Colorado’s fall is calling, and https://FixItRadio.com serves up a perfect mix of mountain beauty and home-repair wisdom. Host John Rush and guest Steve Horvath start with the simple pleasures of golf and the breathtaking gold of Colorado’s aspen groves—but quickly turn to a question every homeowner should ask: is your property ready for the season ahead? From sprinkler shut-downs to driveway maintenance, John shares his real-world trial of a surprising new product—Magic Crack Filler—a dry powder that transforms into a flexible, rubber-like seal. Will this powder-to-rubber wonder stand up to Colorado’s freeze–thaw cycles and heavy traffic? John put it
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Walter? Upstairs! Are you alright?
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In the floor behind the chair.
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This is America.
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Does everybody know what time it is?
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Fix It Radio.
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And it’s that time, Fix It Radio, KLZ 560. Thank you all for joining us. It is an absolutely gorgeous Saturday here in Colorado, the 27th of September. Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer, Larry Unger, will be here today answering phones. And Steve Horvath from Geno’s Auto Service with me during this hour. And he’ll be with me in Drive Radio as well. Good morning. Good morning. It’s like golf day. I can’t believe Steve’s here, actually. Oh, tomorrow. Tomorrow. Okay. Only one day a week. Steve’s a good golfer. I’m not. I’m not. People ask me all the time, do you golf? I’m like, not very well. Not very well. That’s my answer.
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Not very well. The wonderful thing about golf is that you can play it. Everybody can play together at different levels. That’s true. No, that’s true. To me, it’s a competition against the golf course, not against each other. That’s right.
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Yeah, it’s well and against yourself in a lot of ways. So it’s really against yourself really is, you know, and it’s a, as you know, it’s a very mental game, but I enjoy it just because you get to be outside and I love the, you know, me, I love green grass and all that. Anyways, that’s the best part about golf is just all that.
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Oh, it ended up there. We played up in Pole Creek up by Winter Park area, and it’s just so pretty. It’s gorgeous. It’s private-y, and there’s nobody there. You hear the nature.
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Yep. All right, last week we talked, Larry and I did, about concrete repair because it’s that time of the year where if you’re getting things ready to go for fall, which is literally just around the corner, we’re already into fall. This last Monday was the first day. of fall so we’re into fall right now you can start seeing some of the colors even down here starting to change some of the leaves are changing up in the high country I did go up last Sunday and it’s not at its peak at least it wasn’t last Sunday so I don’t know what it’s like right now I am anticipating just from looking at where things were a week ago yeah we had some cold weather that came through but I’m anticipating it’s going to be pretty decent colors this weekend and probably have one more weekend left first weekend of October probably would be the peak, depending upon what elevation you’re at. There are some places I’ve heard where some of the leaves have already, you know, fully changed and have fallen off. You get really high, but we were up in the, you know, Silverthorne, Breckenridge, came around the 285 area, and there’s still a ton of green. That was last Sunday, so not even a week ago. So I’m guessing that one more week there’s been some more color changes, but Definitely not to the fullest extent. So if you’re one of those that likes to go out and see the colors and a lot of people, trust me, from the traffic, yes, a lot of people do do that. But that really comes down to, you know, you and what you like doing and all of that. I had somebody yesterday that was actually Tanner, who works here at the station, was looking for some things to do today. And I’m like, you know, you’re not from this area. Go see the colors. If you’ve never been up to the high country this time of year to see them, it’s not like going back east. This is not the upper New England area by any means, but it is still spectacular, and our mountains are breathtaking in and of themselves. You add the colors to it, and it really is spectacular. It’s like little rivers of gold. It’s just gorgeous.
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It’s just such a neat thing to see.
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And it’s why people come from literally all over the country, sometimes all over the world, to see the colors that we have here. Again, we don’t have New England colors, but we have mountains that they don’t have there. We have mountains that most places don’t have, period. Some of you guys that are up in the Montana area and so on, yeah, you have similar things as well, so you know what I’m talking about. But here in Colorado, it is… It really is spectacular. And that’s one thing I don’t know. I don’t know if other places have the amount of aspen groves and that that we have here. I’ve never been to other places in the fall. I’ve never hunted out of state, so I’ve never been to some of the other areas to know.
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I don’t know either. I think, and it may be just, Colorado may be good for the aspen in some way. Yeah, I don’t know. Its temperatures.
