Best Deck Sealer - Actual Test Results - LIVE Stream 03-25-2022 Ask the Builder

Good afternoon. I'm Tim Carter. This is the builder. Welcome Friday

March. Uh What is it? Gosh, March 25th. Holy tomato. We've burned through March almost already

Wow. I just, it's hard to believe, hard to believe if you uh have not

checked in yet, if you're a Lurker Lurkers, just so, you know

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and holes and, and you're looking and you swear you see somebody looking through the hole of the fence

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I may have a question for you. And number two, if we start

if someone asks a question and I remember in the chat like

oh gosh, we've got two people here who are very knowledgeable about that

then I want you to chime in assuming you're still here. All right

in a few minutes we're gonna talk about, uh, the qualities of the best deers

I've, I've known, I've, I know all about it. I know all about it and

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Hi, Dave, how are you doing? Pleasure, pleasure to, to, to meet you. Glad you're here

The, um, um, so we're gonna talk about dick in just a moment

Um, I will, uh, share, um, today was kind of a salmon day for me

I got the, I got my newsletter done. I typically build my newsletter, uh

every Friday and it, uh, you know, it goes out automatically on Sunday morning

about five in the morning and pretty good. I think it's a pretty good newsletter

I had to, uh, I did a little exercise with people because I got people a little riled up

Um, last Sunday had a couple of people unsubscribe and, and the reason why is there

um, you, you may not agree with this, but here in America

if you're watching and you live here in the United States, we're, we're engaged in a civil war here in

in our country right now. A lot of people go. Oh, no, no, no, we're not. No. Yes, we are

Yes, we are, we're, we're civil war and uh you know, people are very polarized about any number of issues and

that's being done by design to try to, to divide it is just a, a page out of Caesar's playbook

you know, divide and conquer. So they divide and conquer everybody on everything and uh just get everybody pissed off at each other

That's, that's on purpose. All right. So um so, so just this little

this little thing I was doing in my newsletter about inflation, uh just telling the truth about inflation just set some people off

They, they automatically read politics into it and it's like, no, not really political

I mean, I mean, it is to a degree because if you

if you have all these politicians, a lot of them voting for stuff and voting for bills and

well, we don't have the money. Um I guess you could say it's political but I didn't say anything political in the piece anyway

It pissed a lot of people off. So I talked about how I, I called the Civil war

the war of northern aggression. All right. All right. So in my newsletter this Sunday

if you've not subscribed, you really should because you're gonna see a really interesting exercise and uh how

you know, to, to explain to people why I called it that

So I'm not, I don't wanna give it away here. Just subscribe to the newsletter

the links right up above in the chat and, and, and, and just read the Sunday newsletter

If you don't like it, then just unsubscribe. It's no big deal. So, um

anyway. All right, Steve, uh, let's see what your question is. Um

ok. Uh, back in the fifties and my mom's hometown. So, yeah, I had. Ok

All right. I understand. Got it. Um, you're gonna type in some more. Um

um, got it. Fancy House, great materials. A lot of those in Cincinnati

Ohio. I can, I can drive you down street after street of how

that's where I grew up of houses built just like that today

It's ice water. Ok? While we're waiting for Steve, we're gonna talk about deck sealers and then I'll pick up with Steven

just a little bit if you have ever stained regular wood, like interior wood

interior woodwork. Um, y you, you know that typically you, the stain that you get it

it's, it's really heavily based in, in mineral spirits and whatever and it soaks into the wood and it's got these ultra fine pigment particles

I mean, just so fine, like maybe the size of a grain of flour is smaller and it takes those pigment particles actually in

into the wood and which is why the wood, um, he made changes color

All right. And, and the stain itself. So, so if you stain a piece of wood and you let it dry

you know, and you've stained it properly after it's dry um, if you run your hand across it or lightly touch it with a towel

generally you're not gonna get anything off. The stain is in the wood and that's years ago

that's how many of the deck sealers were. The trouble is, is that

um, hello, Bob. Uh, Ann Arbor. Good. That's great. Good. Uh, um

Michigan. What a state, great, beautiful state, by the way. Um, SS

but the problem is is that, that type of a sealer creates a matte finish and a lot of people don't like matt finishes

They prefer, there's just so there's something about a semi gloss or even a glossy

finish. Just think about your car. In other words, just about every single car or pickup truck or whatever that paint is glossy

All right, and they look nice when they're clean. But if you had a matte finish car

they just, for some reason in our brains, our brains are programmed to

we really like glossy things and we think they're clean and beautiful and whatever we

we, we attribute all these positive characteristics to things that are glossy

Um Matt finished, not so much. And in the past 20 years

the deck sealer manufacturers seem to have have gravitated to making deck sealers that have that glossy appearance

Well, the, well, the way they do that is they start is the formulation changes and basically the product becomes a film form

Remember what I just described before? The stain would go into the wood and it doesn't really sit up on the surface

Well, the many of the current deck sealers are film farmers where some of it goes into the wood

some of it soaks in, but some of it stays up on top and

and what happens if you haven't noticed this? They peel and they look horrible because if you

if you have, if you've applied a deck sealer and some of it peels off and some of it doesn't

And then you apply a new sealer, you have this really blotchy appearance

It looks horrible, which then causes people to have to strip off all of the old finish

It's really a nightmare. I decided that I was gonna try to find a penetrating finish and I think I found

it. I think I found a really good one and I'm about to take a video

So I, I applied it two years ago. Still looks remarkably well

And I also stained a control board that's been in my garage for two years

You know, I stained it the same day. Same can of stain, everything's the same

And then as soon as it dried, I carried it into my garage, put it underneath my workbench where there'd be no sunlight getting into

it, no water, no rain, no anything. So that as soon as I can

as soon as we have a halfway decent day, I'm gonna go down and record this video with this test board

this uh control board, right on the other wood. So you can see exactly how well the current deck looks

So, um, it's gonna be really fascinating but the important thing is

is, is, uh I don't think that it doesn't appear that this product is a film farmer

We're gonna find out. So, film farmers no good. Uh If you want to ask any questions about anything you want to know about Dex

or start to type your questions in and I'll, I'll gladly answer them

I'll talk a little bit more about it in just a minute. Let's pick up with Steve's uh

um, question here. Well, sir. All right. So, uh, continued 3000

square feet on a slab. Ok. House burned a couple of years ago. Ok. House was carefully assembled and hauled away

They left the concrete slab, drivers, sidewalk. Ok. Property is up for sale

Question is the 65 year concrete superior to this. Is there some benefit to building on these trying to understand the purpose

Um That is the, the, the answer is maybe, maybe, maybe the

it, here's, here's the thing with concrete. I, I've talked about this a lot

I've got a lot of columns on the website about concrete here. Just let's just first talk about what is concrete

Just the mo the most basic concrete. It's got four ingredients, right? There's four things in it

What are they, what are the four things that are in concrete. Can you think about them? Ok

I'll help you. We got stones. All right. You know, they range in size from pea size

uh, up to maybe the size of a, a grape, like a nice big green grape

Uh, we've got sand and you know what sand is, right? So, sand is just rock

A lot of people don't know that a lot of people don't realize that sand is rock and

um just very tiny pieces of rock. Then the next ingredient is Portland cement

That's a gray powder. And um, that's also rock. All right, you

you make cement from limestone and shale and then the fourth ingredient is what

Water? Ok? That's it. Now, you can make concrete with some additives

whatever. So rock in and of itself is naturally strong. That's why we use it within the concrete

The, the um, so the strength of the concrete is a function of how much cement is used

When you mix it, it's just like adding sugar to iced tea

You know, if you just put a little bit, you know, the iced tea doesn't taste very sweet

You know, the more sugar you put in the sweeter it gets OK. And you can make it too sweet

Of course, that's about the best ogy I can give you the

the um, the thing is the concrete that was poured 65 years ago in this wonderful house may

have been inferior, but I doubt it based on your description, it sounds like it was a really great builder

They knew back then how to make strong concrete. They probably poured a seven or an eight bag mix

Whereas today they've kind of dropped the minimum standard. They say the minimum should be a six bag mix

And uh you know, and that means six bags of cement per cubic yard of concrete

And um you know, but the, I'll give you an example of going the other direction back in the day

back in the late 18 hundreds. Uh, the, the, the companies that were running the railroads

they, they were run by some pretty smart guys. They understood that

Um, it's, it's very disruptive to try to reroute a train. In other words

the trains on the track, they need to keep running. That that's how the railroads make money

They cannot, you cannot have the track, you know, broken or derailed or whatever washed out

That means that whenever you build a bridge, um, you, that bridge needs to last a long time and it

it, it just cannot fail. So the bridge abutments in many cases are built out of concrete

And the, the railroad guys told the engineers not the train engineers

the civil engineers, they said, listen, we want you to, you pour that concrete

but I don't want that concrete going bad. It, it needs to last for a long time

80 maybe 100 100 years or more. Ok. We can do it

And so they did. So they probably poured, I don't know, 10 bag

12 bag mix. And I can take you by lots of railroad

a bridge abutments that were poured in the 19, early, 19 hundreds

So they're over 100 years old. They still look pretty good. I can take you to Cincinnati

