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TOM: Coast to coast and floorboards to shingles, this is The Money Pit Home Improvement Show. I’m Tom Kraeutler.

LESLIE: And I’m Leslie Segrete.

TOM: And we are for one reason and one conclude merely: because we have nowhere else to be. No, actually, because we’re now to help you with your home improvement projects. That’s what we do every weekend, all weekend long. We never take a break. If you’ve got a question about what’s going on with a project around your home, if you want to plan a project to meet your residence more beautiful, to add some price to your home or precisely to fix something that’s really bugging the heck out of you, we are here to help. Help yourself first, though, by picking up the phone and calling us at 1-888-MONEY-PIT, 888-666-3974.

Coming up on today’s present, if your garden is literally going to the dogs, we’re going to have some easy gratuities for keeping your furry friends from spoiling lawns.

LESLIE: And also ahead this hour, perhaps you’ve been thinking about a vacation home or going somewhere really wonderful. Well, if that’s out of your contact, you are able to want to consider glamping. Now, glamping is short for glamour camping. And we’re going to see share some tip-off on how you can do that, simply by converting a camper or trailer into a really comfortable getaway that comes home with you after every trip.

TOM: Plus, are your carpets inspecting a little worn out? Well, one simple pace can become the difference between carpets that wear thin and those that last two or three times as long. We’ll have that gratuity, merely ahead.

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LESLIE: Sharon in Georgia, you’ve got The Money Pit. How can we help you today?

SHARON: Hi. I’m interested in tearing down a wall that’s between two rooms. And I’m wondering if I can do that by myself- I don’t have any ordeal at all- or if I- it’s something that I would need to have an expert do.

TOM: Maybe, maybe not.

LESLIE: It depends. What’s in the wall? Is it load-bearing?

TOM: Yeah.

SHARON: Yeah. How do you tell that?

TOM: Well, where is this wall? First of all, what various kinds of house do "youve had"? What mold is your house? Is it Colonial? Ranch?

SHARON: I have a- what do you call that- bi-level, where there’s an upstairs part and a downstairs constituent?

TOM: Bi-level? OK. Alright. And where is the wall?

SHARON: The wall- it’s two bedrooms and the wall is right between the two bedrooms.

TOM: Hmm. So is it parallel with the figurehead wall of the house and the back wall of the house or is it horizontal?

SHARON: It is perpendicular.

TOM: It’s most likely not a enduring wall; that is my sight-unseen assessment. I could be wrong but it’s most probably not. Because usually in a bi-level, the only demeanor wall is the center wall that goes down the centre, latitude with the front and the back wall of the house.

But even that said, what you can do, as a do-it-yourselfer, is you can tear out the drywall and get to that. But remember, once you do that, Sharon, you’re going to be having - you’re going to be looking at plumbing, you’re going to be looking at heating pipes, you’re "il be going" looking at wire , not to mention the fact that you’re going to see have to spot all that drywall. So, there’s a lot to it.

SHARON: Oh, really? I recalled I could be a do-it-yourselfer; I truly is ready to do the project myself. It just seems (inaudible).

TOM: Well, ogle, you can do it yourself. We don’t want you to become a do-it-to-yourselfer, alright?

SHARON: Oh, right.

TOM: So you really should not be doing the electrical exertion yourself. What you have been able do ...

SHARON: I am concerned about that part.

TOM: Yeah, what you could do is take apart all the drywall. That’s easy to do. But again, if ...

LESLIE: Yeah, take out the trimming, take down the drywall.

TOM: Yeah. Maybe if you get it all ready, you are able to have a carpenter "youre coming" draw the wall out and an electrician rerun the outlet and you’ll be done.

SHARON: Alright. Well, I just wanted some expert admonition about that.

TOM: Alright.

SHARON: I’m glad you told me before I get in the centre of it.

TOM: Exactly. Thanks so much for calling us at 888-MONEY-PIT.

