A Urethane Pool Deck

Jim starts with a few email questions as we wait for some calls to roll in. He talks about a walk-in shower that's leaking, pool concrete that's sinking, and moisture coming out of the soil. Jim also talks front door frame, recaulking a master shower, and how long to wait for replacing sheet rock doors after leveling out a foundation. He continues in the second hour with more calls and email questions. Don’t forget the website thipro.com.

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 1 (01:23):
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So seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
That's seven one three, two, one two five eight seven
to four, and I'll see what I can do to
help you out here on Texas Home Improvement. So I'm
going to jump into an email question as soon as
I put my glasses back on. There we go. So

(03:13):
this came from Richard up in Crosby. Says Jim Love
your show. My elderly mother in law had a walk
in shower with a built in seat installed. But it
leaks through somewhere. We don't know where it is leaked
through at least a dozen times. We need someone to
trouble shoot the issue, and hope not to just tear

(03:36):
out the entire shower to find the problem to repair it.
Any suggestion banks in advance, Richard, Well, Richard, Normally, the
two places that you need to be looking is in
what you just sent me. One is in the seat itself,
especially if they had backfall where it can hold water

(03:57):
on the back side of it. Those seats are notorious
for leaking. But the other place is actually where the
drain pipe attaches to your floor in the shower, if
that's not tightened up enough, because there's typically a compression
rubber oh well, it's a compression fitting in there that

(04:21):
when you're tightening up the nut, the rubber seal compresses
and seals everything. And if that's not tight enough, it
can leak around there. It gets on the floor and
it leaks out under the walls and stuff. So I'm
not showing, I'm not knowing where your leaks are showing.
But those are the two areas that are notorious for
having leaks in these showers. And truthfully, the seat is

(04:44):
probably the number one spot because they don't seal everything
underneath it very well, it tends to be problematic. So
that's where I would start looking. Now as far as
somebody who can do it, I don't know how long
this is. This has been installed, but it sounded a
little bit like this. It was kind of a newer project.

(05:07):
You may want to reach out to whoever put it
in and let them come in and try to find it.
If not, then you know most people are going to
come out and try to look for it, are going
to try to tell you why you need a new one,
and that's really not what you need. You just need
to get this one fixed. So you'll probably have to
just hunt around through some of the people who do

(05:29):
that not leak detection work, but install those type of showers,
to get one who's willing to test it for the leaks.
As far as the shower drain, hey do West contests
for that. We would come in and put a test
ball down in there, seal it up, fill the shower pan,

(05:51):
and see if it holds water. And if it's not,
then we would start seeing where the water's coming out
and see what it would take to correct this problem
for you. All right e again her number seven one
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Speaker 8 (06:12):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
This comes from Rose and she says, I listen to
your show often and enjoy it. I know you have
specific recommendations below, but I am not sure if those
are just residential recommendations. I have a thirty plus year
old commercial building about twenty foot tall. I'm in need

(06:32):
of a new roof, siding for the building, repaired and
insulation all for the commercial building. Okay, and then she
goes into residential for her home. But let's stop at that.
When I recommend the different companies, you know, like Oh,

(06:55):
Victors Remodeling in construction for the siding, they do commercial,
Guardian roof systems they do commercial. So virtually everybody I
recommend will do both residential and commercial, so you can
definitely give them a call. Then it says for my residents,
I have two new doors and frames that were installed

(07:21):
but leak when it rains, so I believe they were
installed incorrectly. I also have a vintage letterholder I want
installed in my front door. Could you please send your recommendations.
Give Southern front Doors a call. Now, if these two
new doors you had installed, If that's a French door,

(07:42):
those things are notorious for leaking, does not mean it
necessarily was installed improperly. But if it's two separate single doors, yeah,
they were probably not installed and sealed up the best,
or there's too much roof water coming off that splashed
up on them, something along that line. But again, give

(08:03):
the folks over at Southern front doors a call, and
they should be able to help you with all of
these items as far as your doors on your residential home. Again,
if you got a question seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. That's seven one three two
one two five eight seven four, and I'll see what

(08:26):
I can do to help you out here on Texas
Home Improvement. So Daniel is asking what is a cost
per square foot for metal roof? How long will it last? Okay,
I got no idea what the cost is per square
foot because there's a lot of different types of metal
roofs and stuff, and honestly, it's not something my price

(08:47):
out enough to keep up with what it would cost.
And the per square foot depends on what they got
to do. If if it's just a you know, straight roof,
that's one cost. If you've got a lot of gables
and valleys and all this stuff they got to deal with,
that's going to raise the cost. Now as far as
how long will it last, now that's a different story.

(09:09):
A lot of times a metal roof will outlast a
shingle roof substantially, not unusual for it to be two
to one. The other thing on a metal roof versus
a standard shingle roof is a lot of times you
get an insurance discount as well because it won't catch

(09:30):
fire and things like that. One cautionary note I will
give you on it, though, is say you get a
hailstorm or something, it beats the heck out of it.
It doesn't leak, it just looks bad. The insurance does
not cover changing it out for that. Insurance is for
if the roof develops a leak, So keep that in

(09:54):
mind when you're looking at it. But I love metal roofs.
They do work extremely well. So again, if you got
a question seven one three, two one two five eight
seven four, we're gonna head to Clear Lake and George.
Just a Jim, how can I help you?

Speaker 9 (10:12):
Hey, Jim, George, thank you for taking my call. Here.

