1 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 1: Well the weekends upon us. Welcome You're at home with 2 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: Gary Sullivan. This i was brought to you by Roto 3 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 1: Ruter and I'm sure they've been busy with all the 4 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: plumbing issues. Maybe some frozen pipes. I'm sure they were 5 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 1: busy following some of those and happy to talk to 6 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,200 Speaker 1: you about your home projects. By the way, Rota Ruter 7 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: is they got to be like one of the biggest 8 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: plumbing services in the United States, been around for years 9 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 1: and if you're having issues, well you can give them 10 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: a call. And we certainly think them for joining us 11 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: and sponsoring this hour of the show. If you've got 12 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:07,040 Speaker 1: a question or would like to tackle a project together, 13 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: it's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. 14 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: And how's the heating in your home? You're staying comfortable 15 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 1: and what exactly do you set your thermostat at. I'm 16 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: hearing all kinds of things and you know, everybody, uh 17 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:26,559 Speaker 1: you know has the best, but I'm here to tell 18 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 1: you that whatever you're comfortable with, that's great. The secret 19 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: to being comfortable at a lower temperature is to have 20 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 1: adequate humidity inside your home and dry winter heat is 21 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: not the most comfortable, but when it gets really really 22 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: cold outside, you can't have a lot of humidity inside 23 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: your home. Eyah, thirty percent. Maybe if you're lucky the 24 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: windows don't sweat when it's zero outside. But if you've 25 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: ever experienced where you have a thermostat's set at seventy 26 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 1: and you got twenty percent humidity inside your own you're cold. 27 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:13,519 Speaker 1: And what do you do then? Well, yeah, you move 28 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 1: up the thermostat right, and that of course is costing 29 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: you money. And again if your humidity could be increased 30 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 1: a little bit, so how do you do that? Well, 31 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: you can get room humidifiers. One of the things I 32 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: have on my notes today is paying attention to what 33 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: isn't working in your home. In other words, I'm not 34 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:43,959 Speaker 1: comfortable when my thermostat's set at seventy degrees and my 35 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: humidity inside my home's twenty percent. You know, make a 36 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: note of that. Again, our homes tell us a lot, 37 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: and then we can work on making those adjustments. Maybe 38 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,239 Speaker 1: next year. One of the projects is maybe we ought 39 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: to put a humidifier, a whole house humidifier on our furnace. 40 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: You know, it's freezing outside, you can have thirty two 41 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: thirty five percent humidity inside your home, maybe a smidgeonmore 42 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 1: when it gets down to around twenty fifteen. You know, 43 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,679 Speaker 1: maybe thirty percent is more comfortable, but you'll be so 44 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: much more comfortable you probably can move that you know, 45 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 1: thermostat down a little bit just because you're gonna feel 46 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: more comfortable. And then do you have a smart thermostat 47 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: where you can adjust your temperature in other words, extra 48 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: quilled at night? Maybe pull it down the sixty five 49 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: that's kind of what we do. We're kind of seventy 50 00:03:54,640 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: sixty five seventy sixty five and this aving sayers probably 51 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: about five percent on heating doing it that way, and 52 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: that might be something you want to consider again, making 53 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: notes on these things. We talked about the ice dams. 54 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 1: If we had ice dams in the house, and we 55 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: solve those issues, make a note that we had that. 56 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: I'm telling you how quickly we'll forget about that. So 57 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: let me give you the phone number you can join 58 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 1: us if you'd like. Again, it's eight hundred eight two 59 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: three eight two five five. As we pay for the 60 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 1: heat to satisfy that thermostat, and if it's not satisfying 61 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: that thermostat, the real question is why so one of 62 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: the things is, you know, the the rooms that are 63 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: the furthest from the furnace are truly going to be 64 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:09,720 Speaker 1: served less unless you have zone heating and cooling. So 65 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 1: if your thermostats and I always laugh about this in 66 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:17,280 Speaker 1: the dining room or the family room of the house, 67 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: and you got a two story in that back bedroom, 68 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:24,160 Speaker 1: or even a ranch, a long, rambling ranch that back bedroom, 69 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 1: it's got a that heat has a long way to travel. 