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Speaker 1: we do on Saturday mornings, we are taking calls. You
Speaker 1: get to set the agenda for what the show is
Speaker 1: all about today, whether it be construction questions, DIY concerns,
Speaker 1: design and architectural questions, any and all of the above,
Speaker 1: anything regarding your home. And we were talking to Yvonne.
Speaker 1: I popped her on, hold, eyvon are you still with me?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: I am all right. So, Yvonne, they bought a house,
Speaker 1: a four year old house with a really really bad
Speaker 1: cat odor problem and some black mold and they're doing
Speaker 1: mold remediation now, and Vaughan has concerns about whether or
Speaker 1: not that's going to be enough to get rid of
Speaker 1: the cats smell out of the house because it's pretty bad.
Speaker 1: And so what are the guarantees there? And then what
Speaker 1: kind of flooring to put in? Von One thing I
Speaker 1: did not ask you before we went to break is
Speaker 1: the house. Is it a raised foundation house? Is it
Speaker 1: a concrete slab that we're concerned about? Is it upstairs? Downstairs?
Speaker 1: Where is the odor concern?
Speaker 2: It's a single story, twenty two hundred square feet slab.
Speaker 3: One of the rooms.
Speaker 2: They pulled the flooring off before they found the mold.
Speaker 2: It has that yellow like spongy thing under the flooring
Speaker 2: before you get to the concrete.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, and is the problem throughout the entire house?
Speaker 1: As far as you know, are all the floors coming up?
Speaker 2: I well, about seventy percent of them smell of the
Speaker 2: of the area's snell. And so you know, we could
Speaker 2: either leave and hope that the other parts aren't gonna
Speaker 2: spell later on, or take the whole thing up. So
Speaker 2: we think we're just going to take the whole flooring
Speaker 2: up and start fresh.
Speaker 1: I think that is actually the best idea, honestly, because
Speaker 1: there's there's no guarantee that you know, when the thing
Speaker 1: is smell. An odor is such a distributed and diffused thing.
Speaker 1: There's no guarantee just because one or two rooms may
Speaker 1: just smell intensely awful. You might come out of that
Speaker 1: room and think, well, you know, we're in this other
Speaker 1: room in the house and it doesn't really smell at
Speaker 1: all by comparison, right, But what happens what happens when
Speaker 1: the worst of the odor is gone and then you realize,
Speaker 1: oh no, there was there was odor here too, it
Speaker 1: just wasn't as intense, And so we thought there wasn't.
Speaker 1: So when it comes to this, when it comes to
Speaker 1: a cat person house where cats have had free rain,
Speaker 1: my suggestion is, yeah, let's start over from scratch as
Speaker 1: far as the flooring is concerned. But the good news
Speaker 1: is this, when it comes to mold and when it
Speaker 1: comes to cat odor, it is treatable, all right, So
Speaker 1: there is hope. It's not an impossible thing, but you
Speaker 1: got to be thorough. So Number one, yeah, we're going
Speaker 1: to pull that flooring. Number Two, you get the mold
Speaker 1: remediation done right, and that's going to help. By the way,
Speaker 1: the mold remediation just by itself is going to be
Speaker 1: of great assistance because it will address some common root issues. However,
Speaker 1: just to be clear, mold remediation is not odor neutralization.
Speaker 1: When it comes to cat pe cat P, it's uric acid.
Speaker 1: It's an acid that is embedded in there in their urine.