Speaker 10 (10:17):
I have a major construction. I got a forty eight
year old house. Man, I'm gonna have to just redo
this thing from top to bottom. I'm probably looking at
an extra hundred. So right now I'm looking at my pool.

Speaker 9 (10:29):
The concrete. It has been sinking, as you know.

Speaker 10 (10:32):
In Texas and Southeast, especially at clay and mud. It
just if it's wet or if it's damp, it just
sinks a lot. So right now the sidewalk near my pool,
it's it's kind of.

Speaker 9 (10:43):
Like sinking at an angle.

Speaker 10 (10:45):
So I was thinking about just instead of removing all
the concrete, poorn new concrete at I've already had that quote.
It's about thirty grand or more. And I thought about
these pool concrete elevation guys.

Speaker 9 (10:57):
They could elevate the concrete level it.

Speaker 10 (11:00):
Yeah, and then they can come back and pour a smooth,
nice coat on it.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Okay, is it the exposed pebbles right now?

Speaker 10 (11:09):
Uh so, right now it's just concrete around the pool.

Speaker 9 (11:13):
It's like a regular sidewalk.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Oh gotcha, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you can use
like the eure A thane to pump it back up
and then have it retopped done all the time. Works great. Heck,
I've got equipment that we do. We do that as well.

Speaker 9 (11:31):
Oh do you okay?

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (11:33):
So what number do I need to call? I'll get
you guys in the mix.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Okay, give due west to call. It's seven to one
three four seven three seven one five six okay.

Speaker 9 (11:45):
And what department am I asking for?

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Well? When you call, uh, they'll they'll ask you a
couple of questions what you want to do, and they'll
get you hooked up, but you're gonna just tell them
that you need to eu a thane your pool deck.

Speaker 9 (12:00):
Okay, you're a thing. Cool deck. Okay.

Speaker 10 (12:03):
The other thing I have is as we because I'm
moving my pool equipment around and as I did, we
dug about two and a half feet.

Speaker 9 (12:12):
I'm finding that the.

Speaker 10 (12:15):
Earth is feeding water into and we pump it out
and then every fifteen minutes a couple of water comes in.

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We're back to Texas Home Improvement.

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Home improvement advice, tips and information for you and your mama.
Here's Jim Dotty Way.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. That's seven one three
two one two five eight seven four. And I'll see
what I can do to help you out. When we left,
I was talking with George in clear Lake, and George,
you start talking about moisture coming out of the soil.

Speaker 10 (16:09):
Yeah, So what's happened is I got about a cup
of water coming out every fifteen minutes, and I'm draining
the water out of the soil.

Speaker 9 (16:17):
We've dug down about two and a half feet.

Speaker 10 (16:20):
I've cut off all the plumbing for I mean, I
literally cut the pipes from the plumbing for the pool
because we're moving our pool equipment.

Speaker 9 (16:28):
So there's no water coming out of there. Because I've
got the water level in the pool down below the jets.

Speaker 10 (16:33):
I've already had two people tell me, possibly you can
have a leak coming from your light, and they do
notice that there is a water line at the light level,
so they don't seal that light correctly.

Speaker 9 (16:44):
You're gonna that water.

Speaker 10 (16:45):
It's just gonna just because you see the water where
you see it, it doesn't mean that's.

Speaker 9 (16:50):
Where it's coming from. Right.

Speaker 10 (16:52):
So I have a buddy, he works, he's a supplier
for plumbers, and he told me, he said, hey, I'll
tell you what, man, I got leak detection equipment.

Speaker 9 (17:04):
I own it. Let me just come out and see.

Speaker 10 (17:06):
He says, I get about eighty percent ninety percent correct.
Sometimes I can't find anything, but but we can start
with that. I know, you know those leak detection test people.
They come out and it's four hundred and four fifty
a pop, right, just to try.

Speaker 9 (17:22):
To find a leak.

Speaker 10 (17:23):
So I was going to think about starting there, but
and I've already eliminated the house, but I'm wondering if
there could be any plumbing plumbing leak coming from my neighbor.

Speaker 9 (17:35):
But if that was the case, he would have said
something and said.

Speaker 10 (17:38):
Man, I got water in my house or whatever. Once
you think if it's not slow leak.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Not necessarily, I mean, the water can get in the
ground and travel. It can be even a sewer line system.
And he not realized it. How old? How old the
houses are these forty eight years old? Okay, so it
should be pvs E. Uh. So you chances are you're
not having the leak there. What about sprinkler systems?

Speaker 10 (18:08):
I do not have swimmer system and neighbor.

Speaker 9 (18:12):
Uh but in the front okay, in.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
The back okay. Now. Another place that can leak in
a swimming pool is if you can it can even
just be a hairline crack in the pool itself and
that can allow water to travel through.

Speaker 9 (18:32):
Hm hm hmmm. Will the leak detection equipment pick up
that leak? No, so I might have If he can't.

Speaker 10 (18:43):
Pick it up, then that's going to be my next
step because I already have had. I do need replastering
of my pool because it's already starting to chip everywhere.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Ah yeah, that very well could be the issue.

Speaker 10 (18:55):
Then, Yeah, and if it if the if the plaster
is chip and so there's gonna be about an eighth
or sixteenth of a gap in there. If it gets
inside of that, could that possibly be.

Speaker 9 (19:10):
Well or does it have to be a hairline leak
in the pool itself?

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Now that there would be a leak a crack in
the lining of the pool itself.

