How Snowblowers Work - Like Lawnmowers - LIVE Stream Ask the Builder

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uh let's talk a little bit about snow blowers it's it's uh my favorite topic of the year this this time of year uh

here in new hampshire where i live we can get we can get a lot of snow i think on

average where i live in central new hampshire the the total accumulation for a season

which generally begins i don't know the first week of december

you can get snow in november but it it typically will melt but it doesn't matter it all adds up

um but i think it's around somewhere between five and six feet is

the is the average total accumulation for each season and

uh you know the average snowfall is really what happened this morning in other words during the night and today

we got about five inch four and a half five inches of snow it's pretty light stuff not too bad easy to easy to get

rid of uh not too heavy and here's the true story about uh my first

um my first encounter with snowblowers

so i'm there's that crutch word i moved here to new hampshire in 2008

and my next door neighbor at the time really nice guy named dave and his wife

carol they were wonderful people my best neighbors i've ever had although the the people that bought the house on they're

pretty good too pretty good anyway it was uh it was in summer august or so

i don't know maybe in september i asked dave one day i said

could i get the name and phone number of the of the guy you used to plow snow

so i can make arrangements and dave you have to understand dave

was a was a born new englander all right so i

i'm not in the club and i'll never be in the club i'm i'm considered a flatlander that's what they call us

and it doesn't matter if if if i moved here when i was two months old

i'd still be a flatlander you know anyway and if will's here he'll he'll appreciate this

so um anyway so dave has this this really

i guess i want to call stoic he he would laugh he would have he could laugh

but most of the time he was had this pretty serious look on his face

and and he oh i also need to tell you this because this'll you'll understand why i

was shocked by his response my driveway first of all i share the top i don't

know the top 35 percent i don't know maybe 25 percent of my driveway with my next-door

neighbor we share the top part and so

it's probably from the mailbox down to my where i'm looking at the window to

my big giant apron uh it's got to be

got to be 150 feet all right so 150 feet 12 feet wide or so 10 feet 11 feet 12

feet wide hey louise it's going pretty good buddy great that you're here

um and then i've got this big pretty big parking area pretty big apron so now you

know there's in other words it's a lot of snow to get rid of

so i say there's a stupid crutch words so

i say to dave i need the name and number the plow guy and he just looks at me he goes

we're not we're not plowing the driveway and he had this pregnant pause

and and i in my head i just thought well if we're not plowing the driveway

that must mean we're gonna hand shovel it and and then you know after the pregnant

pause you know because you know how fast your mind works your mind

you know even with just a one or two seconds you can run through a couple of scenarios all right

hey lorraine you made it can't wait to hear how the meeting went

so i go through these scenarios and and then he says dave says you're going to go out and buy a

snowblower he said we don't want to use a plow he said the reason why is the plow guys

ruin the driveway he said those big plows they don't get all the snow off

and then they drive on it and it turns to ice and if it turns to

ice we're never getting out of here because my driveway uh part of it actually the like the first

30 feet coming up out of that apron it's probably a 25 grade i mean it's

really steep i mean really steep you know i've never measured it i think i might do that tomorrow uh to see what the grade is you know and

you know what percent grade is it's how many feet something rises in a hundred feet so in other words it's a lot like

roof pitch in other words if if you go 10 horizontal

i'm sorry if you go 100 horizontal feet and it rises 10 feet that's a 10 grade

i'm 99 that's positive that's how they do it anyway

he said the plows ruin it they they turn it to ice he said you're gonna get a snowblower and and he said here's what happens you're

gonna set the snowblower so it scrapes the blacktop and blow the snow

and two or three hours after you blow the snow the driveway is going to be dry as a bone it's going to look like an

august day like today and of course i had no experience with snowblowers none

never used one i mean where i was from in cincinnati hardly anybody had snow blowers i mean

it just cincinnati it was snow like a a big snowstorm in cincinnati

would be considered four inches of snow i mean like a uh a death uh i mean what we call a

death snowstorm i mean the most snow that ever happened in cincinnati in in my lifetime

was about 13 14 years ago i think we had 14 inches

of snow in a 24-hour period i mean it just paralyzed the city all

right just paralyzed it so there it is again

stupid crutch word uh so hard to not do that

the what happens is i he he was right what happens is

in new hampshire when we typically have a storm it doesn't happen all the time like it didn't happen today it might

happen overnight but the storm systems once they get up this high in latitude where we are

they move off pretty quickly and the reason that happens is just like when a

a figure skater have you ever seen figure skaters where they skate and they make a big

a tight loop and then they start spinning around like a top and the tighter that the figure skater brings

their arms in the faster they spin and realize they have not added any energy to the to

the motion in other words once they come in and start to spin that's it they it's

like a a bullet fired out of a gun meaning that bullet it only has a finite amount

of energy that the gunpowder and the cartridge gave it anyway so

there it is the the storm systems here move off really quickly

and then the next day you have a really beautiful blue sky day and the sun comes out and his the his driveway dave my

neighbors gets more sunlight than mine and truth be told i'm it's magic in two

or three hours the snow what little snow is left on the driveway from the snow blower

is is is it melts and then it evaporates and the driveways dries a bone pretty

amazing how do they work snowblowers are just like lawn mowers all right think of what a lawn mower

does it's got this spinning blade cuts the cuts the grass and the spinning motion ejects the grass

out the and you know the the little port the chute of the lawnmower snowblower snowblowers pretty much the

same thing it's got typically that you can have a single stage snowblower or most snowblowers or two stages and there

are some three stage ones i had a three stage one a single stage snowblower is just one

that's got a rapidly spinning um i don't know

like round drum with blades and and that's spinning excuse me shoots the snow off

a two stage has got slower moving augers it's these circular they look like um

well they're just like giant screws is the best way to describe it and it chops into the snow you can see videos of this

