Deck Cleaning & Sealing - Don't Powerwash! - LIVE Stream 03-15-2022

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I got, I got a crazy, uh crazy thought here. This is

I know this sounds crazy. I mean, you'll think that I have this huge tin hat on

Uh OK. Um I know this sounds crazy. I mean, it's not really what

what if the, what if the war in the Ukraine was not real

not really happening. It was all made up on TV. You know, they made a movie about that years ago with Dustin Hoffman in it

And, um, um, what's, I forget the other guy's name, the other big actor

Anyway, it's called Wag the Dog. It's, it's, I mean, you know

those people tell us what they're gonna do all the time. They tell us all the time

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it spins and like three seconds later it says you're live. But this time it just got

it just kept stuck. It just said going live, going live, going live. I mean

it just didn't do anything for 30 40 seconds. So I tried to refresh the page and that killed the screen

All right. But I'm here now. Um, ok, we're gonna talk a little bit about

originally. I was gonna talk about deck ceiling and, uh, cleaning and I wanna still do that

And I have a, uh, pretty unique column that you need to see

I'm trying to pull up the, uh, URL right now and, um

this has got a pretty interesting video in it, this video that's in this thing

You'll see me wearing a firefighter helmet. I happen to have one

I've got bunker pants. Um, anyway, they're really warm. If you ever wanna wear really warm pants in the winter

just go to a firehouse and see if you can buy a used set of

of gear. Actually, if you can buy the firefighter's coat and the pants because remember they're waterproof

I mean, you couldn't have better gear for, for, for winter wear. So

if you, and actually if you, I doubt that if you were a stranger, I doubt they'd sell it to you because they might think

that you're gonna try to impersonate a firefighter but if you know somebody on the fire department or a

uh, somebody on a volunteer department you might be able to get some. Hey

Don, how you doing? Hi, Brian. Um, all right. So we're gonna talk

uh, about a lot of things today, but first I'm gonna talk about debt cleaning and ceiling

It's really a big topic. Uh, you're not gonna, no one here in New Hampshire's gonna do it for another month

But people down South Florida, southern tier, southern California, they could be doing it right now

All right. Um, ok. Um, here's what you need to know if you

have a traditional wood deck. Most people who have wood decks that need to be clean and sealed

First of all, we're just gonna talk about wood decks. We'll talk about composites in a minute and as I go along

if you have any questions about something that I'm saying, just put it in the chat

All right. So I'm not clairvoyant. All right. And also if you have any other questions about any of the putter house

put them in the chat, I'll get to him the, um, but for now we're just gonna talk about wood decks and we're

and primarily we're gonna talk about treated lumber because that makes up a majority of all the decks in the United States

Um, there aren't that many people that have redwood. There aren't that many people that have cedar

There aren't that many people that have the expensive um rainforest like I bay and some of the other ones

uh those are, you know, those are high end products. So let's just talk about first

the, the, the treated lumber you have, he, he I I'll just

I'm gonna start with this quick story. So I remember when treated lumber first came out and it first started to be marketed to people

It was in, it was in the mid 19 seventies and I'll never forget

Um there was a placard, you know, like about an 11 by 14 or 11 by 17 glossy placard on the counter

of the lumber yard I used to visit and it said, you know

never needs maintenance, never, you know, buy this treated lumber, you'll never do anything again

You know. And people are like, ok, including me. I mean, I'm 22 years old

you know, 23 you know what happens when you're young like that

And even if some people get to middle age, they actually believe what they see on TV

And they believe on ads and they believe news anchors, big mistake

big mistake, especially today. All right. So anyway, it turns out that they lied

All right. You know, maybe you give them the benefit of the doubt. May, may, maybe they weren't lying on purpose

Maybe they actually thought it was gonna never need maintenance. But here's the truth

I talked about this yesterday. A little bit and I've talked about it in past streams

The, um, you have to understand that the sun, the ultraviolet rays from the sun and you already know this

you know, this because you've seen other things that you have left outside

get damaged. All right, you've seen old cars paint fade. You've seen

um, a flag that you have that used to be in great shape

It, it basically gets shredded. You see the colors fade in the flag

Ok. Well, what's causing that? What's causing it are photons that are in about 5% of the ultraviolet rays

And think of a photon is this very tiny, highly energized particle that's like a miniature cruise missile

And I mean, when it comes and it hits and remember it's traveling at 100 and 86,000 miles per second

All right. P traveling pretty fast. All right. And when it hits whatever it strikes

whether it's your deck lumber, whether it's a flag, whether it's your swimsuit that you hung up on the line

uh, whether it's, uh, whether it comes into the window and hits your upholstery

um, it explodes. I mean, it hits a molecule blows it up

I mean, seriously. Just, all right. Well, so if enough of them hit

they, um, they, that, that's why it breaks apart the synthetic dye molecules

That's why the, the flag doesn't look the same color. Um That's why they

that's why the awning at the mobile station, um, was, was so fragile that an ice ball would

went right through it. That's a story. You have to get me to tell you another day

All right. Um, actually I'm, I'm, I'm about to, I'm gonna write that story and maybe I'll just share it to you that way

It's better if I just write it, it's gonna be much better. Um

so anyway, it does the same thing with wood. The, the photons will discolor wood

That's why your deters gray and um and you'll, and, and it also destroys the wood fibers

All right, especially the spring wood, which is the lighter color wood between the two dark bands

Here's the other thing that happens, you, unless you live in the Atacama Desert where there's no vegetation

your deck is getting sugars on it, aerosol sugars from nearby trees

If you, especially if you live in a deciduous area where you have a lot of maple trees

the, there's all these microscopic droplets of sugar that are coming on your deck

There's all kinds of other debris and organic stuff that's floating down onto your deck

And as soon as it rains, um, that turns into food for mil doing mold spores and the mold spores are there too outside

There's trillions and trillions of mold spores. So that's why your deck turns black and just gets covered with algae and mold

right. So you just have to understand the biology of what's going on. In other words

you cannot stop that from happening. You cannot stop your deck from getting mold and they'll do on it

It's like anything else. If you want a pristine, beautiful looking deck

then you have to get out there maybe once every 23 weeks

depending on the exposure with just a little bit of liquid dawn dish soap and uh a push broom

You don't need a stiff, you don't need a stiff scrub brush. You just need to get your deck wet squirt

A little bit done dishwashing soap. Take a big nice soft push broom and just go around and wash the deck and rinse it off

and you'll, you'll not have a motor mildew problem. It's a little harder to do that with the

the, the handrails a lot more work. Now, cleaning a deck. What's the best way

Let's talk about the worst way. First, if you have any questions, remember? Put him. Um

hi Victor, how you doing? Um, hi Vanessa, how are you doing

Um, he, let's talk about what not to do. First of all

pressure, a lot of people just love pressure washers and the manufacturers of pressure washer

You know, they, they, they advertise them. Oh, this is a great product. This is a great machine to clean decks with

Um, I say no. Uh, here's why have you ever been to the Grand Canyon

So the Grand Canyon solid rock 12 million years ago, it didn't exist

All right. I know that's a long time. But just the water flowing down the Colorado River just

uh, you know, it's not high pressure, it's just water flowing over the rock

It erodes rock, solid rock. So you tell me what you think

A pressure washer at 2000 or 1800 P si can do to really soft wood that you can scratch with your fingernail

All right. Once again, just like the t-shirt. In fact, I have to show you my t-shirt today

Um Nothing about this is hard. It's a, it's all about using your critical thinking skills

So when you, when you hold your hand in front of a pressure washer

which I don't recommend doing, but you might try it one day when it's far away and bring it up until such point as to

where it really hurts your hand. You'll go. This is insane. I

I never want to use this on wood. Of course not. Of course, you don't. Pressure washers are bad

Everything about them is bad. I mean, they work for other things, but you're just making a mistake if you use it on wood because

what happens is you'll erode the soft spring wood. The soft spring wood is the wood that's starting to grow right now

Uh The sap is running here in the trees in New Hampshire, the trees are coming back to life and they're gonna start putting on

that light band of wood you know, pro here in New Hampshire, like next month and then

then up until about July and then in July, the tree transitions and it starts to put on the dark band of wood

Remember each year there's, you know, in a, for 12 months there's two bands of wood in a tree

One's light, one's dark, one's springwood, one summer wood pressure washers ruin the springwood

They'll make your deck, use pressure wash, they make your deck look like an old fishing pier

You don't want that. So let's say you're gonna, you're gonna follow the

you're gonna go online and read a bunch of columns and a bunch of websites. They're still out there

I see, I actually get press releases from public relations people every spring and the advice is still there

