1 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: Well, it's a weekend Welcome at Home with Gary Salvin. 2 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 1: It starts brought to you by gutter Brush. Clogged gutters 3 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 1: cause damage. You've heard that before. And gutter brush stops 4 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: leaves and debris from clogging up your guttering system. It 5 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: can last at least fifteen years I have on my home, 6 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 1: and right now you can save twenty five percent. You 7 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:56,279 Speaker 1: get free shipping. The coat is Gary twenty five and 8 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:01,279 Speaker 1: it is gutterbrush dot com. All right, we'll take your 9 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: calls and talk about your home projects. Our phone number 10 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:10,559 Speaker 1: is eight hundred eight two three A two five five. Hey, 11 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 1: next time you're just kind of checking things around the house. 12 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: Maybe it's the basement, Maybe it's the cross space where 13 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 1: you can see some Maybe it's the attic and we 14 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 1: talked about that earlier. Maybe where you can see some 15 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: copper piping. Take a look for corrosion. A lot of 16 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: people never really think about that, never even maybe they 17 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: don't even know that corrosion can occur on copper pipes. 18 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: But back in the day lead solders and copper pipes, 19 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: there was a little electrolysis that took place, and what 20 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: you might find is some green staining around the joints, 21 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: and that's okay. You might even find a little green 22 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 1: crustacean here and there, keep an eye on it. But 23 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: if you see a real heavy almost like like a 24 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: rock salt, where it was green is now turning white 25 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: and its crusty white, either you or get a plumber 26 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: out there and cut that segment out, maybe put in, 27 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:26,679 Speaker 1: you know, a new coupling. You might have to put 28 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 1: an elbow, that a kurd on an elbow, but get 29 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 1: that out. Usually, if you were going to take a 30 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: look at corrosion of copper, you would be a little discoloration, 31 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: a light green tint, a little green crustiness around, and 32 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,519 Speaker 1: then white. And you know, I've heard that I've actually 33 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 1: even taken some copper pipe out of a basement ceiling 34 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: at my house. It was just one or two joints 35 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 1: where it had gotten that white and cut them out 36 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: and replaced it with a new copper. And my son 37 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 1: is redoing their bedroom and they're upstairs bathroom and uh 38 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: tearing out a wall. And sure enough he had a 39 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: took a picture of it and sent it to me, 40 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: and it had a little tea where a copper line 41 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: going in and a branch and it was all white 42 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: and crusty, and when he went to grab it, didn't 43 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 1: know really what it was. Went to grab it, it 44 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: was wet or damp, damp, and he looked down and 45 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: there was not much moisture, but he could tell that 46 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: there was some moisture on the back side of the ceiling, 47 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: the drywall ceiling, and went downstairs and no stain. So 48 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: it must have literally just started. And I said, Jesus, 49 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: what so lucky, because you know that would continue to 50 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: be a problem and eventually you would see a stain 51 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: on a ceiling and probably most of us are going 52 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: to ignore that for a little bit of time, and 53 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: that's not good. And then the next step is the 54 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 1: stain gets darker and then mold starts growing, and you 55 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: get the scenario. Don't ignore it. You could do a 56 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: little preventive maintenance. Especially I'm not asking you to cut 57 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:35,280 Speaker 1: the walls open, but just know that can happen. Not 58 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: to worry anybody, but just for your memory bank. See 59 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: a little stain, it's kind of in the middle of 60 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:46,840 Speaker 1: the ceiling or something, and there's nothing really above it. 61 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 1: You're wondering what it could be. Well, that's something it 62 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 1: could be, all right, Mary welcome. 63 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 2: I am trying to put in a new doorknob, and 64 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 2: I bought I didn't buy a cheap one, but I 65 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 2: bought a good one, and at a big box store. 