Metal Roof Panels - Long Lasting Aluminum - LIVE Stream - Ask the Builder

Hello, I'm here. It looks like everybody got here before I did it before the part

Is that true or is everyone here and, and I'm getting here last

Um ok, let's see. Yeah, it looks like your already. This is amazing

What do you know? Uh This is great. Uh Hello Jennifer. Hello

Lane. Hello, Jack. Um All right. So I'm here. I almost missed getting on the air

Um I got kind of, here's what I was just doing a few minutes ago

I um one of the things that I use a lot of is I use uh Google Drive

If you've not, if you don't know anything about Google Drive, it's, it's just this amazing giant

I don't know how many thousands or tens of thousands of servers they have, but you can store information up in the cloud and you

it can be spreadsheets, documents, photographs, videos, whatever. So I, I have lots of documents and what's really cool is that you can share

them with people and set different levels of permission so that people can collaborate

All right. So that's, that's a pretty cool feature. And uh I just created a brand new document

This may sound a little uh OK. It almost sounds like the beginning of the or the early parts of the movie of the music

man, which is that old musical? That's 5060 years old, right? So I think Hallie Mills was in it

II, I think that was who it was the young girl. And, and she

she was, there was this older woman in, in the um in the music man that was kind of preoccupied with dying

And so early in the movie, there was this one scene where she's meeting with a mortician going over her casket and the lining and

and young Harry Mills is like, what the hell is the matter with you

And so throughout the movie, eventually what happens is Haley Mill, you know, turn

turns her around, turns this grandmother, I think it was her grandmother, turns her around and

and the woman has a completely reinvigorated um feeling about life and

you know, tells the mortician get the hell out of her. So anyway

so I created this, I, I'm starting to declutter. I told you I was gonna do that and I decided that

you know, my kids, they, they might not know what stuff is

So I've created this document saying what here's some of the stuff and this is

this stuff's valuable, this stuff might not be so valuable. This stuff is enormously valuable

Um blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And uh so it's kind of a fun document

but they're, they're, they're gonna start to read and think the old man is going off the flipping deep edge

All right. What do you think my haircut? All right. So I told you I was getting a haircut

It's pretty short. Um All right, let's see here and I'm gonna get caught up in the comments in just a second

Uh uh All right. Um If you haven't checked in yet, you should

uh you can look at all the people that have checked in Jennifer. Are you telling me you did not still did not get the

drawing? If you didn't, I'm making a new one as soon as I get off the stream here at a mail in the morning

I'm actually gonna take a flipping photograph and email you the photo. Uh So I cannot believe you did not get that thing

Uh All right, let's see here. Let me check up on the comments and then we're gonna get started here

Good. Look what I have. I have um some metal roof panels

All right, we're gonna talk about these. Um Let me get caught up on the c comments

Um All right. Let's see. Uh I'm gonna talk about painting them so just hang it

hang tight. Um Elaine, you did remember Jack. Uh I also want to use a roof panel for privacy fencing

Mm I don't know about that. Um I know down here I wrote a bit put the middle pens on frame

OK. All right. Here we go. So I'm caught up on the comments. Let's start talking about it

Uh If you just arrived here, I'm Tim Carter. This is I'm the, the builder guy

Um I wanna warn you right away. What, what happens is after these

after the live stream finishes Google processes the video and then it becomes a permanent video

Ok? And, and I have these people who like, someone's gonna probably watch this video tonight

but let's just say the live stream goes for an hour and a half, someone's gonna

someone's gonna leave a comment, but you can go back to like the last two live streams and see a couple of these snarky comments

Somebody said, uh I forget what it was. Um I, I forget what we're talking about

but he just said like an hour and a half. Oh, I know what it was, an hour and a half to talk about toilet

wax rings. Are you kidding me? So you, you know that

can be taken a number of ways. All right, I get it. So I

I want to warn you right now if you're, if you've just wa if you're watching this and it's not live and if you think

I'm gonna talk about metal roof panels for an hour and a half, you're crazy. Although I could

if you, if there's enough questions, all different types of questions, I could continue just talking

But once the questions dry up about metal roof panels, I, I switch gears

I go somewhere else because I don't want to, you know, just blab around about metal roofing panels

I wanna help you save time and money and I want to answer your questions about that topic

So, let's get started. Hi. A vinyl. How are you doing here? Are you kidding me

Uh, what the heck he's supposed to be on the golf course that you don't

they don't, you, you've got like five pairs of, of waterproof golf shoes. Can't you wear a flipping rain checker or poncho out to play

golf? Come on. All right. So Jennifer, um, here's our first question

Can metal roof panel, pa can metal roof panels be painted effectively

So the color doesn't fade or wear or is it simple, simpler, cheaper

easier to replace them? No. Um, that's a great, great question. I

when did I just, oh, I talked about that in the, um, I just talked about this

Um, maybe I wrote a column about it. Everything's kind of blended together

Uh, photons, the, uh, ultraviolet light from the sun that, that causes you and I to get sunburn

5% of the ultraviolet rays contain active photons. The active photons are so powerful

they can break atomic bonds. All right, of metal, certain metals, not all

In other words, they can easily do with copper and zinc and lead

Those three, those are all materials that we typically use for flashing on roofs

So think about that. A photon is so strong that when it hits a solid piece of metal on the roof

All right, you got this. So, so you understand what copper is like, solid copper

So it's all these, if you could look at electron microscope, you know, it's all these tiny

tiny, tiny little atoms. Just think of them like B BS, you know

like a little BB like for a big gun. You know, all these tiny little beavers and the photon hits it

boom, blows it up, blows one of the atoms, you know, it's just kind of

and then the rain washes it down the roof. And what happens chemically it can attach to the asphalt

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, we're not gonna get into chemistry. The point I'm trying to make is if the photons are so powerful that

they can break metal like blast metal apart, what do you think they're gonna do to paint

I mean, what's stronger metal or paint? So the bottom line Jennifer is that the photons are going to

I mean, you, you already know this to be the case. Like if you put something out uh in the sun for any length of

time, depending on what it is, the color will start to fade

So the, the photons are gonna cause the paint to fade. No big deal

You can paint metal roof and that's the good thing about metal. Metal loves to be painted

Uh, wood hates to be painted. The reason wood paint flakes off me a metal or wood is because wood's got a very high expansion

contraction coefficient. And so the paint can't stretch that much and it eventually fails

Whereas metal has got a very low expansion contraction coefficient, just very little

It, it will expand a contract but not like wood, not like w that means that's why you don't see paint

Typically you, you rarely see paint flaking off of a car or a truck or

or a metal oil drum. The only time it is is that if the, if the paints, if it's

if it's steel and it's got rusty and water's got between the paint and the steel

then you're gonna start to see it flake off. But if you can just keep the roof painted

um, it's gonna last a long time. I mean, the metal, as long as you can just make it so that it doesn't get water

to it, you're gonna be fine, you're gonna be fine. So paint it, paint it simple as that don't replace it

don't be, it's very hard to replace it. I'm gonna show you why in a minute. Really hard

Yeah. If you think you're gonna replace a, a metal roof panel, you got another thought coming

All right. Um, let me get caught up. I also wanna use a roof panel for privacy fencing

Um, I guess you can, um, there might be just cheaper materials to use

Uh, you know, in other words, you, you would just have to see how

how the nailing pattern is, how they're attached and will it withstand

I mean, the trouble that you have, I mean, you, you live in an area where Jennifer where

I don't know what you can have 6070 mile per hour winds

I mean, that's, you know, you, it can be really windy and I

I just would be concerned about, um, how resistant these things are to

to the wind, you know, and how you're gonna attach it. So that, that

but, but yeah, I mean, it would work. I mean, it would work but there might be better ways to do it

All right. Uh Let's see, I get caught up. Um Will says she was only a telegrapher's daughter but she did

did, did, did, did it come on, we gotta keep it clean

Here. Will come on. Uh, anyway. Uh Oh, you've got the drawing

Fantastic. Jeez. Finally can good. Um, ok. Wonderful, wonderful Steve. Hi, Steve

Welcome. All right. So now let me show you. So here's what happened about a week ago

Uh, a neighbor of mine, maybe just a quarter of a mile away. They

they put on a new roof and it had been an asphalt shingle and to the best of my knowledge

the roof that was on the house could have been original, um, didn't look to be in really bad shape but the new owner

uh, the, the, the people who own the home now bought it maybe a year or two ago

And, um, I guess they just wanted to put in a roof on and so they put this on and this is aluminum

and it's, uh, I know it's kind of hard to tell. It's, the sun's, it's a green

it's like a medium. It's not teal, it's not a teal green

but it's definitely got some blue in it. All right. So, but it's aluminum

it's got kind of this roughish texture. I'm trying to hold it up to even see it and you can see the way this works

is, well, this is the front that you see. And here's the underside

So the underside has got these two folds of material. Whereas the other two edges over here

the opposite two that you know that the 180 degree bends here

And the reason why is that's how they interlock, in other words

as you install this material. All right. So I'm going to, so I'm just gonna put this like

in other words, the, the way it works. So you can see once again

there's a G, there's like it's bent over here like a French cleat. All right

So when the roofer, when he has this bottom one on the roof and then he goes to put the next layer

he slides it up. It's hard to do it backwards. There we go

All right. So they, they're now interlocked. All right. So, so the overlap

what's really interesting, you have to understand the overlap is only this much, you know

a half inch. All right. So that's really important to keep in mind and I'll show you why