i've got i've got four videos on askthebuilder.com about snowblowers you

know i review them so you need to go watch all of my snowblower videos in fact there's a treat in one of them if

you pull up all my snowblowers and in one of them i'm wearing these black bib

uh snow bit you know snow ski you know skiing skin bibs with a red shirt you're

going to see me without a mustache it's the one time and

wow how many years i don't know 47 years i didn't have a mustache that's a story for another day

the augers bring the snow to the center of the blower and kind of force it back there

they bring it sideways and then they push it back up into this very high

speed spinning impeller that i'm convinced this tied directly there might be some gearing involved

there probably has to be because it would be it would be 90 degrees to the shaft of

the engine anyway it but that impeller is spinning really

fast and i mean it's really it can shoot the snow a long distance okay so that's

how snow blowers work and it's really important here's here's a big mistake a lot of people make with

snowblowers just so you know you it's really important to keep the

driveway or whatever you're wherever you're blowing free of debris because you don't want if you put debris or

chunks of ice into the snow blower you'll you'll bend those augers and you'll probably uh

break the shear pins and there's nothing worse than a broken shear pin when it's 20 degrees it's dark

your hands are frozen the the shaft of the auger is encrusted in ice and now you've got to put a new

shear pin in so there it is the tag going quick

that means that you want to keep the driveway clear so you're just blowing snow and not trying to blow ice

and rocks and limbs and whatever that's the big thing and here in new hampshire what you discovered pretty

quickly is this time of year december january

pretty much the first half of february you really want to do a good job of cleaning the snow because

there's still a lot more snow coming and you you want you don't want ice to build

up i mean ice is just horrible horrible if you have any questions about this just let me know we can talk about

anything you want today uh i don't i really don't care you know let's let's try to go soft on

the sensitive topics if we do that but type any questions you have any comments and anything you want any news

anything you want to talk about i'm more than happy to do it it's a friday we don't necessarily have a lot of people

here you know that's okay you can probably see that yourself but that's what happens it's uh it's

just a it's a friday and people have just run out of gas for the week i i was tired yesterday afternoon i can tell you

that i was really tired like crazy tired i had worked pretty hard yesterday i had a lot of stuff going on in the morning

anyway um excuse me all right

oh lane oh we're good for you um good for you uh you're you're welcome i was happy to

answer that i hope uh i'm really curious to find out i'll tell you what i would love to see happen

it would be really amazing if you don't mind doing it while your new fireplace goes in take a ton of photos

uh take take a ton of photos of the demolition of what it looks like

inside behind that fireplace uh of them putting everything back together that would really be an

interesting thing to put on the website i can keep you private make you anonymous but other people could really

learn from your experience so laureen consider doing that john how you doing pleasure to have you

uh oh yeah no doubt who's not i mean that's a here's a rhetorical question who's not using cad

remember yesterday that that young gentleman i guess it could have been a young woman i really don't know because

every you know all these names all your usernames for the most part you're you're invisible you know i don't know

if you're a man a woman doesn't know i don't know doesn't matter and i don't care i don't care anyway um

ah yeah so that could be no yeah those those uh fireplaces um

i don't know what i really want but kathy doesn't like i i was at it was probably

boy it's hard to believe it's been that long could have been 16 years ago i went to the there's a really neat

association it's called the hearth i think this is it the hearth patio

hearth maybe it's hearth bbq and patio association so a bunch of manufacturers because all

those things are kind of related uh they they have their own association and they invited me out to their show

which happened to be in los angeles and i flew out there and

oh i saw some of the most beautiful wood stoves i i personally i like the wood

stoves that are out in the room and some of them are porcelain you know

enameled cast iron and i'm just telling you they are

they're almost like works of art i just love them but kathy's not a big fan

thus i would you know if i end up being single or whatever man

i'm getting a wood stove or in the next house we're building i'm going to build a second little shack

whatever it could be like a mini home uh you know i'm gonna have a wood stove

in it i mean the problem is you know the smaller the house gets you can only put a tiny fire in those things

because they'll get so hot you know you know they put out so much heat

the uh you just have to be careful but congratulations hey will how you doing yeah uh yeah our snow stopped here about two

hours ago so i started blowing snow at 2 30 and i it only took me it was i was surprised

uh maybe 35 minutes and i had done the whole driveway and i had done a lot of it i got a lot of it done and uh

but i still have to do my front walk in the front porch uh it's i've got this box canyon all the snow comes off the

roof it's a mess it's horrible and i still have to blow this the deck off i have a i have a dedicated snowblower

that's on my back deck and uh that's uh that's how i deal with that but that that only takes a few

minutes yep bad bad but so so anyway

anyway lorraine your problem with that bad fireplace it's you know there's all kinds of different

products in in different verticals that same exact story they the uh they just

didn't hold up well think you know the generation one of a product is not always the best thing to go with

oh yeah boy i would i so wanna would still oh you probably have one i guess well you're probably talking about one

of those uh traditional i'm i'm assuming this you're talking about a traditional

um kind of like a coal stove or a cast iron stove i think i don't know i'm gonna

look it up i'm gonna i'm gonna write that down i want to look that up and see what that is grandma bear fisher

or you could email me a picture that would even be better

so there it is again so what a bad crutch word maybe if i take some ice water i won't

do it anymore i doubt it

if you want to know it's a shame you know if steve was here you know you know

steve would have 10 not 10 he'd have at least three questions about blowing snow

because if he's lived in london his whole life hey you know i can't believe that he's ever really seen much accumulating snow

i don't think it snows much in london i mean they'll get some snow but it's not it's sure as heck not like we get here

and it does snow a lot up in northern england you know up in scotland but not

down in london yes soapstone wood stoves exactly

exactly so laureen says if you have a pellet stove

in the basement the wood ones are very ornamental exactly and you're exactly right they are ornamental i and that's what i like