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One of the largest, one of the longest living organisms on Earth are aspen trees. Aspen trees. Up near Basalt, I hear. Yeah, and they’ve been around forever, and part of that’s because even when one, you know, they’re a continuous growth, so even as one clump might die off or a tree dies off, it’s still shooting out, and there’s other parts of it that are still alive, and it just keeps regenerating itself. It’s really cool how that does. So we’re going to talk about concrete repair, though, today, because, again, we’re getting to that time of the year where you need to be doing some of these things outside. I did mention last week that when it gets to the point of talking about shutting sprinklers down believe me we will go through that process we’re not close yet uh we’re supposed to be i’m sorry i should have looked this up this morning to see exactly what we’re going to be temperature wise we got a pretty nice week ahead so today’s high temperature is going to be in the low 80s Tomorrow, same. Actually, even on down through the end of the week, Thursday, 81, Friday, 82, be a little bit cooler next weekend. But again, we’ve got enough temperatures during the day. You still need to be watering. So you could probably be doing that. I talked to you guys about this last weekend. I’ll water all the way until it gets cold enough, and then I shut things down. But I’m usually watering all the way up to almost Thanksgiving, so I’m a little more unique than most people. But in the case of most people, and when we get into that Halloween season, it starts to get cool enough. So you get in the latter part of October, it’s getting cool enough to where by then, I’ll have a conversation on how to shut your sprinkler down. But we’re two or three weeks away from that, so I’m not going to deal with that quite yet. So today we’re going to talk about some concrete repair. Now, some of you may have some of your own secrets. What got me going on this was I’ve got some things to do at home. Larry and I were talking last weekend. He’s been testing some things at home. So I thought, well, I’m going to go ahead and do some testing as well. And I had bought a product off TikTok shop. I’ll be blunt and tell everybody. So I buy a few things off of TikTok shop. And the first thing I ever bought there, I’m like, okay, is this a scam? Does it work? So far, I’ve never bought a single item that didn’t pan out. So just to be honest with everybody, I think, Steve, you have as well. I’ve never had any issues buying anything. So I bought some stuff off of TikTok, and you can buy this in other places. It’s called Magic Crack Filler. That’s the name brand of the product, and they make it for concrete and asphalt. And what’s really cool about this product is it’s a powder. It doesn’t come as a liquid, it’s not a caulking, it’s not even a strip. Larry gave me a strip I’m gonna try in my place later today where you put it down on the crack, you use a torch, heat it up, it then melts into things, and I’m gonna test it as well. But the Magic Crack Filler is a dry product. You need to, you know, either use a brush or a blower or something, but blow the crack out really well. Get it all. You make sure everything’s dry, of course, and get it all blown out. You need to have temperatures above 50 degrees. That’s what it wants you to do. And I think you’re better off doing it when it’s a little bit warmer. So, you know, heat of the day, you know, noon, 1 o’clock, something along those lines. And what you do is get the crack all, you know, completely cleaned out, blow it all out. This is a powder so you just cut a little you know cut a little got tube on top just like you would with oil or anything you just cut a little bit of a of the top off and you literally just tip it up and you pour the powder into the crack and use a putty knife credit card whatever you want to kind of scrape everything into the crack and then take the excess off of the top because you don’t want to waste the product. Once that’s done, have a spray bottle handy that’s got water only in it, and all you do is mist that crack. You don’t pour water on it. You just mist the crack with that water out of the spray bottle, and that activates that powder, and it becomes a… It’s a little bit harder than rubber, but it’s still a flexible, rubbery substance when you’re done, and it bonds to all of the concrete and that around it. And I even tested it in a way that it’s not meant to be used. I thought, you know, I’m going to really test this out. I had a particular place where I had a pretty large chip. in the concrete where it was probably about a 4×6 section where the concrete kind of had chipped away. The old concrete was still there, but it had chipped out and around. And I thought, because you’re only supposed to go to a half an inch crack with this, which isn’t very wide if you think about it. And I probably had more than an inch on this. So I went ahead and just layered the whole top of it. I thought, I’m just going to top coat it, layer it in. I’m just going to see how this stuff works. Why not? And I did. And… Sure enough, it even worked for that. Now, probably should have done that fix a little differently, but I thought if I’m going to test it, talk about it on air, I’m going to give it a real test and just see how it works and do something that it’s really not even designed to do. And I’ve even seen, you know, because I have traffic that comes in and out of this particular area of my driveway, I could even see where it’s been driven over. and it’s held up just fine. Just flexed with wheels. It just flexes as you drive over it, and it’s been just fine with no issues at all. It’ll never get completely hard. It’ll always have a little bit of a squishiness to it, which is the way it’s designed. It’s meant to fill in a crack so that if that seam moves at all, it’s moving with the concrete. But I’m here to tell you what, folks. Magic Crack Filler, yeah, it worked. And here’s the best part about it for me. No mess.
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no mess you know normally with crack fillers you’ve got a tube of caulking sometimes it’s self-leveling sometimes you gotta you know use your finger to rub it in and you know get it all smoothed out make it look good and all of that and this is a no mess situation you literally put it down dry the one caution i will give you is if you have an area where there is a void you know underneath that particular crack in that in that particular area It’s like an hourglass. It’ll just keep flowing on in. And in that case, you’ll have to put a little bit of backing or something down in there. Or Larry had suggested maybe a little bit of sand first. Fill that in with some sand and then top it with the Magic Crack Filler. But if you’ve got a spot whereby there’s a void that’s underneath that area, because it’s a really fine powder. Think of… Think of sugar. Oh, okay. There you go. It’s probably not much thicker than sugar. In fact, it might even be a little bit more powdery than what even sugar is. But not like talcum powder. It’s not like talcum. Yeah. It’s not like… What’s the super refined sugar? What do they call that? Oh. Oh, yeah. Powdered sugar. It’s not powdered. It’s not as fine as powdered sugar, but it’s not as thick as regular sugar. So it’s probably halfway between powdered sugar, regular sugar. So that’s pretty fine. Meaning that, again, if there’s a void of any kind, it’s going to find its way in. And literally, I had it happen. It looks like an hourglass. You can literally see. Oh, just shrink. It looks like when a bug is in the sand or whatever, it looks just like that, where it’s just funneling on down through. And then you know you’ve got that spot and you need to put some backing or something down in there. And that’s probably an area where, hey, if you wanted to, put a little bit of caulking in that area, put a little backing in. As Larry said, fill it up with sand first, whatever the case. But then go ahead and top it off with the Magic Crack Filler. And so far, so good. Now, I will say this. It’s only been there for five days. I did this, I think, Tuesday. No, I did it after all the rain, so I did it on Wednesday. So it’s only been three days. But so far, even some of the parts where it’s been run over, so far so good. And I will just tell you from looking at it, I can’t see that it’s not going to last. I mean—
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Interesting to see in the spring after all this winter.
