1 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 1: Well the weekends upon us. Welcome. 2 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 2: You're at home with Gary Salvin talking a little home improvement. 3 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 2: Glad you could join me as we shot about maybe 4 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 2: issues you're having around your home. Our phone number gets 5 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 2: you through is eight hundred eight two three eight two 6 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 2: five five. I know, trying to motivate you on a 7 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 2: maybe a morning like close to the holiday and cold 8 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 2: temperatures in many parts of the country with snow cover 9 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 2: is a little challenging, but I got plenty of things 10 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 2: to keep you busy. See, you're just talking about maintaining 11 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,400 Speaker 2: our floors and types of floors depending on the weather 12 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 2: that you know, survive a little better, and how to 13 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 2: keep them. I do love the line that someone it 14 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:14,639 Speaker 2: has been thirty five years when the fellaw said to me, Gary, 15 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 2: carpet doesn't wear out, it just ugly is out. I 16 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 2: love that line. And when you talk about weather like 17 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 2: this and what you can be tracking into your home. 18 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 2: The person that told me that saying had been in 19 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 2: the carpet business for a long long time his whole life, 20 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,400 Speaker 2: and he is spot on so other things that we 21 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 2: can kind of take a look at, maybe think about 22 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:42,039 Speaker 2: a repair, maybe maintain different things in the house. I'll 23 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 2: start in the garage, A good time to do. Seriously, 24 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 2: if you got temperatures in single digits are below zero, 25 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 2: I always try to look at what the temperature in 26 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 2: that garage is. 27 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: Okay. 28 00:01:55,760 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 2: And I don't think i've ever seen my garage built 29 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 2: twenty six years ago. I don't think i've ever seen 30 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 2: it where the garage was, you know, below freezing or 31 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 2: even freezing. I think as cold as I've ever spotted 32 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 2: it was thirty nine degrees. Now it's a more not 33 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:21,799 Speaker 2: modern home, but I remember the garage doors. They were 34 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 2: close pey, but they weren't the top of the line 35 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 2: clo pe so they had some insulation in them, but 36 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:33,079 Speaker 2: it wasn't like a euthane liquid eurethane insulation that was in. 37 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 2: There's panels, foam panels inside between the two pieces of metal. 38 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:39,239 Speaker 2: And I don't think my garage has ever got below, 39 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 2: like I said, thirty nine degrees. But here's a little 40 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 2: test if you if you got some cold weather, and 41 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 2: a lot of times we have brilliant blue skies after 42 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 2: a snow or some real cold cold temperatures, that's why 43 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 2: it's cold because there's no insulation clouds or insulation right, 44 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 2: stand in the garage and just look at your garage 45 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 2: door from inside, looking out the doors down. So what 46 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 2: are you looking for, Gary, I'm looking for light. If 47 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 2: you got a really sunny day and you stand in 48 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 2: a garage and you look at the garage, you'll see 49 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:21,399 Speaker 2: or you will not see light penetrating around the sides. 50 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:22,919 Speaker 3: Of the door or. 51 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 2: The bottom of the door. So modern garage doors and 52 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 2: not so much older garage doors which were really not 53 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 2: ensulated very well and not really weather stripped. I mean, 54 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 2: so you're going to see all kinds of light. Then 55 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 2: you need to think about maybe doing something about that, 56 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 2: maybe getting a weather stripping kit for garage doors, maybe 57 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 2: getting new garage doors if they're rule, and you want 58 00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 2: to maybe utilize that garage with a workshopper there you know, 59 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 2: some activity if you will, and you certainly weren't warmer 60 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 2: than it is. But also so when you look around 61 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 2: the sides, if you see light coming in between the 62 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 2: door and the frame, it's probably not it's probably not 63 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 2: weather stripped, or the weather strip was torn over the 64 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 2: years and never replaced. And the weather stripping on doors 65 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 2: is basically a frame with about an inch and a 66 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 2: half piece of vinyl that sticks out and runs down 67 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 2: the framing of the garage door, so it's sitting tight. 68 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 2: Just it's not an insulator. It's just kind of blocking 69 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 2: the wind and you know, the cold temperatures from coming 70 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:44,280 Speaker 2: straight into the garage, so check for that. As far 71 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 2: as looking at the bottom of the garage door, if 72 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 2: you see light penetrating in there the seal, do you 73 00:04:54,200 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 2: ever pay attention to that it's vinyl. I've always amazed 74 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 2: the clop Pey garage doors. They used the same seal 75 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 2: that they've used since nineteen thirty five. Isn't then amazing? 