66 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 2: And I didn't ask anybody when I was a big 67 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 2: box store. But I put it in and taking it 68 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 2: out like three times, and it still doesn't work. And 69 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:23,919 Speaker 2: I tried to get some help at the big box store, 70 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 2: but nobody helps me. I had one gal give me 71 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 2: a young man and he didn't know how to do it, 72 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 2: and he went to find somebody else, and he couldn't 73 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 2: find anybody else. So I'm calling you. 74 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: Well, what kind of luck is it? I mean I 75 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: can't see it so that. 76 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 2: No, it's just a regular, you know, past one and 77 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 2: just one of those simple ones like I had before. 78 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 1: Did you have to drill any holes at all? 79 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 2: No? I put it in the existing one. Do you 80 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 2: think that's a problem I have to No. 81 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 1: No, I'm not saying it is. I'm not saying there is. 82 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,480 Speaker 1: I mean, if it fits in there, that's wonderful. It's 83 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: just there are different sizes and different styles. How holds 84 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 1: the house? 85 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:17,239 Speaker 2: How old is the house? 86 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: Sure? Because there are different types of locks? 87 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 2: Well, I got it in the last time, and it turns, 88 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,040 Speaker 2: but it doesn't when I go to locks it, it 89 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 2: doesn't lock. 90 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 1: So when you have the lock, and you're probably going 91 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: to have to take it to somebody, I don't know 92 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: if I'm really going to be able to help you. 93 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:43,039 Speaker 1: But when you have a like a modern quickset lock, 94 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: you will There'll be an exterior handle, an interior handle. 95 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: There'll be a round plate, and then there'll be two 96 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: screws and the other one has two prongs, okay, and 97 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: then there's what they can called the keeper, and the 98 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 1: keeper is the bolt that fits between the screws and 99 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: the prongs and goes through the side of the door, 100 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: and that's the locking mechanism that goes into the door jam. 101 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: Did you have go ahead? 102 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 2: I have looked at the previous locks on the house, 103 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 2: and doesn't matter which way the slant park is facing, 104 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 2: whether it's out ords the outside or the. 105 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: Inside, the slanted part should be facing the inside inside. 106 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 2: Okay. 107 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: So my guess is yeah. So my guess is so 108 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: in that keeper where that bolt is, there's a circle 109 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: on the right, a circle on the left, and in 110 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: the middle there's a larger circle which the tumbler or 111 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 1: the locking mechanism goes through, you know, the locking mechanism 112 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,559 Speaker 1: that goes into the jam. I'm going to bet that 113 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 1: that's not It's either not matching up or it's not 114 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,559 Speaker 1: connected perfectly. So what I would do is I would 115 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: put the interior knob into that locking mechanism that's going 116 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: horizontally through the door, and see if you can get that, 117 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: you know, in there. Kind of line up the holes 118 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: and move the lock and see if you see the 119 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 1: part that goes into the door jam. See if you 120 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:39,839 Speaker 1: see that moving, because if it's not moving, it's not 121 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 1: going to lock. 122 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 2: Oh okay, well I will take it apart again and. 123 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 1: Yep, all right, very good Mary, thank you much, you're welcome. 124 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: Thank you. And I will say another thing, and this 125 00:08:54,559 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: is I don't know for of all, as many of 126 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 1: you know, your independent store is probably going to have 127 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 1: someone there to help you a little bit more. Not 128 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:12,680 Speaker 1: saying everybody needs that help, but Mary needs that help. 129 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: And going to an independent dealer, I think you're going 130 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 1: to find maybe a little bit more service than you 131 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: will at a big box store. I'm going to guess 132 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 1: on a lock, I bet you there's not that much 133 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 1: difference in pricing. Also, of course, the ability to have 134 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: watching YouTube videos. I tell people I teach different classes 135 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: on home improvement to maybe first time home buyers, and 136 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 1: there isn't a thing in the world you can't try 137 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: to fix and learn how to fix on a YouTube video, 138 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: and it will give you finer points and something many 139 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: of us do. I know. Even when one of my 140 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 1: kids will call me on an issue or something, rather 141 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: than try to you know, he'll send me a picture. 