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My 21 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 2: one daughter has a gas fireplace with an electric starter. 22 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 2: She's wondering if the electric goes out. Could she light 23 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 2: it with a match? And I'm not sure about the 24 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 2: safety of that. 25 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: Tell me what an electric starter is? Does she is 26 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: it part of the gas logs that she just flips 27 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: a switch or what? 28 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:37,199 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, she flips the switch and. 29 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: The she's gonna have to flip the switch. I don't 30 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: that's a really good question. I don't know if that 31 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 1: thing will light or not? There is it a thermal couple? 32 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: Back there? Can you tell a thermal couple was a 33 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: piece of copper thin copper tubing? And then that's got 34 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: a um yes, okay, so. 35 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 2: I could they have some repair on it? 36 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's a good question. You can. Like the 37 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: pilot light, I would think yes, I don't know if 38 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: it would switch it through the valve though, I don't. 39 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 2: Know that right, right, that's what we were wondering. 40 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I got one too. In fact, even a 41 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: remote control. If the pilot light is lit, I'm even 42 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 1: thinking about the remote control. Does that does that fire 43 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: it up? Or not? 44 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know. 45 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: I got I had I hang my head in shame. 46 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 2: Well, you don't get to do that too often. 47 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 1: That's okay, Yeah, that's a that's a good one night. 48 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: I would say that you could, but I don't know 49 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: for sure that that would be my answer. I would 50 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:03,360 Speaker 1: think you good, but I don't really know because that 51 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: switch I'm just kind of thinking out loud. You know, 52 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: when the gas is onto the thermal cap, that switches, 53 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:17,079 Speaker 1: creating ignition, and it's got to create ignition through a spark. 54 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: I don't know. I got to look that up. I 55 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:25,359 Speaker 1: don't know. Okay, we'll keep your post, keep listening, keep listening. 56 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: I'll get it, will all right, I promise. 57 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 2: I'll go, but I just it's just some other suggestions 58 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 2: that we were all bouncing around. Run your dishwasher before 59 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 2: you go to bed, and get your laundry done. 60 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be a while. 61 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 2: Yeah right, okay, all. 62 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: Right, I'm going to check. Thank you, hang my head 63 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: in shame, all right. You know one of the things 64 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: to make sure, well, I don't know. I'm gonna look 65 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: that up. I'm not saying anymore to it. Look it 66 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: up and we'll get you some sort of an answer. 67 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: But there's probably a different things. I remember with a 68 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: thermal couple, the pilot light that would keep going out, 69 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: but that can be obviously anyway, if you can help 70 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: me out with that, I'd be happy to take your 71 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 1: call again. It's eight hundred eighty two three eight two 72 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: five five. As you know, a lot of things to 73 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: be mindful of it. She brings up some good points 74 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: and I've got a couple of more tips that i 75 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 1: want to give you before we even get out today. 76 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 1: At the bottom of the hour, we've got a company 77 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: coming on brushworks. We're gonna think spring again. We talked 78 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: a little bit about roof. We're going to think spring 79 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: again in the spring. One of the biggest things some 80 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: homeowners have problems with is the woods at the back 81 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:51,919 Speaker 1: of the yard to the side of the yard. Is 82 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,720 Speaker 1: it starts encroaching onto your properly lined or they get 83 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: so tangled in there with honeysuck on stuff. This company 84 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 1: actually can remove that with machinery. Well, we'll let them 85 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 1: tell you the whole story. It's a save you a 86 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: ton of work and kind of a fascinating business of 87 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 1: how they remove that. So we'll cover that at the 88 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,840 Speaker 1: bottom of the hour. In the meantime, let's go to Jim. 89 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 1: Jim welcome, Hello, are you today, Gariot, Yes, fine, thank you. 90 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 4: My question is I've had a company come out. They 91 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 4: they've been working with them for years, and about a 92 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,919 Speaker 4: year and a half ago they said, eat trumperts pulling 93 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 4: too many amps and they put a device on it 94 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 4: that was supposed to win kicks in at kicks and 95 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 4: aloe and amp breach and then worked its way up. 96 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 1: Well. 97 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 4: When they came out this year, they said, I'm pulling 98 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 4: between eight and ten amps on that compressor and they 99 00:05:54,960 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 4: said that's too high, and they suggest I replaced them. 100 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 4: And they've offered us the same system style system heat 101 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 4: pump and heat exchanger, or I have gas that comes 102 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 4: right to my heat exchanger. They said they could do 103 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 4: a gas furnace and a air conditioning or approximately the 104 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 4: same price. And I'm wondering which is the two up 105 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 4: the two? I need another opinion other than just me 106 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:33,280 Speaker 4: and my wife of what would be more efficient, the 107 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 4: gas or the electric. 