It's been there for 45 years. They say get a bottle of chlorine bleach

you know, bottle of Clorox, put it in a bucket and then add a gallon of flipping water

So a gallon, you know, 5050 mix, 50% chlorine, chlorine bleach, 50% water

And remember this. The chemical name for chlorine bleach is sodium hypochlorite

sodium hypochlorite. So if you see that name, that chemical name on a product

do not buy it, do not buy it. Here's why sodium hypochlorite chlorine bleach

It will take the co it's so powerful. It will take, it's such a strong oxidizer

It will take the color out of the wood number two. Um

it will accelerate the corrosion of any of the metal fasteners or joist hangers on your deck

All right, you don't want that. I mean, you, if you've ever seen any metal work like regular iron or steel at a public swimming

pool, have you ever seen how rusted it is? It's because of the chlorine bleach they put in the water

All right, that's why everything at a swimming pool has got to be stainless steel and even chlorine bleach will hurt stainless steel

Uh So, and then it's toxic to all of the vegetation and everything around your deck

So, if you've got thousands of dollars worth of vegetation, eventually you'll kill it because when that chlorine bleach gets into the soil after as

you rinse the deck, it poisons the uh plants. Um I had a neighbor of mine back in Cincinnati

She systematically killed this absolutely stunning, beautiful um maple tree um by wash

every spring, she would take four or five bottles of chlorine bleach and literally just pour them over the patio around her

her, her house and this tree, all the tree roots were under this patio or many of the roots were

and she was about 10 years older than I was maybe even 15

And you know, I was in my thirties and show and she was a real uh firebrand

She was a real No, she was like the alpha alpha alpha in the marriage

Her husband was this very meek guy. And I mean, she just

when she said jump, he said, how high and where do you want me to land

All right. But he was a nice guy anyway. Crutch for she

I, I told her one day, you know, she and I didn't get along too well. I mean

we had this symbiotic relationship, you know, and it's, it's a whole long story why we didn't get along

It was all her fault. All right. So, Crutch board, I told her

I said, hey, hey, hey, Barbara, I said, uh, I just thought I'd let you know that you're killing your tree

And she was like, what? And I said, the chlorine bleach is toxic. It's poisonous tree

You, you should never do that. Just, just use some regular dish soap. Oh, it doesn't work

It doesn't work as well. I said, I know it doesn't work as well, but you're killing your tree

So what happens is every summer, you know, she'd see the tree was a little sick and she would have the tree people come and

they put these things in the trunk and it just kept getting worse and worse

you know? And I, I finally told her, I said, you're killing the tree, you know? Oh, you don't know what you're talking about

Well, eventually they came and cut the tree down, you know, I mean

some people just don't think to me, you know, I mean, they just don't believe me. All right. I get it all right

You know, you, you know, and she just, she just thought she was a, know it all

Well, she didn't know at all about that. So, anyway, too bad for her. So

anyway, the best way to clean a deck, the best way to clean a wood deck. I, I'm gonna

I'm gonna promote my own product. But if you want to get a crappy one, if you wanna go out and buy a cheap one

and a crap one that doesn't work, then go do it. But this is the best cleaner for a wood deck stain solver

Seriously, it's a powdered oxygen bleach. You mix it with hot water and you put it on the wood

Keep it, keep the wood wet with a solution for about 1520 minutes

Don't do anything. Just let it alone, make sure you apply it to dry wood and then at the end of the 2030 minute

wait period. Go ahead and scrub it lightly with a brush, rinse it with clear water

You're done that wood's gonna look brand new. Just go to stains sover.com

There's all kinds of columns there about cleaning a wood deck. Um Anyway

we gotta turn my phone down. My son is blowing up my phone with flipping text messages

you know. So jeez, gosh, you're not gonna hear it again. So oxygen bleach if

you have any questions about oxygen bleach. Um, just put it in the, um

uh, put it in the, um, put it in the chat happy to help you. Um

the, you, you, if you let, and here's the thing you, you need to

um, you need, you need to make sure that the wood is dry

Here's why whenever you clean a deck, a wood deck, this is really important

Once again, you got to think about this. This is a, this is critical thinking skills

One on one. If you've ever had a like a dried, I actually have a video about this uh on my channel

I forget what it's called. I did a really neat video um showing you what happens when you put a drop of water in a

piece of kind of, you know, worn or weather treated lumber. So I um I was out on my deck one day

I, I don't have a treated lumber deck. I've got trucks, but um I thought this is cool and so I put a drop of

water on the wood and it was unt it was treated lumber

but it was not sealed and you know, the drop of water stayed right on the spring wood for a little bit for maybe five

seconds and all of a sudden and it went, I mean, it just went right into the wood and there was no droplet on the

surface. Ok. So I'm sure you've seen that happen before. So think about that

If you go if you went, ok. Um, I wanna deep clean the wood and I want the cleaner to

soak into the wood to get below the surface. Well, if, if the wood is already wet

if you've saturated the wood by spraying a hose on it, then all the cleaner is gonna stamp on the top

So you don't want that, you want to apply it to dry wood and you also wanna work like with stain silver or any other

cleaner like that. You, you don't want to work in the middle of the day. You don't wanna be starting this deck project at 10

in the morning, working when the sun's high in the sky on a breezy part of the day

You wanna work early in the morning when the deck is in the shade or

you know, late afternoon, whatever it takes, but you do not wanna, because that what's gonna happen is the cleaner is gonna evaporate too quickly

All right. So you, you, you, um, trusting me, I've cleaned so many decks for this

If you just spray this stain silver solution on and it bubbles and it foams and if you just leave it alone

but make sure it's, you have an abundant amount of this solution on the wood

it's working on its own. You're gonna have to do minimal scrubbing

minimal. Trust me telling you it's magic, then you just rinse it and

uh, let it dry and then you're gonna put a seal on. So now the Sealers, let's talk about sealers

I did say you were killing the flipping tree. I told her that but she just wouldn't be

I mean, Barbara and I were kind of like this. I mean, we, um

we didn't fight but she, um, I, I'll tell you the story in just a minute

I'll tell you the story. It's pretty funny actually. The, um, so Sealers years ago you could find penetrating wood sealers

All right. So I, I don't have enough time and energy to investigate this

but I think the deck ceiling industry is kind of guilty of what the roofing industry did

If you remember, I talked yesterday about what happened, how they pre age the shingles I have seen over the past 25 years

the transition of penetrating wood sealers for decks into products that we call that I call and some of us call film farmers

So what is a film farmer? It's a product that when it dries

it leaves the film a very thin film on the surface. And in some cases

it can almost look like a urethane, like a glossy and some people like that look

they, they like that, that shiny look because it a lot of times people impart shininess with clean

All right, I get that. But then you pay the price for that because what happens is when those finishes fail

they peel and if you don't have it all off if you don't take it all off

Um What happens is when you go to reseal, your deck looks really blotchy

It's horrible. So that, so what happens is if you want your deck to look beautiful all the time

if you use the film form or sealant, then sometimes you have to strip it off and that's

that's crazy. Hard, crazy, hard. I did find it. I'm gonna test

I'm gonna, I'm actually gonna do a video, I'm gonna do a free video. I think, I think I'm gonna do it free

I don't know. Um, this, um, spring so two years ago I had to rebuild four of my boat dock

panels and it's just like a deck. I use cedar because that's what we use. And the

um, I'm gonna hit the, some, some idiots trying to call me

I don't know. I hope it's not, you don't mean to call you an idiot. But jeez

like flipping, hang up the phone. I had to, um, build these new doc panels and it was time for my doc to get resealed

And the pre the, the previous company that had built the doc panels had used one of these stupid film farmers and in some places

it filmed of it, it fell off and flaked off other places

It didn't, I was not about to strip all of it. I didn't care cause I don't go down to the dock that often

All right. So I don't care. But all the new cedar, I sealed beautifully with this with I

what I used was cabbages, um cabbage, um Australian timber oil because I did some research and

and from their literature, it said it was a penetrating, a penetrating product

not a film form. And it looked to me like that's what it did but that

but proof is gonna be in the pudding this spring. And here's what I did though for that because I knew I was going to

record a video. I took a piece of the brand new cedar

You know, I had to, uh, you know, when I bought the LS, I end up with a little bit of extra when I cut

and I sealed some of the cedar. Um, at the same time I was sealing the dock panels and

um, I took it, I let it dry for, you know, about four or five hours and then I brought it and put it in

my garage because I wanted it out of the light. I didn't want any sunlight to touch it