I mean it, and of course, when they do this, they, they offset the seam so that

you know, the, there, in other words, the, this top shingle here breaks half at the halfway point of the lower one

that's how it's, it's done, you know. So, um, so that these lines

you know, these, these like valleys, these little valleys, you know, line up every other one going up the roof

All right. So now get this, this is the only place where it's nailed each shingle

each one of these metal roof panels only gets one nail right there. So it's a very interesting system

All right. So not only do they, not on and here's what's important to them. Not only do they interlock this way

but they interlock at the side too. In other words, they, you know

as they go up, they'll interlock sidewalks. I know you can't, it's hard to tell

So, because of that interlock, Jennifer, could you imagine how hard it would be at a later date to take

one off? Now, if you knew what system it was and you knew that there's only one nail

you can get up underneath there and rip that nail out. And then now you've got that one shingle loose

But it's, uh, it's very problematic. The, these type of roofs are much harder to repair than an asphalt shingle roof

An asphalt shingle roof, it's very easy. Like, if you have one shingle go bad and you

I have a video showing you exactly how to do this. I recorded this video maybe 20 years ago

If you have a, one asphalt shingle or two or three, like maybe a branch falls down

messes up two or three shingles. It's really simple to, to lift up the tabs

take out the nails, um, slide up new shingles, nail them and

you know, as long as you do it in kind of warm weather, not in the middle of winter. So you don't crack a shingle

Um, you can make a repair and no one even knows that you made the repair and it's very simple to do the average homeowner

You can do this repair. Can you take one of these apart and put it back together? I doubt it

I doubt it. All right. So now one of the things that

you know, because I, I have, I have personally, I have never put one of these on, but I understand how the system works and

I, I knew it was gonna be a French cleat system. Now, if you have questions

remember, um, oh, the mic maybe. No wonder. No wonder you can't hear me

No wonder I'm such a dumb ass. Is that better, Jeez? Oh

Pete. Ok. Is that any better? Let me get this thing out of the way

Can you hear me now? Jeez. Pete. I'm not even in such a rush to start the computer

Um, I don't know how much latency there is in the chat better. Ok, great

thanks. Um, the, here's, here's what's interesting. If I, I wish I could upload a photo to show you you have to

understand on a steeper roof and really even a shallow one, they've got to put roof jacks up

They've got to like stand and work on boards, which means they have to have this metal thing that they nail to the roof above

a shingle. Well, the trouble is you to get that out to make it all work

they have to cut, they have to cut a notch here. Like they have to cut two

like where my fingers are, they might make it. Well, see, it would actually be right here. Be over towards the edge

They maybe would make a, they would take two cuts right here. I like they market. I know a white board

No, we're not using a white board. Uh, actually I've got news for you

The governor of New Hampshire has outlawed the use of white boards on uh

live streaming videos. So I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to use a flipping white board

So, so. All

right. So the roofer will take his tin snips and he will cut up this black line

cut up this black line and then he'll bend this up. All right

he'll bend it, he'll bend it back up 100 and 80 degrees and then he'll lay the roof jack on top of it and up

on this part of the roof up here, nail it in place. And the

um, when you go to take the roof apart, when, when you're done with the roof and you take the roof jacks down

you, they're made in such a way that you can tap, you can slide the roof jack up

it disconnects itself from the nails and then you slide it out and come down the roof

Now, the problem is, is that this, this shingle above it, you know

the, the shingle is in place, all right above it where, where the roof jack is? All right

And this roof that, that shingle has got that metal part here that

that the, the roof jack just slide. I know this is very complicated. I understand

But I'm trying to tell you is that at those spots where the roof jacks were

there is no long, there's not that, that, that, that French clique connection like this

All right. You know that, which is very water resistant, like in a blowing rain

it would be very hard to create a leak. Well, that does not exist because

remember the one metal they bent all the way flat. So, all you have is this and

and it's only bent up a half an inch above the other one

So, the trouble is in a really driving rainstorm, uh, like in a really violent rainstorm

Uh, I mean, the wind could easily blow rain up underneath that part of the roof and back behind the shingles

All right, for that to happen with an asphalt shingle. It's gotta blow up about five inches

All right. You know, I mean, sorry, seven inches, seven inches, it's gotta go up except

except where there's an overlap. It's then only gotta go up like two. All right. I'm just telling you that with one of these metal

roofing systems, if you're gonna use metal roof panels, you better have bulletproof underlayment un under the system

Uh, better yet. Gray ice and water shield the whole way. Uh

it, it's, um, and you have to use the right grace ice and water shield

You gotta make sure you use the one, the high temperature one because these metal roots gonna get hot

I'm just trying to tell you that in a blowing rainstorm, there are vulnerable points with at least this system

I, I don't know that it's the same with all metal roof panels, but I'm telling you this one's problematic

All right, let me check the, uh, um, let me check the comments

Steve's here. Uh, All right. There we go. Um, it is a Elaine that is a metal shingle

and it's made out of aluminum. So, yes. Hello. You lovely. Gender neutrals

Oh, my gosh. Um, why have four pinocchios for you? Ministry of two

Yes, you're exactly right. Exactly. Right. All right. Uh, do you have any questions about metal roof panels

Uh, metal roof panel? Questions, I'll take any and all right now, if you don't have any metal roof panel questions

I'll take questions about anything else. Uh Anything else about your house

anything else about? Um really anything, a lot of interesting stuff going on uh in the United States right now

A lot of, a lot of really crazy stuff. Uh A lot

a lot, it's just a huge three dimensional game of chess going on

It's crazy. I mean, it's crazy. Uh So crazy, crazy creature. Any questions about

let's see here, any questions about uh Hi Bob, how you doing

Uh any questions about metal roof panels? Um I don't, let's see

Jennifer had really good ones. You can paint them. Uh The key thing to painting is you just have to um the roofs really gotta

be clean. You have to wa you just have to wash it like you'd wash your car and the soap and water is fine

Uh just with like an RV brush. Uh Really rinse it. Well

you know, just just, it's gotta be clean and then of course, when you go to paint it

This is where everybody will make a mistake. Uh You have to try to paint it on an overcast day with a temperature like 5560

degrees. Like, do not the worst time to paint. It would be in the middle of the summer on a sunny day with breezy

The paint will dry too fast. You, you, you don't want the paint to dry too fast

Uh OK, Elaine says, why do you, why don't you explain the one to required for the metal panels

not the metal shingles? Uh, I would not explain it because I don't know

I don't know what it is. All right. And every manufacturer probably has different set of things

you have to do to make sure the warranty is in place. So, um

I, I, you know, it's kind of senseless for me to, to talk about warranty because I don't

we don't know which product we're talking about. And so you, you just have to read the

the, the warranty information yourself because you have to make sure that it's being installed

That's always the most important thing is if you're gonna get a metal roof installed yourself

like if you're gonna hire a roofer to do it, you have to get the instructions

the written instructions and you have to read them yourself. And here's the good news

Those things are written for people with an IQ of 80. All right

So it's not rocket science to understand it. And the reason you need to understand it is you need to then watch and make sure

they're gonna do it right. And in fact, the best thing is, is to have a very polite meeting the day before the roof starts

to go on with the contractor and with a roofer and the roofer's lead person on the job and you have a meeting and you

go over all the stuff you go over like, hey, this is uh blah

blah, blah, blah. I mean, you know, you cannot just assume it's gonna go on, right. Uh Yeah

cat on a hot tin roof there. Let me tell you, Steve roofs, 160 170 °F buddy

Really hot. Um Will's got a great question. Do people install the metal roof of shingles to um you

you don't get any insulating value out of the shingles? What's really bad about installing metal roofing directly on top of old shingles is understand

that the metal roof uh will can expand and contract and the underside

Like if it's steel, if it's steel roofing, you know, the underside might scratch along the

the Granules of the shingles and that could expose steel and then the underside

of these roofs will always condense, there's going to be condensation all the time and that's why it's so important to have really great underlayment

Otherwise you're gonna have leaks in the house. You don't have these condensation problems per se with asphalt shingles and

but it's really, really prevalent with, with metal, it just means that you have to

you have to account for that. You have to make sure the condensation does not leak the house

And the metal roofing manufacturers know about this and they cover, uh

how to deal with this in their installation instructions. And in most instances

you might have to install furring strips on top of the asphalt shingles to separate the metal roof from the asphalt

So that's, once again you have to take the responsibility. It's horrible

It's sad that you have to do this. I'm sorry. Um, you know, wouldn't it be nice if you could trust everybody to do a

great job? No, you can't trust everybody. So you have to read the instructions yourself and see what you have to do

Yes, you would have to send, you know, you're gonna, if, if you're gonna repaint

you've gotta, gotta do all the proper prep work. Absolutely. Uh, let's see

uh, most metal roofing systems that I'm aware of require total rip off to install

That's exactly right. That's exactly right. Elaine's right. Most of them do. So you

you have to read the instructions and read the warranty, simple as that

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um, what, whatever, it doesn't matter. So it doesn't, doesn't matter. Uh

what else did I wanna share with you? Um, I, um, oh

I had a phone, I had an interview today at one o'clock. So that was 3.5 hours ago