108 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:42,839 Speaker 1: Well, the gas would be see, I'm not really sure 109 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: where the pricing is right now. It vacillates back and forth. 110 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:51,919 Speaker 1: Years ago, gas was much more efficient, and then they 111 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:56,359 Speaker 1: kind of started averaging out about two or three years ago. 112 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:00,080 Speaker 1: But now with the demand on the electric service with 113 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:02,840 Speaker 1: all the AI thing, I would say gas would be 114 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:08,359 Speaker 1: your more efficient way, your least expensive way. But so 115 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: that would be my answer, Jim. And let me add 116 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 1: one more thing. When you're getting ready to make an 117 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: investment like that, I think it would be a really 118 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: good idea to get a second opinion from another HVAC company. 119 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: I definitely do that. I mean, I don't know about that, 120 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: you know, amperage and different things. If there's anything can 121 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 1: be done. This fella said. No, I'm not saying he's 122 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: a liar. I'm just saying I'm gonna check him. And 123 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: there are multiple companies that even offer free second opinions. 124 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: So I think we were talking about that. Yeah, I 125 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: definitely do that, just. 126 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 4: So the gas heat would be a warmer heat. 127 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: Right, yes, sir, Yes, sir, yes, sir. And one of 128 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: the things you worry about electric too, And it depends 129 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 1: on the type of you know system you have and 130 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: everything else. But you know, sometimes those electric ones, the 131 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: outside heat pumps only functional to about twenty twenty five degrees. 132 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: You get a night like this and you're gonna be 133 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 1: running all electric, and that's certainly gonna be more expensive. 134 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:34,680 Speaker 1: That's like a giant toaster oven for your house, right, Okay, 135 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: Thank you. 136 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 4: I appreciate your input. It's something I can pass on 137 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:39,439 Speaker 4: to my life. 138 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: Very good. 139 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 4: Radio down me turned radio down. She didn't want to 140 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 4: hear me talk. 141 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 1: There you go, all right, thank you much for the call. 142 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Silly me, I don't know what I 143 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: was thinking of on the thermal couple on the gas fireplace. 144 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: Just by step by step finding I found a manual 145 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 1: on a gas fireplace is what I found. It says 146 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 1: step by step lighting with a match. Turn the gas 147 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 1: control knob to off. So you got the knob and 148 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 1: then you got the switch the switches off. You turn 149 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: the gas control knob to off. You wait five minutes. 150 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 1: That releases all the build up gas. Then you turn 151 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: that knob to where it says pilot. It's been a 152 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 1: long time since I lit that on my gas fireplace, 153 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: all right. You turn the knob to a pilot and 154 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: you press the knob in hold it. That allows the 155 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 1: gas to float to the pilot light. Light the match 156 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: or use one of those you know fire fire lighters 157 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 1: with a you know, ten inch long stem, or a 158 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:05,559 Speaker 1: fireplace match or a barbecue lighter, either one of those, 159 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: and light the pilot light while holding the knob in. 160 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:13,320 Speaker 1: So you're pressing a knob in. The gas starts flowing. 161 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,959 Speaker 1: You hold the knob in. You place the flame at 162 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 1: the pilot light opening in bingo. The pilot fly flame 163 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: should light within a few seconds. Keep holding the knob down, 164 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: hold it for thirty seconds. After the pilot lights. This 165 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:32,680 Speaker 1: heats the thermal couple, so the flame stays on. Release 166 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: the light and the pilot light stays lit, and you're good. 167 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: And that's just the pilot light. So then you get 168 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 1: into other things too, and I don't think you're going 169 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:52,199 Speaker 1: to go much beyond that. You're going to light the 170 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,200 Speaker 1: pilot light. And then we got to go a little 171 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 1: bit further on how to get the logs to get 172 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,079 Speaker 1: that fired up. All right, we'll take a break, we'll 173 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 1: come back. We got don As we continue, you're at 174 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: home with Gary Salvin night here on fifty five car 175 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: see detalk station. All right, I'm sorting it all out. 176 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 1: So I did ask her if that pilot light was lit. 177 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,079 Speaker 1: So there's there's It depends how old it is, basically, 178 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 1: And I thought you could start it with a match 179 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: because I've done that way in the past, but some 180 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 1: of the newer ones you can't do that. So the 181 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 1: standing pilot light ones, when you light it with a match, 182 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: it'll light the logs right away. So she's got a 183 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: light that's burning. Now that's not it because that switch 184 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 1: has to activate it to get the fired one to 185 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: the burner underneath the logs. So if a standing pilot light, no, 186 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: I mean that's going to like the pilot light, it's 187 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 1: going to light the logs. Then you got a may So, 188 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 1: as I told Danny, it's yes, no and maybe is 189 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 1: the answer the millie vault systems, and I'm reading out 190 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: of this. Manual pilot flame generates its own tiny electrical current, 191 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 1: no house power is needed, and it'll light the logs manually. 