Speaker 1: That uric acid, it's got a lot of ammonia in it,
Speaker 1: and and that's why it's just an unbelievably unpleasant smell.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And that that gets embedded into surfaces concrete slab, which
Speaker 1: of course is porous, even the base board and the
Speaker 1: lower areas of the dry wall. So how do we
Speaker 1: deal with that? We do the mold remediation and then
Speaker 1: then you've got a two step process here if you
Speaker 1: want to absolutely guarantee that you're not going to be
Speaker 1: dealing with again. First is a really good quality enzymatic
Speaker 1: cleaner enzyme cleaner. Okay, an enzymatic UH, a bioenzymatic UH
Speaker 1: cleaner is uses enzymes. And what enzymes do is they uh,
Speaker 1: they're they're they're this this wonderful biological weapon that get
Speaker 1: in and they will break apart the bonds of the
Speaker 1: urine uric acid molecules and therefore render them neutralized. Now,
Speaker 1: you got to use a lot of it, especially in
Speaker 1: a slab, you know, And so you douse that slab
Speaker 1: in enzymatic cleaner and you let those enzymes do their
Speaker 1: job and do it thoroughly. You can also use the
Speaker 1: enzymatic cleaner on lower areas of dry wall walls, but
Speaker 1: we you know, we want to give it an absolute
Speaker 1: thorough clean. And then both the walls and the slab
Speaker 1: I want to once we know that the enzymes have
Speaker 1: done their job and the and the odors are gone,
Speaker 1: then we want to seal them because I don't want
Speaker 1: anything low in remaining to come back, and so I
Speaker 1: want to put a good concrete seiler on top of
Speaker 1: that concrete all the way across the slab. It's not expensive,
Speaker 1: not expensive at all. Penetrating steeler, you can mop it on,
Speaker 1: you can rag it on. But we want to seal
Speaker 1: that concrete, so just to make sure that nothing else
Speaker 1: that the enzyme possibly for some reason didn't reach, is
Speaker 1: going to find its way back through again and also
Speaker 1: stop uh you know, a mold from having any chance
Speaker 1: of grabbing hold again. So we want to seal the slab.
Speaker 1: And then when it comes to the walls, the lower
Speaker 1: parts of the walls, if there's if there's any concern
Speaker 1: whatsoever there, then there are products out there like made
Speaker 1: from zinser uh that makes an odor killing primer, eint primer. Okay,
Speaker 1: that can go on the walls. But here is here
Speaker 1: is my big yeah. So so so just be thorough,
Speaker 1: you know, hit it the multi layer approach. The thing
Speaker 1: about mold and cat urine, they are so annoying and
Speaker 1: and uh and so unpleasant, and yet once they've been
Speaker 1: exposed to the light of day, they are not at
Speaker 1: all difficult to get rid of, because you know, it's
Speaker 1: not like mold will stand there and look you in
Speaker 1: the face and say you can't deal with me. I'm here.
Speaker 1: You know, once mold is exposed and it has lost
Speaker 1: it's moisture and it's in its warm, cozy hiding place,
Speaker 1: it's easy to kill the cat urine. When we reach
Speaker 1: it with the ensmatic cleaners, it's easy to neutralize. It's
Speaker 1: just a matter of making sure that you're thorough. Now
Speaker 1: your other question about flooring, okay, just a minute, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: So the room that we had already taken the flooring up,
Speaker 2: we had the professional person do this. He said, there's
Speaker 2: more you need to take care of it. But anyway,
Speaker 2: the concrete underneath it is etched with the cat urine. See,
Speaker 2: and so he was saying, you need to scrub up
Speaker 2: the concrete first.
Speaker 3: Is that like rough it up?
Speaker 4: Have you ever heard that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not exactly sure what he's referring to. The
Speaker 1: concrete is etched and meaning is it is it powder read?
Speaker 1: Is it is it has it lost its consistency? Is
Speaker 1: he saying that the concrete is is weak?
Speaker 2: He's saying that when you look at it and touch it.
Speaker 2: So you look at it and it's they're yellow lines
Speaker 2: where the urine soaked through the the sub I don't
Speaker 2: know what you call that. So it's yellow and there
Speaker 2: are lines in it that are pits, pitted. Okay, it's pitted.
Speaker 2: That's the word I was looking for. I didn't say
Speaker 2: it's not structurally sound, but it's definitely changed and it's
Speaker 2: not flat. It's there.
Speaker 1: I think you understand, right, Yeah, that's not a big concern.