I'm getting ready to write a column. A new column. I haven't done this topic in a long time about geothermal uh heating and geothermal

cooling and was talking to one of the experts here in the nation

And what's really interesting is how you would expect this to happen, that the technology would change over time and in the old days

really, all they did is they just talked about having a closed loop system

A lot of very similar to how AAA standard automobile in the United States or maybe the U United Kingdom works

you know, a water cooled engine. So think about your water cooled engine

You have a closed loop of liquid, you know, with hoses and you got a radiator and then the water channels

you know, jacket goes around the engine and the water is moving around. There's a pump

a water pump to keep the water moving around the engine. You know

it, it goes to the engine, the water gets heated up and then the water comes out of the engine goes to the top of

the radiator flows down the radiator and then it's through the bottom of it by that

you know, it's getting rid of the heat and then, you know, it goes back to the engine starts the whole thing all over again

All right. Well, that's how it used to be with geothermal. In other words

they would, they would take a pipe and, and create a big loop

a closed loop and put this loop, you know, in the ground uh in a pond

wherever, whatever a AAA and, and then it dissipates the heat into the ground and then

and then it either heats the, the, the, the pipe or cools it depending on the time of year

So the guy says on the interview, he says, well, that the um um the current technology as long as

is the house, the location has got enough water flow in the well is just to use an open loop

And I go, what are you talking about? He says, well, we, we don't have to drill a separate. Well, you don't have to have

a pond. You just take the regular, well, where your drinking water is and you've got the line coming out of the

well, you just tee off that line and you run that line to the

to the Geothermal Air handler to, to where the heat exchanger is

and you just use that water that's 55 degrees flowing over the

the coil. And then once it's the heat transfer is done, that water is taken right back outside and put right back in the aquifer

And I said, are you kidding me? That's gonna significantly reduce the cost of putting these systems

And he said, exactly. But, but the key thing is your water well, has

has to have enough flow. You have to have probably 10 gallons a minute of flow to

to make this work. All right. So, um, it's just a really

it's gonna be a really interesting column to write. All right. So, all right

let's see here. Let me get caught up. Um. All right, Bob's got a question

What is the best shingle weight for asphalt roofing selection? Well, um

Bob, huh, I wrote a, you know, I wrote this book about six years ago called Roofing Rip Off

Really interesting book to write. Uh, I, it was really, I was so lucky to have my newsletter list

I put out the call on my newsletter list. Does anybody happen to have any old shingles still on a pack in their garage

In a shed? In a crawl space, blah, blah, blah. Uh, you know

I'm talking about shingles made in the 19 seventies, a guy in Harrison

Ohio. I, I mean, right around the corner from where I lived. I mean, seriously

Yep, I got them. Not only do I have the shingles? I

I, um, I've got the original receipt when I picked him up

He, he sent me the receipt, he sent me some shingles. I, I paid him for the postage and

um, the old shingles bob. So get this, the old shingles that I used to install back in the 19 seventies weighed 240 pounds a

square. So that's 80 pounds of bundle new shingles right now. If you go weigh them

I did this, I did this for the book. I, I bought a bunch of new shingles. Uh

they're significantly thinner. Um I was getting weights of about 100 and 80 100 and 85 pounds a square

So there's 60 pounds less of asphalt in modern shingles and people wonder why they fail

right? So, um, y you know, you, you can just look to see

um, you can look to see what the weight is on the packaging

I just don't think you're gonna find many, I don't know that you can even get any today that are like the old ones

240 pounds a square. What you wanna get? You? First of all

you should read the chapters, the free chapters in my book, a roofing rip off

So if you go to roofing, roofing, rip off.com, go to roofing and then just click the free button

read the, the, the three chapters, the three or four chapters and what you'll find out is later in the book you wanna get shingles

that have the styrene bead styrene additives. So s so the letter S you know

just like a Sierra bravo, Sierra, you know, styrene, buid styrene. All right

Uh Where's si know, white board? Whiteboard. Well, I'm sorry, go look up the governor's executive orders

man. So SBS SBS, you want the SBS additive? All right. And

and the shingles you get that, you put copper on top, you're gonna be in good shape

It doesn't really matter what the weight is. All right. Here we go

Let's see. Uh Vanessa. Hello. Uh Brent. I have a 1.5 to 12

mid century modern roof, one length of the roof is nearly 60 ft. Think of using standard

same double lock. What are the feeling of this? Um That's a great question

Like, what do I think about that for a low pitch roof? Dude

that is, that's actually a fan. That's such a great question. I don't think you realize how good of a question that is

It, it ties back into what I just said a few minutes ago about reading the installation instructions

You have to look at the roofing material because different roofing materials have got different um specifications

For example, traditional regular asphalt shingles, the manufacturers will tell you like do not like it's real iffy

They say it's really iffy. If you put these on a 3, 12 pitch roof, like it may or may not work

Uh, it's, and like, and like the border line is 412, like a 412 pitch

They'll go, ok. Ok. It'll, it'll work, but 312, maybe 212, forget about it

It's gonna leak guaranteed. Leak. All right. So you need to look at the roof and the material you like and

then you need to reach out to the manufacturer, try to get the installation instructions

Maybe they're downloadable from the website, read the installation. See if they say in there minimum roof pitch gotta be this

And I'm just telling you from experience to stay away from minimums

Um, in other words, if they were to say minimum is 212 in your head

you may go, I'm good. I'm good. Well, to me, that means it's like getting 70 in a test

All right. So if you get a 70 in the old days in a test, it means you just barely passed in any event

I can tell you this, make sure that that roofing manufacturer is ok with putting gray ice and water shield under

that section of the roof. The whole thing. In other words, if you've got a low slope roof like that

I, I just don't want any chance of a leak. I mean, roof leaks are just nightmares there

I get so many emails, there's, they cause so much pain and frustration to homeowners

And now we, we've had this magic product for 3540 years and most people don't use it

It, it's gray, I and water shield. If you put it over the whole roof and you do it right

I don't care what happens, you're not gonna have a leak. All right. So it

you know, is it, is it worth that peace of mind? I do. Of course it is. That's the answer

Elaine, we once looked at some beautiful property up near the Virginia line

Every, the commonwealth of Virginia, every building and both homes had metal roof inside

Yes. Unfortunately, the roofer screwed the metal into the field. Uh So

Right. Yes, you got it once again that once again goes right back to the installation instructions

You have to read them yourself and you have to understand how the roof is supposed to be installed

Chris I got a new asphalt shingle roof for about 15 grand

I would have liked metal, but it would have cost three times or it could be depend

you know, the, the different metal roofs cost different amounts. Um, I would be th this roof down the street from me

the, the home, it's such a cut up roof. There was not a doubt in my mind

it was very expensive, but, um, it was out in the field

In other words, when, when that roofer was away from skylights and away and away from valleys

this stuff went in. So I was standing there watching them for a while. It went in so fast

I mean, only one nail for shingle as fast as you could slide one up over

Now, up, over now, up over. I mean, it was remarkable. I mean

you could, you could install this metal roof, this metal roof, I'm telling you will install faster than an asphalt shingle roof

All right. So, uh, I mean, it's just aluminum. I mean, so I

I'd be really curious to see what, what the cost was per square of that material

All right. Uh, Robert, uh, it's not off topic there there. That's a great thing

You said that there's no such thing as off topic questions. Uh, you can ask anything you want

I just start out the live stream to talk about a topic and then we go

we might go to Roe versus Wade. We might go to the illness

We might go to, uh, me being a train conductor. Um, there's so many things we could talk about

All right. Here's your question. Of course, ask any question you want

What's your deck cleaning question? I'm happy to answer it when

I can park. I'll ask, he's out driving. All right. Be careful

buddy. No, no. Uh, no. Uh, you know who we, you know

who used to drive around and, and, and watch the live stream. Three back

It was back in February, January or February was Alex from L A

Alex. I don't know what happened. I don't know if he got abducted Alex. You know

here's what happened. He just kind of swooped into the live stream. Makes the bet about the Rams versus the Bengals

He lucks out. They luck out. I mean, they luck but the Bengals thank God that many

how they had a chance to win it and, and they don't

and I'm out a box of pecans, dark chocolate Aloys pecan. I send them out to Alex the next morning he eats them

Uh, he goes on a vacation and then we never hear from him again

What, what's up with that? All right. All right, Jennifer, are there better metal roof panel colors than others

Um, I don't think so. No, I, I think I would stay away from white

Uh, I think that the white would get dirty white would just like anything else just like wearing white clothes

It's gonna show dirt right away. Um, I, I, um, no, I don't

I don't think any one color is gonna last longer or the other. I just, I think that you

I think that's a really great question to ask the manufacturer. Uh

you know, what kind of, what kind of lifespan they're getting from their paints and the

the obvious question to ask if you can, if you can get them to answer it is

hey, can you give me the addresses near me of just, um

I don't know, 22 places that have that puts your roof on 20 years ago

How, how nice would it be to go look at the roof 20 years later? Um Sure

So yeah, silver is a better reflector. Um black. Yeah, but the trou here's the trouble Jennifer is that the silver is great for reflecting

the heat. Um But, but no matter what he here's what happens

I I've got, I've got, if you go to my website, ask the voter.com and you type into the search engine

infrared photos. So I have a whole page of all types of different infrared photos

