: You know, it's got that wet look. But it looks 26 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 2: good for like a day or two and then it 27 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 2: starts to get back to the way it was. So 28 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 2: it's very hot down here in Dallas. I don't know 29 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:39,399 Speaker 2: if that has anything to do with it, but uh, anyway, 30 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 2: I'm just wondering if if you had a a product 31 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 2: that you'd recommend that would you give it more of 32 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 2: a laughing look? 33 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: Yeah? So do you know what type of material it is? 34 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 1: Is it cast aluminum? Do you know? I mean it 35 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: feels like a steel table, but like I got to 36 00:01:55,160 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: cast a litminum table in our screen porch. Uh, it's beautiful. 37 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: Looks like wrought iron has got seat cushions kind of 38 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: have the same problem. You think that's what it is 39 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: relatively newer than an older one. 40 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 2: No, it's actually it's about it's ten years old something 41 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 2: like that. It's uh, it's been doing it every year. 42 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 2: I don't know. If it's cast a lumin it's it's 43 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 2: got some weight to it. 44 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: So okay, yeah, mine's got weight to it. Too, so 45 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 1: is there is there? Is it like a flat color? 46 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: In other words, like is it a black table or 47 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 1: has it got variations of color mixed into it? 48 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 2: No, it's all black, and so it's got like like 49 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 2: ornate tabletops. 50 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: And it sounds like a lot of the sounds like 51 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: the same table. Well, here here's what minus cast aluminum. 52 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 1: I remember buying it is probably twelve years old, doesn't rush. 53 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: I don't have to paint it. But you know, it 54 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: sits in the screen porch for the winter time. We 55 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: don't cover it up because there's still some nice days. 56 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: We'll use it. We'll go clean up a little soap 57 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: and water. But in the springtime, I use I do 58 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:17,839 Speaker 1: use a product called Milsic on it, and I think 59 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 1: it was the Stainless Steel cleaner, but you could also 60 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 1: use the furnish. It almost sounds like the product you're using. 61 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 1: It's an oil. It cleans the dickens out of it. 62 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: It shines it up and it looks great for about 63 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 1: a week or so, and then it doesn't have that nice, 64 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: fresh oiled look. And it's kind of the nature of 65 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: the beasts, right, I mean, it's a cleaner and the 66 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: stainless steel cleaner does leave a little bit of film 67 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: over it, but man, it really brightens it up. And 68 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: I always kind of treat that as a cleaner if 69 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: you want it to sheet with achene. If it's not 70 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: a cast aluminum and as you know, maybe wrought iron 71 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: and it's a black paint, maybe it's just you know, 72 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: oxidized doll and needs to be repainted with like a 73 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: spray paint. I don't know what would restore. 74 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 2: I don't know, Yeah, I don't know. You know, you're 75 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 2: you're thinking about it. It probably is cast aluminum, and 76 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 2: it sounds like the product I'm using is similar. 77 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 1: To what you're It seems very similar. Okay, go on 78 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 1: their website it's m I L S e K. Because 79 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: it does last morning, day or two and uh dot 80 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: com and take a look at the stainless steel cleaner. 81 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: I mean it looks so dog one good when I 82 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: do it, and I, you know, a week or two, 83 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: but it's got a the cast aluminums kind of got 84 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: a doll finish anyway, but when you put that oil there, 85 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: it does scream. And uh, we'll do it always in 86 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,479 Speaker 1: the spring, and you know, I don't know if we 87 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:03,919 Speaker 1: do it that much more than that because it's clean. 88 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 1: But after that we just use an all purpose cleaner. 89 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: Occasionally a bunch of people are coming over, we might 90 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: hit it again, but I think that's kind of it, 91 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: kind of is what it is. 92 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 2: Okay, your health, Thank you very much. We'll check it out. 93 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: Thanks all right, good enough, Thanks Scott, appreciate it. And Heather, welcome. 94 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 3: Hi. 95 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:32,600 Speaker 4: I'm calling for my mom okay, and she's actually I've 96 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 4: got her on the phone here with us as well. 97 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:39,359 Speaker 4: But she's had a leak behind her shower wall and 98 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 4: apparently from where what we found out, it has been 99 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 4: going on for quite a while. The insurance denied the 100 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 4: claim and so we've got water leakage. The floor is 101 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 4: buckling in her bedroom, which is wood, and then like 102 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 4: one tile in her bathroom, and of course it's downstairs, 103 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 4: so we had the leakage as well as the mold. 104 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 4: We have fixed the leak, but our question is we've 105 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 4: gotten several quotes. We've gotten one from serf Pro, We've 106 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 4: gotten one from Quote Restoration, which we're waiting on that estimate, 107 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 