about it they look good looking and you can you know you can get some heat out of them that's the i just i just uh

cannot wait to get one i cannot wait yeah boy spiced up that sounds good i've

just got plain water right now spiced apple cider boy does that sound good

anyway um i wrote a letter to the editor

today of the local paper it's going to be really interesting to see if they print it i kind of

raked the publisher over the coals in my email and i might have upset him enough that

he would just throw my email away we're going to find out we're going to find out what i would do if i were you

i'll i'll uh i'll come back to this on monday it'll it might not appear until monday with it being friday i sent that

i sent the letter in at about 10 o'clock this morning and and you know so it

it was probably too hard up against the hard deadline for tomorrow's paper i'm going to wait until monday and then

if it does get published i'll share it with you it's a letter that you have to read you have to see it but that's all

i'm gonna say right now yes um spiced apple cider boy will man i

wish i wish we had technology like they had on star trek you know that

the transporter you know and they've had it on it seems like all of the futuristic space shows

they have it i forget what the last show was i i there have been so many but you

just go over to and you press a button i mean here's what's going to happen the tech not where it's moving i think

so i don't want to say her name because she'll she'll she'll come alive i have

one of those amazon things that my daughter gave me and you know you can say her name and

she comes alive and and she'll answer your questions she'll tell you a joke whatever well

there's not a doubt in my mind in 10 years you'll say hey uh i'm just gonna make the name up hey

bobby bring me an iced tea and then this robot is gonna bring you

an iced tea made exactly the way you like it so that's where we're headed

oh no oh my gosh minus 16 last night today a high of

minus four oh my gosh my daughter my oldest daughter is

is addicted to the to the to the amazon devices i mean they she talks to it and

does this does that turn the radio down turn play this music what what i just it's

it's uh you know that she's from a different generation so what i don't like about it but there is a kill button on it there's a um

there's a button but i don't here's the thing i don't know that it necessarily works there's a button i can push on the

top and that turns the whole thing red which supposedly means it's not listening anymore so if you want to have

a private conversation then you you need to push that button uh in my opinion because i'm i've gotten

so cynical to help with that i'm unplugging it or you know i'm just getting rid of the thing

i've threatened that one day if i get angry if i'm going to shoot it i'm going to take one of my guns and shoot the

thing but they listen all the time she's listening right now she's listening to everything

i say uh there's go on the internet their their police departments have used them

to solve crimes you know they record everything and then if something bad happens

the police can go to amazon and with a subpoena and get the voice files

and they can solve crimes with it so that's what's that's why my that's why kathy hates these things she hates

everything about i had a beautiful bluetooth speaker

and recessed light above our kitchen island and i loved it and so did my youngest daughter because you know i i would play you know

i'd connect it to my phone and play music and kathy hated it man i mean it would make

her angry so i finally had to take it out she man she hated that thing she hates

everything about all that stuff ah that's a good idea turn on music for

the pets that's a really good idea um all right so here got a question from h lee

and by the way if you have any questions or comments or whatever put them in the chat i'm happy to answer them you know we'll

it's kind of a relaxed friday afternoon hd says

um oh that's a great question he says tim from your book and of course here's

the book h lee's talking about you can get it for free

free pdf files seriously i'm giving it away for free just go up in the chat i'll actually put

that i'll put it i'll put it in again right now so that because the way that this works by the way is

if you've not what if you've not gone back and watched the live streams the

everything that's in the chat appears on the on the replay which is good i mean because it gives context to the people

watching the watching the replay go to that link you can get this book all right simple as that and in the book

um so there it is the crutchford

you're going to see this picture in this in the book all right so look at that roof so look at the

condition of the roof right under the cupola all right the the shingles are in excellent condition but look to the

right and to the left on on the i'm going to try to do i want to hold this so over here

the shingles are so bad all of the granules are off those shingles and they're really curled and

here you can see they're in pretty bad shape so what happened what's really interesting about this photo

you can also kind of you can figure out what the prevailing wind direction is you know in this photo which way the

wind blows most of the time can you guess can you guess which way the wind blows looking at that photo

most of the time not all the time pretty simple it blows this direction it goes from this way to here because

some of these shingles over here are still in pretty good shape so they're getting some of that copper all right

now i'm going to answer h's question the the reason i say in the book seven

years and it's is because there's a possibility that there's been

enough damage to the shingles after seven years depending on when they were made

that they might be past the point of no return and that was the case in my own personal roof

in other words i i when i bought my home here in new

hampshire let's see how old the house was the house was

i don't know the roof was probably it couldn't have been more than eight years old

and the roof looked really good i mean it's in pretty good shape but within

18 months it started to look bad so

there's that crutch word again in other words in just 18 months there there had to have been a lot of damage

at year 7 or 8 for to all of a sudden catastrophically start to fail

that said if your roof is seven years old or eight

years old and it looks in really good condition meaning you really get up and look at it

you can't see any missing granules there's no curling

then absolutely go ahead and put the copper on absolutely and the more copper you put on the

better uh my calculation showed that six inches of exposed copper will protect about 20

to 25 feet down roof and that's what most houses most regular ranch houses

you know they're only about you know from the ridge down to the drip line is about 22 feet of shingles

it would be better if you do if you go to the copper if you go to the copper roosters page on my shopping cart you

can see a photograph of my daughter's roof how we did hers we put about 10 inches exposed on each side 10 inches is

better that's what i would do i'd recommend that i hope that answers your question but that's why i recommend it after

seven years it might not it might not you might not get the results you're looking for

all right um okay let's see uh

oh well thank you very much lorraine you can delete your voice recording good i think i'm gonna start doing that