76 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 2: So it's not like you got to get the model 77 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 2: in the year of the garage door. You can just 78 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:19,119 Speaker 2: get that seal. I would take it out at first, 79 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:20,919 Speaker 2: or at least a sliver of it and take it 80 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 2: with you. But I replaced my not long ago, and 81 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 2: it was a close pay door, and it was amazing. 82 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 2: When I started doing the research. It's like they're all 83 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 2: the same, and a big box store had it, told 84 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 2: me what al it was on, and I just went 85 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,600 Speaker 2: and grabbed it and installed it. 86 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 1: It was that easy. 87 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 2: Now, sometimes it can be a little challenging. You got 88 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,040 Speaker 2: to clean the tracks, you got to warm the seal, 89 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 2: you might need an extra pair of hands to change 90 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:54,280 Speaker 2: out that seal, or maybe we have some additional problems, 91 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 2: because there's always additional problems, and that is maybe the 92 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 2: slab has settled a little bit, so on one side 93 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 2: of the door touches the other side does not. There 94 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 2: are different thresholds you can get for garage floors. There's 95 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 2: also vinyl concrete mixes that will attached to existing concrete 96 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 2: where you can build it up a little bit. But 97 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 2: if you see a lot of light coming in at 98 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 2: that bottom of the sides, think about correcting that. Because 99 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:31,679 Speaker 2: if you think about this, what is the difference of 100 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 2: the air in the garage? If it's let's say it's 101 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 2: not weather stripped at all, maybe it's not an insulate 102 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 2: in that garage is thirty degrees, minds forty degrees. Maybe 103 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:49,040 Speaker 2: yours is fifty degrees. But that's a big difference in it. 104 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 2: I mean most of the garages about the house right, 105 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 2: Maybe there's insulation in the walls going into the house, 106 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 2: so they're treating that as an exterior wall. Maybe there 107 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 2: is not, so it could be an area where you're 108 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 2: introducing a lot of cold air and if you take 109 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 2: the time to find out if there's an issue, and 110 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 2: you can tell if that wall has got insulation or not. 111 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 2: There's probably some outlets in there or maybe a hose 112 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 2: bib coming out. It's not you know, really dry wall 113 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 2: around that very well, and you can you can actually 114 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 2: get in there and feel or see if there is 115 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 2: any insulation in that wall. But you know, if you've 116 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 2: got a temperature on the garage of thirty degrees and 117 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 2: mindsetting at fifty degrees, there's there's a lot colder air 118 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 2: that's going to infiltrate your house than my house. And 119 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 2: right now I don't know exactly what the temperature is 120 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 2: in the grush, but as coals i've ever seen, it 121 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 2: was thirty nine. That's why I say, if you just 122 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 2: kind of pay attention to that, there might be something 123 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 2: you know you want to change there. And then once 124 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 2: we get rid of whatever winter debris you have in 125 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 2: your area, and I'm talking you know again, the salts 126 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 2: and the ice meler and the residue from that, once 127 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 2: it gets above freezing, sweeping and flushing that driveway and 128 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 2: the garage floor. I like to say it's imperative because well, 129 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 2: I think it is important. I think it is imperative 130 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 2: that you get that off because once it gets dampened again, 131 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 2: it becomes it's a definite assault on that concrete. It's 132 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 2: going to challenge that concrete. It's going to soak in. 133 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 2: It's a corrosive mixture of moisture and salt, and it's 134 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 2: going to do what they call spawling, which is popping 135 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 2: that surface, that concrete off. So you know your little 136 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 2: visit in the garage is not going to be without purpose. 137 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 2: And again, if you're in a house and you know, 138 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 2: I'm not saying you're hoarding, but it's a storage erry 139 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 2: area for your home. And I know this is a pain, 140 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 2: but it's one of the It's actually one of the 141 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:12,960 Speaker 2: tips I do a morning show tip, and it's going 142 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 2: to be one of the tips I use. This Thursday 143 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:20,439 Speaker 2: is when we have, you know, Christmas and gift giving 144 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 2: time of the year. We add more stuff to our homes, 145 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 2: we look for more places to store stuff. 