70 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: And sometimes your furnace are shut off because it's already 71 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:41,799 Speaker 1: satisfied that thermostat that's in the dining room or the 72 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: family room, so it shuts off. But in the back 73 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: bedroom it only got up to sixty seven, it's satisfied 74 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: to thermostat that's reading seventy, it shut it off. So 75 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: why isn't that heat getting back there? It can be 76 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 1: something literally as simple as a air fielder that hasn't 77 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: been changed. And I'm not talking about hasn't been changed 78 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 1: for five years. I'm talking like, hasn't been changed for 79 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 1: six months, So not as much air can pass through 80 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:28,359 Speaker 1: that back bedroom gets cheated, or maybe the pipe that's 81 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: carrying that heat isn't tightly sealed at the joints. If 82 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: it's inside the wall. There's not a whole lot you're 83 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:41,359 Speaker 1: going to do about that. And you can pay to 84 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 1: have those sealed by blowing an aerosol sealing through those 85 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 1: pipes and sealing those pipes. But it's not like you're 86 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 1: going to get in there and take that pipe. However, again, 87 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: cross based basement exposed pipes. Examining them and finding you know, 88 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 1: gap at the joints, well, that can solve the problem. 89 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: Aluminum tape is what you would use and get those sealed. Also, 90 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: your pipes have dampers in them, so you can maybe 91 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: open up the damper all the way to that back 92 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: room if it's not opened up, and maybe throttle the 93 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: family room back a little bit. You're redistributing the air 94 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 1: if you will, that's been heated. I mean, that's a 95 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: good play. And then we can get into the whole 96 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: thing again. Our homes are telling us something during severe 97 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 1: weather and and certainly we can take advantage of that, 98 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: but make notes of it. All right, let's go to 99 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: Paul here. Paul welcome. 100 00:07:56,040 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 2: Well, yes, sir, yeah, my questions about a plumbing issue. 101 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 2: I'm an engineer and my I have a neighbor who's 102 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 2: got he's an engineer retired as well. We both have 103 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 2: similar questions. I noticed that in our master bath we 104 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 2: have a fifteen year old house. In the master bath, 105 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 2: when you flush the toilet, you can hear the water 106 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 2: pulling out of the sink and the trap. And it 107 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 2: only happens in the wintertime, and this has been real 108 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 2: cold weather. You put the fill the trapop, you know, 109 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 2: put water in the basin, and this sign. Come back 110 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 2: a little bit later, you'll flush the toilet and you 111 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 2: can hear it gurgling. My neighbor who has a summer house, 112 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 2: he's noticed that all his toilets, the water level in 113 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:53,680 Speaker 2: the bowl will go down to almost where it opens 114 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 2: up at the bottom of the thing, and he puts 115 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 2: water in there. He puts a little bed of water 116 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:00,680 Speaker 2: in their neck. Comes back later and the water level's 117 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 2: gone back down again. It sounds like the similar problem 118 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:08,199 Speaker 2: is this just frost up into the vent type and 119 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 2: it's trying to suck water from the bowrry. It's trying 120 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 2: of air. 121 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: And that's why it's gurgling. And you're exactly you're you're 122 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:25,080 Speaker 1: exactly right. I'm going to guess up at the stack 123 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 1: on the roof and don't get up there. Today it's 124 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: partially blocked. It could be ice, it could be snow. 125 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 1: I mean it could be. 126 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 2: Well, they're fifteen year old houses, so they you know, 127 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 2: the stacks are up pretty high and usually a foot 128 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 2: or more. But there's warm air coming from into the stack, right, 129 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 2: and it's that moisture freezes and it eventually plugs, yeah, 130 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 2: or just respect. 