Ohio where, 100 years ago they were pouring the concrete for the Cincinnati subway system and they had this guardrail stuff up on above the

tunnels, up, up on central parkway. Still there. I can take you right now to Cincinnati

I've got pictures of it on my, uh, um, website. Go to Ask the vote.com and then the search engine type

uh, Cincinnati subway. And I guarantee you, you'll see, uh, those pictures come up or type central Parkway

So, Steve, um, this concrete may be in great shape. The fire would not have heard it that much

You can always do a concrete overnight. But the problem that I have is that I

I'm not a big person who I don't like to, to build on slabs for a host of reasons being a plumber

I'm a master plumber. I, I'd, I just have this thing where if

if you can make it, that I have access to my building drains

I'm, I'm good, you know, II, I just want to have access to the building drains

but that's even hard in basements because you're gonna put the, the, the uh, pipes below that basement

Slap the point I'm trying to make is that the, um, you know

I don't know that I would want to build a new home on this slab and then use the old building trains

I, I may want to have a complete different floor plan. You may be tearing up so much of the slab

It's not even worth it. It's just easier to take it out. I mean, you bring in an excavator 3000 square feet

I could go in there with a, you know, with one of these, you know

I could go in there with one of these, um, you know, full size like a 310 and I would have that slab up and

gone and out of the way in about two hours time, two hours cost about

I don't know, $300 an hour for, for one of these, maybe 400 now. So

just so anyway, II, I just get rid of the slab. All right

Uh, if you have, um, any questions about deck seers, uh, ask them now in the chat

Happy to do it. Happy to answer any question you have about deck seers. Um

I will, I'll talk a little bit more about them. Um, one of the really interesting products

I, I haven't, well, I, uh, don't watch a lot of TV

I only watch maybe, I think I only watch, uh, 30 30 minutes at night

30 minutes a day of television. And, uh, I don't see, all I see are me medicine ads

I don't medicine and lose weight ads. That, that, that's anyway. So

um, I used to see a lot of Thompson water seal, um

ads, you know, this time of year, you know, they, they, they blow their budget

you know, in the spring and back in the day and I think they still might do it

So Thompson's water seal, it's, you know, they have very flashy commercials

but, um, they used to make the product. My understanding was my opinion is that that product was just made with uh animal fat

That was the primary ingredient. Um, used to be like a former release agent

you know, for concrete forms and, uh, you know, they noticed how water would beat up a lot

But, um, but the trouble with animal fat is that it's like, it's like eating

it's like you, it's like me having a filet mignon or lobster tail

That's what mold mildew loves to eat is, is oil like foods like that

any kind of natural oil. Uh So sometimes some of these deck sealers within a few months

they turn black for mold mildew. So you have to be really careful about that. Hello

Vanessa. Uh You're welcome, Steve. Uh I don't know that I really answered your question just that

you know, I don't, I don't know that I wanna build on that. I just think the floor plan might be different

You know, people live in houses a little differently than they did 65 years ago. Um

the other thing about deck seers, uh, I'll tell you this right now. So when you

if you, first of all, you have to have the deck really clean, uh, it, it's just like the best ogy

I give this ogy all the time. Let's say you're gonna go out to dinner. It's a Saturday night

You're gonna go out with your sweetheart and you've been working, it's a hot day and you've been working out in the yard and you're

just sweaty and dirty and filthy. I mean, you're, you're not gonna go inside and take your clothes off and put your good clothes on

Come on, you, you're gonna take a shower and you're gonna really clean yourself and you're gonna rub your skin

You know, you're gonna put soap and rub your skin, rinse yourself off. You're gonna be nice and clean

All right. Uh So that's what you have to do to a deck. I

I mean, before you go to seal it, you really have to clean it and pressure washers

they damage the wood. Uh, they erode the soft, the softer spring wood that's growing right now

Um Chlorine bleach, horrible thing to use. It's toxic. It takes the color out of wood

It, it's so strong, it destroys the lignin, which is the chemical bond between wood fibers um

it also, um, is very corrosive to the metal, all the metal connectors

the nail screws, joist hangers. Uh, and of course, it's very, very toxic

If you have any trees nearby, uh, any expensive vegetation, you're gonna kill them all

you're gonna kill them all. You might, you know, might I kill him that year? You keep washing your deck with chlorine bleach

you're gonna kill them all. I know because my neighbor did it. I tried to warn her

She didn't listen to me. I told that story before. Uh Best cleaner for deck oxygen bleach

This happens to be the best one made in America Stain Solver. So Stain Solver just a

just a white powder that you mix with hot water stirred up for a minute or two

make sure it's all dissolved. Put it on the wood, dry wood

I always want to apply it to dry, starts to foam and bubble and the

the oxygen ions are actually cleaning the wood and the longer you let it work

the less you have to scrub lightly, scrub the deck, rinse it off of the hose

Wood looks beautiful. Doesn't hurt anything. It actually helps all the plants puts oxygen into the soil

Uh It doesn't hurt the connectors doesn't hurt the Nas or screws doesn't take the Colorado wood doesn't hurt the lignin blah

blah, blah, good, good product, right? So then, um, you wanna let the wood dry

then, then what? You also wanna do is you wanna read the label? Always read the label on your deck

Se ok. Most people just think I don't need to read the label. What do I need to read the label for

Well, probably good idea. So just take a minute or two and read the label

see what it says. It'll tell you, you know how to apply it. It'll tell you what the temperature range should be

Uh, and I can tell you from experience the worst time to seal a deck is in the middle of the day on a

on a hot sunny day with breezy. You do not want to do that. The best conditions to seal a deck would be

I don't know, 65 degrees overcast, no threat of rain, no threat of rain

but just nice overcast day. Uh, you want that sealer to drive slow

the slower it drives the better. Uh, hi Roco. Uh, Will, wants to know

will standing off the deck be good. Uh, well, no, I don't think so. Will

I would wash the deck first. I would wash it just like I said

with Stain Solver. Uh, let it dry and then I would sand it off because Stain Solver

Um, it's such a strong cleaner that it can remove a lot of the old oxidized and sun damaged sealer

So it actually might making, it might make it that you have to sand less but sanding a deck

Oh, my gosh, what a flipping horrible job. It's horrible, horrible job

All right. Any, uh, questions you have about deck sealers? I'm happy to answer them

Um, I thought for sure we'd have a lot of questions about deck sealers

Um, there's a lot of confusion about them. A lot of people

you just have to realize that a lot of the products out there now are film farmers

It, they're just horrible. They, they, I think they put a little bit of urethane in with them and they

um, when they fail, they start to peel and it's just horrible

It's horrible. You're welcome, will. Um You're welcome. Uh So what other questions do

you have? And also you, you may, you may have a question that has nothing to do with deck sailor

Go ahead and ask it just like Steve's question. I, I don't care what question you have

You can ask anything, you can ask anything about anything. I don't care

I don't care what you ask about. You could ask, you can ask about Bobcats and I'll be able to talk to you about Bobcats

Here's why. So yesterday, I don't know, around noon my phone rings and it's Kathy

You know, because we, we're like miles apart in the house here. You know, I'm way

I, I'm as far away from her as possible. Not necessarily because I wanna be

She might like it that way. But anyway, um, she say you're not gonna believe what I just saw

What I go tell me she goes, II, I just come back inside and

you know, I fed the birds and the squirrels were out there eating the bird seed and

and all of a sudden I caught my eye. This bobcat captures this flipping squirrel and

and drags it off and, and while she's saying that I'm looking out my window right here

you know, there's a big window right here and I see this thing moving across the drive

I go, oh, I see it right now. So the bobcat was taking the squirrel

Big, big fat gray squirrel. Oh, my gosh. Um, and he was just

you know, carefully carrying that thing up to his lair, uh, up to his nest up in the hill

And, um, it was pretty cool to see. I mean, the bobcat. So I did a lot of research on this morning

Uh, they are really a beautiful cat. I mean, they have like this very stubby tail

very, very, uh, distinctive ears. A really, really cool marking. I mean

they are so camouflaged. Oh, my gosh. And, um, it was pretty muscular

I mean, it was like the size of a, uh, like half the size of a normal German shepherd

maybe a little smaller. Um, and, uh, what, what I was surprised about in the research

I, I went to the New Hampshire Fish and game website is that in the wild

And I guess they've tagged these thing. They, their lifespan is only 3 to 5 years

But in captivity they can live up to 30 years. So it's really a hard life

you know, in the wild. And I, um, I was trying to think

I was trying to think what I, I just thought they must, they might be an apex predator

I mean, you know, there you're allowed to hunt them here in, in New Hampshire and

and maybe, maybe the hunters are taken, taken, taking them out. I

I guess, I don't know which is their whole life span thing. But, um

I don't know that there's a bigger, more bad ass, um, animal that could

that, other than a mountain lion, I think we do, we might have mountain lions in New Hampshire

