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Speaker 1 (00:30):
All right, it's the weekend. Welcome aboard at Home with
Gary Sullivan, and thanks for joining me. This hour was
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ahead and grab a line. One thing. When I was
just talking about cleanup of a flooded basement, you know,
(01:40):
if you if you tackle that project yourself, I would
recommend you not tackle the one where it's a sewer
line and a lot of bacteria, a lot of problems
there for sure one of the things that we're going
to hear a lot of going forward. We do after
(02:00):
every hurricane, after basements get flooded, after houses get flooded. Yeah,
you got it. It's obviously a massive cleanup. I don't
know if my brain would have a hard time dealing
with the size of the cleanup. It's just huge. But
we're gonna hear a lot of story about mold, and
(02:25):
that has to be taken an account. I know there's
two different sides of the magnitude of these issues, and
from a house getting hit with our hurricane and swamped
with water and versus your basement that got flooded. But
you know, if the house is standing and needs renovation,
you're gonna have problems with mold if the basement gets
flooded and you don't properly get that moisture out of there.
(02:50):
And I'm talking about you know, removing carpets, I'm talking
about moving flooring, I'm talking about cutting dry wall. I'm
talking about the scene at the insulation and behind the
walls wet that's gonna lead to mold problems. So it
might be something you know, if you're gonna do it,
make sure you understand what needs to be done and
(03:10):
how it can be done. Or we also last week
talked a lot about just looking at insurance policies to
see where your coverages. This is before we knew we
were gonna have problems this weekend. Know what your policy
covers and doesn't cover, and if you're up for a renewal,
do what Sue and I did this year. We sat
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down and literally literally went through every line. And my
wife's very good at that, and she's you know, I
was giving her the information of what I wanted and
what I wanted in coverage, and she was digging up
stuff that was in there, and I was going like, well,
(03:54):
we don't need that. And it's a bet in a
way when you're sitting there thinking, you're betting whether that's
going to happen here, hod right, and if it happens
to you and you don't have the coverage on what's
that going to cost us? That it's a bet. But
literally we peeled off probably twenty percent of the cost
off that bill, so you know what's in your insurance.
(04:15):
That's where I'm getting to and if you get professional
services for that, I would recommend that, all right, let's
get back to the phones. Jay welcome, Hey Jay, Jay,
I hear you there. We'll put them on hold. We'll
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go to Joette. Joette welcome, Good.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Morning, Gary morning. I'm telling about a storm door. We
have a storm door on the east side of our
house which has been there for about twenty five years,
and it's made of steel. Its color is it started
out as sort of a dark gray blue. It's very pretty,
and through the years, with all sun on it, it
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has faded out and gotten kind of chalky looking. We've
recently cited our home and now that door looks really tired.
I want to paint it, and I'm painted a different color, okay,
and I need some help knowing just exactly what steps
I need to take because I only want to do
this once.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
So the paint is just kind of ugly. Doubt it
hasn't worn off, correct.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
That's right, Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
So what we got to do is we got to
clean it to get as much of that chalking off
as we can. Okay, So we can use like an
oxygenated bleed. You could use a tri sodium phosphate. You know,
you'll be able to remove a lot of that oxidation
with a TSP to be honest with you, that's what
I would use, okay. And once you have that off,
(05:51):
is it an aluminum or is it steel or it
probably really.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Doesn't matter though, Yeah it's steel.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Okay. As long as that film is intact, you'll be
good to go. Okay. So once we get that oxidation
off again, scrubbing it down real good and remove it,
let it dry, take a white cloth kind of wipe
over it and see if we've removed all that oxidation.
(06:18):
If not, rinse and repeat right then, So you're going
to not paint it the same color as the sighting
I assume, or are you going to try and match that.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Or no, it's going to be an accent color.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay. All right, So there's a couple things you can use.
You can use regular We talk a lot about the
self priming exterior paints that are out on the market.
Every brand has one, ben more Bear Sherwin Williams has
their Emerald. That's probably one that I would be interested
(06:57):
in using. Um it's self priming. It's very tolerant to
the UV rays of the sun. It's also very tilent
and tolerant and mold resistance. And since there's already a
coat of paint on there, and it's self priming. You
would literally put two coats on and you'd be done. Okay,
(07:20):
that's one. Now, that particular paint is it's a house paint.
So you know what a good enamel finish looks like.
It almost looks like porcelain. It doesn't have that texture.
It almost has a texture of like a wall paint. Okay,
So there's a tiny, tiny tiny texture to it. It
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comes in flat, it comes in semigloss, comes in satin,
comes in gloss. But that's something you could use. And
that's what I have my doors with now if you
want it to look like an enamel finish, that real
smooth porcel and you can do that too. They have
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and it's under that Sherman Williams Emerald brand, so it
says Sherman Williams Emerald Euthane trim enamel. So that is
for doors, would work inside or outside, and it's got
that real smooth porcelain type finish. Comes in a satin
or a semi gloss. So I'll let you make that
(08:28):
your mind up there, whichever one you want. It's just
a little tiny different look. When we're being pretty specific here,
but both of them will work.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Is that your a thane for emerald ethane trim anamal?
Is it oil based or water based?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It is a alkyd acrylic with a euthane infusion, So
it's not a salt. It is not oil base, okay.
