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You know, we will be cutting out for Cardinals, but don't fret if you need your home improvement

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Jump over 97.1 FM. I will be there. Same number, same deal, same everything.

You can find me there. And for right now, give me a call 314-436-7900. We had some great calls and

some great questions in the in the first hour and really got through quite a bit.

So yeah, for Dan with his couple switches that don't seem to work anything,

that can be a lot of time, a lot of challenges trying to figure out what that is. But again,

I would recommend looking inside there, take the cover off, make sure something's wired to it,

look around in the kitchen, jump up on top of the cabinets, make sure there's nothing up there,

make sure there's nothing inside any of the base or upper cabinets that maybe they had something

there that some kind of accent lighting. If you have glass doors and maybe in that cabinet,

there's some accent lighting or an outlet for some accent lighting that that switch works.

So good luck rummaging around there. You may end up with an electrician to help you out with that.

And then everything, boy, we had Jim talking about drywall cracks in about a 20, 19, 20-year-old home.

This is definitely something that can be challenging and really trying to figure out,

I have a house right now that I'm working with that they have a coffered type ceiling,

like a raised ceiling in the center of their master bedroom and cracks at all the corners

on the lower portion where that was raised up and reframed and very, very hard to see exactly

what's going on with all the insulation. So I suspect there's something going on with that framing,

that probably just needs to be mounted better attached a little bit better, maybe bolted instead

of just nailed, maybe screwed instead of just nailed, maybe adding some more and doubling some

things up to stiffen some areas to help keep that all from moving. But the house doesn't have a lot

of signs of the foundation moving. It doesn't have a lot of cracks or signs on the outside that lead

me towards the houses kind of doing something as a whole. But there's a lot of reasons in

heat, temperature, humidity, there's a lot, you know, that can swell and move the wood.

That all plays into it as well as how well is it insulated? Are you keeping the heat from the attic

or the cold from the attic and the heat in the winter when you're trying to heat the house,

are you keeping that separate very well? So if you have anything like this going on happening,

we can try and help you out. Got something you're just curious about or a task maybe you're

going to start and have some questions about the best way to get through it. 3, 1, 4, 4, 3, 6,

7,900 is going to find me right here. We've got plenty of time and we've got the rest of this hour

coming into 97.1 FM. So you can stick around with me again through all of that. And I have another

another thought that that I've been going through about shower doors because, you know, shower

doors, we had a call a little bit earlier in the first hour about the corrosion on the handle

and how do I get the handle off and what's the best things to do there? Well, that's the same kind

of corrosion, minerals, everything that gets on your shower doors and all of that soap scum,

the minerals from the water getting on the glass can be very difficult to clean, to keep off of

there. And glass is, it's, it looks smooth but when you really look at it under a microscope very

closely, it is full of tiny pores and little kind of microscopic pits in that glass. So

when that water hits the surface, the minerals in that water, the calcium, the magnesium,

all that soap residue kind of settle into those pores and then once that dries and as the

the moisture wicks out in that dries, it leaves that film that residue on there. So there is,

there are some coatings that you can look at that are designed specifically to help prevent that.

So if you're, if you're remodeling your bathroom, if you're in the market for a new shower door,

you can look at getting a glass coating that will help repel that water in all of those minerals.

And it is a great thing to do from the actual shower door company that's putting the shower

door in. When they get the glass, they can treat this glass certain ways that can really kind of

do like a fusion of this and make that last a really long time so you can get up to like a 10-year

warranty that that it's going to repel water and help keep all of that off there. And it just

beads up and it's, it's exactly like sealing your concrete, same type of thing. Fill those pores,

make that smoother surface, bead that water up and run that off instead of having it sit there

and then drying into it. And so there are coatings that you can buy also that if you have an

existing or a new shower door that didn't come with that, you can, there are different coatings

that you can apply, you can purchase and they're going to be kind of just like the concrete floor

paint that we were talking about earlier is what you buy into, how long does it last? So

so there's some rain ex type stuff that you're going to be applying all the time every every quarter,

every three months. There's some that last a year or two and and looking at and they're going to

cost more as you get into the ones that are going to last a lot better. So when you start to compare

it to a few hundred dollars on top of your glass door to have a 10 year version

and you don't have your time and all that repeat maintenance, it's a great thing to do. But hey,

we've got cardinals coming up, we're going to take our first break here and don't forget, jump

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could do. How we can help if you're out there. What do you need? What's happening at your home?