I've taken from a around here around my house with a flare camera and the roof

the roof temperatures get my, here at my house, the roof gets about 100 and 60 degrees on a June day

And, and, and so the shingles heat up, they transfer that heat very quickly to the roof deck

they transfer that heat very quickly to the rafters. And so when you go inside the attic

I don't know, at two o'clock, like after the sun's been beaten on the flipping roof and we're past solar noon

And I mean, the attic could be 100 and 40 100 and 50 degrees

right? Because, because, you know, it's just think of the whole roof structure as being like a campfire of

of glowing embers. All right. So even if you have a silver painted roof

I, I mean, here, here's the proof in the pudding. If you

if you have a vehicle that has a chrome bumper, you know, it's a chrome, I mean

bright chrome that's reflective as can be. It looks like a mirror and you have that car parked out in the sun

Why don't you put your hand on the chrome bumper and tell me how long you can keep your hand there

I don't know. It's, it's gonna, the, the bumper could easily be 100 and 30 100 and 40 degrees

So the, the reflective paint doesn't, doesn't necessarily stop the heat transfer

All right. All right. Let's see. Here we go. What's the best way to remove iron water stains on

plastic? Um, I would, I would, I would get a very small amount of

um, I would get some white vinegar. First of all, that's the mildest acid of all

Take some white vinegar, put it on a flipping Q tip, you know

a cotton swab. All right. And just like, like do this when it's dry

just take one drop of the flipping white vinegar and put it on one spot of the iron stain

Let it work for a little bit and then maybe an hour and then dab it off with a clean paper towel and look at

the white paper towel and if that turns orange victory. All right

that, you know, you know, that you are getting it off. All right

It may take more applications, but that's what I would start with most of the other acids are

are really aggressive. So try that, let me know what happens. What color would you choose

Elaine? Um, well, I mean, uh, you know, Jennifer, for me, if you want my opinion

you know, a brown or a green like this green, this is a pretty attractive roof

If I want, I'm gonna go back and take a photo of the whole roof. It's a pretty attractive roof

Um, so I, I don't know. I mean, you're out in the country

Red seems to be a good color, you know, for traditional like shed roofs and

and barn roofs that the farmers typically painted them with that red oxide

paint iron oxide, Elaine, I didn't saw both Ed PM and Metal Pans G for a commercial company and not resident back there

Ok, Steve, do you have ego roosts in the US where uh we've had a few

they were just a joke. Just a big flipping joke. The flipping. I'll tell you where I saw my first one in Cincinnati when that

whole movement was happening. Uh like 20 years or so ago, the bank that I used to go to

um, they, they, you had to come down this hill to, to

to get to the bank and you could see the roof. All right. And so

you know, this bank is trying to be ecofriendly, they advertise in the paper so they plant this ecosystem up on top of the roof

and, and you go there a month later and it's, it looks like the Atacama Desert

everything is brown, everything is dead. Now it's become a fire hazard

I, it just, it, you know, they're just so stupid. It's so stupid

I, I mean, oh my God. Like, do they not know how hot it gets on these roofs

And then, you know, then, I mean, think about this, you, you go

you might go three weeks, four weeks in Cincinnati with no rain. And so you expect the plants to live

Are you kidding me? Oh, but, oh, so that, now let's get up there and water

Oh, now we're gonna spend all this money to water like idiots flipping idiots

Uh, is there any concern about catching rainwater? No, not. I don't have any concerns about it at all

All right. Uh, Bob Bob's part. All right. Go cedar deck. Yes

Ok. Um, easy. Just use my stain solver. I'm trying to find it

Oh, here it is. This is a great product to clean your cedar deck

Go to stains sover.com type the word cedar. Just ce dar into the search engine

And then I don't know that you'll see a cedar deck, but you're gonna see different before and after photos of cedar houses where people

have used it in the before and after is just remarkable, fantastic cleaner for

for cedar. So, and it tells you step by step on those pages how to do it

Yes. Elaine's wright, uh, you're gonna get, you're gonna get color fade no matter what you're

I, I just explained that before you've got these active photons and they're just gonna blow up the flipping

uh, you know, the, the paint. So Jennifer, what I would do if you're concerned about that

you need to be asking questions, um, to the metal roofing companies very specific and they have to give you specific answers

about. Tell me what is in your paint that, that uh it makes them UV resistant

that they resist the photons because we already know you can buy the um I have

we have a um I forget the trademark name. Uh We have a

an umbrella for our outdoor patio or table on our deck. This umbrella um is

um it's got to be 20 years old. It came from Cincinnati

We used to have this umbrella at the table in Cincinnati. It's got uh there's a trademark name

sun something, sun, it's not sunscreen, sunblock. I don't know, sun something

And um I'm telling you art that umbrella, whatever they've got incorporated into that fabric

It looks like the day I bought it, it has not shredded

it has not fallen apart 20 years old. So that technology exists

I mean, eventually, if I left it out, it, it would eventually fail. So you just need to Jennifer

you just need to, to pin the manufacturers to the wall with some tough questions and say

hey, I Tim Carter told me all about photons. I know that the paint's gonna flipping fade

Um, there are these patio umbrellas. I can go look it up. Here's the trademark name

Um, well, tell me what you've got in your paint to make that. So your colors don't fade that

that, so don't just pick a color and hope it's not gonna fade

That's the last thing to do. All right, let me get caught up

Um, here we go. Um, cedar deck, refinished successor last

year, semi transparent big box brand Sealer dog peas. It all out of there. Ok

Um, no problem. I don't have trouble with that. Um, let me get caught up here

Uh, will, thinks that he wants to put sheep up on the roof. Ok

I don't know how you're gonna get him back down. Um, well

Robert, um, you, I, as far as it's, I mean, I just

I, I just put out an, uh, a deck stain test results if you go to my website and type deck stain test results

um, you'll see, uh, a, a document that you can get. Um

that tells you what I've been using and so far after two years it looks fantastic

Uh I'll maybe, maybe get four years out of it. You're not gonna get a hard, you're not

I don't think there's any product that exists. You'll get more than four years and even after three years

it may be a little shabby. Uh, the problem with the dog urine is that

um, very acidic. Uh, I don't have any trouble with the dog going to the bathroom out there

But if you know the dog is doing it, if you don't have a hose out there or if you don't

if you can't take a bucket of water, you, you need to dilute, you need to rinse that urine off as quickly as possible because

if you don't do that, you're just, you're gonna, you're gonna get some problems. So I would just

I don't care that the dog's doing it out there. I would just rinse it off sorella

That's it. That's exactly right. Thank you, Elaine. That's it. Um No

well, no, Robert, what you wanna do is uh go to the Stain Silver website

I have videos there. I have um columns about deck clean. I tell you

I tell you step by step how to clean the deck. So just go to Stains solver.com and

and look at the fa Q uh look at the videos. Uh It's so simple to use

You can't believe it. The key thing with using it is I always apply it to a dry surface because II I

if it's bare wood or whatever, I want the stain solver to soak into the wood

So just go, if you have any questions after you've gone through all that work and seen all the videos

just reach out to us on the Stain Solver website. Um, no

once you use Stain Solver and you scrub and you do exactly what we say

Just once again, these are all great questions, by the way, uh

once you've done everything I show in the videos you just rinse it off with plenty of water

just take a hose. Doesn't have to be, don't use a pressure washer

Just a regular hose. You, if, if you wanna scrub it a little bit with a clean brush

uh, it doesn't take hardly any effort to rinse the stain solver off

And then you get back to a neutral ph of seven on the deck because that most water is really

really close to a APH of seven. Um, all right. Let's see here

Uh, I don't know. LV. Uh, let's see here. Um, all right

Let me get caught. Sunset are awning. I don't know. Yeah, the sunset are awnings

I'm sure they've got a UV protector in it too. The same thing. Um

Steve Meadow Rose wants to know how is the news looking to you? I Steve

I, um, it's a really here, I'll, I'll come on the news a little bit

It's a really interesting, um, past couple of weeks. Um, ok, understand that

I'm not a, uh, I'm not a professional pundit ever. And if Steve

are you still here, Steve will tell you old silver top. So

my knowledge comes because I've turned this color. All right. And I think what we're experiencing

There's, it, it's a, it's a, it's a three dimensional, here's the best way to

I think, to describe it. What's happening is a three dimensional chess game

I mean, chess at, at two dimensions, hard enough to play at three dimensions

Like, oh my gosh. All right now. So, and remember what I've said in the past

All right. I, I keep, I keep going back to this, but to me it's true

If you have not read book one of Game of Thrones or you have not watched the first season of that television show

I beg you to do it. And the only reason why is the

the author George RR Martin who, who wrote the book, I don't know

20 or 25 years ago, he was an older guy. He, he had figured it out

I mean, he, he saw around him what, what's happening in real time

If you just study history a little bit, just a tiny bit

you'll know that history, that history and what's happening now are just about three things

Just three things. That's all money, power and sex, those three things

Money, power, six. And it can be in different orders for different people

Sex, power, money, power, money, si I already said that money, sex power

All right. So you can arrange them different ways. But those are the three driving forces of the people behind

the news besides the fuzzy stories besides the, you know, the the the

you know, there's all kinds of fuzzy stories. But, but so when you start to look at everything from that perspective

