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Speaker 1: Happy to take your calls regarding your home projects. As

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Speaker 1: I look at the weather map, and I do that

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Speaker 1: often because a lot of the issues we may have

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Speaker 1: around our home on any given weekend, whether it's really hot,

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Speaker 1: really cold, whether it's snowing or raining or flooding, is.

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Speaker 2: Attributed to the weather.

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Speaker 1: So as I look at the weather map, it looks

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Speaker 1: like half the country's gonna is under snow cover or

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Speaker 1: going to be under snow cover. And maybe it's cold

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Speaker 1: outside where I met, we're gonna get near zero in

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Speaker 1: are going to get colder than that. So obviously one

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Speaker 1: of the things we want to talk about is protecting

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Speaker 1: any exposed pipes. And you know, if you're if you're

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Speaker 1: there been problems in the past. Are those pipes still pertted?

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Speaker 1: If it's getting below zero in your neck of the

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Speaker 1: woods and there's no insulation on that pipe. Keeping those

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Speaker 1: cabinet doors open, just a trickle of water, both cold

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Speaker 2: That'll all be helpful. Also, one of.

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Speaker 1: The things is we preach preaching, and I keep still

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Speaker 1: hearing all the stories about energy bills. It's like every

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Speaker 1: You know, where, how did we do this month? And

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're the same way. I mean, it's continuing

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Speaker 1: so when it gets really cold, like it's supposed to

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Speaker 1: more cold weather, that's for sure. Pay attention to where

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Speaker 2: To solving those problems.

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Speaker 1: If you're sitting on the couch and there's a register

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Speaker 2: Shades are up.

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Speaker 1: Or drapes are blocking that heated air, make sure the

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Speaker 1: heated air can get into the room. There's you know

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're paying for that heated air, let's use it.

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Speaker 2: You don't want to go on up behind the drapes

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Speaker 1: That's not very functional for you, right Or if you

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Speaker 1: tape these up. So pay attention to what's going on

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Speaker 2: So let me give you the phone number.

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Speaker 1: It is eight hundred eighty two three eight two five

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Speaker 1: five and Paul you lead us off.

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Speaker 2: Welcome.

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Speaker 3: Hello. Yeah, I've got a pull barn and I have

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Speaker 3: four b eight sheets of styrene not foiled back on

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Speaker 3: What I need to know is I'd like to put

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Speaker 1: So, so what's the R value of these sheets, do

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Speaker 1: So, so the the foil is basically the water vapor

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Speaker 1: wouldn't really double it up. There would be no need

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Speaker 2: And uh, are you going to glue those panels together

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Speaker 3: Okay, Well, there's going to be metal go over over

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Speaker 3: And the pool barn's not quite done yet.

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Speaker 1: Well, your soft events, when you're bringing that air in,

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Speaker 1: so yeah, you don't want to cover those up for sure.

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Speaker 2: Know, baffles in there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that would protect the uh insulation from you know,

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Speaker 3: but yeah, of course the trusses are would they could rot?

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Speaker 2: Yep? Yep? All right, Well you got your work cut

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the first ever run conto it, that was

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Speaker 3: a that was an experience.

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Speaker 2: See now your experienced.

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Speaker 1: All right, Paul, thank you much. I appreciate good luck

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Speaker 1: to you. Take care all right, our phone.

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Speaker 2: Numbers eight hundred and eight two three, eight two five five.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't be bad to check your insulation either, Get in

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Speaker 1: that insulation is. You know, one time it may have

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Speaker 1: been you know, fifteen inches, and right now it maybe nine.

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Speaker 2: There may been some settling.

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Speaker 1: That have taken place. Be mindful of that. Ron Wilson,

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Speaker 1: he's coming up next. As we continue, You're at home

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Speaker 1: with Gary Sullivan.

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Speaker 5: one eight hundred eighty two three. Talk this is at

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Speaker 2: What minute, I've got it disconnected? All right? Back ahead,

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Speaker 1: Go, You're at home with Gary Sullivan talking a little

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Speaker 2: We're trying kind to day. We're trying hard, all right.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday I talked about how brutal the weather has been

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have rains, You're gonna have snow and ice,

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Speaker 1: And when just part of that slab settles, it breaks off.