142 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,439 Speaker 1: We'll talk back and forth going to that YouTube video, 143 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: and actually I'll direct them there and say we're rather 144 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: than me giving you the ten steps, why don't you 145 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 1: take a look at this and a lot of great 146 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: information there. 147 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 3: All right. 148 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. 149 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: You can grab a line talking a little home improvement. 150 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,679 Speaker 1: And maybe you have a maintenance issue or something you're 151 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: considering about that might need a little maintenance. 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Man back at it we go twenty one 196 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: minutes after the top of they are doing a couple 197 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: of little repairs around the home, and a couple of 198 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: them especially. I think one of the things that starts 199 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: giving us a little bit of a challenge in our 200 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: homes this time of year seems to be plumbing toilets 201 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: that don't quite shut off. They sound like they're running, 202 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: or they sound like they're flushing themselves. Maybe a disposal 203 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: that's on the fritz. And I'll give you some tips 204 00:13:55,600 --> 00:14:00,719 Speaker 1: right now, as we sit here in October, in the 205 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:05,440 Speaker 1: Halloween around the corner, Thanksgiving around the corner, Christmas around 206 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:11,440 Speaker 1: the corner, that disposal should not have a bigger workout 207 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: than it has on a normal week. And what do 208 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 1: I mean by that, Well, you're going to start hearing 209 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: different things about disposals that just aren't grinding up the food, 210 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:29,040 Speaker 1: disposals that get jammed. And that's because we abuse the 211 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: disposal this time of year as we have more and 212 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 1: more guests. And the first holiday for ruining or screwing 213 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: up a disposal was Halloween. People start carving pumpkins and 214 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 1: whatever you do when you're carving that pumpkin. Be safe, 215 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: and do not put the rine in the seeds down 216 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: your disposal. That is a huge, huge no. No, it's 217 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: not going to grind it up. It's going to tangle 218 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 1: it up. In a lot of cases, it'll jam it 219 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 1: to a point where the circuit breaker button on the 220 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 1: disposal will stop the disposal. And you may or may 221 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: not know it has that button, which means you may 222 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: think the whole disposal is broken. I'm here to tell 223 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: you it might be, but it might not be. Number one, 224 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 1: it won't be if you don't put the rind and 225 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: you don't put the seeds down the disposal, So you know, 226 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: put them up, wrap them in paper, put them in 227 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: a plastic bag, whatever, put them in a trash, do 228 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: not put them down the disposal. All right, got that 229 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: covered right. The next one is Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving, you have 230 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 1: a house full of people over peeling potatoes. No, no, 231 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 1: potato scraps do not go down the disposal. Every year 232 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 1: I kind of try to remember to give you these tips, 233 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: and every year I get emails or a call and say, well, 234 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: why do I even have the disposal? I can't put 235 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: anything down it fibrous material like I said, pumpkin reins, seeds, celery, 236 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: potato skins, rice, those are all bad things for a disposal. 237 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: And usually during the holidays it's at a volume too. Right, 238 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: we're cleaning dishes off that neck, But don't put that 239 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: stuff in a disposal all right Now, if it doesn't work, 240 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: it just stops running. It hums. There is a little button, 241 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 1: So first of all, it's jammed. There are it grinds. 