I, I don't know about that. But, um, but I mean, I

I just can't imagine what would, what would kick the ass of a bobcat

And so anyway, what do I know? Squirrels? Uh, I think squirrel is tasty

I think it's a really, uh, interesting meat. I, I'll tell you what the squirrel

Kathy, my wife has been feeding these things. They are so they're either fat or they're muscular or both

I'm telling you, they, and they're everywhere. I mean, when I look at my window, these squirrels are

they're running up these trees. I mean, they're 100 ft in the air, jumping around in the trees

Crazy. We have two types of squirrels here, we have the grays, the bigger ones we have these ha we have these other squirrels

these red squirrels that are about half the size of the grays and these red squirrels

they are so flipping feisty. I'll tell you what. They're just amazing

All right. So, enough about animals. So that's what, um, uh, that's

that was really interesting yesterday to see that bobcat if you have any questions about anything

Uh, that's what fuels the li the live stream. In other words, your questions

um, are the, are the fuel for the live stream? If you don't ask questions

then I just run out of things to talk about. So that's, that's not good

So I, I need you to type questions, uh, observations, uh, whatever it might be

just, just type it into the live stream, you know, type it in the chat

Ask me anything. I, I really don't care what you ask me. And also you're supposed to check in

you're supposed to check in. That's the polite thing to do. I mean it

you know, you wouldn't go to somebody's house and just walk in the door and just start and go sit down

I mean, you'd introduce yourself, right? Come on, supposed to check in

Ok, tomorrow I might be, might be getting the white board a

Vertes. Thank you for checking in. I have two brand new decks

Ok. All right. Number two, prime pressure to wood. Ok. All right

Uh two great questions. Um, I, I would, uh, let me ask this question

Where can you just tell me the state that you live in? Where do you, what state do you live in

I don't know if there's a latency in the how, how behind the chat is today

Hi, Jack. Thanks for checking in. So, Alvertis, what state do you live in

I know you probably typed in already hit return and, and youtube slow as Molasses

Um, there we go. Thank you, South Carolina. Ok. You're starting to get some pretty good weather

So, um, you, you would have to do, uh, the, the moisture test

I, I recorded a video about this, uh, two years ago. Let me see if I can find it

Um, uh, what was that title of video? Uh, I, I'm just gonna put treated lumber

video. It was a, it was a water absorption test, but I don't know what I titled it

Um, I can't remember now. I'm trying to find it on my website

Um, it's coming up. Come on. Um, I

don't know where it is anyway, Alvertis. All right. So I'll get to your question. So

um, if you can put a drop of water on the wood and

and it, and it soaks into the wood after about 30 seconds

40 seconds, it's time to seal it. All right. It's time to seal it. Uh

what's the best sealer? Huh? I am going to have you need to go here

You need to go to this link. You need to do two things

You need to go to that link. I just pasted in the chat and you need to fill out. You just need to take this

quick one question survey. There's, it's a totally anonymous. You do not have to enter your name or address or anything

None of that. Um And then you need to subscribe to my newsletter

which is here. And

what's gonna happen is I am going to record a video in a

within hopefully three weeks and that video I'm going to, it's, it's a test result video of I've been conducting a test

for the last two years and I'm gonna reveal in that video

um that the product that I used. All right. So you want to be on my newsletter list because as soon as that video becomes

available, um, you, you, uh you need to get it right? So you

you need to be able to watch that video. So that's how, that's how you're gonna find out

The name of. What I think at, at the time is the best deck sealer

So that's what you need to do. Uh I don't know. That's a great question

Can you use a paint sprayer? Um I don't know that I would do that because the deck sealers are so easy to put on

Generally. Uh you can put them on with like a paint roller. Um

the problem with a paint sprayer is that even when you spray them on

you either may not get enough on or you may put too much on

which means you'll have to brush it. It's really important that you only put the correct amount on because if you put it too heavy

it's gonna peel off. All right. So, um, I hate to say it

It's, I, I would, I would not use a paint square. They're, they're very problematic

And if you've never used it before, um, you, you're gonna have a big mess on your hands

you're gonna ruin the decks, you're gonna ruin them. So, um, it's not that hard to do to do decks and also always do the

railings first. And if, if they're wood railings and make sure you have a drop cloth like 23 layers or plastic to catch

and it drips. You don't want any of this while you're doing the handrail

you don't want any of that sealer to drip down on the deck. Um

and, uh, because it'll show up as spots later on. So, uh

so do the handrails first. Then the next day do do the decking Jack

Oh, dude, tomatoes, you tell me, look at those bad boys. Um

that, that's my best one and they've, uh, so just 25 days ago I planted the seeds on

uh March 1st. All right. So, um, 25 days. That, that's, uh

that's probably um, I'm gonna guess that thing's five inches tall, let's see

Or do I do I have it right. Five inches tall. So

uh, five inches tall, they're doing just fantastic. I, um, thought I had killed them like three days ago because I

they, they, they dried out a little bit and, um, but I've, they came back

I watered them that afternoon. They came back a lot, they came back overnight

Although it's really funny, I have one, this is the one that's the smallest

It's kind of stunted in growth. You know, look how small that one is. It's only about 2.5

3 inches tall. But the soil I'm gonna have to water in the morning

Um, so it was just a little damp Kathy. Um You know

my wife is super green thumb. She's a professional orchid grower. And so

you know, she said, listen, do not over water those things, you know, which

which I, I knew that. And, um, anyway, so al Vertes, um

you're gonna do great on your deck. Um And just so, you know

uh you, you probably don't need this, but I offer phone coaching so I can talk to you privately on the phone for 15 minutes

to answer any questions. You can send me photos of the deck. Uh I would look at your photos and I would tell you exactly

how I would do it. I would tell you exactly the tools I would use exactly what to do to get the best results

So, um, that may be the cheapest money you spend on this whole project is to talk to me on the phone for 15 minutes

Um All right, Albertus had a great question. Those are great questions

So, here and here's, here's why it's important. I'm just gonna mention this sometimes you'll hear advice like

oh, wait six months or whatever, no bad idea. Especially where you live

Um Sun's starting to get pretty intense and you can get these micro checking cracks in the wood if you don't seal it

And the, and the reason treated lumber goes bad is because water gets into it

So anytime the wood gets even the tiniest crack in it, the water can go deeper

So that's the whole purpose of the sealers is to minimize the water that gets into the wood

So you wanna, so, like I said, as soon as the treated lumber is dry enough to where you put a drop on it and

within 30 seconds, the drop disappears because it is soaked in. It's time to seal it

All right. Good. All right. So, you know, because I, because I know you spent a lot of money on the deck or these two

decks, you spent huge money. So we do not. I mean, you don't want to ruin them on the last step by sealing them

You don't want to ruin them. All right, because I've uh, I've sealed so many

Um, I'll give you the link too for what it's worth. I mean, if you're, if you're really interested in it

um, if you wanna, if you wanna talk me on the phone

oh, it's right here. I, I was right there. I don't know what was wrong with me

Like, what an idiot. Um, all right. I'm getting a link for you

I should have these already off to the side. I, I don't know why. Sometimes I wonder what's wrong with me

Um, so here, if, if you do decide that you want to get me on the phone, that's all you gotta do

You just gotta go there, place an order as simple as that. All right

Uh So there's the link how to set up the phone call. Uh What else did I want to talk about today

Um Remember the, the, the, the, um, kind, it's kind of a soft rule here at the S the Builder live stream

Uh I, I, it's called the Polite rule. So if you're here and you're watching, you need to check in

We, we, uh, it's just like if you were to go to some, somebody's home that you've never been to before

Here's what you would not do. You would not knock on the door, they open the door and you would not just walk right past

them and go sit down on the couch. That's not what you're gonna do. You're probably gonna introduce yourself

Right. Right. That's the polite thing to do. So you need to, you need to check in and

and say who you are and it would really help me if you listed what you, a couple of your superpowers

what, what superpowers you have? All right. So, all right. Um the um it's

gonna be get, get this. It really was a nice day here today in Central New Hampshire

I don't know what the temperature was, but I walked up to the mailbox

I, I, it had to be upper forties, lower fifties. I, I don't know it

but the sun so warm now it's getting high in the sky and a really nice state and I think we got a hell of

a lot of rain overnight. I didn't hear it. I, I slept like a log last night

but I had to go to town this morning to go to the post office and I'm driving down this road

I normally drive down and there was water gushing out of this pipe

I have never in all my life seen water come out of that pipe and you know

it's a drainage pipe coming down off a hillside. We must have had a

a boatload of rain last night. Hello, Jimmy. Um, no, listen. Um

we're sorry for your bad luck. No, no one wants to hear about your bad day

Don't come here and throw a wet blanket on the live stream. I'm

just teasing. Tell us, tell us what happened. What, in a nutshell

What, what, why did your day go bad? And remember if you have the reason I'm here

the reason I do these live streams is to help save you time and money

The only way I can do that, there's only one way you have to type a question in the chat

