1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Well, best time of the day, good afternoon. Welcome now 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: number four. You're at home with Gary Sullivan as we 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: take your calls regarding your home projects. We're happy to 4 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: take your call and let's have a conversation of repair 5 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: or maintenance on your home. Maybe a project you got 6 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: coming up and you're doing a little research on that. 7 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 1: Our numbers eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. 8 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: It's just greater Cincinnati area and me right now, So 9 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: feel free to grab a line. They're wide open. All right, 10 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: let's get back to the phones. We have Teresa and Mike. Teresa, 11 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: you're up first. 12 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 2: Welcome, Thank you, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas. I am calling 13 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 2: about my fireplace. Okay, inside my brick. The brick does 14 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,559 Speaker 2: all the way up to the ceiling. The house is 15 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 2: twenty five years old and the concrete at the edge 16 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 2: of where the drywall is has been falling out ever 17 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 2: a base cup three years and I have to repair 18 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 2: it now. It's getting too much. How would I repair that? 19 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 2: It seems like I've seen where you can buy concrete 20 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 2: in a tube. Am I dreaming that? Or I don't know? 21 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 1: So it's it's the mortar that's crumbling. And needs to 22 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 1: be replaced. I'm guessing. So it looks like concrete. It 23 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: looks like mortar in between bricks on the outside of 24 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: some homes. So to answer your question, can you get 25 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:35,400 Speaker 1: mortar in a in a clocking to my answers, yes, 26 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 1: you can get that. I don't know if you want 27 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: to get that, and I'll tell you why. I mean, 28 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 1: there's there's tons of its sold, so don't you don't 29 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: have to take my feelings on it. And there's all 30 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: different kinds, but it seems to me that they're always 31 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: a little more whitish than regular gray, or some looks 32 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: just like calking. They do now have some mortar in 33 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: a calking tube that's a little bit more. I think 34 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: it even comes in a gray tube and it's got 35 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: a texture to it so it doesn't look like calking. 36 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 1: But there's also so I'll let you make that decision. 37 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 1: You can do a little research on that. But there's 38 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: also a product that quick Crete makes called zip It 39 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 1: Mortar now, so it comes in i don't know, like 40 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: a little zip it lock bag, okay, and there's three 41 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: pounds of mortar in it, and it comes with a 42 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: putty knife and it comes with the instructions. You lead 43 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: the mortar in the bag and you add whatever the 44 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 1: amount says of water into the bag. Then you zip 45 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 1: it clothes and you need the moisture, the water and 46 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: the mortar the dry mix together until you get you know, concrete, okay, 47 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: and then open up the bag. It's got it's got 48 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: a bonding agent in it. Concrete doesn't like to stick 49 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 1: to concrete. So what we gotta do is we got 50 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:29,639 Speaker 1: to remove the crumbling, loose mortar and then we use 51 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,359 Speaker 1: this zip it mortar that's been mixed up. You can 52 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 1: use that putting knife, or you can use a trial 53 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: and you just fill the cavity. 54 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 2: Now, okay, so I should remove all of the mortar. 55 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: You should remove all as much of the affected mortar 56 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: as you can so that you have a crevice to fill. Okay, Okay, 57 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: it's in my opinion it's easier than using a calking too. 58 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: I mean, because the hardest thing, the hardest thing of 59 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: that project is getting rid of the old mortar, and 60 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: you're going to have to do that with a cocking 61 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: toob anyway. You don't want to just put it on time. 62 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 1: It's not going to look good. Yeah, So just yeah, 63 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: and it's got a bonding agent and you can just 64 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 1: use that putty knife and kind of move it in 65 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,280 Speaker 1: and the mortar if it gets a little sloppy, you 66 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:29,599 Speaker 1: know a cloth and that's damp, you will remove that, 67 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:34,159 Speaker 1: whereas the colcking gets sticky and oh yeah, I just 68 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: think the mortar is easier to use. 69 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 2: Okay. Another thing what I was thinking of first, and 70 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 2: then I started looking at it, was putting a piece 71 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 2: of molding. 72 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 1: You can do that down that you can certainly do that. 73 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 2: It's a concrete If this zip it doesn't look. 74 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 3: Good, right, I might end up. 75 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 1: That's an option. 76 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:54,359 Speaker 3: Okay. 77 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: There's also an option of putting some dye in there. 78 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: That gets a little bit more complicated. You could if 79 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: it looks and it's a little off color, maybe you 80 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: could paint that mortar. But the trim molding is the 81 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: classic answer. You just hide it. Yeah, and you can 82 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: make that look very good on both sides. 