I think it helps you understand what's going on now, what's happening here in America

So, so here's what's um he he here, here's like, let's just take one thing that happened over the past 2 to 3 days

So let's take the unprecedented leak of the draft of the decision about Roe versus Wade

So start to unpack that and look what happened is so I went to bed

II, I go to bed at like 8, 20 minutes after eight

That's when I go back and kiss Cathy. Good night. Uh I go back and read for about 40 minutes and then I'm lights out

at nine o'clock. So she tells me at nine o'clock two nights ago

maybe it was three, I don't know, 2 to 3, whatever, it doesn't matter. Let's see what's today Wednesday

So I think it was Monday night, all of a sudden breaking news and all of a sudden there's already a

crowd of people at the Supreme Court chanting and they already have signs made up

Now. Now, do you understand, think about that in the, in the way that news typically happens the way in the old days

the something happens. Let's just talk about, let's just talk about a fire

Let's talk about something normal, something happens. Somebody calls the police department or the fire department

the, the news, just so, you know, in the old days, I mean, I used to work for

uh, uh, the ABC and NBC TV affiliate in Cincinnati. They had in the

in the, in the newsroom they had three or four or five scanners

Radio scanners, I mean, the scanners, the lights are constantly going off and they would

and they, they would hear the news, the guy on duty, the head guy

he would hear every fire truck dispatched, he would hear every police call

He would hear everything that goes across the radio. And so he may hear uh

fire reported at 123 main street fire. And then all of a sudden across the radio

uh additional alarm, additional alarm, you know, all of a sudden it's a fire alarm

fire that may happen in just three minutes. Well, there's no way

In other words, the fire call just got called in. It has not even yet been broadcast yet on the news

It's not even been transmitted anywhere. I'm talking, not yesterday. I'm talking about the old days

No, Twitter, no internet back then. So the general population has no idea that the fire is even happening

The only people that know the fire is happening are the people at the building and maybe across the street and the fire department

That's it. But magically the instant that the news media here's about Roe

versus Wade leak. Oh, there's been a leak. There's all these people with signs made up standing at the Supreme Court

Do you get that? Ha. Have you ever made one of those signs before

How long does it take you to drive from your house to the Supreme Court? It's everybody's being played

All right. How many times have I said this? Everybody, me, you

everybody, Elaine Jennifer Robert LV, eight bit vinyl, Steve

and L all being played. But some of us are smart enough. We know we're being played and we know how to defend against it

So that whole thing was all set up. All right. And then

and then for what it's worth once again, think three dimensions. All right

Do you know what was supposed to happen that same night? Did you know that it was the premiere of

the? I don't know if I'm going to pronounce his name, right? Denise de Soza

his, his, his documentary 2000 mules about the massive vote fraud in 2020

So, I mean, once again, remember your, your plan, sex, power, money

right? Sex, power, money, money, power, sex. So the news is controlled by those three things

All right. And current events controlled by those three things and the people that are in power don't want to lose it

Power is intoxicating. Oh my gosh. Right. So when you start to look at all the data and you go

you go www what are the odds? What are the flipping odds that there would be this crowd of 50 or 100

people that just happened to be. I mean, I've been there, I've been to the steps of the Supreme Court

It's right up there by the US Capitol. What do you think the odds are that at that time of night

On a Monday night? You got these people just happen to be there

They just happened to have with them nails and sticks and poster board and magic markers

So anyway, bad stuff. All right enough of that. Um, so you ask me

um, um, I'll, I'll get to the comments you submit. Um, fir

uh, first thing I'm, I, I it's too early to tell about Elon Musk. All right

I think Elon Musk, my money is on Elon Musk being a good guy and if I'm right

if, if, and, and this will play out. I understand the whole Elon Musk and Twitter thing is gonna take another four or five months

to play out because here in America, the sales gotta get approved

It's just like real estate. You, you know, it's not like going in and buying a loaf of bread

All right. When you decide to buy a company for, for $45 billion you don't go in and just put $45 down and the next

day you own it, it, it's, it's a, it's, it's a months long process. If Elon does what he

says he's gonna do what he's alluded to history. We put Elon Musk

right underneath the founding fathers. In my, this is my opinion, Elon will actually be more important than

Abraham Lincoln. So it's gonna be founding fathers, Elon Musk. Abraham Lincoln

All right, because he, he, he if he does what he says

um because understand that the people in power, they want to control the conversation

That's why all the censorship was going on right here, even on this platform

That's why I, I mean, if you're new to the platform, if you're new to the builder

I, I don't say this word, you know, the word that begins with that letter, you know

you know what that is and, and uh and that's this word

there's another word, a big word, the last two years begins with this letter. All right

I don't say those. All right, because I'll get banned. All right

Um The censor and because they think that I'm giving out disinformation since

when are, since, when are they the arbiters of, of information? And here in America

I think still maybe in the UK, where Steve lives, we have the right of first

we have the first amendment. Now, I know that this is a privately uh I mean, this is a

a business but, but for Twitter, it, it became like the, the

the di digital Town Square. So it's a totally different beast as is youtube

But anyway, anyway, Elon, in other words, if, if you understand what fascism is

and when you, when you live in a fascist state and, and

and, and the, the conversation is being controlled, I mean, meaning like if you have a dissenting opinion

no matter what it is. Um, and the, the people that are in power say no

no, no, go over there, sit down and shut up. That's basically what they're saying

And if it's a bad enough fascist state, they'll shut you up permanently

They'll kill you. All right, because the people that are in power who might be doing bad things

they don't want that exposed. All right. That's, that's remember. Game of Thrones. Power

money, sex. All right. That's what power money, sex. That's the fuel that runs everything I hate

You may disagree with me, but I can, I can prove that that's the case. All right

So that's what's controlling everything. I actually think that what's happening on a big scale

Steve and then I'll move on. I think the next six months here in the United States are going to be

they're gonna be epic. It's gonna be a major paradigm shift on a

uh social and political scale. The bad news is, is there is a financial storm brewing

right now. I watched a video this morning, uh, really troubling. Um It turned out that this video just became

a big, it was just a big long form sales letter. It was really kind of disappointing

But the 1st 20 minutes that were pretty good. I am here to tell you it's really bad news

I've been talking here about inflation and whatever. It's actually worse than what I thought

And you, you, if you're watching this, if you're watching this live stream right now and

and you don't understand how bad the inflation is, but it's not only is it bad

it's not going to go away and I could talk for a whole live stream about why it's really bad

It's really bad. So you, you need to be in a position where you are able to buy things

is all I can tell you. Here's what you're gonna start seeing if you haven't seen it already

I'll tell you this right now and this is kind of sad

All right, there are people, I'm not gonna name any names, but there are people on this stream

You are gonna start to see people who are retired and who wanted to be retired

They're gonna go back to work. All right. All

right. Here we go. Let me get caught up. There's a lot, I've got really uh really all kinds

Here we go. Robert, sorry officer. I know I was doing 80 but I'm writing ask the builder officer

So, so Robert just so you know, that goes back. I don't know if Jason's here

Ja Jason is our expert, Resident Lurker. God bless Jason, by the way

God bless him. I swear the people in Indianapolis and are so lucky to have Jason because they're gonna have food

The, um, I wish it was true. Uh, Robert II, I, in a way I do

I wish it was true that people, like a normal police officer would go

Oh, Tim Carter? Oh, ask the builder. Got it. You're good, man

Go if you did that. I'm pretty confident the officer go. What the hell are you talking about

Who's that loser? Robert About urine? Yeah. Just rinse the urine off

Just get, it's ok that the dog does that. I don't have trouble with that

All right. Just rinse it off right away. The sooner the better Elaine loves stain silver

I do too. It's really, really good product. Um, here we go. Uh

here's a good question J and D. You know, can you route your down spouse into a French drain

Yes. No, no. You, that's a great, by the way, it's, it's a teaching moment

So I'm gonna answer your question. Yes, you can do that. Here's something else you can do

You can go out into your yard and you can take a shovel and you can dig up some dirt and put it in a

bucket and you can come inside and you can dump the dirt in your toilet and flush it

I mean, you can do that. I I'm telling you I can do it right now

Here at my house. Am I gonna do it? No. So the power is always in the question and

and I know what you were asking. I, I got it. Uh The answer is you would never want to put down spout rainwater in

a linear French drain system. Uh Because the whole point of the linear French drain system is to siphon water out of the soil

So the down spouts are just gonna inject water into the soil

So you wanna pipe the down spouts through solid pipe in a completely different piping system out to the lowest part of your yard

So do not do not introduce downspout roof water into a linear French drain system

Steve Ha. Have you heard Tim as realtor uh law trying to pass no commission for buyer's agent

listening agent to do full transaction. Uh I've not heard of that law. Um I used to be a broker in Ohio for 25 years

Um trying to pass a law, no commission for buyer's agent. Uh That would be a bad law just so

you know, by the way, uh in the old days, just, you know, here's the, here's the way you live

Real estate used to be practiced and a lot of people were not aware of it in the old days and I'm going back to

the 19 seventies. All right, in 19 seventies. And before there was no such thing as buyer agency

it did not exist. What happened is back in those days, the realtors they got paid by the seller