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and plenty to come up and see how we can help. Again 314-436-7900. Now looking at we were just talking

about the shower doors and the coatings that you can get on those shower doors that can help

repel the water, beat it off, help help battle and fight and keep that soap scum and keep that

shower clean looking nice. Keep the glass clear and so if you have a shower door and you don't have

a coating like that there's some mistakes out there that that a lot of us make in trying to

maintain or clean those shower doors and to try and keep that off of there. It can be it can

frustrate a lot of homeowners. They never seem when those glass doors never seem to stay clean.

It can be very frustrating and we talk about that coating on the glass with new shower doors

when we're modeling bathrooms quite a bit because that's a big hot topic and it's one of the

reasons that people are like oh I clean it I clean it I clean it it comes back I just can't keep

it off there. It's it's it's actually a reason that brings people towards remodeling their bathroom

making changes to it and trying to you know make make the bathroom better so really looking at

how often you clean that glass so waiting too long to clean your glass door can really be the number

one probably biggest mistake that you can make just because that soap scum and the hard water

stains it builds up it gets in in the in the pores in the little grooves well and it'll build up in

layers layers on top of layers so the longer they sit and the harder it will be to remove them

so a light cleaning once a week is a lot easier than trying to remove

four five six months of build up with heavy scrubbing and and trying to use different products and

really get that off there it could just be so if you think of it like the plaque on your teeth

what is your you know your dentist is like come in get a cleaning every six months however

and and just make if you take it off a little bit at a time more often it's just that regular

maintenance makes the whole job much easier so another mistake is using abrasive scrub pads

to try to to clean that it's a big one people grab steel wool those green scrub pads or heavy

duty scouring pads thinking it's gonna kind of cut through that and the problem is that they can

scratch the glass or if there is a protective coating that's just older and it's not working as

well as it used to that's gonna make that protective coating scratch away and wear off even even

worse even quicker when you're using a real abrasive so you really want something softer and you

want to have your your cleaning products actually do the work and we were just talking about it

earlier of like how sometimes it's just a matter of doing it a lot doing it more and more and taking

the time to spray stuff on there let it sit do a little bit spray stuff let it sit it could be a

few day project that you're doing a little bit at a time each day to really let the product help

work that off of there without a lot of scratching or any type of real abrasive pad for it so

and then of course the wrong type of cleaners is another another big mistake of

having a cleaner that's not meant for what is what the build up is and when you think of the

mineral build up from hard water so it's not just the soap but it's also the hard water and as

that water dries and evaporates then all of the minerals left are really etching into the pores of

that that glass so you're looking for something to help with mineral type cleanup of what's in

the water so you're looking for like a mild acidic cleaners like lemon people's that use lemon

for this because there's a lot of acid in it so vinegar based solutions is the same

to try and dissolve those mineral deposits instead of just scrubbing them and spreading them around

and trying to to get them out of there with that good ol elbow grease let the right product you know

sometimes the simplest cleaner in the house works the best

and even better than more expensive specialty products because it's just the right thing for that

particular issue so in another mistake people make is just forgetting about the water itself so

you know here's something that homeowners don't realize is if your home has hard water the minerals

in that water are constantly depositing on the glass every time that you shower so it really

that's why in some homes that glass looks cloudy after just a few weeks installing a water softener

and taking care of the water can actually help in that issue getting the minerals out of the water

and then using that protective glass coating coating can then dramatically slow down that buildup so

between the two that can can really help out and then the the the number five the biggest mistake

is really letting that water dry on the glass because that's how

that those minerals get on there and dry out and get so hard is they're getting in there as the water