It is not oil base super party and looks like
an oil base is probably the best way to describe it, okay.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
So I don't need to stand it at all or
put it.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Well, it's probably not shiny if it's chalked that much.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Correct, Probably not.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, I mean, if it were shiny, you could take
like a four hundred wet dry sandpaper and scuff it
up a little bit. But my guess is that oxidation
has already taken the sheine off that and should need it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Okay, Well that's really helpful. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. Take care all right, we
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to get in, now's a real good time to do that.
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art art art, Well, I guess art's not there either.
Let's go to Steve. Steve welcome.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Hi Gary, can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I can, lovely.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
I'm calling from Ohio and I'm renovating an unheated pole
barn uh having just installed a new roof, and I
look at the insulation and the two by six feeling
I'm getting ready to install the insulation and vapor barrier.
(13:46):
What is the rule of thumb for using a baffle
on the underside of a roof deck when you don't
have a soft event. I don't see it down inside
to doing it except maybe the installation slightly compressed, But
is there?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Well, if you have a baffle on the roof, you
would be putting that there to release the heat. Correct.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
You know what I didn't tell you is this is
a cold roof. I laid two by wars on the flat,
so it's a cold roof with ventilation on the weather side.
I'm more concerned about I want to pass for air
to move, even though I don't have a safe on
the inside. I don't see downside.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
It seems like a cheap trick.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
So so your purpose of putting that there is to
exchange some air out of that attic and bring in
the indoor air.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
You know, I think it's I just don't like to
installation against the roof deck.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, probably making this a little more confusing. It needs
to be number one, it ain't gonna hurt you. Okay.
What I'm kind of trying to dig it is it
going to help you. So figure it this way. When
we have a building we are, let's say a house,
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and it would be heated, and that heat gets up
in that attic, and what we want is will and
get that heat out of the attic because it's not
really helping the house anymore, and it's cold up there,
and it can create moisture, and moisture can create mold,
so we got to give it a pathway to leave.
So you put ridge vents, shoe vents, et cetera. And
(15:44):
that hot air can't go out until cold air comes in.
So we usually have soff events. Now, I think you
might have said you had a gable vent. You didn't
use the word gable. I think you said the end
of the house. If there's a vent there and we
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have a you know, a box vent up on the
roof that's higher than the gable vent. In reality, that
air now has a pathway to replace. The hot air
will now rise, the cold air outside will be pushing
it in, and it'll have a pathway to leave, so
(16:25):
it would be advantageous. That's why I was asking you,
what are we trying to do If it's not heated
below and it's not heated up top, and you put
a vent in there, it doesn't really matter. It's not
gonna do.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Much, right.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
That's a good answer. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I appreciate it that.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I enjoyed the show, very good. Thank you. Take care
of very good. Yeah. Yeah, sometimes, and that's where we
get goofed up. And I'm always talking about so many roofs.
I'm always it's ventilation in insulation and ventilation insulation and
homes get goofed up because there's a formula to exchange
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the air. In other words, you got to bring in
so much air to remove the proper amount of air
in the attic. It's the convection. If you have a
nice big ridge vent and you got a couple turbines
up there, turbines up there, and you got one, two, three, four,
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little tiny soft events underneath the gutters around the primeter
of the house. You're in the heat of the summer.
You're not going to bring in enough ninety degree air
to push out the one hundred and thirty degree air.
So you're not going to be it's not going to
be effective enough. So it's got to be in bounce.
(17:53):
You got to bring in. You got to bring in
sixty percent and exhale forty percent of the formula. All right,
So when you're doing that, in all honesty, when you're
thinking about insulating, talk to the person that's doing the
insulation really about ventilation. It's it's a key component. Uh is. Seriously,
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as we talk a lot about Eric's changing units for
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changing units in attics because it's it's really kind of
what makes it happen, even the cold in the winter
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that people were always talking about covering up the vents. Well,
you still when it's cold outside and you've got a
vent and you got a heated house, that moisture comes from.
The heated part of the house has moisture in it
because there's warmer than the outside temperature in most so
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you still have to give it a pathway out. It's
just not a in the summertime thing. It's year round.
That air exchanging, that convection should be working. All right.
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And back to where we go at home with Gary Sullivan.
Another weekend, another weekend of getting some things done around
the home. And hopefully today finds you safe. With the
hurricane and the flooding we've had on the eastern side
of the United States, and uh why tragic some of
the amount of water that Asheville had, no question about that.
(23:02):
All right, let's get back to the phones. What do
you say? Let's go to Ron Ron.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Welcome, Thank you Gary.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
Listen the driveway question right now, the drive is stone
and about fifty years old with I'll say a turnaround
back in turnaround big enough for four cars, that's about
(23:29):
forty years old.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
And the stone I just I get tired, I guess
of thinking I need to add stone all the time.
I would like to consider concrete or blacktop. I know
they both require some ceiling and some service that over
(23:53):
a say, a period of twenty twenty five years. Which
one would be the most economical.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Well, the most economical one will be asphalt. Okay, longevity wise,
your asphalt driveway has got a lifespan. And I hate
to always use the word lifespan, but you know, I
mean could have problems in thirty five to forty years.
(24:25):
Your concrete driveway probably fifty to sixty five years. So
concrete's going to last longer. Concrete is probably more prone
to cracking than asphalt, right, I don't know if they're
installed correctly, both will last a long time.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
M okay okay.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
So it's a kind of how long are you going
to be there and what do you want to look at.
I'd say that asphalt probably require a little more makeness
and concrete, and that could prove not to be real
true either, because some of the asphalt sailors that they've
got out there now they have a ten year lifespan.