4: and then we've got one from a Bear restoration, and 108 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:23,599 Speaker 4: they're just totally different in terms of what they want 109 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:28,039 Speaker 4: to do, and we're looking for guidance in terms of 110 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 4: what we are supposed to do to take care of 111 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 4: the leakage and the mold. 112 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: So where what was the leak from? 113 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 5: Mom? 114 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 3: It was a it was the hot water copper pipe. 115 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: Okay, that goes to the tub. Okay, so the damage. Yeah. 116 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: So the companies that you called, they are mold remediating companies. Yeah, okay, 117 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 1: they're not going to do the actual remodeling or the repair. No, okay, okay, 118 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: Well did they did anyone test to see what kind 119 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: of mold it is? 120 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 5: No? 121 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well I guess I'm gonna what do 122 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: they want to do? I I don't know if I'm 123 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: going to be able to help you. Obviously, mold grows 124 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: when there's water. Mold spores are in the air everywhere. 125 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: I would have guessed that they would have taken a 126 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 1: mold test to see how many you know, parts per 127 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: thousand or whatever it is of mold sportes in the house. 128 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: But apparently they very high in price. And what what's 129 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: what do we What's what? What kind of decision are 130 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: we trying to make? What are they saying? 131 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 3: They're saying that they want want to kill the mold 132 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 3: first and then dry the cross face out the whole area. 133 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 3: They want to tear the sheet rock off in the 134 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 3: basement where the mold has grown from the cross face. 135 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 3: Then they want to come up into my bedroom and 136 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 3: take there's a section where the hardwood four buckled. They 137 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 3: want to take that out. And then they say they 138 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 3: think it might be under the tile in the bathroom, 139 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 3: but they're not real sure. And one company wants to 140 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 3: take the whole bathroom towel out, you know, take all 141 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 3: the the sink, the tub, the toilet, and then in 142 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:53,359 Speaker 3: the hardwood four take all that out of my bedroom. 143 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:57,319 Speaker 3: And they said and put down a new sub floor. 144 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 3: They didn't chest for the type of mold it. 145 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: Is, and that. 146 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,199 Speaker 3: It was very it's very extensive. 147 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: Well, again, I don't think I can. I will tell 148 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: you that what you're telling me makes sense. It's conceivable 149 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:24,439 Speaker 1: that they would have to do that. Again, I haven't 150 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 1: inspected it. But tearing the drywall off in the basement 151 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: or in the cross space area, you know, they're able 152 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: to tell the you know, killing the mold is one part, 153 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 1: but they don't know what's behind those walls. Same with 154 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,679 Speaker 1: a tile. They don't know they're gonna they're probably going 155 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 1: to have to do that to see A if the 156 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: floor structurally sound. B if the mold is killed on 157 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 1: the surface, how do we kill the mold behind because 158 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 1: it will quicker and once the water's taken away, but 159 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: that colony will stay active, meaning those mold sports will 160 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: still be in the house. 161 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 3: So even if they use that kill. Oh, they've named 162 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:20,079 Speaker 3: several will kill you know, well. 163 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: There's certainly products out there that will kill the mold. 164 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:26,559 Speaker 1: But that's why I was asking, do that? Are they 165 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: all recommending that? You said, you've got three different opinions. 166 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, one is the other one, uh, sort of, and 167 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 3: then the third one said that they were going to 168 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 3: wait and see. They would take up part of the 169 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 3: hardwood for part of the towel, and if they think 170 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 3: there's more mold, then they would go further. But they're 171 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:52,199 Speaker 3: not going to do it initially. 172 00:10:53,520 --> 00:11:00,839 Speaker 1: Who gave you that one, surfro Uh, that one sounds 173 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 1: the most reasonable to me. So they're acknowledging that there's damage. 174 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: They're acknowledging that there's damage. There's acknowledging there's a big problem. 175 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 1: But what they're also saying to you is we don't 176 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: know how extensive it is till we get into it, 177 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 1: and I certainly don't know on a phone call, you 178 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 1: know how extensive it is. So if you felt comfortable 179 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: with them, it's a good company. I mean, it's a 180 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 1: good company where I would have trust in that. And 181 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 1: I like their style. They're saying this is what we're 182 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: going to do. What you got to ask them is say, Okay, 183 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 1: this is what you're going to do. If it's a 184 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:47,719 Speaker 1: worst case scenario, what do you think you'll have to do? 185 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:52,960 Speaker 1: And the worst case scenario might be what the other 186 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: people are telling you. Yeah, because I think it could 187 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 1: be that, and so