So it's been in my garage for two years. So it's gonna be really interesting to bring that piece of wood out and lay it

on one of the clean dock panels. So you can see what happened after two years

So that's what we're gonna do this spring. Any questions about, uh

cleaning a deck or ceiling a deck? Because I've really told you about all I know

Uh But I'm happy to answer any questions as far as composites

they're a lot easier to clean, uh, because they don't get as dirty because you're basically just cleaning a plastic

So it's really, really simple to clean a composite deck. Uh, same process

but you're gonna find it's much, much simpler. And in fact, most of the time

if you have a capped type, um, composite, like I have tricks transcend where it's a

it's a, it's a, it's a composite deck material, but it actually has a vinyl cap on it

Um, I mean that you can just clean with regular Dawn dish soap and

and water and a push broom. It's, it's that they, I, I've had my tres transcend deck down now for six years and I've never

cleaned it. Never, it looks as good as the day I put it down

So I can't say enough good things. All right. Any, uh, any questions, um

about anything about your home, uh, about decks, about deck sealers, about oxygen bleach

uh, while you're typing your question. Um, oh, I need, I wanna do something here

I just, I'm getting ready for the stream and II, I click something. I've never clicked before on my screen and

um, I can, um, I think, I don't know. It's, um, no

it's, it, I thought it would tell me something. I thought it would. I thought it would give me a cheat sheet

Of who the workers are. All right, but it doesn't seem to be working. All right

I'll have to try it again. So remember if you have any question about anything about your home

just ask me uh happy to happy to try to help you out. I'll tell you the story um about uh what was I gonna

tell you? Um um oh, come on, it was right. It's right on the tip of my tongue

I was just talking about help me out here. I said I was gonna tell you about this um funny story

Oh gosh, I hate when that happens. I should write it down. Um It'll come to me

I swear it will come to me. Victor's got a termite problem. Good

Let's go talk to us. Victor, tell me about your termite problem while

we wait for Victor to type to us about his, his um termite problem

Uh We are adding people to Discord. Uh I added a lot for my newsletter on Sunday

I'm gonna be promoting it each Sunday. I think when we get to about 500 or 1000 people

we're gonna start to get close to critical mass and there'll be enough people there that there's some activity there

you know, going on through the day, you know, right now it's a little quiet. That's OK

Uh And I think some people are trying to learn how to use it. All right, Victor

tell me what your termite problem is type it out. Thanks. The tree killer

Oh, yeah, exactly. I'll tell you about Barbara. Yes, that was it

I'll tell you why Barbara and I, but I'll wait, that Victor just got back. So, here we go

Uh, all right. There are trails on the wood. I had a treatment last year where they injected poison around the house

Ok. That's ok. Don't worry. I understand. I, I got it that you can't type so fast

No problem. And the other trouble is victor. Sometimes there's a, there's a latency

Sometimes when you type it might not show up that I can see it for a minute or so typically

Ok. So the mud trails came back. All right. That doesn't surprise me because

um, the termites, I explained this the other day, I talked a little bit about termites

Here's what you need to know about termites. They're one of the smartest insects out there and they

their natural instinct is to have multiple food sources. So they are constantly looking for new food

sources. I would have hoped that, that when you hired this company that they gave you a warranty

uh, almost all of the big national companies like Termin X. Um

I can't think of a few others but generally they come with pretty good warranties

So, did you do, did you get a warranty? Do you remember getting a warranty from these people

Um. Ok. Good. All right. So the first thing you need to do is just call him back

Make sure you take photos, take photos of the uh and it's best actually

uh just like you sometimes see um in hostage situations, you know

where they hold up a copy of today's newspaper somehow. In other words

you know, if they, you need to be able to show that once they come back and you get rid of the trails

like you'll brush them off the wall, then you, um, you know

you need to shoot a video to show. Ok, here it is April 1st 2022 and there are no mud trails

So that when they come back again, you could say, ok, look, here's the video they're born and they

your treatment's not working very well. So you just have to have them come out and

and retreat, but they say they can't kill them. No, that's not true

That's not true. Here's, uh, here's what you need to do. Victor go to

go to my web. Actually, I'll do it for you. I'll give you the link right here. I'll help you out my friend because you're

you're, you've got a great question. All right, I'll bring it up for you

I'm bringing up an, an old, this is an old, uh, I have a bunch of columns on my website and I think this is

a really good one. I'm just trying to check. And then before I give you the link

but I'll tell you how I found it. OK. Here we go

Yeah, this is a pretty good one. All right, Victor, I am trying to get back

There we go. So here we go. I want you to read this column and after you read that column

while you're at the website, you should be able to find the search bar type in termite again

just type in the word termite. That's what I just did. And I got about 10

about 10 columns that came back, 10 of them. You need to read all of them because you need to because when they

because what, whoever told you what they just told you, they're not telling you the truth or

or, or they are not knowledgeable. In other words, it could be somebody intentionally lying

but it's also possible that the person doesn't understand how term, what

what happens. So I'm gonna give that person the benefit of the doubt, but you need to arm yourself with the facts and I have

all the facts for you about how termites work, how they live

what they do and how, how you can kill them. And this fact that once you're in the wood

you can't kill them. That is completely 100% false. Yeah. Yeah. Victor

I know that you're right there. Yeah. We used to be able to use chlorine. All right

Well, we can't use it anymore because of the flipping tree huggers. All right

But maybe they're right. All right. Chlordane, you can't get it. All right

I know. But there are other chemicals that do work that will kill

that absolutely will kill the nest and kill the colony. So, if they're telling you

so, here's what's crazy you, if, if I was talking to the owner of that company

I would say, well, if you're telling me that the, that the chemicals don't work and they don't kill the termites

why do I have you out here? What good is it that you're spraying all this stuff

That's the kind of critical thinking question you need to challenge him with and you can do it in a nonthreatening way

All right. So go read all that stuff. Victor. You're welcome. Go read all of my columns about termite stuff and you will be armed

to the teeth to have a really intelligent conversation. And I'm telling you right now

you, you're wasting your time talking to the poor applicator guy. You need to go talk to the owner of the company

You need to call up the company and say I want to talk to the owner and if it's a big national company

then you'd say you want to talk to the general manager and you want him to come out to your house

Let me get caught up. Jimmy wants to clean my deck. Ok

Come and do it. But you need to, it's, it's not dirty. Um

mental says, but what about the Russians? I don't, I don't know what you mean about the Russians

I, um, here's what you need to know about the Russians, let's assume

let's assume right now that it's really true that Russia is invading the Ukraine

All right, for whatever reason, you know, because they wanna take Ukraine for their own

You know, it's, it's really no different. I mean, did you ever watch the movie Napoleon Dynamite

You know, and early kind of in the movie, there's that bully

Uh you know, in the school who shakes down the kids for money, you know

he choked that one kid. He, the kid gave him the money. All right

Well, that we're just playing the game of Thrones stuff. It's just, it's just bullying on a

on, on an epic flipping international scale. But if you're upset about Russia

invading Ukraine and taking it for their own, then you need to be the first person in line

I'm serious about what I'm gonna say. You need to be the first person in line that says, wait a minute

we need to give Hawaii back to the queen and her descendants because we stole Hawaii

We did just so, you know, we completely stole Hawaii from the Hawaiian people

Hawaii was a sovereign nation and we did the same thing with Panama

If, if you're not aware of that, Panama, the country, Panama where the c is that used to be Col Columbia it

was not a separate company country. I'm sorry, it was not a separate country

And the people who lived there were neglected because the people back in the main part of Colombia just ignored him

And so they came to the US and said, listen, we're sick of these guys

help us, help us get away from them. And we did what we stole Panama

And the deal we cut was OK. We'll help you. But you know what? We want to build a c and we get to own

the c. They said, OK, go ahead. We just want, we just want our own country

So we, we did all that, that that's what happened. That's not in the history books

So if you're upset about Putin going into Ukraine, you gotta say

listen, we gotta give Panama back to Colombia. Sorry, we gotta give Hawaii back and we have to give Wake Island back and we have

to give Samoa back all that. We stole all that. We stole it all because we didn't want the Japanese to get it

ok? Victor. Good for you. You're gonna be so smart about termites. Victor and

and here Victor, after you read the columns after you talk to the general manager or the owner

I need you to come back here and give us a full report. Ok? Uh You're the best

All right, I don't know about that. I, I I'm just Tim Carter

I'm, I'm no different. Than you. All right. Uh Mental. You're welcome everybody here

That's a good point. So mental says, thanks for all your in your knowledge

Everybody is smart about something God made us all different and we all have different skills and talents