146 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: I think we all are challenged by that. 147 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 2: And again, if the garage has become your collection point 148 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 2: for a lot of that stuff, it would behoove you. 149 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 2: And again, if you have an insulated garage door and 150 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 2: it's above forty degrees, you could do it now. If 151 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 2: it's real cold, you're probably not. But going through in 152 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 2: just kind of cleaning it up and organizing and deciding 153 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 2: this needs to be kept, this, this needs to be pitched, 154 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 2: This needs to be donated. Start with three small stacks. 155 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 2: Regardless of what you're gonna do to your garage, just 156 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 2: get it organized. And then as you receive a gift 157 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 2: or two, maybe you've got to give that some thought 158 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 2: of executive where that's going to be stored. 159 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:20,680 Speaker 1: But if you can get that garage. 160 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 2: Organize warm weather stripped, it's going to save you money 161 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 2: on your energy bill. 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Talking a little home improvement, maintenance and repair. 206 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 2: If you'd like to join us, do so. Our phone 207 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 2: number is eight hundred eight two three A two five 208 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 2: five And uh. You know one of the things we've 209 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 2: talked about all fall, and it is the fireplace maintenance 210 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:37,559 Speaker 2: and repair of that I know I'm talking a lot, 211 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 2: a lot about maintenance, but it is so critical. And 212 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 2: by the way, if you miss Beth Harper talking about 213 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 2: home insurance and how important maintenance plays, you can get 214 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 2: that podcast. It's on the iHeart app or wherever you 215 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 2: get your podcast. It's at Home with Gary Sullivan. Danny's 216 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 2: got it listed and really talks about in a lot 217 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 2: of cases, insurance always used to kind of got looked 218 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 2: up if you had a problem. I mean, just throw 219 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:10,320 Speaker 2: it to the insurance and they took care of it. 220 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 2: Insurance doesn't work that way anymore. I mean, you've seen 221 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 2: the storms you've seen and I'm not a show for 222 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 2: the insurance company. It's just they're a business, right, and 223 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 2: they're betting things won't happen, and you're covering yourself in 224 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 2: case they do happen, and so the odds change right 225 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 2: depending on damage over the years, and that's kind of 226 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 2: really what's happening. Insurance companies looking at homeowners with insurance 227 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 2: and they're going hold on. You know, the part of 228 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 2: the sighting on this house was opening up and nobody 229 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 2: ever nailed it back together and cooked it. And it's 230 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 2: not my fault that there's a nest of raccoons in 231 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 2: the attic. 232 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 1: Oh, that's kind of a change. 233 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 2: Some insurance are doing that, some insurances aren't doing that. 234 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 2: My point being is the whole thing is shifting to 235 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 2: is the damage caused by lack of maintenance or was 236 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 2: it an incident that was kind of out of the 237 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 2: homeowner's control. For instance, here's an example. You have a 238 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 2: frozen pipe and the pipe splits, so now you have 239 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 2: a leaky pipe and it's dripping through the ceiling. That's 240 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 2: kind of an incident. But if you don't shut off 241 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 2: that water, and now it's a really big incident. Is 242 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 2: that going to be covered? 243 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 1: Anyway? 244 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 2: If you want to check that podcast, do so. In 245 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 2: the meantime, we're going to talk to Reggie. 246 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 3: Reggie, Welcome, Hi Gary Holiday. 247 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 1: Thank you, Sarah, same to you. 248 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 3: Yes, a couple of years ago, I had a American 249 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 3: standard heat pump installed. I don't know that heat pumps 250 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 3: are your area of expertise, but I thought i'd ask 251 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 3: you anyway. Okay, something peculiar happens when the outdoor temperature 252 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 3: reaches zero degrees fahrenheit. My outdoor compressor, it shuts down 253 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 3: the indoor temperature of the house drops three degrees, at 254 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 3: which point my heat strips and my electric auxiliary kick 255 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 3: in bring the ambient indoor temperature back up the three degrees. 256 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 3: So it's where I keep it at seventy four and 257 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 3: then that electric furnace, those heat strips continue to heat 258 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 3: the home until the outdoor temperature rises a few degrees, 259 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 3: at which point the compressor kicks back on. Is that 260 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 3: operating correctly as far as you're understanding. 