dries on the glass it leaves the minerals behind as the water evaporates and that's where those

white spots come from so the soap is kind of the same way it leaves the soap behind

as it as it evaporates off of that door so when you ask professional shower door glass

installers they will all tell you the same thing and for the simplest trick in the world

in the most effective way to to keep that from happening is to keep a small squeegee in the shower

and when you're done showering just take 10 15 seconds to just squeegee that down to the bottom pull

that water off of that glass and that little simple quick habit can really if you get a new shower

door and you do have the coating on it and you actually do that with the squeegee

every time you shower i'm going to say that coating with that 10-year warranty is going to last

20 years plus because you are getting rid of you're just helping it last longer because as it's

as it's working and trying to beat that water off anything that's left that's how the the coating

is is wearing off and going away so if you're taking the rest of that off there and I

would imagine the first 10 years of that new shower door having the coating is going to make that

the actual squeegee method probably only take you 5 seconds instead of 10 or 15 or 20 so it depends

a little bit on how complicated that door is and the less the least amount of frame that you have

on the door the better you are for that squeegee and off and and having that work for you but

if your shower door is always seen cloudy just kind of remember that formula clean them regularly

avoid abrasive scrub pads use the right cleaners to get it off understand your water quality and

is there something you could do to to help that with a water softener to make it easier for you

and then again squeegee don't let that water dry on the glass and you're going to be a lot

better off it's going to help that maintenance last and and just be so much easier so hey we're

going to take our our middle hour break here but don't forget I'm here I can help you whatever

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other side of the spring welcome back welcome back to the home improvement show rich oris here

sitting in the big chair for you today seeing how we can help you out what is going on at your

casa right now what is happening I know we've had some weather changes I know it's we've had

some warmer and it's getting cold and warm and cold and warm and and I know that's kind of

driving everybody a little crazy but I know we've got on we've we've had some weather to get

outside and actually get some outside work started cut the grass for the first time clean up all the

leaves that came around from winter and and get everything cleared out and so did you walk around

the house did you take a look around the house and really look for anything out anything out of

place you don't really have to know it and completely understand it but if you see look closely

at the roof and look for look for discoloration look for dark spots on the roof sometimes you'll see

a kind of a perfect rectangle looks looks about a foot wide and and maybe five inches tall or so

and it's just a black rectangle so the dark underneath there on the back side of that shingle

underneath the top portion with the color means you could have tabs of your shingles that are

blowing off so so look for any discrepancies like that just visually from the ground you don't have

to actually get up on the roof and and another thing for your gutters you want to kind of walk

around and really look and and look at them from the side like running down don't just look at them

from from looking at that side of the house but go to the corner of the house and really look from

the ground down from back to front and see if it looks like that gutter still tight to to the

fascia or not if it's tipping at all leaning down or not it should be real flat looking from that

side edge so so that can definitely indicate that there's water getting behind it and some of the

woods rotting and the gutters are pulling away that's typically why that is is going on for the

most part and it's it's also good to to do this in the rain I'm telling you right now if you grab

an umbrella during a decent rain storm and walk around and see what's happening see what's happening

when the water comes out see if anything's overflowing because that can that can cause some some leaks

and some areas and and none of that is is good so looking at just just inspect look for different new

cracks look for anything that looks out of place I could tell you like in my house a few years ago

so we had some ants coming in the house kind of in the kitchen area the eaten kind of between the

kitchen and the eaten area and my wife was seeing all these ants and so I walked outside to to find

the kind of look at the foundation look at the sighting see where these ants because you'll see

their line coming in and out they'll be coming in and out there there'll be like a line of them

and you can kind of pinpoint where where where it's happening and so I went outside to to find that

or see if I could track where where these ants are and kind of attack them from the outside to keep

them from coming in and found termite tracks on my my foundation in a couple areas of where

these ants were kind of happening and and I knew that they hadn't been there really super long

because it was it was summertime probably and and I had power washed that entire side of the house

in the spring and so I knew at least within a few months a couple months those trails were not