All right. So for example, I can't sew very well. You might be a good sewer

a seamstress. I can't golf very well, but will, will is a good golfer

Um Goodnight here. So goodnight is really good with computers. I'm so

I, I'm ok but I'm not a flip and whiz. All right. Um Y and

and everybody's got, I don't, I don't know what skills you have. In fact

I would love to know what skills you have. Why don't you tell me right now and don't be bashful

just list your top, like list your top two superpowers. I mean

what you're really excel in. Go ahead and I don't care if it's flipping

doing laundry because some people suck at doing laundry. Some people put the colors in with the whites

I wonder why their t-shirts are pink. All right. Maybe you're a fantastic cook

You know, it doesn't matter. So I, I'm really interested in, in what your

your superpowers are. I don't know, Jason, you know, people say I'm an internet celebrity

I must not be that much of a celebrity because here's how I rate celebrities

Meaning if, um, I don't know, I'm sure, you know, I'm not really good with popcorn

Well, I'll just say if Michael Jackson were still alive and, and he walked into my shopping in my grocery store

a lot of people would recognize him and they'd go, look, look

that's Michael Jackson. You know, or if Tom Brady, if Tom Brady walked into our grocery store

believe me in New Hampshire. Hey, Tom, how are you doing? Amen

You blew us off and went to Tampa. But all right, I'll forgive you

Yeah, I go to the grocery store all the time. I go to town

Nobody says, hey, there's the builder guy. So I don't consider myself a celebrity

Oh, you, so there you go. Victor Portfolio Management. That is amazing

Commander. Um So see, I'd have questions for you. I would have questions like you need to be in my discord

Look at the link that uh is just above you. I, I would love to create a section there about investing

Oh my gosh. Oh You would be your knowledge would be really help a lot of people there

Commander. I'm telling you right now. Uh So mental. So there you go

You're an H VA person. Good for you. All right. Um So good night

I, I didn't know how to fold t-shirts and then I watched this video, man. I am

I can do exactly what they do in those videos. Like I can fold a t-shirt like four seconds here

Speaking of t-shirts, I told you I'd show you mine today. So there it is. So

if Lorraine was here, it would really mess her. It would really make her angry. All right

I think. But she, she gets it. So, uh, I knew someone was gonna type that

Jason says, I bet Tom Brady can't change a four stitch. No

he can't. No, he cannot. But he can afford to pay somebody $1000 an hour to do it

Ah. Oh, Jimmy. come on, Jimmy, keep it clean, man. Just that's gotta

keep it clean. Don't know. That's, that, that kind of stuff is not appreciated here

Just so, you know, um Victor used to work at Goldman Sachs

Yeah, I, dude, I'm telling you you need to get on Discord and if you do

you need to uh email me. I am happy to put a create a new investing channel to get investing advice

Pe you would help a lot of people. Um So there's a great

so, so will wants to know if uh Victor he wants, will, wants to know if you like if you like crypto

if you like crypto of any type. Um Yeah, Victor. So look at that

So paid half a million dollars. That's great. And boy, don't they feel bad now that he's come out of retirement

Uh Oh my gosh. Exactly. Not worth as much anymore. It's, it's worthless

Are you kidding me? It's worth maybe 500 bucks comes out of retirement

announced it yesterday or? The day before. Oh, my gosh, that's hilarious

Um, that's hilarious. If you like what you're hearing, make sure you hit the like button that really helps us

helps us, uh, in, in Google's eyes. Um, and also, um, what

did I wanna say? Um, just try to do your best to spread the word around if you can't

you know, the good word about, ask the builder and whatever. Because then maybe one day what Jason says will come true

Maybe one day people will actually stop me in the street and say, hey, you're the ask the builder guy

Although it's happened three times in my life three times in 28 years

And one of those times was about 2.5 months ago. Some guy actually in the grocery store

it was in the produce section. He kept up and said, hey, you're the guy, you're the ask the builder guy on youtube

So actress. That's only one out of three times in 28 years

All right. So anyway, um Victor had a good question about the flipping termites

termites. Um They are so smart. They, they like to go out and they f the the queen tells them

go out, go to 56 different places. We don't want all the same food

we want to get different food sources and that's how they try to keep the colony alive

But Victor, what happens is there are modern poisons out there. See

here's what you need to understand. Here's what the termites do. So the termites that are coming to your house

they are, they're like little harvesting machines. So they grab some of the woodd

a very small amount, tiny amount and then they come back to the colony

they walk all the way back and then they regurgitate it. They spit the wood out because there are other termites and the queen back

at the colony and these worker termites bring the food back to them

So when they saturate the wood with a poison or they, they put the poison out um and they bring back poison

they, they end up killing the uh colony, you know, they poison him

But here's the bad news, here's Victor, here's the bad news. This is a really bad news just because if you're lucky and you kill

the current colony, that's, that's harassing your home next spring. A new colony could form next door

and start it all over again. That's what's so bad about termites

They, it's like they, they never end. It's like the sun coming up each day

All right. Al uh OK. Good. Thanks for getting rid of that. Um So um All

right. Um OK. Victor says I'd be happy to share my knowledge. OK, good. So you uh wanna click the Discord link and go to

Discord. Uh Good night. I'll put it back up again and just join it's

and you're joining a private server. It's not like being on Facebook

That's a really big distinction. You know, because if you join like fascist book

then everybody in the world can see you. That's not the case on, on

on my server. The only people that can see you are the people that have joined the server

So it's a very private community or private group of people. All right

And once you're there, if you do sign up, you need to email me, you need to contact me

I will then set up an area, a channel, a category called investing

And then under that category, we can have different channels like it could be stock tips

it could be Cryptocurrency, it could be real estate, whatever you want

whatever you feel comfortable. I mean, that's, that's why, that's why Goodnight told me about this

That's why I'm investing time in it because it's a great way to share knowledge to our family here

As simple as that. And you're gonna become a termite expert too

So there's the link right below your termite expert comment. Just go there

It's free and pick a screen name that whatever screen name you want

Hopefully it's not taken. Don't pick your name, don't tell everybody who you are

Uh Yeah, let me know how it goes. It's really, really simple. It's really, it may seem intimidating at first

but it's not that hard. Are there any other questions you, you might have

There we go. Mentor what about bringing in ants and starting the ants always win

Um That here's the deal. The termites pretty smart. Uh That's a great question

by the way, mental. So the here's what the termites do if you don't know

the termites do not. The worker termites, only the worker termites come to the house and they do not like sunlight

They like, it's, they're like vampires. They are not big fans of sunlight so they build these mud tubes um to travel in so that

they're protected from the light. So that also, you know, duh, it protects him from predators

So the ants can't get to unless the ants tear apart the tubes. Termites are so smart

You have no idea. And I talked about that a week ago here

Here's what fascinates me. You know how big a termite is? It's about half the size of a dried grain of rice

All right. That's the termite. That's the worker termite. So think how tiny their head is

Their head is about the size. I don't know of like a period on a typewriting page

maybe half the size of that and inside that is their brain

Do you? Anybody who doesn't believe in God? I'm serious. Anybody who says no

no God, then I would go. Then you explain to me how termites are so smart who created that union

Carpenter ants? Um We just found carpenter in a bundle of cedar shingles

Um Yeah. So carpenter ants only will only bore and only go for wet wood

So, I'll bet you that the cedar shingles were wet. All right

they will not bother dry wood. You cannot have wood wet. All right

So, yes, Oak Grove is there. Yes. Great question. Go to my website

Go to ask the builder.com and type in carpenter bees into the search engine

Where do you see what you find? Um. All right. Um, there's

so much information at the website. I, I mean, I've been writing for 28 flipping years

Ok. 28 years. All right. So there's so much information. There just go anytime you've got a question

go to the website and, and type it in type, type in and here

here's a tip. A lot of people don't know how to use search engine. I've, I've discovered they

they'll type in like this long sentence like what does it cost to wash windows in San Francisco

No, it would be window washer. San Francisco. All right. That's all you gotta do

So, or window washing or in your case, you would just go to my search engine and type in carpenter B or

or Victor would type in termite or termites plural. Um Or you would type in

let's say you want to know how to finish drywall. You would type in just, you don't, don't type in how to finish drywall

don't do that. Just type in drywall, finish or drywall, finishing or finishing drywall and drywall

in other words, just start with two words and you're gonna get so much better results

Oh, my gosh. Just, uh, some people just don't understand how to search engines

Um, ok. Any other questions about anything? I don't care what it is. I don't

it could be, it could be about anything, it could be about anything

I really don't care. Uh, I am getting some new artwork. Uh

I'm going to also, um, I'm probably gonna have a pole at

Uh Yeah, in fact, that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna create a poll on my website because I can't do it here