261 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, So a lot of heat pumps, and really, 262 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 2: to be honest, when that was sold to, whether it 263 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:16,919 Speaker 2: was you or the previous homeowner, that should be explained. 264 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 2: So a heat pump is really good, but it has 265 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:26,400 Speaker 2: its limitations, and they're really designed to shut off between 266 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 2: probably zero and five degrees. Now, the efficiency of your 267 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:36,640 Speaker 2: energy usage in your house just went squat, right because 268 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 2: you were heating it with a heat pump and now 269 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 2: you're heating it with a giant toaster. So if it 270 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 2: kept run, the compressor kept run, it's probably caused some 271 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 2: damage to the compressor itself. 272 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:50,880 Speaker 1: So that's why it switches. 273 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:54,160 Speaker 2: To emergency heat. And I used to always call it 274 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:59,679 Speaker 2: I forget. I had a heat pump, probably in the 275 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 2: early to mid eighties and there was a little I 276 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 2: think it was a blue light or a red light. 277 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:07,360 Speaker 2: I can't remember. When the electric went on the heat 278 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:09,679 Speaker 2: pimp went off, this little light would go on, and 279 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:16,359 Speaker 2: I'd call it the red light special because so you 280 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:20,720 Speaker 2: know it was special. But yeah, that is, you know, 281 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:23,439 Speaker 2: that's I'm not going to say heat pumps are just 282 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 2: designed a warm weather climates. I mean, you know where 283 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 2: you're at, that probably happens, maybe not even every year, 284 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 2: but I mean it could happen every year, but may 285 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 2: not have also happened for five years. 286 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: But that's exactly what they do. 287 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 3: Yes, Well, I'm in southern Indiana and I'm told I'm 288 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:46,159 Speaker 3: a little too far north for a heat pump that 289 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,439 Speaker 3: I would be better served if I lived in southern 290 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 3: Kentucky or even Tennessee. Let me ask you this, as 291 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 3: far as the cost effectiveness is concerned. You know, I 292 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 3: put hand to paper and I've thought about getting a 293 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 3: high efficiency gas furnace to use in conjunction with the 294 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 3: heat pump, like a lot of people do. Right, right, 295 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 3: I can't really justify the cost. 296 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:17,360 Speaker 2: Well, that's got to be a question, and based on comfort, 297 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 2: I mean, sure it's going to be a hit to 298 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:24,880 Speaker 2: install that and justifying the cost is you know when 299 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:28,399 Speaker 2: you get this bill in the comfort factor. 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And I said, oh, so you're heating your 347 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 2: home like a like a toaster, because that's what it's like, 348 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:42,639 Speaker 2: and electric is the ribbons of heating elements, right, And 349 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 2: he gets hot in a blow or blows the hot 350 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 2: air through the house, and he was getting ready. 351 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:46,920 Speaker 1: We got. 352 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 2: Short changed by the break, which we can't do anything about. 353 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 2: But I was hoping he held on because he was saying, 354 00:22:55,240 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 2: why I did an analysis of a cost projection on how, 355 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 2: you know, maybe switching that furnace out to a high 356 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 2: efficiency natural gas versus the electric and I just I 357 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 2: can't justify that. I said, well, you know, maybe after 358 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 2: you get the heating bill on this electric one, maybe 359 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,879 Speaker 2: you can justify it. Here's the real issue, and that 360 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,360 Speaker 2: probably wasn't a fair answer. That's why I'm talking about it. 361 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:30,159 Speaker 2: Here's the real issue, the electric The real issue is 362 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 2: the cost of electric versus the cost of gas. So 363 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 2: that varies, and it's kind of varying right now. Sometimes 364 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 2: the cost of gas and the cost of electric, and 365 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 2: I'm just talking about the cost, not talking about comfort. 366 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 1: Is close. It's it's balanced. 367 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:53,640 Speaker 2: It's a little more of this way or a little 368 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 2: more of that way. It kind of goes up or 369 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 2: down depending on demand and and and you make a 370 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:06,160 Speaker 2: decision whether you want to do that. So right now, 371 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 2: to make that decision, and I don't even know where 372 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:15,119 Speaker 2: the comparable costs are. I'm going to assume it was 373 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 2: if I give you a little history of it. 374 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 1: Okay, so. 375 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 2: Maybe as far back as the seventies, electric was very expensive. 