that that's that's the issue. Okay, 188 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 1: But I think I like their approach. Okay, so that's 189 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 1: probably the best answer I can give you. But I 190 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 1: do like that approach that, yeah, we can't really see 191 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 1: until we get there, and you know we're not you 192 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 1: know we're not. We're trying to be as transparent as 193 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 1: we can. We're being upfront, but you know, this might 194 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: be bigger than what we think it is. 195 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 3: He said, did test them out. A plumber came and 196 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 3: fixed the leak, and he pulled out all the installation 197 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 3: and everything that nobody has really tested the mold, that 198 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:44,079 Speaker 3: other different kinds of mold. 199 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 1: There's over three hundred different species of mold, and they're 200 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: really going to test the volume. My guess is once 201 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 1: they've noticed what the problem is, they've just they just 202 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: want to get to the mold and exterminate the mold. 203 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: And and it's going to have to be exterminated anyway, 204 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:05,959 Speaker 1: and then there's going to be and it's you know, 205 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:10,439 Speaker 1: for them, it's better to go ahead and expose the mold, 206 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 1: kill the mold, and then do the repair. So I 207 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: think that's the direction that they're trying to take you. 208 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:19,959 Speaker 1: But that's surf pro I think if you're comfortable with them, 209 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,839 Speaker 1: i'd give them a couple more another phone call and 210 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: QUIZM and say, hey, what's the worst case scenario of this? 211 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,959 Speaker 1: You say, we don't really know. And I think that 212 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 1: is about as honest an opinion as anybody can give you. 213 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 1: And the other people are probably surmising that that's going 214 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: to be the issue, and they don't want to be 215 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: the person that's saying, ah, well, this is a lot 216 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,320 Speaker 1: bigger than we thought and it's going to cost you 217 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: this much more. It may but I think it's two 218 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: different approaches to the problem. Hope that helps. Thank you 219 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 1: much for the call. Twelve twenty one a quick break 220 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,599 Speaker 1: and we got Will and Judy. If you'd like to 221 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:03,559 Speaker 1: join us, please do. It's eight hundred eight two three 222 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: eight two five five. You're at home with Gary Salvan 223 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 1: right here in fifty five care see de talk station. 224 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 1: All right back ahead it we go at home with 225 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: Gary Salvin. Thanks for joining me, talking a little home 226 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 1: improvement and dog gunnet. If you have a house, I 227 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: know there's always an issue I'm battling. And it's a 228 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 1: new refrigerator. Danny's tired a year in it, a year 229 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: and a half old, and it got problems with it. 230 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 1: I've been fighting you like three service calls and I 231 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: still it sings to me the fan. Oh my gosh, 232 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: I have a house. You always got issues, but we 233 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: got to protect that investment. That's I'm not tired of 234 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: hearing about it yet, not yet. You will be all right. 235 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: Let's get back to the phones. We got well, well. 236 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 5: Welcome, Hey Gary love the show. Longtime listener, first time caller, Well, 237 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 5: thank you very much, absolutely so. 238 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 6: I live. 239 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 5: I have a two story house and a very hilly 240 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 5: neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky. And it's a fall off lot, 241 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 5: you know, that's what they call it. 242 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: You know. 243 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 5: So if you stand on the street and you look 244 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 5: at my house, you can see through the second story 245 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 5: windows and you know it's a great, beautiful property. And 246 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 5: it's that way for about two acres. Okay, So if 247 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 5: you let cross training in yard work, this is your place. 248 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 4: You know. 249 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: It's on the bone. 250 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 5: So I have a driveway asphalt question. Okay, So obviously 251 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 5: the driveway is steep and it goes down to a pad. 252 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 5: The pads about forty feet by forty feet, you know, 253 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 5: on a mound of dirt from you know, fifty years ago. 254 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 5: Right the area on the pad going into the garage 255 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 5: and right there, you know, by my house is uneven. 256 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 5: It's broken. The asphalt is broken. It you know, someone 257 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 5: had laid assphalt on top of concrete. It looks like, 258 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 5: you know, there's a there's an earthquake vibe if you 259 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 5: go around the side and kind of look at it. 260 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 5: So so I'm curious. I'm not looking for a structural solution. 261 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 5: If attends to fifteen thousand dollars to replace the asphalts 262 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 5: in the driveway. Is there more of a cosmetic solution 263 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 5: because I'm not I'm not afraid to fall down the hill. 264 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 5: It's been there for fifty years. 