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Speaker 2: If you can get ahead of it. Let's say you did.

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Speaker 1: Forget or ignore the crack and the concrete and you

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Speaker 1: It's eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five,

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Speaker 1: happy to take your and Lisa welcome.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Gary, How are you doing fine?

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Speaker 2: Thank you good.

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Speaker 4: I called you last week, Gary, and you helped me

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Speaker 4: like a mini remodel. I guess I don't want walls

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's a that's going to take me two hours

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Speaker 1: And you know, when you get into and this is

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Speaker 1: So, you know, plumbing is one of those things that

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Speaker 1: Very good, good luck, hope it all works out for you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Lisa, take care of me.

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Speaker 1: All right, it's eight hundred and eight two three eight

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Speaker 1: we can just replace the washer. Maybe the rim around

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Speaker 1: And they've made them pretty dog gone easy to replace nowadays.

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Speaker 1: You know, you've got some supply lines. Those used to

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Speaker 2: Now we got to you know.

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Speaker 1: Screw on compression hose that goes from the valve underneath

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Speaker 1: I mean you can just almost I'm not gonna say

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Speaker 1: Sometimes that's good enough. So those are relatively pain free

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Speaker 1: you know, you start getting these toilets where they're thirty

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Speaker 1: forty twenty years.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, there's you got hard water. Depends

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Speaker 2: on how hard the water is.

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Speaker 1: You start having problems with them and there's waste to

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Speaker 1: clean them, but then you got other issues, and you know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes I think updating it's a you know, if the

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Speaker 1: finances are there to be able to do that, it's

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Speaker 1: probably really well worth your time to pay attention to

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Speaker 1: that and make that investment.

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Speaker 2: All Right, our phone number if you'd like to join us,

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Speaker 2: it's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Well,

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: We talked about the weather early in the show, but

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Speaker 1: we've had, you know, below zero temperatures. We got a

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Speaker 1: big store going in the north central part of the

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Speaker 1: United States. It's in the hundreds in Phoenix. It's not

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Speaker 1: bad where I am today either, but there's been a

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Speaker 1: lot of rain, and I know there's some people out

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Speaker 1: there with some issues with water that's intruded into basement

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Speaker 1: areas or even cross space. Areas happy to chat about

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Speaker 1: that as we continue. You're at home with Gary Sulivan.

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Speaker 5: Help for your home is just to click away at

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Speaker 5: Garysullivan online dot com. This is at Home with Gary Sullivan.

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Speaker 5: This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio station.

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Speaker 2: Well they're saying that.

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Speaker 6: We may not always agree, but we can agree on

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Speaker 6: one thing.

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Speaker 2: Fifty five KRC is the talkstation.

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Speaker 1: All right, Beck, yet it we go. You're at home

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Speaker 1: with Gary Salvin. We're thirteen minutes from the top of

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Speaker 1: the hour, and I welcome you in. If you'd like

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Speaker 1: to chat about your home maintenance or repair. Our phone

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Speaker 1: number is eight hundred eight two three eight two five

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Speaker 1: five eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.

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Speaker 1: I was talking about the craziness of the weather as

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Speaker 1: you look at the weather map, and I was saying,

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Speaker 1: we've had a lot of rain in our area, and

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Speaker 1: so midwest central central, I guess central Midwest, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: In a while, and we've had a lot of rain.

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Speaker 2: We had a cold winter. We had a lot of wind.

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Speaker 1: In fact, probably as much wind as I've ever experienced

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Speaker 1: without a storm. I mean, we had gusted up to

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Speaker 1: sixty seventy.

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Speaker 2: Miles an hour.

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Speaker 1: If you're listening to me in my area, and that's

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Speaker 1: the weather issue, here's something very important to do. And

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Speaker 1: I still reckon back to one year, we had a really,

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Speaker 1: really bad storm, and I saw some people not far

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Speaker 1: from my house. They were picking up shingles in their

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Speaker 1: yard and throwing them away, and I said, are those

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Speaker 1: your shingles? And they go, yeah, I think so, And

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Speaker 1: I said, well, you're probably not gonna be able to

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Speaker 1: use them, but do you know where they're from?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: No, Well my point is, look for shingles. Look for

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Speaker 1: shingles that have lifted up off the roof, but maybe

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Speaker 1: not off the roof. Look for shingles that are curled,

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Speaker 1: Look for shingles that are broken, look for pieces that.

