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Stump the Builder #2
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Apr 29, 2025
http://www.AsktheBuilder.com founder, Tim Carter,
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i um I've only got about 15 minutes i
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thought I would do a quick um maybe
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about 20 i thought I would do a quick
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live broadcast to see if I could help
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you answer any questions about your
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house your apartment your condominium
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whatever it might be and these turn out
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usually to be pretty much fun and of
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course you know the only way it works is
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that
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um since you can't talk to me through
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the video uh interaction you have to use
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the chat feature so you have to ask me
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questions in the chat uh I just finished
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my weekly column and just filed it uh
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you know I still write my syndicated Ask
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the Builder News column and I just filed
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it this week it's about uh all the
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things you don't know about exterior
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paint and why exterior paint fails so uh
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once again this is um I'm here to answer
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any questions you might have about your
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home uh your apartment your condo so if
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you want me to help you just go ahead
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and
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uh try to keep it
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um let's let's keep it clean okay i mean
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some people are just uh they put the
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craziest things in chat all right um
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anyway I shared a story in my newsletter
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on Sunday uh about a friend of mine
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whose house he had a kitchen fire and it
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was caused from an electrical arc and if
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you're not a subscriber to my newsletter
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it might be a good idea to do it uh
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because you get stories like this on a
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frequent basis um once again the reason
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I'm doing this live broadcast right now
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and it is live um is just to help you uh
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if you have a question about your home
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your apartment your condo uh your small
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business whatever it might be uh just
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type your question in the chat and I'll
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do my best to answer it simple as that
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um what else did I want to tell you um
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you know spring's here
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it's the time of year that a lot of
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people get ready to paint outdoors and I
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just wrote a brand new column about the
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most common mistakes that people make
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when they paint outdoors and there's
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there's many different reasons why you
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have paint failure and not the least of
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which is you might be using the wrong
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paint and number two you're not
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following the directions on the label of
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the paint can anyway once again if
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you've got a question about your home
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your house your apartment your
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condominium whatever it might be just go
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ahead and uh type it in the chat and
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I'll do my best to answer it simple as
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that the um I'm only going to be on here
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for a few minutes just so you know uh
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because I um uh I'm going to be on
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um I'm going to be doing a live radio
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broadcast uh online in about 25 minutes
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uh I every 3 weeks or so I'm on
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wip.com so wip so lip wip that's up in
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Kenosha Wisconsin so if you uh want to
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hear me on live radio uh and interact
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with Frank and Kim and Rihanna uh go to
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wlip.com
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uh at um about
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10:25 today this April 28th here so
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anyway once again if you've got a
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question about your home your your
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apartment your condo your small business
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whatever it might be type it into the
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chat so that I can see your question and
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I'm more than happy to answer it it can
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be about anything i don't care what it's
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about it could be about your roof um it
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could be about concrete it could be
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about um paint drywall electric plumbing
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did you know I'm a master plumber so if
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you've got a plumbing question uh go
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ahead and type it in and let me uh help
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you uh save you lots of money plumber is
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very expensive all right so
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um the um I think the biggest thing that
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I want to share with you today is um the
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uh the story that I shared in
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yesterday's newsletter
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uh that I put I put one out every Sunday
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and it was um about a friend of mine who
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had a house fire last week and in his
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kitchen he was doing a bunch of
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remodeling work and the contractors had
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to move the island and the island had
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two electric wires that went up into it
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and I they must have thought that one of
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the circuits was off the breaker but it
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wasn't and so there was some arcing that
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happened and this electrical arcing um
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it started the fire right and and
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luckily um my friend was next door um he
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had interconnected did smoke detectors
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that alerted him to the fire they caught
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it early they were able to use fire
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extinguishers to pretty much get it out
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and then by that time by the time the
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fire department showed up it was pretty
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much under control but my friend did
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suffer some pretty serious smoke
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inhalation had to go to the hospital so
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you have to be really really careful let
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me tell you there's one thing you
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probably don't know about uh house fires
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so if you go back in time Okay William