131 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: Or even minimally restricts it. It's going to you know, 132 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 1: I use this as an example. If you have a 133 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 1: gallon gas can and you're filling up the lawnmower and 134 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 1: you don't open up the vent, you know, you get 135 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,439 Speaker 1: that loop. You don't get a full stream of gas 136 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 1: coming out of the can. You open the vent, you know, 137 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:18,200 Speaker 1: slick as can be. That same thing kind of happens 138 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: in our plumbing system. We got as many pipes going 139 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:26,079 Speaker 1: up as we got going down. 140 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 2: And. 141 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: We need that air to get that nice fluidity through 142 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 1: the plumbing system. And you're exactly right. I mean that 143 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: air is warming that pipe. It hits the at the top, 144 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: there's condensation, it freeze. It's not all the time. And 145 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: the first thing I was going to do is when 146 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: we build a house, it was twenty six years ago. 147 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: We had this problem right away. This is crazy. They 148 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:58,080 Speaker 1: forgot to take the caps off the top of the stacks, right, so, 149 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:03,319 Speaker 1: you know, things happened. And my guess is that's exactly 150 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: what it is. It's just not just but there's some 151 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 1: ice up there that's impinging that opening. And you know 152 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 1: it's severe and severe temperatures and maybe where the snows 153 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 1: drift in. I mean, who knows warming up that? How 154 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: do you do that? Probably with a gutter gutter cable 155 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:30,959 Speaker 1: around the surface of it. Yeah, but I'm certain that's 156 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: what it is. 157 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 2: So basically, wait for spring it is or what it. 158 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 1: Works Maybe in two weeks maybe. 159 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 2: So all right, so both problems are really. 160 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 1: The same, related, totally related. 161 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we've had this for a while. It seems 162 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 2: that it's only in the winter when it gets real cold. Sure, 163 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 2: and you know, and then it goes away and you 164 00:11:56,679 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 2: don't sense it anymore. But I do it. Gerry, Thank 165 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 2: you very much. 166 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:05,680 Speaker 1: All right, my friend, take care, all right? 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We're twenty two 210 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 1: minutes after the top of the hour, and we're talking 211 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: a lot of about the weather as that has consumed 212 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: a great deal of us, a great deal of especially 213 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: the eastern part of the United States, in fact, to 214 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: the northeast kind of getting now yesterday is the Carolinas, 215 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 1: Holy Cow, I think Charlotte and some of those cities 216 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: that maybe maybe never see seven inches of snow and 217 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: as a total for three years or five years or longer, 218 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: got that much yesterday. All right, let's go to Julie. Julie, welcome, Hello. 219 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 5: I have a WWG question. What In December twenty twenty 220 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 5: four we installed on a man of furnace. One month later, 221 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 5: in January twenty twenty five, the motherboard went out. We 222 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 5: got a new one. And fast forward to four days ago. 223 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 5: We wake up, Its sixty two degrees. He's in the house, 224 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 5: the furnace is not working. Later in the day it 225 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 5: would come on for five minutes, go off. I started 226 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 5: logging in how long it was staying on, off and on. 227 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 5: At seven that night, the tech came out and let 228 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 5: me know twice he'd worked a twelve hour day, which 229 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 5: I don't care. 230 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: I don't care I'm cold. 231 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I spent thirteen days in my house. I 232 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 5: mean thirteen hours in my house. Would add, I'm not 233 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 5: happy either. After two hours, he finally the heat was working, 234 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 5: and I commonly was asking him, but there was a 235 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 5: reason why it wasn't What was the reason? He could 236 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 5: not tell me. Accept He came up with, sometimes a furnace, 237 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 5: if it's like getting too hot, it'll time out for 238 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 5: three hours. And I said, come on, make a long 239 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 5: story short. The supervisor's coming out Tuesday, because I want answers. 240 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 5: What would you want to know? What are the question 241 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 5: you would ask of that supervisor? The heat is working, 242 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:06,680 Speaker 5: but what happened? Is it going to happen the next 243 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 5: time we have single digits? 