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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Well, the weekends upon us. Welcome aboard at home with
Gary Salvin taking into another weekend, getting a few things
done around the home and glad you could join me.
Let me give you the phone number of the phone
lines of course are wide open, and well, we got
a lot to talk about as weather it's warming up
and getting a few projects started. It's eight hundred eight
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two three eight two five five. Yeah, this time of year,
really we run into a lot of projects that we
start thinking about on the outside, whether it's concrete on
the level, concrete the deck that just looks horrible. We
talk about staining, We talk about garage floors and how
we can spruce that up. We talk about water control
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around our home. And also we tackle those projects with yeah,
rusty metal and of course many people have still old
wrought iron railings going up to they may be front
door or side door of the house. We have flashings
on our roof, we have at the Crown Wash, we
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have some sheet metal, we have patio furniture. And rusty
metal of course can be I don't know if the
right word is rejuvenated, but certainly that rust can be removed,
that rust can be sealed into the metal and coatings
can be put on that metal to make it look
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now again. So there are different products out there you
might want to think think about. Of course, the old
standby of doing that is using an abrasive, whether it's
a wild wire wheel on a drill or a metal
brush to scrape it or sandpaper and remove the rust.
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And once that rust is removed down to the bare metal,
loose paint removed, we can put a primer on there. Again.
If it's been pretty heavily rusted, I would use like
a reddish it's called a damp red primer. That's for
heavily rusted areas. Put that on and then your finished
coat of paint on top of that. If it's just
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a mild rust, maybe a light gray primer and then
your finished code of paint. But there's other options for
you there, and some people know about them, some people
have heard about them, never used them, and some people
don't know about them. And one is there is something
where you can and I am all about easy where
you don't have to do all the sandy. You can
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actually seal the rust into the metal. Now I'm not
talking about rust that's flaking off or anything. But if
it's a heavily rusted area or even lightly rusted, and
it's not scaling and peeling. There's products like rust neutralizer
rust reformer, and it's actually a chemical that reacts with
the rust, sealing the rust into the metal. It will
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then turn black and it'll function as a primer and
your finished coat can go directly on top of that.
So that might save you a little time, a little
extra work. And there's another product out there. We talked
about it last week. I kind of forgot about it
over the years. It's called hammer White and hammer Write
is a very heavy it smells. You don't want to
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do it in direct sunlight when it's eighty five degrees,
I can tell you that. But it's a thick coating
and you brush it right on over the rusted metal.
It seals that rust in it. Coats is of paint,
not real, cheap, not real, easy to use, but save
you is a bunch of time. It's called Hammerit. A
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couple of things you might want to check if that
particular project is on your to do list. All right again,
our numbers eight hundred and eight two three eight two
five five bread you lead us off. Welcome a hearing, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You bet.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, I'm in the process of finishing my basement and
I was wondering if it would be beneficial to put
a phone board.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
His abasement on.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's a poort wall, the poor concrete wall and end insulation.
Years ago I did My father was a he was
a contractor from the sixties to two thousands, and when
I did my own house, he told me it wasn't
He didn't really think it was necessary. But he always
(04:57):
also said that insulation always pays bread. So I don't
know if that insulate, you know that with that form
a vapor barrier, or would a vapor barrier be a
bad idea?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And that that's a great question, Brad, because there's so
much confusion around that. And yeah, so here's the deal.
Once you get below grade, you know, maybe eighteen twenty
inches below grade, you know you're you're outdoor soil temperatures,
you know, it's below the frost line, so it can
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be fifty degrees and a lot of people think, I
don't need any insulation, it's not that not that cold, right, Well, yes, enough, Okay,
it's still fifty degrees, so I like the idea of
putting up the foam board. It is a buffer, it
is an insulator. It's more of a comfort standpoint. So yeah,
(05:56):
I would certainly consider that. The question regards earning the
vapor barrier is an awesome question because if your dad
was a contractor in the sixties and seventies, and well,
i'll tell you what. We used to stuff that thing
full of fiberglass insulation. Then we'd wrap the whole wall
with plastic, and we thought we were doing such a
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great job. And it was a horrible idea because that
water vapor would come through the concrete, it would come
into that fiberglass, it would hit that plastic, and there
was no way to dissipate that vapor barrier because it
was doing his job, it was holding it behind the wall.
The only problem is condensation formed and moisture got on
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that insulation. It created mold, and at the same time,
all our houses were getting tighter and tighter. So right
now the common building practice is, yeah, go ahead and insulate,
but don't use a vapor barrier. Use if you're going
to use the panels, the foam panels, there's closed cell
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and open cell and open cell will allow the water
vapor to permeate through it and go up over the
over the dry wall and you know, dissipate in through
the bath through the basement like it does right now,
and then you control it from there. Whether do you
a midifire where an air exchanger anything along nose lines?
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So yeah, I would inslate. I think it's going to
add a little bit to the comfort. I don't know
if it's going to save you a lot of energy dollars,
but comfort will be the key player there and you
won't be trapping the moisture behind the wall.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Thank you for.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
All right, Brad, Thank you very much. I hope you
heard all that. I hope you heard all that, and
I hope if you're thinking about finishing your basement you
take notice on that too. There are some people that
just aren't anything on there. There are some people that
use thermax products or foam products where they just go
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down from the top of the concrete down to three
feet below the frost line and insulate above it and
let the frost line be by, you know, below it
and be fine. But a little insulation, you're right, insulation
does kind of pay for itself. If not dollars, certainly
in comfort, but whatever you do, just don't trap that
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moisture behind it. Also get asked a lot of times
of about putting a waterproof sealant, a dry lock product
on those walls to minimize water vapor penetration, because it's
like gallons and gallons a day of water vapor that
passed through that wall probably would block more so than
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poor concrete, but poor concrete too, And I think that's
a really good idea. Again, just minimizing gases, even rad
on from entering your home. I'm not saying it's gonna
cure the problem, but it's certainly something that can stop it.
So moisture rate on that type of things, I think
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that's a good investment. Also, not much time, not a
lot of dollars. All right, let's take a break. We'll
bring in our friend Ron Wilson and see what's going
on in the landscape. I guess in a lot of
parts of the country. Still too early to talk about
the gardening. He's up next. As we continue. You're at
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Speaker 6 (12:55):
Are you pretty much? You shlevin, you'd been fine, Yes, sir,
I am. I'm excited. Obviously, Easter Bunny comes tonight and
there you go.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
You got a long list of things to do outside.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Uh this weekend, actually I'm doing nothing.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
You're doing nothing?
Speaker 6 (13:12):
I am. Uh No, I'm not really good taking it
easy this weekend. Oh boy, so nothing on the schedule.