265 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, that's my question. Well, I was going to say, 266 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 1: when you were describing your property and then you said 267 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: I got this asphalt driveway, I'm going like wow, because 268 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: you know, you know, and then you said it's light 269 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: over concrete, and I'm going, well, the concrete's probably becoming compromised. 270 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: Even though it's fifty years, there's still settling and you 271 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 1: know movement. It's a hillside, right, and it's also Louisville, 272 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: so we got a lot of limestone and you've got 273 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: pockets and so there's a lot going on there. So 274 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: when you say cosmetics, what what do you mean? I 275 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 1: can't see it's I mean earthquake like, so it will 276 00:16:58,680 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: start down. 277 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 5: That's that's It's. Well, if you go around the side 278 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 5: and look at the driveway from behind, okay, you know 279 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:08,120 Speaker 5: it's on the hill, it's still about four or five 280 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 5: feet above your head, right, that's how steep the grade is, right, 281 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 5: But you know, just large cracks, uneven surfaces. It's mainly 282 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 5: cracks and a lot of them. Okay, so I got 283 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 5: an estimate for twelve thousand, and you know, just you know, 284 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 5: don't have the appetite. 285 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:32,439 Speaker 1: Right, so it's kind of got like spiderweb cracks are 286 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: kind of all over the place, and describe the typical 287 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,440 Speaker 1: crack there in terms of lengthen. 288 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 5: With okay, well, there's probably about four or five areas 289 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 5: in this forty by forty pad that are invented lower 290 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 5: not even okay, So that's one thing. The other thing is, 291 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 5: I mean there is one large crack. You know, I'd 292 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 5: say that one large crack is i'd say four feet long, 293 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:06,120 Speaker 5: and you know, I don't know, uh core inch wide. Yeah, 294 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 5: so some of that and it's mainly the unevenness. 295 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,639 Speaker 1: All right. Well okay, so let me and let me 296 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: again just kind of talk about the patching compounds that 297 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: are available for asphalt, and you'll be able to mix 298 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 1: and match and decide, you know, maybe you got to 299 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:29,440 Speaker 1: use one or two of them. So there is there's 300 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: there's crack fillers for asphalt, probably not as strong as 301 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: a concrete uh patch filler. Uh So it's not really 302 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,919 Speaker 1: your thanes or anything. It's more of an acrylic resin patch, 303 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 1: which can be used up you know, cracks of all sizes, 304 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: ones that are more than a quarter of an inchro 305 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: up to about a half inch. You probably want to 306 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: put some backer rod down in there, which is like 307 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,920 Speaker 1: foam roping, and then put the crack filler on top 308 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 1: of that. But your biggest problem, and I hear you, 309 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:06,120 Speaker 1: your biggest problem is these cracks are kind of all 310 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: over the place and they're not levels. So really you're 311 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: looking at probably using black top patch or asphalt patch 312 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 1: or pothill pothole filler, you know, where it's kind of 313 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:25,159 Speaker 1: like gravel and tar mixture, and that's probably gonna be 314 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 1: your best bet to get it leveled off. And the 315 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 1: way to patch asphalt to get it to last is 316 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: right now, you have a high area, you got a crack, 317 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:39,479 Speaker 1: you got a lower area, and then it may go 318 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 1: up higher on the other side, and it's kind of 319 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,919 Speaker 1: going all over. You've got to create almost like a 320 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: cake pan effect where you've got vertical sides and you're 321 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna get a cultches when you're actually gonna 322 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:55,960 Speaker 1: cut that, you're gonna get all that. You know, maybe 323 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: you get a tool in there and just scrape and 324 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 1: dig that stuff out out of there, and the black 325 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:04,919 Speaker 1: top patch will come in like sixty pound bags and 326 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 1: you're going to put that in and tamp it down 327 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: and you're going to try and level that off at 328 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 1: the severe places and then the cracks and stuff we 329 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:19,399 Speaker 1: can put calking in. In fact, I would probably work 330 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 1: more on the leveling and using the black top patch 331 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:26,880 Speaker 1: and see what I can do, you know, to kind 332 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 1: of patch us up and level it up a little bit, 333 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:36,679 Speaker 1: make it acceptable. And you know, if you get to 334 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:39,120 Speaker 1: one you go like this is way too much, forget this. 335 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: That's fine if you're committed to it. You keep doing it. 336 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 1: When you get that, you know as level as an 337 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 1: acceptable level, it's not going to be new an acceptable level. 