192 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: Blower fan, remote wall switch will not work without power, 193 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 1: all right, then it will not light without electricity. The ignition, 194 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: the electronic ignition. The IPI systems, there is no standing point. 195 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: There is no standing pilot light. So it all comes 196 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: down to whether if her light is pilot light is going, 197 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 1: the logs would be going or in this system the 198 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:45,679 Speaker 1: IPI systems, if there is no pilot light, that's going 199 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:49,720 Speaker 1: to require electricity or a battery backup, which might be 200 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:53,959 Speaker 1: the remote control. If she has a remote control. If 201 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: there's no battery backup, the logs are not gonna not 202 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 1: gonna light. So depending on what system you have, I 203 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: I would think if that pilot light is uh lit, 204 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: it generates its little tiny current system and no house 205 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: power is needed, it will manually ignite the logs with 206 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 1: the switch, all right, And again if it doesn't, you 207 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:29,880 Speaker 1: might try the battery backup, which would be the remote control. Wow, 208 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 1: hey me stumped? Don welcome, Hey don don here. 209 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:48,719 Speaker 5: Okay, I got a smolly problem here. We're moving into 210 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 5: the house that's got a garage, and this guy was 211 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 5: a big time smoker in the garage. And my problem 212 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:58,959 Speaker 5: is I got different kind of surfaces in there. I 213 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:05,319 Speaker 5: got one walls drywall, and then one wall's just uncoded OSB, 214 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 5: and then we got the plastic or whatever the garage 215 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 5: door is, and then we got rafters up there. Is 216 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 5: there anything I can sort of spray short of painting everything, 217 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 5: anything I can spray in there to at least get 218 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 5: some of the odor out. 219 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: Not so well, there are things you can spray. There's 220 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: also I'm gonna send you to a website called Odor Exit. 221 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: It's O D O r X I t there's two products. 222 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 1: One is called Mom's m o ms and the other 223 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: one is called a q M. Okay, and I get 224 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: these two mixed up. I'd have to look at their website. 225 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 1: But the one is chlorine dioxide. It's a packet, you 226 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: moisten it, you clip it to a fan, and it 227 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 1: literally oxidizes the odor. It's tremendous even inside a car. 228 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 1: I'm just saying that for other people it will eliminate 229 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 1: that odor. The other one, I haven't used it, but 230 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: one of those just get on its odor exit dot com. 231 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 1: They got about six seven products. The Eliminator, which is 232 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: a spray that will help reduce the odor, no question 233 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: about it. But either the AQM or the mom is 234 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: really designed to oxidize smoke odors and does a great job. 235 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 5: Okay, what a pressure washer? Can I just wash down 236 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 5: a wall with it? 237 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: Or should I just well, not on the drywall, maybe 238 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 1: on the concrete. I mean you're gonna have to what 239 00:15:54,560 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 1: I would do? There is a it's an old trim 240 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: phosphate TSP. Use that with water and I would spray 241 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: it down and then use like a street broom, like 242 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: a wood fibered street broom and just scrub that and 243 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 1: then you can hit it with a pressure washer. You 244 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 1: will not get rid of all that odor no matter 245 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 1: just by washing it down. You're gonna have to use 246 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: one of those products. But you should wash it down 247 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 1: because there's a residue the tar, the nicotine, which is 248 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 1: also causing the odor. We want to get as much 249 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 1: of that off as we can, but you're gonna have 250 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:38,680 Speaker 1: to use like the tri sodium phosphate and get that 251 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 1: on all the you know, as many surfaces as you can. 252 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: Either scrub it with a scrub rush or a big 253 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: street broom and then rinse it with a pressure washer. 254 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: It'd be great, and then you know you'll get you 255 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 1: reduced you'll reduce a lot of the odor. But then 256 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 1: come back with that Mom's or the AQM and just 257 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: set it up where you know you're you're using that 258 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 1: product for a couple of weeks and and it'll be gone. 259 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 5: Is the TSP Is that only for concrete or can 260 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 5: I use that on o? 261 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:13,199 Speaker 1: Well, if the dry walls painted, you could use it. 262 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: But you know, I mean you could use that even 263 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:19,199 Speaker 1: on the indoor of your house. So you can use 264 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:25,399 Speaker 1: it on plastic, concrete, plaster, drywall, wood, anything along those lines. 265 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 5: Okay, that's great. Well, at least I got got some 266 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 5: places at starting point here, Yes, sir, the walls are 267 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:35,120 Speaker 5: the walls are yellow. 268 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:38,359 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. And when you put that TSP on there, 269 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: you're going to see that just run down the walls. 