We're actually watching the Grandson's today. We stayed there last night.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 6 (13:24):
We went and saw minecraft by the way.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
How was it? Did you know what it was before
you went?
Speaker 6 (13:31):
And I knew I knew what it was, but yeah,
it was it was, you know. It's yeah, I do
like the Chicken Jockey, and I guess that's been doing
a lot of made the news people doing stuff during that, did.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
You fall asleep?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
No? I didn't, okay, no, No, it's it's stuff going
on all the time.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So okay, you know. No, Actually, when I go to
the movie with one of the grandkids and I take
Sue with me, she falls asleep. No not you mean
about eighty percent of the time. No, I usually stay awake. Yeah,
but you get her in a theater, she can be
a sleep in ten minutes telling the story.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Well, now they got those chairs of crank back and
all that stuff, how can you not fall.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It's a struggle of bus It's a.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Trigger, you know, you just what you do at home,
so it triggers you to go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
So so you're being grandpa papa.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Yeah, we're all all those things. And yeah, so really
not doing anything. I'm just taking the weekend.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
That's good. You're not going to take them outside and help,
uh spread the mulch.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
No, no, we're not not doing anything. Man, that I
just said. I'm not doing anything.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You got that free labor, you got sticks to pick up.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Let's go not this weekend.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I'm telling you, I think I can inspire you. All right,
Well maybe not.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Do you come over stand our front door?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
No, Okay, will you go pick up your sticks with
your grandsons? No? Please?
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Why maybe you.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Could take them to your house. You guys could all
work on the deck together. You know, a family that
works together stays together.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
I actually have pictures of Ellen, our oldest, when he
was about.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Two, which how how old is he now?
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Thirteen? When he was uh? When he well, he's six
foot just over six.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Foot, so wow, little guy.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Uh yeah, Oh.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
He's got a little further to bend over to get those.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Six seventh grade eighth grade, yeah, sixth sixth ay him double?
So I doubt that he would do it, triple you
doubt he would do it. I don't even think I
can get him involved anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
So you'd have to look up to him to tell
him he's.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
I'd have to look up to him to tell him
that actually were I to I at this point? So anywow,
we got off onto that, But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I hope you have a really RESTful weekend. It sounds
like you could use it.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
I seriously, I have nothing planning. I'm doing nothing this. Okay,
you're gonna make a sully besides that? Ah, so we
are going to do something? Sure? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
How many chocolate rabbits do you have? You're not going
to tell you that many?
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Huh uh huh?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
How many bottles do we have?
Speaker 6 (15:58):
One's all I need once as more. I got to
tell you, though, Gary, and I I know folks know
what we're talking about with the sullies. I do another
little radio Did I tell you this already?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Okay, yeah, never mind it.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
You said people want to know about I mean, in
case you don't.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Know what, a little radio segment of another station. And yeah,
yesterday we're saying tell us about these sullies.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
So we started doing in our house about ten years ago.
I guess it was ten years ago. I don't know.
And there's all kinds of ways about the hollow chocolate
easter bunnies. You can do many ways. You can crack
off the ears, you can cut the ears with a
zacto knife. You can take I still like Gary Barkman's
(16:43):
a marinating tool where he heats the tip and puts
the little holes in the top and puts like a
Bailey's cream in there and then puts them in the freezer.
And it's just a nice little Easter tree for adults.
And it's kind of caught on sends. You and I
started chatting about that years ago, and they're delicious. They're
kind of fun too, they are.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
It was Bailey's back then, and I'll take the claim
for to call them Sully's, but this it was Bailey's.
But now for me it's Buffalo Tracers.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Well, yeah, the real bourbon cream. It's the best, for sure,
for sure. So I'm glad you're going to do something,
and I'm glad they're pointed in the area of which
you will enjoy the most.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Well, you know what I have. You know, I haven't
had a Easter weekend off and many you know, and
you're in a retail business. Well, yeah, you work those
forever and ever and ever. Right, So I said, nope,
I'm you're gonna be out shutting it down. You're shutting
it I did it. Well, I'm not gi. I don't
feel guilty.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
And nurseries are always really crowded for Easter and Mother's Day.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Yeah, oh yeah, good Friday, Good Friday. Yeah, I was
in there on Good Friday. I was there Friday, but
then today I'll be there for just an hour or so, then.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Tomorrow not well before I let you go, Yes, how
about a tip on some Easter lilies. I wouldn't be
working you too hard, you know.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Well, the thing about all the Easter flowers that you
see out there, many of which are repurposed back into
the garden if you want to take the time to
do that. Tulips, daffodils, the highest scents that you see
that are forced they can all be planted back into
the garden. The hydrange is maybe not, because it depends
on what variety they use. Most of the time it's
a floral variety that are not hardy for our zone.
(18:23):
But check if it's got a name, you can find
out Okay, that's a possibility. The azaleas are the same way.
Find out what it is and then you can figure
out whether it's hardy for your zone. If not, you
grow them as a houseplanner. Go take them inside over
the winter in the garage and bring them back out
so that can be done. Easter lilies, which are probably
the most common of all the eastern flowers out there,
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again can be repurposed right back. It's just a garden
lily that's forced to flower.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
White at Easter, lasts for about two days.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Well, no, you want to buy one that's got it
partially open, and several that are closed that will last
longer for you. But once it's done, cut that head
off the top of that. They're tender because they've been
grown in a greenhouse with weather breaks. Get them outside,
plant them and they'll come back here after year and
give you that. One. One caution about easter lilies is
that that this is this is one plant that is
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extremely toxic to cats. Uh So if you have a
cat in the house, easter lilies, I would be cautious
about that. We've had easter lilies with our cats. They
never chewed on them, but can be very toxic. Sure.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Hey, missus Sullivan had a really big birthday on Monday.
And guess where we went where We went to the
zoo Botanical Gardens and we sat around the tulips.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Good for you, tiptoe through the tulis with missus Sullivan.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
There you go. You demand have a great easter.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Hey you too?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
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And back to where we go on the weekend. Talking
about your home and projects, You're anticipating tackling and maybe
something that just doesn't look right around the home. We
got to get corrected today. Feel free to join us.
It's eight hundred and eight two three eight two five five.
Let's go to Doug. Doug Welcome, Well, good morning Gary.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
So I've got a six year old house with a
six year old concrete garage floor and parking in it
over the winter. Every winter, I've never had any issues. So,
like in the first nice day of spring, I would
get the hose out in the shop broom and kind
(23:26):
of squirt some dish detergent on it and kind of
shower it down and you know, wash it out out
the door. So when I did that this year, I
noticed that perhaps the salt from the snow or in
the snow road sludge or whatever has kind of etched
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around the tires on the floor.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Okay, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Say pitted, but definitely etched, kind of like one eighty
sandpaper or something like that. So my question is is
there anything that I should put on that that will
stop that process? And then a top coat or would
a concrete sealer be okay for that?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, So I think what you're talking about is is
actually pretty common in you know, areas of cold climates
and stuff. You know, you get road salt that clusters
on the bottom of the car with with snow and salt,
and you get in the garage it melts. And when
you have water and salt road salt, it's it's a
(24:38):
it's a salty brine solution that's corrosive, and it penetrates
in to the capitlaries of the concrete and it just
begins to do a little damage to the concrete. I
could refer to it as like driveway acne, you know,
and exactly you know, that's exactly what it looks like.