They actually have a longer lifespan than a concrete sailor.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Right right, Okay, uh would deck I uh am am
to the point now where I'm not able to refinish
it and keep it up. And there is a company
here in the Annapolis that says they are a sister
(25:36):
company and I went blank, I can't think of the name. Now,
sister company to the people who put the coating.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
On your house, oh Rner shield right right?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
M okay, So this is a ceramic deck coding aaron
for ten years against cracking, chipping, and fading, you name it.
Mm hm, but I never hear you talk about it.
I never hear anybody talk about it.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Just well, I haven't talked about it because I didn't
know they had that number one number two. I haven't
used it, so you know, I try not to talk
about things I haven't used, and if I haven't used,
I usually say I've not used it. But somebody told
me is really good. So I hate to do this,
but I'm gonna give you an answer. Okay, that category
(26:39):
coatings that give a wood decks extra life. Okay, so
they're old, they you know, they're they're they're they're they're
kind of on the way out. But we want to
get one good coating that can buy me five years,
seven years, ten years, you name the number, okay, right,
(27:00):
and those coatings came out I'm gonna say fifteen twenty
years ago. And I've answered this question many times when
I say, well, they do what they say they're gonna do,
and again I'm I apologize because I don't know if
the rhino shield coating falls in this, but I bet
(27:21):
it does. And it's a it's not a paint, it's
not a stain. It is a coating. Is a thick coating.
It's gonna cover cracks, it's gonna cover raised wood grains.
It's going to encapsulate the wood to give you extended
life before that deck has to be replaced, all right, Right,
So they do what they say they do that the
(27:45):
stuff you buy in a store, they usually talk in
a time frame of four to six years, okay, And
I'd agree with that. I think that's how long they last.
I've also will say those products can be very picky
if that surface is not prepared properly, and they're relying
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on Ron and they're relying on Gary to do that properly.
It's not like we're doing this every day of our lives.
So sometimes we don't do it properly. Sometimes we don't
even read the directions and they fail after four years.
A company, if they're putting their stamp of approval on it,
(28:35):
you know that ten year guarantee. I'd find out what
that entails. You know, that guarantee is probably as good
as the company and as good as the franchise, and
I've found them to be very good. But I'm not
familiar with that product. I'm certainly familiar with the runner
(28:55):
shield they put on the house they were very thorough,
very good prep work and did a great job. And
I plan on getting twenty five years out of that. Right,
So I didn't really answer your question, but you know,
that's kind of the history of that whole product line.
And my guess is they have just taken it, built
(29:19):
a little better mouse trap, and got professionals, so that's
properly prepared, et cetera. But another thing you might do
is how did they say how long they've had it?
Had it out on the.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Market about fifteen years?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Okay, why don't you ask for some you know, some
customers who had it done, you know, eight years ago,
ten years ago, five years ago. Think you should be
able to provide references for you that would make you
feel better. Make me feel better too, whether I know
that people or not. Right, that's what I would.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Do, Okat, no more quick questions. All right, Insulation, I
know you can get clo, you can get fiberglass and
bats and then fill you can get phone. What whatever
happened to rock wool is an insation a few years ago.
(30:20):
Basically I heard for sound that it was really good
for sound.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I'll tell you what they've got. They've got something similar
to rockwool. Now they've kind of redesigned rock wool is
the best way for me to e they explained. They've
kind of built it in panels now rigid panels, so
they'll stand by themselves in two by four openings. And
(30:51):
the name of the the name of the product that
I'm thinking about is called rock sol It's r O
x U L. I would answer your question, because your
next question is which one's best. I would take a
bunch of them and put them in the same hopper.
They all got pros, they all got cons and that
(31:13):
would be your cellulos, your fiberglass. You know, people say,
I'll sell those, well will settle Well, okay, yeah, we'll
to a degree. It'll be minimal fiberglass. Well, you know
that's what they use for filters. You know, it's not
really a super our value product. Yeah, I can't agree
(31:34):
with that too. I put those two in the same
same bundle. The rock soil, I would say, is maybe
a small step above that, and then the big step
is foam. The foam I think is changing the industry.
It's got it's got a couple advantages. It's got to
(31:55):
hire our value per inch of thickness that's number one.
Number two is it expands, so it eliminates drafts. It
eliminates drafts, and certainly fiberglass batting can eliminate drafts. So
(32:17):
I would say that would be my that would be
my go to product.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Okay, so yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
But check out that rocks Sol. It's pretty cool stuff.
I just saw an article. In fact, I copy and
paste it and sent it to myself. I haven't read
it yet, but Rocksol's been out on the market. I've
been to their booth at the Builders Show. It's good stuff.
It's definitely good stuff. All right. I appreciate to Carl,
Thank you very much. Let's take a break art you'll
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be up first. We'll continue at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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your home, talking about maintaining it, fixing it up, maybe
making a repair after some of the weather we've had.
Here's the phone number you can join us. It's eight
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We've got a spot for you in art. Welcome, hey art.
Speaker 9 (36:17):
Yes, Gary fire you are Okay. I have a tin
sign from about the nineteen fifties. It's painted, and I'd
like to put some kind of uh, wax on it,
but all the wax that I'm familiar with is a
cleaner and I don't want to have I don't want
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to take the paint off. Well, why are you suggestion?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Well, let me ask you this. If you got ten
and it is painted, why what what? You could use
car wax? But why do you want to wax it?
What are you trying to do?
Speaker 9 (36:57):
Just keep it from disintegrating or getting scratched?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Well, how long has that paint been on there?