244 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 2: Well, what would you ask? 245 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 1: I don't know what I would ask. I. You know, 246 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:18,320 Speaker 1: was there a you know a lot of these furnaces now, 247 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: especially you know, if it's got a motherboard and all that, 248 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:26,959 Speaker 1: when there is a issue, it'll have a code. 249 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 4: It came up. 250 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:33,120 Speaker 5: Finally, I kept peppering him, and he said it came 251 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,159 Speaker 5: up with an E three code. But that might have 252 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 5: been from earlier because they have a memory and I thought, well, 253 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:42,360 Speaker 5: it's a new memory board, so. 254 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: What wasn't E three? 255 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:52,879 Speaker 5: He said it was something about overworking. He didn't really 256 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 5: have an answer. 257 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 1: Like I said, that would be the thing I would 258 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: drill on. Okay, you know, that would be the whole thing, 259 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 1: because in all honesty, Julie, these things are they're very 260 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:08,159 Speaker 1: smart now, I mean you know, I mean they have 261 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: codes where they just blink. If it's three blinks, it 262 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 1: says four blinks. It was this. I had a buddy 263 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: of mine he had his furnace quit working. This is crazy, 264 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 1: and he was telling me it was blinking. I said, well, 265 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 1: what's the code. He goes, well, I was blinking. I 266 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 1: think it was four times and this is this is 267 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 1: this is insane. It was his filter. 268 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 5: Oh I believe that. 269 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:36,439 Speaker 1: And he said to me, he said, Gary, I changed 270 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 1: that filter, I swear two or three months ago. And 271 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 1: I said, okay, so it's a pleated filter ninety days 272 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 1: that's sufficient, and he said it. It turned out it 273 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: was the filter. I mean, I know, that's simple. One 274 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:58,920 Speaker 1: of the things I would say is also it's probably 275 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: a high efficiency, so you got it is PBC pipe 276 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 1: on the outside of the house. 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Download the rotor Router Mobile app today from 321 00:21:52,440 --> 00:22:06,520 Speaker 1: the App Store, Google Play or from rotorrouter dot com. 322 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: All right, welcome aboard. You're at home with Gary sel Boy. 323 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 1: There's nothing worse than when the furnace won't work and 324 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: it's super cold outside. I mean, does panic get in 325 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:21,400 Speaker 1: or what does anxiety increase? Yes, I'm always preaching about 326 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,919 Speaker 1: how important it is to save the owner's manual on 327 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 1: your furnace, on your refrigerator, because these things are smart 328 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: now it can kind of diagnose what the world's going on. 329 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: And if you didn't save your manual, usually they tape 330 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 1: it right to the appliance. It's okay, you can pick 331 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:41,159 Speaker 1: those up off the internet quite easily. Now. I was 332 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: just looking up and I'm no furnace person, trust me, 333 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 1: you know, just a little working knowledge, but I'm not 334 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 1: repairing furnaces. But I was just looking up a man 335 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 1: the furnace codes. Sure enough, bingo. There they were and 336 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:01,119 Speaker 1: it was talking, and so they can. I don't know 337 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,400 Speaker 1: about that technician. I don't know. Maybe he was working 338 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: fifteen hours a day and his loss didn't just I 339 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:12,479 Speaker 1: don't know, but one blink of the light on the 340 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 1: furnace pretty much says you got an ignition failure or 341 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: a gas valve or a flame sensor. In other words, 342 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: it's telling the technician, here's your problem. So when Julie asked, 343 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 1: what is the problem, I would think that should have 344 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 1: been probably had to answer. I don't know. I don'd 345 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,400 Speaker 1: hate to second guess people. I wasn't there Two blinks 346 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: and this could be it pressure switch, venting inducer, a 347 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:49,120 Speaker 1: cold weather issue. Go out and check those pipes. Three blinks, 348 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: pressure switch stuck, it's stuck open or it stuck close? 349 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:59,120 Speaker 1: Did he put a new pressure switch in? Four blinks? 350 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:07,120 Speaker 1: High limits switch is open, it's overheating, dirty filter, overflow issue, 351 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: continuous fast blinking, normal operation, all right, So you can 352 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:17,879 Speaker 1: find out, and they have memory where they will tell them, 353 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 1: you know what the issue was. So I think she 354 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 1: will get her answer and life will go on. Hopefully 355 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 1: it was fixed. Why he didn't tell her what he fixed. 