338 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 1: And then I would get a jug of the asphalt 339 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 1: patch that you literally can just pour into cracks and 340 00:20:57,760 --> 00:20:59,120 Speaker 1: just do that. 341 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, great, all right, thank you very much. 342 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 1: I hope that helps you. 343 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 5: Bet, Thank you, Gary. 344 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: Very good. Thanks Will. All right, Yeah, we do the 345 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: best we can. I totally get it. We're going to 346 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: take a break. Judy, you're going to be up first, 347 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:18,639 Speaker 1: and then then we have Rob and Paul if you'd 348 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 1: like to join us, do so, and we'll continue. You're 349 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: at home with Gary Sullivan right here in fifty five 350 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:27,679 Speaker 1: care see the talk station. All right, back at it 351 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,880 Speaker 1: we go talking about your home. I was just thinking 352 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,360 Speaker 1: about the lady with the mold thing and the insurance 353 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 1: company not covering it. I just want to add a 354 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: quick thing before we talk to Judy. I just rebid 355 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: our homeowner's insurance. I didn't do it. My wife did it. 356 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:46,400 Speaker 1: She's very good at that. And one of the things 357 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 1: we were talking about. I was talking about the insurance 358 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: business overall, and you know, and you've heard it on 359 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,880 Speaker 1: this show many times, they don't pay claims if it's 360 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 1: a maintenance or an issue that was there that no 361 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:03,119 Speaker 1: one knew, a r et cetera. Whatever. And one of 362 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 1: the things she brought up this broker was there was 363 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,639 Speaker 1: a two hundred and fifty dollars I think it was 364 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 1: three hundred dollars something like that discount if you put 365 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 1: a product and I don't know the formal name of it, 366 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 1: but it's basically a leak detector and it's right on 367 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 1: your main line. We actually had somebody call about this 368 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:31,879 Speaker 1: last week or the week before, and it detects water 369 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:38,439 Speaker 1: usage and detects, and it starts compiling a file. In 370 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: other words, then it learns your habits, and then it 371 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,879 Speaker 1: can also detect if there's a leak, right, which is 372 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:54,679 Speaker 1: a steady flow there's it never really ever stops, and 373 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: then you can get somebody out to figure out where 374 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 1: issues are. In other words, it is a detective for leaks. 375 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:09,160 Speaker 1: And this particular insurance company had three manufacturers that they 376 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 1: approved and then they gave you a discount. It's pretty 377 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,440 Speaker 1: pretty slick, and we're definitely going to look into it, 378 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,120 Speaker 1: and that would save a problem like that lady had, 379 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 1: because you don't know how extensive it is. I felt 380 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,639 Speaker 1: sorry for But the contractors don't know what they're really 381 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: getting into either. Sometimes when they tear off a roof, 382 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 1: there'll always be little sidebars like, well, if we find 383 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 1: damage to the roof decking that's rotted, it will cost 384 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 1: you this much per sheet, and that's fair. They don't 385 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 1: know what's underneath there, and they don't know what they're 386 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:49,120 Speaker 1: going to delve into. I think the other people were 387 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 1: kind of thinking, well, let's give a worst case scenario 388 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 1: and we'll go from there. I don't know which way's 389 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,959 Speaker 1: the best. I feel more comfortable. It's going that direction. 390 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,879 Speaker 1: And I like surf pro I think they do. I 391 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 1: don't know who the other ones were, but I do 392 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: like them. So that was the reason I gave that advice. 393 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Judy. Judy, welcome, thanks for 394 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: holding I appreciate. 395 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,920 Speaker 6: Oh that's why. All right, Gary, you're always informative anyway, 396 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 6: Going along with your window, then today I have a 397 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 6: different kind of question. I want to put a small 398 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 6: window into an exterior brick wall where there's never been 399 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:32,200 Speaker 6: a window, And would it be best to start with 400 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,440 Speaker 6: window companies? I've even when I bought my house it 401 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 6: was being remodeled. I contacted that contractor because he did 402 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:44,160 Speaker 6: great work. He's had heart surgery. I had someone else 403 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 6: that said he'd done it before. He was a no show. 404 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:53,159 Speaker 6: So I want to And there's a window. This is 405 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 6: in a twenty seven and a half foot long kitchen. 406 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 6: There's a fireplace on the western wall. There was already 407 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 6: a window on the right hand side. It had like 408 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,679 Speaker 6: saying plexiglass or something in it. I had a double 409 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,919 Speaker 6: pane window put in there, and that is on the 410 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 6: western side of the house. Now I want the same 411 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 6: kind of thing to the left of the fireplace. 412 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:22,439 Speaker 1: Who did you have to the other window? 413 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:28,439 Speaker 6: Well, as far as now, that was a replacement, Okay, yeah, 414 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:32,119 Speaker 6: that was an existing window. I'll call it an existing 415 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 6: window open because it never had glass. The frame outside 416 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 6: was wood and everything, and so you know, the glass 417 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 6: itself is only about twelve by fourteen inches. 418 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if i'd start with a window 419 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,199 Speaker 1: come in. I don't know if a lot of window 420 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:53,199 Speaker 1: companies are going to tackle a project of installing a 421 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 1: window and brick and brick. It's more of a contractor's job. 422 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 1: And I have to tell you, Judy, there's a lot 423 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: going on to putting a window in an existing structure 424 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:08,440 Speaker 1: of a brick house. 