Gary Sullivan 8/11/2024 Hour 1

Gary is back with your calls, tips and questions.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Well, the weekend. It is welcome another weekend, get a
few things done around at home. Glad you could join me,
and let's talk about your home and your projects and
the maintenance you're doing around your home, whether it's a
summer project or me an upcoming fall project. Happy to
take those calls. The lines are open, Danny's ready to

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take your calls. And it's eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five eight hundred eighty three eight two
five five. So what are we working? Are we I'm
not gonna say wrapping up summer projects? Maybe some people are,
but still plenty of time and this is a time

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of year between well, the next three months really excellent
time to get some outdoor projects done. Maybe you've been
thinking about putting in a paver patio or something along
those lines, or maybe it's lifting, you know, you know,
leveling a concrete pad, or patching some cracks in a
concrete pad. Yeah, that's the one thing concrete's always I

(01:30):
guaranteed to do. And this crack and you probably see
it at your home in different areas, and those can
be repaired, can be taken care of, and of course,
left unchecked, you just run the risk of it being
even a bigger problems. Things settle, and water gets down

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into the openings, and erosion occurs underneath the slab, and
away we go and more settling occurs, and eventually that concrete,
even though it's four thousand PSI and four inches thick,
it starts getting a little stressed, and if one side's
leaning down, down, down, it cracks, and so then you

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got bigger problems. So happy to take those calls. One
thing I do want to talk about today, at least
where I am, we had a cool front go through.
We had some big storms. I know many of you
listening had a lot of storms. This last week had
Debbie drenched a lot of the East coast and winds.
But where I was, I kind of got a little

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Canadian air, felt pretty dog gone good And it's a
good day, you know. Anything below probably eighty five is
an okay day to get up in the attic. And
if you're not capable of getting up in the attic
and doing a little inspection, I'd recommend you get somebody
to take a look up there and see what's going on,

(02:57):
Like what Gary, Well, first thing I'd look for is
to see if any animals have been living in your
attic during the spring and during the summer, and usually
you would hear them, but some of us we'd love
to ignore stuff like that, or maybe we didn't hear
them and they were up there anyway. But they need,

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you know, you need to kind of get up there
and see what's going on. See if there's any activity
up there, See if there's a messes up there, See
if there's any relocation of insulation up there, See if
the soffet's the venting around the perimeter of the roof,
to see that that's open and free flowing with air.

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A lot of times, between the wind and maybe animals
that get in the attic, it kind of gets redistributed,
and sometimes it gets redistributed on the other side of
the baffles, or maybe you don't have baffles in the attic,
and it starts covering up those vents. And once those
vents get a little bit interrupted, your temperature and your

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attical go because the way those work is they're bringing
the air in from the outside into the attic. So
think about your attic as a firebox in a fireplace,
and the ridge vent is your chimney, So you got
all that heat in the attic is a ninety degrees
outside that attics cook and cook, and maybe it's one

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hundred and forty degrees inside that attic. If there's no
air coming in at the bottom of that firebox slash attic,
that mass of hot air doesn't go anywhere that ridge
vent that's up there. It just doesn't. Willing nilly say,
let's go out that ridge event, let's make this addic cooler. No,

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it needs to have cooler air, which is the air outside.
Even though it's ninety degrees out at a lower height
than that ridge vent, it will be pulled into the
attic and the ou in. The air in the attic
can then escape to the outside through the top like
a chimney, and it's called convection. But if those vents

(05:07):
around the perimeter are clogged or interrupted or maybe when day,
then that temperature really doesn't go down that much. I
always like to say, if you had low through an attic,
you should be able to get that attic temperature to
within ten to fifteen degrees of the outdoor temperature. So

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it's ninety outside, you can get it to a you know,
one hundred and five in the attic. No venting probably
one hundred and forty big difference, especially if you got
bedrooms right underneath that attic, right got a little insulation
on the floor, you get some dry wall, it's not
going to be comfortable. Thermostats downstairs really not going to

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be comfortable. You might have a ten degree difference between
the second floor or the living quarters, the first floor
and the upstairs. So I'm not saying go up there
and change the whole ventting system. What I am saying
is go up there and just give it a little visual,
a little inspection to see that those baffles are in

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place to keep the insulation over the attic and not
over the venting. Make sure there is no insulation over
the venting. Make sure there is by going outside, making
sure there's no spider webs or the vents haven't been
painted over all. Real important. Those little vents are very
very important. So do a little inspection of the attic.