356 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: I don't know. All right, let's uh, let me give 357 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,879 Speaker 1: you the phone number. It's eight hundred eight two three 358 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 1: eight two five five. Happy to take your calls and 359 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:42,160 Speaker 1: let's go to Hey, it's warm in Arizona, James. How 360 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 1: are you? 361 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:44,719 Speaker 2: Oh? 362 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:48,719 Speaker 7: Hey, I'm good Gary. Uh Hey, I'm starting a project 363 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 7: with roller rock. I have already. I am in the 364 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,160 Speaker 7: process of stripping some concrete that had a finish around 365 00:24:56,160 --> 00:25:01,879 Speaker 7: a pool coping and so the finish, the clear coat 366 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 7: that was previously put on its failed. So I going 367 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 7: to the roller rock and so I'm doing I'm using 368 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 7: the smart strip to take it off and get it prepped. 369 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 7: But I noticed in some of the areas that the 370 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 7: existing coping around the pool has ever how do you 371 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 7: say it? 372 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 8: Is it? 373 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 2: Ever? 374 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 7: Fluorescence? 375 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,880 Speaker 1: Is thence. 376 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:22,679 Speaker 2: Uh? 377 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 7: Do you know if I if I, if I do 378 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 7: a proper prep for the surface and then put the 379 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,720 Speaker 7: roller rock on the two recommended coats and then the 380 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 7: clear finish satin, do you do you believe that the 381 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 7: effluorescence will come through? Uh? Through that or is there 382 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 7: any way to mitigate that? 383 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:48,159 Speaker 1: Or well, simply simply by ceiling it will slow it down. 384 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 1: Now it's a difficult question to answer because what efflorescence 385 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: is caused by is moisture. You got a pool right there. Uh, 386 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: if the protective coating was failing and it was absorbing 387 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 1: the water, it was reacting with the salts and the 388 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: calcium in the concrete, and it almost blooms. You know 389 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,159 Speaker 1: what it's like. It's like a hard salty combination. You 390 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,480 Speaker 1: can scrape it off, you can get mild acid. I 391 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,159 Speaker 1: think quick crete makes an efflorescence remover that is not 392 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 1: an acid, and it's imperative that you do that to 393 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 1: clean off the surface before doing the roller rock. Now, 394 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,920 Speaker 1: whether it comes back, it's already been compromised. But we're 395 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,640 Speaker 1: pretty much taking the water out of the equation now, 396 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:42,239 Speaker 1: out of that concrete, because we're really sealing it. So 397 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 1: I don't know, once it started it will always clean 398 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,400 Speaker 1: to be there. But if we've really sealed it up, 399 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,440 Speaker 1: it may. I mean, you're going to slow it down. 400 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,400 Speaker 1: I doubt if it's going to show up next year, 401 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 1: but eight ten years from now it may show up again. 402 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,200 Speaker 1: I can't I can't really can't put a counter on it. 403 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 7: Okay, I was I was just wanting to know maybe 404 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,199 Speaker 7: if there was an additive I could put in the 405 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 7: roller rockh to mitigate it or forward it something. 406 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 1: Now, because it's the roller rock is first of all, 407 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,879 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's kind of a rock coating, okay, 408 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:28,479 Speaker 1: And it's much much much much thicker than paint, and 409 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 1: it seems much much better than paint, So it's going 410 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,679 Speaker 1: to stand up to it better than anything else. I 411 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,760 Speaker 1: think if you want more of a definitive answer, James, 412 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 1: maybe that's a little better the one than the one 413 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,880 Speaker 1: I gave you. I think it's definitely going to fork 414 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:51,920 Speaker 1: the problem significantly. But if you call them their technical services, 415 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 1: they may be able to give you. Maybe not, but 416 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,120 Speaker 1: they may be able to give you a little better answer. 417 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 1: It may comply, keep it and check because it's sealed 418 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:08,400 Speaker 1: and the coating is tougher when you just put Let's 419 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 1: say you put paint over and I've done this, you've 420 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: got effluorescence coming through a block foundation okay, and there's water. 