um not that i have not that i'm up here talking to anybody i don't talk to myself that often

will says i heard you talk about a certain brand of cards you will get ads for those oh yeah oh absolutely no

that happens with time well same thing my stupid my stupid

google pixel phone is same thing it's listening all the time

they're spying on you and that's really truthful that there's this thing is spying on you and for that

exact reason i'll say something and sure enough within a few hours i'll

see ads about that stuff that i'd typically never talk about and you should do that yourself if you've got a

google phone or one with an android system start doing that start start talking

about or even just say it just say i'll actually i'll do a test we'll do a test and then i'll i'll give you a

screenshot here on monday so i'll say um let's see let's come up with a good

idea i could use your help what can i say to the phone that's really unusual um

um oh i'll tell you what i'll tell you i mean this would be perfect sense boy i would really love

to buy some lipstick i've been thinking about wearing lipstick

and i mean because it looks so beautiful on the women that i see

i wonder how i could get some lipstick oh i would like to see all the different

colors of lipstick because i think i might get one that's really red ah

red i love the color of red lipstick all right we'll see what happens

baby crips oh no i don't we don't need any more babies around the carter house no bad

idea oh my gosh oh my gosh

anyway if you have a question about your house or anything just put it in the chat all happy to answer you

uh yeah that's exactly right we're i i would i would um i'll be because my

my smartphone is tied directly to my

everything i do online because i you by the way this and actually i'll say something good about

this uh my cell phone provider is google

pretty crazy huh you may not have ever heard of this i use google fi so google and then the word fi which is short for

wi-fi and because i am home 99 of the time

i all of my phone calls are v you know voice over ip like skype you know all just actually

like this no different than what i'm doing right now and the reason you hear my voice voice over ip

call quality is fantastic the pro my as soon as i switched to google fi

my cell phone bill was cut in half all right that's great that's a great thing

but so there it is again how many times do i set it today 10 10 so far

oh anyway i say that a lot too

they're all crutch words my phone then listens to me and then i will not only will will i probably start

seeing those ads on the phone but i will see them for sure when i start surfing the web and as soon

as i do i'm going to take screenshots and i'm going to share those with you you'll see

these daggone things are spying on us anyway

there it is crutchford anyway so all these horrible crutch words so bad so bad

what a shame that steve's not here as i said he would he'd be asking us all kinds he'd be asking all kinds of

questions about the snow what i'm really happy about here we are

it is now january 7th and we're

boy we're two weeks two weeks past the solstice and a little over two weeks actually

and it's i can already tell we're getting more daylight hours

because two weeks ago it would have been pitch black right now outside and it's not it's really dusky here

in new hampshire very dusky but there's there's enough there's still enough light out there if i went out

there with a newspaper i could read it and um after the

live stream i may go out and i i always have to i'm really particular about my driveway and i have

to be because of the hill but the snow blower leaves a little debris behind and you

know anyway i go out there and and and with my snow shovel it's got a nice metal blade on a plastic snow

shovel i get it i get all the snow off except for that snow that's in between the pieces of stone in the

blacktop and hey well i'll tell you what i'm going to do today or tomorrow morning for sure i'm going to spread some of the

wood ashes out there again i want to see i want to do a test tomorrow of the wood ashes because it's supposed to be sunny

here and i i'm very interested and if you're i don't know if you're doing it it'd be really interesting to for you to report

if if you see any difference uh using you know sprinkling you don't shrink a lot you don't it doesn't have

to be heavy you just sprinkle lightly the the wood ashes on the

little you know the the where the dusting of snow is and it should do a much better job of getting rid of

the snow faster yeah it is i know it is messy i know i

the the couple of times i've done it you know gets all over my shoes and my boots so i do i don't like that but i

just take a broom and i just brush it off real fast you know an old paintbrush but i agree it is messy

there's no uh i can't i can't uh argue that one uh

anyway anyway uh i um what do i want to tell you i when i

told you about the letter of the editor uh that was pretty cool oh here's another thing pretty interesting

yeah i i agree with that you yeah so i won't do it when it's windy i wrote yesterday morning

i had been putting it off i am the chief of communications for

the new england forest rally which is a it's a world-class car race event

that's held every every summer well it wasn't held in 2020 because the illness

however it was held this past summer and it's held in western maine and it is in north eastern new hampshire

and you can read all about it on my radio blog so go to w3atb.com i'll put that in the chat here

actually i'll just i think i might have pulled it up i i'll tell you what i'll do i'll put a uh link

direct link so you can find it really quickly um

there we go i'll have this link and you i think it would be a fun surfer to read

and you can get a feel of of um what's going on with the uh with this race i mean world-class

drivers um travis pastrana uh

ken block i mean these are these are i mean world-class guys that are

that compete in this thing and here it is right here this is the story i want you to read

this is a really uh it's kind of a longer story but it gives you an idea of what's involved

and here we go back again

all right so go to that link when you get a chance or at least open it up now you don't have to read the story now but at least

you'll have a tab open you can read it later and the um i'll be right there i'll answer

that question a second the this past year we

we finally i with the help of some other operators it was it was actually the idea of my

radio mentor he is the one who came up with the idea and he came up with the idea three

almost three and a half years ago and if you read the once you read the story that i wrote yesterday it'll all

make sense so we tried this new method it's called nevis near vertical incident skywave so

nevis is an acronym nvis and what happens is typically radio waves

you know they kind of shoot out you know they'll shoot out maybe at an angle i you know i'm sorry about that

they'll shoot out at an angle but with nevis what happens is you aim the rate the game the radio wave

straight up they go up about 50 60 miles and then they come straight

back down but but they come down kind of like a cone like a like seriously like an upside down sugar

cone where the diameter of the cone or the area is about 200 miles

so the military uses this type of communication system in very hilly

terrain where because most radios i i don't have one in front you know like the little pan