83 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 3: Yeah. 84 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 2: One other question I have is regarding the fireplace. We 85 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 2: have a wood burning stove in it and it's twenty 86 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,359 Speaker 2: five years old. We use it every year. We have 87 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 2: our get the chimney cleaned every other year. Okay, but 88 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 2: every now and then it's not every time we use it, 89 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 2: but every now and then we smell the smoke coming 90 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 2: back into the house and the door shut and secured. 91 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,359 Speaker 2: So I don't know what is going on with that. 92 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: My guess is it's on a very damp, humid day, 93 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: usually in the fall, and that's kind of the nature 94 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: of the beast. To be honest with you, there's also 95 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 1: a shelf there, and next time you have it cleaned, 96 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: ask them, uh, you know, if there's a shelf in there, 97 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: you know, I get this smell and maybe they can 98 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: give that a little bit more of attention. It's just 99 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 1: creosot smells what it is. And I know when I 100 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 1: had one of those stoves, it always seemed like when 101 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 1: the weather changed in late fall and it got a 102 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: little damp and it was humid or springtime and it 103 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: was fifty five degrees and it was after the burning season, 104 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 1: I'd get that smell in. And also, if you have 105 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 1: negative air pressure inside the home, like the windows are closed, 106 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 1: it's real damp outside and you got the bathroom fan on, 107 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: you're kind of pulling that air down that chimney and 108 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: you kind of get that smell in the house. Even 109 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: just cracking the window a little bit will sometimes reverse 110 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 1: that airflow. So it could be numerous things, but nothing 111 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: to worry about. 112 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 2: Good, I will try that then. Okay, well, thank you 113 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 2: for your house. You have a great here. 114 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 1: Very good. You do the same. Thank you all right. 115 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 1: Twelve thirteen and Mike welcome. 116 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 4: Hello. 117 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: Yes, sorry, I. 118 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:17,239 Speaker 5: Had a question on we have a thirty year old deck. 119 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 5: We bought this place and it had it had a 120 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 5: Thompson water sealer put on the deck a long time ago, 121 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 5: like out twelve fourteen, fifteen years ago, is my guess. 122 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 5: And so of course the deck has gotten some green 123 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 5: on it, and you know we I pressure washed it 124 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 5: last last summer and I was I was going to 125 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 5: put a sealer on, and I really haven't been happy 126 00:07:55,600 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 5: with the brand I was using, which was Thompson's. I 127 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 5: mean I had used that on the steps two years 128 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 5: ago and appealed, so maybe and they were new. They 129 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 5: were later made steps to help with UH with getting 130 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 5: up the steps with a shorter tread height. So anyway, 131 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 5: so that didn't work out on the steps, so I 132 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 5: didn't really mess with them. But the main deck just 133 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 5: doesn't like I'd sprayed it. I had a I sprayed 134 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,959 Speaker 5: it hard, but not hard enough to tear up fibers. 135 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 5: I didn't use any chemicals at that point. And then 136 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 5: then I read online that I should do a water 137 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 5: test to see, uh, well the water sinking in to 138 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 5: know that it's trust me for sustained. 139 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: Trust me that you know. That was probably the problem 140 00:08:55,360 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 1: with the steps, probably not the problem with decking. So 141 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 1: let me ask you a couple of questions. And I 142 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 1: know exactly where you're going. You and about eight billion 143 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: people have this problem. So okay. Number number one is 144 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: is it a real sunny location or partial shade or 145 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: all shade? 146 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 5: It'd be pretty much all shade because there's a roof, 147 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 5: all right, there's a roof. It's in the woods. The 148 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 5: house is in the woods, and there's a roof over 149 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 5: the entire deck. 150 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,559 Speaker 1: Okay, cool steps of course are in. 151 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 5: The open, but it's you know, it's a ten ten 152 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 5: by twenty eight deck. 153 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,559 Speaker 1: Okay, under a under it just a roof. Yeah. And 154 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: on the type of stain you're using, are you using 155 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 1: a solid color stain or a semi transparent. 156 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 5: I I didn't put anything on it. Well, on the 157 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 5: steps I did that was a that was a transparent Okay, 158 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 5: reddish collar. 159 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: Okay, but yeah, deck that you're gonna do, you're going 160 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 1: to doing a semi transparent also. 161 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 5: Uh yes, or even transparent. I mean the wood has 162 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,960 Speaker 5: a nice color to it. Okay, I enjoy seeing the 163 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 5: wood at another location at my this this is our 164 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 5: second home. But at my at my house, I had 165 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 5: used I had neglected that deck, and then I used 166 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 5: a dark stain. 167 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:31,120 Speaker 1: And so a semi transparent, a semi transparent you can 168 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:35,440 Speaker 1: see the wood grain a solid color. You can't see 169 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: the wood grain. It looks more like paint. And a 170 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: transparent is just absolutely clear and you can see the wood. 171 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 1: There is no pigment. So here's the here's the story. 