LESLIE: Now we’ve come Ben in Arizona who’s dealing with a situation of arachnophobia. What’s going on with those spiders?

BEN: Oh, not a whole lot. They seem like they’re overtaking our yard. I can mow and they just scatter everywhere. I kill anywhere from 30 to 50 of them every time I mow.

TOM: Do you have any hypothesi what kind of spider it is?

BEN: No. They call it- from what I’ve sounded, they call them “wood spiders.” And I don’t know if that’s what they’re- genuinely what they’re announced or not. But they’re brown and they’ve kind of went pitch-black streaks across their backs. And some of them are smaller than- some of them look like they can get to 2-inch diameter or so, something like that.

TOM: There’s actually a couple things that you can do to try to control these- the person of these wolf spiders. First of all, things that you can do on your own are to try to eliminate their nesting areas. And that are areas where you have bushes, ivy, forages or any seed that is right up against the house. Wood piles, lumber stacks, rock piles are all places where these spiders can nest.

But the most effective way to get rid of them is to use a pesticide. Now, you are able to either do this yourself or you can hire a pro. If you want to do it yourself, there is a pesticide dust that you can buy in a lot of places; I know it’s is accessible on Amazon. It’s announced EcoEXEMPT D Dust- the letter D- EcoEXEMPT D Dust. And it’s an organic, plant-based insecticide that’s ready to use. And it’s pet-safe, as well, which is important.

I’ve get to tell you, if I had minors and I had so much better of a problem, I’d probably have it done first by a professional and then I’d to be implemented with my own do-it-yourself pest limitation after. Because the products that the pros use are just much more effective. And they are absolutely safe if they’re applied by a trained professional according to label directions. Does that make sense?

BEN: OK. Alrighty.

TOM: Good luck with that programme. Thanks so much for announcing us at 888 -MONEY-PIT.

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TOM: Making good dwellings better, this is The Money Pit Home Improvement Show. I’m Tom Kraeutler.

LESLIE: And I’m Leslie Segrete.

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LESLIE: Janet in Illinois is working on a decorate assignment. How can we help you with that?

JANET: We have prescribed the material for the flooring of the deck and it’s going to be waterproof and where we have a patio beneath it. And we would like to finish the underneath place so that we can do some canned lighting or- and/ or some ceiling fans. And wondered what the best product would be to finish the underneath side.

LESLIE: To sort of waterproof it, block it from any sort of water, be it rain or snow, getting to that lower underside.

JANET: Well, the top produce is going to do that. So we just want to finish it so it’ll look nicer than just having the lumber picturing from the framework.

TOM: OK. Will this be exposed to the weather from the two sides, though? I understand you’re putting a ceiling over the top but will there be slopes on this or is it possible for breeze and downpour to blow in?

JANET: It is only possible for gust and downpour to blow in so, yeah, we would want that.

TOM: So you is necessary in order a good-quality product that’s going to seal and protect the wood.

So in that case, Leslie, I guess I would go with solid-color stain, a floor stain.

LESLIE: Yeah. But I think you’re looking for a material, first, to turn in the ceiling, correct, other than wood?

JANET: Right. Yes.

TOM: Oh, for the ceiling? The underside of the ceiling?

JANET: Yes.

TOM: How about AZEK?

JANET: AZEK?

TOM: Yeah, -AZ-E-K. Yeah, AZEK is an extruded PVC product that’s offered in many different finishes. It’s synthetic, so it doesn’t decomposition and it doesn’t need paint.

JANET: OK.

TOM: So if you go to -AZ-E-K.com and look at a lot of the sheet concoctions ...

LESLIE: Yeah. I gambling there’s a beadboard or something that would look like a shingling or a panel for the ceiling.

TOM: Right.

JANET: OK.

LESLIE: That could be very lovely.

TOM: Right. But the deck skin-deep is also going to need some care. So that- for that surface, I would use a solid-color stain.

JANET: Alright. Audios wonderful.