425 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 6: Oh, I believe that we've my son with this kitchen 426 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 6: me model has already started. What's been done is great. 427 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 6: My son's done most of the work and we have 428 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 6: even found out he had to cut into the wall 429 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 6: two outside walls. M it's got. The house was built 430 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 6: in sixty three. We found out it's insulated, even the brick. 431 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,199 Speaker 6: So yeah, I'm not gonna it's not going to be 432 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,159 Speaker 6: a fly by night or anything like that. I know 433 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 6: the steps I have to do to get the building 434 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 6: from it, the township, the county, right, I've checked in 435 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 6: all of that. I want it done right, but I 436 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:46,919 Speaker 6: don't know. 437 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, So what I would probably do is I would 438 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 1: probably go to maybe the Homebuilders Association for recommendations of 439 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 1: a contractor maybe Neil's Remodeling for a contractor. Those are 440 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 1: top shelf places you want to you want a good 441 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: remodeling contractor, even though it's only a window, right because 442 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 1: you know you said Neils Neil's. I don't know if 443 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,879 Speaker 1: they would do anything of that size, but even go 444 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 1: up to mccab lumber and talk to them and tell 445 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:25,959 Speaker 1: them what you want to do, and that you know 446 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,200 Speaker 1: that's the largest indoor lumber yard in the state of Ohio. 447 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,440 Speaker 1: And tell them what you want to do and see 448 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: if they've got a couple of remodelers or contractors they 449 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 1: would recommend for that job. 450 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 3: Uh. 451 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:45,160 Speaker 6: Okay, you know when you say that about McCabe. Years ago, 452 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:49,600 Speaker 6: we hand a full basement under our house. And without 453 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 6: going into a lot of detail, I was told at 454 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 6: the time. I think it was our insurance agent. They said, 455 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 6: you want to know who to get you go to 456 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 6: the concrete companies. You go love their company, right, you 457 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,159 Speaker 6: talk to them about the people that they deal. 458 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 1: With, right, right, right, It's a great place to get 459 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,959 Speaker 1: good names. I'm even looking at uh redoing our screen 460 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,399 Speaker 1: porch and I'm not going to tackle that. There's a 461 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,159 Speaker 1: big roof over it and everything else. And I'll go 462 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,920 Speaker 1: to mccap's and I'll just ask them give me three 463 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: names and I'll start getting bids on them. Because you know, 464 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 1: even that small window on an outside exterior wall that 465 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:30,640 Speaker 1: can run into some dollars too, and you got weight support, 466 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 1: you got to look and your water lines where they're at, 467 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 1: and electrical lines and yeah, yeah, I think that's where 468 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 1: I would start. I would get two or three, you know, 469 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 1: just ask them to give me three names of somebody 470 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: that can handle a project like that. They will be 471 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 1: glad to do that and start calling. 472 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 6: You didn't get up, you know, I found even even 473 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 6: for instance, if they can't one call them one pone 474 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 6: call can lead to another, right, you know that whole chain, 475 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 6: I don't. I only know anybody, but maybe try here. 476 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: Right, So that's where i'd started, I mean, your your 477 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 1: chain type window companies. I'm going to guess they don't 478 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: even do that work because they're more pulling windows out 479 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 1: and putting the window in. It's a production type. 480 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 6: Thing, and which I know this was special ordered. It 481 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 6: was considered a picture window, probably because it did not 482 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 6: open that it was double pain, you know, the frame 483 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 6: outside and all of that kind of thing. And the 484 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 6: guy that put it in was a neighbor of my 485 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 6: sons who's now retired, and he was an a window installer, 486 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 6: so you know, it was an easy thing to take 487 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 6: care of at that time. But the hole was already there. 488 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 1: Right, there's a big difference there, that's for sure. Judy, 489 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,720 Speaker 1: thank you so much for call, and I appreciate it. 490 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 1: We're going to take another break and then we're going 491 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 1: to wrap things up with Rob and Paul. Sit tight, 492 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 1: We're going as fast as we can. You're at home 493 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 1: with Gary Sullivan right here in fifty five care se 494 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 1: de talk station. Well the sun's out, not bad looking 495 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 1: to day. A little chili, but uh it's November. Yay, 496 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 1: all right, Rob, welcome, Hey Gary? How you doing doing fine? Thanks? 