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My biggest test will be after plowing snow and doing some things on top of the concrete and all of that. You know, what’s that going to look like? But I would honestly, I don’t see it not working. I really don’t. So that’s what I’ve been using. Now, some of you might have some other tricks of the trade that you use. And bottom line is this. We want to fill those cracks in the concrete because especially here in Colorado, we want to keep that moisture out of the cracks because it’s that moisture that gets down in and then freezes, and it’s that freeze-thaw that then starts to have other ill effects upon trees. the concrete itself. So we want to fill those cracks just to make everything last longer. For people that are in warmer areas, some of you that listen to me that are down south and places like that, you know, not really as big of a deal because you don’t have the freeze-thaw that we have. But since we’re in Colorado and if that moisture gets down underneath, yes, you will find that we can have other issues coming out of that, especially if a lot of water gets in some of those areas. So, yeah, we want to fill those joints in. We want to make sure that we’re keeping the water out of those cracks. It’s how we make our concrete last as long as possible. And here’s the thing, folks. If you haven’t done any concrete work lately, it’s expensive. The cost of concrete continues to rise. It’s not getting any cheaper. You know, a yard of concrete just keeps going up and up and up, the labor to put it in. You’ve got to take the old stuff out. You’ve got to then reform. You’ve got to put the new stuff in, get everything prepped. All of that is getting way more expensive than it was even a couple of years ago. So my point is, if you can save your old concrete. any way shape or form you are much better off doing that than you are trying to do any kind of a replacement so whatever you can do to keep your current you know concrete in good shape do whatever you need to do fixing hairline cracks or even a little bit bigger cracks the joints between the slabs uh the area up against the garage slab itself i mean any of those areas where if you’ve got any kind of of gaps or issues going on you want to get those filled in because that’s how we keep things lasting longer
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And I did buy the asphalt repair. I haven’t.
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I’ll let you know how it works for me. That’s my next goal today. Oh, okay. So between Steve and I, we’ll do a little bit of testing on that and tell you how the asphalt works. So, yeah, some of you might have asphalt driveways. Some of you have concrete driveways. Some of you, of course, have concrete sidewalks. This applies to that as well. You’ll have patios, anything along those lines. I haven’t used it inside yet. A lot of times you’ll have joints inside of your garage and so on. I haven’t used it inside yet. I don’t really have any places yet that I’ve got any major cracks. I’ve got one little area that I might do a little test in inside the shop just to see how it works. If worse comes to worse, it doesn’t. You can peel it out and put some other product in it, but I’m going to try it in one little area there too and just see how it works.
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Yeah, we do have spots in the shop. I wonder how it would react to the chemicals that get on the ground.
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You know, it would be a good test. And that was my thought as well, just to see how well does it do inside, given the fact you’re washing it more and you’ve got, you know, stuff that drips on it. And, you know, you’ve just got more stuff going on inside the shop than you would in your normal driveway. Foot traffic and machinery traffic over there. Now, the plus side to this stuff that I also noticed is the initial tackiness or the initial dry time, a couple of hours is all. That’s the other nice thing about it because there’s a lot of the products out there where it takes literally several hours for things to even dry up enough to where you could even walk over it or do anything along those lines. This stuff here, a couple hours, dried up, ready to go, piece of cake. So that’s my testimony, and I’m not getting paid. From them, by the way. I have no… They have no stake in this. I have no stake in this. This just happened to be something that I bought because I… I don’t like most of the crack-filling products that are on the market. And to me, they’re all garbage. I’m sorry. Very few of them work very well at all, in my opinion. They don’t last.
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Yeah, they just don’t. They just don’t.
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Somebody also just texted, perfect timing, need a small crack-filled on a patio? Does it come in different colors? So the Magic Crack Filler, I’m glad you asked, it comes in gray and tan. Now, could you add some of the other coloring that’s available? You know some of the concrete coloring that’s made? It’s on the market. You can get it at all your big box stores. Could you color that in? I don’t know, because I don’t know if the coloring powder would affect… The reaction, you would just have to test that and see. You’d have to get a little, you know, put a little bit in a little bowl, put a little bit of color in it, see if you get the color halfway mashed and try it and see if it still works. I don’t know on that end of things. But it comes in tan and it comes in the regular, you know, gray concrete color as well. Now, I will tell you this. The gray that it comes in is a really light gray. So if you’ve got a little bit darker concrete, you are going to see that you fixed it. But that, you know, you’re going to see some of that anyways. You can get it as close as you can. Bottom line is you want to protect it as much as you possibly can and just keep the concrete, you know, itself intact and keep the integrity there. But matching the color, I’m not exactly positive if you could actually do that or not. there again there is my story on magic crack filler steve’s going to try some on the asphalt side i’m going to do that again probably this weekend i’ll give you a report back on the asphalt side as well uh and again if any of you guys have any other product that you really like that works well by all means let us know we’re gonna take a quick break fix it radio don’t forget you can go to the website fixitradio.com we’ll be right back myself steve horvath again fix it radio klz 560.
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All right, we are back, Fix It Radio. Somebody texted in, too, on aspens. This is probably more of a Ready Radio type comment, but this works here as well, that aspen trees can be, he’s been told, don’t know, I’ve never tried this, but the powder on the bark of aspen trees, if you rub that on your skin, it acts as a sunscreen. You also have a painkiller if you chew it. And the original aspirin medicine was made from that before we had synthetics, and that comes from Mark. So I did not know any of that. Thank you. Very interesting. I’ll keep that in my memory bank. So for the end of the world, you need a painkiller, there you go. Go ahead. No, don’t rub an aspirin. Just eat some of it. Just eat some of it.
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But if you need sunscreen, rub that on you. We were just talking about mortar, concrete, and those kind of things. Is there anybody out there who would tell us the differences, the mixtures, and that kind of stuff? I know some of it’s like fly ash and aggregate.
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You know, my brother-in-law might be able to tell me. I might ask him and then bring that back next week. He works for CMEX, and I might be able to get some information from him on that.
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I know it’s like Larry said, like a cake. You mix a little of this and a little of that, and all of a sudden it’s pretty solid. And water. Water.
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Yep, and there is a difference, as you guys all know, there’s a difference between cement and concrete. Cement is what’s used to bond, or it’s the bonding agent, I guess you could say, for concrete, and cement comes in all different flavors. It is not a, by any means, not a one-size-fits-all.