Speaker 1: I mean, as long as long as there isn't like
Speaker 1: a major floor inconsistency in the level, not really not
Speaker 1: really are concerned. My concern is making sure that the
Speaker 1: uric acid is neutralized in the slab. If the slab
Speaker 1: is a little inconsistent or it's suffering some scars from
Speaker 1: what it's been through, not the primary concern. And that
Speaker 1: was going to lead to my next flooring question, which is,
Speaker 1: if you guys are looking for a floor that's going
Speaker 1: to last you ten fifteen years, going to be easy
Speaker 1: to install, easy to maintain, then you may want to consider,
Speaker 1: and that doesn't break the bank on you, you may
Speaker 1: want to consider a hard surface floor, resilient floor like
Speaker 1: a luxury vinyl plank floor. Okay, it's a floating floor.
Speaker 1: It essentially lays on top of the slab. It makes
Speaker 1: up for inconsistencies in the slab. It lays like carpet,
Speaker 1: it's got a little pad underneath. It, waterproof, it is very,
Speaker 1: very durable, and we're really kind of in the golden
Speaker 1: age of luxury vinyl plank flooring right now, so you've
Speaker 1: got a lot of options. It's warm, it's very realistic looking,
Speaker 1: and again, even if something goes wrong, it's something that
Speaker 1: can be unclicked in place, dealt with, and put back
Speaker 1: down again. So there there are a lot of benefits
Speaker 1: from it, and maybe the best benefit of all for
Speaker 1: all of that, some of the most expensive, highest level
Speaker 1: luxury vinyl playing floors out there are in the about
Speaker 1: the six dollars a square foot category, which which is
Speaker 1: way less expensive than tile or real hard wood, and
Speaker 1: in even some carpets. And so that's probably where I
Speaker 1: would actually point you in the direction of checking that
Speaker 1: out and seeing if that's something that pleases you, because
Speaker 1: I think it would do you a good service after
Speaker 1: all of this is done, but most importantly, ivon, most importantly,
Speaker 1: after you've treated these floors, don't rush to put the
Speaker 1: new floor down. Make sure, because maybe you've done one
Speaker 1: dose of the Enzmatic cleaner and it seems like it's
Speaker 1: all done. You wait, you wait, you wait and wait
Speaker 1: and wait several days to make sure. You know what,
Speaker 1: it's been two or three weeks that odor is gone.
Speaker 1: All right, fine, Now we're gonna cover the floor with
Speaker 1: our new flooring material. Don't rush to cover that floor
Speaker 1: until you absolutely know that that odor has been neutralized,
Speaker 1: because you'll get it. You'll get there, okay, but it
Speaker 1: may take more than one treatment to do it, and
Speaker 1: so you just don't want to assume that you do
Speaker 1: it once and then you rush it out. Ivon, I
Speaker 1: am running late to break, but thank you for your questions.
Speaker 1: Good luck on the floor, Enzymatic cleaners, odor ceiling primer
Speaker 1: for the bottom of the walls. It's gonna work. I
Speaker 1: promise you. Just do your due diligence, all right, y'all,
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Speaker 1: Dean Sharp the house Whisper. Dean Sharp, the house Whisper,
Speaker 1: at your service. We're taking your calls this morning, like
Speaker 1: we do on Saturday mornings. Anything from construction questions to
Speaker 1: DIY concerns to design and architectural issues. That's why I'm
Speaker 1: here here to help you out, here to help you
Speaker 1: transform your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to Grace. Grace from home.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Gane. I'm an eighty nine year old goo
Speaker 5: at yourselfer, and you have given me so much good
Speaker 5: information over the years. I thank you. Now I have
Speaker 5: up two patio covers which I built, and I put
Speaker 5: down that composite roofing. You know that you you cut
Speaker 5: and put down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and.
Speaker 5: You talked about a couple of weeks ago self ceiling underlayment. Yes,
Speaker 5: now I bought. I bought some And can I put
Speaker 5: this self ceiling underlayment over my existing shingles and then
Speaker 5: put new shingles on top of it? Or do I
Speaker 5: have to take the old shingles off and put it
Speaker 5: down and shuttle all over again.
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: You should take the old shingles off. You really should.