421 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:19,640 Speaker 1: Let's say it's even blow grade. And somebody goes like, okay, 422 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 1: I'm dressing this basement up. I cleaned all this stuff up. 423 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 1: I neutralized the efflorescence. I painted the walls and in 424 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:32,199 Speaker 1: ten years that paint begins to peel a little bit 425 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 1: because the efflorescence is blooming and literally pushing that paint 426 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 1: off the surface. I think it's going to be really 427 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 1: hard to do that on a horizontal surface with a 428 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 1: roller rock. But I would ask that question from a 429 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 1: technical services person, and I'm sure they'll be able to 430 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 1: give you a more definitive answer. And that's what I 431 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 1: would do. There's not a dative. 432 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 2: There is an additive or there is not. 433 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 1: There is not an additive, not that I know. 434 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 7: Okay, okay, I know this is a subjective question, But 435 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 7: how can I tell the surfaces etched enough? Because the 436 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 7: concrete was stained and you never get the stain out. 437 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 7: So I'm not interested in that because a roller rock 438 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 7: will cover that. But the clear finish, the clear finish 439 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 7: that was on there clearly was failing and it was 440 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 7: bubbling up. And so I did the smart strips, yeah, 441 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,280 Speaker 7: smart strip or strip smart whatever, and got most of 442 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 7: that up. And then I'm wire brushing it because I 443 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 7: don't it's concrete. And so I mean, I know, there's, 444 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 7: like I said, a subjective question, but is there some 445 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 7: sort of like qualitative or quantitative test I can do 446 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 7: to see if it's ready to go to take the rule. 447 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 1: No, just by sight. I think really, if you're using 448 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,360 Speaker 1: a wire brush, you're certainly have etched that to point 449 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 1: where it'll bite. I think the only other thing I 450 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 1: would do is maybe get the efflorescence remover that I 451 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:10,520 Speaker 1: mentioned quickly with the quick create it's a non acid. 452 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 1: I don't think i'd really. I think you've probably you know, 453 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 1: if you can't see that anymore, and then you come 454 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:22,200 Speaker 1: back with the effluorescence remover with a brown fibered scrub 455 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 1: brush kind of palmara, you know, very stiff, and scrub 456 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,560 Speaker 1: that down in rintse. I think you'd be totally good 457 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:27,840 Speaker 1: to go. 458 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 8: Okay, I still have the power a lot just to 459 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 8: get the debris off or whatever I vacuumed, but I'll 460 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 8: hit it with a a what do you think, like 461 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 8: a thirty degree nozzle or something like. 462 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 1: That or yeah, yeah, I'd say probably even you could 463 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 1: probably go twenty five or forty degree nozzle either. Want 464 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:52,760 Speaker 1: to be fine, eighteen inches from the surface, you would be. 465 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 1: How big is a pressure washer? I mean, is it 466 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 1: three thousand or twenty eight or you. 467 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 7: Know it's electric twenty eight twenty. 468 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: Eight you won't. Yeah, I'd use the twenty five degree. 469 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 7: Then, okay, sounds great. I appreciate it. Gary, Thank you. 470 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 1: All right, James, good luck, take care, bye bye. Yeah again, 471 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 1: if the coating is failing and it's on concrete and 472 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: it's staying saturated, I'm sure around the pool dick it is, 473 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: and you're you're, you're, you run the possibility of having 474 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 1: an effluorescence issue. And and and if you get it 475 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: really sealed tight and you don't have moisture coming in 476 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 1: from the backside, you'll be even with paint in a 477 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 1: really good shape, with a roller rock product even better shape. 478 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: Because again, it is a coating. It is you know 479 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 1: about the thickness of a credit card, so it's not 480 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 1: like the millage of a wall paint or something along 481 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 1: those lines. And you'll keep that in checking. And again, 482 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 1: preparation is a key. So we're removing that salty surface 483 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:12,080 Speaker 1: area which will minimize adhesion. With a pressure washer, we're 484 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:13,520 Speaker 1: you know, I don't think you're going to etch the 485 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 1: concrete with that, but you're going to even get any 486 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 1: residue for sure. Off, let it dry a couple of 487 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 1: good coats, and then from a safety standpoint. He was 488 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 1: talking about a sealer. When you use that roller rock, 489 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,720 Speaker 1: they recommend a seiler too. They've got that track Safe 490 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:35,720 Speaker 1: which is an anti slip sealer, which is fantastic. And 491 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,200 Speaker 1: you might want