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And then when you go up there, take your yardstick
with you or something and just see where you are
with insulation in that attic, you know, in the middle
of the between the rafters and between you know, are
there on the floor. Is it you know, is it done? Properly,
and what's the depth of that. Whether it's cellulose or

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far less or batting, I don't really care, but let's
or even foam. But let's see what the depth of
that is. The Department of Energy has zones. You can
find on the back of any bag of insulation at
your big box store, or you can go on line.

(07:19):
I'm sure like Owens Corning has that map. Apartment of
Energy certainly has that map, and it'll say, you know,
we recommend R forty two in the attic in are
nineteen in the walls or whatever. Those numbers change depending
on where you are in the United States or in
the world really, and then figure out if it's fiberglass,

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you're somewhere between an R two and a half and
an R three per inch of thickness. Foam's about it,
an R seven per inch of thickness. But your cellulos
and your fiberglass all right around that number of it
are two point five per inch of thickness. If you

(08:05):
weren't around it to three, that's fine in that a little.
It's not gonna hurt you if you put in too much.
And let's go ahead, and you're gonna find that there's
probably some settling, there's probably some degrading of like cellulos.
You don't quite have that insulating property that you thought

(08:26):
you had, or you did have it one time, So
getting a measurement on that. You know, if you're in
an R forty two, I'm guessing sixteen and eighteen inches
somewhere in there. If you get up there and there's
twelve inches of insulation, certainly something somebody can do for you.
Many people are more than happy to go ahead. That's

(08:46):
their business. Roofers do it. Insulators of course, and put
a bed of insulation down there on top of the
existing bed of insulation, and you're good to go. If
you want to do it yourself, that's great. A lot
of times I'll rent you a blower. Some places will
give you a blower if you buy so much insulation.
But I'll tell you what. It'll make your home quieter,

(09:10):
it'll make your home warmer, and it'll make your energy
bills a little more economical. And I don't care what
you're eating with it's gonna help. So just might think
about that. Not something we got a Russian do today.
But I'll tell you that first cold snap and It's funny.

(09:32):
We had some really hot temperatures this year and people
just don't get excited about it when it's hot of insulating.
But I like to start talking about insulation. Now get
on people's books. If you're going to have somebody do
it for you, because come November December, you want to
be rocking and rolling up to snuff, especially with energy prices.

(09:54):
Conserving that certainly key. All right, let me give you
the phone number happy to take your calls regarding your
home projects. It's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Grab a line. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.

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it we go twenty minutes after the top of the air,
talking a little home improvement on your weekend. It's eight
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question regarding your home? Quick tip for sure is changing
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the air conditioners running all the time, or real cold
and the furnaces run all the time, that air handler
has a filter of some sort on it, and depending
on the type of filter, the quality of the filter,
the amount of traffic in your home, it's imperative that
that's changed on a regular basis, because when you think
about it, that air conditioner or furnace is conditioning the

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air to the temperature that you have the thermostat's set to.
It's gonna run until that thermostat is satisfied. So if
you got seventy two degrees and it's got a dirty
filter that there there's got to go through, and yet
it's cooling the air or heating there, it's just putting

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out less volume because it can't pass through the filter.
Pretty elementary, and there's some filters out there that you know,
cost you under a buck and you really need to
replace those about every month. Then there's some you know,
five dollars pleated filters, need to replace those about every

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ninety days. Then if you have people with allergies and
pollen in the summertime, and you got the air conditioner
running all the time, you're in and out, you got
maybe kids home from school in the summer, that filter
is going to accumulate, you know, more gunk in the filter.