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I'll get to your question just a second
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um if you go back in time oh I don't
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know let's go 60 years ago um
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firefighters if you if you if you were
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to um I know it's really obtuse and it's
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really hard to make a correlation but
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prior to the
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1960s firefighters um they didn't suffer
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a lot of cancers all right and once we
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started introducing plastic into our
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homes and you now you can find plastic
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just about everywhere in your home uh
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when plastic burns it creates a very
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very toxic smoke so you just don't even
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want to think about inhaling that smoke
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uh I don't think he really the fire had
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much plastic involved but he still had
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some serious issues all right so
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remember the reason I'm doing this live
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broadcast and I'm only going to be on
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for another 15 minutes max uh is once
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again because I'm going to be on
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wip.com and a live radio show at 10:25
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today so if you want to listen to me on
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a live radio show after this broadcast
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is over go to wlip.com and tune in all
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right william uh says "Good morning i
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live in New Hampshire also." Oh welcome
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uh William I'm up here in Meredith your
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home's about four years old when it
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rains and the wind blows just right the
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wood from the trim pieces around my
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bathroom window inside of the Oh well
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okay so the reason you're getting that
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leak it's a wind driven rain my guess is
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going to be um not only did they not
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flash do the correct flashing on the
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outside
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um but they they they might not have uh
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laced the window in with
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the barrier like the felt paper in the
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old days would use felt paper the tyveck
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or the Henry house wrap they might not
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have laced done that detail right um and
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and and if it's um if they use that zip
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sheet sheathing it's one of my biggest
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complaints with zip sheathing uh that's
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that green OSB you see most builders use
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um that product they seal the seams with
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this tape and you know if the OSB it's
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the same old thing it's like I just sort
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of call that paint if if the OSB is
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dusty uh if it's dirty uh this tape's
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not going to stick well and they use
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that same tape to to tape around the
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windows so my recommendation would be
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for you to um go to my website
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askthebuilder.com there's an AskTim page
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click that take some photographs of your
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uh window uh I need to see the outside
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of it and you can upload those photos uh
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with that on that page send it to me and
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we might have to do a consult phone call
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all right because I might have a lot to
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talk about so um you know I I offer a
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direct one-on-one phone phone
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consultation service so do that and I'll
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do my best to try to help you solve this
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leak but we'll be able to solve the leak
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i can solve that for sure all right um
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let's see uh you said but you you asked
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should I contact a roof or a siding
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company um I think you should start with
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me first and then let me look and see
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what it is and I'll tell you how we're
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going to fix it i think that's the
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simplest thing to do i hope that helps
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all right right so if you've got a
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question like William has about your
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home and that was a great one by the way
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that was a really great question William
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uh feel free to call me call me feel
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free to type it in the chat here hi
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Dominic how you doing um great to see
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you here let's see what your uh question
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is i have a stone foundation home in PA
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want to replace the floor choice for a
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full renovation would you trust the
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ledger board support the entire first
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floor should I go back uh in the pocket
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so
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um well that's a good question i
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um
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uh stone foundation i mean the stone
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foundations are really really strong uh
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if there if there would be any way that
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you I mean it's first of all it's going
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to be really hard for you if think about
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this unless you can take a stone off the
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top of the pocket um if you have true
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pockets that are enclosed at the top uh
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unless they're exceptionally deep you
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can't get a joist in i mean you know
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because you need a minimum 4 in bearing
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so the only way that you could get a
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joist in would be if if if one of the
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pockets was about 10 inches deep because
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then you could slide the the joist all
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the way in uh and then it would clear
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the face of the foundation on the other
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side then you can slide it into the far
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pocket all right so my guess is you
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don't have that luxury so you're going
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to have to do a ledger board but the
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problem becomes how are you going to
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support the ledger board uh that's going
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to be very very that could be very
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problematic i think same thing I think
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you need to do what I told William you
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probably need to take a few photos go to
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my Ask Tim page on my website upload the
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photos and then we may have to do a