Speaker 9 (19:18):
I got you, I got now.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
The way they typically go about finding those is they
really just take food coloring. They get into the pool
and they move very slowly, not to disturb everything. But
like even around where your light is, you let out
some food coloring and you can see if it's being
sucked into where the light is. If you see a

(19:41):
crack in your mortar or in your plaster rather, you
can go near that crack, give out a drop or
two of the die and you can see if it's
being sucked into the crack. And anytime you see that
dye being sucked in, you got a leak.

Speaker 9 (19:59):
Got gotcha. That would be another way to do that.

Speaker 10 (20:02):
Okay, I figured all hands on deck will try everything possible. Uh,
I'm gonna find this thing because I told my son
he's electrician. He's helping me with a project, and I said,
you know what, let's just stop until we can figure
out where this water is coming from. Because for twenty
years I've always had moisture on this side of the
house and I never I've never I just figured it

(20:23):
was water tables.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Well, how often are you having to fill the pool?

Speaker 9 (20:28):
It's just not much right now?

Speaker 10 (20:31):
Of course I have it, you know, always it's halfway drained, but.

Speaker 9 (20:36):
But I do have to fill it like every month.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Maybe you don't have a leak in that pool, then hmm.
If you had a leak in the pool, you're typically
going to be filling it every week and sometimes more
than once.

Speaker 10 (20:50):
Oh, even with a even with a small leak as
a oh yeah, let's just say a gallon an hour
or two hours.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yep, uh, you know it just it adds up rapidly,
and a small leak like that wouldn't be leaving it
where you get in that kind of water in the soil.
So I guess, is there's a leak in something else around?

Speaker 9 (21:15):
Well, I've already had a plumber come out. He told me.

Speaker 10 (21:17):
He says, you don't have a leak in your house.
He said, if you did, we went and looked at
the meter and he said, if you did, this meter
would be turning. And he said, the only feed into
your house is this one line coming from your meter
to feed your house, and that's it. There's no other
I said, well, what about underneath? He said it the

(21:38):
water feeds through one pipe.

Speaker 9 (21:41):
Yeah, and it feeds your whole house.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yep.

Speaker 9 (21:43):
And he couldn't find it. We didn't see the meter moving.

Speaker 10 (21:46):
So we've eliminated the house or any underground leaks or anything.

Speaker 9 (21:51):
In the concrete or whatever. So thank you for the help.
I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
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Speaker 1 (23:30):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvements. Your total home
improvement sour seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. That's seven one three, two one two five
eight seven four Again. Any home improvement question you have,
pick up the phone, give me a call and we'll
see what we can do to help you out here
on Texas Home Improvement. Let's see here this comes from.

(24:00):
And he says, I would like someone to look at
front door frame, top of door on handleside doesn't close completely.
And I would like someone to regrout and calck my
master shower. Some contractor to give me an estimate is fine.
Thank you guys for your show and your help look

(24:22):
the items that you're talking about. I hate to say this,
but you're going to have a hard time getting contractors
come out to do this because it's just such a
small project. The time that goes into the travel has
to be covered as well, and so it just runs
the cost of the project up. Most people don't want

(24:44):
to pay for it, so most contractors don't want to
come out and look at it. This is stuff that
you would typically have a handyman come out and take
a look at. And I don't have a handyman to
refer you to, but that would be the direction I
would tell you to go. And the problem with handyman

(25:05):
is they are typically very isolated to just their area,
and so it'll be someone local that you'll be looking
for who can take a look at it for you.
All right again seven to one three two one two
five eight seven four. That's seven one three, two one

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two five eight seven four, And I'll see what I
can do to help you out, all right. This is
an email that came in regarding solar panels. As comes
from Dave, and he says, my wife and I really
want to go solar to help decrease eliminate the electric
bill from traditional providers. The problems we are encountering are multifold,

(25:52):
including dealing with solar companies that are relatively newly formed
i e. Ten years or less, and getting conflicting information
i e. Buying or renting solar panels. Our roof is
about nine to ten years old and in good shape
as best as we can tell. The big issue is cost.

(26:15):
We have been quoted prices ranging from thirty to fifty thousand.
They seem to have all the answers we want to hear,
but many that cause more questions than answers i e.
Roof warranties on leakage, battery storage versus no battery storage,
permission from the electric company to operate the panels, et cetera.

(26:36):
I've even heard that some electric companies may start charging
customers to store their electricity that has been forwarded to
the grid. Long story short, we are so confused. We
have a starting point. We have talked to three different
solar cell companies, hence the confusion. Your assistance would be

(26:57):
greatly appreciated. What would we concentrate on when it comes
to solar. Is there a company you would recommend? If
there is none, what questions do we concentrate on and
which one should we put as much emphasis on? Okay, look,
solar is a wild wild west right now. The reason

(27:24):
you're probably getting so many different answers as far as
selling it back to the companies and different things like that,
it depends on who controls the lines. In some areas
you're in a co op. In other areas you're dealing
with different providers, and so there is no one set

(27:45):
answer to that. Now, all that being said, here's the
things you got to realize about solar. One, it's not
a forever thing. When you buy solar panels, they typically
have an expected life of twenty five to thirty years
at a cost of thirty to fifty thousand. How much

(28:08):
power do you have to save every month to cover
the cost of having those panels put on? And that's
where the problem comes in. It typically doesn't pay for itself. Now,
what makes it pay for itself is when there's rebates,
tax credits, things like that that bring the cost down.