376 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:36,120 Speaker 2: Gas was less expensive, and utility companies wanted to have 377 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 2: people switched to gas, so they gave you incentives. They 378 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 2: would lay a gas line. Maybe your subdivision didn't have gas. 379 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 2: All it had was electric. 380 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: So if you got. 381 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 2: Xyz amount of people to join and say yeah, I'll 382 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 2: convert to gas, and you had to hook up one appliance. 383 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,399 Speaker 2: If you got say I don't know, say it a 384 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 2: third of the neighborhood to say yes or fifty percent, 385 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,439 Speaker 2: I don't know what it was. But you had so 386 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 2: many people said y'all convert to gas. They would run 387 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 2: the line for no charge. They were going to run 388 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 2: the line down your street, and then they'd run to 389 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 2: your house at no charge, which was a big deal. 390 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 2: So you could put in a gas water here, you 391 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 2: could put it. You didn't have to change out the furnace, 392 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:26,919 Speaker 2: you know, maybe you put in a gas stove. You 393 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 2: just had to put in a gas appliance. Because everything 394 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 2: was electric and gas was much cheaper. They were running 395 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 2: the line for free, and uh, you know, it was 396 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,159 Speaker 2: you know, a lot of neighborhoods converted at that point. 397 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:46,919 Speaker 2: Then I would say, oh gosh, lately, it seems like 398 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 2: they were fairly close, fairly close. But what are we 399 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 2: reading and hearing now? We're hearing electric with data processing plan, 400 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:04,720 Speaker 2: it's creating a huge demand on electricity. And maybe if 401 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:09,640 Speaker 2: you have noticed maybe the time of year where you're 402 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 2: using more electric, like during the air conditioning season, you're 403 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 2: finding an increase in your bill, significant increase in your bill. 404 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,719 Speaker 2: And if you go back and look at the you know, 405 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,120 Speaker 2: you know the price per kilo what hours, you've seen 406 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:30,399 Speaker 2: that rise, So you can certainly do a study on 407 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 2: whether it's going to be more convenient less expensive, and 408 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 2: I would bet right now it would be less expensive. 409 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 2: But you still got the cost of the furnace and 410 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 2: the installation of that. And I don't know how old 411 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 2: the electric is, but I can tell you if you're 412 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,440 Speaker 2: run a heat pump in your you're down to zero 413 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 2: five degrees and that shuts down and it turns the 414 00:26:55,560 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 2: emergency heat on, that's expensive. So if he did that analysis, 415 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,680 Speaker 2: and you know, he's got just the cost of a furnace, 416 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 2: I say, just the cost, but you have a cost 417 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,160 Speaker 2: of a furnace. Maybe that can be justified if there 418 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 2: is a savings on the fuel. So I don't know 419 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,719 Speaker 2: how he justified that, but that's the real question. And 420 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,919 Speaker 2: to add to that a problem you'd still have. You 421 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 2: can still have the heat pump on a natural gift furnace, 422 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 2: but to add that problem is you still have the 423 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:34,199 Speaker 2: cost of the furnace. And if that heat pump an 424 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 2: electric furnace is just you know, five six, seven years old, 425 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 2: you probably can't justify that. All right, Our phone numbers 426 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Listen, 427 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 2: it's cold outside. If you went outside and you went egg, 428 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,400 Speaker 2: I got to get back inside. I can tell you 429 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 2: wildlife right now is searching also to get inside your home. 430 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,440 Speaker 2: Maybe you've heard some scratching behind the walls in your home. 431 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 2: It may not just be a mouse. A lot of 432 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 2: people go, oh, it's a mouse. It'll die, or it'll 433 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,879 Speaker 2: it'll leave the premises. Yeah, it might, it might. But 434 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 2: one of the things in ron Kruger we've had on 435 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 2: many times in his show, would talk about raccoons and squirrels, 436 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,119 Speaker 2: especially this time of year, love to get into your 437 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:30,959 Speaker 2: attic and make that their place of residence. And I 438 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,920 Speaker 2: want you to take a look and the next well 439 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,919 Speaker 2: you still have maybe snow on the roof, maybe you 440 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 2: live in a warmer climate. Then I want you to 441 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 2: just pay attention what's going on in your roof because 442 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 2: they love to get up near the ventilation at the 443 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 2: peak of the roof. Squirrels especially. Look for squirrel squirrel 444 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 2: tracks up on a roof. Look for any wildlife up 445 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 2: on the roof if you were in a warm climate, 446 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 2: because they're looking to take up residents also also look 447 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 2: around the gutter area of your home, and the gutter 448 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 2: area would be the facia board, which is the vertical 449 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 2: board underneath the gutter and right where there's a forty 450 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 2: five degree miner cut where it goes maybe around the house. 