172 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: The good news is it's in the shade. So a 173 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 1: semi transparent stain in the shade is probably gonna last 174 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 1: you three, four, maybe five years, Okay, transparent in the 175 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:08,560 Speaker 1: shade maybe one or two. If those were in the sun, 176 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 1: you're transparent to give you a year, and you're you're 177 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 1: semi transparent to give you between one and three years, 178 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 1: even in the best, even the best of stains. So 179 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 1: that's where your expectations are. So in the steps just 180 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:31,319 Speaker 1: before we know if you're using a semi transparent that 181 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: can be applied probably anywhere from a month to a year. 182 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: So taking a tablespoon of water and putting it on there, 183 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: if it soaks into the wood in like a minute 184 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: or so, you can go ahead and stain. If it 185 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 1: doesn't soak in, that semi transparent won't penetrate in. It'll 186 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: actually be a surface coating and it will peel. So 187 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,559 Speaker 1: that's probably I feel pretty confident that's what happened to 188 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 1: the steps. So you're if you're going to redo that deck, 189 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,319 Speaker 1: the pressure washer, you know, you can use that to rinse, 190 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: but I wouldn't be blasting away at that wood. What 191 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 1: I would do is this, if it's a semi transparent, 192 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: it's just thirsty and tired and faded and whatever. Get 193 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 1: an oxygenated bleach, which is usually a deck cleaner by 194 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: the brand. It's an oxygenated bleach. It's usually mixed with 195 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: water and it's a crystal, and you spray it onto 196 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 1: the deck with a tank sprayer and you let it 197 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: sit about ten minutes. Then you reapply and then you 198 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 1: can rinse it with your pressure washer if you want, 199 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 1: or a hose for that matter, and then you know, 200 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,719 Speaker 1: let it dry. If you're gonna use a solvent, let 201 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:03,720 Speaker 1: it dry two days. If it's a water base, you're 202 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: going to let it dry two hours. And then it 203 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 1: comes to what kind of product you want to use. 204 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 1: And there's products that run twenty dollars a gallon, there's 205 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: products that run fifty sixty dollars a gallon. And you know, 206 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 1: probably the best one out on the market right now 207 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 1: is either Defy or cab It. They're gonna be about 208 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 1: fifty dollars a gallon. In the shade, you should get. 209 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 1: You should get. And you know, if I'm saying three 210 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 1: to four years, you get an extra year out of that. 211 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: Might be four to six years out of a semi 212 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 1: transparent only in the shade. If it was in the sun, 213 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: it'd be three years. Period. Darkers lasts longer than light colors. 214 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 1: You'll still see the wood grain. And that's that's kind 215 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: of the whole story. 216 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 5: Okay, So I use the tanks prayer with that oxygenated 217 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 5: leach correct, put it on, Spray it on, and in 218 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 5: about ten minutes, I rinse it off. 219 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 1: About ten minutes. Read you put another application on. There's 220 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: two applications. Reapply, yeah, okay, and the second thing, right, 221 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: you let that you let the oxygen aate bleach do 222 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 1: the work, and it'll lift that dirt up so much 223 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 1: better than just trying to blast it away with a 224 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: pressure washing. You run no damage of fuzzing the wood 225 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: or anything along those line, right. 226 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 5: Right, right, yeah, okay, that's good to know. Yes, in 227 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 5: the cabin I had is what I had used at 228 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 5: my house then and night. Okay, I probably we'll go 229 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 5: to that once I know I'm ready to sure to 230 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 5: get stayed on this. Thank you very much. 231 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: All right, you're welcome, Thank you. Take care. All right, 232 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break. We got Chris and then Barry. 233 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: If you'd like to join us, it's eight hundred eight 234 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 1: two three eight two five five. You're at home with 235 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: Gary Salvent right here in fifty five care see detalk station. 236 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: All right, Beck, get it. We go twelve twenty four 237 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 1: and you're at home with Gary Sullivan taking you up 238 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 1: to the one o'clock hour. And if you'd like to 239 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 1: join us, do so. It's eight hundred eight two three 240 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: eight two five five. Let's go to Chris. Chris, welcome, Hi, 241 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 1: good morning, good morning. 242 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 6: Hey. I have a problem with one of my sinks 243 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 6: I'm getting when I turn on the cold water in 244 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 6: the upstairs bathroom, I get a terrible kind of rotten 245 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:34,479 Speaker 6: egg smell out of it. But it doesn't happen in 246 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 6: the other bathroom upstairs, and it doesn't happen in the 247 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 6: bathroom downstairs or this sink in my kitchen. I'm just 248 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 6: getting it out of there. 249 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, got a Well, no, we don't. We're city water, 250 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 5: all right. 