you've seen radio guys like me that have these small handheld radios those operate in the two meter band and and

those are basically line of sight it works it works like a just think of the beam of a flashlight or a laser coming

out of a laser so if you aim a laser at a mountain that that

it's not that the radio signal is not going to go through the mountain and it's not going to go over the mountain well it will go over the mountain if you

use nevis i wrote that story yesterday and it i had been putting it off and put it off

but i i was coming up to a hard deadline because the magazine qst

is the official magazine for for the awrl the american radio relay league that you know probably the biggest

association or group in america and they every spring they put out a

public service issue and my hope because they never guarantee it you

always submit an article to them and you hope that they publish it my hope is that this is going to be the

cover story and i sent them a photo that's good enough to be on the cover and if they use that photo

that operator that radio operator he's gonna he's gonna have his 15 minutes of fame let me tell you

that's what i did yesterday all right so let's uh yesterday morning and i sent the story in i i sent the photos in and

they acknowledged that they received it but they will not tell you if they're going to publish it

laureen wants to know do you have a good recommendation on windows yes i do i am fascinated with the specialty windows in

finland but we don't have them here here's the here's the deal this is

really great so i'm going to type into the chat what you need to type into my search engine

um so it's aama so that stands for american

architectural manufacturers association they are a

they're an association of manufacturers and it's pretty broad

uh association it's not just manufactured products in home improvement or home building

i'm positive of that they they it can go wide all right you know just about anything that's manufactured

in our vertical they have developed a program they they it took years of research and whatever

they came up with a set of standards that if you build windows and doors to

these standards they're the best and it's called the gold label the gold

label ama certification program that you can research online you can just type in

gold label ammo or amma gold label and

bingo so here's what happens a manufacturer of windows for example

like pella or marvin or anderson or i don't know whoever simonton

uh they they can they can go to the association

they would have to pay some money they can either join the association or they could say we feel our windows are made

to the amish specs and we want to be able to put that label the gold label on our windows

and amma goes okay you know you have to figure out how that whole program works but they go here's the deal

well you can send us windows we'll come and get two windows from you and we'll test them ourselves

we'll see if if they are if they do meet the specs and if they do

you know and whatever else whatever other hoops you have to jump through then you just get to start putting the gold label on your windows all right and

they're the best ones all right but

here's what amma says in six months or around six months you know

it could be four months it could be eight months it could be seven months it doesn't matter

we're going to stop by the factory one day and

if you want to continue to put those labels on your on your windows

we are going to stop by the factory unannounced unannounced and we're going to walk back

into the shipping area and we're going to grab two windows at random

and we're going to take them and put them in our truck and drive away

so if you've ever had a job of yours where you're one window short and you know and you're

getting some kind of sob story as to why it's not there it may be because it went back to the alma lab

if you're that poor unlucky soul all right all right that's so

there i almost said it almost said it that's how amma keeps the manufacturer

honest so the manufacturer has to make sure they're always making the windows really well

because they never know when alma's going to show up that's the long answer to your question maureen ama

certified windows are the best it's that simple

thus and and you have to make the people prove that they have the certification in other words it's not good enough for

you to ask some fast-talking salesman who comes to your home oh

by the way are your windows amma certified what do you think that eight out of ten

of them are gonna say oh yeah yeah they're certified you bet

sign right here if you sign tonight you get a 30 discount

so you know there's an old saying the power's in the question all right the power is in the question

you would never ask that question by the way you would never never ever say are your windows amma certified

you would say a better question i i propose would be

do your windows carry any certifications and the person's gonna

say yes or no if they say yes your follow-up question would be oh great what are they

show me that's the way to do it in my opinion

here we go yes it's a great program it is a great

program by the way and there are manufacturers who make really great windows almost certified remember you

want the gold label i think they have different programs they have like good better best so you want the best if you want the

best because that's what you asked me well you said do you have a good recommendation i'm going to i i just

i would get the ama but but here's you know here's the i'll tell you one thing right off the top of the bat though

but everything remember over the past few weeks we've talked about inflation i can already tell you that

uh that anderson anderson makes a great window i have anderson windows in my own home

here i had i used to i've installed

hundreds of them i i probably go as far to say i've installed my career over a thousand anderson windows and you know

they they make a great window anderson makes a great window marvin

makes a great window pella uh i don't know i i'm not

i've been hearing some bad things about pella so there it is the crutch word

simonton the the window that i'm looking at right now out of my cave is a simonton window

it's an all vinyl window and i've been really happy with it i've been really happy with it i i have very

little if any well i'm sure there's some air leakage but i don't feel it

and that's what you need to be concerned about with windows if you're in a new hampshire climate or where lorraine

lives you know in the upper midwest uh you know it's -14

you you and it's windy you don't want leaky windows

that's and windows just you know they windows and doors big big heat loss uh and and

if you live down south heat gain uh problems you you understand that a sheet of glass

a pane of glass only has an r value of one one so if you have double pane windows

that went that huge window you've got it's got an r value of two i don't care what's in between it i

don't care if argon or krypton or neon i don't care what gas is in between the

things i you know you can get louis glass and all that too but just understand

the windows themselves they they have got a very low r value uh that technology may change i don't know if

it's going to happen in my lifetime i predict that at some point somebody and if you want to become the

next billionaire you know in my opinion if you want to become the next billionaire or become a billionaire

you put your thinking cap on and you figure out what can be done to make windows

that there's still clear glass but they have an r factor of 20.