270 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, I appreciate it. 271 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 1: Thanks all right, don thank you. Pat. Let me have 272 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:50,359 Speaker 1: a quick tip from you, and then we're gonna get 273 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 1: to alex with Brushworks and we're gonna learn about getting 274 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: rid of some getting rid of the woods that's encroaching 275 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 1: upon your yard. Pat, welcome, good morning, and hope you 276 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 1: all are staying well out there and not reason and 277 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 1: so far, so good. 278 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 6: Yeah, and we'll get ahead about one o'clock this morning. 279 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:15,159 Speaker 5: For the gentleman that. 280 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 6: Was calling about going gas or electric, and this is 281 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 6: my personal experience. What I did is we were running 282 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 6: straight oil and the system needed to be replaced. I 283 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 6: went with the hybrid system, where I can set the 284 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 6: system up to where it'll run electric down to like 285 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 6: thirty five. You can set it right and then at 286 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:50,119 Speaker 6: thirty five or thirty whatever you set it'll kick into oil. 287 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's an option to get me. 288 00:18:55,080 --> 00:19:00,440 Speaker 6: So he can get an electric gas hybrid, right, so 289 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 6: he can get the efficiency, but then when it gets 290 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 6: spreadget cold, it kicks over. 291 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 1: The gas, right right, Well that's yeah, I thought that 292 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 1: was one of the options, but I'm not so sure. 293 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:18,760 Speaker 1: We spoke of that. He was pretty much electric or gas, 294 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 1: and if it's straight up electric or gas, I think 295 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:26,360 Speaker 1: probably gases back to the desirable way to go. But yeah, 296 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 1: like in my home, I have gas and then I 297 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:33,359 Speaker 1: have an electric heat pump, you know, so it'll switch 298 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: over to gas. Yeah, yeah, I got the same thing 299 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:39,119 Speaker 1: you got. 300 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:46,679 Speaker 6: It works nice, yep, because my oil consumption tain't you know. 301 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: And sure sure, and that those heat pumps are very efficient, 302 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 1: but only to a certain degree. And if you just 303 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,440 Speaker 1: have straight electric, you know, instead of switching over to 304 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: oils switching over to gas, it's switching over to you know, 305 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 1: resistant electric heating, and that is not the way to go. Pat, 306 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 1: thank you so much. We're gonna take a break and 307 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 1: then we're gonna talk to Alex. He is with Brushworks, 308 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk of a little We're gonna warm 309 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,159 Speaker 1: up things. We're gonna talk about projects that maybe you 310 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 1: might be thinking about doing in the springtime. That's next. 311 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: We'll continue at home with Gary Sullivan right here in 312 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: fifty five car see the talk station all right, twelve 313 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: thirty four on your Saturday at home with Gary Salivan. 314 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: The sun's kind of peeked in, kind of getting a 315 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: little gray. The snow is on the way, but we're thinking, well, 316 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 1: when sun's out and things are greening up. We have 317 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:45,920 Speaker 1: Alex Boyd. He is with Brushworks and Alex, welcome to 318 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:49,160 Speaker 1: that home with Gary Salvin. How you doing good? 319 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 5: How are you? 320 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:49,880 Speaker 6: Gary? 321 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 1: I am doing fine, And I just love this whole 322 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:58,399 Speaker 1: concept that Brushworks does because I'm sure you're gonna fill 323 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: me in on all the stories, and I'm sure there's 324 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:04,199 Speaker 1: some interesting ones. But a lot of times, even in suburbs, 325 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:09,199 Speaker 1: we're surrounded by woods or property that's not developed, and 326 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 1: we get honeysuckle and we get you know, volunteer trees 327 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:17,159 Speaker 1: growing and it starts encroaching on our yard or maybe 328 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 1: we even own that space and we want to enlarge 329 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 1: our yard. And that's a dawning task at least for 330 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,120 Speaker 1: me to get in there and start clearing all that. 331 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,639 Speaker 1: But that's kind of what Brushworks does. You cleared for 332 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 1: the homeowner or the commercial property user. 333 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 3: That's right. 334 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:35,719 Speaker 4: Yeah. 335 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 3: So something that will take you a month and months 336 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 3: to do, we can do it in a day or two. 337 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:44,879 Speaker 1: So tell me a little bit about Brushworks. How long 338 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:47,399 Speaker 1: you guys been doing this, why'd you start in the 339 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,639 Speaker 1: business that you're in, and just kind of give me 340 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 1: a little history of the company if you would. 341 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 2: Yeah. 342 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 3: So we actually started a couple of years ago. I 343 00:21:56,040 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 3: had bought five acres of land and it was mostly unusable. 344 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 3: So I had about three acres that was unusable as 345 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 3: an old pasture that had grown up for. 346 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,760 Speaker 4: About twenty years. And I've got a young daughter. 347 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 3: I want her to be able to use that land 348 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 3: to write a four wheel around and play on. And 349 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,399 Speaker 3: I started looking into how in the world am I 350 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,879 Speaker 3: going to get rid of this stuff? So I looked 351 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 3: around and I just couldn't find anything or anybody other 352 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,880 Speaker 3: than something like hand clearing, which costs tens of thousands 353 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 3: of dollars. 