I can do it on Discord too. Um I'm getting ready to

I have to get some artwork done, but I'm gonna start having and this is Loreen's idea and also

um it was somebody else's idea and I apologize for not remembering who it was

Maybe it was Steve from the UK. I don't know, but about having asked the Builder Gear Jason

it could have been you. I don't know. Well, we're gonna have the Builder Gear

We're, we're gonna start with T shirts. It's gonna expand and, but I want you to help me design them

So that's, that's what we need to do. I'm gonna, I'm gonna need some help. So I'm gonna come up with prototypes and then you

can see what it looks like and then you can vote as to what, what they do and just suggest what we do

So we have. So we get the T shirts that everybody wants. I'll also

um, have, um, I'm gonna do with my newsletter list too. How many kids do you have

I've got three Children, two girls and a boy. They're all great

But I'll tell you this much. Um, that song Cap in the Cradle

It's true. So, if you have young Children at your home, you

better spend as much time as you can with him. Golf balls

It might be a possibility. Well, I can, I can actually do it but I don't

only if they're available in spring, I'm not gonna get in the business of

I mean, you and I both know, well, I can get logo balls made until the cows come home

I've actually had some made, actually, I might have a really cool one here to share with you that I made for a friend

Um, yeah. Yeah, I got, this is kind of an interesting story

So I'm gonna show you these two golf balls with a, that

that I made for a friend of mine. And, um, we were really good friends

really good friends and we knew way back when, I mean, I met this person

Wow. Um, 18 years ago and he was part of the internet mastermind group that I helped start up and we knew

way back then that we were, you know, we were kind of polar opposites

Um, when it comes to politics. So we just said there, why talk about it

So we never did. And then this whole illness came up and I guess President

Trump was in his last year of office and I guess something happened and this friend of mine just lost

it and he emailed me one day and, um, politics and I

he started, he started the exchange and I, I came back pretty harsh with the proof

you know, because he said something that wasn't true and that was it. That was the end of the friendship never heard from him since

anyway. So I made, um, I got this golf ball made, I'm trying to hold it so you can read it

So it says us S Murray, that's a submarine. And, and the whole purpose of this is

this guy was very inclined when we played golf, he always hit him into the flipping water

And then the last time I was together with him, um, I got these

this softball made. That's this picture so you can get, you can get some really cool golf balls maybe

All right, really cool. And, um, really cool. Um, but I do not want to be in the business of getting golf balls made and

having to ship golf balls to people. I'm not doing that. Um

ok, Jack raise 10 percent concrete one. You wanna raise the 10 by 10 concrete one and a quarter inch on

earth on their subject. D do, do you, do you just need to have the top level of the surface an inch and a quarter

higher. In other words, has the whole slab sunken down and you just wanna bring it back up

Is that what you're trying to do? Yes or no. So

I'm waiting for Jack to say just yes or no, he might be typing a whole bunch of other stuff

but you can do just so, you know, really, really cool things with um with golf balls

So I'll tell you the story of why that last golf ball had um my friend's face on it

Um There's actually a great, um, ok. Yeah, Jack just, I'll be with you in just a second

I, I gotta go to youtube and find this video. You're gonna love this video

Um As soon as I can bring it up. I don't know

Here we go. Uh The uh oh and actually, um will, I'm gonna suggest that you maybe go to the bathroom

right now before you. Uh If you are gonna howl with laughter will

will really understand this video. If you've not played golf before, you're not necessarily um gonna um um

you're not gonna ne yeah, here it is. This is a great video. Oh my God

I had so much fun with this. This is my friend. This is before things went south and just so

you know, it was by um the overlords. Uh did that on purpose

In other words, have you gotten into arguments? Uh I've lost about five friends because of the illness

It's all by design. They w they hate us, the pe, the, the overlords, the people up here

They hate, sorry, I gotta stop that. Sorry. Oh my God. Here at Coyote Villa

this video is so flipping funny. Um So good night. We definitely wanna put this video on

Discord. Uh I don't know where to put it though. Uh oh

we're gonna put it on Discord for you. We're gonna put that link on Discord

Um Anyway, um so I made those balls for

the last time I saw him. So that video you're gonna watch was made maybe

I don't know. Four years ago. Let me see when I made it. Yeah

September 2018. That's what I thought four years ago. Uh And then we

we went on another trip, a little man self discovery trip on 2019

That was the last time I saw him and things really kind of started to fall apart then too

Um There was some foreshadowing and we play golf. Well, I presented him with this ball with his face on it for a reason

and you'll see it. You'll understand when you, you watch that video. Ok

Jack. Um I don't know. Here's the thing. There, there are companies that come out and can slap Jack

All right, there are companies they come out, they drill holes. They

they, these are big commercial operations. They do it at airports, the

the airport runways, like, you know, where the plane, the big heavy planes touch down

You know, they, they try to do everything possible to make that concrete never sink, but sometimes it does

And it's very important for airport runways to be smooth, very important part

So they can raise concrete slabs. I mean, you can raise a slab that weighs 2030 tons

Not a problem, not a problem. They drill down, they drill holes about two inches in diameter and then they start to pump a slurry

Uh, just think, um, apple sauce, just think of applesauce. So it's a slurry of cement and uh

fly ash and whatever, very fluid. And man, you'll just float that slab up to wherever you want

They can, they can completely level one up, whatever. All right, the problem is is that if you do it on a residential basis

they don't care. It doesn't matter if it's a commercial parking lot or an airport runway that there is these ugly flipping polka dots that

they have to patch after the fact. But on your beautiful patio out back

nobody wants to see these flipping polka dots because that's what you end up with wherever they drill a hole

you end up, they patch it and it does not match. What if I told you you could put a concrete overlay

you could put a concrete overlay, made out of pig gravel over that and get it to whatever level you want

So you don't and you can do it yourself. Maybe because it's a little thicker

You'll need a little bit of help. But, and you can do it much, much cheaper

You, you probably could buy a 10 by 10 inch and a quarter. You could buy all the material you need for less than you'd

need. Probably two bags of, of cement, which would be what's a bag of cement now cost 10 bucks

$15withinflation.So$30forcement,umsomesandandsomegravel.Um,100bucksyou're,and,andifyougotopayaslab

Jacker, it's gonna be 23 grand. All right. So I have all these columns on my website

go to the developer.com, the v.com and type in concrete overlay, concrete overlay ov er

lay read all of those columns, Jack and um, I'm telling you that's the best way to do it cheaper

Same, you get the exact same result. You're gonna have a beautiful finish on it

Whatever you want, you can colorize it. You can throw, you can make it red

you can make it blue, you can make it green, you can make it brown, you can make it look like leather

whatever you can stamp it. If you want to have a stamp texture, you can do any number of things

Uh All right, let's see will said, did you deliberately hit his golf ball face into the water

No, no, he's, he was a really great friend. It's just that, um, the

my wife has shown me studies and, and I, you know, I don't know if they're jaded or not

but there are studies that have been done that show that, that people who are of the

who, who are left leaning and who are liberal, that they're very unhappy

And I happen to know one of them. I happen to know this woman who is so flipping unhappy

Um, because the left is constantly waging this war of fear. Whereas conservatives tend to be a much more positive

Um, they, they have a different outlook on life. So my friend

I think just got, um, I don't know, I don't know. It's a really sad but no

I wouldn't hit his golf ball in the water but he, he would hit his golf ball in the water. He didn't do deliberately a

lot of his balls over the past 15 years in the water. It's like there was a magnet

I mean, just in the water gone. That's why I made the submarine ball

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Uh, the woman who's the liberal

Well, she was liberal, no doubt about it. She was a big democrat in Cincinnati

Uh, but this other woman I'm talking about happens to be, uh

uh, well, just a really good friend. Of mine happens to be a really good friend of mine. And

uh, it's really sad. I mean, it's really sad. Just really sad

All right. Uh, so, um, I'll tell you a quick story about, um

this woman who killed the tree and why we didn't get along. I think I've talked about this before and I pass live stream

I'll tell it again. So, crutch word when Cathy and I bought the lot

that we built our last house on in Cincinnati, we bought that lot. Oh my gosh

a long time ago. Well, I know Zach movie about it. We would have bought it in the spring of 1986

We this lot. Ok. So this lot was 9/10 of an acre

And this village that we're in is called Amberley Village. And this

this part of the, this, this little subdivision, the street that I lived on was not originally part of Amberley Village

It got annexed. They, they asked to become part of Amberley and Amberley accepted them