I'll answer the question and the odds are the answer is gonna save you time and money

So please do it. Uh, please type in your question into the chat

Um Oh, I got, so II I, um, I got yesterday, I ordered two or three days ago

early in the week I ordered my new monitor and I ordered

uh, my new computer, a Mac mini and the, um, the monitor arrived yesterday

This, this thing is so big I could put it outside and rent it as a flipping billboard

I don't even know if it's gonna work on my desk. I think it's gonna work. I'll, I'll make it work but it is so

flipping wide. Oh, my gosh. But here's the thing. I get an

I get an email this morning from Apple. I or I know I ordered this on Tuesday

Yeah, I ordered it on Tuesday. No, I heard no, they just say

ok, we'll let you know when it ships. So I get an email, all your thing shipped and uh

it's gonna arrive, you know, on April 4th, complete losers, complete flipping losers

Um, I just don't know what to say. I don't. All right

all right. Management ordered a $9000 compressor was the wrong one. It was actually $1780

Uh, oh, well, but I guess sounds, I hope it wasn't your fault

So, anyway, that sucks if it is. Um, it sucks

Yeah, I like it. Money with wings. Oh, my gosh. Um, people are gonna be suffering like that

We, we talked about it many times. Inflation can be really bad and good

I'm glad it wasn't your fault. Um The uh inflation is gonna get a lot worse and there's gonna be

a whole lot of suffering. It's gonna be horrible, gonna be horrible. So I don't know what to tell you

Uh All right. So remember if you have any questions about your home now is the time to type them in uh type in your

questions. Um cause this, I didn't come with hardly anything prepared to talk about today

I just didn't um I just felt for sure that you were gonna help me out here and you know

and, and type questions just like Richard did. So Richard put a question in Richardson part two

Did I miss your first part? Richard? I'm looking up here. Did I I don't see where part one of your questions are

Um If you type part one, I don't see it. All right

Just so you know my question is what agent would you suggest to increase opacity without affecting the stickiness of her flight

I don't know. I, I have no clue what you're talking about. I don't even know what you're talking about

So sorry, can't help. You never heard of it. Uh We can return it

take another four days to arrive. Cope and compressor and we keep an extra factory

Um Yeah, so Richard, I, I have no clue what you're talking about

So beat me. Maybe some black paint. I don't know that that's sure

Heck bo uh that'll increase uh make it or no, no. Uh I'm sorry

make you wanna make increase opacity. So I don't know what you would do

I don't have a clue. I don't even know what Rolex is. Rolex

Rolex. Don't know what it is. It

is the binding, correct? OK. You're asking the wrong guy. I'm not a, I'm not a um I'm not a pain chemist

If my friend, if one, if, if my original business partner were here

John Pendry, uh John Penry has a phd in chemistry. He, his whole career

he worked for Sharon Williams. I have a, I have a feeling he probably would know

So I don't uh I don't have a clue. I'm not, I'm not a paint chemist so I can't help you

Sorry. Um Maybe there's a paint chemist forum out there somewhere you can get on

get the answer. Uh So if you have a question about your home

That's not about the opacity of reflex or reflex. Ask it. I might know the answer

I don't know that one. That's a pretty tough one. That's a pretty tough question. I am happy

Oh, I'll stay what, I'll show you in the meantime. Excuse me? Um

I, I've kind of gotten into, uh, buying these little, um, um

lessing the original, less than the, uh, matchbox, you know, the die cast of aluminum little trucks and stuff

So I bought this one. I won this one at an auction

It's kind of a neat dump truck. You know, it's a, it's called an eight wheel tipper, you know

but it's actually a, a dump truck, you know, and the tailgate works

I'm sorry, I'm moving around too much. It's in really good condition

Uh, I'm gonna repaint the yellow. I think I can match the color almost perfectly

I'm sure I can. So I got this in a few days ago. It's really, really good shape

Um, so what's funny is I've gone to, I've tried to look at some original photos and in this area

this smooth area of the truck bed. I see a lot of printing and it kind of looks to me like I'm trying to see

where, well, you can't really see it that well. Maybe you might see it here, I think

Yeah, you can see that area inside the bed where it looks like some paints coming off

I think maybe somebody repainted the bed and they painted over the lettering

I just have a feeling. Um, and then I got, I, I won that one at an auction

Then I bought another one just outright today. Uh, this is a co and it's in really good shape

It's called a grit spreader. The windshields in really good shape, paints in really good shape

This dump bed does not go up but check this out. It's got a little thing in the back that comes out if you can

see that so I can push that in, take that out. So that's the grit spreader

And inside the bed is a little slot for realism as to where the grit would go in

And I'm sure on this truck there probably was some type of conveyor belt

you know. But what's interesting about this one? The series is that the diameter of the tires is bigger than this other one just by

about a uh just under an eighth of an inch. So they're bigger wheels

So I don't know why less they did that. I don't know. I don't quite understand

but I'm what I'm trying to do. II, I had talked back in some of the um past live streams where I know this sounds

crazy. But um with respect to inflation and what's going to happen in our future here in America

you don't want to be holding a lot of cash when when all of a sudden we go off the world Reserve currency

you know, you want to have things that are not cash. So I'm

I know it sounds crazy but I'm investing in, I'm trying to invest in these cause some of these like that

that this thing here I saw, I saw an ad today, this thing

um one of these, I guess in really, really good shape, 100 and $34

Um, and, um, I only paid $10 for shipping. I only paid $5 for it

$5togetittome.So,so,youknow,mightnotbeabadideatoinvest$500inthesethings.Idon'tknow.We'llsee.Um

all right, Jack, once in a daughter, do you, do you water your garden

And, and what spring? I said, I don't have a garden. I don't have one. I just

I just grow these dumb tomatoes. I, it's, it's so much work to

to grow vegetables. We've tried it, my daughter and I, and we

you know, the, here's the trouble. Uh, we found out we have groundhogs or something

You know, once the things get up a certain height, then you come out in the morning, they're gone. And my daughter got so angry

and so she says, well, dad, we gotta build a fence and I said, well, sweetheart

I, you know, how can you say no to your daughter? And, and I just said, well, the fence is gonna cost like

the materials are gonna cost like 3, 400 bucks. I said we might as well just go buy the flipping vegetables

I mean, seriously. So, it, it just, um, it, it, it just doesn't work and

and we don't have a really great spot. I mean, I've got, I'm surrounded by a lot of trees

It's just so there's only one spot in the property that's really good

That gets a lot of sun and it's very small. So we don't do it

So, I don't, I don't, I don't do it. No. Garden. Yeah

exactly. The, um, that's, yeah, you only get, uh, youtube when I let you

uh, uh, Richard, you only get 200 characters. Um, yeah. So, yeah

what happened? And what happens is you're typing, it tells you how many characters used up and then once you go over it

it turns red, you can see the number go red. So, uh

well, I don't, well, I don't know if I'll put them around the train now because it's all a matter of scale

I don't know what scale. Um, I don't know if the scale of these

these matchbox trucks, if it, if it's the right scale, you know

that's the trouble. Um, you gotta get the right scale and you

and if you're into model railroading they make, they make scale vehicles that are their proper scale

So, I don't know, I, I don't know what scale these are

I'd have to check, um, see, pretty easy to do. It's really easy to check the scale because I know how wide a modern truck

is. You know, in these trucks, you know, these trucks are probably, you know

7 ft six. A real truck is probably 7 ft six inches wide and you can see how many inches this is

You can do the math. All right. So, anyway, um, Jimmy Hard accents

I don't know what that means. Oh, in short, I see. In short it's a complaint about the dismal quality of

Oh, ok, Richard. So now we're getting over. Hi, Marcus, how are you doing? Glad you're here

Um, so Richard, that's all you needed to tell me. All you needed to type was

um, what's a good exterior house paint? Easy go get Sherwin Williams Emerald paint

It's, uh, the last I checked it was a Urethane based paint. So go to Sherwin Williams store

Get their emerald. That's the brand, that's the sub brand. I mean

the, the overarching brand or the name of the company of Sherwin Williams

but they have a, a line of paint called Emerald, you know, just like an emerald ring

you know, and, uh, make sure in the brochure or, or go to their website and see if it says it's got a urethane resin

you buy that and you follow the instructions and you wash the house down with soap and water

don't use a pressure washer. Pressure washers do not get the house clean

Um, and, um, use an RV, brush soap and water. You should actually spray

you should actually mix up this first spray this on, let it sit 15 minutes then wash behind with soap and water

Um, and then, um, and, and follow the instructions on the label

Paint in the shade. Don't paint direct sunlight. I've got, I've got this

So when I painted my house 12 years ago here in New Hampshire

um, the paint that had the urethane was called duration where they since brought out the emerald and then the duration is now acrylic