Speaker 9 (37:06):
This is about nineteen fifteenth, that's about how.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Old the sign is, okay. And that and that pain
hasn't peeled, No, it.
Speaker 9 (37:15):
Doesn't peel, but it's got some you know, some surface
scratches on.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
It, okay. And so it's a sign with lettering. Also, yes,
it's not in bossed, it's just been painted, okay, but
it's got a lettering and a picture. And yeah, yeah,
n well, I think what I would do? I think
what I would do and I don't know if you're
gonna really you're going to clean it up a little,
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use a little soap and water on it, clean it up,
and then I'd use something like, you know, a turtle
wax car polish. I really would. It's not going to
prevent scratches. You're not going to find anything hard enough
to do that.
Speaker 9 (37:56):
Okay, but the only the wax that I'm familiar with,
and including car wax, it cleaned it too. It take
off the dirt or you know, a mark on the car.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 9 (38:11):
Wouldn't that take off the paint? I mean, the sign
is not as permanent as cars.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Well the old car whip. But now what I would do,
all right, in all seriousness, is first of all, wash
the sign down with just like don liquid soap and water.
Let's scrub that, rinse it with a hose. Nothing dangerous.
(38:37):
You're not going to cause any damage to that sign
at all. Let's just clean it up a little bit
and then once it's dry, get just regular you can,
you know, squeeze bottle of turtle wax. I've used it
on painted surfaces on a garage door before, and put
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it on it create you know a little bit of
haze and a cotton cloth and buffet and it'll shine
it up a little bit. It'll add a little bit
of protection, and just try it down in the far
right hand corner, left hand corner, an inconspicuous place, a
little dot, and it'll prove to you that it's not
going to damage the paint. Paint its damaged on the
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other side of the film. So what happens when paint
peels and becomes compromised, And you're certainly not having that
problem if it's been on there all that time. Hooray
for whoever painted that, because there's good adhesion. It's not
going anywhere. And if there's some chalking on there and
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some dirt on there, the soap and water and that
wax will take care of that. But it shouldn't harm
that paint at all. But give it a little test
run down in the corner. All righty, thank you much
for the call. I hope that helps. I was going
to say repaint it, but obviously that might not have
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been a good idea since there really went anything wrong
with the page, just needs cleaning up a little bit. Gail, Welcome,
good morning.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
A couple of questions. One is the millsec product. We
have tried using that and we're not having success cleaning
and then it leaves a film. What am I doing wrong?
Speaker 1 (40:29):
What are you cleaning?
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (40:31):
I'm sorry. Cabinets, just kitchen cabinets.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Okay, Well it will leave a little bit of film.
It will look almost wet for a day or two.
But the cleaning part, I've not experienced that. So tell
me where, tell me a little bit about the project.
Then you'd take the handles off and you're ready to go. Correct.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
I mean, I'm not taking the handles off. I'm just
trying to clean the cabinets. You know mostly where.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
The hands go, which is by the handle.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
They're maple, but they've you know, they're from the factory,
so whatever's on it, you know they put on it.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Mm hmmm. And you've read the directions on the mill
Sick you understand how it works and everything. But I
would take the handles off. I would put it on there.
I would let it sit for a while. And you're
using a microfibercloth or a cotton cloth, it's going to
take a little elbow grease. But I've never had it
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not take off. The gumminess and the gunk that's.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
On there, okay, and directly right, I mean, you just
take it directly from the bottle.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
On the ones that I did, I did, but just
read the directions and see if there's anything in there
that mentions different types of wood or different types of finish.
Just make sure you read the directions. But I have
used it both ways. I have an office where it
has stained panels and and cabinet drawers, and on those
(42:03):
I did dilute and another thing. Come to think, I'm
trying to run this thing through my head where it
talked about, you know, what it said in the directions,
See if there's anything in there about it not functioning
with your thing. Now, cabinets are usually a lacquer or
(42:26):
a varnish, but I wonder if that I think there's
something in there won't work on your thing. But you're
going to have to read it to make sure I'm
correct on that.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
So after you leave it on and then you, you know,
really try to clean it up, do you buffet eventually?
Isn't there a time that.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
You believe I would really say buffet. I think you're
just kind of using a little elbow grease to kind
of deep clean it. It's not that, you know, when
I've used it, it's just really easy, peasy, right, it's
not a lot of elbow grease. But those directions and
make make make make sure it doesn't say that it
(43:05):
may say that. And then I don't have a test
for you to find out if your canments are your
a thing. Most of them are lacquered or varnished, but
some could have been your thinge I don't know, all right, great.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
Well, And the other question I have is, we have
a deck and it's a rental and it's all concrete.
It's pretty big, it's probably about twelve foot by sixty foot,
and it's uneven, has some uneven even deep cracks in it,
and it and it doesn't look good. And I did
clean it this year and we're eventually you know, I
love the idea that wet it and forget it. We
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haven't used that yet, but it looks really bad and uneven.
What what could we do as a do it yourself
or instead of like putting a deck over it, because
it's it's just fine, except it looks really bad, like
to put another concrete over it, or a coating or something.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
So so would deck and when you say it's uneven.
Some boards are higher than the other boards.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
I'm sorry. It's concrete, complete concrete, okay, Okay, I mean
I'm sure it's fifty.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Years old, okay. And so there is coatings that can
go over the surface. There's resurfacing products, if that's what
you're asking. Quick Crete makes a resurfacing product. It's a
powder mixed with water and it's about the consistency of
an asphalt driveway seal. You move it around with a
(44:33):
squeegee in a broom to kind of level things out,
and it resurfaces all the patches that dings, the dents
and the cracks. So quick Crete resurfacer is I think
the product you're probably looking for on that. Hope that helps, Gale.