And if you read the contract, if most people never read the contracts

I mean, I read them, I was a broker. If you read the contracts

the agents swear their allegiance to the seller. Have you got, do you understand that

they are swearing an oath saying we are going to do everything possible to get you the highest price

And of course, the higher the price is, what does that mean

It means that the realtor makes more money. The poor buyer was like a lamb being led to slaughter

So if the poor buyer did not really understand this relationship, well

even if you had your, had another realtor, that was not the listing agent

that other realtor is swearing an allegiance to the seller. This is the old days

And if you, and if he didn't tell you that and disclose that and most didn't, then if you

if you were to say things like, like if you were in a negotiation and saying, well, I know they

they're asking 35,000, I'm talking in the old days, right? I, I like my first house that I sold

I sold it for $35,000. So let's just say, um, you're the buyer and you're talking with your agent and it's not the listing agent

and you go, well, I know they're asking 35 but um let's offer 32

see what happens. But if they stick on the 35 III I

I've got the money. I, I'll do it. So the poor buyer is telling that to the realtor in confidence

So the realtor puts the offer in and basically kind of says probably could get more money

That's the way it used to be. So now though, now we have

we've had for years, for 3540 years, we've had buyer brokerage in

in the United States. So the y you as a buyer could hire a broker who works on your behalf to get the price

as low as possible. But it gets a little fuzzy because sometimes they have in their agreements where the seller says

Ok. Ok. Ok. I get it. You know, it's gonna be an old fashioned type negotiation

I agree to pay the buyer's broker. I agree to pay that the

the buyer doesn't have to pay anything. Well, the buyer is actually paying it. He's paying it

It's built into the price. All right. It's just like free shipping. Who do you think I sell stain silver

I offer free shipping. Do you think I'm paying for the flipping shipping? Are you crazy

I'm not paying for it. You're paying for it. Come on, wake up

You know that, you know that right? We just, the price of everything is just raised to cover the cost of the shipping

So, so you're paying the brokerage either way as the buyer, but at least you have a broker now

Um, who is working on your behalf and they don't like if you say

say secret stuff to your broker and it's a buyer broker and you've got an agreement with him

He doesn't tell that to the seller's broker. Like, screw you. I'm not telling you anything

Steve the best looking silver top at that Brandon metal roof. Question

Can you talk about low pitch roof and what metal panel? Yes, I can

Um I talked about that a little earlier. Uh Brent you, when you have a low slope situation

you want to look at the roofing materials that you like like

oh, I like the way that looks and then you go to their installation instructions and typically in the installation instructions

they will tell you the lowest slope roof that you can use it on and I would stay away from that

Meaning I would, in other words, if they say it's OK to put it on a 212 pitch roof

I me as your builder, I would go, I'm not doing it

I'm not doing it. I would try to convince you if we're building a house. If you want that roof

then let's make the roof 312 pitch, let's make it steeper or at the very least you can't change the pitch

Then put Grace Ice and water shield under the whole roof under the o on the sheathing as long as the metal roofing manufacturers

OK? With it, it's a Multivariate problem. So you have to find out from the metal roofing manufacturer

What that roofing product is rated to do Steve when people go crazy for food supplies and toilet paper with a low mortality

rate with. Yes. Yeah, exactly. It's just, uh, exactly. Exactly. You're exactly right

Said it for sure. I remember police scanners being very popular. Yeah. Uh, hair isn't as white

hair is white as the lens. Hair is not as white as mine

Mine's pretty white. Where, where did you, where do you see somebody like Elon Musk in the Game of Thrones

Um I'm trying to think of all the characters. Um Well, I would say Lord

Stark, you know, but Lord Stark, um I, if I don't wanna

well, I'm not gonna, I don't wanna spoil anything. Um I would say Lord Stark was and um

if you know the game, if you know how the game of Thrones is played

well, it's on my business card. I here I like, you know

I like the game of thr I mean, my son was the one who had me read the book uh over a year ago

He said start reading it, dad. And the reason why is because I'm, if I can pull this together

I don't know if I can. Um I might ii I, I've got, I've had this idea

I had this idea that came to me four years ago to write a children's

Uh it's like a Harry Potter series is the best way to describe it. It's aimed at kids who liked Harry Potter

which are like 89, 10 year olds. All right. And many adults like Harry Potter. But I have this idea and my son is an

expert in all this. I'm just, I know people love and they dote on their kids

I'm here to tell you, my son is an expert on all this fantasy stuff

Four years ago, I'm sitting with him and I tell him my idea and he was speechless and

he said dead, that's an amazing idea. He said, dad, that's a really good idea

He said, you really should write that series because he, he, he thinks I'm a really good writer

He's a good writer too. But then he said, then, then he tempered me

you know, he's, he pulled me back down to earth. He said, but he says

I don't think you have any idea how hard it is to do. And as a result

he says, you've got a bunch of homework to do. And, and he started telling me all the stuff I had to do to get

up to speed. And so the first thing to do was read Game of Thrones. I'm

sorry for that. Moving around. That's not my business card. That's how powerful that quote was in the book

So to answer your question about Elon, when you play the Game of Thrones

this is what Queen Cersei said to Lord Stark in book one

When you play the game of Thrones, you win or you die and then she had a pregnant pause

There is no middle ground. Elon Musk is playing the game of Thrones

at the highest level. You have to understand that. What did, what is it all about

Right. What's it all about and, and through history and now and in the future

three things, right. Sex power money. That's all it's about. I hate to say it

I mean, take it now, don't anybody get offended by this? Ok

Please take it down to your own personal level. Especially if you're a man watching this

A man, right? The women like Elaine and Jennifer and, uh, Vanessa

if you're here, I think you're gonna understand this. But if you're a man

you know, we're wired differently than women for, for a reason. All right and vice versa

Women are wired differently than men for a reason. So men, most men

especially younger ones, some older ones, they're, they, they're thinking all the time like

hm, man, that would really be great. You know, I don't even have to say it

All right. You understand like boy, I mean, I think about it freaking actively, all right

even at your level. All right. So, but at the up when you get up higher

man, it's why do you think all these people, these politicians and get stuck in these sex scandals

And just so you know if you don't know what's happening. Remember it's a

remember it's about sex power and money if you wanted to control somebody

If what you know about Jeffrey Epstein, right. You know the guy that committed suicide

I'm sorry, I got something in my eye. How did Jeff? Does anybody know how Jeffrey Epstein got all his money

It's never really been written. Do you know? I think I know he knew about sex power money

So he starts inviting people in to have sex with these, these young teenage girls

And of course, it's all video recorded and the, and the, and the dopey, the dopey idiots don't realize it's being recorded

He might have 20 cameras in a room, tiny ones, tiny spot cameras let them

they have sex for a day or two or a weekend. And the dopey guy could be like

Prince Prince, what's his name? Prince, what is it? Prince Albert? I don't know

Like, can you imagine this conversation, Jeffrey and, and the prince are having breakfast like before he gets ready to get

go home and Jeffrey hands him this envelope with all these flipping photos

None of this is hard. All right. Not, not what's gonna be on the golf ball

Nothing about this is hard. Oh my gosh. Um So let me get caught up

So Elon Musk, all I need to know he's playing game of Thrones at the flipping highest level

It doesn't get any more dangerous. Um, all right. Let me get caught up

I'm so far behind. All right. Um, all right. Uh, here we go

Um, covert capital, economy country. Yeah, since all right. All right. Uh

I have not seen that movie. G, all right. Uh, Steve. Steve says Elon Musk hasn't unbanned me yet

He will. Don't worry, you'll get unbanned. It's just kinda Steven. You understand why he's

he's, uh, it's just like in real estate. In other words, I like my son

Like my, my son's a great example right now. My son bought a house three weeks ago. All right

it's he, it's, he bought the house. It's under contract. No one else can buy it

Well, I mean, if the buyer wanted or seller wanted to be illegal, uh he could sell it to two people

Um but my son doesn't own it yet. It, it takes five weeks to close

All right. So, but on May 20th, just around the corner, he'll own it

So whatever day the deal closes, uh within a few days you're probably gonna get unbound

All right. Uh Frank's here. Hi, Frank, how you doing? Uh I gotta look

I gotta find out what this movie is about. Cat. I'll ask Kathy about it. Steve Tim

Do you have a video on how to find individual contract? Yes, I do

I have a four video series, four video series. Yeah. Just go to my website

Ask the build a common type in how to find a contractor. I actually, and what's cool about this video series

The video series starts out with me talking about it in my shed and then I say

hey, why don't we go, why don't I go show you how to find a contractor and it could be anything

It could be a roofer, it could be a plumber, it could be electrician doesn't matter. We jump into my car

my son in law has got the camera and we're driving, I'm talking as I'm driving

blah, blah, blah, talking as and then video number three, we end up at the big local lumberyard

the true lumber yard, not a big box store. And then I walk in and I

I mean, you have to understand this is all prearranging. Uh I couldn't just walk in unannounced and then I show you exactly how I

find the best carpenter in Cincinnati. So, yes, I have those and

and bye Elaine. See you later. Um, Andrew the horse faced pig

Exactly. That's him. Uh So thanks for being here, Elaine. Uh All right

Um So that's it for the, that, that's it. I uh I don't know where I'm at

All right. So I, I went way off the rails. That's ok. That happens. All right. If you have any questions though

about your home, uh, now is the time to ask them, Steve had some good questions about the news