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Speaker 2: Are in the yard.

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Speaker 1: Because if you're missing some shingles, and you know there's

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Speaker 1: different types of shingle roofs, but if you're missing a shingle,

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Speaker 1: it's supposed to be on the roof, it's not supposed

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Speaker 1: to be in the yard. And if you're not one,

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Speaker 1: maybe that's physically capable to get up on the roof,

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Speaker 1: or maybe the roof is real steep, or maybe you

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Speaker 1: don't know what you're looking at. Anyway, get a roofer

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Speaker 1: out there and have them inspect that and see what

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Speaker 1: kind of damage has happened and can it be repaired?

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Speaker 1: In other words, do you have any replacement shingles, but

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Speaker 1: I've seen it more in one time, and it's not

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Speaker 1: something you should do. It's fine to get them off

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Speaker 1: your lawn, but that's the beginning of the issue. You

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Speaker 1: haven't solved the issue by throwing them away, So just

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Speaker 1: inspect that.

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Speaker 2: Even if you do get a ladder out.

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Speaker 1: Just look into gutters too, because in a lot of

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Speaker 1: cases broken shingles, as they're lifted by the wind.

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Speaker 2: They cracked.

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Speaker 1: They If they're older and brittle, twenty years old, they

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Speaker 1: may crack and the gutter may catch them. But a

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Speaker 1: quick roof inspection, if you can do it with a

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Speaker 1: pair of binoculars on the ground, that's great.

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Speaker 2: If you can get up on the roof, that's even better.

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Speaker 1: If you can call a roofer to inspect that roof,

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Speaker 1: that'd probably be best.

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Speaker 2: So keep that in mind.

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Speaker 1: Just because you find a shingle doesn't mean that whole

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Speaker 1: problem is over. Also, when I was talking about a

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Speaker 1: lot of rain, and we had a couple of torrential

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Speaker 1: downpours this week, and you know spring rains, a lot

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Speaker 1: of people have it this time of year. And if

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Speaker 1: you have crawl space or a basement, and I'll focus

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Speaker 1: on a crawl space more than a basement right now.

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Speaker 1: But that crawl space, I don't know how yours is.

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Speaker 1: In other words, is it insulated, is it pretty much waterproof?

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Speaker 1: Has it been a problem in the past. Is there

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Speaker 1: a sump well in the crawl space, all of which

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Speaker 1: you may need, or maybe you don't need any of that.

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Speaker 1: But again, if you can get up there with a flashlight,

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Speaker 1: get into that cross base or be on the outside

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Speaker 1: of it and looking in, and what you're looking for

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Speaker 1: really is you're looking for moisture, uh so, puddles in

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Speaker 1: the cross space, damp soil in the cross cross space,

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Speaker 1: insulation that maybe somebody put up against the floor to

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Speaker 1: you know, the first level of the house.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that's wet and kind of hanging down.

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Speaker 1: And is problematic because there's you know, a cross space

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Speaker 1: is kind of just like a slab home or just

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Speaker 1: like a finished basement. It needs to have good drainage,

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Speaker 1: it needs to have water control, it needs to have

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Speaker 1: good grading on the outside, it needs to have a

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Speaker 1: lower water table, hence the sump pump well. But there's

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Speaker 1: things that you know, need to again be addressed because

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Speaker 1: as you get ponding and very damp ground there if

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Speaker 1: you don't have like a heavy coat of like a

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Speaker 1: ten mil plastic and some stone on top of that

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Speaker 1: holding that down. I'll tell you the possibility of mold

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Speaker 1: in that area is very high, which leads to a

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Speaker 1: very unhealthy home.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to the phones again.

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Speaker 1: Our numbers eight hundred and eight two three eight two

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Speaker 1: five five Matt, Welcome, Hi.

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Speaker 8: Gary, thanks for taking my call. I own a metal

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Speaker 8: roofing business and I love your show and thank you.