251 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: So my guess, Okay, usually if you have a rotten 252 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: egg smell or a salt your acid smell, it's usually 253 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: caused by the anode rod in the hot water tank, 254 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 1: but you would probably smell that everywhere, and if you're 255 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 1: getting it on the cold water or the hot water, 256 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: it's in material. My guess is what's happening. We've talked 257 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: to a couple of people today about bacterial growth in 258 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: drain pipes, and more than the drain pipes, the kind 259 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 1: of the spillover pipe or spillover tube. So if it's 260 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: it's near the vanity, I'm assuming yeah, okay, So, as 261 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: I was saying to him, everything we use in our 262 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 1: you know, bathroom is pretty much a gel product, gel, deodor, gel, hairspray, gel, toothpaste, 263 00:16:55,680 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 1: everything's gel, shaving cream gel, so it's sticky, and the 264 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 1: sticky substance creates a sticky substance on the pipes, and 265 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 1: it collects dead skin, whiskers, bacteria grows, and that smell. 266 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 1: That's what you're smelling. In fact, the water doesn't you 267 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 1: need it. Sometimes even go down the drain pipe, it can. 268 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 1: It can. If it's a heavy shower and you got 269 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:27,399 Speaker 1: steam all over the bathroom, that sink can smell because 270 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 1: that that moisture, that water vapor is actually wetting the 271 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: bacteria and causing that odor. 272 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 7: So I get, yeah, go ahead, Yeah, I'm just puzzled 273 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 7: by it because it's like the bathroom is smell is fine, 274 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,199 Speaker 7: and the shower that's right next to it, it's not 275 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:50,440 Speaker 7: coming out of the shower head or anything like that. 276 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 6: So shower, you don't get that stinky smell. 277 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 1: It's not the water. Yeah, it's not the water. It's 278 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 1: it's the bacteria that's in the drain line. Sometimes we'll 279 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 1: have that problem in the shower and what it'll be. 280 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: It'll be hair. You know, somebody in the house has 281 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 1: real thick hair and that hair will get stuck in 282 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:16,919 Speaker 1: with the shampoo and the oils in that and it'll smell. 283 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:19,159 Speaker 1: Often in that case, the only way to do it 284 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: is snake it and remove that air pluck. But in 285 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 1: the vanity, if you go in the hardware store and 286 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 1: you get an enzyme drain cleaner, and some are liquids 287 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 1: summer crystals, follow the directions. Usually what you'll do is 288 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 1: you'll put the stopper down and you'll turn on warm 289 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 1: water and you'll put xyz amount of either crystals or 290 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 1: liquid in there. You'll let it sit about ten minutes, 291 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:53,360 Speaker 1: it'll activate, you'll pull the stopper up, you'll flush that 292 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:58,159 Speaker 1: enzyme mixture on the inside of the pipes. It'll go 293 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:03,120 Speaker 1: down the drain and and you won't use that vanity 294 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 1: till morning. And you might have to do it twice, 295 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 1: but every time I've used it, it pretty much takes 296 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: care of the problem. Now that's for the drain. Remember 297 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 1: when I talked about the overflow hole. So at the 298 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,959 Speaker 1: top okay, so at the top of that sink, on 299 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 1: the vertical wall of that sink, there's a hole or 300 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 1: an oval shape slit, and sometimes water gets down and 301 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: there Sometimes that's just pulling the odor up from the 302 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: drain because they're connected. But after you do the drain 303 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:47,159 Speaker 1: pipe with the enzyme cleaner, it take some bleach and 304 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: just a funnel and get that down that overflow pipe 305 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: and I think you'll take care of it. 306 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 6: Okay, all right, all right, great. 307 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:58,359 Speaker 1: I hope it works. 308 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 7: It should all right, Thanks, Thanks, Happy. 309 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 1: Happy New Year to you. Very good. All right again, 310 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:07,440 Speaker 1: it's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. 311 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:11,160 Speaker 1: A real quick break and bury your up first, we'll continue. 312 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,880 Speaker 1: You're at home with Gary Salvan right here in fifty five. 313 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,120 Speaker 1: Care see the talk station and back to whek we 314 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: go as we spend a little time together and talk 315 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 1: about issues that we may be having with our home. 316 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 1: And as I've said many times over the past thirty 317 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 1: nine years, it is the biggest investment most of us 318 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 1: ever make. And like all of investments, you gotta well 319 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 1: you got to manage them. So that's what we're here 320 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:40,120 Speaker 1: for you. All right. It's eight hundred eight two three 321 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 1: eight two five five. Feel free to grab a line 322 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: and berry. 323 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 8: Welcome, good afternoon, Gary, Yes sir. 324 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 4: Thank you for your show along every weekend. 325 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: Very goods. 326 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 4: I got a three part I've got a three part 327 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 4: concrete question. 328 00:20:58,119 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 5: For you. 329 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:02,920 Speaker 4: I'm gonna use two of the products that you promote, 330 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:08,399 Speaker 4: the quick creek and uh wait and forget. But I 331 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 4: don't know that I've ever heard this on your show before. 332 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 4: On my driveway and even my patio I've got it's 333 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:23,399 Speaker 4: like marble sized holes that have developed in the in 334 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 4: the concrete. So which, uh quick thing which you recommend 335 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 4: for that? Well, some of them are as small as 336 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,360 Speaker 4: a marble and some of them are almost as big 337 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 4: as a golf ball. 338 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:39,679 Speaker 1: How deep are they? 339 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 4: Probably half inch? 340 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,400 Speaker 1: Does it look like just something popped out? 341 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:56,159 Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. It's just it's just like, you know, 342 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:57,720 Speaker 4: you could put put a marble in there. 