451 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 1: If that has. 452 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 2: Been pulled apart from the house pulled out done have 453 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:36,239 Speaker 2: to be pulled out far and there's a gap and 454 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 2: that board's not tightly nailed. That very well can be 455 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 2: the entry point for wildlife getting into your attic and 456 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 2: you know a spring project, if you're creating a maintenance list, 457 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 2: that would be a very good thing to put on 458 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 2: the maintenance lips. Now, if you hear critters moving in 459 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 2: the ceiling or in the wall, you really do want 460 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 2: to get them out of your house. And a critter 461 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 2: control company can trap them. It takes them no how 462 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 2: to get those guys out of your your attic for sure, 463 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 2: and you don't want them nesting and you know, urinating 464 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 2: on the insulation inside your house. That becomes a bigger expense. 465 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:25,520 Speaker 2: And people always go like, well, I don't want to 466 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 2: pay some trapped the animal, My gosh, what's that going 467 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 2: to cost? Believe me, if if animals are inside your 468 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,240 Speaker 2: house and stay there for a short even a short 469 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 2: period of time. That's going to be the cheap part 470 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 2: of the problem is getting them out, because once you 471 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 2: got them out, there's probably a pretty good chance you 472 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 2: got a mess to take care of. So you're pulling 473 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 2: insulation out, you're sanitizing, you're putting new insulation in, you're 474 00:30:56,280 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 2: repairing the entry point of how they got in. So again, 475 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 2: you know, if even if if you have no problem 476 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,080 Speaker 2: and you have some of those maintenance issue and you're 477 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 2: walking around the house, that's something you want to take 478 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,600 Speaker 2: care of. You want to nail that face your board 479 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,240 Speaker 2: nice and tight. You want to make sure it's nice 480 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 2: and tight and cooked and painted. 481 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 1: You're okay. 482 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 2: But if you see a pulled apart now, or you 483 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 2: hear critters and it's pull apart, I think it's time 484 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 2: for action. I don't want to see you just live 485 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 2: with it. If you want to see if you can 486 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 2: just live with it and they'll leave it never come back. 487 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 2: Good luck with that. It might happen. Probably not if 488 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,480 Speaker 2: it's a cold winter. All right, again, it's eight hundred 489 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,960 Speaker 2: eight two three eight two five five. Steve, you'll be 490 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,720 Speaker 2: up first. 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Lot 539 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,919 Speaker 2: good information there too, So each and every hour plus 540 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:10,560 Speaker 2: those interviews all available. And Danny, I guess the gutters 541 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:16,760 Speaker 2: gutters and underground drainage is available also or no, let. 542 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:18,719 Speaker 3: Me turn my Micael and'll help. It's part of our 543 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:19,880 Speaker 3: hour four that we did. 544 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,560 Speaker 2: Yesterday, Okay, so that'll be under our four, Yes, sir, 545 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,640 Speaker 2: very good. A lot of good information there. 546 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:26,320 Speaker 5: Also absolutely good conversation. 547 00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:28,880 Speaker 2: Yep, thank you, all right. Let's get to Steve. 548 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:33,319 Speaker 1: Steve welcome, Oh, thank you so much for being there. 549 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,400 Speaker 6: I have multiple problems in my place. I live in 550 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:42,160 Speaker 6: a former flower shop and Greenhouse Delmar, Maryland. But first 551 00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:45,120 Speaker 6: question before I move on to my water problem is 552 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,560 Speaker 6: is should I do anything with these brand new held 553 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:52,400 Speaker 6: the split units. I got two of them, and I 554 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,880 Speaker 6: heard you talking about heat pumps. I guess essentially they're 555 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,680 Speaker 6: eat small heat pumps. But should I do anything with 556 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,760 Speaker 6: maintenance on those things? I mean, I hate to read direction, 557 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,440 Speaker 6: so I'm just trying to get. 558 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:07,480 Speaker 2: Well, no, not necessarily, not necessarily not that I I 559 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,799 Speaker 2: don't have one, so I guess I'm not up to 560 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:14,040 Speaker 2: speed on exactly on the maintenance. But they're pretty maintenance 561 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:19,240 Speaker 2: free as my as my thought, and. 562 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,280 Speaker 6: I got a water problem because they I got concrete floors. 