TOM: Alright. Good luck with that projection. Thanks so much for calling us at 888-MONEY-PIT.

LESLIE: Jason in Delaware is on the line and needs some help with an electrical update at their coin excavation. Tell us what’s going on.

JASON: Hi. Well, let’s understand. We bought an older home: probably like 1940, 1950. It’s a great home, no doubt about it. We thought we were going to have a bunch of problems: we thought we were going to have to replace the roof, we believe we were going to have to supplant the foundation. But it’s pretty much like somebody constructed the house and never truly lived in it.

TOM: I think we’re getting to a “but.” Everything’s immense but what’s happening?

JASON: But the breaker chest is outdated. And the total cost of replacing that - hiring a licensed and professional contractor and everyone- or the electrician to do it- is going to cost us around $5,000.

TOM: Alright. Why do you say it’s outdated? What’s mistaken with it?

JASON: It’s a 100 -amp box.

LESLIE: OK.

JASON: And you can’t run more than two air conditioners in the chamber of representatives at one time.

TOM: Take a gulp. I’ve went immense story for you, alright?

JASON: What’s that?

TOM: You don’t have central air, right? You’re running window cells?

JASON: Window units.

TOM: You do not need a brand-new committee. A hundred amps is path more than enough superpower to run that home. What you are required to ...

LESLIE: Unless you’re planning on clearing those updates.

TOM: Yeah. What you need are some new tours, which are easier to run.

JASON: OK.

TOM: You see, the reason you’re tripping those breakers is because whatever circuit those air conditioners are on is plucking more influence than that one circuit can handle.

Now, most circuits that go to bedrooms, for example, are 15 -amp circuits. You framed an breath conditioner or two on a 15 -amp circuit, it’s going to pop, specially an older air conditioner that’s not as energy-efficient, because it’s going to start pulling more strength. And if you happen to have those two air conditioners on the same circuit, there’s not a chance that you’re going to be able to run that when you have to.

What you do is you compute more routes. So you add another circuit that’s just for that air conditioner, from the degree where it’s installed to the panel. Put that on its own 15 -amp circuit there are still you have it; you’re done. No $5,000 for a brand-new panel.

See, this is another example- when electricians came to see you and they size you up and they give you world prices on doing a activity that you really don’t need. A hundred amps is a lot of supremacy. I doubt in a house that’s probably gas-fired- is that right? It’s gas-powered?

JASON: Yes.

TOM: So you have a gas-powered house, so you’ve went gas heat, gas stove, gas spray heater. You know, if you drew 30 amps when everything was running in that house, I’d come as a surprise. So you don’t need a new box; you need more circuits.

JASON: OK. Well, thank you, guys, so very much.

TOM: Well, pups may be a man’s best friend or a woman’s best friend but they’re rarely your yard’s best friend.

LESLIE: That’s true.

TOM: I mean from their hoof freight to their messes, pets can really wreak havoc on landscaping.

LESLIE: Yeah. Trying to grow grass on a path that your pup has concluded is typically an uphill battle. So try installing a stone walkway over those moves instead. Now, your pup can still run where he misses, while you enjoy that beautiful stone walkway’s natural charm.

TOM: Or you could switch to hardscaping and sort of confine your pup to that gap with a traditional or an electric fence. Stone and masonry are easy to clean. And as an additional level of bonus, they keep your dog from excavating excavations and dragging that soil inside.

LESLIE: Now, if you can’t bring yourself to keep your dog from his beloved grass, switch to a variety that’s more pliable against foot and paw transaction, like Bermuda grass or Kentucky bluegrass.

TOM: Or if the issue is pup spots- naked patches that are caused by a dog’s byproducts- well, you might want to consider planting a lawn made of clover. It stands up better to what your pets leave behind- their behind- so to speak.

LESLIE: Laura in South Carolina is just not enjoying the savour of a popcorn ceiling. Tell us what’s going on over there.

LAURA: Well, a tree descended on the roof of our live, which generated the ceiling to crack in the bedroom.