you're going to make a lot of money you're going to make so much money whoo

good luck with that though yeah i knew that i i didn't want to give away that uh by the way laureen um i know

they have the app in bayport all right you say we had all the windows

foamed and a few replaced but there are nine more that need replacing yep that uh that can happen that that a lot of

windows um i think depending on especially if you go with anderson that's kind of the good thing they

the anderson the style of the windows hasn't really changed a lot they they're they're kind of smart i think that way

so you don't have to replace all the windows in your home at a given time you don't have to you can do it over a period of years and eventually all the

windows are going to match that's uh that's a good thing any other questions any other questions

here i would i'm happy to answer any question you have about your home it doesn't matter what it is maybe you

even have a question about ask the builder you know feel free to ask it i you know

what how everything works behind the curtains you know the magic curtain happy to answer

i don't know about you but every now and then i have these insatiable uh food cravings

and because their cincinnati where i came from i lived there for 55 years

they have some very unique restaurants that and i think every major metropolitan can say this to a

degree there there are these these hometown favorites and one of them happens to be a place

called skyline chile that i happen i happen to work at the third one that ever opened

when it opened in 1967 and i worked there for a good

let's say i worked there i started when i was a freshman in high school and then i worked there until

um about 1976 and

i mean if i had a nickel for every coney island i made i'd give jeff bezos a run for his money

all right i made a lot of coney islands and anyway i i just every now and then i get this

uh craving for a five-way and a couple of cheese cones so what a five-way is it's a plate of spaghetti

and then on that you would put some of the small red beans and

then you would put the chili and the chili is is the meat's been pureed a little bit so it's not big

chunky chili and that's why a lot of people don't like it they they want the big chunky chili

and then you put onions diced onions on top of the chili and then you put grated cheddar cheese but it's two types of

cheddar cheese it's mild and hard sharp that we blend together

that's what gives the cheese its skyline its unique flavor a lot of people don't know that

it's just delicious oh my gosh oh and then

i don't know if i'm going to pronounce it right we had a we have quite a few there's there's a pretty strong greek

community in cincinnati ohio and many of the greeks

they gravitate to to the restaurant industry and this the gentleman who started this

particular business he died maybe 10 years ago but he opened up a restaurant up near the university of cincinnati called

chicago heroes and most people call them gyros so g-y-r-o-s but i believe the greeks

pronoun it like a heroes i want a heroes so the g sounds like an an h a hero

sandwich and he what he did with his and it's it's made with lamb meat but what he would do

on these loafs and he would carve it off and then he he would he does something a

lot of places didn't do he would then put it on the grill on the big flat grill to kind of crisp it up

and then he would dip the pita bread in a little bit of olive oil and and also

put it on the grill you know to get warm and soft oh and then he had a very special i

don't i'm going to murder this word i'm going to murder it i think they call it tazaki tazaki sauce i think it's spelled

t z a k i i don't know look it up just put just type in gyro

sauce and but here he had a special secret recipe well luckily luckily he sold the

business to some other people they expanded it they actually moved it

across the street on it's now at the corner it's now would be at the um let's see it would be at this

the southwest corner of clifton and macmillan street in cincinnati ohio

so if you're ever in cincinnati you've got to go there and get one of these heroes sandwiches fantastic oh my gosh

but i could really go for a five-way right now all right let's see here

let's get caught up on the comments sorry about that food uh

oh here we go will asks can you divide the standard

chimney insert flue to take two sources hmm

i don't know how you would do that will i don't i mean because in my here's what

i'm thinking just so you know when you say you know you've got chimney flue so i to me a flu is a clay flue

liner all right so they come in all different sizes and there's a reason for that and i cover that on my go to

esteban.com type in chimney type in fireplace read all about flu sizes

anyway i have no idea how you could divide that how you could how you could take a 12 by

12 flue liner and put a divider in it i can't even imagine how to do that

so i'm going to say no i'm just going to say no you can't do it but maybe if somebody can figure it out but i don't

know how to do it jagdeep says hi tim what are

requirements to build new attached full washroom attached with room and build it outside attached to the room oh um

well that's a that's a that that question's about that big all right so i mean it's bigger than my hands can go

uh i i can't answer the question because i don't know where you're building it

all right so i don't know if you're building it in america i don't know if you're building it in brazil

in uh afghanistan in vietnam japan australia

russia ukraine i don't know that's where you start you

you would wherever you're building it the answer is that they're what you want to know what are the requirements so

they all the answer is really simple you just go to the local town

where this building is and if they have a building department you ask them that question and that's

where your answer is going to be simple as that that's all i can tell you i

you need to also know this i don't memorize the building code i don't

memorize the zoning code in different locations because they're all it's all different and i think i talked about this the other day

understand that the building code here in america is for all intents and purposes it's a

set of recommendations all right it's it's it's record in other words it's basically you could read it

as saying we recommend that you build something this way

now what happens is the code of the building officials in each city and town in

america they can vote or make a ruling and say we're going to adopt and use the

building code you know that code and i don't want to say that's the lazy way out i don't expect the local people

to write their own building code that would be so much work oh my gosh that's why

there's this other higher body that creates the code that said

understand this i'll give you a great example each local building official the head of

the building department they can reject parts of the code

and say no no no we're not doing it that way or they can make it more stringent

you know meaning okay this is kind of a crazy example they may say i know the code says on

decks that this the maximum spacing the air gap between the edges of a baluster are

four inches to hell with that it's got to be don't exceed three and a half inches in

our city they can say that and they can there and you better you better follow it or you're not going to get a

certificate of occupancy a great example is is in

bar harbor the head building official there is a great woman i've become friends with her she is

i can't say enough good things about her her name's angela chamberlain she is she's a

lived in bar harbor her whole life and she's a smart woman

she's here's what here's what i like about angela she's tough

but she's fair all right so there's a big difference there are people who are tough

but they're not fair all right those are the bad people those are the little tin gods

all right so here at there i said it again

should cut my tongue out when we were building my daughter's home

my daughter drew the plans and i don't keep up with the code on purpose because of what i said it's too hard it changes