Thank you much for the call. We'll continue at Home
with Gary Sullivan.
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if you if you tackle that project yourself, I would
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there for sure one of the things that we're going
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every hurricane, after basements get flooded, after houses get flooded. Yeah,
you got it. It's obviously a massive cleanup. I don't
know if my brain would have a hard time dealing
with the size of the cleanup. It's just huge. But
we're gonna hear a lot of story about mold, and
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that has to be taken an account. I know there's
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from a house getting hit with our hurricane and swamped
with water and versus your basement that got flooded. But
you know, if the house is standing and needs renovation,
you're gonna have problems with mold if the basement gets
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about moving flooring, I'm talking about cutting dry wall. I'm
talking about the scene at the insulation and behind the
walls wet that's gonna lead to mold problems. So it
might be something you know, if you're gonna do it,
make sure you understand what needs to be done and
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how it can be done. Or we also last week
talked a lot about just looking at insurance policies to
see where your coverages. This is before we knew we
were gonna have problems this weekend. Know what your policy
covers and doesn't cover, and if you're up for a renewal,
do what Sue and I did this year. We sat
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down and literally literally went through every line. And my
wife's very good at that, and she's you know, I
was giving her the information of what I wanted and
what I wanted in coverage, and she was digging up
stuff that was in there, and I was going like, well,
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we don't need that. And it's a bet in a
way when you're sitting there thinking, you're betting whether that's
going to happen here, hod right, and if it happens
to you and you don't have the coverage on what's
that going to cost us? That it's a bet. But
literally we peeled off probably twenty percent of the cost
off that bill, so you know what's in your insurance.
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That's where I'm getting to and if you get professional
services for that, I would recommend that, all right, let's
get back to the phones. Jay welcome, Hey Jay, Jay,
I hear you there. We'll put them on hold. We'll
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go to Joette. Joette welcome, Good.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Morning, Gary morning. I'm telling about a storm door. We
have a storm door on the east side of our
house which has been there for about twenty five years,
and it's made of steel. Its color is it started
out as sort of a dark gray blue. It's very pretty,
and through the years, with all sun on it, it
(05:01):
has faded out and gotten kind of chalky looking. We've
recently cited our home and now that door looks really tired.
I want to paint it, and I'm painted a different color, okay,
and I need some help knowing just exactly what steps
I need to take because I only want to do
this once.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
So the paint is just kind of ugly. Doubt it
hasn't worn off, correct.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
That's right, Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
So what we got to do is we got to
clean it to get as much of that chalking off
as we can. Okay, So we can use like an
oxygenated bleed. You could use a tri sodium phosphate. You know,
you'll be able to remove a lot of that oxidation
with a TSP to be honest with you, that's what
I would use, okay. And once you have that off,
(05:51):
is it an aluminum or is it steel or it
probably really.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Doesn't matter though, Yeah it's steel.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Okay. As long as that film is intact, you'll be
good to go. Okay. So once we get that oxidation
off again, scrubbing it down real good and remove it,
let it dry, take a white cloth kind of wipe
over it and see if we've removed all that oxidation.
(06:18):
If not, rinse and repeat right then, So you're going
to not paint it the same color as the sighting
I assume, or are you going to try and match that.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Or no, it's going to be an accent color.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay. All right, So there's a couple things you can use.
You can use regular We talk a lot about the
self priming exterior paints that are out on the market.
Every brand has one, ben more Bear Sherwin Williams has
their Emerald. That's probably one that I would be interested
(06:57):
in using. Um it's self priming. It's very tolerant to
the UV rays of the sun. It's also very tilent
and tolerant and mold resistance. And since there's already a
coat of paint on there, and it's self priming. You
would literally put two coats on and you'd be done. Okay,
(07:20):
that's one. Now, that particular paint is it's a house paint.
So you know what a good enamel finish looks like.
It almost looks like porcelain. It doesn't have that texture.
It almost has a texture of like a wall paint. Okay,
So there's a tiny, tiny tiny texture to it. It
(07:42):
comes in flat, it comes in semigloss, comes in satin,
comes in gloss. But that's something you could use. And
that's what I have my doors with now if you
want it to look like an enamel finish, that real
smooth porcel and you can do that too. They have
(08:05):
and it's under that Sherman Williams Emerald brand, so it
says Sherman Williams Emerald Euthane trim enamel. So that is
for doors, would work inside or outside, and it's got
that real smooth porcelain type finish. Comes in a satin
or a semi gloss. So I'll let you make that
(08:28):
your mind up there, whichever one you want. It's just
a little tiny different look. When we're being pretty specific here,
but both of them will work.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Is that your a thane for emerald ethane trim anamal?
Is it oil based or water based?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It is a alkyd acrylic with a euthane infusion, So
it's not a salt. It is not oil base, okay.
It is not oil base super party and looks like
an oil base is probably the best way to describe it, okay.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
So I don't need to stand it at all or
put it.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Well, it's probably not shiny if it's chalked that much.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Correct, Probably not.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, I mean, if it were shiny, you could take
like a four hundred wet dry sandpaper and scuff it
up a little bit. But my guess is that oxidation
has already taken the sheine off that and should need it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Okay, Well that's really helpful. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. Take care all right, we
gotta fill up the lines again. If you've been trying
to get in, now's a real good time to do that.