So if you were to come to my house here in New Hampshire, there's no place where it's peeling and it looks as good as

the day we put it on. And I use that same paint on my house in Cincinnati

And I painted that house in Cincinnati 22 years ago and I just drove by the house last October

It looks like the day I painted it. It's an incredible pain

Incredible Bob we got for 50 years, but now support local farmers market

Yeah. Good for you. Yeah, it's, and, and I think you'll be the first to say it's so much work

I mean, I think the reason a lot of people garden is they enjoy doing it

You know, they, they, um, it's, it's, it's a recreation for them

It's not work. And, um, good. That's, that's, that's a great motivation

Um, I'm not that interested in it. I like to grow the tomatoes because they're so easy

you know. And II, I just started growing up from seed. I started doing that last year

It's a lot of fun. It's so much fun to see that thing sprout up after a week

It's really cool. So, um, but, yeah, I agree. Support the farmers market

But, um, I, I, uh, I don't have a big garden. Um

I got, so I want to tell you this. Uh, I just thought of something. I, it just came today and I'd already decided what

I was gonna talk about today. Uh, I just got ups dropped off maybe 23 hours ago

Um, a brand new oscillating tool cordless from the walt. So we're gonna talk

I'm gonna demonstrate that on, uh, Monday. So that's what we're gonna do on Monday

Uh, so, you know, I don't know if you know what the oscillating tools are. They're the ones that they

they just, they very rapidly go back and forth, you know, the blades

they, they like a barber's clipper say that's the best way. A barb

a clipper that a barber uses that, uh, you know, that's an oscillating tool

So, uh, you know, they come with all different types of cutting, cutting

um, things you can cut carbide metal, whatever, you know. So the

they're very, very good for, um, ee even so much, like if you're gonna

if you need to cut a hole in drywall to add an outlet, that's a really good tool to use

Um, so, um, uh, any, anyway, I'm gonna demonstrate this tool for you on Monday

Yeah, Jack. A lot of people love it. I mean, like my wife, she loves, love

loves messing with her orchids, you know, she love, love, loves it. I, I'm not that into plants

Not into I, I'm more ham radio. Right. So ham radio. Good plants

So, so I water them, but that's about it. Just, I don't get a lot of pleasure out of them

but I love eating tomatoes. I'm the only person, I'm the only one in the family that eats tomatoes. To me

there's nothing like a fresh tomato. Oh, my gosh. So tasty. Um

all right. So I hope that answered your question, Richard. Um, Sharon Williams

Paint good stuff, man. Good stuff. Really good stuff. Really. And if you watch it

uh, you, you know, they'll have a sale on it every now and then you can get, you can save 20 percent or so every

now and then. So if you're really paying attention. But really, you know

but just if you decide to use it, just make sure you follow the instructions and don't pressure wash

don't do it. Yeah. Peas, peas on there you can put in early

I mean, they're very frost resistant. I, I've heard, um, my father in law was really

he loved gardening too. When he retired. He, uh, he, he was a really

he was very good at it. And, uh, he had a marginal area too

I was always stunned at how much stuff he could produce. He loved green beans

He, he, he had, you know, like every, every 34 days he'd walk down

We, we, he only lived like six houses away from us Really unique situation

It was, my kids were so lucky they could just walk down to their grandparents' house

uh, ride their bikes, whatever, very safe neighborhood. Uh So every now and then every three or four days he would just walk down and

bring some tomatoes, brings a bag of green beans, freshly picked green beans

It was wonderful. So, um, oh, well, um, simple as that. All right

Uh If you have any questions, I'd love to answer them. Uh, Marcus. There we go

Fine. Um Where do I find all the time to do? All you do

Well, um, that's a great question. Um That's a great, you already know the answer to that question

All right. So is with any person, um, you make time, you create the time to do

the things you like to do and take that to the next level with relationships

For example, if you, if there's a person that you like, um

that you want to spend time with you, you'll do whatever possible to to create chunks of time to spend time with that person

Um, m maybe it's an old high school friend. May, maybe you'll

you, you allocate 15 minutes every weekend to call that person on the phone

I mean, you'll, you'll, you know, you, you just make the time. So the

the sad thing is there are things that, you know, around that get neglected that

that I don't care about and, um, I'm trying to change it a little bit this year for me

Um, I've been walking around too much junk and too much clutter and

and I've decided that this spring, I'm just waiting for the weather to break just a little bit more

I'm gonna have the biggest, I'm gonna, I'm stuff that I really don't want

I don't think I can sell, it's going to the dump because we have a really cool place and I

I, we didn't have anything like this in Cincinnati when I was growing up or if we did

I didn't know about it, but here in my town here we have this thing called the free room

So it's a room that's at the recycling center and, you know

there's certain things you're not allowed to bring, but just about everything else qualifies

You just bring it in, man and just drop it off and people walk in and they take it right back out

you know, and there's this one lady there. She's funny. Um, I think she's making a flipping fortune on ebay

She just, she just kind of hangs out around there. Uh, she comes in every day

She probably stops in two or three times a day and she

uh, she takes a lot of stuff out and no one and, and you're allowed to

no one says anything about it. They don't care. And, um, so someone

so whatever I give away, it's gonna get used or somebody else will sell it on ebay

So, uh, anyway, that's, uh, so Marcus, I, I, uh, I can tell you that I

um, I don't waste any time or I waste very little time during the day

Um, I, I know how valuable it is and so I just invested in doing things I like

So I hope that answers your question. Uh, Steve to subscribe to the Sherwin email and send your deals

Yeah, exactly. That's exactly right. Um, Sean is a, it's a battery tool

It's a 12 volt, 12 volt battery tool. Um, so, so, yeah

it's a micro. So they, they, what's really interesting is to walk is

uh, I don't know if they're aiming these tools. I think this tool I'm gonna ask the

uh, pr person, but I think they're trying to aim this tool for the homeowner because

um, it just doesn't seem, you know, it's not as beefy as a 20 volt

right. So it's a 12 volt and, and I got from them back in the fall and it worked really well

I got this 12 volt rotor hammer works really well. But I don't know that I'd be able to use it all day on a

job site. I think I would burn it up, you know? But for a homeowner

um, who just uses it for 1520 minutes on a weekend. Great road

A hammer man. Great. And, and you can go back and look in my past live streams

I, I did a live stream about it. Um, well, do I have a favorite driveway Sealer boy

Now, that's a great question. Oh, my gosh. Um, well, the answer is not

No, I don't. Um, because get this and, uh, I've owned this home since 2008

So that's 14 years. Never sea of the driveway. Never probably should have once

Um, it's now getting to the point where it's almost too late and there's places where the

uh, the, the driveway sunk over time over the, like, for example

there's a big kind of depression that's formed over the past four years and

and I know what's there. It's, it's where they, it's where they dug across the driveway to bring the electric

the underground electric into the house and they didn't compact the trench, they didn't do it right

And it takes a long time for that to settle. Um, the

um, there's some other things. So maybe in the next two years I might put in a new driveway

but here's what you need to know about blacktop. So, the blacktop in your driveway is really not a whole lot different at all than

the black top that's used on the roads out, out in the, out in the real world

All right. So you've never seen him seal a roadway? Never. They don't do it

The reason they don't do it is because the sealer will wear off because all the sealer is

it's just an ultra thin coating of asphalt. You know, the asphalt cement

And, um, and you know, it's, if you have very tiny micro cracks

it'll seep down and fill those. Which is a good thing. You don't, especially if you live here

where will, and I live where it freezes. I mean, if you, if your blacktop driveway is down in Florida or South Carolina

you got nothing to worry about your black top. If it's put down, right. Your black top could last 30 years

All right. Um, I mean, my black top is originally, it was put down 22 years ago and for the most part it's in really

pretty good shape. It just, they, they made some mistakes. Um, and

uh, and I cover it all in past columns. Here's the trouble if

if you're one of these people so that I'm gonna answer Will's question in reverse

I, when I lived back in Cincinnati and this is in my second home

Uh, so I would have, I was in my twenties and one of my neighbors

he lived just two houses away. He was one of these people that was

he was OC, you know, O CD. All right. And uh, he

he wanted his driveway to look perfect every year. So every year he sealed it every late spring

he would be out there brushing that black crap around and his driver looked horrible because there were places where it had peeled up

He put so much steer down, it would peel up and wherever peeled up

it looked horrible. Just like, just like an old house where you see the paints peeled and

and we're down to the bare wood and, and then you, you scrape it and then you paint over it

you can see where that paint peeled. I mean, it's so obvious. Well

that's what his driveway looked like all over the place. It was horrible, but by God

it was black, it was black. I mean, it was black as night. All right. If you're that type of person

if you go, I want my driveway to look really good, then you want to buy the absolute cheapest driveway sealer you can find

I mean, the crappiest cheapest sealer. And if you can't find it

then maybe you take regular sealer that's halfway decent and you probably thin it by 25% because all these seers are

are w they're, they're emulsified, you know, they're water based. So take some sealer

mix it with some water so that you thin it down because in your case

you, you want your, you want your ice fault driveway sealer to do the same thing that the uh the road paint

does here in New Hampshire. So every year here in New Hampshire, they have to paint the double yellow lines again