Speaker 1: Probably not what you wanted to hear, but you should.
Speaker 1: Self ceiling under layman. It's flexible, okay, and uh, and
Speaker 1: so so let me be clear, just by way of education,
Speaker 1: self ceiling under layman is flexible. It's stretchy. Uh and uh,
Speaker 1: will will it lay over the existing shingles? Sure? And
Speaker 1: will it do its job? Likely? Yeah? And then you
Speaker 1: put other shingles on top of it, or you going
Speaker 1: to have a leak. Probably not. But here is the thing.
Speaker 1: It's not recommended, it's not warrantied for that. And the
Speaker 1: one issue that you could develop is moisture issues because
Speaker 1: the self ceiling underlayment is not designed to seal against
Speaker 1: the uneven surface and the granulated surface of those existing shingles.
Speaker 1: What it really wants, it wants that smooth plywood roof
Speaker 1: to nice and clean and dust free, to stick to
Speaker 1: and just become one with. And then you lay shingles
Speaker 1: on top of that. So the best thing that you
Speaker 1: can do is pull those existing shingles off, clear up
Speaker 1: that deck, and have the self ceiling underlayman. And now
Speaker 1: the good news is for the future. You lay down one,
Speaker 1: you lay down a layer of shingles, and if the
Speaker 1: next time that you're thinking about or anybody's thinking about
Speaker 1: putting a new roof on that, you could add another
Speaker 1: layer of shingles on top of the existing layer of shingles.
Speaker 1: With that underlayman, you can go up to two layers
Speaker 1: thick by code before you have to tear the whole
Speaker 1: thing off and start again. But where you're at right now,
Speaker 1: if there's a problem with that existing roof and it's
Speaker 1: time to redo it, get all the way down to
Speaker 1: the wood and then lay down those self ceiling underlayman sheets.
Speaker 5: Okay, So do I take the paper off too?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Because the Yeah, because the self feeling underlayment replaces the paper.
Speaker 1: There's no need for paper. It is the new improved
Speaker 1: roofing paper.
Speaker 5: All right, Thank you so much. I do appreciate you.
Speaker 5: And it's amazing what you do for me. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Oh Grace, You're so kind. You're so kind. It's amazing
Speaker 1: that you are diying at eighty nine. I just I
Speaker 1: just love that. I love that. I love your energy.
Speaker 1: You stay safe and keep listening and keep doing it
Speaker 1: the right way. I'm not going to steer. You're wrong,
Speaker 1: all right, y'all. More of your calls when we return
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Speaker 1: an ordinary house into an extraordinary home. Saturday mornings we
Speaker 1: take calls. I want to go back to the board
Speaker 1: right now. Let's talk to Let's talk to Kathy. Hey, Kathy,
Speaker 1: welcome home.
Speaker 4: Hi Dean. I'm so happy to be able to contact
Speaker 4: to you. I love your show and I have a
Speaker 4: serious problem. I have no idea what to do, so
Speaker 4: I figured you'd be the right person to talk to. Okay, okay,
Speaker 4: So I've lived in the same house for twenty three years.
Speaker 4: We have a pitched roof with Spanish tiles, and never
Speaker 4: had this problem before, but just recently, I can hear
Speaker 4: animals in the attic in my bedroom above and it
Speaker 4: sounds like they're scratching very loudly, like they're going to
Speaker 4: come through the ceiling. And then you can also hear
Speaker 4: a little little baby sounds. So I'm pretty sure whatever's
Speaker 4: up there is vested and has had some baby animals
Speaker 4: as well, And I have no idea what to do,
Speaker 4: and I don't know if I need to call a
Speaker 4: wildlife control Kenny or a service. That's how I'd give
Speaker 4: you a call.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, Yeah, Yeah, You've got some very very likely
Speaker 1: rodents up there who have found a way to get
Speaker 1: into your attic because your attic is so nice and warm,
Speaker 1: and it's so cozy, and it's full of insulation, and
Speaker 1: they like to make bedding, and they can nest and
Speaker 1: they can have their little babies, and it's a whole thing.