Years later, the street that I lived on was put in before World War Two

And some of the lots, many of the lots on the street were not one acre

But years later the Amberley Village zoning code said that there

were two classifications. Class A and class B, zoning class A was one acre lots

Class B half acre lots. But my street, all of the lots were class A

All right. They were grandfathered in, even though they were not one acre

So they had to abide by all of the class a rules in

in the, in the zoning book. I, I was on the planning and zoning board for eight years, but I wasn't on when I bought

the lot. We see this lot. I, I had been looking around for lots and

and I knew that if you wanted a really, really good lot, uh At that time

you had to spend about 50 grand, you know, and I'm talking about kind of in close to Cincinnati and this lot was magical

This lot backed up to French Park to the undeveloped part of French Park

It, I mean, it, it's just the actually down just about 100 and 5200 ft away from my home that I built

yeah, 200 ft. There were still old growth, timbers, trees that had been there since

like the 17 hundreds. You know, it was completely undeveloped part of this park

This thing called French Park. Go, look it up, go look it up, go online. Look at French Park

Cincinnati. It's part of the Cincinnati Park system now. Even though it's not in Cincinnati

this lot had been on, it had never been built on a vacant lot

It was the only vacant lot on the street and it had never been built on

And the reason why is because the person who owned it lived across the street

He had bought the, he had bought that lot across the street in my lot in

in the 19 fifties. And he was a very successful printer in downtown Cincinnati

And he did not want to look at his picture window because back then the ranch houses all had these big giant picture windows in

the living room. That's, that was the trend. And he did not want to look at his picture window

sitting at his couch and look at another house he wanted. And then he had so much money

He hired a, a gardener, he and his next door neighbor hired a gardener that worked for them and they

he, they just split the, the gardener's labor. Each of them got 20 hours a week and this gardener cultivated gardens on my lot

You know, and, and, and the guy who owned the lot even put in water service

he paid to have a water tap put in and a water meter with an underground pit

And so that his gardener could put out a hose and water all these flowers and everything

It's crazy. It's a true story. So this woman who lives next door

she, the, the, the, the guy who owned the lot, he eventually got sick and passed away

And I think also as he was getting older, he didn't take care of it any longer. So she started to kind of use part

of the lot. All right, you know, she just kind of clear

she just kind of used part of it. What, you know what she should not be doing, Kathy

And I see a lot in the paper. Uh I was a real estate broker

I immediately go down and we look at it. II, I find out

iii I call this other guy that was on the zoning board that my father-in-law knew

He said no problem. You're gonna be able to build a house. Trust me

I know it's not an acre. Trust me, everything's gonna be fine. Ok

good. I put in the offer. Uh we get the offer was accepted and then a day or two later after we knew the offer

was accepted, we, we come down and we park in front of the lot and also you need to understand this all these years that

that I had driven by this lot cause my wife's parents live five houses away

No one knew this was a vacant lot. No one even knew it existed. They all thought that the lot was partially owned by the

two houses on either side. No one knew it was a vacant lot because it was

it was shaped like this. All right. So it only had here at the street

it only had about 60 ft, but it was real wide at the back

K and I pull up, get out of the car or the truck. I don't know whatever

And we walk on the lot. You know, we're super happy. We just bought this new lot. We're gonna build our dream home and we're

walking on the lot and this lady comes out and, and here's what her face looked like

She says, who are you? What are you doing here? I mean

that's how she said it. That's not a good way to start a relationship

Right? And, and I said, oh, I said, I'm serious. This is exactly what I said

I said, you know, she didn't tell me what her name was or whatever. I just said, I held out my hand to shake her

hand. I said, we're your new neighbors. Um, oh my gosh, she

didn't shake my hand. What, what, what do you mean? I said

oh, we, we, we just bought this lot. What do you mean? You bought the lot? I said

well, it was for sale. I know it was for sale. Uh, what did you pay

I'm serious. That's exactly what she said. Could you imagine saying that to somebody that would be like me asking her right then

Like, how much do you weigh, lady? How much do you weigh

Come on, tell me, you look a little chubby and I told her

I said I paid 35 grand. Oh, you're an idiot. You're an idiot

It's not even worth that. You're crazy. I put an offer for 5000 and they rejected it

I said, you're the idiot. I said, because lots like this. They're worth about 50 grand

All right. So I, I knew so that's how we started out. So

and then I'll tell you this, this, then, then the next time I saw her, this is hilarious

All right. So I'm gunning for her. Now, I'm gunning for her. You know, we start to build the house

Um, I'm there working every day, every day, seven days a week and

and the side of the house, the, the ground naturally sloped a little bit towards her house

which meant that the top of the foundation on, on her side of the lot was about 4 ft out of the ground

All right. And then you've got the subfloor on top of it and I'm using two by 12 Joy

So the top of the subfloor is like five, like 64 inches up off

off the uh soil. And I'm, I'm outside on that side of the house one afternoon

No one's around. Everybody else went home. She goes, she comes out what

what's gonna be on this side of the house? You know, that's

I mean, she talked like that, she didn't say hi, Tim. How you doing

How, how's things going? That's what the normal person would do. She

I'll get to your comments in a minute. And so remember I'm gunning for this lady

All right, I'm gunning for her and, and I, I mean, I'm

I'm not as smart then as I am now. But I knew I was smart enough to go

I wasn't gonna answer right away. I was gonna say, I said, well

why do you need to know that? And this is how stupid she was

She, she looked and she pointed at her house and she said

see those windows right there. Those are my daughter's bedroom windows, you know

and they were teenagers. And I mean, like I went, I felt like I had just won the flipping lottery

I'm serious. I thought what, how, what a stupid mistake to, to tell me that I go really

I go, that's too bad. That's really too bad. I said right here on this side of the house and I

I told a little, I was being a little mendacious but I

I wasn't, I wasn't, I said this is our living room and right there is our dining room and we've got these giant flipping

windows, huge huge windows here. They weren't really that big. And I said

and I said, do you see how high that floor is? I said, when I stand on that floor

my eyes are gonna be 10 ft off the ground. I'm gonna be able to look right down into your daughter's bedrooms

What do you think about that? She, she just turned around and walked away and then like three weeks later

there was this landscaping crew there planning all these flipping evergreen trees that take forever to grow

True story. All Right. So, you, we didn't hit it off that

Well, all right. Simple as that. All right. Let me get caught up on the comments. Uh

all right. I don't know about Obama and who cares about him

Uh, mental. Let me guess. Now she claims she owns it because, well

no, she didn't, she didn't. Uh, that's, there's an actual term is called adverse possession in real estate

Um, in Ohio. Adverse possession kicks in at 22 years. Meaning if you squat on a piece of ground and

and you can prove that you've been there and you build a house or whatever and

and they don't run you off. After 22 years, you can claim it as your own

I'm sure you gotta go through a court action. But if you've got all, if you've got all the proof and the owner

the owner of the land didn't do anything to stop you, you get the land or you get a part of it

you know, revolver says smart thing to say to her. Well, she just

she was a pretty smart woman but she um that's what happens when you let your emotions get a hold of you

Um You get, you let emotions control you and ee everything goes off the rails

Um So that's the story about her. Uh Same thing in Canada

Very interesting. Yeah, I don't know what the time frame is up in Canada, but 22 years is

is what it is in the state of Ohio. It could be different in different states here in America

All right. Any questions about your house? I don't have any questions about people's house

We have, we have quite a few people here and everybody seems to have a house that's in great shape

amateur photographers. Well, I just, I mean, what was so silly about it

What was so stupid about the planting, the evergreen trees? Like two things

I mean, two things. Seriously. They think they have things called window shades

All right. Du, uh, and, and you could tell your daughters listen

don't walk around the bedroom naked. Ok. Don't walk around the bedroom in your underwear

You know, because none of this is hard. Nothing about this is hard

Flipping idiot. Ah, I don't know what Lool

means. So, you did that twice? Uh, mental. I don't know what that means

So, I'm sorry. Um, yeah, you know what I'm reminded of if you watch some television

like, there's certain television, uh, uh, series that are, I think are hilarious and one of them is modern family

I mean, I got, I just loved it and, um, if you remember

um, Claire and, um, what was, uh, how come, how come I can't think of the husband's name

Claire. And, um, oh, you know who I'm talking about d on it

Um, it'll come to me, I hate when that happens. Um, their daughter

their oldest daughter was Haley and there, this is deep into the series and she opens up some type of social media account and her

brother or so I say says that um oh, you've got like 100,000 or 200,000 subscribers