343 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 1: And uh so there's a there's a condition called spawling. 344 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 1: It's SPA L, L, I and G and spawling. I 345 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: used to joke about. It's like driveway acne. It's just 346 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 1: like little divots out of the concrete. They're not, you know, 347 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 1: perfectly round. They're about the size of a nickel. Some 348 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 1: are shallow, some are deep. And spawling can be caused 349 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 1: a couple of couple of ways. One would be when 350 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 1: that concrete was poured and trilled out, maybe they added 351 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: a little too much water to make it a little 352 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:46,680 Speaker 1: bit easier to float out the concrete, and that surface 353 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 1: was a little softer than the rest of the concrete, 354 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: and it'll it'll chip out with with weather changes, et cetera, 355 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:03,120 Speaker 1: et cetera. The other thing that causes spawling is if 356 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:07,159 Speaker 1: you have some snow and you drive your car and 357 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: it collects road salt and snow and you drive in 358 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: and it drops on the driveway or the apron. Aprons 359 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 1: usually get it more than the driveway, but it can 360 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 1: be on both. It could be in the garage floor too. 361 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:27,199 Speaker 1: That salty snowy icy mixture when it melts becomes a 362 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 1: salty brine solution that penetrates into the concrete and is 363 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 1: very corrosive and that will cause spawling. So to repair spauling, 364 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: there is a product called vinyl concrete patcher. It also 365 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 1: is a quick crete product, and it has a bonding 366 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,639 Speaker 1: agent in it so it will attach itself to the 367 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: old concrete, which, as I said, concrete doesn't like concrete 368 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,640 Speaker 1: to stick to each other. So you'll clean that out, 369 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 1: you know, whether you use a pressure washer, a vacuum, 370 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: a whisp, broom, whatever, you clean that out. The best 371 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,439 Speaker 1: you can get as much residue out of there as 372 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 1: you can. And if you're going to patch it in 373 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,640 Speaker 1: the summer, you definitely wet it first. The vinyl concrete 374 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: patcher is a powder you mixed with water. Let's sit 375 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: for about three minutes. Literally. You can go around with 376 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,439 Speaker 1: a putty knife and just fill them. Probably not gonna 377 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 1: match exactly, so you probably will see the patch. So 378 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: sometimes the patch is worse than a divot. But I'm 379 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:35,640 Speaker 1: just giving your heads up. 380 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:41,679 Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, and it needs to the driveway needs to 381 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,919 Speaker 4: be cleaned as well, and I'm guessing we and forget 382 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 4: would I do that before or after the repairs? 383 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,199 Speaker 1: Go ahead and clean it. It's not gonna matter. Just 384 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 1: go ahead and clean it now you can. There's no 385 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: rhyme or reason to what goes first the wedding forget. 386 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 1: Of course, you know, if you were gonna use a 387 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,440 Speaker 1: pressure washer, i'd say clean it first. If you're gonna 388 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: use the wet forget, it's non aggressive, it's applied. You're 389 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 1: gonna wait six to eight weeks this time of year, 390 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,639 Speaker 1: which is you know you're gonna wait six weeks in 391 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: the summer, and you know you can patch it in 392 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:23,439 Speaker 1: the spring. 393 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 4: Okay, and the last part of it. Uh, to my stupidity, 394 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:38,119 Speaker 4: I got rust on the patio part of my driveway. 395 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 4: Will the wet and Forget clean that up? Do I 396 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:43,160 Speaker 4: need to use something else? 397 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:45,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta use something else. So the wedding Forget 398 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:51,200 Speaker 1: will clean algae, fungus, mold, mildew like in any type 399 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:55,240 Speaker 1: of growth like that, and it'll be a total kill. 400 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 1: So it'll be you know, it'll be its natural color. 401 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 1: A concrete will be its natural color, and it'll probably 402 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: be that way for about two years. It will regrow, 403 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,439 Speaker 1: but there's a little barrier in that wet and forget. 404 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: Also as far as rust, that's iron oxide, so usually 405 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,479 Speaker 1: a mild acid, and there's a product called Nothing's going 406 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:25,200 Speaker 1: to remove it, like right now, right, I mean, so 407 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 1: there's a product called iron out. It is a mild 408 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 1: acid that will devour iron oxide without really etching or 409 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:39,439 Speaker 1: hurting your concrete. The application is you just don't spray 410 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:45,159 Speaker 1: it on. So if it's a given area, literally you 411 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 1: get a bucket, you mix the iron oxide or the 412 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,679 Speaker 1: iron out. It's either a crystal or liquid mixed with water, 413 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 1: and you just stay there with about a four inch 414 00:26:55,840 --> 00:27:00,640 Speaker 1: paintbrush and just keep basting that rusted area. You might 415 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: have to baste it thirty forty times. Just keep applying 416 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 1: it and applying it, applying it, applying. You'll be able 417 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:11,960 Speaker 1: to watch it just fade away. Okay, and that's probably good. 418 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 4: Do you let it drive before the next location or 419 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 4: just keep it well, just keep basting and keeping it wet, 420 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 4: and just keep basting it on there, because that that 421 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 4: concrete's purse it will actually suck it down into the concrete, 422 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 4: but it doesn't. 423 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 1: Don't let it drive. Just just keep basting it on 424 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:29,640 Speaker 1: there and be patient. 