And so your choices are you you can seal it.
(25:02):
It's not going to reverse it. It'll help protect it.
It'll minimize the amount of penetration of the moisture and
the salt into the capillaries of the concrete. So it
will you know, like I said, it's not going to
fix it, but it's going to slow down erosion of
(25:23):
more of the concrete. So that's an option. You put
it on the whole garage floor. It has a nice
little sheen to it. It looks nice. You can still
kind of see it. The other option is patching it.
And when you start patching it, you can you can
see where the patch is. So then you go to
(25:44):
the next step and say, well can I patch it
and seal it? You yes, you can. You can also
patch it and put a surface coating on it. We
had Peter Diish on a number of weeks ago where
we talked about one of his products called spread spread stone,
spread rock spread rock sorry um, and it is you.
(26:09):
It would cover some imperfections like small cracks in that
it's it's a thick coating about the thickness of a
credit card. So you'd have to make the determination whether
you want to use. You know, a product like vinyl
concrete patcher, which is a powder. It's got an additive
where it will allow the patching concrete to attach itself
(26:33):
to the existing concrete and you just kind of trial
over that. You could leave it alone, but you'll see
that patch. But if you put like a spread stone
product on it where it could look like granite or
something like that and do the whole garage floor, that
would be very attractive. It would also seal that concrete
or a clear sealer. So there's a lot of things
(26:54):
we can do I mean we can just seal it
and leave it be.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah, it's not to the point where it needs to
be patched. It's just it just feels rough. And you
can tell that, you know, the the curing agent that
they sprayed on it six years ago when they poured
the concrete has worn off and and but you can
definitely see that. It's it's kind of you know, yeah, yeah, compromise. Yeah,
(27:20):
So I didn't know. Would you have a product, you know,
available over the counter, like a Lowser, Monards or somewhere
that you know you would recommend, or just a simple
Thompson's concrete.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah, I wouldn't use that because of the garage floor
you would usually use. And I'm sure they have one
I don't have. I'm sure they probably have their own
that bear brand in there. A masonry garage floor sealer,
garage floor sailor needs to have a couple of components.
(27:51):
Number one is it is a coating because that that
concrete is very dense and its trout very tight. It's
not like a driveway or a sidewalk. It has to
so it's more of a coating and a penetrant, and
it has to resist hot tire pickup. So I'm sure
(28:12):
they have garage floor seilers there. I always recommend one,
but it's an internet based company. I always like it
because it's easy for me to communicate to people. They're
project specific sealers, so it's called Masonry Defender. They have Yeah,
they have brick sealer, they have chimney sealer, they have
(28:34):
driveway and sidewalk seiler, they have garage floor sealer, they
have exposed aggregate sealers, and they're all kind of a
little different. But the concrete seilers is usually a finish,
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called track Safe that's a sealer and it's slip resistance.
So if that's a concern, that might be something to consider.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
But would that be would would that be something that
I would have to like just do the whole floor
or just like where I can you know, where.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Do the whole floor? Do the whole floor? Retires aren't
going to end them in the same place all the time,
you know, so do the do the whole floor? And
you know, I personally, if it's not really bad, that's
probably what I would do. I'd put a clear ceiler
on there. Or if you want a decorative finish, like
I said, the spreadstone product, you could you could put
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on there and then cosmetically it looks different, it hides
the imperfections, and it creates a ceiling. So there's there's
a whole list of things we can do. But masonry Defender,
garage floor ceiler, you can put that on. And I
believe with a roller it has a little bit of
a machine.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Would I have to use like a ratic acid type
uh solution to like etch.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
It it'll it'll stay on there. But I think that
particular one just uses a strong detergent like a tri
sodium phosphate or something along those lines. Okay, whatever sealer
you end up with, read the directions. That's a good
question because some of them do require moradic acid, but
(30:20):
I don't think Masonry Defender does, and I'm pretty sure
Dice Coatings doesn't either. They're trying to go to more
heavy duty detergents for that.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I will look them up. I appreciate your time this morning.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
All right, very good, thanks Doug. Take care my mic
all right, it's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Yeah, it was on my notes today too.
Was to talk a little bit about garage floors, because
we have those issues and we usually notice them about
this time of year. In fact, my wife and we
were talking about the garages this morning, and it's like,
(30:56):
you know, this next week or two, we got a
really love to get in there. Just get everything out
of that garage, give it a good cleaning, get it reorganized.
And of course then you start, you know, pitching stuff,
and you start paying attention to the garage floor and
if it's an oil stain, you know, removing that. If
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it's imperfections, do we need a patch, do we need
to seal? But there are other things too. There's there's
actually garage floor tiles, and I don't have those. I've
seen some of my friends have installed those, and it's
a neat, attractive, easier, way more expensive, of course, but
it's clipped together tiles where you just take that whole
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concrete look out of play. And that might be something
that has interest to you and might very well be
worth taking a look at. All right, racetrack dot com,
I think racetracktiles dot com I believe is a website.
You can see a bunch of different patterns there. All right,
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Speaker 1 (35:00):
UH moving outdoors, getting a few of those projects done
outside today, or at least starting the planning stages and
maybe trying to figure out exactly how long that project's
going to take and what products I want to use.
Happy to have you our phone number if you'd like
to join us, it's eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. All right, that being said, let's get
(35:21):
back to the phone calls. We have Nancy, Nancy, welcome,
Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
Gary. I actually do have an outside question. I've used
wet and Forget very successfully on the siding for my
house and also for my deck surface. I have a
trek style deck and that's worked very well. But what
I've had the problem with is the railings themselves. The
inner grooves of the railing for the handrail spindles and
(35:48):
underneath them have quite a bit of like I would
I say, algae looking green right stuff. And I've actually
used the wet and Forget with the toothbrush. I've tried
different products. Is there something better I can do? Because
I don't think it gets the sun.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
That is exactly I was just gonna say. It's just
the product needs sun and it needs rain and because
that's what keeps it active. So if it's underneath say it.
I thought you were going to tell me maybe the
deck or something was covered, and then you've got to
get out there and scrubbing doesn't do it. It's just
(36:23):
a matter of adding water. And of course you can't
really add sunshine. So it's really where you go into
You probably hear me talk about this product a lot too.