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I don’t know if the Romans actually invented it, but I know they built a lot of stuff that’s still standing and still…
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I don’t either, but I would be surprised if they weren’t the inventors of, to be honest with you. Again, those of you that, if you know anything on that and you want to give us a call and let us know how that works, by all means, let us know. 303-477-5600. I should have mentioned earlier, too, that if you’ve got any questions at all, any things you want to add to the show today… Anything that you’re wondering, hey, I’ve got this problem at home. I need to get this fixed. Yes, I know it’s a beautiful day. Some of you are probably outside working, even getting some of those things done for the end of the season yard-wise and so on. But, you know, a lot of you are still cutting grass and doing all those things. I mean, I’m looking out here at the golf course, Steve, and even the field with the rain. We had this last week. Even some of the natural grasses have greened back up again. That rain really did help a lot. 24 hours straight of rain.
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I have an interesting story for you about my yard. I have a pear tree that dumps just tons and tons of pears. But what’s been interesting is we have raccoons that have been coming in and eating it. Really? And, you know, not only do they poop all around, but they eat so much that they throw it back up. It’s incredible. I can tell the difference. They’re gorging themselves.
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So they gorge so much they then throw it up.
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You’ve got to be kidding me. It is awful. And there’s probably 30 spots my wife and I were trying to clean up. And, you know, they put them in the worst possible spots. So I did do some research over this week about spraying something on the tree to keep it from – So is there anything available? Yeah, there is. There’s a couple different things. It looks like it’s a powder that you mix in your reed sprayer and you spray it on. I ordered it, but I haven’t seen what it is. You do it at certain times. You have to probably do it at a perfect timing when it’s starting to do its budding or flowering. And the word where they use, like, mutes that are, I’m sure there will probably still be some that would come out, but it stops it from. And where we really thought it worked really good was all those nasty crabapple trees that still do the fruit. I think it worked really well. I have some of those. And you could spray it on, and supposedly it’ll work.
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Really?
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There was a word, it started with an E. So it, like, sterilizes the tree or something, basically, so it doesn’t produce fruit?
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Yeah.
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I had no idea. That’s a new one on me. I kind of like the fruited trees and stuff, and I don’t mind the pears until the raccoon stuff. Learn something new every day, though.
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So they eat so much, they literally gorge themselves, and then they throw up. Yeah.
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Because you can kind of tell if it’s one of the other.
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They’re not super smart. No, no. Well, that’s what they’re called, trash pandas.
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Yeah, yeah. And they’re nocturnal. We don’t ever see them. No, no. They’re not.
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True. That’s hilarious. Yeah, we get a few around our place as well, but none that I’ve seen do that at this point. All right, I did have an article today talking about all the concrete stuff, so if you’ve got any questions along those lines, please let me know. Now, one other thing, in fact, we could probably do an entire show, and maybe I’ll try to find an expert on this, on coating of concrete. A lot of you like to have your garage floor coated and so on, and what I will tell you is that’s an extremely difficult process to do on your own. And the majority of DIY products… Just frankly, I’ll just be straight up honest. They do not work. They do not last. They really struggle with what we call hot tire soak. Tires are really hot when they come in. People don’t realize that, but because of the friction from the road, and Steve, you would know this, you bring a car right in and you park it right on top of your garage floor and If those tires are hot, we call a hot soak, and that rubber will react. And in a lot of cases, it’ll pull that coating right off of the floor. And it’s because of that hot soak, that hot rubber that’s sitting on top that makes that happen. Exactly. And it’ll peel that right off. I wondered why they don’t ever last. I just know they don’t work. The hot tire soak. So you really have to have somebody that understands how to prep the concrete floor correctly. they do all sorts of things even with acid to get it all prepped but a lot of times they’ll shot peen the concrete get it opened up nice they then use acid to get everything nice and clean and then they’ll put a primer down then they put your epoxy one or two coats down and typically they’ll even clear coat the top of that after they put the flake and everything into it if that’s what you’re looking for and it’s a process now i’ve seen some guys that advertise you can do that in one day and still drive on to the next Some of that product has gotten better and better and better, just like the crack filler we were talking about. Some of that technology has improved, although I’ve never tested any of the products or been around any of the products that you can drive on the next day. All of the products I was ever familiar with prior, you needed a full 30-day cure time before you could – at least two weeks cure time before you could literally go in and park on top because it took that long for that epoxy to cure. Now – If some of you have any information on that and you know there are some companies out there, you know of them and how they do that and how quickly you can park on things afterwards, I would love to know because we can share that information out with you all. But I will say this. You’ve heard Joe from Jersey call in and talk about this. Nothing better than an epoxy floor in your garage. And I can attest to this. The last two places I’ve had, current one even, is done that way. It makes things so much easier to clean, sweep even. You know, just the stuff that gets on the floor, it’s so much easier to take care of when that floor has been coated with an epoxy coating than it would be if you didn’t do anything to it at all. Eat, clean up, everything. Way easier. The downside is… This is kind of true, period, even with slick concrete, because most of your interior concrete’s finished off with a really nice, smooth surface. They don’t brush it like you do a driveway. But the downside is if it gets wet, it can get really slippery. Now, if you use the garage mats, like I talk about every single year, and I’ll drag mine out here in about another month, and the garage mats are the parking mats that you park the car on. so that all of the water is dripping, the snow and crud and so on, all the water that drips off falls on the mat and doesn’t go into the garage. So if you use those, well, even that epoxy coating, and for a lot of you, some of you may even argue with me on this one, but I don’t like when they throw the sand into the mixture to make it a little bit rougher so you don’t slip on the epoxy, and that’s kind of a standard that a lot of guys will do. I don’t care for that because it makes cleaning it harder. Mm-hmm. I just assume have it smooth, and I’ll take my chances on slipping and falling. Slipping, and if you get a little oil on it, it’s even more slippery, like a banana stepping out of a banana. It is, and yes, when you have a coated floor, you have to be really careful, but I don’t like the granulars. In fact, when I had my own shops and I had my shop floors done and so on, I didn’t do that. because it’s so much harder to clean. And what we did is we just made sure we kept everything nice and clean and dry, and we had a floor scrubber we used to use to keep everything cleaned up. And when you do that, it’s not a big deal, and we didn’t have any issues. But I don’t like the granulars that are put into the epoxy. If you get that done and that’s an option, my own personal opinion is that’s a no for me because it makes it harder to clean. Yes, it’s a little bit more forgiving as far as the slipping goes. But again, if you keep stuff off the floor, use the garage mats and so on, it’s not a huge issue anyway. So it’s not a big deal as far as that goes.