TOM: Yep. Mm-hmm.

LAURA: And we’ve gotten the roof attached and all those things deposited and everything. And we are therefore redid the drywall and the plaster up in the ceiling. But we can’t match the popcorn so that you can tell or not tell that there’s been shatter. And we don’t know what to do.

TOM: How have you tried to patch it?

LAURA: Well, we made- we patched it first. We removed the section that had actually come through the ceiling and put new- the brand-new ceiling up.

TOM: Yep. Yeah.

LAURA: And then we plastered over the rift, "because theres" two crannies where the leading edge of the- the diameter of the tree was, all the way to the middle of the ceiling

TOM: Right.

LAURA: And so we plastered that and then we tried to use that popcorn composition that you get at Lowe’s or Home Depot.

LESLIE: In the spray can?

LAURA: And you- yeah, in the little- no, we are seeking to the spraying but that was so, so muddled. And then we got the can of it- the little container of it- where you use the putty knife or the paintbrush?

TOM: Right.

LAURA: And tried to settled that up but it does not- it ogles gruesome; it looks like water is dripping or large-hearted dribble marks.

TOM: Right.

LAURA: And it really does not match at all and we don’t know what to do.

TOM: So, did you file an insurance claim for this act of God?

LAURA: Oh, yeah.

TOM: You did?

LAURA: It wasn’t actually an routine of God; it was a dead tree from the neighbor’s house that fell.

TOM: Oh, OK. But it’s is covered under insurance, claim?

LAURA: Yeah, insurance policies took care of it.

TOM: So why didn’t they go all the way and exactly rehabilitate the ceiling? If this was something that is covered by insurance and you had a popcorn ceiling and you deserve to have that ceiling restored, why didn’t they just pay for a painter to come in with the popcorn-ceiling machine and time respray the whole thing?

LAURA: Well, it was kind of a mistake on our duty because there was a gentleman that lives in the neighborhood who’s a contractor that we got. And then he finished the outside and most of the inside but didn’t finish that part.

TOM: Alright. Well, live and learn. I mean you probably can go back to them but gape, are you really in love with the popcorn ceiling? Because most people are not; most of the labels we get about popcorn ceiling is the way to get rid of it.

LAURA: No.

LESLIE: How to get rid of it.

TOM: So, the other option here is just to get rid of what’s there and equal it all.

LAURA: Exactly.

TOM: And you can do that. It’s not really that hard to do. You lessen the ceiling with - you can use a pump-up sprayer to employ a little bit of a ocean scatter on it: not severe , not a lot but just enough to dampen it. Then you can scrape away the popcorn with a putty pierce or with a drywall bayonet, like a spackling blade?

LAURA: Right.

TOM: And you get that off the entire ceiling that room. And then you primary the whole thing and then you paint it with a flat depict, because it won’t reflect light when it affects across the flat make-up. And that usually blends in quite nicely.

So, if you’re not satisfied with the patching- because it sounds like you’re employing the liberty products. And if it’s not glancing right to you and you can’t have the part ceiling regenerated, then why not get rid of the popcorn that remains and just go with a popcorn-free ceiling?

LAURA: Yeah, that might be the best- but I didn’t know how hard it would be to remove that ceiling, we are therefore didn’t want to start something we didn’t know if we could finish, like ...

TOM: Yeah, it’s not easy but it’s not atrocious, either. So, that’s- I think that’s your best approach.

LAURA: Yeah, it sounds like it’s "il be going" our merely option at this station. Alright. Well , thank you for coming in. I appreciate it.

TOM: Well, you’re very welcome. Good luck with that campaign. Thanks so much for announcing us at 888 -MONEY-PIT, 888-666-3974.

You know, I don’t know if Laura did this but if you do have something that you can file with your policy corporation for shield on- for coverage on, I "re saying" - you really want to get a public adjuster in at the get-go. Because public adjusters work for you, not the insurance company. They work on a percentage of the claim. They’re always going to find more than the insurance-company adjuster does.