(28:30):
But if you have to go out and buy solar
panels at full price have them installed in everything, now
the numbers don't really work out. Typically you'd be paying
for twenty twenty five plus years and by the time
you finish paying for him, the panels need replacing. Again.

(28:52):
That's just a hard facts about it. As far as
putting it on your roof, the thing to keep in
mind is when you have to replace the roof, because
it's not if it is. When you have to replace
the roof, the solar panels have to come off in
order to get to the shingles to replace it. So

(29:12):
you do have the option of putting solar panels on
the ground and using frames that were made to have
it down on the ground versus up on the roof.
But now you're losing yard. So darned if you do.
Darned if you don't. One way or the other, it's

(29:32):
going to be a problem. And yes, I have heard
some power companies are looking at starting to charge for
selling the power back to the power company. Now, there
are some new systems out that have the built in
batteries where basically you are charging the batteries up and

(29:53):
using those as the power source. There's also one system
I saw it on the news last week where the
system is a battery system. It charges from the regular
power company and it acts as a battery backup. So
if the power goes out, you have enough power in

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those batteries to basically run your home for X number
of hours or days. I think the max that they
can go is about four days. But that really works
well if it's just a temporary outage. When we have
a hurricane come in or something like that that knocks

(30:36):
the power out for two three weeks, that system's obviously
not going to keep up. But you would be able
to put a generator out there that you can fire
up to recharge the batteries and then shut the generator
down and be good to go for an extended period
of time. Again, so you got a lot of options,
but honestly, most of them don't make a whole lot

(30:58):
of financial sense. Seven one three, two one two five
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Speaker 1 (34:35):
Hey, welcome back. Seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. That's seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. Tim sends in an email question.
He says, my wife has fallen in love with the
home she wants to buy when I walked through, I
saw dry wall cracks in the ceiling throughout the house,

(34:58):
as well as some cracks in the entire exterior brick.
Before we do anything, I want to have it inspected.
Is the inspection best handled by a foundation company or
a structural engineer or both? Thanks love your show. Look
I'm gonna tell you both, and here's why. Most foundation

(35:20):
repair guys are not very well trained to look at
the foundation problem. What they're trained to do is sell you, peers,
close you, and then somebody who knows what they're looking
at will come out and make sure they can fix
with what he sold you. Now, the structural engineers, I

(35:42):
be honest with you, there's a lot of them who
don't know what the heck they're looking at. Either they
were trained by a book, but they don't have practical
field experience. So you kind of darned if you do,
darned if you don't. Here's the rule of thumb, though,
Look at the home with one of these guys, and
you can then start making some common sense of it.

(36:03):
As an area goes down, you can see the damage
that it's causing in that area, and you can tell
what's going down because like du West. When we go
out and take a look at a foundation, we draw
the house up, interior walls, exterior walls, trees and things
like that. We take elevation readings to be able to
tell what's high what's low. Well, you can look at

(36:25):
those readings, see where the trees are and see how
things are moving. That makes common sense, and yes, we
do make sure we train our guys to be able
to do all that. But beyond that, there are no
regulations in Texas of who can look at your foundation
that way. There are no licensing in Texas of contractors.

(36:47):
It is totally a buyer beware. Now, there are some certifications,
like from the National Foundation Repair Association, you can become
a certified Foundation Repair Specialist and things like that, but uh,
that's really it. That's all that's out there to help
you with with these type of situations. So, uh, when

(37:11):
you hire an engineer, he's at least typically going to
give you his opinion on what's going on, especially after
he's taken elevation readings and stuff. And they do have
set standards that they have to go by, where the
foundation repair contractors do not. So I don't know that

(37:35):
that's going to help you with it or not, but
hopefully it does. Again. If you got a question seven
one three two one two five eight seven four, that's
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Speaker 13 (37:51):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
This comes from Larry and he says, have a thirty
one hundred square foot corrugated metal building that's my hobby
shop and projects storage. Think it was built in the seventies.
About one hundred foot of the seal plate has rotted
in different areas. Longest section is probably fifteen feet. Is
this something an old guy with an able bodied helper

(38:15):
could do with the right YouTube videos, which I don't
think exist. I doubt it, but I'm an optimist, but realist,
but not super rich. I submitted ann inquiry on Angie's list,
but some remodelers have called no, can do building is well,

(38:37):
doesn't matter where it's at. Appreciate your help, well, Larry, look, yes,
it is something you could actually do yourself. Typically, what
you'd have to do is support the wall lifted up
just a little bit, and you can do that by
putting a like a four x six across the ceiling.
Going across the ceiling joist, you set jacks that come

(38:59):
some poles come down off that beam down to some
jacks that you can lift up so that you can
get the old seal plate out, put the new seal
plate in, and set everything back down. What you're gonna
find is there are typically bolts sticking up out of
the foundation that you're going to have to either notch
to get to slide the new plate in around that bolt,

(39:22):
or pick everything up high enough to go over the top,
which is sometimes not feasible. So yes, you definitely can
do it yourself. It really wouldn't be that big a
deal to do it. You know. If you need some
some additional support on that, reach out and we'll see
what we can do to get you helped out again.

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Seven one three, two one two five eight seven four.
Let's see John. This is Jim. How can I help you?

Speaker 14 (39:55):
Hey, Jim, I appreciate your show very much.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
Well, thank you, sir.