SPEAKER 08 :
And if you do spill the oil and stuff, don’t use the…
SPEAKER 07 :
kitty litter anymore use the pig mat that they have that is the most wonderful stuff and we buy it by the roll oh yeah i have some of my own shop at home it’s just the best way to go yeah i i am not a fan of the kitty litter because it just makes such a mess i mean there are times where yes you get a big enough spill you’re going to get that out and use it so you always have a little bit around just in case in your case even outside in the driveway or something along those lines if something spills you might use it for that but I don’t like it just because at the end of the day, it’s just – it’s messier. It’s easier to use the pig mat and go that direction, if you ask me.
SPEAKER 08 :
And actually, they even have – we’ve bought the tubes that are filled with the kitty litter. Oh, yes. So you can build like a little dike.
SPEAKER 07 :
Use the dam for it, basically. If it’s that bad.
SPEAKER 08 :
And we have that stationed around the shop just in case something goes crazy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and that’s – and by the way, folks, just side note, that’s – I talked about this a couple of weeks ago. in my daily show about how the automotive industry has been environmentally friendly a lot longer than most people give them credit for because you know a we don’t want spills it’s it takes time you got to clean it up there’s risk of slip and falls and so on but on on top of that It’s costly. It takes time to clean all that stuff up. So we do our best to keep everything clean. We’ve been recycling in the automotive world for eons now. I mean, good grief, Steve. I started doing recycling of even coolant, I think, all the way back in the early 2000s. So it’s been 25 years that that stuff’s been going on. So the day and age of not recycling all of the fluids and things that you would take out of a vehicle, it’s been a long, long time. We’ve been doing things along those lines probably longer than a lot of other industries have. remember you used to be able to buy a recycled oil when you couldn’t afford to buy oil you know and you could buy that recycled oil which obviously was recycled oil that’s right that’s right this was the 60s and i went through one of the recycle oil plants at one point in time and i tell you what the way they recycled it and the way they took all of the impurities out and re-cracked it and got it back down to where it literally was a solid base stock to be used again It’s not just like filtering it, putting in some additives. No, they’re not doing that. It is a complete, it’s almost a refining process of the oil. And that’s why a lot of the recycled oil companies that take recycled oil and will recycle it and then make new oil back out of it again. They will only take certain oils in the first place, meaning if there’s been some contaminants in that oil, somebody poured carb cleaner in or it’s got any other kind of contaminants, stuff like that, they test it because if there’s any contaminants, they won’t take it because it affects the process I just mentioned.
SPEAKER 08 :
Sure, it probably makes it much more difficult.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, it makes it difficult to do.
SPEAKER 08 :
I thought they took all our used oil and made like… That’s always what I heard.
SPEAKER 07 :
It depends. In some cases, they do. But in a lot of cases, there are companies that will take that old oil and they do a recycled product. But it’s not – I think there’s a misconception there. We think of recycled as being, oh, you’re just kind of cleaning up the old and putting it right back out. Like, no, this is more like a water treatment plant. where literally you go through the process of treating that water, and keep in mind it’s going right back into the rivers. It’s going downstream, and the next people are using that for their fresh water. So what’s coming out is very drinkable. In a lot of cases, you’re not drinking it without it being gone through again, but they do enough testing on that where some of you that have worked in treatment plants know exactly what I’m talking about. I’ve got a good friend that retired from a treatment plant that will verify everything I just said. By the time they’re done treating it, They have literally taken all of those contaminants out. The recycled oil is very much that same way. Very much that same way. All right. I had something I was going to talk about last week, but we got to talking about other things and didn’t get around to it. Now, some of you that are in the electrical world may want to chime in on this, but this was something Charlie sent me a few weeks ago. Seven mistakes electricians wish homeowners would stop making. That’s a good one. There’s probably more than seven.
SPEAKER 08 :
There’s probably more than seven. But the seven big ones.
SPEAKER 07 :
First one is overloading outlets, using lots of extension cords, power strips, things along those lines. And what they’re really going with on this is if you have that many circuits in that particular vicinity, the first question is why, and is this where you need to have an electrician come out and add maybe an entire other circuit to everything that you’re doing so that you’re not putting as many things on one circuit as you are right now? There’s never enough outlets. I’m one of those that, you know, I don’t know about you, Steve, but whenever I built my shops, instead of doing even a, you know, a two-plug box, I always did fours and just little things along those lines because you never have enough of them, it seems. And just so for me, you know, always ran extra just because you wanted to have enough just in case, and that’s exactly why. So Jerry and Greeley, Jerry, you’re next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 03 :
I was interested in the discussion about the concrete crack filling. Yes. I have some cracks that sounds like are too large for the powdery stuff you were describing. But I was curious about, you also mentioned some stuff you put in the crack and then heat up with a torch.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, hang on. It’s right behind me. Hold on. Larry. Larry brought this in for me to try. They make it for asphalt, Jerry, and for concrete. This is called Ply Stix. This is what Larry brought me. And they sell this at most of your big box stores. And it comes, you can get it, again, for asphalt or for concrete. And it’s a strip that’s about, I don’t know, how thick is this? It looks like hose. About, yeah, it looks like a piece of about, I don’t know, five-sixteenths hose, maybe I would say, Jerry. And you roll this out, lay it in the crack, and then you get either a small, you know, butane or propane torch or whatever you have. You know, some of you have weed, you know, the weed burning torches or whatever. I mean, depending upon what you have, you then melt that into the crack is what you do. Heat it up, melt it in.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. Do you have any experience with that?