It's an oxygenated bleach cleaner, so it comes under different
things too when you go to the hardware store. Is
deck cleaners and different things, sighting cleaners, and it's a powder.
(36:46):
It's mixed with water. Okay, you put it on, let's
sit just about ten minutes and then you do scrub this.
So you put it on, let the you know, let
the oxygen bleach do its thing. Starts breaking it down,
but it's just not going to remove it. You're going
to have to scrub, and you're not gonna have to
scrub that hard but you will have to scrub and
(37:08):
then rinse and you'll get rid of that.
Speaker 7 (37:11):
Okay, great, that'll help a lot. Like I said, I
tried the wet and forget even with brushes and stuff,
and it just wasn't effective for that application.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yeah, it needs sun and rain to keep it going.
It's a phenomenal product. But all these products have a
limitation here and there, and that's one of them.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
If I may ask another question too, unrelated to that. Yes,
I've prepping for spring in the flower beds. I had
a dump truck driver deliver a large load of mulch
and soil and when he was turning around in my driveway,
he caught the very edge of my garage apron with
his wheel and it snapped off, maybe an eight by
(37:53):
eight triangle off the very edge of that apron. It's
just it snapped. It's it's now sitting a little bit low.
What is my fix for that?
Speaker 8 (38:04):
Is there a fix?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
So? Is it cracked off? I mean, like, could you
reach down and pull that off?
Speaker 7 (38:11):
I can't write now, but I'm sure with a shovel
I could pop it out. Yeah, it's it's definitely broken.
It's broken free it's a smaller area, and it's not
even an area I typically drive on, and he wouldn't
have other than he was trying to make free point
turns to get turned back around.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
So let me ask you this, Nancy, if you were
able to free that piece up, yes, and there is
different types of adhesives. Could we glue that back on
and prop it up to a point where you would
allow that adhesive to dry and keep that in place.
There's some really industrial strength I.
Speaker 7 (38:49):
Think I could.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yeah, Yeah, I think I think I've a couple of
answers for it, But that would be the one I
would try first. There's one called PC seven. Epoxy comes
in a container. It's almost a paste. It's not like
a glue. It's almost like a paste with a resinant hardener.
You would mix it up, you would lather it on
(39:11):
that and you would simply press that together. Try to
fit it where there's virtually not even a crack, right
and that. Yeah, it'll need some support for it to dry,
but that'd be the first thing I would look at.
The other option would be you would drill into the
(39:33):
garage floor and you would insert again some apoxy or
something and put some a couple nails in there. They
would work like rebar all right. Then you would get
a product like an anchoring cement. It's a bucket. It's
a powder you mix with water. It's it's very thick.
You could almost make it like a softball, and you
(39:55):
would press it over those nails and give it some
support and use like a paint paddle to kind of
trim it out. But I really think you could just
glue it in there. I think it'd be perfect.
Speaker 7 (40:06):
I think that that pieces seven aposse you describe would
be good. Where would I get that greet.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
A lot of hardware stores will have that that they
will or you can always check Amazon. I know it's
on there too.
Speaker 7 (40:19):
Oh okay, great, thank you so much. I much appreciate
your health.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
You're quite welcome. Thanks Nancy, take care all right. Our
phone number if you'd like to join us, love to
have you. It's eight hundred and eighty two three eight
two five five. Barbara. Welcome.
Speaker 8 (40:33):
Oh hi, how are you doing good? Good here in
the Pacific Northwest. We have a lot of issues with
moss and I have a I have a patio that
was put in about let me turn off the radio, sorry,
put in about two years ago, and it's these sort
of decorative pavers that are like puzzle pieces that you
(40:55):
put together and you grout in between them. They're not
a tight fitting paver like a paper, but they are
just a artificial stone or something. And the moss took
over the grout this year and I had the whole
area pressure washed, but it was kind of rough on
the ground. I don't really want to do that again
(41:15):
because it was Yeah, it's but there's no other alternative really,
so I want to put something on it that will
keep the moss away. So there's the papers, and there's
there's a small concrete covered patio, and I was thinking,
is that a wet and forget kind of project.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Or well, tell me about that patio, because I was
definitely going the wet and forget. And then when you
threw the partially covered patio on there, I went hold
on gary. So that other color was.
Speaker 8 (41:49):
It turned kind of black and green just along the
edge where it was where it's more exposed to the weather.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Okay, so it gets I guess the big question is
does it get sun and does it get rain?
Speaker 8 (42:04):
Well, definitely the pavers do, and the worst part of
the patio I think was exposed to the rain.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Okay, okay, Well, the wedding forget as lost as exposed
to sunlight and rain would be tremendous for that because
what it does is it is a complete kill of fungus, algae, mold, mildew,
like in any type of those types of funguses. When
I say a complete kill, that means it is a
(42:34):
complete kill. It has to start the process all over
again to start growing, and it takes a year or
so for you to even notice anything going on. So
the wedding forget, it'd be great. You wouldn't have to
use a pressure washer. You would simply spray it and
you know, literally just forget about it, and it'll take
(42:54):
about six weeks it will it will be gone and
then in and then you have a choice. So we
could do every year. We could just go on now,
yeah every year?
Speaker 8 (43:07):
Yeah you want to it coming back?
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yeah? Every year. We could go out there and we
could just spray it and use it as a maintenance.
There's a good chance that did you use the wet
and forget before or did you use something else to
clean it off.
Speaker 8 (43:20):
I had somebody come out and they actually bleached it.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Yeah, well, it's it's interesting. The bleach will eliminate the
but it will not be a complete kill. It will
come back. It'll come back in about six to eight months.
The wedding forget will get you about eighteen months. So
you can use that and you can use that as
a maintenance every year. You just got and spray it
(43:43):
and you'll never see it again. That's option one. Option
two is you could go ahead and seal it after
it's been cleaned. You can use a grouse sealer. And
what a grout sealer does is it basically penetrates into
the groud and it minimizes the amount of moisture content
that can be absorbed in it. So it's not going
to eliminate it, but it'll prolong the regrowth of it.
Speaker 8 (44:07):
Okay, all right, and I can I can spray that
we and forget with like a You can get.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
It in a tank. You can get it where it's
a concentrate. You mix it with water and spray with
a tank sprayer. You can get it where you're connect
it to a hose and just spray it that way.
Very easy to do it. Thank you much for the call.
Appreciate it. Laurie, you'll be up first when we come back.
I appreciate you hanging on there, and if you'd like
to join a STU. So, it's eight hundred eight two
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Here's the weekend and you have fixed questions. Give Gary
a call at one eight hundred and eight two three talk.
This is at Home with Gary Sullivan
Well, the weekends upon us. Welcome aboard at home with
Gary Salvin taking into another weekend, getting a few things
done around the home and glad you could join me.