354 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:28,680 Speaker 1: Yeah. 355 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 3: So I found this thing called forestry matching, and I 356 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:35,159 Speaker 3: was like, you know what, we can do this. 357 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 6: I could do this. 358 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:42,440 Speaker 3: So it hubed, got the machine and cleared it and 359 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 3: turned it into a business. 360 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 1: Wow. So tell me about this machine, because you know 361 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,439 Speaker 1: as the set up I had. Let's say it's just 362 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 1: a just a you know, a residential property, maybe even 363 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: a subdivision. But you know you got all this land 364 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: behind and maybe you own part of it. I mean, 365 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: tell me about the machine that's going to do this work. 366 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:08,160 Speaker 1: And honeysuckle is a big issue here, right Oh. 367 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,200 Speaker 3: It's yeah, a honeystt go on, Ohio is and in 368 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 3: this area in particular in the tri State is probably 369 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 3: the worst in the country. 370 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it is. 371 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 3: So yeah, this this machine will actually they the it's 372 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:24,120 Speaker 3: run on its skins deer, like a large skins deer 373 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 3: that has a forestry kit on it, you know, the 374 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 3: ballistic glass and all that. Yeah, it's it's quite a unit. 375 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 3: And then it has a head on it that's called 376 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,360 Speaker 3: we got a fecon and Fecon's actually made right here 377 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 3: in Lebanon. Imagine just big spinning sledgehammers that just destroys 378 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 3: all of this stuff and takes it down to the ground. 379 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 3: It gets rid of it. We can actually even go 380 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:53,160 Speaker 3: an ech into the soil to get that that stump out, 381 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 3: and that's something with hand clearing often you're cutting at 382 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 3: the bottom of the stump. So you're left with all 383 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 3: these we call them ankle breakers. But with forestry malching, 384 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 3: we can get rid of all those and you can 385 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:06,639 Speaker 3: turn it back into whatever you want to. 386 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 4: Do with it. 387 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:12,120 Speaker 1: So the technique is actually called forestream mulching. 388 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 3: Correct, Yeah, it's called forestry malching, and that's what the 389 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 3: head on them are called forestry malters. 390 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: So how big a piece of machinery is this? I 391 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,159 Speaker 1: don't know if I've ever seen one or not. 392 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 3: Well, so you definitely have that. 393 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 5: We actually run. 394 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 3: It's on a skid steer like a Bobcat. It's the 395 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:38,360 Speaker 3: large Bobcat. We also have another machine that is remote 396 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 3: controlled that's quite a lot smaller, that'll get into smaller areas. 397 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 3: But it also does really steep hillsides. 398 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 1: Oh oh that's cool. You have fun with that? 399 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's it's amazingly fun. Yeah, the funnest thing ever. 400 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: You get going, you can't stop, Oh my gosh. Yeah. 401 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,119 Speaker 3: So I think the satisfaction of cutting your grass and 402 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,360 Speaker 3: amplify at times one hundred. 403 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,159 Speaker 1: Well, I mean as a homeowner, if they owned another 404 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 1: like you did, you owned a you know, a few 405 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 1: more acres, that's just a mess. Honeysuckle and trees and 406 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff. So what is the reaction of 407 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 1: homeowners that employ you to do this? 408 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 3: And that's the best part. You know, it's a problem 409 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 3: that they've been looking at for ten twenty years in 410 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 3: many cases, sure, and they just didn't think that there 411 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 3: was a solution. So like when we're done, they're statics. 412 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, so how much area does a weird question? 413 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:42,959 Speaker 6: Man? 414 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 1: How much area can you clear in a day? 415 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 3: It can vary quite a bit, so we can go 416 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 3: anywhere from a half acre up to two acres in a. 417 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 1: Day, okay, depending on this slope. 418 00:25:55,320 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 3: Depending on slope, brush density, you know, just different actors 419 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 3: ultimately to what the customer wants. If they wanted to 420 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,199 Speaker 3: like a park, it can be a little bit quicker. 421 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 3: I think if we wanted to look like a managed forest, 422 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,199 Speaker 3: we can do that where we leave a lot of 423 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,920 Speaker 3: the small saplings. And then also there's some that want 424 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 3: us to clear as much as possible. 425 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: Just curious, what do most people want to do? Just 426 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 1: clear it out? 427 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 3: Most people want to park. Like, Look, there are some 428 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 3: properties where we do manage forests, and that's that's kind 429 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 3: of The forest floor is nice and clean and a 430 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 3: lot of hunting properties and stuff like that. So with 431 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 3: the native flora, you know, like wild strawberries can grow 432 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 3: back in and not being choked at anymore. It really 433 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:42,879 Speaker 3: enhances the wildlife. 434 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: Wow. Cool, that's that's quite a business and I'm sure 435 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 1: there's a great demand for it once people know about you, right. 436 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. I mean there's always been a thing in 437 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 3: the commercial industry, but the residential didn't really know about 438 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,360 Speaker 3: this kind of service. And now that we've got these 439 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 3: smaller machines, we're able to do a lot of residential properties. 