SPEAKER 07 :
I am going to later today. Larry does. Larry says it works great. He’s already tried it, and he’ll give you a full thumbs up on it, Jerry, and says it works fabulous. Yes. And where is that available? Is that Home Depot? Yeah, Larry bought this online, but you can buy it Amazon, Home Depot, Lowe’s. We looked last weekend, or Larry and I did last Saturday, Jerry, and it’s available at all of your big box stores. And it comes in a clamshell case, and you may not know what it is by looking at it until you read the label because it looks like hose, but it’s not. It’s actually a filler that you lay down in, heat up, and it’ll fill in the crack that way.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, great. I think I’m going to go.
SPEAKER 07 :
And you can buy really quick, too. I did look up, too. You can buy different lengths of it. So you can buy it in like a single pack that’ll give you, you know, 50 foot or you can buy it up to, you know, 100 yards in a bucket. I mean, they kind of make it in different flavors, Jerry.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, that sounds worth trying.
SPEAKER 07 :
I think I’m going to go with it. Larry brought me some in that works for asphalt, and I’ve got a nice asphalt crack that I’m going to try it on later this afternoon or tomorrow, and I’ll report back next weekend. But I see no reason why it won’t work. When you look at how it works, I think it’ll work fine. I think it probably comes in different diameters, too. Yeah, I think depending upon the size of the crack, I think they do make it thicker or thinner, Jerry, depending upon what you’re doing.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, well, that sounds worth giving a try.
SPEAKER 07 :
It definitely is, yeah. If it’s too thick for what I, you know, the crack’s too big for what I was talking about earlier with the Magic Crack Filler, yeah, this stuff would work fine. All right, well, I appreciate that. No, you’re very welcome, Jerry. Thank you for that. I appreciate that. So, you know, back to the things that electricians wish we would all do. And, yeah, you know, because all you’re going to do is overload one circuit where you probably should have more than one. And this really comes down to your home, what you’re doing, what’s the area. The one thing that I don’t like that a lot of the builders do, And this is where every home I’ve had done over the past 30 years, I have specifically asked, and if I even had to pay extra, I did. I wanted my own garage circuit. I didn’t want the garage tied into another part of the house. And a lot of these builders will tie a garage circuit into an upstairs, you know, up above you is the bathroom area. You know, that’s right above the garage. And they’ll tie the circuit for the garage into the upstairs bathroom. And if a GFI trips, it may be in the garage. It may be in the bathroom upstairs. I mean, I hate that. So I have always asked for and paid extra for a dedicated… outlet in the garage that is not tied into the rest of the house. I want my own garage circuit. So those are the sorts of things we’re talking about. For some of you that are handy and you do a lot of things out in the garage and so on, in a lot of cases, the breaker box, you know, your master box is probably on the outside or right on the inside of the garage anyways. So to add that extra circuit, as long as your box isn’t full, for most electricians, is not that… big or costly of an item to do they can typically come right back through the wall drop you an outlet there right near wherever that box is on the outside now you’ve got a dedicated circuit inside the garage and off you go or add a little 220 in case you want to run all sorts of things along those your your ev charger whatever you’re looking to do along those lines that would be the way so that’s one of those things again that electricians talk about is you know don’t overload a circuit by adding all sorts of different things to it if it means adding another circuit to that go ahead and do so especially for some of you guys that work in in your garage and do some things along those lines as well all right i got a few more tips that’s only one out of the seven that they’re talking about we’ll get to some of these others in a moment myself steve horvath we got lines open 303-477-5600 don’t forget you can send us a text message as well 307-282-22 fix it radio klz 560.