Speaker 14 (40:00):
Wanted to ask you after a foundation just planning a
little bit ahead, peers are put in or what have
you to level out a foundation, how long after that
is done before someone can start repairing sheet rock doors
whatever where it's probably does it settle for a week

(40:23):
or two or right Away's okay?

Speaker 6 (40:25):
Or what's your thoughts.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
On I normally depending a little bit of it depends
on how much it had to be lifted. But in
most cases I will tell people to wait anywhere from
thirty to ninety days. So if it was only lifted
an inch or two, I'm gonna tell you thirty days
is typically enough. But you go, say from two inches
to four or five inches, you're getting into that sixty

(40:51):
to ninety days because the framework is going to be
shifting around trying to go back into place.

Speaker 14 (40:57):
I gotcha? Does it typically that old down me and
with those back lower than it was before, neither one.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
It's usually not the floor that's moving as much as
just a framework shifting back into position.

Speaker 14 (41:11):
Oh okay, okay, gotcha?

Speaker 1 (41:13):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (41:14):
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Speaker 1 (41:16):
To put you on hold of that music meant I
was supposed to take a break, and I will come
right back to you on that. Let's talk about lental
lift real quick. If you are looking at an opening,
for instance, of your overhead garage door, and it's sagging
in the middle there, and it looks like it's smiling
at you, it's not smiling. It's got those age cracks

(41:37):
coming off the corners of the overhead door in the
brick veneer that's telling you it's time I need a facelift.
And the facelift is Lental Lift comes in, puts a
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it is something you want to get taken care of
because it will cause additional problems down the road.

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Speaker 14 (44:49):
Okay, thank you, Jim. I'm sorry I didn't mean to
get winded there on your phone. Yeah, I was, So
you've helped me think it through there. It's not some
what's the slab foundation may move around a bunch, it's
just the all the framing and the roof and whatever, and.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Exactly because as things settled, nails pulled and boards separated.
Now they're all under tension trying to go back together again.

Speaker 14 (45:19):
Gotcha, gotcha. And that would probably be the same for
the siding on the outside. There's like party siding that
needs to be repaired or whatever. That would be good
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all right, well you did a great job.

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I will say, when you've had foundation work done, if
you want to do floors right away, you typically can
because the floor, like I said, isn't what's moving. It's
the framework on top. And if for some reason, like
say you're selling or something and you want to do
the repairs earlier, go ahead. Just make sure you keep
some of the paint and stuff for touch up should

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something occur, and that that's really all you gotta do. Hey,
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rather how CAN i help.

Speaker 9 (50:02):
You, Hi.

Speaker 18 (50:04):
Jim i've got a twenty six year old house that's all,
brick was built on a ball bottom pier, foundation And
i've got underneath one of my windows a vertical crack
in the brick that doesn't start at the bottom and
doesn't go all the way to the, window but it's
kind of on four layers of, bricks five layers of
bricks in, between that goes straight through the, martar straight

(50:27):
through the, bricks and then stops before it gets to the.
Window i've got no evidence of anything inside the, house
no cracks on the sheet, rock no sticking, doors.

Speaker 9 (50:37):
Nothing i'm wondering what this could.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
Be expansion and contraction of building.

Speaker 9 (50:43):
Materials so probably nothing to worry.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
About doesn't sound like.

Speaker 18 (50:48):
It, OKAY i wasn't.

Speaker 9 (50:50):
Sure, Okay well that's good. News thank you very.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
Much you bet you take care of have a good.

Speaker 18 (50:57):
One bye bye.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
Bye god is good news and he's gonna. Run but,
look if you got just one crack and there's no other. Signs,
yeah you chances are don't have a foundation. Problem excuse, me,
uh you, know chances are it's just expansion. Contraction and

(51:19):
typically when it's a brick home on the brick, ledge
they'll put a felt paper to allow things to slide
a little bit as it expands and. Contracts when we
don't have that down or a little foam layer and,
stuff things will tend to crack funny, sometimes but one
crack that, WAY i wouldn't lose any sleep over it

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again our number seven one, three, two one two five
eight seven, four let's head To. Kingwood, Bobby welcome To
Texas Home. Improvement thank, you.

Speaker 16 (51:52):
Buddy just, quick just a quick. QUESTION i got a
room on the back of my, house my washroom that
can't cool or, heat And i'm wondering if there's a
way to redo the insulation or it must not be
any in there to tell you it's, truth but is
there a way to do it without pulling all the
sheet rock off the?

Speaker 1 (52:11):
Wall, YES Usa. INSULATION i just had my house done
about four months, ago and basically what they do is
they'll drill holes' if there's brick, siding they'll drill through
the mortar. Lines if it's like hearty siding or, something
they'll drill through it and then patch it. Back but

(52:34):
they stick a tube in there and inject a non
expansive foam that fills the cavity and uh seals all
the air gaps and all that stuff really.

Speaker 9 (52:46):
Works.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Great i'm GLAD i did my.

Speaker 16 (52:48):
House, okay all, right that's, it thank you very.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Much now does it have AN ace event going in? There? Yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 16 (52:58):
It's an oil house built in the. Seventies it's just
it's the fartherest room from the air, conditioner and but
it just stays hot or cold whichever the outside. Is,
sure SO i, know there's no insulation in the, walls
and there ain't no way for me to tail without
tearing the wall.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
Off, yeah well there is actually if if you'll take
like a light switch plate off or a plug, plate
you can have one of those little camera things that
you can stick in the wall there and, look you,
know just they tell them, me pardon a?