Let me give you the phone number of the phone
lines of course are wide open, and well, we got
a lot to talk about as weather it's warming up
and getting a few projects started. It's eight hundred eight
(00:50):
two three eight two five five. Yeah, this time of year,
really we run into a lot of projects that we
start thinking about on the outside, whether it's concrete on
the level, concrete the deck that just looks horrible. We
talk about staining, We talk about garage floors and how
we can spruce that up. We talk about water control
(01:13):
around our home. And also we tackle those projects with yeah,
rusty metal and of course many people have still old
wrought iron railings going up to they may be front
door or side door of the house. We have flashings
on our roof, we have at the Crown Wash, we
(01:35):
have some sheet metal, we have patio furniture. And rusty
metal of course can be I don't know if the
right word is rejuvenated, but certainly that rust can be removed,
that rust can be sealed into the metal and coatings
can be put on that metal to make it look
(01:55):
now again. So there are different products out there you
might want to think think about. Of course, the old
standby of doing that is using an abrasive, whether it's
a wild wire wheel on a drill or a metal
brush to scrape it or sandpaper and remove the rust.
(02:18):
And once that rust is removed down to the bare metal,
loose paint removed, we can put a primer on there. Again.
If it's been pretty heavily rusted, I would use like
a reddish it's called a damp red primer. That's for
heavily rusted areas. Put that on and then your finished
coat of paint on top of that. If it's just
(02:39):
a mild rust, maybe a light gray primer and then
your finished code of paint. But there's other options for
you there, and some people know about them, some people
have heard about them, never used them, and some people
don't know about them. And one is there is something
where you can and I am all about easy where
you don't have to do all the sandy. You can
(03:00):
actually seal the rust into the metal. Now I'm not
talking about rust that's flaking off or anything. But if
it's a heavily rusted area or even lightly rusted, and
it's not scaling and peeling. There's products like rust neutralizer
rust reformer, and it's actually a chemical that reacts with
the rust, sealing the rust into the metal. It will
(03:23):
then turn black and it'll function as a primer and
your finished coat can go directly on top of that.
So that might save you a little time, a little
extra work. And there's another product out there. We talked
about it last week. I kind of forgot about it
over the years. It's called hammer White and hammer Write
is a very heavy it smells. You don't want to
(03:47):
do it in direct sunlight when it's eighty five degrees,
I can tell you that. But it's a thick coating
and you brush it right on over the rusted metal.
It seals that rust in it. Coats is of paint,
not real, cheap, not real, easy to use, but save
you is a bunch of time. It's called Hammerit. A
(04:08):
couple of things you might want to check if that
particular project is on your to do list. All right again,
our numbers eight hundred and eight two three eight two
five five bread you lead us off. Welcome a hearing, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You bet.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, I'm in the process of finishing my basement and
I was wondering if it would be beneficial to put
a phone board.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
His abasement on.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's a poort wall, the poor concrete wall and end insulation.
Years ago I did My father was a he was
a contractor from the sixties to two thousands, and when
I did my own house, he told me it wasn't
He didn't really think it was necessary. But he always
(04:57):
also said that insulation always pays bread. So I don't
know if that insulate, you know that with that form
a vapor barrier, or would a vapor barrier be a
bad idea?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And that that's a great question, Brad, because there's so
much confusion around that. And yeah, so here's the deal.
Once you get below grade, you know, maybe eighteen twenty
inches below grade, you know you're you're outdoor soil temperatures,
you know, it's below the frost line, so it can
(05:32):
be fifty degrees and a lot of people think, I
don't need any insulation, it's not that not that cold, right, Well, yes, enough, Okay,
it's still fifty degrees, so I like the idea of
putting up the foam board. It is a buffer, it
is an insulator. It's more of a comfort standpoint. So yeah,
(05:56):
I would certainly consider that. The question regards earning the
vapor barrier is an awesome question because if your dad
was a contractor in the sixties and seventies, and well,
i'll tell you what. We used to stuff that thing
full of fiberglass insulation. Then we'd wrap the whole wall
with plastic, and we thought we were doing such a
(06:18):
great job. And it was a horrible idea because that
water vapor would come through the concrete, it would come
into that fiberglass, it would hit that plastic, and there
was no way to dissipate that vapor barrier because it
was doing his job, it was holding it behind the wall.
The only problem is condensation formed and moisture got on
(06:43):
that insulation. It created mold, and at the same time,
all our houses were getting tighter and tighter. So right
now the common building practice is, yeah, go ahead and insulate,
but don't use a vapor barrier. Use if you're going
to use the panels, the foam panels, there's closed cell
(07:04):
and open cell and open cell will allow the water
vapor to permeate through it and go up over the
over the dry wall and you know, dissipate in through
the bath through the basement like it does right now,
and then you control it from there. Whether do you
a midifire where an air exchanger anything along nose lines?
(07:29):
So yeah, I would inslate. I think it's going to
add a little bit to the comfort. I don't know
if it's going to save you a lot of energy dollars,
but comfort will be the key player there and you
won't be trapping the moisture behind the wall.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Thank you for.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
All right, Brad, Thank you very much. I hope you
heard all that. I hope you heard all that, and
I hope if you're thinking about finishing your basement you
take notice on that too. There are some people that
just aren't anything on there. There are some people that
use thermax products or foam products where they just go
(08:07):
down from the top of the concrete down to three
feet below the frost line and insulate above it and
let the frost line be by, you know, below it
and be fine. But a little insulation, you're right, insulation
does kind of pay for itself. If not dollars, certainly
in comfort, but whatever you do, just don't trap that
(08:29):
moisture behind it. Also get asked a lot of times
of about putting a waterproof sealant, a dry lock product
on those walls to minimize water vapor penetration, because it's
like gallons and gallons a day of water vapor that
passed through that wall probably would block more so than
(08:52):
poor concrete, but poor concrete too, And I think that's
a really good idea. Again, just minimizing gases, even rad
on from entering your home. I'm not saying it's gonna
cure the problem, but it's certainly something that can stop it.
So moisture rate on that type of things, I think
(09:14):
that's a good investment. Also, not much time, not a
lot of dollars. All right, let's take a break. We'll
bring in our friend Ron Wilson and see what's going
on in the landscape. I guess in a lot of
parts of the country. Still too early to talk about
the gardening. He's up next. As we continue. You're at
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Speaker 6 (12:55):
Are you pretty much? You shlevin, you'd been fine, Yes, sir,
I am. I'm excited. Obviously, Easter Bunny comes tonight and
there you go.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
You got a long list of things to do outside.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Uh this weekend, actually I'm doing nothing.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
You're doing nothing?