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Speaker 8: I tell you what I what I found with shingle companies,

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Speaker 8: and is that if you don't have the coil tag

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Speaker 8: off of the palate that those shingles came off.

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Speaker 2: Of, you're not going to match it, are you?

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Speaker 8: Well, not going to match it, but they're not going

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Speaker 8: to warranty it because they don't. It's happened more than

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Speaker 8: once to me. I'm like, well, do you have replacement shingles?

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Speaker 8: Get the number off of that. You go to some

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Speaker 8: of these companies and they're like, no, we need to

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Speaker 8: know the palette it came off of.

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Speaker 2: No, is that crazy or what the palette?

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Speaker 1: So I understand, you know, like the run numbers and

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Speaker 1: stuff like that, but why would the palette they mixed

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Speaker 1: mix the shingles up in the palette there.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, they were stacked on that. That's just what I

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Speaker 8: was told. Really, Well, you know they're twenty three years old. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: we'll only warranty it for thirteen.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're really getting into a lot of that. I'm

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Speaker 2: sure you know that. And you're probably in the perfect business.

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Speaker 2: The metal roofing. That's my dream someday. What a metal

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Speaker 2: roof bad and.

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Speaker 8: Has been around for twenty four years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's really growing though, but uh yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean the insurance companies are Yeah, I think in all honestly,

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Speaker 1: I think sometimes insurance companies have been screwed over a

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Speaker 1: little bit with shingled roofs and different roofers. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying all of them. I'm not trying to paint it

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Speaker 1: with a broad brush or anything. But I've seen roofskid

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Speaker 1: replaced one hundred percent in my neighborhood that was not

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Speaker 1: not storm damage.

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Speaker 2: And I can attest to that. And I just cracking down.

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Speaker 8: That north of East Cyrus here. I gauged it at

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Speaker 8: seventy one mile an hour.

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Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, yep, no problem for a metal roof though,

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Speaker 2: Well we.

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Speaker 9: Hit Nope, my sighting, my signing didn't necessarily hold, even

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Speaker 9: metal sighting, so my roof held, all my roofs held.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's often. What is the wind rating on

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Speaker 1: a typical metal roof?

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Speaker 8: Now I will warranty it's to one hundred and forty.

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Speaker 1: Really, Okay, I was thinking somewhere between fifty, so I

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Speaker 1: was I was right in the middle.

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Speaker 8: I've already been through one thirty two through Crestline, Ohio.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 8: I started counting the roofs dead and I did, and

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Speaker 8: I got up to fifteen and quit.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, Yeah, that's great, that's great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I don't know about matching it.

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Speaker 1: In fact, even when I said it, I kind of

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Speaker 1: caught myself when I said, you know, you had you know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of times you just.

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Speaker 2: Can't match them. Sometimes you can get lucky and come

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Speaker 2: really really close and can't really see it.

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Speaker 1: But a lot of people don't realize too that roof

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Speaker 1: that's been up there for twenty years, it's faded. And

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Speaker 1: if you got them downstairs and uh you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, wrapping around them in the basement, those things,

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Speaker 1: even though they're the same, they're not always going to match. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because the son's gonna just bleach those things out and

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna match. So all right, we'll look forward

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Speaker 1: to your phone calls it again. It's eight hundred.

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Speaker 2: Eight two three eight two five five.

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Speaker 1: I guess what I'm saying too is when you have,

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Speaker 1: you know, significant weather, whether it's really super cold, really

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Speaker 1: super windy, really a lot of rain, really a bunch

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Speaker 1: of snow.

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Speaker 2: The follow up that walk around the house.

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Speaker 1: That exam of your home very important, and we'll cover

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Speaker 1: a little bit more of that as we work our way.

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Speaker 2: Through the weekend. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.

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Speaker 5: Start a project and don't know how to finish it

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Speaker 5: and call Gary and on eight hundred and eighty two

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Speaker 5: three talk You're at home with Gary.

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Speaker 6: Sullivan, the place for Brian Thomas in the morning, fifty

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Speaker 6: five KRC, the Talk Stage.

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Speaker 2: Not every Chimney system is the same