Speaker 6 (53:30):
Borescope, yeah, yep, yeah, Okay.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
And Then i'm going to tell you one other thing
that you may want to look at is having THE
ac system balanced because they can push more air into
that room that.

Speaker 16 (53:45):
Way, yeah, okay, okay that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
Too thank you very, much you, Bet. Bobby you take
care and again seven one, three, two one two five
eight seven four is the number to. Call and, YES
i love the retrofit THAT Usa insulation. DOES i Mean
i've been telling people about it FOR i don't know
ten years or. More AND i finally had my house.

(54:13):
Done and what a difference it made when we had
the cold front come. Through you know well WHERE i
sit and do the show from at my, house and
YES i do the show from my. House it was
always cold when we had cold. FRONTS i sat nice and.
Comfortably it made a huge. Difference my son had his

(54:33):
house done as, well and he he brags about it
even more THAN i. Do but definitely something to take
a look. At and it kills up to eighty percent
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sharon is is there a way to detect if there

(55:19):
is mold on a wall without tearing out? The walls?
There are actually they can do air samples With the
petrie dishes and then check them. For mold things like
that normally if it's on a sheet rock wall that, way,
though uh you're gonna see other signs on the inside.

(55:42):
As well but like that bor scope that we were just,
talking about you can pick one of those up at
home Depot at lowe's places. Like that THEY'RE not i
think they got them under one hundred. Dollars now, IN
fact I think i saw some for as little as.
Thirty nine that can up to your, your smartphone and

(56:04):
you're able to see what's in there by by just
taking off the cover plate from a, light switch sticking
it in and looking around inside that. Wall cavity so
that may be a great option for you to be
able to tell that way. As well and if you
if you don't have a light switch or plug in on, that,

(56:25):
wall look drill a quarter inch hole in the, sheet
rock stick the tube, in there take a, look around pull,
it out and you can USE some dap to fill, the,
hole paint touch it up, with paint and you've taken
care of the problem all right again seven one three

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You, today, yes sir got to questions about all. Home,
generators yeah LOOKING at i had some guys come give
quotes and they were Quoting.

Speaker 9 (57:05):
A coler And a Brigs.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
And, stratton okay what is?

Speaker 9 (57:11):
Your opinion what is your opinion about?

Speaker 1 (57:13):
Those two, You know Briggs and stratton has been a
staple on lawnmower engines and things. Like that they got
a great. Track RECORD but i will tell you for
heavier Duty use cohler is a name that is highly. Highly,
Respected uh AND so i would PROBABLY and i would

(57:36):
probably lean Towards. The coaler the other, THING is i
don't know which engines they had on, on Here but
coler engines typically run quieter Than the Briggs.

Speaker 15 (57:46):
And, stratton, yes yes well they we're going to talk
about basically about the. Same Money the briggs would be a.
Little cheaper but, YOU know i just wanted to get.
An opinion there was pointing me away from generak AND
so i was kind of locking, that uh that direction.

Speaker 9 (58:07):
Going away from, generak so.

Speaker 15 (58:10):
But just needed to hear.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
Your, opinion sure and they're they're both putting out the
same amount, Of, power, Yes, sir okay if if it,
was ME then i would probably lean towards the.

Speaker 15 (58:23):
COOLER one i had a question, On, that uh doing my.
Gas line it looked like you would have to go through. My,
attic okay give me the pros and cons, of that.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
None. AT all I mean. I zero you got gas
lines in your, attic anyways so it's not like there's
any big issues with running gas lines in. The attic
there's always the option to dig it and bury it in.
The ground but if if they if there's a gas
line up there that they can, TAP into i would
definitely do it.

Speaker 15 (58:55):
That, way well they were telling me that the gas
LINE that i have up there wouldn't be big enough
to handle the the.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
Actual, generator yeah the need would Not be you probably
need an inch and, a quarter, yes sir yes. At
least so why do they want to run it through
the attic then instead just digging.

Speaker 15 (59:19):
The, trench well it'd be all the way around, my,
house okay and it'd be patio and just. The cost
it wouldn't be cost effective because of the price being
so high to run.

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It so many feet got you was there.

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To add a lot.

Speaker 15 (59:36):
More work so, all, right well thank you.

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Very much you've been.

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Helpful already you, take care.

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for when replacing our roof to possibly prevent critters entering. The,
ATTIC now i don't think that's from replacing the roof
because the roof lay is flat down on the. Roof
deck they would have been entering more than likely through
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Hey welcome Back To Texas home improvement seven, one three
two one two five eight. Seven four let's see we're
gonna head To pair land And mag This. Is jim
HOW can i? Help you.

Speaker 6 (01:10:59):
Are? You cool meghan, To, halam.

Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
Yes, MA'AM okay.

Speaker 6 (01:11:04):
I have the garage stores are, not working and.

Speaker 19 (01:11:10):
The reason is because like the main, electric cord when
you plug the end to, the, wall uh it. Doesn't
work but then we took an extension cord and we
put that into the wall and plugged the, you know
original electric cord into it and it makes. It work

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so my question IS do i need an electrician or
a garage?

Speaker 5 (01:11:33):
Store, OPENER.

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
Well i didn't follow what your son did that that. Was, different.