497 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 7: Hey, I'll try and make this quick loger show. I 498 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:23,800 Speaker 7: want to put up some rigid the phone board in 499 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 7: my crawl space. Huh, and do I need to put 500 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 7: a vapor barrier behind the board, or can I put 501 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 7: the board right up against the. 502 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 1: You can put the board right up against the block. 503 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 1: There's actually two types of foam boards, so you've got 504 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 1: closed cell phone boards and open cell foam boards. Closed 505 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 1: cell means that there is a it is a vapor 506 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 1: barrier foam. In other words, vapor cannot penetrate through that foam, 507 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 1: and then the open cell phoam means the vapor could 508 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 1: pass through. Now, if it's in a basement, it's below grade. 509 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 1: The thought process and I talked earlier today about how 510 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:15,239 Speaker 1: much water comes through those walls in water vapor. You 511 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 1: don't want to stop that. You just wanted to come 512 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 1: into the house. Okay, I know it sounds weird, but 513 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,240 Speaker 1: we'll control it once it's in. We don't want to 514 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: stop it because the wall get wet. Okay, all right, 515 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,240 Speaker 1: So just make sure you get an open cell phone board, 516 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: and for the most part, most of the phone boards 517 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,400 Speaker 1: that are sold are open cell. 518 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 7: Right, Okay, And would you recommend like a two inch board? 519 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you probably depending on the quality of 520 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: the foam board, you're probably gonna be about an R 521 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:54,080 Speaker 1: five per inch, So yeah, i'd get two inch board, sure. 522 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 7: All right, and then use the tap con. 523 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,000 Speaker 1: You could do that. You could certainly do that with 524 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 1: a big washer, or you could you could I don't 525 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 1: know where is it? Where's it going? 526 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 7: It's in the crawl space. 527 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 1: In the cross space. You could use there is and 528 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 1: this is up to you, but you could use a 529 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:28,200 Speaker 1: gorilla glue construction adhesive, which I'm ninety nine percent sure 530 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,080 Speaker 1: you can use it on foam. And there's also a 531 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 1: calking four foam board period. You just put a couple 532 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 1: of dollips on that and stick it up there. 533 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:39,640 Speaker 7: Oh okay, that'd be a lot easier. 534 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it'd be a whole bunch easier. 535 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,920 Speaker 7: Yeah, okay. And then one other final question. The previous 536 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 7: homeowner has fiberglass insulation in the floor. Choices should I 537 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 7: leave it there or take it down? 538 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,960 Speaker 1: Well? Are you what are you doing about the floor 539 00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 1: in the cross space? 540 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 7: Oh, there's no floor. I'm talking about the floor of 541 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 7: the house. Would be the ceiling of the crawl space. 542 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 1: Oh, the ceiling of the crawl space. Yes, the crawl 543 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:18,160 Speaker 1: space is I would leave that there unless the entire 544 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,800 Speaker 1: crawl space is going to be encapsulated. 545 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,480 Speaker 7: I gotcha. All right, You've been very helpful. 546 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 1: I appreciate it, all right, Rob, call any Tom, Thanks, 547 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:33,360 Speaker 1: appreciate it all right, Paul, welcome. I was hoping we 548 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,840 Speaker 1: were going to get to you working as fast as 549 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:36,320 Speaker 1: I could. 550 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:42,719 Speaker 8: All right, back a few months ago, well maybe a 551 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,920 Speaker 8: few weeks ago, you had a lady on the show 552 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 8: that had a product to get rid of mold. It 553 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:50,880 Speaker 8: was something that you put in front of a box 554 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:54,040 Speaker 8: fan and I wonder if you remembered what it is 555 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 8: because I missed an opportunity to write it down. 556 00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:00,520 Speaker 1: And yeah, I had a chance. The company name is 557 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:09,320 Speaker 1: odor x it dot com. They make and I think 558 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 1: that products name was called Mom's m o MS. It's 559 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:19,080 Speaker 1: a packet that you moisten with water and you clip 560 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:25,040 Speaker 1: it to a fan and it distributes. Yeah, it distributes 561 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:30,760 Speaker 1: chlorine dioxide, which kills airborne more mold, spill spores. 562 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:32,200 Speaker 5: No. 563 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,640 Speaker 1: Perfect. Now do you know what the source of that is? 564 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,040 Speaker 8: Well, that's the issue where we're we're still investigating where 565 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,680 Speaker 8: that's coming from. Okay, but for right now, we want 566 00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,560 Speaker 8: to try to Yeah, there's two rooms we could put 567 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:50,359 Speaker 8: that in and hopefully make them better to at least 568 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,400 Speaker 8: walk through while we try to figure out where this 569 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:53,040 Speaker 8: is happening. 570 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, can you smell mold in those rooms or something? 