440 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 3: So I mean there's a huge demand. You've got people 441 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 3: that have honeysuckle that's growing up on our driveways and 442 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:14,959 Speaker 3: scratching their cars when they pull in. 443 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, I see. 444 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 3: And then also over time it'll encroach on your property. 445 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 3: You kind of lose like fix to ten feet of 446 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 3: your property every year. By the time you turn around, 447 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 3: you've lost two acres. 448 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 1: Wow. So so there's a lot of debris when you're finished, right, 449 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:37,120 Speaker 1: I mean, you take all that with you and all 450 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,200 Speaker 1: that or you mulch it up and leave it as 451 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 1: a base or how's that work. 452 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 3: So when we mulch it up, we leave it as 453 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 3: a base and it will break down. It takes about 454 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:51,120 Speaker 3: twelve to eighteen months to break down fully. Some customers 455 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,639 Speaker 3: will choose to put grass feed down over top and 456 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 3: the grass kind of comes back in and it helps 457 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 3: pull that mault down and break down the mult layer. 458 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,400 Speaker 3: We actually have a YouTube channel where we we show 459 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 3: like a full eighteen month transformation of what it looks 460 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 3: like when we're right when we're finishing, what it looks 461 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 3: like eighteen months. 462 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 1: Later, and that's under Brushworks. 463 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, so brushworks co on our YouTube. 464 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a look at it sounds fascinating and 465 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:20,679 Speaker 1: you know, I'm not going to ask you for a 466 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 1: dollar amount, but I can just imagine if you were 467 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 1: to do that by hand and you did two acres, 468 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,120 Speaker 1: you would be there pretty much all. You'd be there 469 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 1: for a long time, and you'd have lots of bodies 470 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 1: back to doing the work. So it's it's definitely more 471 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: efficient and less expensive than by hand. And sometimes maybe 472 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 1: that's the only way it used to be, but there's 473 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:51,239 Speaker 1: an easier way now, that's right, and more affordable. 474 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 6: So yeah, much more affordable. 475 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So let's do it this way because I 476 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 1: think people are going to want to just a general idea, 477 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 1: what is the average cost of your job or do 478 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,719 Speaker 1: you I'm sure there's all kinds of variables. I'm not 479 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 1: asking you to give me a super price, but just 480 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 1: kind of the average price of a job? Or is 481 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 1: it done by acreage? And what would that run? Those 482 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: kind of questions. 483 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 3: So the average job is going to be somewhere around 484 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 3: twenty two hundred and twenty five hundred dollars. Okay, that 485 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 3: covers quite a large area. So about an acre of clearing. 486 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,959 Speaker 3: You can actually we quote it by the acreage size 487 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 3: and the density and stuff. And on our website we 488 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 3: actually have an instant pricing calculator so you can get 489 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 3: an idea of what it would cost to. 490 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 4: Do the property. 491 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 1: Well, you were a lot less expensive than I thought 492 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 1: it was gonna be. 493 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, just one tree costs more than that. 494 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I'm going when you're going like twenty two, 495 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 1: I'm taking like twenty two thousand. That's where I was. 496 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: That's where I was. I was thinking maybe around five ten. 497 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 1: But if you can get an acre done for two 498 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:07,959 Speaker 1: twenty four twenty five dollars, bingo, So so do you 499 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: do estimates? Also? I mean, I know I can get 500 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: a price right off the website. And by the way, 501 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 1: give me that website again. 502 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 3: So the website is brushworkscode dot com. 503 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 1: Okay, brushworks code dot com. All right, and then do 504 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 1: you go there also and give estimates. I'm I'm I'm 505 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 1: sure for bigger jobs, you're gonna have to do that, right. 506 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, we do it for all of our jobs. Okay, 507 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 3: So we'll come up and do an on site estimate 508 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 3: for your job. We're always looking to see, you know, 509 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 3: what the terrain of what the train looks like, the 510 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,560 Speaker 3: density looks like, any debris that's out there. You pretty 511 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 3: much you have to be on site to give an 512 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 3: accurate right, right. 513 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,480 Speaker 1: So what's the biggest job you guys have done. 514 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,960 Speaker 3: Well, we've done about thirty acres whoa before. 515 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, when you're doing these jobs and cleaning out all 516 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,200 Speaker 1: that honeysuckle and bushes and trees, do you ever find 517 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:11,120 Speaker 1: anything really weird? 518 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 3: Yes, we have. So we found gravestones from the early 519 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 3: eighteen hundreds, early mid eighteen hundreds. We found old cars. Yeah, 520 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 3: there's all kinds of stuff, people throwing the woods. 521 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was thinking cars. I didn't even think of gravestones, 522 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 1: but I can see how that would be well, that's 523 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: that's very interesting. And and do you do the entire 524 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 1: tri state area or how far you go out? 525 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, so we'll do the We do the entire tri 526 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 3: state area, so Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. 