Speaker 19 (01:11:43):
Okay we uh, you know you push the button on
the wall and the garage stoor, should, Open, right well.
They don't so there's a there's, a cord, you know
the electric cord that goes from the garage store opener to, the, wall,
Right okay and when we plug that into, the wall no. Power,

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comes okay, All right so what we did was. Just
experimenting we put that we plugged that, power plug, that
wire if, you will cord into an, extension cord and
put the extension cord in the wall and.

Speaker 6 (01:12:26):
It WORKED so i.

Speaker 19 (01:12:29):
Don't Know if i'm supposed to be dealing with a
garage door opener person or.

Speaker 1 (01:12:34):
An, electrician no when you say you put it into,
the wall are you putting it into the same plug
or into a? Different, plug no into the.

Speaker 19 (01:12:41):
Same plug and it works with the, extension cord but
it didn't work with the original garage door.

Speaker 6 (01:12:48):
OPENER wiring i.

Speaker 9 (01:12:50):
Got.

Speaker 1 (01:12:51):
You okay so so you're saying that the plug, is
working but the door opener itself. Is not, so yeah
you need a grudge that the.

Speaker 19 (01:13:03):
Exact opposite the door. Is working they the plug.

Speaker 5 (01:13:07):
Is not.

Speaker 1 (01:13:13):
If you're plugging them both Into this I'M not i
Guess what i'm not following is if you're plugging them
both into the, same outlet what are you changing on
on the on the garage door opener that you're not
plugging into the cord that comes out of. The opener
you're plugging it into to what?

Speaker 6 (01:13:33):
AN extension.

Speaker 1 (01:13:35):
I, get that but what are you plugging? The extent.

Speaker 19 (01:13:40):
So is it the plug in the wall that's, the
problem or is it the garage store opener that's.

Speaker 1 (01:13:45):
The, problem well if the plug in the wall is
working when you plug an extension, cord in then that's
not where the. Problem is it would be in the garage.

Speaker 9 (01:13:52):
Door, opener.

Speaker 6 (01:13:54):
Okay which is the wiring on the garage? Door, opener okay,
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:14:02):
So but an electrician is not the one who would deal.
With that that would be the garage.

Speaker 19 (01:14:08):
Door, company okay, all right thank you, Very much bye bye.

Speaker 1 (01:14:13):
Bye bye i'm still not sure what she was plugging
into that overhead garage door because you've got a pigtail
plugged that comes off plugged an extension cord. Into IT
so i don't know if she was bypassing the the
pigtail and wiring it directly into the opener or what

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because she was going to the same outlet the way she.
Kept talking, BUT uh i would call it the garage door.
Opening company, all Right uh Helen, in paarland welcome to SEVEN.
Forty krh HOW can i? Help you.

Speaker 8 (01:14:49):
Thank you i've got drainage plumbs on both sides of.
My house on, One side i've got a neighbor that
put down a bunch, of rocks so whenever, it rains are,
they overwalked then it spills over into. My yard and
then on the, other side they've built up like you
see the the little gravel. That's sealed they it's about
four inches higher than. My lawn so. It floods and

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this is only on the sides of the house where
it's supposed to drain out through.

Speaker 13 (01:15:18):
The back it's you KNOW that u. Shape, Thing, yeah
so so how HOW do i?

Speaker 8 (01:15:24):
Fix it i've already, BUILT up, i think as HIGH
as i can build up on. Both sides isn't there
supposed to be like four inches between the foundation and, The, ground.

Speaker 1 (01:15:36):
Yes ma'am THAT'S what. I, thought okay so both does
your slope not allow the water when it's coming into
your yard to. Drain off.

Speaker 13 (01:15:50):
No that both of them are both of them, Are.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
Sloped okay so so it does.

Speaker 13 (01:15:56):
Drain.

Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
Off okay now on the.

Speaker 8 (01:15:58):
On the one, side though where they've got like it
built up like four inches, THAT part, I think i
think it might it hangs up at, the, gate.

Speaker 1 (01:16:11):
Okay which which is very common because the gate runs
down to the ground and it starts backing, things up
and then it builds up a little, soil there and
a lot of times you just, have to, you know
remove just a little bit of the soil to let
the water run under the gate and it'll start going just.

Speaker 13 (01:16:30):
Fine. Again okay so so. It's it and it's supposed
to drain at the fence, line.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
Correct well. Not necessarily it depends on how things. Were
graded for a lot. Of, neighborhoods yes they drained it
at the, fence.

Speaker 8 (01:16:45):
Line okay so they've got it built up beyond, the
gate so that then it puddles up even though it,
drains off it puddles at. THE gate I think i
need to raise my.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
Gear, eight yeah raise a gate or lower the soil
just like an inch under the gate so that water
can move. Under.

Speaker 13 (01:17:07):
It okay and.

Speaker 8 (01:17:09):
So it wouldn't HELP if i put down like some
kind of barrier between the fence.

Speaker 12 (01:17:17):
And.

Speaker 13 (01:17:18):
My soil.

Speaker 1 (01:17:20):
Probably not if you're thinking about a barrier to keep
their water on, Their side water's gonna seek its path of.
Least resistance and it sounds like if you're lower than,
their side it's still going to come into. Your side.

Speaker 13 (01:17:35):
THAT'S what i was.

Speaker 1 (01:17:36):
Afraid of so your. Best, bet now first, Of all
i'm gonna throw this out, at you because first, of
all it's not legal for them to. Do that when
they alter. Their drainage they have to control the water on.
Their property they're not supposed to push it. Onto yours
but the fact that it's already pushing. Onto yours your,

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best solution unless you want to get into squabbles with,
the neighbors would be to regrade your drainage to allow
the water to drain out like it. Needs, To, okay so.