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And though it can be changed out every ninety days,
which is the recommendation, I'd like to at least at
sixty days, seventy day, you know, you know, a month
before it's expiration. Time is to pull that out and
hold it up to the light and just see how
clogged that is. If it's pretty you know, I'm not
going to say clogged, but covered with dust, change it

(15:17):
out because you're paying for that air being conditioned. If
it's not getting a thermostat to turn that baby off,
you're wasting money. So that's something you can certainly do
in ten minutes and not a bad idea to go
ahead and address that today. Yesterday I talked a little

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bit about this, and I've seen some cases this probably
in the last two or three months. As we as homeowners.
It seems like the trend is to search for more
living area. A lot of work is being done in

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garages converting those out to all kinds of things, from
a sitting area to a gym, an indoor gym. We're
just seeing that garage continue to get more and more
dressed up and to have it utilized differently than just

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pulling your car in. So you see garages transforming. Certainly,
basements have been going on a transformation for years and years,
and now as we get newer homeowners into the market,
you know, every day they look at unused, smelly, old
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home down there, and they start working on cleaning that up,
making that basement less polluted. If there's molds and mildews,
maybe that that musty smell, maybe there's a high humidity level,
but working on getting that cleaned up and turning it
into game rooms, offices, indoor gyms. So people are trying

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to utilize more of their area. We've also talked a
lot about how people have started outdoor living, and that's
been a trend for the last probably ten years. We
got TVs outside, we got fireplaces outside, We've got some
really nice living areas outside of our home. So we're
wanting more space, more areas to our home rather than moving.

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And one of the I guess byproducts of that trend
is when we start finding more area to create living space,
we find less area to store things. So we start
scrambling what are we going to do with that? Are

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we going to really start pitching some stuff, donating some stuff?
Where are we going with it? Well, one of the
trends I've started seeing recently as people looking up up
into their attic, Well, we could put stuff in the attic.
Be careful, beware. Those attic areas are not designed as

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a storage area. They are structurally engineered to support the
house and the drywall underneath the garage and stuff. You
start putting stuff up there, in fact, I wouldn't, especially
if it's a lot of stuff or heavy stuff, unless
I can solve a structural engineer to kind of get

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an idea of how much weight I'll be able to
put up there. There's different ways to accommodate storage up there.
It's almost like a lift where it fits into the
ceiling and then comes down and you put it in
there and then you crank it on up. It's not
really sitting on a given area, but there's ways to
accommodate that. But be very careful. Just don't go up

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there and Willie Nilly starts stacking stuff in the attic,
or you may start seeing cracks and drywall and along
the seams, and that's not gonna be a pleasant surprise,
So caution on storing stuff in attics. All right, love
to have your calls. It's eight hundred eighty two three
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thirty three minutes after the top of they are at
home with Gary Sullivan. Many of us it's for the
kids back to school time, whether it's a grade school
or off to college. And every year for probably I'm
going to say the last three or four years, we've
done some just back to school tips. And I know

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it's a matter of getting reorganized, getting schedules reorganized, getting
some messes maybe cleaned up. And I've been offering different things,
different tips on some of the Jaws cleaners, and whether
it's you know, a kid going off to college is
tough to get them to clean anything, if you've been

(23:13):
through that, but maybe a little pack of some of
the Jaws cleaners if you're not familiar with them. There
it's called Jaws because it's just add water system. So
when you run out of the cleaner, you literally put
water back in the bottle and put a cartridge in there,
put the spray through it, and you got another bottle.