to check the lifespan on that. And 492 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:43,440 Speaker 1: you know, every five years maybe reapply. But it's all 493 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 1: about you know, once it started, depending on how much 494 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 1: moisture is on the other side of that concrete can 495 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,360 Speaker 1: certainly get it to bloom again. And then depending on 496 00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:01,040 Speaker 1: the initial adhesion is going to come into play. I 497 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 1: think you'd be good with that. I think that's a 498 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,200 Speaker 1: great solution to it. All right, let me give you 499 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 1: the phone number. You can grab a line. The lines 500 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,479 Speaker 1: are wide open. It's eight hundred eight two three eight 501 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:14,200 Speaker 1: two five five your calls next. 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People having different problems around the home, 546 00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:19,880 Speaker 1: so another thing to kind of talk about. And you 547 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,240 Speaker 1: know I was paying attention to the temperature and a garage. 548 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:27,520 Speaker 1: Not that it's for me that critical, but I'm just curious, 549 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:33,320 Speaker 1: how's it doing insulated garage door. I think I maintain 550 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:38,920 Speaker 1: them well, certainly maintain the seals well. But one of 551 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,560 Speaker 1: the things you can run into, of course, in the 552 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:48,000 Speaker 1: areas that got more snow than they're normally dealing with, 553 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:53,440 Speaker 1: and then of course the amount of wind and cold 554 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:59,279 Speaker 1: and the ice that's formed. A lot of times we 555 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,719 Speaker 1: have this problem where that garage door doesn't seal as 556 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:07,160 Speaker 1: tight as it should. In other words, a little tip here, 557 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,279 Speaker 1: go stand in the garage and see if you see 558 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:14,040 Speaker 1: daylight coming in through the bottom or the sides. Again, 559 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:19,120 Speaker 1: our house will tell us things. Remember when I'm always 560 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,440 Speaker 1: talking about somebody has a mouse issue in their house, 561 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,759 Speaker 1: and I'm explaining that sometimes it's something as small as 562 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:31,480 Speaker 1: a size of a dime will allow a mouse to 563 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:36,239 Speaker 1: gain entry into your home. So even though the sun 564 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:41,080 Speaker 1: is bright outside, hopefully the garage is darker. And looking 565 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,560 Speaker 1: around the garage door, the little man door next to 566 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:47,560 Speaker 1: the garage door, and you see light, and you can 567 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:52,320 Speaker 1: determine that that is a little larger than you would 568 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:56,760 Speaker 1: like it and could possibly allow mice in. It's also 569 00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:03,680 Speaker 1: letting the cold air in. So just checking and had 570 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:07,960 Speaker 1: this happen to my house? And last weekend I was 571 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,759 Speaker 1: shoveling and blowing snow and all of a sudden, I'm 572 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:13,239 Speaker 1: getting ready to go into the house. I'm in the 573 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,960 Speaker 1: garage and taking off my boots. I look back on what. No, 574 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:25,560 Speaker 1: I'd see light penetrating under the garage door, and normally 575 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,960 Speaker 1: I can't see that. So I moved the garage door 576 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:34,480 Speaker 1: up and I got in there, and sure enough, the 577 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,920 Speaker 1: little all the way across the garage door and the 578 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:44,680 Speaker 1: floor was free of ice, free of snow. But there's 579 00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:49,680 Speaker 1: always the butt. But inside the track at the very 580 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:53,040 Speaker 1: bottom there was some snow that was packed in there, 581 00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:58,319 Speaker 1: and with a gloved finger could just go in there 582 00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,480 Speaker 1: and pop that little bit of snow out, sweep it away. 583 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:07,440 Speaker 1: Problem solved. I know that sounds ridiculous, but really it's not. 584 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:11,319 Speaker 1: I mean, it was it was closing, but it wasn't 585 00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:16,600 Speaker 1: really allowing it to close nice tight and flush, and 586 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:22,480 Speaker 1: those types of observations, uh, you know, can mean a 587 00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,160 Speaker 1: little was at the end of the world. No, not 588 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:28,160 Speaker 1: at all. It probably would have drove the temperature down 589 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,800 Speaker 1: in that garage and other ten degrees. Maybe the door 590 00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:35,480 Speaker 1: going into the kitchen or mudroom isn't the most weather 591 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,280 Speaker 1: stripped door in the house, and it could have added 592 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,640 Speaker 1: a little chill of the house, costing a little money. 