And this is a perfect example of the kind of thing they would not miss. They wouldn’t put in for the popcorn ceiling to be patched; they would include a big plan digit for the entire thing to recover, perfectly supplanted. And if you do that at the get-go of a project like this, it’s going to come out better.

And the other lesson, I guess, Laura learned is never hire the nice male that lives around the corner to do your project when- get enough money for it and have a professional do it. It’s not a part-time job.

LESLIE: No. And it is possible to never resolve well when implementing a neighbor’s help.

TOM: Exactly.

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Well, if you’re still dreaming of making that time trip but you don’t have a big budget, we’ve got some ideas for creating vacation memories all year long without violating the bank, coming up when The Money Pit continues.

TOM: Welcome back to The Money Pit Home Improvement Show. I’m Tom Kraeutler.

LESLIE: And I’m Leslie Segrete.

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LESLIE: Maryann in Virginia is on the line with a roofing question. What can we do for you today?

MARYANN: We had a awful windstorm here about a month ago and it really unleashed ravage to the roof. There were a lot of loose tiles and ...

TOM: What kind of roof do "youve had", Maryann?

MARYANN: It’s really the basic asphalt roof right now?

TOM: Asphalt-shingle roof? OK. Yeah, you said tiles; I time want to make sure we knew what various kinds of shingle you had, OK?

MARYANN: Yeah. Freedom. And there’s just like one stratum of shingles on and so the question that I have, really, is- the roof is only 17 years old and I know, merely from living there 16 of those years, that we’re going to get these windstorms. And what I would like to know is what would be a good roof to change this with or should be used situate a second roof on top of it or a metal roof?

TOM: OK. So, kind of a multi-part question.

First of all, let me ask you, how long do you expect to stay in the house, Maryann?

MARYANN: Oh, a good while.

TOM: Like a good while, like the entire life of the new roof?

MARYANN: Sure.

TOM: OK. So, here’s what I would suggest. First of all, if you’re going to be in the house a long time, we always recommend removing the first layer of shingles, not putting a second layer on. And here’s why: if you introduced a second layer of shingles on, because the first layer is underneath, it tends to act as sort of a hot submerge. And because it stands hotter and warmer longer, it more rapidly evaporates the lubricants and different fabrics that are in the shingles and justifications them to flunk quicker. So, the jug the roof, the better. Take off the first layer of shingles.

And so far as making sure that the ceiling is not going to blow off, there are high wind-resistant shingles that you can buy.

LESLIE: And Owens Corning, they make a very attractive, kind of dimensional-looking asphalt shingle that I want to say goes up to 120 miles. So I- an hour. I would start off with their website. But you clearly want to get a roofing shingle that’s made to withstand high winds.

And there are even some that will maintain higher puff puffs there if, say, you’re in Miami-Dade County. But I don’t think you need to be that crazy.

MARYANN: Alright. Well, thank you very much.

TOM: Well, if you’d like to take off for a relaxing trip but do that on a budget, you might want to consider what some call “glamping, ” which is pretty much the opposite of roughing it. You get to enjoy the great outdoors but with all the comforts of home. And you can take it one step further and kind of glam up your camper to create a vacation home on wheels.

LESLIE: Yeah. Just imagine a pop-up trailer tricked out with the best bunking and beautiful decor. You can tent near the sea or lake and now you’ve got a home right on the sea. The best part is since you can park it in your driveway after the vacation is over, you don’t need to worry about flood insurance or hurricane impair that get together with a vacation property.

Now, this new trend of glamping is something that you can take advantage of, even when you’re not apart. You can create a guesthouse, department, human cave, even exactly some additional seat that’s only steps away from your home for you to escape to. The next time your teen multitudes a sleepover, you don’t have to lose any sleep.

TOM: Now, there are a lot of possibilities and you can do this at a fraction of the cost of a second home. And if you look for vintage campers to refurbish, they can be a very cost-effective project.