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You're ready to go. The Jaws glass cleaner is good
for this back to school cleaners because this glass cleaner,
and maybe there's another one, maybe there's several of them,
but I'm telling you most glass cleaners you cannot and
do not use them on laptops, iPad screens, phones, TV screens,

(24:02):
computer screens. It will streak them permanently. The Jaws glass
cleaner will not do that. It will clean those screens.
So that's a good Jaws glass cleaner. I'm very easy
to use and literally it's a I guess you can
say it's streak free, but it does. You won't get

(24:23):
streaks with it outside. Jaws also has a disinfectant that
you can just kind of spray down backpacks and gunk
and again if you're off to college, that might be
a real good thing to have. And there's a cleaning
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It's they're all concentrated cleaners, like I said, and refillable

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and it's Jaws cleans dot Com and UH, check that out.
They've uh, they've done a really good job with some
very safe cleaners, some very effective cleaners, and uh and
economical in this standpoint, you're just not always running out
buying another bottle of cleaner. So I wanted to pass

(25:07):
that on. We've been doing cleaning tips around the holidays
and around school starts for probably the last three years
or so, and I know a lot of people have
thanked me for that, so I wanted to pass out along.
All right, let's go, let's go. Let Bill get us
kicked off the day. Bill, Welcome, how are you hey?

Speaker 3 (25:24):
Good morning Gary. I've got a double wide floor, a
final sided, had a fellow down there for several years
who would clean it. He was praying something on and
then ten minutes later he'd like, he do one side,
come back with a garden hose and just will hose
it off. Did a fantastic job. Well he stop doing it.
I have a feeling he's using something like wet and forget.

(25:46):
But from what I understand, you're saying it needs sun
and rain. Right, Can I put that on and immediately
wash it off? Like what's he's like what he is doing?

Speaker 1 (26:00):
No, no, no, the wedding forget it takes so you
spread it on, it dries and in between the sun
and the rain, it will eventually kill and it will
be a total kill of that fungus, mildew, mold, algae, whatever,
but it's not immediate. There is a cleaner out there

(26:23):
called thirty second cleaner, and I think it's a heavy bleach.
I don't know a whole lot about it, but I
know you got to do a really good job of
covering up any vegetation and things like that around it. Yeah, yeah,
pretty much. Just double check it. And that may be
that may be what he's using. I have not used that,

(26:44):
but I heard it's good and it says thirty seconds.
So I don't know if it works that fast or not,
or whether it's a permanent kill a few things. I
don't know all about it, but that sounds like that
could be what he's using. Most of those other cleans.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
He doesn't put anything down on the grass or I
don't have any shrugging around the house, huh. But he
didn't put anything down, and I've never I can't I
can't get a hold of him to find out exactly
what he was putting on the house. They appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Did the did the growth come back the next year?

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yeah? Yeah, it uh it turned it turned green on
the north side, right, and I used I do use
the wedding forget on the root and it does a
fantastic job up there. But this guy does it on
the side and he goes around my whole double wide
in about a little over an hour.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
I will well, I'll tell you again, if you use
that wedding forget and in the garden hose they have
the wedding forget where it connects to a hose, you
could certainly go around that the double wide in in
an hour. That that's not gonna be a problem. The
really good advantage of that is a total kill. So

(27:59):
next year it won't be green. The following year it'll
probably start turning green again. But it's a total kill.
It's safe to use. It's just takes four to six
weeks to you know, really get fully activated to make
to kill. But I don't know if that's really a problem.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
And I've got I've got a big carboard area and
there's a lot of final siding underneath that which the
son would never get to need with rain. Right, Well,
I may try. He doesn't do it anymore. I can't
find it. He did it for a hundred bucks. Everybody
else is charging two three hundred dollars. And I said, well,

(28:42):
I'm gonna try it myself and if I can figure
out what it is he's actually using, because it's not
hard to put on.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Oh no, if you can work, if you can work
a garden hose, you can put it on.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
Well, I was gonna spray and let my wife work
the garden hose. Kind of come after me.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
There you go, Thank you, appreciate, take care my by.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
You know.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
When we talk about the algae on siding and stuff,
I kind of chuckle. Uh. In one respect, we used
to make a cleaner. I used to give the formula
for a cleaner a lot on the radio, and it
did a good job. It was trying to think what
it was. It was a gallon of water, three cups

(29:31):
of bleach, a cup of powdered soap, and have at it.
Get it on there. But you had to scrub and
for years and years and years I gave that recipe.
Does it work? Yes it does, Yes it does now
there's a couple of precautions you have to know about that.