593 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,239 Speaker 1: But pay attention to those things. And I know the 594 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:48,239 Speaker 1: mantra today is your house is telling you something. So 595 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:52,080 Speaker 1: I hope you got by without any frozen pipes or 596 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,759 Speaker 1: any issues. And did you leave. I read something on 597 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,280 Speaker 1: one of the social platforms a day. I kind of chuckled, 598 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,520 Speaker 1: but it is, you know. Somebody said, my dad told 599 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,960 Speaker 1: me that if I turn the water onto a trickle 600 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:09,799 Speaker 1: on both war men cold, it won't freeze. It was 601 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,799 Speaker 1: news to the person that put it. And I'm not 602 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,480 Speaker 1: making fun of them, but those are the things you 603 00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:19,160 Speaker 1: really need to pay attention to. If you have some vulnerability, 604 00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:22,160 Speaker 1: you're nervous a particular pipe is going to freeze. You're 605 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:27,360 Speaker 1: exactly right moving, you know, on a single handle faucet, 606 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,480 Speaker 1: if you move it straight up, that's kind of getting 607 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,520 Speaker 1: a mix of hot and cold, and just a trickle. 608 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:39,800 Speaker 1: You don't need a stream moving water. Certainly freeze is slower. 609 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,960 Speaker 1: You may even avoid the problem, especially if a problem 610 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,200 Speaker 1: area in your house. But a lot of times people 611 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,000 Speaker 1: would ask me, it's like, how can you tell where 612 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,440 Speaker 1: that pipe is frozen? Really, and in a lot of 613 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:58,239 Speaker 1: cases a frozen pipe where it's frozen, and why it's 614 00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,960 Speaker 1: such a problem. Obviously, the water inside the pipe freezes, 615 00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:07,960 Speaker 1: it expands against the pipe, and the copper will also expand, 616 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:13,240 Speaker 1: which makes the weakest part of that pipe, the joint, 617 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,560 Speaker 1: and that's usually where you'll find the problem. That's usually 618 00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:22,320 Speaker 1: where you'll find the leak if it gets to that point, 619 00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:25,920 Speaker 1: and if it does, get that water shut off because 620 00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:32,320 Speaker 1: what's coming is not good. Also, sometimes along the pipe 621 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:39,680 Speaker 1: frost will develop where it's frozen. And again you can 622 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:43,120 Speaker 1: try to thall the water in the pipe, do it 623 00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:49,480 Speaker 1: gently and never use an open flame if you have patience. 624 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:55,759 Speaker 1: In a few of us don't right a hair dryer, 625 00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:01,200 Speaker 1: just warming that and you might be doing it for 626 00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,520 Speaker 1: a while, but that is a slow fall. Open up 627 00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:10,120 Speaker 1: the faucet so that there is still pressure on that 628 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:15,400 Speaker 1: little blockage right where the ice is. That's what causes 629 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:19,120 Speaker 1: it to expand and split open up that you might 630 00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,239 Speaker 1: start getting a little trick on. Eventually you'll move that 631 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:30,920 Speaker 1: through if you catch it early enough. I've heard heating pads. 632 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:35,120 Speaker 1: I don't like that. I don't know why, I just 633 00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:40,440 Speaker 1: don't like that. But a hair dryer a heat gun, 634 00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:45,000 Speaker 1: but be really, really careful, only because it's thrown out 635 00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:48,680 Speaker 1: a whole bunch more heat than a hair dryer. And again, 636 00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:57,120 Speaker 1: whenever you have extremes on that pipe, frozen water is 637 00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:01,160 Speaker 1: extremely cold, and then you put heat on air and 638 00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:05,719 Speaker 1: it extremely warms it up. Just that movement could cause problems. 639 00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:10,000 Speaker 1: So i'd focus more, you got it, more on the 640 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,560 Speaker 1: hairdre But it's going to take some time, and patience 641 00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,600 Speaker 1: is certainly the key to making at work. All right, 642 00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,680 Speaker 1: I'd love to have you join us. Our phone number 643 00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:22,320 Speaker 1: is eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. 644 00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:26,040 Speaker 1: And don't forget we spend a lot of time indoors, 645 00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,759 Speaker 1: kind of trapped indoors. Cabin fever maybe a lot of us. 646 00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,280 Speaker 1: But according to the EPA, the air we breathe inside 647 00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,840 Speaker 1: our home is you know, three to five times less 648 00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:38,959 Speaker 1: healthy than the outside air air exchanging units. In fact, 649 00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:40,880 Speaker 1: if you have an easy breed, make sure there's no 650 00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:43,960 Speaker 1: ice on that vent. It's pulling air out of your 651 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,760 Speaker 1: house and pulling air from the upper floors down into 652 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:52,080 Speaker 1: the lower levels of the house. It's changing out the air, 653 00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:57,759 Speaker 1: it's controlling the pollutants, making your home healthier. So it's 654 00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:01,000 Speaker 1: letter E, letter Z breed dot com. 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