425 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, that's easy to say, right, Yeah it is, okay, 426 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:37,680 Speaker 4: all right, thank you Gary. 427 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: All right, Happy new year to you. Thank you. All right. 428 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 1: So our phone number if you'd like to join us, 429 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: seven fifty five hundred, seven five hundred. All those lines 430 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 1: are open, and uh we're talking about your home. And 431 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: of course there's a lot to do this time of year, 432 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 1: that's for sure. Listen, we've had some really nice weather. 433 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,160 Speaker 1: It's gonna get cold again. I told you my project. 434 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 1: Cold weather's tough on garages, tough on garage doors. I 435 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:13,119 Speaker 1: started the program today going. I always tell folks you 436 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: know garage doors are strained during the harshness of temperatures. 437 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:23,280 Speaker 1: So January July we had a cold December, we had 438 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 1: some snow going in and out of the garage. On Christmas, 439 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 1: I could hear it kind of groaning. I could hear 440 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 1: it needed a little bit of help. And that's on 441 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: my list today. So if you haven't been maintaining it 442 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: a couple times a year, I'd say today, it'd be 443 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 1: a great day. It's warm, it's nice, not bad at 444 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 1: all for the time of year. And I'm talking about 445 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: the springs, the hinges, the rollers, the tracks. Make sure 446 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: they're clean. Cotton cloth and mineral spirits will clean them well. 447 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 1: And then get some silicon or teflon spray, no oils, 448 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 1: no real refined oils. Teflon or silicone blaster makes a 449 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 1: garage door lubricant. Use that. That's what I use. That's 450 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: what I'm gonna be using about an hour from now, 451 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 1: all right, So I just want to give you a 452 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 1: heads up on that. 453 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 8: All right, David, you'll be up first. We'll take a 454 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 8: little break and come back and get your question. You're 455 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 8: at home with Gary Salvin right here in fifty five 456 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 8: care seed detalk station. All Right, you're at home with 457 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 8: Gary Salvin. We're twelve forty six on your Saturday, and 458 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 8: I think what day it was. Boy, don't the holidays 459 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 8: mess with you there, big time, big time. 460 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: All right, let's get to David. 461 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 9: David, Welcome Merrik, Christmas, Happy New Year and all that 462 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 9: good stuff. 463 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 1: Yes, sir, back at you. 464 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 9: Hey, I got a question you've probably never been asked before. 465 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 9: All Right, I have a laminate floor in my kitchen, 466 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 9: which I all twenty years ago, and there are three 467 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 9: planks that are cracked. And I'll tell you why they cracked. 468 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 9: I pulled the refrigerator out. 469 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 1: I knew you're going to say that. 470 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 9: I pulled the refrigerator out and it cracked some of 471 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 9: the lamb in it. And anyhow, I do have some 472 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:32,440 Speaker 9: replacement pieces, and I'd like to pull these out and 473 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:35,200 Speaker 9: put the pieces I have. I've got like three or 474 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 9: four lanes left. So and it's all like tongue and groove, 475 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,640 Speaker 9: so it all interlocked. You know what I'm saying. 476 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 1: It doesn't snap together. Then there isn't a metal track 477 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: in there. 478 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 9: It's not a it's a it's plastic. You got any 479 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 9: you got any you know I got got I have 480 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 9: no problem with putting some screws in it. 481 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 1: So I got an idea, and you're going to have 482 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 1: to tell me if you think it'll work. So I'm 483 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 1: going back to wood floor days, okay, and not necessarily 484 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,479 Speaker 1: the lamined days, but if it doesn't have the metal 485 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 1: clip on tracking, it very well may work. So what 486 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 1: they would do with a wood floor on something like 487 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 1: that back in the day is they would they would 488 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:31,400 Speaker 1: literally cut the tongue off. Okay, Okay, what I was 489 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 1: all right, So they cut that out and that's how 490 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 1: they're going to remove that plank. 491 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 9: Okay, So here's the next question. How do I cut 492 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 9: that out with a razor knife? 493 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 1: Well, you could anything that would cut it as a 494 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 1: cheap answer, but I think that's kind of where I'm going. 