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SPEAKER 07 :
Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. Got a nice message, by the way, on the concrete coatings. So the technology, yes, has definitely improved. And I was correct on the fact that they don’t really even acid wash anymore. They do a grinding or a peening of the concrete now. So they’ve even changed their method of doing that. And 72 hours now is what most of the floor coating guys can guarantee you that you can actually walk on, drive on, and so on. So 72 hours, that’s far better than what… it used to be and i knew they made better you know again that technology just continues to improve and improve and improve the way they’ve got the coatings uh much much better than it used to be in yeah and i will even this this texture told me the same thing the home kits garbage they they are total garbage don’t don’t even try it now If you had like a small little shed or something like that and you’re wanting to coat that yourself or you’ve got maybe a step or something like that and you’re not going to be driving on any of it and you’re just walking on it, could you coat some of that yourself? Yeah, I think you probably could do that. yourself without any issues but if you’re driving on it and you’ve got any kind of traffic along those lines on it get the good stuff because otherwise it just won’t it just won’t work somebody also says it okay to mix atf with motor oil for recycling in the same container yep not a problem all that burns just fine uh in fact here’s here’s a here’s a tip this is for because a lot of you guys on this is fix it radio but a lot of you guys you know do stuff at home on your own And whether it’s working on your car, your lawnmower or whatever, when it comes to getting rid of oil. Now, a lot of the parts stores will go ahead and take your oil and they’ll go through the recycling process. But here’s a better tip for you. And this is only because it helps these shops out that have them. If you know of a shop nearby. Could be a fleet shop, could be a regular auto shop, could be even a warehouse. If they use recycled oil to heat their building, we call those waste oil heaters. If they have a waste oil heater, they’d love to have your stuff. Because that’s what they’re using to heat their shop. So if you know anybody that has a waste oil heater, and here’s the key to a waste oil heater, it’ll burn darn near anything, including cooking oil. So, I mean, you can literally, and how do I know this? Because we have one. I’ve had one for years now, decades now. And had one in my shops when I had them. Have one now in my current fleet shop. In fact, it’s the only way I heat my fleet shop is with a waste oil heater. And I tell you what, they are super efficient. They work extremely well. You can pretty much burn. I mean, if it’s burnable, so in this case, you can put old gas. You can put ATF. You could put brake fluid. You could put the engine oil. I mean, you name it. You can mix all of that together, drop it off to somebody who has a waste oil heater, and they’d be happy to take it for you. with no problem just no water no water no water and there it’s easy to see because it separates yeah the water’s on the bottom and the oil’s on the top you’d think that would be the opposite you’d think the water would always be on top but it’s not the water’s always on the bottom the oil’s always on the top so sometimes it’s a little bit hard to see so yeah don’t don’t um don’t put any water in that and then drop that off to the person with the waste oil heater because they’re not gonna like you when you do that so joe go ahead
SPEAKER 10 :
John, there’s another advantage to having a 220 outlet in your garage, which is that in the event of a power outage, if you have a small portable generator, you can backfeed your breaker box from that generator, which obviously you want outside your garage, not inside your garage. You have to make sure, though, that you throw the main 200-amp breaker off so you’re not trying to backfeed power into the neighborhood. So what you do is you can plug in your generator to that outlet in the garage. Again, making sure you turned off that main 200-amp breaker and then selectively turn on, whether it be your furnace in the winter or your freezers and refrigerators in the summer, and that’s kind of a poor man’s automatic transfer switch.
SPEAKER 08 :
Got it. Interesting. I’ve never thought of doing that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Actually, what I had done, I did it a little differently. When I had my house built, I had them put the 220-amp plug actually – ahead of the uh before the breaker box in the line coming into the breaker box but i had a fused disconnect switch with a flag handle um and the flag would when you were connected to the utility pole the flag would block the 220 outlet so you couldn’t plug anything into it but in the about an event of a power outage i would flip the handle on the on the disconnect switch up which would disconnect me from the pole And then I could plug into that receptacle, which was before the breaker box, and then feed down into the breaker box instead of, you know, from the bottom back up. It was from the top back in. So if you’re having a house built or something, that’s even a slicker way to do it. But you want to have a flag handle that covers that outlet so that you can’t accidentally plug something into it. Because, again, you’ve got no protection. You’re basically pulling juice right off the pole. So you want to have a fused disconnect above it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, makes sense.
SPEAKER 10 :
But, again, if it’s just a regular 220 outlet you want to use for a buzz box welder, you can do it. You just need to make sure you throw that 200-amp breaker so you’re not trying to push power back out to the pole.
SPEAKER 07 :
Makes sense.
SPEAKER 10 :
And so just another advantage to having a 220 outlet.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, among others. But, yes, absolutely, Joe, absolutely. Perfect. I appreciate that very much. That’s a great tip. Mike in Highlands Ranch, go ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, I thought I’d preach to the choir a minute. I just finished two weeks of getting ready for winter, had my tankless heater flushed and cleaned, had the furnace and AC cleaned and checked. Just had the refrigerator condenser cleaned off and checked to see everything was working. My gas stove, same thing. Washer, dryer, same thing. Replaced all the batteries in the smoke detector. You’re on it. Well, you know, this is the maintenance we all talk about.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, it is.
SPEAKER 11 :
That saves you money in the long run, and what a great time of year to get All that does is we prep for winter, and as you know, John, that doesn’t mean that something can’t break.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, you’re right, but it’s a whole lot easier to try to be in front of it than it is to be behind it.
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s right, and I’m sorry to get on the podium here, but this is a great time of year for folks to do that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. And by the way, along these same lines, I got a text message a moment ago that said, can I slow down watering and start slowly putting my grass to sleep? It’s the temperature that really starts to put the grass to sleep. And, Mike, the one thing that you want to be careful of is, If you starve the grass for water, you just have that much more issues when you go to bring things back next spring. So I’m one that says, no, I would keep watering until we get into those nighttime and in our daytime temperatures where they start to really drop and you can kind of start to see the grass go dormant, then you’re okay. We still have another month of quote-unquote growing season, if you would.
SPEAKER 11 :
I agree. I’m of the same opinion. I don’t shut my sprinkler or blow it off until… probably early November. I got to see some real significant temperature temperature change because the freeze line doesn’t get down to the lines.