That’s what we’re all about: acquire affordable ways to get those projects done around your home. Give us a see, right now, if you’ve got a specific project in thinker. And that figure is 1-888-MONEY-PIT.

LESLIE: Steven in South Carolina is on the line with a irrigate heater that seems to be leaking. And it’s only four months age-old, so that’s not good. Tell us what’s going on.

STEVEN: Leslie, I consider myself a home better master.

LESLIE: OK.

STEVEN: And I put in this new water heater in a rental part that I have- a rental unit/townhouse. And I went over there the other day and noticed that the pressure-relief valve is slowly leaking. And I can’t figure out why it would be leaking.

TOM: Well, Steven, there’s two reasons it could be leaking: the first is that you have a bad pressure-relief valve; the second largest is that your water heater is not working precisely and it’s actually building up excess pressure. And as a result, the valve is doing exactly what it’s intended to do, which is to open up if the pressure in the valve surpasses- or the pressure in the barrel outstrips 150 pounds. So which is it? That is the question.

And I wouldn’t recommend that you do this project yourself. But I approximate the first thing I would do is probably oust that valve and see if it is still happen.

STEVEN: OK.

TOM: The interesting thing that you could try to do is you could try to let a little bit of water out of it. Since it’s previously disclosing, it’s probably not going to get much worse. We almost never tell people to do this because sometimes, if there is a little crud in the ocean from clay or debris that’s inside the plumbing system in your house, it can actually obligate the leaking worse. But if it’s previously revealing pretty bad, I would open and close that little valve lever- the bar on the side of the valve that releases some stres- a few meters. Simply make some irrigate blast out of that and see if it resets.

But if it continues, then there’s something wrong with the ocean heater and it’s doing its job.

STEVEN: Well, let me ask you this. What about- I employed it in the same way it was installed 10, 12 year ago. And it’s time the hot water out, cold water in. And isn’t there some kind of a diaphragm-type valve or something that can go on the newer water heaters?

TOM: It doesn’t- it’s not for that, OK? You may be talking about a water-hammer arrestor but this has nothing to do with the pressure in your irrigate heater. The spray heater is an device that’s designed to work by itself. It’s designed to heat the spray and deliver the spray to your domestic plan. And specifically, if it’s not doing that correctly, in terms of this valve, it’s going to open up and prohibited from rupturing.

So , no. The irrigate heater is not supposed to leak and if it is leaking, something’s wrong- either a bad valve or a bad water heater- and you’ve got to get to the bottom of it.

STEVEN: I relish your insight.

TOM: Alright. Good fortune with that project.

STEVEN: Yeah, hopefully. Hopefully, it working out for me.

TOM: Alright. I’m sure it will. Steven, thanks so much for announcing us at 888-MONEY-PIT.

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LESLIE: And I’m Leslie Segrete.

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LESLIE: Pat in South Dakota is on the line with a paint activity. How can we help you?

PAT: Can you repaint vinyl placing?

TOM: Yes. You can repaint vinyl- well, you’d be painting it, first , not even repainting it. But I will tell you this: once you cover, you do "re going to have to" repaint. So, you’re not going to have the maintenance-free service that you had once before. You will have to repaint it.

Now, that said, if you’re going to do the repainting or you’re going to paint it, you want to make sure that "youre using" a produce that’s designed specifically for vinyl siding. And I would only use a product from a top label like Benjamin Moore or Sherwin-Williams. They both have their own line of vinyl-siding paint. So choose your colour carefully, make sure it’s good-quality paint and keep in mind that eventually you’re going to have to repaint it.

PAT: OK. That was what I wondering. Thank you so much.

TOM: Good luck. Thanks so much for announcing us at 888 -MONEY-PIT.

LESLIE: Well, if you’ve get wall-to-wall carpeting at home, you know that with girls, babies and merely general kinfolk freight, that can all lead to your carpeting coming moderately dingy looking very quickly.