All I can tell you is the next six months. The biggest concern I have just so

you know, Steve, the biggest concern I have is we have not yet

uh, figured we have not yet solved the whole election fraud thing that's not been solved

And I've got big concerns about that. I've got really big concerns about that and

but I think something's gonna happen between now and November that, that's gonna get solved

But I don't, I don't see how it can happen that fast because my big problem is especially with the machines

like here in, in New Hampshire, you know, those machines, they say they're not connected to the internet

They are, um, all that can be manipulated. I, um, so that's

that's kind of roiling around in the back of my head. Like, how is that gonna get resolved

And I just don't, I mean, it, it could really be resolved really easily

I mean, all, all we should do, I don't know, maybe they do it in the UK and once again

nothing about this is hard. We could, we should just go back to old fashioned paper ballots and

and, and in reality, voting should only be on one day. Uh

it should be a national holiday and, um, what the hell might as well have another holiday

What, what the hell? And, um, you only vote on that day and there's only a few special people that

that get to vote absentee. And I, I don't care how big

the city is, uh, it's, but it's so easy to have, you know

a democrat and a Republican and an independent to, to, to count the votes and just double check them

So, and, and, and here's the thing who said, I mean, the me

here's the news media, the news media has whipped everybody up into having this instant gratification about who won

who cares? Go to bed, like, go to vote, go to bed and then maybe through the night all the counting will get done and

when you wake up in the morning, you'll find out who won. We don't have to know who won 20 minutes after the polls close

See, that's what's going on here. That's the trouble. Um, ok, I'm gonna write that down

Got, got it. I gotta write that down. I'm gonna ask Kathy about this

She probably knows what it is. KG att ac A All right

I'm gonna find out what that's all about. Uh, exactly right, Frank Frank's right

I mean, it's got the, the, there's nothing about not, there's not one thing that's hard about

um, counting votes and doing it fairly and there's nothing, not one thing hard about it

Nothing. All right. Uh All right, Bob. Bob, thanks for being here

I gotta get back on the road. Um, uh, I'm gonna get out of here too

I, I've been babbling for the last half hour. I mean, it's crazy, but we have quite a few viewers and

um, I'm, I'm happy to stay here for a little bit longer to answer any questions you have about your home

Uh, you already know how I feel about everything else. Um, but he

he, he here's Steve. Are you still here? I think you're probably still here. Um

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Will. Um, yeah, tomorrow, man, we got great weather. So will let me

I'm, I'm gonna fill you in. Will. I was, I've been thinking about you. Here's my plan for tomorrow

First of all, the guy that I'm playing, his handicap is just about like mine

It's actually just one stroke worse 1.5 strokes worse than mine. So pretty evenly matched

Um, as long as he's not sandbagging. All right, I know I'm not

if anything I and anything I posted too low of the handicap based on what I did 22 weeks ago

My plan for tomorrow. First of all, I have, I have to be there by three and

um, I'm gonna leave the house at two. It's only 20 minutes to get there and I'm gonna spend a good 15 minutes putting on

the practice green, you know, really get a feel for the, the greens and I've decided off the tee

I'm only doing like 70% energy. I'm not gonna try to hit it hard and long

I'm just gonna try to hit it like you said, just, just 70% energy old man

Swing just get it out there. 100 yards, 150 yards does not have to go 200 keep it on the

flipping short grass. Exactly. And then here's as you want. If I get a bogey

if I get a bogey, every hole I, I'm, I cut my flipping handicap almost in half

So that's my plan is just not hitting it hard. Don't try to get a part because in my head

what happens? I'll typically go, I'm gonna get a part this whole and so I have to hit it harder to try to do that

That's crazy. My par it should be a bogey should actually be a double bogey

So if I get that, OK. And if the other guy goes off the rails

I win, right. All right. All right. Uh Here we go. Um J and D

uh And you recently said uh like pine food? Yeah. Oh, well

So that's a great question. Um Dried beans rice. Uh And I

I'm lucky I have all these spare stain solver buckets around. Uh that all have the gamma seal lid

All right. That's a screw off lid with a AO ring. So I

and I know Elaine's got some but she's gone. Uh You can keep them clean

clean them, dry them. So just keep a bunch of beans, rice

Uh Just a bunch of dried foods. Uh, flour, get some flour

get some yeast. Um You know, just things like that. We, we've been buying

I've been buying extra cans of soup, but we're kind of rotating through

So we don't, it doesn't go out of date. So I wanna have, maybe, I think it would be nice to have 5050 cans of

soup on, on hand. And then, you know, they're not like what Kathy makes

you know, it's not fresh homemade. Ok. It, we're talking about survival here

Right. So, so it's all a bunch of dried stuff that you can make. So, in other words

you already know you could survive on beans and rice. You, it'd be pretty

you'd be pretty unhappy for, if you had to do it for a long, long time. But you could survive

I mean, my dad survived the prisoner war camps on less. All right. So he

he was a pow for five months, six months. So he got fed crappy stuff

All right. So, um, uh, all right. Here we go. Uh, can you

uh, yeah, but Steve, yeah, but that was fixed. The fix was in for Macron

I mean, they got the same crappy voting that we have here. Yeah

I'm not, I'm not gonna play nine to warm up. I'm not doing that. I'm just, I'm playing nine holes and I just know I've

done this before. It, what happens is mentally, well, you know, this more than me

you're a far better golf than I am. I just have a tendency to try to think that I'm Phil Mickelson

Or that I should be like Phil Mickelson. See, that's the trap I fall into

like, I should be able to hit it. Like Phil. No, no

you should not be able to hit it. Like Phil. You only on your best day

Will you have a lucky shot that you're like, Phil. So you're a crappy golfer

So that's ok. That's why we handicap it. All right. I mean

that's what's beautiful about golf when you think I was telling it to Kathy. I mean

you don't get handicapped in basketball. There's no handicap in tennis, there's no handicap in ping pong there

there. I mean, it, you could just name, there's no handicap in baseball

All right. So, but golf, this man, I mean, the guy who thought this whole thing up in golf about handicap

it's brilliant because in reality I can go out and play. I mean

I would love to do it, wouldn't it be? Actually, I think I said this on a past life

I think it would be an incredible television show. I think that Phil Mickelson should

should play people like me on TV. I'm serious. You know, because

uh, you know, if I've got a handicap of 35 ok. You know what

you gotta play your game, Phil, you gotta be a par a little below and if I have a good day and you happen to

have a couple of bad shots too bad, you lose. Tell me that would not be a fantastic television show as long as they did

it right. They, there was no sandbagging. Oh my God. That can you imagine the

it'd be like what Miami Vice was all those years ago. I've been got

I've gotten into this rut about watching past scenes and episodes of Miami Vice and I forgot how good that show was

It was so incredible for its time. I'm just telling you, I'm thinking about writing Phil Mickelson a rep

a letter. I mean, think about it, every hacker like me would be all over watching that show

like, oh my God, Tim might pull it out or, or whoever the shitty golfer was

Exactly. Just beat him every hole. Exactly. Exactly. All right. Um

All right. Ok. Uh Let's see. Um So I don't know who you're asking that

Steve, I'm not a lefty, I'm right handed golfer. Uh I, I think

but Nicholson I think is a left handed guy. I think, I don't know, I can't remember, but I'm just saying

I just think it would be a, a great, I think that would be a great, I think that'd be a great television show

I'm telling you right now, you know, this, the problem is you, the person who's playing

like somebody like me has got to be able to handle the whole star thing

you know, like, you know, mentally they've got to be like, like

I don't care that. It's Phil Mickelson standing there for me. I don't care. He puts his pants on the same way

I do big flip. He ties his golf shoes the same way. I do big flipping deal

you know. So, but, but most people would just melt, you know. They go, oh my God

I'm, I'm playing next to Phil Nicholson. You know, and, and, you know

and Phil Mickelson, I have a great shot. Who cares, who cares for every shot he gets

I get 1.5 or whatever it is. I don't care, I'll get there

I'll get up to the green, don't worry, you know, by the time I get up there we probably would be tied

I don't know. I just, it's just a fantasy that I have. All right, Steve

All right, buddy. I'm gonna get out of here too. Great that you're here. Thanks for stopping by

Um, I'll be here Saturday morning, eight o'clock Eastern. Thanks so very much for being here

Uh All right. Um All right, I'm gonna get out here too

I got stuff to do. Uh, I gotta go find out and see what the dinner plan is here tonight

The grub plan at the carter house. A lot of people watching

I really appreciate you being here. I, this is, uh, that's a lot of people. Thanks for being here

Oh, my gosh. Miami Vice. I, I, I've been also watching just so

you know, they've got a lot of really great videos on youtube about the background stuff

I just watched a video yesterday about the guy who built all the cars for Mimy Vice

And, um, and, and just, it was just, just fascinating stuff that the

um, the clothes like, in other words, the clothes that Sonny Crockett

the main character Don Johnson wore all very special. All you know

it was, you know, those, those henleys, those pastels that was not by

by accident, that was that, you know, it just everything. In fact

I, I saw an episode by uh ee Edward James almost, you know

who was the guy who played the Lieutenant. Um He explained his wardrobe and

and how, you know, he changed what his wardrobe was gonna be and uh the

the, the the head wardrobe person like, no, I, I don't know about that. I don't know