Oh, yeah, I know, I don't know how it happened, but she's this real ditzy young woman and she didn't realize that her camera was

on all the time. So she's walking around her bedroom naked. Yeah

Oh my gosh. 00, I see. Lool equals 11. I got it

Ok, thanks. I'm see. I, I don't know all the acronyms. Um All right

So, um, Phil, his name was Phil. The husband's name, character was Phil

That's what it was. Claire and Phil. And um anyway, oh my gosh

Um All right. Any other questions about your home, any questions about your house

whatever. Um Because I, I don't have to go right at this minute

Uh I do have a consult, phone call I have to do in a little bit. Um

uh, this woman up in Chicago has got this very similar to Jack situation

That's this. I'm gonna give her the same advice. She has this covered front porch, got a big crack in it and she wants to

make it look better and she thinks she has to tear the whole thing out and there's some supports on it that are supporting some

of the roof and, and she's like she just thinks it's way more complex than it is

And I'm gonna give her some really great news, like, say, you're not gonna believe this

you're gonna be able to have this beautiful front porch. Uh, and you're only gonna put on

she's, she's only has to put on about an eighth of an inch, overlay, eighth of an inch

That's nothing just like Stucco. It's like a couple of buckets worth of flipping

you know, maybe three or four or five gallon buckets worth of material. So simple

If she lived closer, I'd come and do it for her. I would actually do it. I would love to shoot a video showing that

All right. Uh No, no worries. Um Mental. I, you know, I just don't know

So good night. It's got a great question. What's uh ok. So we

that's a great question. Good night. We um I've talked about that in the past but it's always good to hit it again

There, there are some topics that's really good to keep talking about. All right

me. So here's the good thing. A wood is so easy to work with. It's easy to cut

It's easy to fasten things to it. You can nail it, uh whatever and it's somewhat of a halfway decent insulator

Not the best, but it's, but it sure as hell better than metal at the trouble with metal studs

No, no, everything's gotta be screwed that, that becomes really problematic um With certain

exterior finishes. It's not problematic for putting drywall on because the drywall guys who are hanging drywall

they'll, they'll use screws. They don't care. It's slowly, they're using screws anyway

They screw the drywall up anyway. The trouble is, is that if you live either in a

uh, it doesn't matter which climate you're in. But the, the, the metal is such a good conductor that it

it'll really conduct the cold back into your home. I mean, you'll have if

if you, with a thermal camera like a flare camera, if you had wood stud, if you had metal studs and you were here

where will and I live? And it was, I don't know, five below zero outside

And you pointed your flipping flare to the wall. You would see these blue lines

man. If you put the cross hair on it, I'll bet you you'd get a reading of 40 degrees on

on those blue lines. Um It would be that it would, it would be so cold there

The, because the, the actual, the actual steel stud all the way into touching the drywall is gonna be like five below

zero. And then, you know, there's this battle going on in the drywall between five below and the room temperature and it averages

out like maybe 40. All right. So, so the, the, the steel is structurally a strong

uh, and it's just that you can't nail them together when you put together when you build steel wall walls

built, built out of metal studs, you're screwing everything you use these tiny little self tapping screws

Um, it's, um, the, here's, here's a good use though for him

I would highly recommend to somebody if you are, if you are

Um, if you have interior walls and you're gonna put a lot of cabinetry on them

uh, I would absolutely use steel studs on an interior wall, uh

because if you build it right and you take your time and you get it in the same plane

the wall is perfectly flat, perfectly flat. So it makes for a beautiful way to hang cabinets and

and, and so that the cabinets, you're not fighting, put cabinets together

Um If you have ceramic tile on a wall, it's wonderful. A tile loves to be laid on a surface that's in the same plane

Uh There's all kinds of benefits but never, never, never on an exterior wall in a cold climate

Um All right. So I hope that answers your question, Jim or Jeff's

What is the best countertop material that is reasonably priced? All right. Well, I hate to say it

uh, Laminate Formica or Wilson Art. Um, I, it's a, it's a wonderful material

It really is. I mean, if you just take a little care of it and the

the patterns now for the laminates, I mean, they are, they're so realistic

So I, I would not hesitate. I mean, here's the only thing you need to know

Here's a big mistake that people don't know about laminate if you get the countertops

Um, because the underside is just made out of particle board. Uh

whatever you have to seal that you have to put like two or three coats of urethane on it

And where they do the sink cut out, same thing you have got to seal that

Uh, the only other thing you have to always be careful of with laminate is where they miter together

They put a seam sealer in, but it fails. So you, you just have to watch you

You can't have standing water where, where a seam is that it'll get in

it'll cause the, the, the wood to swell and it's gonna look horrible

But, but if you just take reasonable care of the laminate, um

and don't scratch it and don't slide things across it. I've seen the laminate countertops that

that are 3040 years old. They look as good as the day they were put in. So I would

I would give Laminate a serious look. They don't get much more affordable than that revolver

Is it easy to take out a rear entry door and install one for simple? It's easy

Nothing to it. I actually have a, a set of videos that you can watch

Uh I, I charge for them. It's a step by step. I show you how I took out my front door and put a new

one in and mine was a door with two sidelights. It's the same process for a simple door

Um, it's really, really, really, really simple and, and you can, if you get into trouble

remember, you can always get me on the phone, but go, um

let me, actually, I'll just find it for you right now. Um, I'll just give you the link

Ah, I think it's, uh, I'm just gonna type in a and

here's the cool thing. This, this is a really cool thing about my, um, this is I

I have this guarantee with my products. All right. Um that you need to know with

with my electronic products. If you go, so revolver, if you go buy this product

all right, go buy this product. Watch all the videos. If after you watch the videos you say the videos suck

I didn't learn anything or I'm not happy. I don't care what you say. I do not care what you say

Just say, I'm not happy. I want my money back. I'm gonna give you your money back. No questions asked

What have you got to lose? Zero and you've got everything to gain because you cannot wait to all the stuff

I tell you in these videos, I mean, it's probably an hour and a half

two hours worth of videos that in that product right there. So buy those videos

go ahead, watch them and like I said, if you don't feel they're worthwhile just say I want my money back

I'm not gonna argue with you. I'm just gonna say no problem, Kathy will take care of it tomorrow

All right, I'm gonna buy the door. Ok? But don't buy the door yet. No stop

Don't buy it. You gotta watch the videos because I tell you how to make sure you get the right door

Don't go by the V the door yet. Uh All right, Jeff said

uh, great answer it. Thank you, Jeff. Um, it, seriously, I'm telling you

Formica or Wilson Art. It's good stuff. It's good stuff. It's just that when they make that sink cut out

man, you have got to put five or 10 coats of urethane on that wood because if any water gets underneath the sink or the

guy doesn't cock it right. It's gonna ruin the top. Orange drink is here

You haven't been here in a while. How you doing? Great that you're here? Um All right

Um, any other an hour and 24 minutes feels like I say this all the time

It feels like five minutes to me. It's crazy. Will says we're gonna be playing golf soon

I don't know, man. I see a lot of snow out there still. I, I cannot wait to

play golf on this course of Wills. Where Will Will? Is a ranger

Um, go, go look it up. It's, it's, I think, isn't it Fox Ridge

Is that what it's called? Will I can, I, I'm sure if that's what it is Fox Ridge

it's down in, you know, Southwester Maine. And, um, I want you to look at it

on Google Maps or look at her on the course. If, if they got photos, look at hole number five is all I can tell

you. And, and you know what the course designer, the guy must have been

a sadist. I'm serious, a sadist because I'm quite confident that when you drive into this golf course and you drive into the parking

lot, you're looking right at flipping hole number, the green of hole number five

And I mean, it's just like, it's like, um, it's like the golf course is trash talking to you before you even get your shoes

and sticks out of the car. Like, are you kidding me? Um All right

Um Will says he had replaced the cement board already. I don't know what

oh, here you go. There you go. I see it up above what is a good sealer for the cement board that surrounds

my skylights? Um, I can't even imagine someone putting

cement board around skylights. I'm not, I'm serious. Like, what the hell

Ok. Um, and you had to replace ho how? There's, there's no way it's cement board

then you say you had to replace it. If it's true, cement board, the water is not gonna harm

The cement must not be a cement board, but I'm gonna answer your question about the mildew

Here's what's going on. Ok. So the skylights get cold, hot

air rises, the hot air in the wintertime got humidity in it

The water condenses on the skylights and runs down it. Uh And plus you just have a high humidity area up in this enclosed area

where the skylight tunnel is. And the reason that mildew is growing is because of the water and the

and this is a pain in the ass. We talked about this a couple of weeks ago

If you don't, if you don't want mildew, you have to stop the water or you have to keep the surfaces really clean because you

have to remove the food that the mildew is eating. Both of those are hard to do in a

in a skylight area. Very hard to do. Now, one thing you might do

but then this waste electricity is you can have a fan, you can have a fan that's blowing air up towards the skylight which that

moving air will evaporate the fine fog that's on the walls of the skylight tunnel so that the mildew won't grow