571 00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:56,879 Speaker 1: Is that what you. 572 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:02,440 Speaker 8: Well, some of it's interesting. Some of us in the 573 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:06,799 Speaker 8: family can smell it. Some of us can't. But I 574 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:11,320 Speaker 8: walk in the room and within ten minutes of walking 575 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,840 Speaker 8: into the room or being in there, it seems like 576 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,920 Speaker 8: it's getting a little difficult to breathe or I notice 577 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,920 Speaker 8: a change in that. So, yeah, there's something going on. 578 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's not unusual. Molds a weird thing. There's 579 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:27,719 Speaker 1: some I remember going into a basement. It was the 580 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:31,600 Speaker 1: most moldy basement I've ever seen, and we were just 581 00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:37,399 Speaker 1: gonna walk in, walk out. And some people which one 582 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:42,359 Speaker 1: is it? It's an aqmlom okay, AQM is the one 583 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,759 Speaker 1: that you clip to the fan. Then okay, so that 584 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,759 Speaker 1: you'll have two choices, moms or AQM. I know there's 585 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,680 Speaker 1: a difference. I always get them confused. But the AQM 586 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,440 Speaker 1: then or you can give them a call they have 587 00:35:55,680 --> 00:36:00,160 Speaker 1: it's eight seven seven and then odor exit and you 588 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 1: can consult with them too. But mold just affects people 589 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,920 Speaker 1: so differently. Some people that just take the air right 590 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,400 Speaker 1: out of your lungs, and other people they can stand 591 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,759 Speaker 1: there and go like, what's your problem? So and that's 592 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:19,760 Speaker 1: what's happening. Yeah, yeah, yep, there's different people, you know, environmentalists. 593 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:24,200 Speaker 1: Home environmentalists will come in and do a whole testing too, 594 00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:27,200 Speaker 1: but try the AQM and see if that doesn't get 595 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:28,120 Speaker 1: things manageable. 596 00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,040 Speaker 8: I appreciate it, thank you very much. And I listen 597 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,680 Speaker 8: to your show all the time and if I don't 598 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:38,560 Speaker 8: learn something, which is seldom, at least confirm what I 599 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:39,120 Speaker 8: already know. 600 00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:44,960 Speaker 1: So very good I learned time to Thanks Paul, appreciate it. 601 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:49,000 Speaker 1: Take care all right. Gosh, that was a fun day, 602 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:53,440 Speaker 1: a lot to cover, and we did just that. And 603 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:59,719 Speaker 1: we're gonna start talking a lot about because the theme 604 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:04,160 Speaker 1: today was we kind of closing up our homes. Many 605 00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:08,080 Speaker 1: of us have turned on the furnace and remember that 606 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:11,719 Speaker 1: one of the fellow that had the flames coming out 607 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:16,880 Speaker 1: like you know, the heat exchanger. And I'm telling you 608 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,640 Speaker 1: this time of year and we hear it all the time, 609 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:31,200 Speaker 1: carbon monoxide poisonings. I've also talked about furnace inspections every year. 610 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:36,279 Speaker 1: It might cost you a hundred bucks, maybe less. They 611 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:40,520 Speaker 1: inspect titan any you know, the don't have a twenty 612 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:46,400 Speaker 1: step process, a thirty step process, and it extends the 613 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,399 Speaker 1: life of the furnace. But even more importantly than that 614 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,040 Speaker 1: is they'll make sure that furnace is in good working 615 00:37:54,160 --> 00:38:00,000 Speaker 1: order and it's safe. And you're gonna hear the same 616 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:02,960 Speaker 1: things I hear over the next three months. Not to 617 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:07,279 Speaker 1: scare anybody, but there will be between now and through 618 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,960 Speaker 1: January and the holidays, there's gonna be people that are 619 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,719 Speaker 1: gonna have some carbonoxide in your home. It's gonna make 620 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:22,000 Speaker 1: people very ill. It can kill you. Carbon Monoxide is odorless, tasteless, 621 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,799 Speaker 1: you can't see it. In other words, you don't know 622 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,719 Speaker 1: it's there. You may feel like you got the flu 623 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:37,080 Speaker 1: and it's actually carbonoxide poisoning. And as we stand here 624 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:41,440 Speaker 1: on the I guess it's the eve because the clock 625 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,760 Speaker 1: changes at two am. Clock doesn't change. We change the clock, 626 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:50,880 Speaker 1: But you're supposed to check the batteries and the smoke detector. 627 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,279 Speaker 1: I wonder how many of us really do that. I know, 628 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,319 Speaker 1: I preach it every year. You're gonna hear it on 629 00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,960 Speaker 1: the news and everything else. And I'm convinced that seventy 630 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,600 Speaker 1: percent of the people to say, here we go again. 631 00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:07,279 Speaker 1: You know, I'm not going to do that. And there 632 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:12,440 Speaker 1: will also be talk about getting a carbon dioxide detector 633 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:17,120 Speaker 1: if you don't have one, But carbon dioxide is the 634 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:25,680 Speaker 1: it's not the complete combustion of fuel, so gas would propane, 635 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:30,279 Speaker 1: you know, not the complete not burning properly, even a fireplace, 636 00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:36,120 Speaker 1: So make sure you have one in your home. You 637 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:40,920 Speaker 1: can get them now, carbon monoxide and fire detectors, smoke 638 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:46,160 Speaker 1: detectors with a ten year warranty and then it dies 639 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,239 Speaker 1: and you just buy a new one. Then you don't 640 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,520 Speaker 1: have to check the battery, but you still need to 641 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,920 Speaker 1: test it. But I kind of wanted to leave you 642 00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:58,600 Speaker 1: with that thought. And tomorrow we're back at nine am, 643 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,520 Speaker 1: and of course that's going to feel like ten am 644 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,920 Speaker 1: because the clocks fall back one hour. With our help, 645 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,279 Speaker 1: Danny Boy, thank you very much today. I appreciate it, 646 00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:11,439 Speaker 1: and Danny and I'll both be back tomorrow for more 647 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:12,760 Speaker 1: at Home with Gary Sullivan