Now, fortunately, it’s not hard to steam-clean them yourself. This is something that you can do, at least formerly a year, to keep your carpets glancing brand-new and reeking fresh. And it’s going to used to help last longer, as well. Because the number-one reason that carpets wear out is clay. It’s like sandpaper that gets ground into that carpet every time you walk on it. And then that breaks down the fibers.

TOM: I am ever shocked with what a great activity a steam cleaner can do. You know, I’ve had babies in college. And when it gets to the end of its first year and it’s time to move out, that carpet has not been touched for nine months. The last-place term it was clean was when they moved in and now they’re moving out and it’s merely altogether gross, because you can never nail them down to move stuff out of the route. And I tell you what, each year I anticipate I’m going to have to buy carpet for this place, because it merely glances so terrible. And more I rent a steam cleaner and it all comes up.

So, steam cleaners do a great job at that heavy-duty cleaning. And like you say, that dirt is actually what wears down those carpet fibers. So if you keep your carpet well vacuum-clean, you steam-clean once a year, it’s going to last a long time and keep your home feeling and looking fresh.

LESLIE: Alright. Now we’ve went Charles on the line.

Charles, what’s going on at your coin cavity?

CHARLES: We’re in North Central Louisiana and we get up in the 90 s with the high-pitched humidity. But exclusively, my house was built in' 91 and I’ve got good insulation in my attic: the roll-type insulation. About 8 inches of it. And then we keep another 3 inches of blown separation on it.

What the problem is is I don’t have any kind of airflow to really draw the heat out of my attic. I have a big vent on the north end of the roofline and I have two turbines and that’s it. "There arent", I repute- what do you call them, soffit vents or something that are usually you appreciate under the edge of your roofline? On the- yeah, I don’t have any of those so I’m wondering, would that facilitate my place some? And if so, how do I figure how many I need and how to space them?

TOM: So, here’s how you supplement added ventilation to a roof that’s configured like the one that you’ve described. The best type of insulation is, in fact, soffit venting combined with ridge venting. So soffit venting is at the overhang and ridge venting is at the peak. Now, because you don’t have soffits, there is a type of a ventilate called a “roof-edge vent” or a “soffit-edge vent” that essentially spreads the roofline only about 2 or 3 inches and provisions an intake duct for breeze to go far right under those shingles.

So if you were to add the roof-edge vent and then combine that with a endless bank vent, you would have the kind of flow that you really need. So what happens is as the wind collisions the ceiling, it propagandizes up, it depressurizes that ridge, it’ll pull air out from the bank ventilate while pushing aura in from those soffit vents that we just talked about. And that will do a lot to cooling that attic space.

Now, those turbines that you described, if you get the ridge and the drip-edge vents installed, I would remove the turbines because they’re just going to get in the way. They’ll interrupt that airflow that we’re trying to establish the pattern for.

CHARLES: Yeah, this crest duct you’re talking, I’m going to have to have them redo the ridge thing. It’s a shingle-type roof. Going to have to have them redo that?

TOM: Yeah, you’re going to have to do some carpentry been working. The ridge ventilate is pretty easy because you can trimmed right through the ceiling shingles, at the top peak, and attach the crest show right on top of that. And it’s a moderately watertight equip. The soffit drip-edge vent, that’s a little bit more complicated. You’d "re going to have to" take apart the first got a couple of rows of shingles to get that in.

CHARLES: Alright. Well, I recognize the data and I’m going to take a look at that material and then start looking around for a good contractor that can do that for ...

LESLIE: Alright. Thanks so much for name The Money Pit.

You can reach us anytime 24 hours a day, 7 days a week right here at 888 -MONEY-PIT.

Up next, could your mansion help a little more glint? Get in on the design direction that’s making a comeback: lacquer. We’re going to tell you how, after this.

TOM: Making good homes better, this is The Money Pit Home Improvement Show. I’m Tom Kraeutler.