SPEAKER 07 :
uh you know on the on the first freeze you need a couple of days of some serious stuff so you’re absolutely right and the the more you put on now the better off you’ll be next summer yep and and this was by the way back when we had our big drought i want to say that was back in 2000 or so 2001 there were a lot of people that you know even news agencies oh you know it’s a drought you don’t need to water your grass will come back fine next year yeah no it didn’t mike No, it didn’t. Not bluegrass won’t. No, sorry, did not. Dumb. That was total misinformation put out by news organizations.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, well, there’s a shocker.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Mike, I appreciate it. Thanks for the reminder, by the way. And I’ve got an electrician that texted in on Joe’s on the back feeding and basically be, and I know this, be extremely careful of that. What he said is don’t back feed. He’s repaired too many damaged electrical issues from people that have done what he calls a suicide operation. plug you still aren’t separating the neutrals you have to have an interlock an interlock kit is fine some 220 outlets aren’t rated to back feed you need a separate inlet to do so so be careful of that and maybe in the past joe when you’ve had that wired in they’ve done all of that But for some of you where you just drop a 240 plug in and then want to back feed into it, be very careful of that. And unless your electrician has wired that in specifically to do that. In other words, if you just have a 240 volt. Yeah. you know plug in your garage i wouldn’t do that without checking with an electrician first to see if i decided to do this am i okay i would have them look at all of that on the front side before you decide to do anything along those lines whatsoever and joe i get where you’re coming from on that but this is coming from an electrician i think for us as a show yes i need to put a disclaimer along those lines because i don’t want to be at fault for anybody doing something that would then come back and damage their electric system in their house or anything along those lines. So as this electrician is texting me is saying, please, please, please be careful of doing anything along those lines. And I’m with him. I think the best bet and the safest thing, especially for folks that aren’t handy, if you’re handy, might be a different situation. But if you’re not, those disconnects to where literally you’re isolating things and doing it that way. Yeah, I would do I would do that. And I wouldn’t do anything. unless you’ve got a certified electrician that is looking at how things are wired in your own home to determine if you were to back feed through that plug. How does that work and how would that affect the rest of your electrical system and do that before you would do anything? So that would be my advice. I think Joe would agree with me on that one because every home is different. And and again, just be really, really careful on that. He did say same electrician said a lot of the new code now is requiring that garage circuit to be dedicated although he said some electricians and track home builders and so on can get lazy and still not do what they’re supposed to and we all know that just because it passed inspection Doesn’t always mean anything. Sorry to say that, but it doesn’t always mean anything. Depends on who the inspector was, what day they showed up, what his relationship is with the workers that are there, and so on and so forth. I’m sorry to say that, but that’s the God’s honest truth there. Just because something was inspected by a building inspector, I’ll just be straight up honest. It doesn’t mean diddly squat, in my opinion. Sorry, those of you that maybe are building homes or having a home built or whatever, just because it passes inspection, I’m sorry. This is my distrust of government. And sorry if you’re a building inspector. Maybe you’re a really good one, and I’ll give you kudos. But I’m here to tell you, there are some that just rubber stamp certain things and or they nitpick other things that probably don’t matter. And a lot of that depends upon their mood for the day. Did they have a fight with the wife the night before? I mean, on and on we go. And I’m sorry to say that, but that’s literally, some of you that are in the trades, And I am. You know exactly what I’m talking about. So I’ll be the first to tell you that just because something passes inspection from a building inspector doesn’t mean doo-doo, in my opinion. That’s unfortunate.
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s sad.
SPEAKER 07 :
It is.
SPEAKER 08 :
Because you’re trusting them.
SPEAKER 07 :
It should be standard and equal. But people are fallible. Fallible, I guess I should say. And the reality is, again, when did that guy show up? Was it Friday night at 3? And he’s ready to be done for the day? And he just did a quick run-through and did a rubber stamp? Or was it Monday morning and he’s going to be super thorough because it’s Monday? Again, folks, there’s all sorts of variables that can come into play. And I’m not, you know, ditzing building inspectors. I’ll just tell you that I’m sorry to say – I’m not sure some of them even have a lot of background. I don’t even know what the requirements are to even be one. But there’s times where I’ve looked at some of these guys and I’m like, really? No offense. I think I know more about this than you do. And I’m not you. And again, I’m not trying to be rude, but holy cow. Anyways. next one ignoring flickering or dimming lights this is on the electrician sides of things yeah if you’ve got flickering or dimming lights there’s a reason why something’s not right there there’s even overload going on there is something that just with that particular circuit isn’t right and you need to figure out what is it what’s going on next one this goes back to the conversation we were just having with the person that texted in neglecting the panel the electrical panel In other words, is everything good and tight? Is everything up to speed? Is it all labeled correctly? On down the line we go. Back to Mike’s comment a moment ago. There’s certain maintenance things. that you need to be doing and even periodically you know peering inside and if you know what you’re looking for great if not an electrician ought to be coming by i don’t know if they need to do it every year but i would say probably every other year i would have an electrician roll by and just double check everything is everything working correctly do you have any issues with your panel what does it look like is anything in there you know not look correct here’s the other thing too if you’ve got a breaker that you’re using as a switch stop doing that breakers aren’t switches They’re breakers, and a lot of people will use breakers as switches, and that is not what they’re designed to do. And we’ve all, all of us in the auto world especially, we have a bad habit of using the compressor breaker as the compressor switch. It’s not. It’s a breaker. You know, I can always remember leaving the shop, you guys all turn the compressor off? Well, what that meant was, did you turn the breaker off? Well, little did I know then that that wasn’t really the right way to do that. You should have actually just turned off and had a separate switch at the compressor to turn it on and off, not turning the breaker on and off. And yet so many of us have done that over and over and over again through the years. And Steve’s laughing at me because he knows exactly what I’m talking about because we’re all guilty of it.
SPEAKER 08 :
We use it as a garage door. We turn off our garage door so they don’t work. It’s a little less of an amperage.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that’s not quite as big of a deal. And I get that. You’re doing that so they can’t open.
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But that’s another one where, okay, so add a switch. Should add a switch. You should just put a switch in line where the guys are just flipping a switch instead of a. And it would be done because a lot of times they leave it in. Well, then you know what you should do? I would add a switch that has the remote capability of turning it on and off with an app, because then you could always look at it and say, did you guys turn that off or not? That’s a good idea, too. And if it’s not, then you can quickly just turn it off, and now you’re good as gold, and off you go. That’s the other advantage of today’s world that we didn’t have a couple of decades ago. You can now control some of these circuits, by the way, remotely. That’s a great idea, by the way, turning off the garage door openers themselves where people just can’t get in, period. That’s a great idea. Yeah. All right, I got more tips along these lines. We’ll get to that next week, of course. And the last one on here is don’t treat an extension cord as a permanent solution. I’ll just close with that. So myself, Steve Horvath, Fix It Radio. It’s fixitradio.com is our website. We’ll be back next week, and have a great rest of your day. KLZ 560.
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