In other words, by right about now, the, the double yellow lines are getting real faint

you can hardly see them. And so in a month or two, they're gonna come out with the trucks and spray

paint them again and they're gonna be beautiful all summer and all fall you want

So what happens? You want your asphalt sealer? If you're that person who has to

every year, you want it to completely wear off by the time you get to April

All right. So, so anyway, we, um, the best driveway sealer is gonna be the one that's the most expensive and you

can put it on, but you should only be putting the driveway sealer on if

if your driveway has turned gray. And what by that? It means that the original asphalt cement that

that coated all of the sand and, and stones from the blacktop plant has worn off

I mean, if you, I mean, you know this, in other words, if you ever see a new roadway where they

they're paving a brand new roadway, what color is it the next day

It's pure black the roadway is black, but all of a sudden you go to that roadway three years later and it's not black anymore

What color is it? It's gray. The reason it's gray is because you're actually

if you stopped and looked down, you would see all of the stones that

that were used in the black top and, and that they are lighter color. And

um, and so the, the asphalt cement from all the traffic and weather over the year two years has worn the asphalt cement off

So you want that asphalt cement to wear off? So, never, never, ever

ever seal a brand new driveway. Never hope that helps. Don. Hello

Uh, Jimmy, uh, asphalt singers of, of the different materials. Uh, Florida and Hampshire

No, not really. Um, they, they, they may regionally, um, blow

a little bit more air in the shingles that go to Florida maybe

But, um, if you were to take an infrared camera on, on a June day in a Florida roof

my guess is it's gonna be pretty close to the temperature that I've measured here in New Hampshire

Uh, I've got infrared photos of, of my roof temperature about 100 and 65 degrees

So, um, they just have to make, they just have to blow enough air into the asphalt so that it stays

you know, solid. So it doesn't turn to liquid and run down the roof because that's what would happen if they

if they used it straight from the asphalt plant but the softening temperature of

as of asphalt from asphalt, cement from the, the refinery is about 100 and 20 °F

I mean, it turns to just like water. All right. So, um, I hope that helps

So I, I don't think that there's much of a climate change. Um

and I, I cover a lot of this in my roofing. Riff off, roofing, rip off book

Uh, if you haven't, if you have not read this book, um

you should at least go read the, the, the three free chapters, go here and read the

go, go get the three chapters and read the 33 chapters. Um

that's a great question, by the way, that's a really great question. All right. If you have a question

any kind of question doesn't matter what it is. Let me know. I'm happy to answer it. Uh

those are really great questions. Yeah, Sean, I'm really interested to see

uh, how this 12 volt tool does. Um, I have to read the

uh, press release. Sometimes in the press release, they'll tell you, you know

how many cuts it's made. You know, they, they, they've got some good

they've got really good mechanical and electrical engineers that work at some of these tool manufacturers

I've gone on editors tours, I've got to meet these engineers. Um

they do some really impressive testing, uh, because they really, you know

there's a lot of money behind these tools they don't wanna, and, and there's a brand to protect so they don't want to put crap

out there. You know, they don't want to put crap out there. So, uh, but you also have to understand that they

they make tools, they try to match the tools up with a

with a user. So I, I, like I said, I don't, I have to read the press release

I, I don't know that. Like I said, I don't know that this tool is meant to be used by a Finnish carpenter all day

long. I don't know that spell for that. All right. Uh Any other questions about anything

I don't care what it is. Happy to answer it. If you don't have any questions, I may just bug out of here

Um, I, uh, it's the end of the week. I've, I've worked pretty hard this week and

um, I'm out of things to say. I don't know what else to say

but I'm happy to answer questions. So I'll, uh, I know there's a delay

So I'll let you if you're here and you need, you've got a question, you better ask it really quickly so I can tell you

better ask the question and then I'll get to it. Um, what

uh, um, in the meantime, um, I've really been, I've really been enjoying

I, I told the story. I found this calculator. Uh, it had been sitting in a box for 12 years sitting in a flipping box

and I found it and, uh, just a standard little calculator. But it's really

um, it's really a nice calculator and it's got this solar charging cell and I was stunned

It had been sitting in a box for 1213 years. I turned it on. It worked perfectly

So I've been, uh, every day that it's sunny, I put it in the window to try to try to get the battery way up

charging, you know, but this is a really tiny solar cell, but it's also got a tiny battery

So I, I have long since lost the paperwork. I don't know how long you'd have to put it in the sun to fully charge

the battery. But, um, I was using it a couple of times today. It's a nice

nice little handy calculator. Um, so, you know, you know, it's not a real high powered one

I, I have those. In fact, I, I have a, uh, construction master one and I have this other one here

I'll show you. I used this calculator yesterday. I had a, um

there's a really neat calculator that, um, so this one is, uh

called the sewn and inch mate, uh, inch mate, son and inch mate

It's probably, this is probably 15 year old technology, but, uh, works really great

And this is one that is a carpenter. I would use this

you know, to figure out roof pitches and, and dimensions uh, it

it, it goes down to the 64th of an inch. It's really very powerful capability

You can square things up with this, you can figure out diagonals

Um, you know, it's just a really, so these are really cool calculators

very affordable. So, um, I don't know, maybe I'll write a column about him

you know, but I have to, I'd have to get the modern one and see what the modern ones are. But

um, really a great, it's a great calculator. Great. So these, this is

I just, so, you know, if you don't have one and you're looking for a Father's Day gift or

or you want to surprise your significant other who, you know, you'll never go wrong buying a calculator like this

All right. You know, one of the, the fancy ones that can do all the diagonals and the rise and run and all that

Very fascinating. Do you have any questions about it? So, it's the same one

I washed it. It's my American flag one. made out of the uh the uh water things

you know, the water things, uh squirt the thing, squirt water. Like if you like to squirt water

you're gonna love this shirt. Uh Yeah. So Jimmy, yeah, you can figure

um, that one is, so here's the other one. This is, um

this is the construction, construction Master pro one. So, uh and you know

here's the um, yeah, and so right here So look. So right there if I don't know if you can read that

So right there it says cubic entry and um cubic entry and conversion

So yeah, this will completely do all of the stuff you need to do to figure cubic yards

you know. So this is a, this is a and it comes through this one came with a really great manual that you know

goes in the back of that goes in that back slot right there. This is from calculated industries

They make great stuff. So calculated industries. If you wanna get one of these fancy calculators

that's the company right there. Great stuff. Um Great, great products, can't say enough of them

Um But um but I'm just saying that's a really neat gift um for that hard to

buy person. Um And, and especially if they're like a kind of a serious carpenter

they're gonna love it. They're gonna love that calculator. Yeah. Ask to build a t-shirt

So Jimmy, I'm working on that. I um I started on that pathway about two weeks ago and then I got derailed because I need

high quality vector graphics. So I uh I just kind of just kind of fell by the wayside

So, yeah, I, I um and then what I'm gonna do is I'm going to get the images and have people vote to

to see. In fact, I can, I can do that now. Um I probably

I think what I'll do is, um, I'll probably create a Google form and we'll do it next week

So it's more organized and I'll ask people what they want. Like

what would you wanna see on the t-shirt? Like what, you know

I, I mean, what I wanna do and it only would make sense to the people who watch this live stream is

you know, the saying is like, you know, that you've heard me say nothing about this is hard

you know. Uh, uh, you know, I've got some other things that we were gonna put on anyway

So, yes, the answer is yes. And, um, but, uh, they're gonna be pretty benign for the most part

you know, I, I've got to kind of protect my brand. All right. So I don't want to trash it

Um, so anyway, and we're gonna have hats, you know, my son's company

I'll show you this hat. A lot of people. I, I'm gonna give him a plug

A lot of people. My son works for a company called SIM. It's a privately owned company owned by a

a very wealthy man in the Netherlands. And they own like 3040 websites and one of them you probably know called

Vista. Print. All right. You've heard of VR? And you just think, oh, Vista. Yeah, they just print

uh, business cards if I need business card. Yeah, they do, they do print business card but they also do this

you know, they also you can get beautiful hats. So my son came up with this design

I, I came up with all this and I came up with the words, but I, I wasn't really happy with how this came out

because this is two words, but it looks like one. There's not enough space here

So, um, it says airwaves boss. All right. So, um, but this is a beautiful embroidered hat and it

and it doesn't have that crappy, um, stupid thing on the back

It's, you know, it's got some elastic in it. So it stretches. It's

it's a, it's a wonderful hat. So we're gonna have ask the builder hats like this

We're gonna have really cool as the builder hats. So, um, all right

uh Will says, gifts, the wife kept leaving jewelry magazines around the house

So I just got her a magazine rack. There's a real, I don't know if it's

um, if you have one where you live near you. Well, you kind of

do, you just have to go up the highway? Well, from your house, you know that, uh, Garder Burdock or that Gardener uh plaza

that big rest area. They've got that center in that rest area

Uh, that all this craftsman from Maine. Well, we have a really a neat place in my own town of New Hampshire Craftsman's Guild