563 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:27,000 Speaker 6: Used to be a flower shop. And my brother pointed 564 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,080 Speaker 6: to dive very quickly the driveways at one height and 565 00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,640 Speaker 6: where the water comes in only on hard rain. But 566 00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:38,640 Speaker 6: where the water comes in it is lower, lower grade, 567 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,919 Speaker 6: you know. And these guys have come out to try 568 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,239 Speaker 6: to fix it. I personally don't think they're ever going 569 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,279 Speaker 6: to fix it, you know. I told my kids just 570 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,919 Speaker 6: to maybe think about building onto this place and keep 571 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,760 Speaker 6: the water from coming in somehow other than just digging 572 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,280 Speaker 6: down and putting French strains in and whatever. They're doing, 573 00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,600 Speaker 6: you know, because that I'm an old guy. When it 574 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,759 Speaker 6: gets when that water comes in, I used to mop 575 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,839 Speaker 6: and now I suck it up with a shop back 576 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,400 Speaker 6: with no filter. But you know, it's very irritating. You know, 577 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,480 Speaker 6: you gotta, you know, dump it out. And my artwork. 578 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,560 Speaker 6: I got a gallery and here it's my clage work, 579 00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:18,920 Speaker 6: you know, and it's slowly, little by little it well, 580 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:19,840 Speaker 6: you know, getting ruined. 581 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,560 Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you if you have a water issue 582 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:31,600 Speaker 2: in your home, it's not good. It's not healthy, it's annoying. 583 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,560 Speaker 2: It's not going to get better. It's only going to 584 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:40,520 Speaker 2: get worse. Okay, so there's some cheering news. So there's 585 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:44,239 Speaker 2: what I call the killer G's what brings water into 586 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:51,239 Speaker 2: your house, and that is gutters grating in groundwater. So 587 00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:55,919 Speaker 2: if you have groundwater accumulating around the foundation, in other words, 588 00:37:55,920 --> 00:38:00,080 Speaker 2: you can see it ponding, that's problem. That means you 589 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:05,839 Speaker 2: gotta add soil. We can't allow that to happen. If 590 00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:10,040 Speaker 2: the grating either of the yard, of the concrete or whatever, 591 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:15,520 Speaker 2: if everything is tilted right towards the foundation, that water 592 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,040 Speaker 2: is going to go to the foundation and you're gonna 593 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,240 Speaker 2: see groundwater. So you'll have two of the killer killer gees. 594 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,279 Speaker 2: And of course, if you have gutters and they're not 595 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,960 Speaker 2: properly connected to your house, or they're clogged and they're overflowing, 596 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,919 Speaker 2: that's the third killer g So it sounds like you've 597 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:36,840 Speaker 2: got a grating issue and maybe a groundwater issue. And 598 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:40,320 Speaker 2: how do you get rid of that? Well, you do 599 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:46,239 Speaker 2: do that by underground pipes, underground French drains, collecting and 600 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:51,239 Speaker 2: moving that water away. Or if it's concrete and it's 601 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:55,520 Speaker 2: all tilted to the house, they can they being mudjackers 602 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:59,560 Speaker 2: or slab jackers can drill into the slab pump us 603 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:04,400 Speaker 2: cement growding beneath that slab and lift that slab so 604 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,480 Speaker 2: there's a positive grade away from the house. 605 00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,279 Speaker 6: Yeah, well, probably this is not a house. It's a 606 00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:15,840 Speaker 6: former green green. I understand though, And there's too and 607 00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:19,320 Speaker 6: you know, and and uh, I agree with you. I 608 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,360 Speaker 6: don't think the gutters are good enough. I got holes 609 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,759 Speaker 6: in the greenhouse. And uh, the question is if I 610 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:29,399 Speaker 6: fixed all that, because it's lower grade, it may never 611 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,319 Speaker 6: get better. I mean, I would tell my kids that 612 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:34,279 Speaker 6: to sell this place tomorrow. If I didn't have so 613 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,840 Speaker 6: much artwork in you know, I have like two thousand 614 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:41,520 Speaker 6: collages in here in it physically hard to move even 615 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,719 Speaker 6: if they sold and make money on this place, you know, 616 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,600 Speaker 6: because I kind of liked where I am Delmar, Maryland 617 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:50,880 Speaker 6: and ice Town near the beaches, and uh and I 618 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,600 Speaker 6: have I have no issue with it with the city 619 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:58,440 Speaker 6: I'm in, but this is my aluma was so to speak, 620 00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,879 Speaker 6: because you know, they have my I let my kids 621 00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:05,040 Speaker 6: set up a trust fund with the money I made 622 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,440 Speaker 6: on my house. But it's not you know, it's not 623 00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,160 Speaker 6: a huge chunk. It's it is a good chunk. But 624 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:12,759 Speaker 6: you know, even more I put into this place, the 625 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,680 Speaker 6: lower the trust line is. So it is frustrating. And 626 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,040 Speaker 6: I'm seventy years old, so you know, I'm trying to 