every three years my daughter had to have some winder steps between the first and second floor

in the old days the winders could have a a radius of zero inches

well the code now says they have to be six inches and we didn't find this out until well into the the house being built

angie gave an exemption she she was smart she saw that where you normally walk

that the treads were actually bigger than the regular threads of the staircase

so she just no big deal she don't care this the stairs are safe so that's an example so that's what you

need to know uh jagdeep so you're in winnipeg canada so winnipeg big city all

right bigger city at least you need to go to winnipeg the building department i guarantee they have one

and find out what their requirements are they're i'm sure they're i'm sure there's a a canadian building code

that that is used up there there's got to be and they're going to tell you everything you

need to know i can tell you this that if you need you say you want a full washroom so just so you know

if you need if they require you to produce a plumbing riser diagram or plumbing

isometric diagram i draw this so you can have me draw those plans for you if you want so i i'm one of the few people

around that draws drum and uh i've never had them turned down yet i've had them

some different people from different countries do it so i i draw that i draw this for you i mean you have to pay for me but it's

it's that very reasonable fee so you'll find that out so you want to ask them

do i have to supply a plumbing isometric drawing or a riser diagram that's what they're

called and you can go to my ask the builder shopping cart right now and you can over in the left-hand column there's a

category it says draw plumbing plans click that and and you'll see what you'll see exactly what it is i've got

videos you can actually go into youtube watch my video type in draw plumbing plans tim carter into

youtube watch that video what else do we want to know what else

do you want to know hey look what the cat drug in [Laughter]

better late than never right [Laughter]

to you it would be good evening steve good evening i hope you had a great work day

uh so give us a full report really quickly steve give give me a full report if you

got any energy left over how are things in london today uh i've been talking about you a couple of times

we've talked about snow and i i said earlier i said boy if steve were here he would have no less than three

questions about snow because i don't know that he's ever seen a lot of snow living in london i i you know in fact

i've got a question for you so tell me what's the most amount of snow that you've ever seen in london i

would like to know that uh i would imagine it snows there but that it melts

somewhat quickly um so i'm just just curious dude you know i i know it snows

in northern the uk and up in scotland they can get big snow up there i got that

but how much snow have you seen in london and when it does snow here's my follow question when it does snow

does the snow melt pretty quickly maybe i already asked that oh you're welcome jagdeep in fact i

would appreciate it jagdeep if you would come back to uh maybe uh once you find out you

know it could be a week from now two weeks from now please come back to another live stream and let everyone

know what the requirements are i mean meaning it just has to be really quick you could

just say well they they required me to have a a blueprint that a plan that shows this that and the other thing they

do require a riser diagram blah blah blah just let everyone know just share what you found out

anyway so i don't know what's happening with steve he's um he might be typing a long thing

who knows but we'll hopefully he'll answer a question about the snow here steve just you know the reason i

was talking about snowboarders today will and i who live fairly close to one another we had a i would just call it a moderate

or i don't know will what you would call it i just call it a moderate nor'easter a storm nor easter it's a it's a low

pressure system that that glides up the uh coastline here you know

of new england and the reason it's a nor'easter is because the winds are go

counterclockwise around the low pressure system so there's the word so again

then you get these winds coming from the northeast sometimes it does okay here we go you

say oh you you got seven inches we got about five here well we used to get snow in mid to late

late february recently and the worse it gets is a couple there you go a couple of inches uh yeah and i would think that i would

agree with that i i would if i was a betting man i would have said that you go years in

london without any snow so that's what i thought

anyway talked about snow blowers how we get rid of it uh so if you have any interest in

snow then maybe this weekend you want to watch the replay steve the first like i got i i covered that within the first 20

minutes of the live stream all about snow blowers how they work and just so you know you can save

yourself a lot of time that i must have done at four or five different videos of

snowblowers on my channel so just type snowblower tim carter snowblower tim carter into

the youtube search engine they'll all come up and one of those videos i told you somebody asked me this

a month ago you know is there any picture of me without a mustache guess what in one of

those videos there's no mustache and uh

three weeks that's very interesting so you hit a cold spill and it's stuck around all right uh

it's stuck around like that that relative who doesn't know when to leave on a saturday night

[Laughter] oh my gosh uh

it's too late in this i don't know do you want it i'll i'll do a quick poll do you want me to um jeremy do you want me to tell you the

real quick story about the no mustache uh actually let's do a pulse don't don't

don't don't type in let's let's have some fun all right just hold on here

i'm only giving you two choices yes or no [Laughter]

let's see how the results come in [Laughter] here we go

oh my gosh it's a pretty funny story actually

so pretty funny story yeah i'd like to see a picture of it uh snowing it there

wow three years with no snow that's interesting that's pretty amazing

pretty pretty amazing no snow well here here's you know you haven't

asked the question and i've been thinking about you steve you asked me

i think a month or so ago about i don't know you asked me about weeks ago if the lakes had frozen yet

and that's a really great question because you're not from here all of the small ponds and lakes are frozen

and the ice fishermen are out on them my my big lake lake winnisquam and

in the big lake i mean which is you know we call it winnipes i mean they call it everybody around here calls it the big

lake but it's winnipesaki uh it has not they have not frozen yet and if you go

if you go onto google earth and you just look lake winnisquam new hampshire you'll see why so lake winnisquam is

this it runs north south it's it's kind of a long narrow lake and the prevailing wind in the wintertime is from the north

so it's got a lot of fetch i mean because the lake is like eight nine ten miles long so the water is constantly

you know got waves going and when there's a lot of waves it's not going to freeze unless it's unless it's probably 20 30 below zero

but anyway that's not i'm going to take photos of when the lake freezes here and show them

to you exactly right in the north of england yeah it snows exactly up in scotland