I, I don't know, but there's some, there's some really talented people here in flipping New Hampshire that make jewelry and I've walked in that

shop a couple of times. I'm stunned at some of the jewelry that they have here

It's ver, it's one of a kind, uh, absolutely beautiful stuff. So

if you really want to surprise your wife, so the day you come to play golf, you probably ought to stop by that shop

So, um, really, it's right in MEREDITH. I don't know. Maybe you can buy online

I, I'll find out what the name is. Just put New Hampshire Craftsman's Guild

MEREDITH, New Hampshire. I'm sure it will come up in the Google search. Um All right

So anything else I can answer? Uh, otherwise I'm gonna get out of here

Um, I had a, I had a busy week. Uh, luckily this weekend I don't have a lot of stuff that

that's pressing to do. So, um, the weather, I, I looked at the

uh, oh, maybe Kathy or some, I think Kathy told me the other day

She said, did you look, did you see what the weather forecast is for next? Oh, no, no, it was my buddy

Jim. He told me on the phone this morning. He said, you see the weather

there's a day, it's only gonna be 24 degrees. Like what? So sure enough late this morning

whatever. I look at the phone. It's Monday here in New Hampshire where I live it's supposed to be 24 degrees

Are you kidding me? But that can happen in March I mean, it can happen

So, uh, we're gonna have a cold day on Monday. Uh, but then it's gonna kinda get back up again

Um, the, I, the last thing I'll say is the ice on the lake and pretty thin

It was very thin down in MEREDITH Bay today. I mean, they could have ice out in MEREDITH Bay over the weekend

Uh, but we're not gonna have ice out on my lake. I don't think of the weekend. No way

But um uh but ice out, I think it's gonna happen next week here on my lake

So that's always a wonderful day. We get the water back, you know

cause um it's very mesmerizing that, that's why just so, you know

I'll just teach you something really quickly. The reason, um the reason people are attracted to water and why uh a water view is so

interesting is because almost all the time the water is moving. All right

That resets the fight flight thing in your brain. Whereas in the winter time when the lake freezes and it just this sheet

of white, you just look at it and you go OK, big deal. But when

even when the water is just moving, um you're fascinated by it

95 at your brother's house in Fountain Hills, Arizona. Wow. Yeah, I know

I've been out in Arizona when it's hot and played golf. It's just freaking miserable

Oh my God. I just, I don't like playing golf when it's hot. I'm not

I'm, I know there's gonna be some days in the league where it's gonna be miserable. Oh, well, I'll just have to suck it up

and put up with it. Um. Oh, well, um, yeah, exactly. It's gonna be cold

on Monday. It's gonna be cold. So, oh, the, the other good thing to report is

uh, so it was just under a week ago. I, I changed that brake hose

uh, the brake line hose on my truck, my left front wheel working fine

That's all it was, was just the hose. It was not the caliper. So just cost me $50 in one hour's time

I like doing work like that. I like doing it. I mean, I'm not taking engines apart but

um, I sure as hell can work on breaks. They're not that hard to do

All right. If you got any questions, now's the time. Last call for questions. Otherwise I'm out of here

Um, had a pretty good week and weekend should be great. I hope you have a great weekend

Um, we're gonna do that tool on Monday. Um, a bit vinyl checking

You're checking in. I'm just about ready to check out. So, if you've got a question now's the time to ask it

So, don't be bashful. I'll get, I'll get an ice cube or a little bit of a drink while you're

uh, uh, while you're checking in. Uh, oh, so, yeah. The Carvana kid

she gets her car on Sunday. So everything has been approved. She gets the car on Sunday

She's so excited and then she's gonna drive Sunday night to go stay in a hotel for her interview on

um, Monday because it's a two hour drive to, to where she's gonna get interviewed

So I, I can't tell you where it is and she didn't tell us, but we think we figured it out

We, we pretty much have a really good idea of where she's going. Um

oh, there, now you're talking golf. Um, here's

the deal. Um, so will I got a question for you? Are the black flies a problem on that golf course

Like when the black flies are really out, do they? Is it a problem at the Fox while Will's typing that I'll ask a bit

a bit vinyl. Do you, do you have an interest in going to play golf up there with will

So we said where it was Lewiston? Lewiston Maine. All right. So it's exit number 75 on I 95 in Maine

If you just type that into Google Maps, you'll, you'll find where it is. It's called Fox Ridge

Fox Ridge, uh, golf club. It's a, it's a public course. So

um, let me know if you're real, if you're interested in going up there and if you're interested before that time

if you wanna do a round of golf with me, you know, here in New Hampshire

I'm all over it. All right. Ok. So I'm, I'm, I, I'll play

well, I'll play a warm up round here in New Hampshire. You know, before we go to Will and

and make fools of ourselves in front of Will. And, um, you know

I mean, my home course is Lock Mere and Tilton. Um, oh

you usually? Oh, Pheasant Ridge. Yeah, that's a great course too. I'll play Pheasant Ridge

I like it. Pheasant Ridge pretty, pretty easy. Course, it's easier than Lock Mere

So I'm, I'm all over that. I'll play Pheasant Ridge. That's a great, I, I like it

I'll play Pheasant Ridge. Yeah, I like it. Um, so yeah, you wanna play anytime

Just let me know. Um, I, you know how to get a hold of me, Tim at

ask the builder.com just, uh, uh, happy to, happy to do it

you know, I just would like the weather to be a little warmer. I mean, like a 60 degree day

Not if there's a breeze. Only the par 313 valleys where they can get that

Ok. Yeah. So I, I don't want to come up there to the fox when the black flies are out

Screw the black flies. I wanna have fun that day. So, we might not be coming to the Fox until the end of May

All right. So, um, uh, whatever. But, so, but eight bit vinyl

I, hopefully we're gonna get out and play a Pheasant Ridge. Great course, Pheasant Ridge

It's a wonderful course. I, um, I like it. Um, they got that

There's whole number two. So we, well, our course is nothing really like yours

So, hole number two will at Pheasant Ridge, uh par three, you gotta hit over this

this really big, really big pond, like a lake. It's big. And

um, I mean, it's a make shot but, um, pretty big green

Um, yeah. Yeah, exactly. I, yeah, it's too right now. Not this week

not next week. But, you know what, by the third week of April could be time and

and I, I for Will's advice, just, you know, I, I've never joined a league and I

but I joined the league at Lock Mere and, uh, I sent in my paperwork this week and I'm in and they said we're gonna

start playing the first week of May. So maybe you and I could play

you know, third for, you know, a month from now, you know, would be a great time

So we'll talk about it. Yeah. Yeah, that, that pond, I mean

I mean, Will, is a pro. Will is a pro. He, he's played all these. He knows

But that's, I, I've never, I don't think I've ever been in the water but I've been a little short of the green and I

know one time I was a little long on that hill but, uh, it's a pretty big green

Um, So, it's, it's a, that's, that I think to me, I'm trying to think about it

I think that's the hardest hole on the course. I think to me, I don't know

Um, it's a great course though. It's a great course. So, um

uh, I don't know. I'm, well, I'm gonna say that, I mean, I know I hit it with an iron

I'm gonna say, uh, 1 51 60 I don't know. To the

uh, I'm just guessing Sean 78 and 78 in Fort Lauderdale. You're killing me

you're killing me. Oh, my gosh. Um, I haven't been to Florida in a while

I haven't been to Florida. I used to go every June for the Sears editor's conference

Yeah, I would agree with that a bit. Uh, 165. I would agree with that because that's why I would use my for iron

I get, I mean, my irons are, are right where they're supposed to be if

if I will, can tell me if I'm right. I always thought that

um, the number on the iron, like a four iron, you match that up it to make 10

So in other words, my four iron will go 100 and 60 yards

I mean, that's what it does and my seven goes 130 my eight goes 120

You know, so it's, um, that's as long as I keep my head down and don't open up the club face

Um, So the second nine will, um, you know, I can't remember a bit

The um, 11 of the nine seems easier than the other. Um I can't remember

Um, but it, it's not all I can remember is the Pheasant Ridge is not a tough course

It's not, I mean, lock, mirror, lock mirror. It's got some holes

man that will rip your flipping heart out. I mean, like, you know

but Lock Meres also got a lot of what I consider very wide, open, easy holes too

So I, I don't know, I, what I should do more often is probably just keep my

keep the driver in the flipping truck. Don't even bring it, don't, don't even take it on the course

I've said this, you know, II I think I told the story. So this is probably

um, 18 years ago, my kids, I was kind of into golf back then

but I sucked, I didn't still golf enough. So my kids bought me a for lesson

um, package with a golf pro in Cincinnati. And we ended up becoming friends this golf pro really good guy

He's a really good guy, really was into the internet. And um, his name is Joel Suggs