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consult phone call simple as that to
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talk it through
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um pockets enclosed the pockets are not
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enclosed at the top okay good well then
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if they're not enclosed at the top um
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you should be able to drop the uh joist
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in place um just be aware that like the
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modern code when we build new the code
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says we're not allowed to have regular
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lumber so that means non-treated lumber
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is not allowed to be in contact with
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masonry so uh that's why when we build
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new homes and you've got a concrete
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foundation even if the concrete's up 2 3
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feet in the air it doesn't matter we
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have to put a treated sill plate down
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and then you could rest a joist on that
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so your your um joists they can't touch
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any of the stone all right so think
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about that how you going to how you
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going to do that i mean the you know you
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may have to use treated lumber for your
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floor joist all right so just keep that
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in mind uh remember if you have a
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question you've got to type it into the
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chat i'm happy to help you just like
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I've helped William Dominique that's the
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whole reason I'm here doing the Sump the
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Builder live vertical broadcast so I I
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hope you like them if you do make sure
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you hit the like button make sure you
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subscribe um that's how just so you know
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that the that's in the Google algorithm
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the reason people like me always ask you
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you you're basically saying to YouTube
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hey YouTube you should show this video
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reason either it was entertaining it was
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helpful blah blah blah so um anyway uh
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if you got another question type it in
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i'm trying to see the chat here
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um go ahead and um you can ask me
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anything be honest with you i don't care
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what the topic is about your home it
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could be a deck it could be um a footing
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issue it could be a drainage issue uh it
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could be a roofing problem you name it
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I'm here to help you that's why I'm here
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to help you save time and money simple
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as that all right so and the hardest
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thing just you know about these live
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broadcast is to keep your interest level
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up and it's really hard to do when I
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don't have a guest and in fact uh I'm I
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was thinking I was talking to my son
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over the weekend i was thinking about
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doing
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um one of an upcoming live broadcast
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like this with a guest and if you have
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any ideas if there's people that you
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think that would be fun for me to have
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on the broadcast uh I'm happy to
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entertain it so type in who you think
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you might want me to get and I'll ask
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them see if they'll do it you know we'll
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have some fun and just so you know I
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mean that's why if you watch some of the
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really popular podcasts out there uh
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many of them not all of them but many of
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them are uh you know that it's it's it's
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basically an interview it's like a
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conversation and uh if you've ever been
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at a party or or been anywhere uh and
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dipped in on a conversation you know
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that that can sometimes be very very
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entertaining so uh so that's why I want
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to uh see about I just want to
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experiment and see how much fun it might
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be to have somebody else on the live
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broadcast all right so once again uh
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we're running out of time because I've
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got to get ready to uh get on the live
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radio broadcast that I'm going to do in
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about 15 minutes uh I'll be on
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wip.com up in Kenosha Wisconsin so it's
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always fun uh the the uh the the the two
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people that own that Frank and Kim
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Carmichael they own that radio station
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and they own a publishing company
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they've published my syndicated column
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for probably 20 25 years and uh I'm I'm
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a frequent guest on their show and
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what's cool about their show is that I
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never know what they're going to ask me
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and we don't always talk about building
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remodeling uh sometimes Frank wanders
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off into politics and he and I are not
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politically aligned he's And so the
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conversations get very uh they can get
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very animated sometimes so it's really
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kind of it's I I have a lot of fun on
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that show uh Dominic says you should do
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these Q&A live on a schedule um yeah I
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can do that i was uh I'm actually
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attending a a YouTube boot camp right
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now and they actually talked about how
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um it's really better for viewers just
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like you uh to to to do it on a schedule
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which makes perfect sense because that's
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how television had worked for years
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right i mean so think about this i'm old
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enough to remember television before
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there were VCRs or before cable
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television even existed and if you
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wanted to watch uh Mickey Mouse on
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Saturdays you better sit down in front
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of the TV at 8 in the morning i mean
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period because it was on at 8 and that
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was it and if you if you missed it you
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missed it and there was no replay all
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right so u uh you know everybody now has
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it much better so yeah I I'm thinking