(29:53):
Number one, there's bleach in there, so you gotta be
careful with it. You gotta protect your eyes, protect your skin,
protect a vege, and that particular cleaner that I just mentioned.
You spray it on their lightly scrub and the stain
will be gone, but the stain it will not complete.

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It'll make it disappear, but it will not be a
complete kill of the fungus. So next year, next spring,
it'll probably come back. When the wind forget came on,
obviously a lot of people's you know, antenna went up
and said, well this is cool because I don't have

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to do anything. I connect this. You can buy it
in a concentrate and put it in a tank sprayer.
If you want to do a patio, you can get
a hose in. We just screw the garden hose to
it and spray it on the roof. It goes up
to like twenty five feet. You can spray the sighting,
you'd spray the roof. It's going to take four to
six weeks and that will be gone and it's a

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complete kill. That's the key. So what you can really
get yourself into is just wet it down every spring
and you'll never see that grain again. What caused this, Well,
what happened is when it usually probably more I mean,
it would do it on painted surfaces. Don't get me
wrong painted siding. But really what started it becoming a problem.

(31:24):
I think it's the vinyl sighting And you go like, well,
how can there be growth on vinyl sighting. Vinyl sighting
can't absorb the moisture. True, but they started putting finishes
on vinyl siding. They started creating a wood grain on
the vinyl siding. They're gonna fancy it up a little bit.

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They were gonna make vinyl sighting that was also smooth
and looked like a little bit of a textured painted
brush texture on the vinyl siding look good, both the
wood grain and the painted brush feel and look on

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vinyl sighting. There was a little texture to it. So
we had the ability to allow dust in organic material
to stick to it. Think about it mornings summertimes, Dwes fog. Moisture.

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Organic material doesn't have to go into the vinyl sighting.
All it needs is moisture and organic material outside. We
have organic material everywhere we got dust everywhere. All of
a sudden it starts sticking on his vinyl sighting that
now has a texture and you got a green film
on it. And I'll tell you right now, it's not

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worth your time or compromising your safety for you to
get out there with a pressure washer and start doing
your vinyl sighting. I know you might be lessen so
I do it all the time here. It's not a
big deal. Yeah, I know, but I'm telling you. For
the cost of the product, leg I'll wed and forget

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where you just spray it, don't forget about it. And
it's a complete kill and you're not going to run
the risk of maybe flipping some of this sighting off
or damaging the sighting. That happens people use a wrong
pressure You can't beat it, all right. Our phone number
is eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.

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Talking about your home improvement issues and you're at home
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minutes before the top of the hour. You're at home
with Gary Sullivan talking a little maintenance and repair of
your home. And if you'd like to join us, it's
eight hundred and eight two three eight two five five
and uh Danny'll take your call and we'll get you
h some information and back to work and no time
at all. All right, that being said, let's get to uh,
let's get to Bill.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
Bill, Welcome, good morning, Thank you for taking you.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Bet. I think it's got a.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
Got a family reunion coming in to my house, and
we want to clean up and spiff up and make
things just a little bit nicer than last time. And
I've got a concrete pad with the metal roof. It's enclosed.
The house is on the north side end on the
west side, so it's open to the east and to

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the south, and it's about fifteen by thirty with the
metal roof. And you can probably already guess where I'm
going with this and certain weather conditions. Oh, We're going
to enclose it with screen, not ever going to no
glass or solid so there's still going to be some

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air movement, but screen will keep the mosquitoes and the flies.
I've already sealed up a lot of the gaps and things.
But my problem is in certain weather conditions, that metal
roof will sweat almost like the rain shower. I can
almost see the cloud form up in. What can I
do to stop that metal roof from sweating?

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Well, in the in the environment you have, I'm not
sure there's gonna be much to do. I mean, what
you would have to do or what's causing it. Is
it mainly when in the springtime that it really sweats.

