Brick Mortar Repair - Match Mortar - LIVE Stream 12-22-2021 Ask the Builder

Welcome to Ask the Builder

I'm Tim Carter. This is the Christmas 2021 edition. This is the last live stream before Christmas

So if you've got some great questions to ask about your home, well, type them in the chat and I'll do my best to answer them

I'm glad you're here. And it's going to be a pretty. good live stream, I think. Today, let's hope we don't have any technical difficulties like yesterday

where the screen froze. I think my computer got grumpy. Before we go any farther, stain solver

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So that's good. I like the Santa Hat, but it's a little quirky, isn't it

Hi, Rob, how you doing? Other than the USA, do you say what your source of the auction and bleach is

Well my wife and I own the company and the active ingredient is made in Houston Texas And we only put one other thing in it dense soda ash

We have to put dense soda ash in it so that we can get below the federal DOT limit for oxidizers

If I didn't put any soda ash in it, we'd have to put those scary yellow diamond stickers on each box

And then UPS would go, we're not taking it. So the dense soda ash is actually a good thing because it boosts the alkalinity

You want cleaners or you want soap to have a high alkaline pH if you want to do a good job, simple as that

Hi, Obie. Good afternoon. So I hope that answers your question, Rob. Merry Christmas to you, Obie

Merry Christmas. Yeah, it's going to be a good one here. It's going to be a white Christmas here in New Hampshire

I'm looking at the window. We've got our cover snow for the year. If things go the way they normally do, you won't see the grass again until April

So we got about seven inches on Saturday night. And we got some really weird stuff last night and this morning, this crusty kind of ice

But luckily it was able to come up very easily off the driveway Kathy and I took care of the driveway between noon and 1 o Driver looks good It going to get really cold tonight So I got a steep hill

coming up out of my garage area, my apron, and you've got to keep it clean. You have to

you just have to keep it clean. Or you end up using a lot of sand to, you know, to be able to get out

I will. You know what? I did the wood ash. I couldn't tell if it worked if it actually melted the snow because what happened is the following day, we had a little warm spell

There was some ice up in that area. I wanted to make sure I got rid of that ice

So I spread some rocks salt. So it all melted, but I don't, before I spread the rocks salt, I didn't see the wood ash doing much

I think really what the wood ash does is it just accelerates the melting because it's so dark

that any sunlight that hits it really, really, really helps. And my problem is I've got, I'm looking at the window

I've got too many tall trees too close to my driveway and apron

If I were..