242 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: There's grinding plates in a disposal, and they get jammed up. 243 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: When there's too much heavy fibrous foods. They jam out. 244 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: There's a lot of load on the motor. The motor 245 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 1: protects itself, has a little circuit breaker on the bottom 246 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: of the disposal. It pops out. Now you can try 247 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: to press that button and re engage it, but I 248 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: don't think I would do that. First, what I want 249 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: you to do is it's it's on a circuit, probably 250 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 1: on a switch. Is let's let's turn off the electricity there, okay, 251 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:20,400 Speaker 1: Or if that red button is out, it's it's kind 252 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 1: of shut off the electricity. But let's make sure that 253 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: circuit's dead. And then with an Allen wrench that came 254 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 1: with the disposal, which you probably don't have, or maybe 255 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 1: you do. Maybe it's in that little baggy with the 256 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 1: owner's manual and it'll tell you how to do this. 257 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 1: It gets inserted at the bottom of the disposal and 258 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: you can manually turn those grinding plates. In other words, 259 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 1: you can kind of loosen it up, turn the electricity 260 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 1: back on, pop in that circuit breaker, and walla. We'll 261 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: hope it works, and there's a chance it will, so 262 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: be just be mindful of what goes in there and 263 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 1: doesn't go in there. And you know, a little bit 264 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:14,880 Speaker 1: of food scraps that's fine. A lot of food scraps 265 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 1: that's not fine. A lot of fibrous or starchy foods 266 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 1: that's really not fine. That day after Thanksgiving, according to 267 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: my friends at Rotor Ruter, is one of the busiest 268 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:34,520 Speaker 1: days of the year. And as I said, colder weather 269 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: just seems to just be a little more tougher on 270 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 1: plumbing devices and their calls are usually toilets, sinks, disposals. 271 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 1: And then if we have a really really harsh winter, 272 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,160 Speaker 1: you know, that might be a busy day with frozen pipes. 273 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: But the days around Christmas and Thanksgiving they're tough on 274 00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 1: plumber so stay ahead of the process. And there's even 275 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 1: ways you can even do a little maintenance on drains 276 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:05,920 Speaker 1: and uh. Sometime today I'll give you some tips and 277 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 1: we'll talk about that also. 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Our 325 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,880 Speaker 1: phone number is eight hundred eight two three eight two 326 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 1: five five. I told you I'm talking a little bit 327 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 1: about repairing materials and fabrics. And I bring that up 328 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: because I know a lot of folks, especially in colder temperatures, 329 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 1: maybe bringing in outdoor furniture. Maybe you cover it and 330 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: leave it out, Maybe you put it in the garage, 331 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,200 Speaker 1: maybe you put it in the shed, maybe you put 332 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,880 Speaker 1: it in a basement. I don't know, but right now 333 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: is a good time to kind of examine what kind 334 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: of shape it's in, because when we bring that out, 335 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: we want to use it right we're excited that temperatures 336 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,880 Speaker 1: warm it up and life is good and we don't 337 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,439 Speaker 1: want to make a repair. Then we don't want to 338 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: be challenged with doing things. So a couple of rehab things. 339 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,119 Speaker 1: There's all kinds of different patio furnitures. Obviously, if you 340 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 1: have metal furniture, I want you to inspect for rust 341 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 1: finishes that are compromised. In other words, maybe we want 342 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 1: to go ahead and paint them refinish. If it's a 343 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 1: rusted area, you can use a product like rust neutralizer, 344 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:53,640 Speaker 1: which will react with the iron oxide and then you 345 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 1: can put this on by brush. You can spray it 346 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:04,160 Speaker 1: on and that chemical reaction will solidify and seal in 347 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:08,919 Speaker 1: the rust into the metal so you're not scraping and 348 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,199 Speaker 1: wire brushing and all that, and then coming back with 349 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 1: a primer and coding that with a primer, probably red 350 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,160 Speaker 1: outside primer would be best, and then like a roustolium 351 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 1: product over that. If it's I guess some of the 352 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:31,719 Speaker 1: newer type things that in the furniture business, and I 353 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 1: know Harold's probably listening to me in Alabama and he's like, 354 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 1: what are you talking about today. Well, I know Harold 355 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 1: sells patio furniture, and I know he wants you to 356 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:47,199 Speaker 1: take care of it. But sometimes we need to replace that. 357 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 1: Sometimes we can have a small tear and a cushion. 