Speaker 1: You want to call a conscientious company. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: right now, if you live in southern California, I want
Speaker 1: you to call Ecola. Okay, and you want to call
Speaker 1: just so everybody knows, you want to call a pest
Speaker 1: control company that conscientiously handles these kinds of things. Eco
Speaker 1: La does. They also specialize in rodent exclusion and attic
Speaker 1: cleanup because there are there are things. We don't know
Speaker 1: how extensive what's going on up there is, but you know,
Speaker 1: once there are animals in the attic and they're peeing
Speaker 1: in their their droppings are everywhere. We want to get
Speaker 1: all of that cleaned up, and we want to get
Speaker 1: your attic. You know, sterilized again, and so you need
Speaker 1: to have somebody evaluate it. And first of all, the first,
Speaker 1: the most important two steps is getting the kids that
Speaker 1: are up there now, getting them out, and then making
Speaker 1: sure hunting down where it is that they've actually been
Speaker 1: getting in and making sure that there are there's no
Speaker 1: ingress into your attic whatsoever. That's exclusion. The very, very
Speaker 1: best thing you can do with rodents on your property
Speaker 1: is not to go to war with them and kill
Speaker 1: them and bait them and poison them and all of
Speaker 1: the kind of stuff that so many places recommend. The
Speaker 1: best thing to do is just let them be outside
Speaker 1: doing what they do, but don't let them into the house.
Speaker 1: And so a company like Eco La, they specialize in
Speaker 1: attic rodent exclusion. They'll get you all sealed up, they'll
Speaker 1: get you cleaned up, and you won't have that issue anymore.
Speaker 4: Perfect. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: You are so welcome, Kathy. And you know what the
Speaker 1: one thing is, I understand, I get it. It sounds
Speaker 1: like they're just going to come dropping through the ceiling.
Speaker 1: They're not. They're up there scratching around and bedding and
Speaker 1: doing all that. They're not trying to drill through the
Speaker 1: ceiling to get into your living space, so you can
Speaker 1: at least put your heart to rest for that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to get a dealt with sooner than later,
Speaker 1: as soon as possible. So give them a call. Tell
Speaker 1: them I recommended you along the way. They'll treat you right,
Speaker 1: I promise.
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 1: Do we have time to pick up another call here?
Speaker 1: We could at least get one started, can't we? Sure?
Speaker 1: Let's talk to Jeff. Hey, Jeff, welcome home.
Speaker 3: Hey Dean, how you doing? Quick question for you about
Speaker 3: redoing our backyard. And I have lines going to our
Speaker 3: outdoor garage or at detached garage under the slab, and
Speaker 3: plumbers have said to replace them, and I want to
Speaker 3: know what the best material is to replace them with.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you've got you. So you've got water lines
Speaker 1: headed out to the garage. Yes, and they're running underneath
Speaker 1: the slab.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're running under the the driveway.
Speaker 1: Oh, running under the driveway. Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Have you got access to get lines out there through
Speaker 1: the yard without the driveway?
Speaker 3: We will. We're getting the whole backyard redone in a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: I got you, I got you, all right? All right?
Speaker 1: My friend uh. And what's what's running out there right now?
Speaker 1: Copper lines?
Speaker 3: Yes, they're copper.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, great, all right, Uh, Jeff, I'm up
Speaker 1: against a break. Pop you on hold real quick. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let everybody percolate on this question, and when we
Speaker 1: come back, I'll get you an answer. You hang tight
Speaker 1: your home with Dean Sharp the house was we're taking
Speaker 1: calls as we do every Saturday morning, Dean Sharp the
Speaker 1: house for at your service, Welcome home, Good Saturday morning
Speaker 1: to you. Glad that you are here. It is a
Speaker 1: privilege and a pleasure to be here with you talking
Speaker 1: about all things your home. And of course Saturday mornings
Speaker 1: are all calls, so you set the agenda. We're talking
Speaker 1: to Jeff. I popped him on hold so we could
Speaker 1: take the call right before the break. Jeff's got some
Speaker 1: plumbing lines, some water lines that he needs to run
Speaker 1: to detached garage and pulling up the old stuff or
Speaker 1: abandoning the old stuff that's in the ground. Copper right now,
Speaker 1: that's in the ground, we're running under a driveway. Wants
Speaker 1: to know what's going on and what's the what's the
Speaker 1: best new material to use? Is that safe to say Jeff,
Speaker 1: did I summarize that?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: Yes, that's correct.