We've got four or five lines open. It's eight hundred
eight two three eight two five five. Well take a break, art,
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art art art, Well, I guess art's not there either.
Let's go to Steve. Steve welcome.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Hi Gary, can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I can, lovely.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
I'm calling from Ohio and I'm renovating an unheated pole
barn uh having just installed a new roof, and I
look at the insulation and the two by six feeling
I'm getting ready to install the insulation and vapor barrier.
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What is the rule of thumb for using a baffle
on the underside of a roof deck when you don't
have a soft event. I don't see it down inside
to doing it except maybe the installation slightly compressed, But
is there?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Well, if you have a baffle on the roof, you
would be putting that there to release the heat. Correct.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
You know what I didn't tell you is this is
a cold roof. I laid two by wars on the flat,
so it's a cold roof with ventilation on the weather side.
I'm more concerned about I want to pass for air
to move, even though I don't have a safe on
the inside. I don't see downside.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
It seems like a cheap trick.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
So so your purpose of putting that there is to
exchange some air out of that attic and bring in
the indoor air.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
You know, I think it's I just don't like to
installation against the roof deck.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, probably making this a little more confusing. It needs
to be number one, it ain't gonna hurt you. Okay.
What I'm kind of trying to dig it is it
going to help you. So figure it this way. When
we have a building we are, let's say a house,
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and it would be heated, and that heat gets up
in that attic, and what we want is will and
get that heat out of the attic because it's not
really helping the house anymore, and it's cold up there,
and it can create moisture, and moisture can create mold,
so we got to give it a pathway to leave.
So you put ridge vents, shoe vents, et cetera. And
(15:44):
that hot air can't go out until cold air comes in.
So we usually have soff events. Now, I think you
might have said you had a gable vent. You didn't
use the word gable. I think you said the end
of the house. If there's a vent there and we
(16:04):
have a you know, a box vent up on the
roof that's higher than the gable vent. In reality, that
air now has a pathway to replace. The hot air
will now rise, the cold air outside will be pushing
it in, and it'll have a pathway to leave, so
(16:25):
it would be advantageous. That's why I was asking you,
what are we trying to do If it's not heated
below and it's not heated up top, and you put
a vent in there, it doesn't really matter. It's not
gonna do.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Much, right.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
That's a good answer. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I appreciate it that.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I enjoyed the show, very good. Thank you. Take care
of very good. Yeah. Yeah, sometimes, and that's where we
get goofed up. And I'm always talking about so many roofs.
I'm always it's ventilation in insulation and ventilation insulation and
homes get goofed up because there's a formula to exchange
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the air. In other words, you got to bring in
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little tiny soft events underneath the gutters around the primeter
of the house. You're in the heat of the summer.
You're not going to bring in enough ninety degree air
to push out the one hundred and thirty degree air.
So you're not going to be it's not going to
be effective enough. So it's got to be in bounce.
(17:53):
You got to bring in. You got to bring in
sixty percent and exhale forty percent of the formula. All right,
So when you're doing that, in all honesty, when you're
thinking about insulating, talk to the person that's doing the
insulation really about ventilation. It's it's a key component. Uh is. Seriously,
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as we talk a lot about Eric's changing units for
a whole house, and we need to talk about Eric's
changing units in attics because it's it's really kind of
what makes it happen, even the cold in the winter
time when it goes up there. I I still remember
(18:38):
that people were always talking about covering up the vents. Well,
you still when it's cold outside and you've got a
vent and you got a heated house, that moisture comes from.
The heated part of the house has moisture in it
because there's warmer than the outside temperature in most so
(19:01):
you still have to give it a pathway out. It's
just not a in the summertime thing. It's year round.
That air exchanging, that convection should be working. All right.
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And back to where we go at home with Gary Sullivan.
Another weekend, another weekend of getting some things done around
the home. And hopefully today finds you safe. With the
hurricane and the flooding we've had on the eastern side
of the United States, and uh why tragic some of
the amount of water that Asheville had, no question about that.
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All right, let's get back to the phones. What do
you say? Let's go to Ron Ron.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Welcome, Thank you Gary.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
Listen the driveway question right now, the drive is stone
and about fifty years old with I'll say a turnaround
back in turnaround big enough for four cars, that's about
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forty years old.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
And the stone I just I get tired, I guess
of thinking I need to add stone all the time.
I would like to consider concrete or blacktop. I know
they both require some ceiling and some service that over
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a say, a period of twenty twenty five years. Which
one would be the most economical.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Well, the most economical one will be asphalt. Okay, longevity wise,
your asphalt driveway has got a lifespan. And I hate
to always use the word lifespan, but you know, I
mean could have problems in thirty five to forty years.
(24:25):
Your concrete driveway probably fifty to sixty five years. So
concrete's going to last longer. Concrete is probably more prone
to cracking than asphalt, right, I don't know if they're
installed correctly, both will last a long time.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
M okay okay.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
So it's a kind of how long are you going
to be there and what do you want to look at.
I'd say that asphalt probably require a little more makeness
and concrete, and that could prove not to be real
true either, because some of the asphalt sailors that they've
got out there now they have a ten year lifespan.
They actually have a longer lifespan than a concrete sailor.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Right right, Okay, uh would deck I uh am am
to the point now where I'm not able to refinish
it and keep it up. And there is a company
here in the Annapolis that says they are a sister
(25:36):
company and I went blank, I can't think of the name. Now,
sister company to the people who put the coating.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
On your house, oh Rner shield right right?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
M okay, So this is a ceramic deck coding aaron
for ten years against cracking, chipping, and fading, you name it.