there so I knew was I was catching it early and I knew it had just happened but if I wouldn't have

had the ants and wouldn't have walked to take that look how long might that have gone before I

noticed cutting the grass or something like that so it's just really really good to take that look

around and see just what you can see and then you can you can guide towards the professional that

can help you there and like mine so of course I guided towards the the the right professional to

eliminate the termites and and of course I'm in this industry so I know how to do some things so

where they were on my garage wall I definitely went inside my garage and I pulled off some of the

dry wall and I started spraying and killing them and and I knew I didn't have to do that because

the way you treat for termites it will take care of them in the wall so they'll come in and out

um pretty much constantly almost within every 24 hour span all of the termites that are in the

wall will come back out into the ground and then go back up into the wall and they don't really eat

wood they like the cellulose in the wood and that's why it will remain looking like wood that's

been hollowed out because they're only eating portions of it they eat the paper they like the

cellulose like they eat the paper on the back of the dry wall and and so I didn't necessarily need

to do that to to have them treated properly but for me it was like I don't care I can hang some

dry wall I could fix some stuff I wanted to try and start tackling this as much as I could

immediately I was I almost felt assaulted like oh my gosh these things in my house and then

what I did I learned something new all the time in dealing with all these these different

trades and professions and everything that we do well what I learned was that um not only the kind

of what they say about termites is is basically um if you if you haven't had termites or or

been treated for termites are pretty much just waiting to get them at some point almost every

house is probably going to end up with them somehow or another so but but what I did learn

was that the when the termites show up and they invade the ground around your house

they drive the ants away they drive the ants out of the ground so that's why we had the ants coming in

because the termites are pushing them they're looking for a new home and I was like well that's

pretty interesting I didn't didn't realize that and that thought that was really cool but

got everything treated did the right thing haven't had a problem since um definitely making sure

that you get your termite inspection every year after that is is the only thing that helps keep

any type of of termite warranty from your treatment so what I did like so I had uh

holders uh pest control do my my termite treatment for me and one of the things that I absolutely

loved about them and what they do and and how they do it is that they will contact me every year

so think about your house um I I do this often and and I often talk about

myself as I know a lot about the house I work on the house I can perform a lot of this work myself but

yet I refer to myself as the shoemaker with the kids that run around without shoes because

you're so busy you don't have time to to make you make shoes for everyone else but you don't

make shoes for your kids we do the same thing with our house so think of how easy it would be

to miss calling in for that yearly termite inspection so having a company like

Halper's pest control that literally calls me every year and says hey guess what time for your

inspection let's get it set up they they basically we set it up they they picked the date

they sent me a link email me a link I pay it electronically and it is the easiest thing in the

world and it happens automatically every year and I don't have to be the one to worry about

am I losing my warranty on this termite treatment because I forgot to to keep track of something

and we all know how hard it is to keep track of everything in your life with your home with your

job with your kids with everything parents everything that that you do it it all just kind of changes

in what you're struggling with or doing in your life just kind of changes by the age of the

children the age of the parents everything that you're doing so it is hard to do that so I really did

that that is one of the the reasons I chose them is knowing that I would be covered that way

and it would work really well and and I wouldn't they would help me worry about

making sure that happens so so that's just a great service and it's kind of the

what talking earlier about setting great expectations all the things that we do here at

Mosby Building Arts trying to crush expectations for the industry how they happen

that is one of the biggest complaints that you see and that you hear is that

someone just didn't understand they didn't know what they were getting they were surprised

so eliminating the extras eliminating the surprise getting an understanding on everything

is the goal in what we're trying to achieve and so when I found that similar system in another

company for my termite treatment it was a very easy answer for me it was like yep you know what