And they just said, well, you can go talk to Michael about it, you know, the producer. And uh so they

they finally, but, but you know that Ed Edward James almost, he was a really

really great actor and he, uh he could already see what the character should be and

that, that down to his clothes, that the clothes had to be perfect

And if you remember him in the, you know, Lieutenant Castillo or whatever

however you pronounce his name, Castillo, you know, I mean, it, he looked like some bum in a way

I mean, he he had the crappiest black suit, crappiest cheap shirts that's was by design

that's what Edward wanted him to look like, you know, thin tie and

and the, and the whole way he acted in the first seven episodes

There's another video of him explaining why he did that and he did not tell

he did not tell, uh Sonny Crockett or, you know, he did not tell Don Johnson and Philip Michael

Um, you know, the guy who played Tubbs, he did not tell them he was gonna do that

And, and when they were acting their lines, they're like, they, they weren't expecting that

And that's why that relationship between those three actors for the first seven or eight episodes was like

it was, you know, e Edward James almost thought about that way ahead of time

It did not happen, it was not happen. Stance, you gotta watch these

I mean, go watch all these episodes and these things about the actors talking about all this stuff after the fact

It's absolutely fascinating. So, um um uh my

daughter is not gonna be back here for Mother's Day. Um My daughter now it's like she

works for the CIA is all I can tell you. That's it

She's having fun, but it's like she's working for the CIA. All right. So

uh but she will not be here. Uh Yeah, Miami Vice. Fantastic

Fantastic show. Oh my gosh. All right. I gotta go. Thanks so much for being here

a lot of people. I, I really appreciate you being here and, um

thanks for the thumbs up. Um, thanks for bearing with me. Um

we had a lot of great questions today. I'll be here Saturday morning, eight o'clock

I'm gonna play golf tomorrow. That's what will and I were talking about. Um

I'm really stoked. I'm, I'm playing in the league is what it's all about and I've never done that before and so there's gonna be

a little bit of pressure. I, I'm not worried about it. I don't care if I play badly

I'm doing it for fun primarily and then if I can get my game a little better

Awesome. All right. So, uh, it's gonna be, it's gonna be really interesting to see

Yeah, Philip Michael Thomas. I could not think of his last name. All right, Frank

Um, see you buddy, Jack. See you LV. Uh Thanks for being here

Will, thanks for being here, everybody. So many people. Uh, gosh, so many people

I can't, Steve's gone. He's got to get up early. It's late late there in the UK

It's, uh, you know, it's almost 11 o'clock, it's 20 till 11 there. It's crazy

All right. Well, see you buddy. Thanks for being here. Uh, sorry

you got rained out today. Um, tomorrow is supposed to be a nice day here

It should be beautiful, beautiful day. So I'll, uh, I'll be sure to reach out to you as soon as I'm off the course

let you know what happened. You know, here's just so, you know, on a realistic note

I'll just say this and then I'm out of here. If I win four holes tomorrow

if I just win four and I lose the match, I'll consider it a success

Seriously. I'll consider it. Wow, that's, that's not a bad start. So if I can win four of nine

I'll be happy. Doctor Troll, man. How often do I trim? I guess what

It's um maybe every 10 days. So I got a haircut yesterday and Mia she forgot to trim my mustache

Like, are you kidding me? So I'm gonna go ahead and trim it myself. I don't

I can't do a really good job of thinning it, but uh that's all right. It'll survive

But I, I've just got one of those small um I used to do it with the scissors very hard to do it right with

the scissors, you know, barber scissors, small one. But I've got a

you know, this, you know, hair clippers, not a big one, a small one made for that kind of detail work

And so the trick is just to do like like this, you have to look in the mirror like this. So you have to make

your lip like you, you know, right now, your lips got a small curve to it

So I make my lip straight across and then, and then trim it

but I'd have to get Kathy. I'd have to get Kathy to help me thin it out. So, anyway

uh, all right, Steve. Yeah, Mikayla, I, it's Mikal, a Mia. Yeah

And Mikayla. Great barber. She's a great barber. I just think we got talking and she got my eyebrows but she forgot my mustache

It's gonna be fun. Lock, mirror, lock, mirror. It's gonna be great. Tomorrow gonna be great

We're playing the back nine, the whole number 10, little tough dog leg left and it's got this

it's an elevated green. Um Then ho 11 is a big long par five straight away

Not much trouble on, on that 12 is the whole of freaking death man

Hole 12 dog leg left up this hill big elevated green fortune of the greens really elevated

You would think it's an easy hole. It's not, it is this freaking hole of death

man. I I should shoot a video of it. You should, I mean, and you know, if you go to Google Earth and you look

at it, it doesn't do really? And then the next hole a whole 13 is this freaking

it's a par three over the g excuse my French over the gully of death

That's what I call it. You have got to make the green

you have got and, and it's trouble to the right, a big hill that drops off

Trouble to the left. You don't wanna hit it too far. I mean, it's a tough part three man

And then hole number 14, I got it mapped in my head. Hole 14

a pretty easy hole pretty, pretty wide open. A slight dog leg left downhill

Uh I've had a drive there before last fall where it was dry out and the ground was pretty hard that my drive went like

270 yards. I hit it man and it, it had a very slight slice

hit the middle of the fairway and that fairway is tilted left, it's tilted right to left

the ball just kind of rolls around. I mean, it was like only like 80 yards or so to get to the green

It was wonderful. Uh So I could talk about it forever. Um The next hole straight away par four

then hold sixteens apart. I, I got them all mapped in my head. Anyway, I, I should

I should, I should be in the zone on this coach tomorrow. Um All right

Last great question, Jennifer got one. Um I, I have a vaulted insulated

Well, I have a partial vaulted insulated ceiling in my home. I, I'm a big fan

I, if I was building a new home, I would not have any vaulted ceilings or if I had to have a vaulted ceiling

I would really pad it more so that I could get an R in like in my client here climate in New Hampshire

Jennifer. I would want, I would want an R 45. So that means that I would have like nine and a quarter inches of fiberglass

which is like an R 38. And then I would probably like to put a two inches of closed cell foam next and then put

drywall on top of that. So it's so I, I want, I want

I want an R 48 R 60 everywhere if I could. That's all I can tell you

You know, because it's so easy when you're building to, to add insulation

it's very hard to do after the fact, here's just, you know, I'll, I'll end with this if you wanna make

if you wanna be the richest person in the world, it's, it's so easy

All right, it's really pretty easy and, and I think that the NASA scientists were kind of on to something

and I, and I actually went back and got, uh I remember a photograph I saw if you wanna be the ri if you wanna

be richer than Elon Musk, you come up with a product that is a half inch

thick. It's only got to be half inch thick, four by eight sheets and it has an half inch thick kind

It doesn't have to be too rigid, does not have to be strong, half inch thick

four by eight sheets, but it has an R factor of 100

You come up with that product, you will be the richest person in the world

Good luck. One of our guys got a hole in one on our number five

Wow. Ok. That's, I know that hole. I, that's the hole that scares the crap out of me

The island hole. Old man. Swing. Exactly. Old man swing. That's gonna be me tomorrow

I would, I'm gonna have somebody videotape it. I swear to God, I'm gonna try to have somebody videotape it

All right. Gotta go. Thanks for being here. Um Remember if you wanna be richer than Elon Musk

half inch thick. R factor of 100. Figure out how to do it think

And if you need some help, I'm just telling you go research how the uh tiles were made for the space shuttle

right? Remember those heat shield tiles go, I, I already know all about this

I don't have time to talk to you about it now, but they're just special silica

Um Think how much they slowed and that's all you're trying to do

Remember, um the purpose of insulation is only to do one thing

It slows the transfer of heat. So the underside of the space shuttle had these very special tiles

that slowed the transfer of heat to the aluminum body of the shuttle

Except for the, which one was it? The um it was the challenger that blew up from the rockets than Colombia

the Columbia disaster. The Colombia one that burned up on reentry was because it had lost some of those tiles and

they didn't know it and, um, or if they did know about it

which I actually think they did. I think they did know about it. They didn't tell anybody because there was no way for those guys

to fix it. They were doomed coming back in because the whole flipping rocket just burned up like a blowtorch

All right. So, so those tiles that are on the space shuttle

That's your clue. That's how to make this stuff. All right. And if you do

if you're successful, do you think you could just give me a half of 1% for giving you the flipping idea

All right, just half of 1%. I'll be happy. All right. All right

good luck. Gotta go. Uh Good luck with that. If you start working on it

If you, if you wanna contact me privately, I'm happy to tell you about it. Thanks for being here

Jennifer. You're here forever. How crazy. So glad you got the drawing

So glad it finally came. Jeez. Amazing. All right. Gotta go. Thanks for being here

I'm Tim Carter. You've been watching us the Builder. And if you become richer than Elon Musk

God bless you. Good for you. Good for you do something good with the money. All right

Buy, buy Facebook for, uh, I don't know, buy them for like 100 bucks

That's all it's worth. All right. So just buy Facebook and change it too. Well

I don't call it. It should be, it's really fascist book. All right. I gotta go

I'm gonna get everybody pissed off. I'm Tim Carter. I'll be back Saturday morning. Bye