Mm hm, but I never hear you talk about it.
I never hear anybody talk about it.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Just well, I haven't talked about it because I didn't
know they had that number one number two. I haven't
used it, so you know, I try not to talk
about things I haven't used, and if I haven't used,
I usually say I've not used it. But somebody told
me is really good. So I hate to do this,
but I'm gonna give you an answer. Okay, that category
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coatings that give a wood decks extra life. Okay, so
they're old, they you know, they're they're they're they're they're
kind of on the way out. But we want to
get one good coating that can buy me five years,
seven years, ten years, you name the number, okay, right,
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and those coatings came out I'm gonna say fifteen twenty
years ago. And I've answered this question many times when
I say, well, they do what they say they're gonna do,
and again I'm I apologize because I don't know if
the rhino shield coating falls in this, but I bet
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it does. And it's a it's not a paint, it's
not a stain. It is a coating. Is a thick coating.
It's gonna cover cracks, it's gonna cover raised wood grains.
It's going to encapsulate the wood to give you extended
life before that deck has to be replaced, all right, Right,
So they do what they say they do that the
(27:45):
stuff you buy in a store, they usually talk in
a time frame of four to six years, okay, And
I'd agree with that. I think that's how long they last.
I've also will say those products can be very picky
if that surface is not prepared properly, and they're relying
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on Ron and they're relying on Gary to do that properly.
It's not like we're doing this every day of our lives.
So sometimes we don't do it properly. Sometimes we don't
even read the directions and they fail after four years.
A company, if they're putting their stamp of approval on it,
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you know that ten year guarantee. I'd find out what
that entails. You know, that guarantee is probably as good
as the company and as good as the franchise, and
I've found them to be very good. But I'm not
familiar with that product. I'm certainly familiar with the runner
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shield they put on the house they were very thorough,
very good prep work and did a great job. And
I plan on getting twenty five years out of that. Right,
So I didn't really answer your question, but you know,
that's kind of the history of that whole product line.
And my guess is they have just taken it, built
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a little better mouse trap, and got professionals, so that's
properly prepared, et cetera. But another thing you might do
is how did they say how long they've had it?
Had it out on the.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Market about fifteen years?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Okay, why don't you ask for some you know, some
customers who had it done, you know, eight years ago,
ten years ago, five years ago. Think you should be
able to provide references for you that would make you
feel better. Make me feel better too, whether I know
that people or not. Right, that's what I would.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Do, Okat, no more quick questions. All right, Insulation, I
know you can get clo, you can get fiberglass and
bats and then fill you can get phone. What whatever
happened to rock wool is an insation a few years ago.
(30:20):
Basically I heard for sound that it was really good
for sound.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I'll tell you what they've got. They've got something similar
to rockwool. Now they've kind of redesigned rock wool is
the best way for me to e they explained. They've
kind of built it in panels now rigid panels, so
they'll stand by themselves in two by four openings. And
(30:51):
the name of the the name of the product that
I'm thinking about is called rock sol It's r O
x U L. I would answer your question, because your
next question is which one's best. I would take a
bunch of them and put them in the same hopper.
They all got pros, they all got cons and that
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would be your cellulos, your fiberglass. You know, people say,
I'll sell those, well will settle Well, okay, yeah, we'll
to a degree. It'll be minimal fiberglass. Well, you know
that's what they use for filters. You know, it's not
really a super our value product. Yeah, I can't agree
(31:34):
with that too. I put those two in the same
same bundle. The rock soil, I would say, is maybe
a small step above that, and then the big step
is foam. The foam I think is changing the industry.
It's got it's got a couple advantages. It's got to
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hire our value per inch of thickness that's number one.
Number two is it expands, so it eliminates drafts. It
eliminates drafts, and certainly fiberglass batting can eliminate drafts. So
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I would say that would be my that would be
my go to product.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Okay, so yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
But check out that rocks Sol. It's pretty cool stuff.
I just saw an article. In fact, I copy and
paste it and sent it to myself. I haven't read
it yet, but Rocksol's been out on the market. I've
been to their booth at the Builders Show. It's good stuff.
It's definitely good stuff. All right. I appreciate to Carl,
Thank you very much. Let's take a break art you'll
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be up first. We'll continue at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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minutes before the top of the arm. We're talking about
your home, talking about maintaining it, fixing it up, maybe
making a repair after some of the weather we've had.
Here's the phone number you can join us. It's eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five, grab a line.
We've got a spot for you in art. Welcome, hey art.
Speaker 9 (36:17):
Yes, Gary fire you are Okay. I have a tin
sign from about the nineteen fifties. It's painted, and I'd
like to put some kind of uh, wax on it,
but all the wax that I'm familiar with is a
cleaner and I don't want to have I don't want
(36:39):
to take the paint off. Well, why are you suggestion?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Well, let me ask you this. If you got ten
and it is painted, why what what? You could use
car wax? But why do you want to wax it?
What are you trying to do?
Speaker 9 (36:57):
Just keep it from disintegrating or getting scratched?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Well, how long has that paint been on there?
Speaker 9 (37:06):
This is about nineteen fifteenth, that's about how.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Old the sign is, okay. And that and that pain
hasn't peeled, No, it.