527 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: Okay, when people get to your website, they can kind 528 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 1: of get an idea of cost, any other information you 529 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 1: got on a website that people need to consider maybe 530 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 1: before you come out, or maybe some to nayout to 531 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 1: take a look at before you come out. 532 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,280 Speaker 3: Really, just if you check out our website, you'll see 533 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 3: our videos and stuff on there. You'll see a description 534 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 3: of the service and just kind of take a look 535 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 3: at that to In some cases you may be looking 536 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 3: for hillside clearing, which would be with our remote control machine. 537 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 3: So if you've got a steep slope you may be 538 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:27,480 Speaker 3: requesting for hillside clearing instead. Most cases you're using a 539 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 3: skids here, but we do have the hillside machine as well. 540 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:34,000 Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent. So we're going to be covered with snow 541 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 1: here in about twenty four hours. Probably. Do you work 542 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 1: mainly early spring or late winter through Christmas or what? 543 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,040 Speaker 1: You work year round or how's that work? 544 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:52,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, so we will actually work year round. Our busy season, 545 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:54,720 Speaker 3: the one we can get to the most jobs is 546 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 3: going to be from April first until about the end 547 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,560 Speaker 3: of November, and then in the winter we typically will 548 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:06,960 Speaker 3: do large farm properties stuff like that, something where you know, 549 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 3: we're kind of more out in the woods, we're not 550 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 3: worried about manicured lawns and things like that, where in 551 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,520 Speaker 3: the spring and summer and fall, when it's more dry, 552 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 3: we can get to a lot more stuff. 553 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 1: So is your daughter using the space you cleared for. 554 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,840 Speaker 3: She will be. So she's just under a year of Oh, 555 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 3: I'm gonna get what has a little electric four wheelers for? 556 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:33,000 Speaker 1: She's got time. Hey, Alex, thank you so much for 557 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 1: joining us, and I encourage people to check it out again. 558 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:40,400 Speaker 1: It's Brushworks ceo dot com. Thanks for joining us. 559 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, Gary, I appreciate it. 560 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 1: All right, take care very good. How about that? That's 561 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 1: I can't imagine. I don't know if you've ever had 562 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,200 Speaker 1: a home that's near like a woods or you know, 563 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 1: kind of a forested area and it is just out 564 00:33:56,480 --> 00:34:02,160 Speaker 1: of control mess and trying to keep that back. It's 565 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,120 Speaker 1: just so much work, especially with the honeysuck one stuff. 566 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:09,319 Speaker 1: That sounds awesome, all right, we'll take a break, come 567 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,399 Speaker 1: back and got a couple of more tips I want 568 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 1: to give you. If you'd like to join us, do so. 569 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 1: You're at home with Gary Salivanar on fifty five care 570 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:21,759 Speaker 1: see the talk station all right, taking your calls and 571 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,680 Speaker 1: wrapping things up all at the same time. That's the 572 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:29,799 Speaker 1: way our weekend's work. And never never forget. Each and 573 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 1: every hour is available to via podcast, and we've got 574 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,520 Speaker 1: a lot of good tips today. Another thing to remember 575 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:44,840 Speaker 1: is we had a conversation with Megan on composite roofing, 576 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,799 Speaker 1: which is available via podcast. You can pick that up 577 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 1: and on the iHeart app. And the podcast is at 578 00:34:55,040 --> 00:35:00,239 Speaker 1: Home with Gary Sullivan, and it's another maybe opportunity to 579 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,000 Speaker 1: take a different look at some of your roofing. It's 580 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:07,920 Speaker 1: you know, lifetime warranty, but you know a limited lifetime warranty. 581 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,959 Speaker 1: It's it's kind of in the line with a metal 582 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:16,839 Speaker 1: roofing fifty years and it's a great replacement for a 583 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:21,520 Speaker 1: slate roof or a cedar roof, or just if you 584 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,600 Speaker 1: want a roof that is the last roof you buy. 585 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:29,840 Speaker 1: That's another option. All right, Let's go to Pat. Pat Welcome, Hi. 586 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:31,839 Speaker 7: Thanks for taking my call. 587 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:32,800 Speaker 1: You're welcome. 588 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,479 Speaker 7: I've called a few times over the past I won't 589 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:39,040 Speaker 7: say thirty years, and you've always been very helpful. 590 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:39,919 Speaker 1: We'll try. 591 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,279 Speaker 7: I live in the Cincinnati area and I have an 592 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:49,719 Speaker 7: old house. It's one hundred years old, but thirty years 593 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:53,640 Speaker 7: ago we poured a concrete porch, built a full porch, 594 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,920 Speaker 7: put wood pillars on there. Use the duration paint. Thanks 595 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,560 Speaker 7: to your referrals many years ago, it's only been painted 596 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,000 Speaker 7: twice and all that time. 597 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,200 Speaker 1: It's held up good. 598 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:10,839 Speaker 7: Who is the base of the columns? Instead of painting those, 599 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,120 Speaker 7: we had the brilliant idea of wrapping it with aluminum 600 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:18,600 Speaker 7: and then paint it the aluminum so underneath it it 601 00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:22,080 Speaker 7: started to ride away on the corner where even though 602 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 7: we have good gutters, and I just I had one 603 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,200 Speaker 7: contractor look at it and he I don't know if 604 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,120 Speaker 7: he thought it wasn't a big enough job. And I'm 605 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,279 Speaker 7: just curious, do you know is there a company in 606 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:39,480 Speaker 7: our area that specializes in porch restorations, because you know, 607 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,719 Speaker 7: I think he would have to remove the railing and 608 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,600 Speaker 7: then jack it up to I'd rather just go ahead 609 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,200 Speaker 7: and replace all the bases so I don't have that issue. 