So Joel Suggs Suggs, look him up and one of the cool things that he offered is you could

one of the lessons he would play nine holes with you and I had all

I mean, I know this sounds crazy but my bucket list was, I always wanted to play a round of golf with a pro because

I wanna see how they do it. And, um, the first hole

the, I'm not kidding. The first drive it was a par four hole

He drives it into the freaking rough. He slices it, you know

into the fricking rough. I was like, are you serious? You know

and, um, you know, but he goes out there, second shot, puts it on the green

So they, you know, they got these superpowers, you know. So a anyway

but, um, what, what he taught me the biggest takeaway. It was

it's about distance, it's not about aim and, and most of us hackers are more focused on aim than we

are distance. And that becomes exceedingly important when you are on or near the green because if you watch pros

um, when they either they put or they chip general like it chipping

If they're chipping, they probably can get the ball to stop within

I'm, I'm just gonna say this. Well, I could be wrong. I don't watch a lot of TV, golf, but when they're chipping in pretty

close, when they're close, they seem to be able to get the ball within 6 to 8 ft of the hole when they're putting

if they're putting on the green just about, no matter where they are on a green. If, even if it's a big green

if they miss, um, they're, they're ok with that. Generally, generally they're ok with missing

but they want the ball to stop within about this far of the hole. And they're usually

most of them are very good about that because then it's a tapping for most

I mean, they miss some of those. But, um, that's what the pro taught me about distance

So I'm really pretty good on the green. Like I've got that down

I mean, I have to practice and I know the greens can get faster as the day goes on

But you'll see most hackers, I mean, the problem with most hackers is they're sitting there lining up a putt lining it up and they

hit the ball and they miss and it stops 10 ft later or it's

it's 8 ft short. I mean, that's, that's death on a stick

That's, that's bogey golf or double, double bogey golf right there. All right

Uh I feel like the front line is harder. I think I would agree with you on that

I think that's what I agree. I think about that. I'm just kinda pull a mental image up

I didn't play Pheasant Ridge last year. I played it three times the year before

Um All right, uh, actually played 18 holes yesterday. Good for you

Good for you. Our course is up here in New Hampshire just starting to open up Sean

just starting to open up. So, um, we should do a ask the golfer live stream one day

All right. Uh, one thing we're gonna definitely do, I swear to God, we're gonna do this when

when, now, if a bit goes with this, it's gonna be a lot of fun. If a bit goes with us to the fox

goes with me to the fox because we'll drive up, well, hopefully we'll drive up together. We'll figure out a way to do that because

it'll be so much more fun. Um The, um, we're gonna record a video for all the live streams

all of our friends that can't make it and it's gonna, it's gonna be the video where I don't know if Will wants to be

on the video, it's up to him. But if not, I'm gonna describe the whole and I'm gonna describe

So this is what we're supposed to do. This is what we're trying to do here and then we're gonna do the confessional after we

walk off the green, we're gonna do the confessional and, and say what happened

It's gonna be, so it's gonna be a great video. I'm telling it can be a great video

Uh I've, I've only played Canterbury one time. Um, yeah, it's gonna be a great time

We're gonna have a great time, Marcus for two shots and Fairy shots. You need consistency in the swing

Absolutely. Absolutely. Marcus Marcus. Do you play, uh, you're in Ireland, right

Do you play, um, do you play golf, Marcus? So you got me to stick around by

by talking about golf. You got me to stick around. Um, will I cannot wait

I mean, will, is, will, is a good golfer, man. He's, um, he's a freaking hustler

We're not, you know, I, I, although I'm will, I think I'm willing to bet 50 cents a hole with will

I, I may do, I may do 50 cents a hole if he's willing to do it. Ok

Good, good for you. Uh, good for you. Marcus. Um, um, I'm a

I'm a typical hacker. All right. So that's what we call us in America

Uh, I, um, I don't know. My handicap is, uh, let's see

what would it be? 30? I don't know, 30 somewhere between 3035

I don't know. Uh, I've only been in the nineties, I think four times in my life

Bring your quarters. Exactly. We have some great courses but I'm not the best

Yeah. And that's how I am. Just so, you know, I'm not one of these guys that bends clubs or throws clubs

Um, if I, if I lose a ball, I know this sounds crazy. Like if I hit a ball off

it goes into the woods. I just laugh. I go, there's a gift for somebody

Seriously, because, I mean, think about it every time it, think about it when you've gone out and you've been looking for balls and you

find them and you find someone that are in good shape. I mean, it's like Christmas morning

I'm serious. Most people are like, oh, I found two or three balls so every time I make a bad shot I've just made somebody

happy in the future. I mean, what's wrong? That's, you can't get any better than that

you know? Oh, will, is gonna kick our ass. It's just gonna kick our ass

We're gonna, I mean, he's gonna make so much money off the hole is he's gonna pay for lunch force

you know? Yeah, I'll be trying too, too hard to mess up

Yeah. Right. It's gonna, we, we're just going for fun anyway. It doesn't matter

I'm going for the social thing. So, um, uh, so I don't, I don't

I don't get upset ever about anything. And the reason why is because I'm not

I'm not a professional. All right. So if I was a professional

I might grumble a little bit. Um, if I had a bad shot

you know, but, you know, the way I look at it and I know I already know I've had people answer like I

here's what I know. I just know that Phil Mickelson, he cannot

I don't think he can cut a roof raf. I don't think he can do it right the first time

Uh, I don't for sure he can't cut a hip rafter or hip jack or a valet jack Rafter

I know I know he can pay somebody else to do it but that's not what we're having play here

It's like, ok, Phil, I'll do some golf, but then you've got to do some roof framing

So, uh, everybody's got a different set of skills. So, yeah, mocha chip ice cream

Two miles from the course. I'm all over that. Um, yeah, exactly

Right. Yeah. And I don't, uh, like in, in the height of the summer as you will know

a eight bit knows we, we have poison ivy up here so I'm allergic to poison ivy

So I know exactly what it looks like. So I'm always looking for poison ivy at the edge of the tree line

If there's poison ivy, I'm not going in, not going there. Um

so anyway. All right. Well, I'm gonna get out of here, uh

hour, 32 minutes long time. Um, starting to cloud up here. Uh

I don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow. We'll see. So, um, we're gonna have fun

So that's gonna be cool a bit. So, we, we wanna play in about a month. If we can

That would be great. And my schedule is wide open. So I can, I can

uh, I can just play just the only time I can't play is Sunday morning. You know, because I go to church

So, uh, yeah. Um, yeah, the poison ivy, bad stuff. Now, I learned a lot about poison

I'm highly allergic but I learned this about, I finally with the internet

I finally figured it finally learned about it so I can take poison ivy the plant and rub it on my arm

rub it on my hands, rub it on my face. I won't get it because what happens

You have so much time, uh, depends on the temperature but you have so much time to wash your

wash it because the oil. So I've tested it before. I've taken poison

I would put it on my arms and I just go inside. Got this really good soap

Wash my arm really, really well. Wash it, wash it twice, don't get it

So it's just a matter of, um, and I'm not gonna do this golfing

I'm not gonna carry water with me and soap, but it's just that

you know, if you just wash your, where you touched, but the problem is

is you won't know you can get it on your pants or on your shoes and if you tie your shoes and you forgot about

it, you know, the oil of the poison Ivy plant is still on the shoelaces

So all of a sudden you've got poison Ivy in between your fingers and there's nothing more painful than those stupid blisters in between your

fingers. It's horrible. Um, uh, I have, I have days off the end

Ok. Yeah, we wanna play at the end, we wanna play weekday. We def, especially if we can play on a Thursday

Thursday would be amazing. Well, until my league starts. I, I my league is Thursday afternoon

But, um, weekends are just so crowded. You know? I don't, I don't know

But we, we'll figure something out. All right. All right. I'm gonna get out of here

All right. Um, yeah. Yeah, exactly. No, you just have to wash and

like, if you get in contact you just gotta wash and, and with it and you got a few hours you got

it doesn't have to be in minutes. You can, you can wait an hour sometimes. All right, go read about it

go read about poison ivy and washing hands. Um All right. I'm gonna get out of here

Thanks for being here today. Thanks for putting up with a golf discussion

Um, eight bit and I and will are gonna have a lot of fun

We're gonna have a, that's I'm telling you that video is gonna be classic

It's gonna be so much flipping fun. Can the beginning of the video just so

you know, I can already see it in my head. It's gonna be just full of optimism full

full of these, these, I imagine these unicorns and rainbows and then at the end after we

walking off 18, it's gonna be like, what was I thinking? It's gonna be such a good video

Oh my gosh. 00 yeah. Hit the like the golfer button. Exactly

Yeah, we didn't get many likes today, man. People were stingy, stingy on the flipping lakes

All right. You know, Oh, well. Oh, well. Ok. I'm out of here

Um, thanks very much for being here today. I'm Tim Carter. You've been watching as the Builder and I'll be here on Monday and hopefully

gonna have a really nice weekend