Speaker 9 (37:15):
Doesn't peel, but it's got some you know, some surface
scratches on.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
It, okay. And so it's a sign with lettering. Also, yes,
it's not in bossed, it's just been painted, okay, but
it's got a lettering and a picture. And yeah, yeah,
n well, I think what I would do? I think
what I would do and I don't know if you're
gonna really you're going to clean it up a little,
(37:42):
use a little soap and water on it, clean it up,
and then I'd use something like, you know, a turtle
wax car polish. I really would. It's not going to
prevent scratches. You're not going to find anything hard enough
to do that.
Speaker 9 (37:56):
Okay, but the only the wax that I'm familiar with,
and including car wax, it cleaned it too. It take
off the dirt or you know, a mark on the car.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 9 (38:11):
Wouldn't that take off the paint? I mean, the sign
is not as permanent as cars.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Well the old car whip. But now what I would do,
all right, in all seriousness, is first of all, wash
the sign down with just like don liquid soap and water.
Let's scrub that, rinse it with a hose. Nothing dangerous.
(38:37):
You're not going to cause any damage to that sign
at all. Let's just clean it up a little bit
and then once it's dry, get just regular you can,
you know, squeeze bottle of turtle wax. I've used it
on painted surfaces on a garage door before, and put
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it on it create you know a little bit of
haze and a cotton cloth and buffet and it'll shine
it up a little bit. It'll add a little bit
of protection, and just try it down in the far
right hand corner, left hand corner, an inconspicuous place, a
little dot, and it'll prove to you that it's not
going to damage the paint. Paint its damaged on the
(39:26):
other side of the film. So what happens when paint
peels and becomes compromised, And you're certainly not having that
problem if it's been on there all that time. Hooray
for whoever painted that, because there's good adhesion. It's not
going anywhere. And if there's some chalking on there and
(39:47):
some dirt on there, the soap and water and that
wax will take care of that. But it shouldn't harm
that paint at all. But give it a little test
run down in the corner. All righty, thank you much
for the call. I hope that helps. I was going
to say repaint it, but obviously that might not have
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been a good idea since there really went anything wrong
with the page, just needs cleaning up a little bit. Gail, Welcome,
good morning.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
A couple of questions. One is the millsec product. We
have tried using that and we're not having success cleaning
and then it leaves a film. What am I doing wrong?
Speaker 1 (40:29):
What are you cleaning?
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (40:31):
I'm sorry. Cabinets, just kitchen cabinets.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Okay, Well it will leave a little bit of film.
It will look almost wet for a day or two.
But the cleaning part, I've not experienced that. So tell
me where, tell me a little bit about the project.
Then you'd take the handles off and you're ready to go. Correct.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
I mean, I'm not taking the handles off. I'm just
trying to clean the cabinets. You know mostly where.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
The hands go, which is by the handle.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
They're maple, but they've you know, they're from the factory,
so whatever's on it, you know they put on it.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Mm hmmm. And you've read the directions on the mill
Sick you understand how it works and everything. But I
would take the handles off. I would put it on there.
I would let it sit for a while. And you're
using a microfibercloth or a cotton cloth, it's going to
take a little elbow grease. But I've never had it
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not take off. The gumminess and the gunk that's.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
On there, okay, and directly right, I mean, you just
take it directly from the bottle.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
On the ones that I did, I did, but just
read the directions and see if there's anything in there
that mentions different types of wood or different types of finish.
Just make sure you read the directions. But I have
used it both ways. I have an office where it
has stained panels and and cabinet drawers, and on those
(42:03):
I did dilute and another thing. Come to think, I'm
trying to run this thing through my head where it
talked about, you know, what it said in the directions,
See if there's anything in there about it not functioning
with your thing. Now, cabinets are usually a lacquer or
(42:26):
a varnish, but I wonder if that I think there's
something in there won't work on your thing. But you're
going to have to read it to make sure I'm
correct on that.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
So after you leave it on and then you, you know,
really try to clean it up, do you buffet eventually?
Isn't there a time that.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
You believe I would really say buffet. I think you're
just kind of using a little elbow grease to kind
of deep clean it. It's not that, you know, when
I've used it, it's just really easy, peasy, right, it's
not a lot of elbow grease. But those directions and
make make make make sure it doesn't say that it
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may say that. And then I don't have a test
for you to find out if your canments are your
a thing. Most of them are lacquered or varnished, but
some could have been your thinge I don't know, all right, great.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
Well, And the other question I have is, we have
a deck and it's a rental and it's all concrete.
It's pretty big, it's probably about twelve foot by sixty foot,
and it's uneven, has some uneven even deep cracks in it,
and it and it doesn't look good. And I did
clean it this year and we're eventually you know, I
love the idea that wet it and forget it. We
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haven't used that yet, but it looks really bad and uneven.
What what could we do as a do it yourself
or instead of like putting a deck over it, because
it's it's just fine, except it looks really bad, like
to put another concrete over it, or a coating or something.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
So so would deck and when you say it's uneven.
Some boards are higher than the other boards.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
I'm sorry. It's concrete, complete concrete, okay, Okay, I mean
I'm sure it's fifty.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Years old, okay. And so there is coatings that can
go over the surface. There's resurfacing products, if that's what
you're asking. Quick Crete makes a resurfacing product. It's a
powder mixed with water and it's about the consistency of
an asphalt driveway seal. You move it around with a
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squeegee in a broom to kind of level things out,
and it resurfaces all the patches that dings, the dents
and the cracks. So quick Crete resurfacer is I think
the product you're probably looking for on that. Hope that helps, Gale.
Thank you much for the call. We'll continue at Home
with Gary Sullivan.
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