You can do that good night. I I'll tell you what you guys are typing all these weird symbols in

I do not know what that stuff means of some type of code language. I do not understand it shorthand

I guess some type of flipping alien space language. Um All

right. So I do not understand what Goodnight is doing. I have no idea what it is

All right. It doesn't matter. Um, it's a guy flipping a table

It's a, oh my gosh. Uh, anyway, I don't

that's amazing. It's flipping. Amazing. You can do that. Flipping. Amazing cement board flipping

Ok. Got it. All right. So mildew and mold. I, we talked about this

It's just like fire. When fire, you need three things, you need fuel

you need heat and you need oxygen. Mix those things in the right way and you get fire

All right. Just like this. All right. Here's my new tow hill

right? Fire bingo. All right. Mold

They'll do same thing. Three things you need mold spores. They're everywhere

inside, outside your, the inside of your home, inside of your apartment. Millions of them

they're everywhere. Can't get rid of them, can't get rid of them. You need food

it's everywhere. All right. There are different types of mold, milda. They eat different things

Some of them eat dust. Some of them love sugar. All right

So if you spill, have you ever spilled some? A soft drink and

and didn't know it was spilled or whatever and you come back a day or two later, it's all black there

Bingo, man. That's the sugar, the sh some they do and mold

Love, love, love sugar. Then the only other thing it needs is water

All right. Well, in bathrooms. All right, we talked about this. This is really important

This goes back to Jack or, uh, whatever his name was, Mike two weeks ago

about the Pumas stone in toilets when you take a shower in your bathroom

Ok. I'm gonna stop right here. Remember when I said you need to start paying it

It's too late though. It's too late. Remember when you should have paid attention in flipping physics class in high school should have paid attention

What a flipping mistake. All right, you gotta take a shower and

before you, before you turn the water on, everything in the room is fine. The uh gla the windows are fine

It's wintertime, winters are fine. The mirror is fine. The mirror is clear. Now

the mirror, if you have a mirror like on a medicine cabinet or a mirror like in my bathroom

that is away from the wall. What temperature is the mirror? What temperature is the glass

What is it the same temperature as the interior surface of the wallboard in the room

What temperature is the ceiling? You know, if there's just a room up above it's the same temperature as the glass on

the mirror, same temperature. So when you get out of the shower

what's the mirror look like? It's all fogged up? Is there fog on the wall and the ceiling

Yes or no. And you wonder why you have

mold and mildew problems in bathrooms? All right. So how can you stop it or minimize it

I know you don't like this. Your wife might not like it. It doesn't matter. Well

you have two choices. You can either say we're gonna have motor mildew or we're gonna put up with this fan

You know, the fan I'm talking about this simple little $29 fans. You can buy it

Wally World. The stupid they sit on a table and they, you know

they're about this diameter, you know, and they go back and forth and they blow

have one of those in the closet while you're getting dressed. Turn that damn thing on

Leave that, leave the bathroom door open, get that fan going evaporate that flipping water off the walls as fast as possible

You do that no more. No mildew. Nothing about this is hard

That's good. I'm telling you. We're gonna, that I'm getting t-shirts made. That's the first t-shirt I'm making nothing about

This is hard. That's what can you tell how much fun I'm having

with these live streams. Too bad. Jason. Jason, maybe I, maybe I should be a flipping slip if you guys got the word out there

and told people how entertaining it was. Maybe we'd have 1000 or 2000 or 10,000 people watching

So you need to help just so you gotta watch this crazy guy

this crazy old goat in the afternoon, man. You gotta watch this guy

Yes, the hat version. We're gonna have a hat. We're, I'm gonna be the first one to buy one

I'm your biggest fan. I, oh, I love it. Oh my God

Write that down. I gotta write that down. Wait a minute. Oh, my gosh

That is hilarious. I have a fan. You could, that, you could get some mileage out of it

Orange Street. He's here for the comedy. Oh, my gosh. Well, if Kathy were here

I'm serious, Cathy would say you are wasting your time. She does not think I'm funny at all

Marcus, how you doing Marcus? I didn't know you've been here um for bathrooms

you get extractor fans that. Yes. Yes. Yes, you're right. Um So yes

Yes. All right. The trouble is so we, they're great bath fans

I, I've got, do you have to, you wanna see um bathroom fan videos and like the ones I put my daughter's home

I got videos on my website. The trouble is they do not move enough air fast enough to evaporate the

the, the, the that fog off the walls. You need to get that wa fog off there fast

fast. Uh Asked the, I suck at telling jokes. I, I am the

I don't understand the whole timing part. I suck at it. I am so bad and I

I have such great respect for comics. I'm serious. They are just like some of them are so flipping funny

Are you kidding me? Oh my gosh. His wife locks him in the room

Oh my gosh. OK. Um I've had enough for today and I'm gonna get ready

I gotta do a console call here of that, that wonderful woman up in the Chicago area

Um She is gonna be so happy, you know, I love, love

love doing um some of these consult calls. Uh Here's what happens when someone orders a consult call for me

Um I, I either text them or we send them an email and I always say the same thing

I say thanks for the order. Uh Do you have any photos of the problem? Because you know

pictures worth 1000 words. Uh And in 25 words, just tell me what the problem is and then they send it to me and in

situations like this, sometimes I'll reply back. I'm gonna say I have got such good news for you because sometimes some

of these console calls I do a person is faced where they're in a situation where they think they have to spend tens of thousands

of dollars. I'm serious, tens of thousands of dollars and I come back and say you're not gonna believe this

We're gonna solve this for like 200 bucks. I mean, tell me that wouldn't make your day

All right. So I love doing those cons consult calls like that

Um Jason says, did you hear about the circus fired out west

I don't know what that means. Circus fire. Uh Maybe you mean circus fire

I mean, I know out west they, they name the fires like they, they

they, they, um, they name them names. Um, I do not know

I don't know what you're talking about. I'm sorry, the only fire that I know about that's really hit me hard

Uh, was the Yarnell fire? The one where those 14 firefighters died about 56 years ago

Horrible. H July July 4th July 3rd Yarnell Arizona. Read

second line. The flames were intense. Ok. All right. I'm a little slow today

All right. Oh my God. All right. OK. I'm gonna get out of here

Uh All right. Come on, you

gotta keep it clean. Ok. Did you hear about the circus? Fired out

Oh my gosh. All right. Gotta go. Thanks for being here. Thanks for putting up with me

today. Uh I hope it was a good stream. Like I said

it would be, wouldn't it be awesome to have 100 people or 1000 people here? Maybe we'll get it one day if we don't

we don't, we don't Alan. Howdy. Good. We have these lurkers and you finally come in at the last second

Good for you. Uh, Alan, where do you live real fast if you don't mind

Um Are you in the UK? Uh real fast? Just curious. I'm just curious

Ok, Jason, I'll see you orange drink. I'll see you. I'm gonna be out of here too in just a minute

Um Trying to figure out. So just Alan just real quickly. What country are you in if you just don't mind telling me

Uh, thank you. Good night for putting the Discord in there. Um

all right. Maybe he's not gonna put it in. Uh, I'll let, I'll give you a

uh, oh, Ireland. Great. Um, I love Ireland. It's on my bucket list

I really wanna go to Ireland and the UK too. I, uh, my wife

my wife's a big Irish big her, you know, I'm not gonna tell you her maiden name because of security reasons

Um, but Irish is gonna be all right. So, um, all right

Alan, thanks for being here. I tried to do the live streams. I know it's a little late for you

I know that right now. Um, try to do the live streams every day about four o'clock eastern

which would be, um, well, now I'm trying to think it would be four hours

so maybe eight or nine o'clock your time. Uh Anyway, crutch word

I'm gonna get out of here. I gotta go. I got a lot of there. There's Discord notifications

there's all kinds of stuff going on. Join the Discord. If you have not joined the Discord do it

I've got a lot of, uh, uh, text messages I got to deal with and I gotta talk to

uh, Chrissy. I gotta talk to Chris. All right, I'll let you know what Chrissy said tomorrow

Thanks so much for being here. I'm Tim Carter. You've been watching the builder and

um, 10, it's 10 o'clock right now. Ok. So, yeah, you're, um

four hours now. You're four hours ahead. Exactly. I should have known that because I've got my ham radio clock on the wall and right

now, you know, universal time is four hours different than our time

So, you're right. Ok. Thanks very much for being here. I'm Tim Carter

ask the builder right there and, um, thanks for being here. Will everybody

Good night, Orange Jason Allen had a lot of people here today

Uh Thanks for being here, really appreciate it. I'm Tim Carter and I'll be back tomorrow