495 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 1: One of what I had in mind would be, I 496 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 1: don't know if you ever seen these multipurpose tools. It 497 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 1: looks like a drumwell tool on stage aeroids. It's got 498 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 1: a circular saw blade that fits on the front of 499 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 1: it that is about an inch and a quarter in diameter, right, 500 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 1: and it's got real fine teeth. If you could if 501 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 1: you're if your hands steady enough, if you can guide 502 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:20,000 Speaker 1: that right down that that that groove that cut it 503 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 1: right now, okay, and then you can pull that plank out, 504 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 1: and then of course you're gonna have to remove the 505 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 1: tongue on the replacement board, right okay, And then it 506 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 1: really depends. I mean again, I don't think you want 507 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 1: to put a screw through there. I know you can, 508 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 1: and you certainly can the refrigerators going over it again, 509 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,280 Speaker 1: I guess, or you could glue it down. 510 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:53,479 Speaker 9: Yeah, I pull the refrigerator out to blow the uh uh, 511 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:58,600 Speaker 9: blow all the dust out underneath where all that you 512 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 9: know what I'm saying. That's yeah, yeah, yeah. 513 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:03,600 Speaker 1: And I don't know if you've got any of those 514 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:08,720 Speaker 1: nylon glides underneath those footers, but those babies work really 515 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 1: nice with laminate, and you can get those, you know 516 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:19,600 Speaker 1: where it's not gonna show, maybe where they're an inch 517 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 1: and a half inch and a quarter and it will 518 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,640 Speaker 1: make that more accessible if you got to get to 519 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 1: the water filter anything along those lines. But I think, 520 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:35,320 Speaker 1: you know, without seeing your project, I think that's what 521 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 1: I would investigate on getting it solved that way. 522 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,960 Speaker 9: All right, all right, I appreciate it. You got you 523 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:44,120 Speaker 9: have happy New Year. 524 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 1: You do the same. Thanks for the call. Take care 525 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,080 Speaker 1: all right. Yeah, by the way, you know this time 526 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:55,080 Speaker 1: of year we do seem to, i know, in our house, 527 00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:01,720 Speaker 1: just to accommodate our fans when they come and visit 528 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 1: and dinners and you know, furniture gets moved and sliding 529 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,319 Speaker 1: it around and it can be a little bit of 530 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,839 Speaker 1: a chore. And I'll tell you those little glides they 531 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,680 Speaker 1: make them an all different size. The first time I 532 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,920 Speaker 1: got them, and it's been a while, I was just 533 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:23,600 Speaker 1: absolutely astonished how easy they move furniture, big pieces of furniture, 534 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,600 Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter on kind of like what surface 535 00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:31,080 Speaker 1: either if you wanted an investment boy that had been 536 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 1: a good Christmas present for home or I just thought 537 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:38,040 Speaker 1: of that. But you can get a packet them. We're 538 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,560 Speaker 1: a whole different sizes and shapes, but we use the 539 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:44,840 Speaker 1: dickens out of those things anymore, you know, But just 540 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:50,640 Speaker 1: an idea. And for refrigers, they're great. Dan welcome, Hey Garry, 541 00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,359 Speaker 1: how you doing doing great? Thanks good. 542 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:58,839 Speaker 3: A quick garage question. I've got an order block one 543 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,440 Speaker 3: and a half car garage. Would it be possible to 544 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,279 Speaker 3: have a floating floor in there that they poured a 545 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:05,520 Speaker 3: separate floor. 546 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 1: H So when you say a floating floor, you're talking 547 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:12,000 Speaker 1: like a laminate flooring or what. 548 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,319 Speaker 3: No, no, no, it's it's a slab. But there's a 549 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,400 Speaker 3: there's a definite scene where the block comes down on 550 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,160 Speaker 3: the side and meet up with the floor. 551 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:24,160 Speaker 1: Okay. 552 00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,760 Speaker 3: And on the on the one side of the garage, 553 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,799 Speaker 3: it's probably three quarters of the wall was under three 554 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:32,680 Speaker 3: feet of dirt. 555 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:33,480 Speaker 1: So when it. 556 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,440 Speaker 3: Rains, it's not like it's seeping through the side of 557 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,880 Speaker 3: the you know, the vertical of the wall. I'm wondering 558 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:42,880 Speaker 3: if it's I haven't looked at it when it's raining 559 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,920 Speaker 3: to see if it's coming up through that separation between 560 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,480 Speaker 3: the floor and the where it meets the wall. 561 00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, I see. We have the same thing in basements too. 562 00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,720 Speaker 1: Those are two separate points, whether the wall and the floor. 563 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 1: So the only time it really comes into play is 564 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,720 Speaker 1: if your water table gets too high at that point 565 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,760 Speaker 1: and the water comes in. So let me just thinking 566 00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,720 Speaker 1: this out loud, Okay. One thing I would think about 567 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,480 Speaker 1: if I had a garage in the garage floor it 568 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:14,439 Speaker 1: would be blocked or is it poured? Also, no, it's 569 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:18,680 Speaker 1: the walls or blocked. Okay, So you got block and 570 00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 1: then you had the pour and then there's this gap. 571 00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:25,720 Speaker 1: And so why would the water table be too high there? 572 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:31,359 Speaker 1: And my answer would be, I don't know. Is there 573 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,120 Speaker 1: gutters on that size? Are they clogged? Are they overflowing? 574 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,279 Speaker 1: Does the down spout go on the ground or does 575 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:42,520 Speaker 1: it deposit the water on the surface That would raise well, 576 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,120 Speaker 1: that would allow that water to weep in there. That'd 577 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,440 Speaker 1: be a path least resistance. It may not be the 578 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:52,759 Speaker 1: water table, but it would be a path least resistance 579 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:53,720 Speaker 1: for surface water. 