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about doing a doing a schedule and I
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think it would work out a whole lot
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better so uh yes to that that's a great
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suggestion thanks so much for it i
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appreciate it uh once again running out
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of time here i'm only going to be on for
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the five minutes if that so if you have
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a question about your home apartment or
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condo now's the time to to type it into
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the chat just like Dominic did and
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William uh take advantage of this i'm
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trying to help you for free save you a
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lot of money save you a lot of time i
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can't begin to tell you how many people
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um you know they just get taken to the
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cleaners all right so here's Let's see
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what this one is uh do you know what the
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average cost of getting a porch built on
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a small house i want to do it myself and
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I'm starting to think it's better to do
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it with a professional um the answer is
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no i don't know what the average price
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is because there are too many variables
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all right um here but here's how simple
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it is to kind of come up with a price
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um you can with not much effort uh make
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a very simple list of materials that you
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would need especially since it's a small
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porch so just think about the process
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that you're going to build you know like
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you're going to maybe if you're going to
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use a concrete base or if you're going
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to use a tiny wood deck just start
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making a list of all the materials and
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then price those out all right and
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generally what you're going to find for
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sake of discussion generally is the
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total cost to for that to be done by a
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professional who's not going to rip you
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off assuming there's nothing really hard
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about it it might be two to three times
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what that number is uh one of the
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factors might be uh the permitting you
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know how hard is it to get a permit to
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do this i can tell you that in some
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areas the permitting process is a
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nightmare like in California it's crazy
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all right you could spend thousands and
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thousands of dollars just getting a
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permit so just start yourself and make a
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material simple as that all right uh hi
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how you doing it says here uh I have a
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question about
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installing tall is uh uh you say tall
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pieces of metal siding probably mean
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long like 20 do you have any tips on
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raising the pieces vertical without fold
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oh um no the answer is yes I do have a
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suggestion you need help all right you
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need to have a helper because as you
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well know if a gust of wind uh grabs
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that metal which it will on almost every
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you know during as the day gets you know
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as the sun gets higher in the sky it
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heats up the atmosphere and causes more
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wind so it's very common in the middle
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of the day for it to be breezy all right
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so you have to have a helper it's that
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simple there's no I mean the only other
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thing you can do and this just makes it
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more cumbersome is you could tape you
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could take painters tape and tape that
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piece of of metal siding to something
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that is more rigid but that's just going
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to make it heavier to lift up into the
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air all right like a like a a 1x8 uh
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like a pine one by eight and and and
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you're going to have a long hard time
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finding one longer than 16 feet so
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that's going to be problematic
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um so it's uh it's not easy you might
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also right here on YouTube as crazy as
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this sounds uh watch some videos about
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uh like I would probably do a search on
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commercial metal buildings like um
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because you know metal you know
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commercial metal buildings use giant
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pieces of steel and see how they deal
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with that problem um but I've never done
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it i've never installed big long pieces
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of metal siding like that all right look
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I'm going to uh run here get ready to uh
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get on the air on wip.com so if you want
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to switch over uh listen to me on the
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radio uh with Frank and Kim it could be
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a really fun day um I'll be on till
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11:00 in the morning go ahead and go to
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wlip.com and you'll see on their web
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page a way to listen to the broadcast
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live so uh Dominique I'm going to take a
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uh I'm going to take up your suggestion
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uh I'm going to uh schedule some of
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these live broadcasts and and do it that
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way and see if we might not get a few
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more people tuned in and and that also
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gives you time to get your questions you
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know lined up so I think that that's
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another advantage so that you don't have
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to think on the on the you know in the
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heat of the moment how you know what's
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on your mind about your house all right
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thanks very much i had a great time i
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always have a lot of fun on these and I
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love answering your questions remember
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go to my website askthebuilder.com
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subscribe to the newsletter be sure to
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do um and because that's the way that
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I'm able to continue to come back it's
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that simple all right I'll see you on
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the next broadcast
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