Speaker 6 (13:12):
I am. Uh No, I'm not really good taking it
easy this weekend. Oh boy, so nothing on the schedule.
We're actually watching the Grandson's today. We stayed there last night.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 6 (13:24):
We went and saw minecraft by the way.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
How was it? Did you know what it was before
you went?
Speaker 6 (13:31):
And I knew I knew what it was, but yeah,
it was it was, you know. It's yeah, I do
like the Chicken Jockey, and I guess that's been doing
a lot of made the news people doing stuff during that, did.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
You fall asleep?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
No? I didn't, okay, no, No, it's it's stuff going
on all the time.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So okay, you know. No, Actually, when I go to
the movie with one of the grandkids and I take
Sue with me, she falls asleep. No not you mean
about eighty percent of the time. No, I usually stay awake. Yeah,
but you get her in a theater, she can be
a sleep in ten minutes telling the story.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Well, now they got those chairs of crank back and
all that stuff, how can you not fall.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It's a struggle of bus It's a.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Trigger, you know, you just what you do at home,
so it triggers you to go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
So so you're being grandpa papa.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Yeah, we're all all those things. And yeah, so really
not doing anything. I'm just taking the weekend.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
That's good. You're not going to take them outside and help,
uh spread the mulch.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
No, no, we're not not doing anything. Man, that I
just said. I'm not doing anything.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You got that free labor, you got sticks to pick up.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Let's go not this weekend.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I'm telling you, I think I can inspire you. All right,
Well maybe not.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Do you come over stand our front door?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
No, Okay, will you go pick up your sticks with
your grandsons? No? Please?
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Why maybe you.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Could take them to your house. You guys could all
work on the deck together. You know, a family that
works together stays together.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
I actually have pictures of Ellen, our oldest, when he
was about.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Two, which how how old is he now?
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Thirteen? When he was uh? When he well, he's six
foot just over six.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Foot, so wow, little guy.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Uh yeah, Oh.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
He's got a little further to bend over to get those.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Six seventh grade eighth grade, yeah, sixth sixth ay him double?
So I doubt that he would do it, triple you
doubt he would do it. I don't even think I
can get him involved anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
So you'd have to look up to him to tell
him he's.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
I'd have to look up to him to tell him
that actually were I to I at this point? So anywow,
we got off onto that, But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I hope you have a really RESTful weekend. It sounds
like you could use it.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
I seriously, I have nothing planning. I'm doing nothing this. Okay,
you're gonna make a sully besides that? Ah, so we
are going to do something? Sure? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
How many chocolate rabbits do you have? You're not going
to tell you that many?
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Huh uh huh?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
How many bottles do we have?
Speaker 6 (15:58):
One's all I need once as more. I got to
tell you, though, Gary, and I I know folks know
what we're talking about with the sullies. I do another
little radio Did I tell you this already?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Okay, yeah, never mind it.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
You said people want to know about I mean, in
case you don't.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Know what, a little radio segment of another station. And yeah,
yesterday we're saying tell us about these sullies.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
So we started doing in our house about ten years ago.
I guess it was ten years ago. I don't know.
And there's all kinds of ways about the hollow chocolate
easter bunnies. You can do many ways. You can crack
off the ears, you can cut the ears with a
zacto knife. You can take I still like Gary Barkman's
(16:43):
a marinating tool where he heats the tip and puts
the little holes in the top and puts like a
Bailey's cream in there and then puts them in the freezer.
And it's just a nice little Easter tree for adults.
And it's kind of caught on sends. You and I
started chatting about that years ago, and they're delicious. They're
kind of fun too, they are.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
It was Bailey's back then, and I'll take the claim
for to call them Sully's, but this it was Bailey's.
But now for me it's Buffalo Tracers.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Well, yeah, the real bourbon cream. It's the best, for sure,
for sure. So I'm glad you're going to do something,
and I'm glad they're pointed in the area of which
you will enjoy the most.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Well, you know what I have. You know, I haven't
had a Easter weekend off and many you know, and
you're in a retail business. Well, yeah, you work those
forever and ever and ever. Right, So I said, nope,
I'm you're gonna be out shutting it down. You're shutting
it I did it. Well, I'm not gi. I don't
feel guilty.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
And nurseries are always really crowded for Easter and Mother's Day.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Yeah, oh yeah, good Friday, Good Friday. Yeah, I was
in there on Good Friday. I was there Friday, but
then today I'll be there for just an hour or so, then.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Tomorrow not well before I let you go, Yes, how
about a tip on some Easter lilies. I wouldn't be
working you too hard, you know.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Well, the thing about all the Easter flowers that you
see out there, many of which are repurposed back into
the garden if you want to take the time to
do that. Tulips, daffodils, the highest scents that you see
that are forced they can all be planted back into
the garden. The hydrange is maybe not, because it depends
on what variety they use. Most of the time it's
a floral variety that are not hardy for our zone.
(18:23):
But check if it's got a name, you can find
out Okay, that's a possibility. The azaleas are the same way.
Find out what it is and then you can figure
out whether it's hardy for your zone. If not, you
grow them as a houseplanner. Go take them inside over
the winter in the garage and bring them back out
so that can be done. Easter lilies, which are probably
the most common of all the eastern flowers out there,
(18:44):
again can be repurposed right back. It's just a garden
lily that's forced to flower.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
White at Easter, lasts for about two days.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Well, no, you want to buy one that's got it
partially open, and several that are closed that will last
longer for you. But once it's done, cut that head
off the top of that. They're tender because they've been
grown in a greenhouse with weather breaks. Get them outside,
plant them and they'll come back here after year and
give you that. One. One caution about easter lilies is
that that this is this is one plant that is
(19:14):
extremely toxic to cats. Uh So if you have a
cat in the house, easter lilies, I would be cautious
about that. We've had easter lilies with our cats. They
never chewed on them, but can be very toxic. Sure.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Hey, missus Sullivan had a really big birthday on Monday.
And guess where we went where We went to the
zoo Botanical Gardens and we sat around the tulips.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Good for you, tiptoe through the tulis with missus Sullivan.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
There you go. You demand have a great easter.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Hey you too?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
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And back to where we go on the weekend. Talking
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something that just doesn't look right around the home. We
got to get corrected today. Feel free to join us.
It's eight hundred and eight two three eight two five five.