Speaker 1: Okay, So my recommendation for this situation, at this time
Speaker 1: in our history of plumbing technology is that I would
Speaker 1: use without question pex pex pros stranded polyethylene and for
Speaker 1: a couple of different reasons. Number one, it's great material.
Speaker 1: Number two, it is you can get it in a
Speaker 1: continuous role. So since you can buy PECKS in continuous
Speaker 1: tubing that is up to five hundred feet long, you're
Speaker 1: not going to have any issues whatsoever being able to
Speaker 1: run from the source of the water out to the
Speaker 1: garage in one continuous role without any fittings whatsoever. And
Speaker 1: the fewer fittings that are in a plumbing system, the
Speaker 1: fewer hassles. And if there are no fittings, there are
Speaker 1: no hassles the future for leaks and stuff. And PEX
Speaker 1: can be buried. It's rated to be buried directly in
Speaker 1: soil as long as you dig the trench right and
Speaker 1: surround it properly when you recompact the soil. Although even
Speaker 1: though it I mean that's good news, it's good news
Speaker 1: that PECKS is rated for direct soil contact, direct direct
Speaker 1: concrete contact. However, my preferred method, and the one that
Speaker 1: I would recommend to you, because I assume you're redoing
Speaker 1: the backyard, you're pulling up stuff, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: dig a trench anyway, Spend a few extra bucks and
Speaker 1: get yourself some large diameter PVC piping that you can
Speaker 1: lay down in there and use it as a conduit
Speaker 1: for the pecks line. So that number one, no soil
Speaker 1: actually ever has to touch the PEX. Number two, there's
Speaker 1: no contaminants inside the soil that could ever affect, ever
Speaker 1: affect the packs. They're protected. And number three, if there
Speaker 1: ever is any issue whatsoever, you can pull out the
Speaker 1: old lines and pull new ones through without tearing up
Speaker 1: the lawn or the yard or the driveway ever again.
Speaker 1: And so so my recommendation would be pecks inside a
Speaker 1: large PVC sheath and you should be golden.
Speaker 3: Great. I have one more quick question. I'm also redoing
Speaker 3: the garage at the same time, and I'm insulating it,
Speaker 3: and I have twenty four inch on center roof studs.
Speaker 3: Should I use the twenty four inch wide rock wall
Speaker 3: or can I use the sixteen and cut it to fit?
Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter. It doesn't really matter, you know,
Speaker 1: as long as as long as you're doing a clean job.
Speaker 1: You know, the goal is to fill up the entire
Speaker 1: void in between the rafters up there. And so you know,
Speaker 1: whether you do sixteen and you some to fit, or
Speaker 1: whether you go the full size of the twy. I mean,
Speaker 1: the twenty four is obviously going to be more convenient
Speaker 1: as far as getting it in. But if it's a
Speaker 1: cost savings or you've got you know, sixteen inch wide
Speaker 1: insulation already on hand, you know.
Speaker 3: Go for it.
Speaker 1: If you're willing to do the extra effort. All that
Speaker 1: matters is that you fill up the entire void and
Speaker 1: not leave any gaps.
Speaker 3: Great, thank you, Dean.
Speaker 1: You are welcome, my friend. Good luck on that project.
Speaker 1: Good job there. We have time for one more. We're
Speaker 1: gonna try. We're gonna try, We're gonna try. Let's talk
Speaker 1: to you, e Vet, Hey, Vet, welcome home. Good morning, Dean,
Speaker 1: good morning.
Speaker 5: Hello.
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm a long time listener and this is my
Speaker 6: first time calling you. I do have two questions for you.