627 00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:23,560 Speaker 6: run my gallery and I open up a phone rubber shop, and. 628 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,880 Speaker 2: I think that is you know what you're saying. I 629 00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,479 Speaker 2: understand You're not the only one in that position. Many 630 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,440 Speaker 2: people are. And I think it really comes down to 631 00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:38,080 Speaker 2: the point is not so much can they fix it? 632 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,359 Speaker 2: I think the question is how much is it going 633 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,799 Speaker 2: to cost to fix it? That's what sounds like to me. 634 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:48,920 Speaker 2: So and it's you know, I mean, it's not pleasant 635 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:53,040 Speaker 2: obviously living in a home where you have you know, 636 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,120 Speaker 2: you have water entering your home, and it's a breed 637 00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:59,279 Speaker 2: of you know, you can breed mold. I mean, the 638 00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:04,200 Speaker 2: problem can and will get worse, whether it's a greenhouse 639 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:08,680 Speaker 2: or a home. If you've got those problems, you your 640 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:13,920 Speaker 2: choice is either to liquidate it, sell it as is, 641 00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:21,400 Speaker 2: or fix it and make it a viable structure. And 642 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,080 Speaker 2: you know, I mean, I know all the problems with that. 643 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:25,680 Speaker 1: I get it. I hear you. 644 00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:31,640 Speaker 2: But that's really that's really the decision. Because even if 645 00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,920 Speaker 2: somebody's listening to me right now, and let's say you 646 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,520 Speaker 2: got a you know, four hundred thousand dollars home, and 647 00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,879 Speaker 2: all the neighborhoods are around four hundred thousand dollars homes 648 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:46,080 Speaker 2: around you or three hundred or two hundred or eight hundred, 649 00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:52,160 Speaker 2: doesn't matter, and yours has a water problem. You know, 650 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:58,760 Speaker 2: there's water behind the walls, there's waters under the floors. 651 00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,960 Speaker 2: There's when it rains hard, it leaks between the floor 652 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,400 Speaker 2: and the wall. There's a natural seam there. If you 653 00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:09,760 Speaker 2: have all those problems and the person next to you doesn't, 654 00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:12,880 Speaker 2: you're not going to sell your house for four hundred 655 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:17,160 Speaker 2: thousand dollars unless you're in a home market kind of 656 00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:19,799 Speaker 2: like we were about three years ago, you might have 657 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,359 Speaker 2: somebody just gobble it up because there was. 658 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,640 Speaker 1: Very little. 659 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:30,920 Speaker 2: Excessive inventory, if any inventory. I mean, it was bare bones. 660 00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:36,440 Speaker 2: But as you work back to a pretty decent housing 661 00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:43,080 Speaker 2: market where you have balance inventory, your house is you're 662 00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:46,879 Speaker 2: you're going to have. You know, you're going to have 663 00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:51,680 Speaker 2: one choice, and that is to fix it up to 664 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:58,120 Speaker 2: get the true true value out of that, or you're 665 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:00,440 Speaker 2: gonna sell it at a discount and then they're going 666 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:04,480 Speaker 2: to fix it up. And again, not to try and 667 00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:09,920 Speaker 2: raid on anybody's parade, but that's kind of what it 668 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:11,759 Speaker 2: comes to. It certainly sounds like you don't want to 669 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,680 Speaker 2: move doesn't mean you can't move. It just means you 670 00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:18,440 Speaker 2: don't want to move. So I think you see the 671 00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:23,880 Speaker 2: options and you don't like the options, and nor would I, 672 00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:29,680 Speaker 2: And I'm sorry, but that's the options, all right. So, 673 00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:33,320 Speaker 2: Danny boy, we paraded right through another weekend and certainly 674 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,760 Speaker 2: appreciate all your help getting it done and taking the calls. 675 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,600 Speaker 2: And I do want to encourage you to take a 676 00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:45,440 Speaker 2: look at the podcast on homeowner Policies, Insurance Policies, conversation 677 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,520 Speaker 2: about flooring, and I know a lot of that information. 678 00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:52,640 Speaker 2: You may say, oh, that's just good common advice, especially 679 00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:56,880 Speaker 2: on the flooring, but it is really good advice. Shoes off, 680 00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:03,920 Speaker 2: doormats inside, outside, make sure sidewalks and things are clean 681 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,960 Speaker 2: of residue of salt and ice melts, and you know, 682 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,440 Speaker 2: small stones, and make sure they're not brought into the 683 00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:15,040 Speaker 2: house or it will decrease the life of your floor. 684 00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:17,560 Speaker 1: All right, Danny Boy, good Lord Willing. 685 00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,799 Speaker 2: We'll both be back next weekend for more at Home. 686 00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:21,840 Speaker 1: With Gary Sullivan. 687 00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:41,879 Speaker 4: He's the weekend and you have fixed questions, give Gary 688 00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,080 Speaker 4: a call at what eight hundred and eight two three 689 00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:55,719 Speaker 4: talk this. He's at Home with Gary Sullivan. 690 00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:01,719 Speaker 6: F