northern england's got to snow all the time all right so everybody so it's interesting some people think you

know some people like no i i love this i mean i don't know who you are and it

doesn't matter i'm trying to look at the uh i'm clicking the options next to the poll but it nothing's coming up but 80

want to see hear them stressed and um

the 20 of the people sorry

i mean i'm going to ask this question maybe you'll answer but unfortunately that identifies you so i know you're not going to answer like why would you not

want to hear the mustache way why would you not want to hear that story i would love to hear that answer

here we go back when i moved here to new hampshire in 2008

but kathy did not move here for two more years so i was up here with my oldest daughter

and my future son-in-law so the three of us lived here in new hampshire it was like a constant 24-hour fraternity party

is all i can tell you we we had such a great time

not to say that when kathy's here it's a bad time no don't don't take that away so there's the word again so

i would go back to cincinnati about once a month and i would um

i would have to do repairs there stop in and see kathy

and of course my youngest daughter was still there at home and the reason that's why kathy didn't move up here is

because our youngest daughter was still in high school and she wanted to graduate with her friends all right that makes perfect

sense i get it i'm home one day it's in the winter time

it was around christmas i think i'm there and i'm and i i would take my laptop and do work

and i was in the dining room and my youngest daughter pops her head into the door into the dining room and

says hey dad i'm sure this this is true i am not embellishing this at all

she goes hey dad you would look great without a mustache you should really shave that thing off

and i went okay and you have to understand i had had this mustache for

30 something years all right she had never you know that's a lot i mean none of my kids had ever seen me that much

dish i go

i just go back to work she comes back down 45 minutes later

and pops her head in the door again she says dad i'm serious you would really

i mean mom would you i mean you would really be handsome without that mustache

so i she's yanking my chain all right i but since i love her and i trust her i

didn't pick up on that so i think

i go i go okay you know the average hair on my mustache

is about that long all right so it's about i'm holding up the camera no more than three quarters of an inch

you know up here to down here and i don't know if you know this if you've ever talked to your barber if you

know anything about hair growth but the average human your hair grows about an eighth of an inch a week all right

eighth of an inch a week so i thought

well i could shave it off and in six to seven weeks it's gonna be

right back to where it is now you know i i don't i don't see the public i don't you know whatever

i go upstairs i don't say anything to anybody i go upstairs uh i shave it off

i come back downstairs i don't say anything to anybody

that night at dinner my daughter and kathy let me go what

they're like list what did you do kathy's like are you an idiot

and then my daughter says i was only kidding dad

anyway i uh kept shaving it for a couple of days you know

because i wanted my oldest daughter up up who was up here in new hampshire she

to see it and she had the same reaction when i when i finally drove back home i drove back up here so that's the story

that um probably would probably the people who uh said no now it's 17 they probably said see

i voted the right way it was a stupid story

i am going to get out of here to friday afternoon uh i had a pretty busy week i hope you did

too i hope you have a great weekend and

if you have any questions over the weekend write them down we can go over them on monday

if you have any last-minute questions now is your time to get it in you know last call this just like at the bar last

call for alcohol so last call for any questions very quickly i'll i'll give you a chance here

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you get this for free you get seven other things for free there's uh there's no malware there's no spyware

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are you kidding me lorraine

she she teases me all the time she's she's got the devil in her uh she's

she's a great great young woman yep

all right i'm gonna get out of here steve laurene

jason will if y'all if you're still here uh

okay scammer i'm starting to get i'm probably getting

caught up on the uh on the chat uh um here we go let me wait before i leave

i got to read these chat questions or comments uh tell the story jason's to tell the story

local your local indian scammer i love that username [Laughter]

sorry i clicked no uh i no problem it's not a problem i don't care uh

[Laughter] just your video calling uh what happens

to us when we get older yeah we need uh that we need longer here just deal with it

just put your finger in front of it to show us uh yeah yeah yeah exactly right that's how long it is

uh okay good night matey

i hope we get to hope we get to have a beverage together one day i would that goes for

you on the the on the live stream that goes for everyone who i've become friends with jason

shannon laureen will steve how cool would it be to get together one day i told you that in the

past you know back when i used to travel here in america i would do whenever i had extra time

and i knew i could fit it in my schedule i would do a we call them meetups and i've had some great ones it's so

much fun it was so much fun to meet my newsletter subscribers oh

they've all got story everyone's got a story everyone's got a story and i want to hear yours i mean i just

boy that would be so cool to do that one day yeah it would be nice i'm out of here thanks for watching

today and thanks for chatting and remember i i thrive off your chat that's

that's what makes it happen uh i don't know why well i don't know i

can't explain why it will be i'm seeing all the links in the chat just so you know i will um

oh that'd be cool i would go to florida to meet you in a heartbeat steve i'd go down there no well let's try not let's

not do it in july and august all right like june july august just so hot down there oh my gosh

uh but man the spring or the fall i'm all over it i i i'd go there in a heartbeat

i'd probably make a road trip out of it because i love i love to drive i know it sounds crazy i

love love love to drive and there's so many cool places between here and there

let's get out of here have a great night have a great weekend and thanks for being here do every do

whatever you can to spread the good word about the live stream let's try to you know we're trying to set a goal to get 50 people watching the time then 100

then 200 then a thousand wouldn't that be cool i think we can get there i will be here on monday

i have no idea what we're going to talk about yeah you're exactly right florida

because of governor desantis that's right he's the only he and the south dakota uh woman governor they're

naom um there's only a couple of governors here in the united states that that

understand what's going on and uh but we don't we don't need to go to south dakota or north dakota that's

there's nothing there not not not much florida

we could play some golf i mean i'll play some golf i'll bring my sticks and we can we can play a little golf or do

whatever you want i'm out of here have a great weekend i know i will i hope you've signed up for

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