Speaker 6: The first one is to do with my toilet. I
Speaker 6: whenever flush is a toilet, they are just little debris
Speaker 6: coming up in the bowl. And I don't know if
Speaker 6: you use a boat really to get clogged up. I
Speaker 6: don't know what it is, but just small little debris, Okay,
Speaker 6: I don't know what it's called.
Speaker 1: That, Okay, And what's your second question?
Speaker 6: My second question is I I do want to install
Speaker 6: two on ins for my door and window. The kiuse
Speaker 6: whenever it rains, the water just keep pouring on the
Speaker 6: door and also the window. So I just want to
Speaker 6: know which is based on into to install.
Speaker 1: Okay. All right, well, okay, so first question. These are
Speaker 1: both pretty simple questions, so hopefully I can help you out.
Speaker 1: First question, I would like when you when you flush
Speaker 1: a toilet and all of a sudden, mysterious debris shows
Speaker 1: up in the water that's swirling. Yes, it means that
Speaker 1: it could be one of two things. But the culprit
Speaker 1: the place to look is not in the toilet bowl,
Speaker 1: but in the tank, in the water tank. Okay. There
Speaker 1: may be may have a hard water condition, You may
Speaker 1: have some scale or some mineral build up inside the
Speaker 1: toilet tank itself. There may be sediment and water that's
Speaker 1: coming off every time the tank drains. So what you
Speaker 1: want to do is you want to take off the
Speaker 1: lid of the top of the tank. Look down inside.
Speaker 1: Maybe turn off the water to the toilet and flush
Speaker 1: it all out so that you can get it dry
Speaker 1: in there. Maybe give it a good scrub, or maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit of vinegar and water mix which forms
Speaker 1: a very mild acid that will help remove some of
Speaker 1: the mineral build up. It's either that or if you
Speaker 1: find that the debris is very very dark, then quite
Speaker 1: often the culprit is that the old flapper, that the
Speaker 1: three dollars rubber flapper that is sitting there inside the
Speaker 1: tank again is probably reached the end of its life
Speaker 1: and now it's giving out rubber particulates every time it
Speaker 1: moves and every time that water flows over it. And
Speaker 1: you can resolve that just by heading down to the
Speaker 1: hardware store and you know, buying another three dollars flapper
Speaker 1: and you'll be able to switch it out in seconds.
Speaker 6: Okay, that sounds great.
Speaker 1: So if debris is showing up, your toilet bowl is
Speaker 1: nice and clean. But when you flush all of a
Speaker 1: sudden little stuff and if it's not black, then it's
Speaker 1: gonna it's mineralization. It's mineral and scale build up inside
Speaker 1: the toilet tank that's being knocked to lose every time
Speaker 1: the water moves over. It's not a it's not a problem.
Speaker 1: It's not well, it's a problem. It's not nothing serious.
Speaker 1: Uh and uh. Now, as far as your awnings are concerned,
Speaker 1: the best thing to do is talk to a good
Speaker 1: awning company because there are so many options. There are
Speaker 1: so many options for putting over a door. There are
Speaker 1: canvas awnings, there are cloth awnings in every shape and size.
Speaker 1: There are metallic metal awnings that can go over it. Really. First,
Speaker 1: first and foremost is a question of function and a course,
Speaker 1: you know you're the function of the awning is to
Speaker 1: help keep water from pouring off and over these doors
Speaker 1: and windows. Secondly, it becomes an issue of design style
Speaker 1: and so the awning. No matter what awning that you
Speaker 1: put up there, if it's professionally installed, it's going to
Speaker 1: get the job done. It's a question of the esthetic
Speaker 1: and what you want. Obviously, a metal awning not a
Speaker 1: lot of people love the look of metal awnings. They're
Speaker 1: the ones that are going to last the longest. But
Speaker 1: a good loth awning that is of good material that's
Speaker 1: UV resistant it also will last a long long time
Speaker 1: and eventually you'll have to replace it. But they're also
Speaker 1: relatively inexpensive to replace Ivett. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: your question, Thanks for the call, Thanks for being such
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