Speaker 4 (38:20):
Maybe so I've never really documented, but yeah, it's usually
early in the morning when it's maybe cool and outside
and on above that metal roof, but warmer and stagnant inside.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
The Yeah, yeah, so yeah. So one of the things
I'm not sure I have a real quick answer for you.
Basically you get the concept, I'm sure, and that is
when it's cold, that roof stays chili and then when
you get the summer that first uh, you know, showering, damp,

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couple damp days, maybe not raining, just damp, high humidity,
and that metals cold that it starts sweating. The condensation
forms on hard slick surfaces that would be of lower temperature.

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And because so what you need to do is you
need to create a thermal break. There is basically what
has to happen. Now, there are some insulated paints that
you could paint the underside of the metal roofing. Is
there any underlayment under that metal roofer? Is it just exposed?

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But my.

Speaker 4 (39:41):
Just off the top of my head, was put some
some pink insulation with the backing and then on top
of that some of the white foam insulation and cuts
that to the right size where it'll fit in the
three foot huh spaces and insulating maybe stop right.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
And it will and it will. That's kind of where
I'm going to. So you can get some you know,
you know, insulated paints which may help you a little,
won't be a full cure creating. What I would really
even take a look at is just using the foam boards. Yes,
and just even if you glut them tightly, uh you know,

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no gaps, uh and glut them on the underside of
that roof where there's that buffer, would eliminate exactly what
you're experiencing. Does the concrete sweat at all?

Speaker 4 (40:45):
No? No, that's that was that was done properly, so
there's no sweating there.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Okay, Yeah, I would say there's a yeah, yeah, yeah,
I got a screen port. Yeah, it sounds similar to
your but it's it doesn't have a metal roof, it's
got a shingle roof, and then we did a decorative
red oak ceiling on it. And even just the red oak,

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there wasn't much insulation put up there at all. But
there's no sweating, but the slab, the concrete slab in
the screen porch sweats because it's probably two steps off grade.
But yeah, if you there, there's different things you could do.
You could have the bottom side of that roof sprayed
with foam. You could have foam panels, you could use

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insulation and then maybe create some sort of decorative vinyl ceiling.
So there there's certainly you just got to get that
metal out of play on the inside of that porch
where you're gonna experience that condensation.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
Okay, On on the if I use the the foam panels,
the do I with I'm gonna use those ones with
the backing. Do I put the backing towards the rift
or towards the floor?

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Well, to be honest, since it's open anyway, it's not
gonna matter. Okay, Okay, what.

Speaker 4 (42:13):
I'm gonna do then I'm gonna have the white side
facing down right, which will brighten the room up that
much more.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. And those are pretty dense too.
I mean, you know, they're not like you know, packing
material where the you know, foam's breaking up. I mean
they're pretty dense. So you can go with an open
cell phoam and just use a foam construction adhesive and
a couple of dabs and set that up there and

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I think you'd be in good shape.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
Sounds good. All right, thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
You're quite welcome. Thank you, my boy. All right, our
phone number if you'd like to join us, and certainly
love to have you do so, it's eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five. You can go ahead
and grab the line. We'll talk about your home projects,
regardless of what it is. We kind of go the

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whole gamut in a lot of areas and happy to
talk about that. We talked yesterday too about talked about
getting in the attic and looking around. We also yesterday
talked about getting outside if you got some good weather
and kind of look around. Especially. I know a lot
of folks along the East coast with Hurricane Debbie, I've
found out they've probably had some problems with water entering

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their home and maybe it's a big problem, maybe it's
a fixable problem. We're happy to talk to you about
that also and eliminate that from your worryless fair enough again,
it's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five,
and go ahead and jump on board, and we'll be
happy to talk to you about those issues. Of course,

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the big thing whenever we're talking about controlling water, and
that's what it is. It's not about waterproofing. You've heard
me say it a lot. It's really about water control
and water control. What you're house starts all the time
around the gutters and if those are not functioning properly,
in other words, they're clogged, or they have a leak

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in it, or the connection isn't good going underground. If
those things are a little bit of skew, that water's
not controlled, that water is not being brought away from
your home. So that's something we want to check, that's
for sure. All right, Well, continue with your calls. You're
at home with Garry Sulomon.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Solutions to your home improvement as easy as calling one
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