358 00:24:54,760 --> 00:25:00,199 Speaker 1: Sometimes the foam in the pillow on the backside. Uh, 359 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:04,439 Speaker 1: it's getting a little squshy. And we're not in a 360 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 1: position to go buy some beautiful new patio furniture, so 361 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 1: we are to a degree forced to kind of fix 362 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 1: it up a little bit. And I'm telling you now's 363 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 1: the time to do it. When you're putting it away. 364 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 1: Maybe you need some new foam underneath that cover for 365 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 1: the squshy pillow in the back. Fine, do it now. 366 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 1: You can get those. In fact, I replaced one last 367 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: year and man didn't make a difference. I probably should 368 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 1: have replaced them all, but I didn't. But maybe this year. 369 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 1: And also tears, I don't know how they happen, whether 370 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:52,320 Speaker 1: they just get worn like everything else, or whether somebody 371 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: did something to it and there's a little terror. It's 372 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 1: usually not much. I've had them maybe an inch long, 373 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 1: and you've heard me talk about a product called ter Mender, 374 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 1: which it just it works amazing in my book. And 375 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 1: what I have done in the past is you can push, 376 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: you can literally from the top is the way I've done. 377 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 1: I've pulled the February almost with a little duct tape 378 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 1: where you can pull that cut together and then get 379 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 1: a little cloth on the inside, put a little tear 380 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 1: mender on it, put it on the inside, and just 381 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,680 Speaker 1: let it dry. And I'm telling you you come back, 382 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:45,199 Speaker 1: you know, in a couple hours, maybe the end of 383 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 1: the day, pull that tape off, and you have mended 384 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:55,600 Speaker 1: that tear if you're want to take a look at it. 385 00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 1: They have a website it's tear mender dot com. But 386 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 1: a good way to take care of some of the 387 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,399 Speaker 1: problems you might have before storage. I'm not a huge 388 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: fan of storing them outside with plastic cover on them. 389 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,439 Speaker 1: I'm just a little concerned of moisture in there and 390 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,159 Speaker 1: getting some mildew in there. Depending on your climate. I 391 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 1: think usually stormmined in a basement area, but I've seen 392 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: people storm in sheds too. But you want to you know, 393 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 1: it's protected. Some of those those beautiful pieces of furniture 394 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:40,880 Speaker 1: are you know, they're expensive and taking care of them, 395 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: and it's always fine to replace them. Don't get me wrong. 396 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,440 Speaker 1: If you're in a position to do that, that's wonderful. 397 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:53,640 Speaker 1: But you can salvage a lot of those type of cushions. 398 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,359 Speaker 1: Just ask how I said, and I encourage you to 399 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 1: take a look at it, examine it. At lot of 400 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 1: things as we prepare our house for winter, and that's 401 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 1: one of them. The other one that I've talked about 402 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:15,679 Speaker 1: many times is windows and screening. The screening in the 403 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 1: windows become dirty, and a lot of the fiberglass screening 404 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:26,880 Speaker 1: that we have in windows, the lifespan on that, if 405 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 1: subject to the weather is seriously it's about twelve thirteen years, 406 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:37,920 Speaker 1: and it'll kind of become threadbare. That black fiberglass screening 407 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 1: will kind of become whitish. And in the winter time 408 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: is a great time to replace those screens. But I 409 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 1: think next week we go ahead and I think we 410 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: move most of us, I should say, will move our 411 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 1: clock back one hour, and so it's gonna be darker 412 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: at night, it's going to be lighter in the morning. 413 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 1: But in a lot of parts of the country, winter's 414 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 1: kind of dark and gloomy, and you know what I mean, 415 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 1: Maybe that sunsets a little earther than you used to 416 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: right now, and if you're just the gloom and stuff, 417 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 1: the grayness of winter and a lot of parts of 418 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 1: the country, I've recommended for years taken the screening out 419 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 1: of your windows. If you live in a climate where 420 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:32,480 Speaker 1: it's cold, it's not going to be opening window time, 421 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: not worrying about that nice spring breeze. Taking those screens 422 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 1: out will add from a lot of the different articles 423 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: I've read, and I agree this to be true, probably 424 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 1: between twenty to thirty percent more light is to be 425 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 1: gained in your home in the winter time if the 426 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 1: screens are