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Sigretti of The money Pit home improvement radio program, podcast newsletter. This is
a whole industry. The money Pit is because it's aimed at helping you understand
the industry of home repair, home care, the whole. It's a big,
big business, like what sixty billion or more? What's spoke of the
sides of the market. Yeah, it's like three hundred and fifty to four
hundred billion dollar a year. Yeah, I was a little low there,
not my show. Oh come on, y'all should go to your show anyway.
Before we always get a question or two from listeners that we try to
address and talk about what's in the podcast and what's in the newsletter. Because
it is the weekend before Thanksgiving, a lot of people are trying to eat.
I noticed I saw in one trade publication that more stoves and ovens and
stuff or so this time of year and any of the time, is that
true. It is. It's a big season for kitchen remodels. Like everybody
wants giving done before the holidays. But you know, Doug, one of
the things that pretty much a lot of people do is they you know,
they clean, they scrub, they do all that kind of stuff. What's
the last thing they do before the holiday is that they run the self cleaning
cycle on their oven because they want to start clean with that turkey. Right.
That can be a really big mistake when you do it, especially too
close to Thanksgiving, because running the self cleaning cycle on an oven puts it
through more stress than just about anything else you can do with it. I
mean, it'll go up to sometimes a thousand degrees depending on your oven.
And if something's gonna break, it's gonna break then. So I don't recommend
you making that a last minute Hey, what else can I clean? You
know they've scruoked it all down, you know, don't clean up, clean
your up. You've got time for a repair. All right, there you
go, Where do the wives from the man who knows? Okay, here's
a lady listening at Chicago named Julie who's removed some disgusting sliding glass doors on
her bathtub, and now she's doing it to what she's trying to replace them,
and she's wondering whether she can do it herself or she hires somebody to
do it. Yeah, Jo, I don't know if you've priced out,
you know the price of shower enclosures and such lately and tub enclosures, but
man, are they expensive when they're made custom, really really crazy money,
thousands of dollars. So I said, Julie, Absolutely, you can do
it yourself, especially if you're working with a tub. There's going to be
standard sizes. There's a lot of variety out there, not terribly difficult to
install if you're reasonably handy. You may have to trim the metal track or
to size, so you may have to cut some mental there. But I
think it's definitely a DIY project that will save you a whole bunch of money.
All right, So there's a word to the wise. Now on the
podcast this week, you address what we were just talking about at a self
cleaning ovens. What else is there there for? I know you always try
to highlight things that are different than on the radio show. The podcast has
a different message because there's so much material. Yeah. So another thing now
is a good time to do is a roof inspection. And you think,
well, am I going up on my roof? Well, you don't have
to. So how can you inspect your roof? And what are you looking
for? This time? You're looking for cracked broken shingles. You're looking for
loose flashing around chimneys and where pipes come through the roof, things like that.
This is what causes the leaks. You don't want to have to go
up there when it's snowy and icy, or frankly, even a tradesman doesn't
want to have to go up there when it's snowy and icy. So how
can you do that? Well, if you have binoculars, you could do
a little scam. If you have a zoom camera, you can do a
scan. And if you got to thrown these days, you can find your
roof and take a good close look. I did that myself on a roof
not too long ago. And you know, I don't have a super great
drone, but it was good enough for me to make sure everything was was
in place. See you where a joystick running the drone around and crashing into
the side of the house or something like that. So all right, that
seems a good thing to do. Now here we have the newsletter and the
problems. It's interesting you're writing about mold. I just said to one of
the guys on the farm, we've got a gazebo and it's under a tree,
and the mold this year, because of all the rain, has become
a problem. So what do we do. Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned
that, Doug, because you know what everybody does call that green stuff that
gets onto the roofs and into the wood mold. It's not. It's rarely
mold. It's usually moss or algae or lichen. So these are plant growths,
not mold in the sense of the the climate comes from a gold by
from Ghostbuster. Yeah, it's not mold. But there's two things that you
can do. Number one is that you can spray everything down with the mill
to side. That's the commercial way. Number Two, you can you'll probably
notice that there's shade covering that gazebo if you let more sunlight get to it,
trimming back trees. And then thirdly, I'll give you a trick of
the trade. If you already able to get up towards the peak of the
gazebo or the peak of a roof. It's dirty like that. And if
you're to slide in some copper flashing like in between the top layer of shingles,
so it sticks out a little bit. As the rain hits that it
runs down the roof, it releases some of that copper. Where you can
do it with zinc flashing two and axes a Milda side and it cleans the
roof as it goes there. It is money Pit Slash Moneypit dot Com,
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