Let's go to Doug. Doug Welcome, Well, good morning Gary.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
So I've got a six year old house with a
six year old concrete garage floor and parking in it
over the winter. Every winter, I've never had any issues. So,
like in the first nice day of spring, I would
get the hose out in the shop broom and kind
(23:26):
of squirt some dish detergent on it and kind of
shower it down and you know, wash it out out
the door. So when I did that this year, I
noticed that perhaps the salt from the snow or in
the snow road sludge or whatever has kind of etched
(23:48):
around the tires on the floor.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Okay, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Say pitted, but definitely etched, kind of like one eighty
sandpaper or something like that. So my question is is
there anything that I should put on that that will
stop that process? And then a top coat or would
a concrete sealer be okay for that?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, So I think what you're talking about is is
actually pretty common in you know, areas of cold climates
and stuff. You know, you get road salt that clusters
on the bottom of the car with with snow and salt,
and you get in the garage it melts. And when
you have water and salt road salt, it's it's a
(24:38):
it's a salty brine solution that's corrosive, and it penetrates
in to the capitlaries of the concrete and it just
begins to do a little damage to the concrete. I
could refer to it as like driveway acne, you know,
and exactly you know, that's exactly what it looks like.
And so your choices are you you can seal it.
(25:02):
It's not going to reverse it. It'll help protect it.
It'll minimize the amount of penetration of the moisture and
the salt into the capillaries of the concrete. So it
will you know, like I said, it's not going to
fix it, but it's going to slow down erosion of
(25:23):
more of the concrete. So that's an option. You put
it on the whole garage floor. It has a nice
little sheen to it. It looks nice. You can still
kind of see it. The other option is patching it.
And when you start patching it, you can you can
see where the patch is. So then you go to
(25:44):
the next step and say, well can I patch it
and seal it? You yes, you can. You can also
patch it and put a surface coating on it. We
had Peter Diish on a number of weeks ago where
we talked about one of his products called spread spread stone,
spread rock spread rock sorry um, and it is you.
(26:09):
It would cover some imperfections like small cracks in that
it's it's a thick coating about the thickness of a
credit card. So you'd have to make the determination whether
you want to use. You know, a product like vinyl
concrete patcher, which is a powder. It's got an additive
where it will allow the patching concrete to attach itself
(26:33):
to the existing concrete and you just kind of trial
over that. You could leave it alone, but you'll see
that patch. But if you put like a spread stone
product on it where it could look like granite or
something like that and do the whole garage floor, that
would be very attractive. It would also seal that concrete
or a clear sealer. So there's a lot of things
(26:54):
we can do I mean we can just seal it
and leave it be.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah, it's not to the point where it needs to
be patched. It's just it just feels rough. And you
can tell that, you know, the the curing agent that
they sprayed on it six years ago when they poured
the concrete has worn off and and but you can
definitely see that. It's it's kind of you know, yeah, yeah, compromise. Yeah,
(27:20):
So I didn't know. Would you have a product, you know,
available over the counter, like a Lowser, Monards or somewhere
that you know you would recommend, or just a simple
Thompson's concrete.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah, I wouldn't use that because of the garage floor
you would usually use. And I'm sure they have one
I don't have. I'm sure they probably have their own
that bear brand in there. A masonry garage floor sealer,
garage floor sailor needs to have a couple of components.
(27:51):
Number one is it is a coating because that that
concrete is very dense and its trout very tight. It's
not like a driveway or a sidewalk. It has to
so it's more of a coating and a penetrant, and
it has to resist hot tire pickup. So I'm sure
(28:12):
they have garage floor seilers there. I always recommend one,
but it's an internet based company. I always like it
because it's easy for me to communicate to people. They're
project specific sealers, so it's called Masonry Defender. They have Yeah,
they have brick sealer, they have chimney sealer, they have
(28:34):
driveway and sidewalk seiler, they have garage floor sealer, they
have exposed aggregate sealers, and they're all kind of a
little different. But the concrete seilers is usually a finish,
it's it's clear. You can get one another dice product
called track Safe that's a sealer and it's slip resistance.
So if that's a concern, that might be something to consider.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
But would that be would would that be something that
I would have to like just do the whole floor
or just like where I can you know, where.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Do the whole floor? Do the whole floor? Retires aren't
going to end them in the same place all the time,
you know, so do the do the whole floor? And
you know, I personally, if it's not really bad, that's
probably what I would do. I'd put a clear ceiler
on there. Or if you want a decorative finish, like
I said, the spreadstone product, you could you could put
(29:35):
on there and then cosmetically it looks different, it hides
the imperfections, and it creates a ceiling. So there's there's
a whole list of things we can do. But masonry Defender,
garage floor ceiler, you can put that on. And I
believe with a roller it has a little bit of
a machine.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Would I have to use like a ratic acid type
uh solution to like etch.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
It it'll it'll stay on there. But I think that
particular one just uses a strong detergent like a tri
sodium phosphate or something along those lines. Okay, whatever sealer
you end up with, read the directions. That's a good
question because some of them do require moradic acid, but
(30:20):
I don't think Masonry Defender does, and I'm pretty sure
Dice Coatings doesn't either. They're trying to go to more
heavy duty detergents for that.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I will look them up. I appreciate your time this morning.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
All right, very good, thanks Doug. Take care my mic
all right, it's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Yeah, it was on my notes today too.
Was to talk a little bit about garage floors, because
we have those issues and we usually notice them about
this time of year. In fact, my wife and we
were talking about the garages this morning, and it's like,
(30:56):
you know, this next week or two, we got a
really love to get in there. Just get everything out
of that garage, give it a good cleaning, get it reorganized.
And of course then you start, you know, pitching stuff,
and you start paying attention to the garage floor and
if it's an oil stain, you know, removing that. If
(31:16):
it's imperfections, do we need a patch, do we need
to seal? But there are other things too. There's there's
actually garage floor tiles, and I don't have those. I've
seen some of my friends have installed those, and it's
a neat, attractive, easier, way more expensive, of course, but
it's clipped together tiles where you just take that whole
(31:40):
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that has interest to you and might very well be
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You can see a bunch of different patterns there. All right,
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UH moving outdoors, getting a few of those projects done
outside today, or at least starting the planning stages and
maybe trying to figure out exactly how long that project's
going to take and what products I want to use.
Happy to have you our phone number if you'd like
to join us, it's eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. All right, that being said, let's get
(35:21):
back to the phone calls. We have Nancy, Nancy, welcome,
Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
Gary. I actually do have an outside question. I've used
wet and Forget very successfully on the siding for my
house and also for my deck surface. I have a
trek style deck and that's worked very well. But what
I've had the problem with is the railings themselves. The
inner grooves of the railing for the handrail spindles and
(35:48):
underneath them have quite a bit of like I would
I say, algae looking green right stuff. And I've actually
used the wet and Forget with the toothbrush. I've tried
different products. Is there something better I can do? Because
I don't think it gets the sun.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
That is exactly I was just gonna say. It's just
the product needs sun and it needs rain and because
that's what keeps it active. So if it's underneath say it.
I thought you were going to tell me maybe the
deck or something was covered, and then you've got to
get out there and scrubbing doesn't do it. It's just
(36:23):
a matter of adding water. And of course you can't
really add sunshine. So it's really where you go into
You probably hear me talk about this product a lot too.