removed. In reality, you don't need the screens 427 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 1: in the winter anyway, unless you're in some beautiful parts 428 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 1: of the country for winter, So consider doing that. While 429 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,320 Speaker 1: you're doing that. And so again, if you're pulling the 430 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 1: full panel screens out, that's fine. If you've got different 431 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 1: sized windows, you might want to number them. I usually 432 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 1: start in the kitchen at what I would call number 433 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,000 Speaker 1: one window and go clockwise around the house. You can 434 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 1: number them any way. You want. A little sharpie up 435 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: on a corner screen frame, just put that number and 436 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 1: you'll know where it goes in the springtime. In the wintertime, 437 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 1: when things are kind of quiet and looking for something 438 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 1: to do, a good project is go ahead and replace 439 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,240 Speaker 1: that screen if it's starting to get a little threadbare. 440 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 1: And then of course cleaning the window. Lubricating the mechanisms 441 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: in the window can be done easily, but not with 442 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,480 Speaker 1: a real refined oil. That's really not the direct you'd 443 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: want to go. I'd strongly recommend a silicone or a teflon. 444 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,720 Speaker 1: Be careful with some of the teflons that you get sprays. 445 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 1: Make sure they're clear. There are some red teflons and 446 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 1: they will stain, so you don't want to go there. 447 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 1: But you want a teflon spray that is clear. And 448 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:25,520 Speaker 1: then move the mechanism up, you know, distribute the lubricant around, 449 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 1: move that mechanism up and down, and then go ahead 450 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,720 Speaker 1: and close them and lock them. Because a lot of 451 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 1: times after you have that first really cold blast and 452 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: you start feeling drafts in your home, I'd say the 453 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 1: number one and two reason is your windows are closed, 454 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 1: but they're not locked. And another place, if you haven't 455 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 1: done this, even if you have insulation in your walls, 456 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 1: next time it gets cold and windy out go ahead 457 00:31:55,840 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: and replace or take take the receptacle plate off on 458 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 1: an exterior wall and see how much cold air or 459 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 1: breeze you have coming through that outlet. Buy that electrical 460 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,480 Speaker 1: box and buy that receptacle. I think you're going to 461 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 1: be stunned. There will be cold air, there will be 462 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 1: a draft. And go ahead, and you can the hardware store. 463 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:25,200 Speaker 1: You can get little weather stripping pads that you take 464 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,240 Speaker 1: the plate off. You just put it right over the receptacle. 465 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:32,160 Speaker 1: Put the plate back on. In Bengal, it's tightened up. 466 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:37,760 Speaker 1: And your windows are in good shape. They're lubricated. And 467 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:41,400 Speaker 1: then one other thing is if you haven't got new windows, 468 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 1: maybe your windows are twenty five years old, thirty years old, 469 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:50,120 Speaker 1: kind of falling apart. I'll tell you I got replacement 470 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,520 Speaker 1: windows and I was just going through some of the files. 471 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,960 Speaker 1: They're fifteen years old or ten years old. I'm sorry, 472 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: ten years old, and I could I couldn't believe it. It 473 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:03,600 Speaker 1: seemed like a him yesterday. And they are just they're 474 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:07,520 Speaker 1: very great windows. We've been so satisfied with them. They're 475 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: very energy efficient. But if you got old windows that 476 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:14,080 Speaker 1: are kind of well, not so energy efficient. I there's 477 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,560 Speaker 1: things you can do there, and you've seen them. You've 478 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:21,840 Speaker 1: seen these storm window kits with just plastic, very thin plastic, 479 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,200 Speaker 1: and you're wondering, how in the world can that do 480 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,480 Speaker 1: any good at all? Well, it can. It can do 481 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 1: some good. It may not be as good as a 482 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 1: replacement window, but you would put a tape up around 483 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,720 Speaker 1: the surrounding area of the window. It's a two sided tape. 484 00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,760 Speaker 1: You'd put the plastic on top of that and then 485 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 1: get the hair dryer out. You've seen them, you've probably 486 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,760 Speaker 1: seen ads on TV form. Very easy to install and 487 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,680 Speaker 1: you can hit that with the hair dryer. That heat 488 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:52,760 Speaker 1: will shrink the plastic. It'll be very taut. It'll block 489 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:56,800 Speaker 1: out any kind of draft. And if the windows happen 490 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,560 Speaker 1: to be super super drafty. I got a little tip 491 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,920 Speaker 1: for you before before you put that plastic up there, 492 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 1: you can get a product in a calking tube called 493 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 1: Stop Draft and Stop Draft is a clear calocking. You 494 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:14,480 Speaker 1: can literally calk the windows close, and by calking the 495 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 1: window closed and then putting the plastic, you'll really minimize draft. 