Speaker 13 (01:18:14):
And and WHO would i contact to get it to? Regrade?

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
It now? Do wes we do that all the time.
For people oh do you really? Know what, oh yeah.
Their drainage drainage is a big part of maintaining. A, Foundation.

Speaker 8 (01:18:33):
OKAY well i didn't know if it was going to
be landscaper, or, foundation OKAY because.

Speaker 1 (01:18:37):
I want a lot of landscapers do it.

Speaker 8 (01:18:39):
As, well, Okay okay well that that gives ME what
i need, to KNOW because i was going to have
a flooring put IN and i was gonna have the
foundation CHECKED before i put the flooring down and make
sure it.

Speaker 13 (01:18:52):
Was, right, SO yeah i can kill two birds with,
One snow yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
We can we can check the foundation and the drainage
both at the. Same, time yeah that'd.

Speaker 13 (01:19:00):
Be, perfect, Okay awesome thank you. Very much.

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Speaker 1 (01:25:54):
Do it, oh, yes, Sir, Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (01:25:58):
Okay I'll call i'll get him out, here again don't.
Real quick in a neighborhood in, the backyard we have a,
privacy FENCE and i have used his ready steal. On
it it's five. YEARS old i did it about two.
YEARS ago i cannot get to. The backside is that
like a you get what?

Speaker 1 (01:26:18):
You, GET yeah, i mean if you can't get to,
the backside don't worry. ABOUT it i will. Tell you
for over the last, TEN years i only had one
complaint that somebody called in about ready seal and the
complaint was he put it on the front side and
it soaked all the way through to. The BACKSIDE and, i,

(01:26:39):
said yeah that's what it's supposed. To, do.

Speaker 3 (01:26:43):
Oh somebody didn't lock out, their fence, Well, fence.

Speaker 1 (01:26:49):
Well he only he only wanted the stain and seal
the show on, one side and the fact that it
soaked all the way through. Upset him, but no that's
exactly what you wanted. To do, so yeah don't worry.
About it, you know next time you stain and, seal
it just put it on heavy again and it'll. Soak in.

Speaker 3 (01:27:09):
Have a, great weight can't you?

Speaker 1 (01:27:11):
As well take care and let's Head. To, Cyprus, Hello Tom.

Speaker 5 (01:27:20):
HEY jim i enjoy listening to these SHOWS and i always.
Learned SOMETHING but i try to sleuth out these problems
in my. Own HEAD so i have a see if
this sounds reasonable to you with that garage, Door, opener
yeah it sounds to me like the blade is not
fitting tight in the slot in, the wall so it
doesn't make a. Good context then when you put an

(01:27:41):
extension cord, in there the extension cord probably has a fat,
or blade and then the one from the garage door
opener fits tight in the end of the. Extension CORD so.

Speaker 18 (01:27:52):
I.

Speaker 5 (01:27:52):
WOULD suspect i don't know if you've ever done such
a thing because it's not oh, show proved but if
you twist that blade about fifteen degrees with, the PLIERS
so i bet it. Would.

Speaker 1 (01:28:00):
Work, WELL unfortunately i probably do a lot of stuff
THAT'S not, Osha approved, but, YEAH yeah, i mean if that's,
the case and, you're right if very well could be. That,
situation yeah you just expand or contract that blade a
little bit or put a new end on, That, cord well.

Speaker 5 (01:28:23):
That would be the, correct way. Of. Course yeah, but
oh it could just be that the strands are pulled
loose from, the blade and when you, do that you
change the position, of it and then it makes a
connection because it's not no pulled or something the way
normally plugs in, BUT anyway I just i just try
to diagnose things just. For FUN so i thought i'd
put that two.

Speaker 1 (01:28:42):
Cents in, that's yeah that sounds like a reasonable EXPLANATION
because i couldn't figure out how she was putting it
into the same plug and not getting any results out.
Of it so but that what you just said. Makes
sense thank you for clearing that.

Speaker 5 (01:28:58):
For, Me, okay well have a. Great day, YOU know
i DON'T think i could catch you on something, like
that but it's fun to think through. These things, to me.

Speaker 1 (01:29:08):
It is that that is the whole fun of doing
this show. For, Me yeah i'll take care, all right
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A little, all right let's add to the last call of.
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but john This. Is jim HOW can i?

Speaker 11 (01:32:16):
HELP you i got a real, Quick question but your
last caller beat me to the punch on. That cord
you know how sometimes you got to squeeze the terminals
together or spread them out one of them's not, making
contact or the receptacle just needs to be replaced when they.
Get old, you know sometimes you got to. Do that but, My,
Question okay I'm in Brookshire and i'm looking at doing

(01:32:36):
a whole. HOME generator i know you generally. Recommend generak
do you have a recommendation for an installer?

Speaker 9 (01:32:44):
Out Here Brookshire.

Speaker 1 (01:32:49):
Generator supercenter i've talked with those folks. Several times i've
actually done things with, them before and they take good
care of, their customers DO they i believe that. They, Do.

Speaker 11 (01:33:05):
Okay i'll. Try them i'm want to talk to, a
COUPLE but i just wanted at least one sure recommendation kind.

Speaker 1 (01:33:12):
Of, thing okay, all, right man THAT'S all.

Speaker 5 (01:33:15):
I had thank you.

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