580 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:58,319 Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's that side of the garage where it 581 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:02,200 Speaker 3: seems to happen. Like I said, there's you can't see it, 582 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 3: but it's a it's a there's a walkway about four 583 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,160 Speaker 3: feet off off the garage and there's three feet of dirt, 584 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,000 Speaker 3: you know, elevated dirt between the garage and that and 585 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,520 Speaker 3: that walkway. And I'm thinking, and there is a there 586 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,799 Speaker 3: is a gutter there, but the gutter goes out the 587 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,840 Speaker 3: backside of the garage and I know that's clear, Okay, 588 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,640 Speaker 3: So I'm wondering, is that just when the dirt gets 589 00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,560 Speaker 3: wet it it goes to that. 590 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,360 Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's I think that is the path that 591 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,520 Speaker 1: is resistance if there's any kind of you know, it 592 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:37,640 Speaker 1: doesn't take much with a you know, gushers of rains 593 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,719 Speaker 1: we've had lately. Yeah, over the last few years. I 594 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:45,000 Speaker 1: mean they're even changing gutter sizes in our area. They 595 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,359 Speaker 1: never used to rest all six inch gutters, but they 596 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:52,120 Speaker 1: are now. So I'm thinking it's just ground water. You know, 597 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,600 Speaker 1: it's just saturating that area so much, and water is 598 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:59,239 Speaker 1: always moving. It's the path of the least resistance would 599 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:03,320 Speaker 1: be that gas versus the soil. The soil is resisting 600 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:03,960 Speaker 1: more water. 601 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:09,359 Speaker 3: Yeah, I play on it. 602 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,560 Speaker 1: So, yeah, so that's the big decision, and I would 603 00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:16,439 Speaker 1: say that's what I would try. In fact, I think 604 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:23,080 Speaker 1: I might even try a euthane clear calocking or gray 605 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:29,560 Speaker 1: euthane or gray silicone, something that has good flexibility. Now, 606 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,200 Speaker 1: somebody listening right now is going, no, no, no, there's 607 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:34,279 Speaker 1: gonna be water pressure there. You got to use a 608 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:38,120 Speaker 1: hydraulic cement. I don't think so. I don't think there's 609 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:42,520 Speaker 1: that much water pressure. I think it's just an opening 610 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:46,880 Speaker 1: and that water is gravitating to that because there's nothing 611 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,960 Speaker 1: to stop it. I think, you know, with a gray 612 00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,560 Speaker 1: silicone you're kind of putting your finger in the dike 613 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:57,200 Speaker 1: and that would be enough resistance to move it along. Now, 614 00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:01,120 Speaker 1: if it were underground, you know, no way, you know, 615 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,880 Speaker 1: I mean no way. There'd be enough water pressure in 616 00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,560 Speaker 1: there where it would probably push at and you'd probably 617 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,719 Speaker 1: have to I don't know what. Really, the only way 618 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,359 Speaker 1: to really do it if it were way underground, would 619 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,840 Speaker 1: be to cut that floor and put in a drain pipe. 620 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:18,040 Speaker 1: To be honest, but I think where you're at, I 621 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,640 Speaker 1: think i'd it's not gonna cost you much. It doesn't 622 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,799 Speaker 1: have to be pretty. I'd get some gray silicon and 623 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,360 Speaker 1: put a beat along the air and see what happens. 624 00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:31,600 Speaker 3: See what? And is that? I know this weekend's going 625 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:33,839 Speaker 3: to be kind of mild, but is that something if 626 00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,960 Speaker 3: I missed this weekend? Can you use it in colder temperature? 627 00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,840 Speaker 1: Let's see, it's going to tell you on the label, 628 00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:44,200 Speaker 1: but my guess is it's going to tell you, you know, 629 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:50,120 Speaker 1: forty degrees limitation or maybe thirty five degrees, and that's 630 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:54,600 Speaker 1: the temperature of the concrete. So if you got an 631 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:59,279 Speaker 1: insulated garage, that concrete might be warmer than that. But 632 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,640 Speaker 1: if it's zero out side, I'd probably wait. 633 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,000 Speaker 3: Okay, okay, all right, Yeah, we'll give it a shot 634 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,000 Speaker 3: the next time and we'll get that easy. 635 00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:08,919 Speaker 1: He's very good. 636 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,520 Speaker 8: Happy, appreciate it, Happy new year to you. 637 00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:15,040 Speaker 1: Thank you for the call. I appreciate it. All right. 638 00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:18,680 Speaker 1: Well that's going to wrap up, and uh boy, I'll 639 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:20,120 Speaker 1: tell you what it was. A busy dow was a 640 00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:24,040 Speaker 1: little bit surprised. In fact, I was very surprised. It's 641 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,799 Speaker 1: always good to be busy, we all say that. And 642 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,560 Speaker 1: a lot of interest in getting a few things. Uh 643 00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:33,600 Speaker 1: taken yourself for four hours? Yeah, well yeah, well I 644 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:35,600 Speaker 1: always have my big pat of nose. You do. 645 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:36,320 Speaker 6: I'm impressed. 646 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,640 Speaker 1: You know, we can fix things in your house, or 647 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,560 Speaker 1: you can listen to me tell you all the things 648 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:44,920 Speaker 1: that need to be fixed. You tell me we should 649 00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:48,640 Speaker 1: be better. All right, Danny boy, another great day, and 650 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:50,960 Speaker 1: not only that, a great year. Thank you for all 651 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,439 Speaker 1: your help in two thousand and twenty five going into 652 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:59,600 Speaker 1: two thousand twenty six. I want to wish everybody very 653 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,360 Speaker 1: happy new year. Good lord. Willing back next weekend for 654 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,200 Speaker 1: more at Home with Garry Sullivan.