The next Stefan Good Day download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in
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keep it off. One of the moments in this program that I look forward
to each week the time we spend together Tom Kreidler. Not that we have
a bromance going, but we've had a good time over the years, and
we've had mutual respect and admiration. Okay, this is the mutual admiration society.
That's good. All right. Tommy the Kay as the co host of
the Money Pit home improvement radio program, which has hurting a lot of these
same stations over the weekend. We have him here on Fridays on the Good
Day Program because we want you to adjust your tinfoil so that you're focused on
all of the things that you can be doing, especially as we go into
springtime, with ideas that come from the radio program, come from their podcast,
and come from the newsletter. And then there are listeners to this program
like Gary Petty, who lives in Havana, Illinois. He's working on pain
his windows and he says, I have one window that seems to be cloudy.
Is there a way to fix that or do I have to buy a
new window? So I would presume Gary that what you have is a thermal
pain window or a double pain window insulated glass, because insulated glass. Inside
the two panes of gas of glass, there is a gas usually argone that
provides insulation, and there's a seal on the inside of those two panes,
which we call swiggle, and when the swiggle fails, moisture gets into that
space and condenses. So the fogging is just moisture that broke through your thermal
pain seal and condensed on the inside of the glass. Now, can you
fix it? No, it's once it's broken, it's broken. Can you
replace it? Sure, but it's expensive. So I would suggest, though,
unless this is a window that's really bugging you it's super obvious and making
the house look bad, I would live with it because it doesn't terribly impact
Dug the amount of insulation ability of that window. I mean, sure it's
less insulative with the failed seal, but it's not like it's going to be
leaking a lot of extra air or anything like that. So it's mostly an
annoyance with a minimal impact on energy efficiency. So I would say unless it
really bugs bugs you, it's really impactful to the appearance of the house,
like it's your bay window or something. You see it when you pull up.
You know, I would leave it alone, all right. Speaking of
impact, you were in New Jersey or home state during that earthquake. Yeah,
it was what was it four point eight? I see that everybody's talking
about. It hit the whole northeast. I didn't feel anything up here in
Massachusetts, but you were sort of at the epicenter. Not that it was
a big one, but it surprises people because nobody thinks of earthwakes happening in
New Jersey. Right, Well, there's a reason for that. It's been
two hundred and fifty years. Yeah, okay, so there you go.
VINGO. I sit in my dining room and I was talking. I was
on a conference call, somebody from New York and somebody from Michigan, and
uh, I just got distracted because there was a truck that I thought had
gone by. We live on a on a road that can be busy sometimes
and usually a big truck goes by. You know, I can actually feel
the vibration like in the walls, you know, moments really yeah, but
it kept going. It's like, that's a really big truck. What is
the convoy trucks? And then my wife comes down and she's like, what's
going on? It said, I think we're having an earthquake, but can't
be. And then the guy in the York goes, yeah, it's it's
shaken here too. I'm like, holy cow, we're having an earthquake.
Yeah, so well what damage? No damage? I mean, my brother,
what's closer to the epicenter than I was, and he had a couple
of things fall off the shelf. But you know, it was it was
just so shocking that we had this happened in a state that doesn't seen one
in uh in such a long time. No, But does that change the
building codes? No matter where you are are are building, we're dealing you
know, I'm building this development here and we're dealing with changing building rules.
Yeah, things that you know, but the superstary. But do we have
protection everywhere? Do you think from this? I don't. I don't know
that the building codes are going to change in our part of the country,
but certainly if you live in an area that has no more prominent for earthquake
faults, like California. They have different building codes out there, and they
have different types of bracing and reinforcing that's done for homes that have that are
in an earthquake zone. There's retrofits that can be done. I mean,
when you have an earthquake, you think about this, buildings jump right,
So think about a building that could jump up off its foundation. So there
are different types of tie downs that are used to secure the framing to the
foundation, to secure the roof to the to the frame, and so on
to prevent it from that vertical movement. Do you wonder if there was ever
an earthquake in Florida all those buildings that are built on sand, even though
they put pylons down to the coral reef and stuff, you know, you
just have there well under there. Their issues are far far. It's just
a seria, certainly with the Hurricane Rusus down there, And yeah, that's
true. Insurance companies down there are ridiculous. They don't insure anything now,
so hard to get insurance down there well down in the same is true in
California. Yeah, I know. Both of my children have lived in different
parts of town, but they both have had the insurance companies said they had
the same insurance company and they just State Farm says, we're not writing anymore.
We're done, end of the year. Forget it, go find somebody
else. So why should we Why should we get people insurance in a place
that they actually need it? You know, right, No, you want
to do that? Well, we can't make any money we have claims.
Yeah, right, exactly. Hello, good question. Check out the money
Pit Moneypit dot com, Ford Slash newsletter and podcast. Great info, Tom.
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