496 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,520 Speaker 1: You'll really add comfort to your home, you'll really save energy. 497 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:27,320 Speaker 1: Spring comes along. Take the plastic out and that calking 498 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,839 Speaker 1: is super easy to remove you with a fingernail, Get 499 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,960 Speaker 1: your screens back in and you're in business all right. 500 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,759 Speaker 1: Our phone number is eight hundred eight two three eight 501 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:40,319 Speaker 1: two five five will continue your calls. Next. 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Today all right, 539 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,879 Speaker 1: about ten minutes before the top of the are you're 540 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,920 Speaker 1: at home with Gary Salivan talking a little home improvement. 541 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,319 Speaker 1: Our phone number if you'd like to join in, please do. 542 00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:33,800 Speaker 1: It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five 543 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,840 Speaker 1: lines are open. So if you struggle getting through yesterday today, 544 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:39,920 Speaker 1: it'd be a great day, all right, I want to 545 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:41,920 Speaker 1: just go through. I know a lot of our sponsors 546 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,120 Speaker 1: of this show, and we're very, very thankful for them. 547 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:48,880 Speaker 1: But during springtime in fall time, it seems like several 548 00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:52,440 Speaker 1: of them run different specials, and there's several going on 549 00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:54,480 Speaker 1: right now, and I just kind of want to recap them. 550 00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,560 Speaker 1: Number One, the Easy Breathe. In fact, an air quality 551 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:02,200 Speaker 1: expert will be joining us next weekend, and the air 552 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,680 Speaker 1: quality is all about getting the indoor pollutants out of 553 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:11,040 Speaker 1: your home, which is what an easy breath does. And 554 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,920 Speaker 1: easy Breathe right now you get twenty percent off an 555 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:18,279 Speaker 1: Easy Breathe ventilation system the entire month of October, so 556 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:22,399 Speaker 1: you're running out of time with that twenty percent off. 557 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:26,279 Speaker 1: They also give you two free humidity guides which tells 558 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,600 Speaker 1: you what the humidity is wherever you want to know. 559 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:31,600 Speaker 1: I usually put one on the first floor, put one 560 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:37,160 Speaker 1: in the basement. And again humidity right now, you know 561 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:41,279 Speaker 1: fifty percent, I say most of the year, but in 562 00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:47,160 Speaker 1: the wintertime thirty five percent. And your humidity really inside 563 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,600 Speaker 1: your home should not be above thirty five percent when 564 00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:53,080 Speaker 1: it's freezing outside. So right now they do have the 565 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:57,080 Speaker 1: Easy Breathe Ventilation sale twenty percent off the month of October. 566 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,239 Speaker 1: We talk a lot about odors that get trapped in 567 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:04,080 Speaker 1: our home. The Odor Exit folks have fifteen percent off 568 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:08,400 Speaker 1: on their best sellers, which is the Eliminator and also 569 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:13,640 Speaker 1: the Magic. These are not perfumes. They eliminate the odors, 570 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:21,600 Speaker 1: cat oders in yeah, catoders, dog odors. If you have 571 00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:25,400 Speaker 1: an animal it has accidents in the house, it's the Eliminator. 572 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,400 Speaker 1: If you just want to get rid of cooking smells, 573 00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,920 Speaker 1: it's the Magic. Right now, that's fifteen percent off and 574 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,040 Speaker 1: it's odor Exit and that sales going on right now. 575 00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,600 Speaker 1: Not sure when that ends, but I just kind of 576 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,280 Speaker 1: wanted to bring that up to you one more because 577 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:43,160 Speaker 1: as I peer out the window in my hometown, I 578 00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:48,280 Speaker 1: see leaves beginning to flutter off the trees. It seemed 579 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,240 Speaker 1: like a day or two ago we started really seeing 580 00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:52,000 Speaker 1: a lot of color, and today we're seeing a little 581 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,560 Speaker 1: bit of leaf drop and clog. Gutters are bad. Right now, 582 00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,920 Speaker 1: you can save twenty five percent off and get free 583 00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,800 Speaker 1: shipping on the gutter brush. There is a coupon code, 584 00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:06,920 Speaker 1: it's Gary twenty five and you can get all that information. 