LESLIE: And I’m Leslie Segrete.

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TOM: And if you’ve got a home progress question, you can call us at 888 -MONEY-PIT or post it to MoneyPit.com, which is what Jim did. And he’s got a question about cleaning wood kitchen cabinets.

LESLIE: That’s liberty. Jim writes: “What commodity would you recommend for cleansing timber kitchen cabinets? We simply bought a new house and the cabinets are a light-white oak and they’re very dirty with grease, paw grease and cigarette-smoke residue.”

TOM: That’s like the trifecta there.

LESLIE: Yeah, seriously.

TOM: Grease, grime and cigarette smoke.

Well, I’ll tell you what, you have to start with a soap. But the problem is you can’t get too moisture to those used cabinets, because you could rot the wood.

So, I would start with Murphy’s Oil Soap. If it’s a good, dependable wood cleanser, you’re going to find it to be very effective at attracting a lot of that out of there. But just don’t use a lot of water with it. You can dip a washcloth into the Murphy’s Soap, lick the cabinets down, clean the washcloth, mop them again and so on, so that you’re not really sort of sloshing that sea on there. And that’s going to do a good job of taking a lot of that out there.

Now, another huge concoction, though, is WD-4 0, which has a ton of household applications. But you only want to use it as distinguished management. If you’ve got some specific areas in those closets that you just can’t get clean, try a little squirt of WD-4 0, especially if there’s adhesive on it from sticky shelf newspaper or something of that nature. It succeeds really well.

LESLIE: Yeah. All of this is a great start. And if you’re not joyful with the finished look, recollect at this part, you’ve sort of done the prep to start painting. So that’ll be the first step but cleaning really is a great way to see what you’ve got and decide where you want to go.

TOM: Well, love it or dislike it, the 80 s are back. And whether you’re wearing acid-washed denim or not, the most stylish place to keep your robes is a lacquered dresser or chest of drawers. And the gleam does not have to stop there. Leslie has got some theories, in today’s edition of Leslie’s Last Word.

Leslie?

LESLIE: Yeah, that wax look is popping up again. But timber that’s finished with lacquer does need proper prep. That includes sanding and sealing.

So, before you apply that glaze, clean completely with a way cloth. Then use exclusively aerosol-spray lacquer and protect that working area with drop cloths, newspaper. And delight make sure that you work in a well-ventilated space.

Now, you’re going to want to apply the lacquer slowly and evenly. And you’ve got to hold the can about 18 inches from the surface of the project. Any further away than that and that lacquer can orange-peel and sort of return a dimpled form on the surface. Closer than that is going to cause you to have too much lacquer building up and you’re going to get rolls or sags.

Now, as you work, overlap the glaze spraying decorations slightly. You require various thin coat to give you that high-gloss look, as opposed to a couple of ponderous coatings immediately. Make sure you follow those instructions and dry perfectly in between the coats.

Now, lastly, while wax can be used on most woods, you cannot use it on mahogany or rosewood, simply because those timbers are just too oily. And that’s going to see bleed through the finish and it’s not going to see last-place. It likewise can’t be used over sure-fire finishes, including oil-based discolorations and countless wood fillers. So you’ve got to make sure you’re putting it on the right surface.

But trust me, if you do, lacquer is gorgeous. I adore the super sheen. It realizes pigments seem really saturated and it’s phenomenal even in sudden situates, like a handrail or a banister in your stairwell. Superb. Use it wisely and adore it.

TOM: This is The Money Pit Home Improvement Show. Coming up next time on the program, older windows are more challenging than alluring when they get stuck slam or even affix open. If that chimes familiar and you’re thinking about updating those windows, we’re going to have tips for how you can work on getting them unstuck without making more detriment, on the very next edition of The Money Pit.

I’m Tom Kraeutler.

LESLIE: And I’m Leslie Segrete.

TOM: Remember, you can do it yourself ...

LESLIE: But you don’t "re going to have to" do it alone.

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