It's an oxygenated bleach cleaner, so it comes under different
things too when you go to the hardware store. Is
deck cleaners and different things, sighting cleaners, and it's a powder.
(36:46):
It's mixed with water. Okay, you put it on, let's
sit just about ten minutes and then you do scrub this.
So you put it on, let the you know, let
the oxygen bleach do its thing. Starts breaking it down,
but it's just not going to remove it. You're going
to have to scrub, and you're not gonna have to
scrub that hard but you will have to scrub and
(37:08):
then rinse and you'll get rid of that.
Speaker 7 (37:11):
Okay, great, that'll help a lot. Like I said, I
tried the wet and forget even with brushes and stuff,
and it just wasn't effective for that application.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yeah, it needs sun and rain to keep it going.
It's a phenomenal product. But all these products have a
limitation here and there, and that's one of them.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
If I may ask another question too, unrelated to that. Yes,
I've prepping for spring in the flower beds. I had
a dump truck driver deliver a large load of mulch
and soil and when he was turning around in my driveway,
he caught the very edge of my garage apron with
his wheel and it snapped off, maybe an eight by
(37:53):
eight triangle off the very edge of that apron. It's
just it snapped. It's it's now sitting a little bit low.
What is my fix for that?
Speaker 8 (38:04):
Is there a fix?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
So? Is it cracked off? I mean, like, could you
reach down and pull that off?
Speaker 7 (38:11):
I can't write now, but I'm sure with a shovel
I could pop it out. Yeah, it's it's definitely broken.
It's broken free it's a smaller area, and it's not
even an area I typically drive on, and he wouldn't
have other than he was trying to make free point
turns to get turned back around.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
So let me ask you this, Nancy, if you were
able to free that piece up, yes, and there is
different types of adhesives. Could we glue that back on
and prop it up to a point where you would
allow that adhesive to dry and keep that in place.
There's some really industrial strength I.
Speaker 7 (38:49):
Think I could.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yeah, Yeah, I think I think I've a couple of
answers for it, But that would be the one I
would try first. There's one called PC seven. Epoxy comes
in a container. It's almost a paste. It's not like
a glue. It's almost like a paste with a resinant hardener.
You would mix it up, you would lather it on
(39:11):
that and you would simply press that together. Try to
fit it where there's virtually not even a crack, right
and that. Yeah, it'll need some support for it to dry,
but that'd be the first thing I would look at.
The other option would be you would drill into the
(39:33):
garage floor and you would insert again some apoxy or
something and put some a couple nails in there. They
would work like rebar all right. Then you would get
a product like an anchoring cement. It's a bucket. It's
a powder you mix with water. It's it's very thick.
You could almost make it like a softball, and you
(39:55):
would press it over those nails and give it some
support and use like a paint paddle to kind of
trim it out. But I really think you could just
glue it in there. I think it'd be perfect.
Speaker 7 (40:06):
I think that that pieces seven aposse you describe would
be good. Where would I get that greet.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
A lot of hardware stores will have that that they
will or you can always check Amazon. I know it's
on there too.
Speaker 7 (40:19):
Oh okay, great, thank you so much. I much appreciate
your health.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
You're quite welcome. Thanks Nancy, take care all right. Our
phone number if you'd like to join us, love to
have you. It's eight hundred and eighty two three eight
two five five. Barbara. Welcome.
Speaker 8 (40:33):
Oh hi, how are you doing good? Good here in
the Pacific Northwest. We have a lot of issues with
moss and I have a I have a patio that
was put in about let me turn off the radio, sorry,
put in about two years ago, and it's these sort
of decorative pavers that are like puzzle pieces that you
(40:55):
put together and you grout in between them. They're not
a tight fitting paver like a paper, but they are
just a artificial stone or something. And the moss took
over the grout this year and I had the whole
area pressure washed, but it was kind of rough on
the ground. I don't really want to do that again
(41:15):
because it was Yeah, it's but there's no other alternative really,
so I want to put something on it that will
keep the moss away. So there's the papers, and there's
there's a small concrete covered patio, and I was thinking,
is that a wet and forget kind of project.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Or well, tell me about that patio, because I was
definitely going the wet and forget. And then when you
threw the partially covered patio on there, I went hold
on gary. So that other color was.
Speaker 8 (41:49):
It turned kind of black and green just along the
edge where it was where it's more exposed to the weather.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Okay, so it gets I guess the big question is
does it get sun and does it get rain?
Speaker 8 (42:04):
Well, definitely the pavers do, and the worst part of
the patio I think was exposed to the rain.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Okay, okay, Well, the wedding forget as lost as exposed
to sunlight and rain would be tremendous for that because
what it does is it is a complete kill of fungus, algae, mold, mildew,
like in any type of those types of funguses. When
I say a complete kill, that means it is a
(42:34):
complete kill. It has to start the process all over
again to start growing, and it takes a year or
so for you to even notice anything going on. So
the wedding forget, it'd be great. You wouldn't have to
use a pressure washer. You would simply spray it and
you know, literally just forget about it, and it'll take
(42:54):
about six weeks it will it will be gone and
then in and then you have a choice. So we
could do every year. We could just go on now,
yeah every year?
Speaker 8 (43:07):
Yeah you want to it coming back?
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yeah? Every year. We could go out there and we
could just spray it and use it as a maintenance.
There's a good chance that did you use the wet
and forget before or did you use something else to
clean it off.
Speaker 8 (43:20):
I had somebody come out and they actually bleached it.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Yeah, well, it's it's interesting. The bleach will eliminate the
but it will not be a complete kill. It will
come back. It'll come back in about six to eight months.
The wedding forget will get you about eighteen months. So
you can use that and you can use that as
a maintenance every year. You just got and spray it
(43:43):
and you'll never see it again. That's option one. Option
two is you could go ahead and seal it after
it's been cleaned. You can use a grouse sealer. And
what a grout sealer does is it basically penetrates into
the groud and it minimizes the amount of moisture content
that can be absorbed in it. So it's not going
to eliminate it, but it'll prolong the regrowth of it.
Speaker 8 (44:07):
Okay, all right, and I can I can spray that
we and forget with like a You can get.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
It in a tank. You can get it where it's
a concentrate. You mix it with water and spray with
a tank sprayer. You can get it where you're connect
it to a hose and just spray it that way.
Very easy to do it. Thank you much for the call.
Appreciate it. Laurie, you'll be up first when we come back.
I appreciate you hanging on there, and if you'd like
to join a STU. So, it's eight hundred eight two
(44:35):
three eight two five five at Home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 4 (45:04):
Here's the weekend and you have fixed questions. Give Gary
a call at one eight hundred and eight two three talk.
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