585 00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,719 Speaker 1: You see some videos, you can order them there. It 586 00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:15,440 Speaker 1: is a gutterbrush dot com. If you don't climb ladders anymore, 587 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:21,160 Speaker 1: window cleaner, landscaper, there's all kinds of handyman. They just 588 00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:25,000 Speaker 1: simply slide the gutter brushes right into the gutter and 589 00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:28,640 Speaker 1: keeps all the debris from clogging it up. Also, I 590 00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,120 Speaker 1: think last week I mentioned you know, you've got to 591 00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:35,480 Speaker 1: make me a promise if you don't use any gutter 592 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:39,680 Speaker 1: protection devices, whether it's the helmet, whether it's a filter, 593 00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,360 Speaker 1: whether it's the gutter brush, that's up to you. But 594 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,960 Speaker 1: if you just got open gutters, the pledge is this 595 00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:52,439 Speaker 1: by the first in November or December, I should say 596 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,719 Speaker 1: you've gotten yourself or somebody up on a ladder and 597 00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:02,920 Speaker 1: you clean those gutters. The amount of damage that clogged 598 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:07,200 Speaker 1: gutters causes in a home, from rotted soffitts and facia 599 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:12,080 Speaker 1: to leaky basements, to erosion and problems down the road 600 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:17,919 Speaker 1: is substantial. And you know, if you have a little 601 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,760 Speaker 1: rotted with around the facing, you may be thinking, who cares. 602 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:24,120 Speaker 1: I mean, I'll paint it next round painted house. It's 603 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:29,040 Speaker 1: you know, when you get rotted wood and wood that's 604 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:32,520 Speaker 1: kind of spongy around the gutter areas, around the roof areas, 605 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:37,560 Speaker 1: I'm telling you it is a entry point for critters, squirrels, 606 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:42,080 Speaker 1: particularly raccoon's next where they'll scrape and scrape and they'll 607 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:45,600 Speaker 1: burrow right through that wood and set up home in 608 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:50,200 Speaker 1: your attic. So I tell you that to help protect 609 00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:53,120 Speaker 1: your home. And again when you think about the gutters, 610 00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,360 Speaker 1: removing all that water that falls in the footprint of 611 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,839 Speaker 1: your house is directed down to the corners of your 612 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:04,960 Speaker 1: with gutters and down spouts and then whist away either 613 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:12,400 Speaker 1: through proper slope grating or taking that water underground and 614 00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,680 Speaker 1: exiting it, which, by the way, if you clean that 615 00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:19,560 Speaker 1: out the gutters. I mean, I'm just saying, if there's 616 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,880 Speaker 1: no protection at all and there were leaves accumulating, you 617 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:27,160 Speaker 1: clean that out. Make sure that that gutter still has 618 00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,560 Speaker 1: good slope going to the down spout where it is 619 00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:34,680 Speaker 1: literally moving all of that water that's being collected over 620 00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:38,160 Speaker 1: the footprint of your house away from your house. Again, 621 00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:42,680 Speaker 1: it just sits along the foundation. Eventually, we're going to 622 00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:47,360 Speaker 1: start having problems with water pressure, and a lot of 623 00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:51,600 Speaker 1: basements have cracks and walls, probably more on the outside 624 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,759 Speaker 1: than the inside, but that water will find a way 625 00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:58,400 Speaker 1: into your home. So the best way to solve that 626 00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:02,520 Speaker 1: problem is keeping it away from the foundation. So I 627 00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:06,160 Speaker 1: know I rant on gutters a lot, but it's very important. 628 00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:08,840 Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many times I've talked about 629 00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:14,879 Speaker 1: this too and got emails from people saying, oh gosh, 630 00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,120 Speaker 1: that one area in my basement at one corner, it leaked. 631 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:24,359 Speaker 1: It leaked for you know, for years, and I got 632 00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:28,600 Speaker 1: up there and it was all clogged. It's been backed 633 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:34,320 Speaker 1: up probably forever, and that was causing my leak. And 634 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,960 Speaker 1: I don't have to have my home waterproof. There are 635 00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:40,040 Speaker 1: stories like that That's why I bring up those stories. 636 00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,480 Speaker 1: All right, You can feel free to join us. Our 637 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:46,560 Speaker 1: phone number is eight hundred eighty two three, eight two 638 00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,800 Speaker 1: five five Bill, you'll be up first. You're at Home 639 00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:51,440 Speaker 1: with Carrie Sullivan. 640 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,440 Speaker 4: Solutions to your home improvement are as easy as calling 641 00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:40,560 Speaker 4: one eight hundred eighty two three talk. This is at 642 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:42,160 Speaker 4: Home with Gary Sollivan