610 00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:55,440 Speaker 1: Again, I don't know one that's specializes strictly in restoration 611 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,399 Speaker 1: of porches. I've got a couple of things that come 612 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:02,279 Speaker 1: to mind. There's a company called sin Say Drywall. They 613 00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:07,280 Speaker 1: do new building, they do remodeling, they do restoration work, 614 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:12,040 Speaker 1: they do in fact, they do. One of their specialties 615 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:17,319 Speaker 1: is they do a plaster restoration in older homes and 616 00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:23,080 Speaker 1: family business been around for a long time, do great work. 617 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:26,640 Speaker 1: So I would put them on your list since I 618 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:32,799 Speaker 1: drywall and the other thing I would just kind of 619 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,839 Speaker 1: throw out there. I obviously haven't seen the issues, so 620 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:40,400 Speaker 1: I don't know. But when we had those metal wraps 621 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,520 Speaker 1: and things, sometimes condensation gets in there and starts rotting 622 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,400 Speaker 1: the wood and stuff like that, and some of those 623 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:57,799 Speaker 1: in restoration projects. There there's a there's an apoxy. It's 624 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,240 Speaker 1: called woody Pox is actually the name of the product, 625 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:08,600 Speaker 1: and it's it's an epoxy wood patches, not a wood filler. 626 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,359 Speaker 1: In other words, wood fillers and stuff you can do 627 00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:14,400 Speaker 1: like things the size of a ping pong ball. Okay, 628 00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:20,400 Speaker 1: the wood apox you can literally build and shape a 629 00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:27,400 Speaker 1: patch the size of a basketball. Oh and so I'm 630 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:29,640 Speaker 1: I'm not so sure that might not be a really 631 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:34,400 Speaker 1: good answer for you. You know, without seeing it, I 632 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,280 Speaker 1: can't tell you, but I can give you. The people 633 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:42,800 Speaker 1: that make that. The website is Abbatron A B A 634 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:49,240 Speaker 1: t R O n abbatron dot com. They make several 635 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,799 Speaker 1: and have several products, but the two that I'd be 636 00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,480 Speaker 1: really interested in. One is wood apox and the other 637 00:38:56,520 --> 00:39:01,680 Speaker 1: one is called liquid wood. And what liquid would is 638 00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:05,800 Speaker 1: if you get that metal off there and let's say, 639 00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:08,680 Speaker 1: I don't know, it's a mess on the surface, but 640 00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,200 Speaker 1: we scrape a little off and then it's like just 641 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:15,840 Speaker 1: kind of spongy. The liquid wood is a clear liquid 642 00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:19,360 Speaker 1: that is brushed on and absorbed by the spongy wood 643 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:24,799 Speaker 1: and then hardens, and then you come back with the 644 00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,000 Speaker 1: and then you have a good base, and you come 645 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:31,160 Speaker 1: back with the woody pox, and you can make sizeable 646 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,920 Speaker 1: patches with the woody pox and you can shape it 647 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:40,000 Speaker 1: shaped it with like a paint paddle before. So you 648 00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:45,640 Speaker 1: got a contractor and you got something that you might 649 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:47,359 Speaker 1: want to take a look at, and you might even 650 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,120 Speaker 1: have to educate them. I don't know. It's used a 651 00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:56,799 Speaker 1: lot in historic homes, older homes, and they may or 652 00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,319 Speaker 1: may not be familiar. They probably are, but I'm just 653 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,480 Speaker 1: throwing that out there. Maybe they have something better. I 654 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,560 Speaker 1: don't know, but that would be my answer for that. 655 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:09,640 Speaker 7: I like that a lot because the rain, you know, 656 00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:11,680 Speaker 7: the way the rain comes, and where my house is 657 00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,640 Speaker 7: situated on the property, it just sort of beats on 658 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:21,600 Speaker 7: one corner more than it does. And unfortunately on that side, 659 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:25,960 Speaker 7: I think I think there's I would say it was 660 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:30,000 Speaker 7: maybe the basis like an inch and a half. I 661 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,759 Speaker 7: don't even think it's quite two inches. I'm afraid that 662 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:38,239 Speaker 7: side is completely gone because I can see where the 663 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,120 Speaker 7: della has shifted it down, and. 664 00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,480 Speaker 1: Well, one of the things they might be able to do, 665 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:48,279 Speaker 1: number one is see if it's even repairable, and if 666 00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:52,520 Speaker 1: it is, maybe they can make that correction also where 667 00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,640 Speaker 1: it just won't come back and continue to be a problem. 668 00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,200 Speaker 1: So maybe give them a call, take a look at it, 669 00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,439 Speaker 1: discuss that with them also, and maybe it's a matter 670 00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,880 Speaker 1: of doing a patch and some adjustment. Maybe it's you 671 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,600 Speaker 1: know how that goes, and maybe it's the whole kitten kaboodle. 672 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:11,120 Speaker 1: But thank you much for the call. I appreciate it, Danny, 673 00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:14,680 Speaker 1: thank you very much. Uh, stay warm, stay out of 674 00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,280 Speaker 1: the snow. Well, I like to get in the snow still, 675 00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:22,839 Speaker 1: get that snowblower going, I get that snowblow going. Come on, 676 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,759 Speaker 1: keep your hands out of the paddles, all right, good 677 00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,759 Speaker 1: lad willing. We'll both be back tomorrow for more At 678 00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,840 Speaker 1: Home with Gary Sullivan.