I'm gonna love that and I'm gonna appreciate that so I'm gonna take that route and go that way

but hey if you have anything for me we got another segment coming up for you don't fret

we can get your questions in in the next segment three one four four three six

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which or is here for you we've got Mary on the line let's jump straight in there and see how

we can help Mary out Mary are you there can you hear me yes I can thank you oh you're welcome

my call um yes I called I guess a couple weeks ago and again it's always the hint of show

that I was talking about my my toilet that I couldn't get the water turned off from the tank

and it was leaking oh yeah I ended up talking the whole tube to the wall to the tank to under

the tank everywhere to stop the water from leaking because it was going from my upstairs

through before to the downstairs and it was late at night and I didn't know what else to do

because the I couldn't turn the knob would not turn the water off I couldn't get it to turn

it was stuck so um do I need to get a whole new toilet or do you think a plumber can take some

that cocking off um so yeah I mean the so toilets can be taken apart and rebuilt to stop those

those types of leaks which is basically yeah between like the toilet and the in the the tank

in the bowl um so it can be done all of that cock is going to just make it harder and and take longer

to do and the the reason I would lean you towards a new toilet is just because um it it's we we

have this theory the same way with like replacing doors in the home so when when a lot of people ask

can I just take replace the door but leave the frame and the tram and everything around it

well but if we replace everything and there's this easy install split jam unit

you're paying more for the door but you're paying like a a a fourth or an eighth of the labor

to put the door in and the toilet can be the same way you could have a plumber buy a bunch of parts

and work on this toilet for a lot of hours to get it totally put back together rebuilt

and it may not it's not going to have a great warranty it's not it's not all new it's kind of

reput back together new so it might not last as long as the new toilet and they may put the

new toilet in in like two hours and work on your old toilet for four to six hours and it could

almost be the same amount of money sometimes you know or if it's not the same amount of money

it's awfully close where you're like well replacing it's only two or three hundred more but I know

everything's brand new and I've got the plumber that's really just so much happier and has so much

you know better response and reliability and everything he he knows that the toilet's going to be

good when it's a new one that they've used and they understand and and they know how to install it

and they know the results they get from it and you might not always get really great results from

that toilet rebuilt so you could spend time and time again they could rebuild it and then you

could be looking at an issue two years down the road and someone's saying well we need to fix

that rebuild that and then all of a sudden it's like well when do I get myself to that new toilet

yeah see I was trying to hold on to because it's an older toilet and I've heard such bad things

about the water saving toilets that that the pipes could clog the water just had not enough water

to push everything through and that's why I kind of scared yeah yeah and yep and that's

lot less of an issue nowadays with these new toilets I would definitely say you know asking the plumber

their opinion on the toilet reading a lot of reviews on the toilets to see what people are saying

about them because they're built way different now and way better and they flush way better than

they used to so there's you'll see some of them where they're like they'll dump a whole bucket

of golf balls in there and it'll suck them all down in like half a second so they've redesigned

how the bowls work with less water and they flush much better now there's still some out there that

you know that are that are cheaper that aren't going to flush as well but if you get a good one

it's it's going to work really well and it's going to flush just as well as that old one using all

of that water and it is better for the environment because if everybody did it we would use a lot

less water overall as a society and we would have less need for more water plants and

and getting more water and all of that and we would consume you know a lot less water

and it's just better for for everything overall so um but I wouldn't be as scared just make

sure you read a lot of reviews and you get a good toilet and it's going to flush really well

certain toilets

does that make sense oh yeah do you recommend certain certain brand or anything

um the toto is a very good toilet brand collar makes some really good

toilets I have so I I've replaced three of of my toilets in my house with newer ones and

they um there's an American standard toilet that is now um collar owns it I think I believe

um but it flushes very well it's actually my favorite toilet in the house and it came from

lows right off the shelf and it's a really good decent toilet so um yeah so so there's some

there's some good ones out there do you recommend uh the most plumber or someone else I would I

would call an actual plumber like we we have our own for our projects but we also

use maple wood plumbing I would definitely go to not like just the lows install or whatever

go to like maple wood plumbing or an actual plumbing company to get the toilet put in

because they'll be good licensed plumbers so hey we're totally out of time Mary thanks for the call

Connie I apologize uh catch up with us next week when we'll be back so hey for everybody out

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