Welcome back to another lively discussion on Fix It Radio. Today, we’re joined by Steve from Geno’s Auto Service to talk about embracing the spring season with open arms. We’ll explore effective strategies for cleaning up after winter, the best practices for time management during daylight saving changes, and introduce innovative ideas for remodeling your home. Listen closely as we discuss how your home’s age and potential buyers can influence your renovation choices. Our show ensures you’re prepared for spring with a fresh perspective on home maintenance while keeping your home cozy and up-to-date.
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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? Fix It Radio.
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And it’s that time, Fix It Radio, KLZ 560. Appreciate you all joining us today. Live program today on March the 8th. Steve from Geno’s Auto Service with me today. Steve, welcome.
SPEAKER 12 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Good morning. Always good to have you. Beautiful day, by the way. So those of you that are listening and maybe want to get out and do some things around the house today, tomorrow even. Tomorrow’s even going to be a nicer day than yesterday. today, so if you’ve got any questions for us, by all means, please let us know. 303-477-5600. Don’t forget, the clock changes tonight. Everything springs ahead, so one hour ahead, meaning, you know, they always tell you you lose an hour, which theoretically you do, although we gain it, we lose it, we gain it, we lose it. Reality is, clocks change tonight, meaning that Tomorrow night, the sun will go down at a later date, or sorry, a later time, I mean, than what it has been. So if there’s any pluses, it’s that. I won’t be driving home from the station in the dark. Blinded, yeah. Yeah, for the next, well, it’ll be a while.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, and then in the mornings.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it’ll be a little bit late. I was noticing this morning, it’s getting light right now in the mornings. It’s six-ish or so, so it’ll be now seven-ish instead of six-ish, but we gain, this time of the year, we gain a lot of daylight every single day.
SPEAKER 12 :
And that is nice. It’s a good signal of spring and Things are changing.
SPEAKER 04 :
Which is some of what we’re going to talk about today. So thank you for segueing that, Steve. Yeah, those of you listening, there’s all sorts of things you can do right now getting ready for spring. I was telling my wife, I think it was a Wednesday night. I walked out and I said, you know, you can kind of smell just a hint of… of spring and you know the birds are you know back and yeah things like that so you know it’s just around the corner so yeah for those of you that are listening that have some things to get done as we head into the springtime uh now is your chance looks like we’ve got a great weekend of weather to do so if you’re listening to our replay show on tuesday thank you for that as well we do appreciate that but again if you have any questions 303-477-5600 also the text line 307 200-82-22-307, 200-82-22, text us a question. We can get that answered as well. But one thing to think about right now is, of course, outside cleanup, which from the winter months, there’s things that have, you know, taken place. I don’t see much snow left anymore. There are some of you that might have some, you know, really, really shaded areas where maybe there’s a little bit left. But right now, I think most everybody has. Actually, we had snow last night. Oh, you did a little bit.
SPEAKER 12 :
Over in Littleton.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 12 :
Chatfield and Wadsworth. Oh, yeah.
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Okay.
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Just enough on the grass.
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Not a lot.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, just enough on the grass. A little skiff. A little bit. Okay. I do have a question about something that’s different. Absolutely. Actually, we are in the process, almost done with remodeling our bathrooms.
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Oh, nice.
SPEAKER 12 :
So it’s kind of been enjoyable.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
It’s nice to watch it, not do it. Right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 12 :
Although I’ve been sucked into doing things as usual. Of course. Stainless steel and brushed nickel is what we kind of chose. Yeah. But I noticed a lot of it gets that like hard when you take a shower, hard water kind of stuff. What do you what do you try to put on? I mean, I know we talked about like Rain-X on windows and things. Is there something that’s good for that?
SPEAKER 04 :
To try to keep it from building up in the first place.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes, yeah, catch it before, like a wax like we do for cars. That’s a great question. I’m just curious if there’s anybody who knows.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, those of you listening, if there’s something that you apply on the stainless side, please let us know. Now, I do know this. This kind of goes back to the drive radio side. For example, a refrigerator and things like that, some of those types of appliances. Roy at ProTech can actually ceramic coat those items, which does have a protection as far as that goes. So that might be something you want to talk to Roy about and say, hey. Interesting. Is there something to maybe having you come in and ceramic coat some of my faucets and different things along those lines just to see and just ask him, what kind of protection would we get from doing so? And he can give you that answer. But the ceramic coating, I would think, Steve, would be one of the first things I’d look at.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s an interesting idea. And also, I was just thinking, you could treat the water before it comes in. You can. So it doesn’t have as much minerals. You can. Which we don’t do. I don’t do. But most of our water in Colorado is…
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Unless you’re well water or something like that, typically not a huge issue, although it really depends. There are people out there, and I talked to Paul the water guy who’s been with us before on this program, and he’ll tell you that there are different parts of town to where you really have to get a water sample test done to really determine because no, it is not all equal from city to city to city. So there are some areas that are better than others.
SPEAKER 12 :
Really? So water’s not water?
SPEAKER 04 :
Not.
SPEAKER 12 :
It comes down to how they’re treating it. Well, yeah. I believe, well, we pay Denver water. I don’t know who we get our water from. In your area, it probably is Denver water. I know actually we have our own water district, interestingly enough, but I don’t. I think they’re not, obviously don’t do anything with the water.
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They’re just reseller basically of it. Got it. Well, and if some of you have a different idea on that as to how to protect some of those items, please, yeah, let us know. 303-477-5600. But yeah, you know, speaking of, and this wasn’t really going to talk about this, but now that Steve brought it up, the whole, you know, my wife and I have been talking about this of late, you know, keeping homes and things along those lines continually updated is, And this is something to be careful of. We have talked about this in the past, but when you do some of these remodels, keep in mind that while you’re doing it for you and that’s great, if you’re ever going to sell your home, you need to make sure you keep that in mind as well because what you may find really nice and you like and so on, and it might be even kind of trendy for the moment, a decade from now when you go to sell your home or five years from now or whatever it happens to be, it may not be as trendy then and you may find yourself with, oh, this is not helping us sell the home.
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And we had a challenge with that. Okay. Cause we had like a little bathroom for our daughters when they grow up and then a tub and shower. Right. Um, but we took the tub out and put a shower in. I don’t think that’s a bad move actually. You know, but technically we’re taking a full bath and making it a three quarter or whatever you call it or seven eights, whatever. But anyway, um, so, but you know, uh, safety wise is we’re getting older or you haven’t anybody come over and stay, you know, or anything like that. It’s a, it’s an accident waiting to happen, honestly. Most people get hurt in this.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m with you. Now, I know that in some cases, and I think some of this, frankly, in my opinion, also comes down to the home. And let me explain for everybody listening. If you have a home where your typical buyer… is going to be maybe either your age or they’ve at least got kids that are maybe in their junior high to high school years and so on. And you know what I mean by that. You kind of know where these levels of homes are. In other words, if you’re not a starter home and you’re not even one level up from a starter home, your likelihood of having people buy your home that have toddlers is probably lower you know the ratio of people buying it that have toddlers is lower than anything else meaning I do think Steve some of this comes down to the type of home that you have and who you potentially are going to be reselling to because yes if you’re if you’re in that market where you know for sure most of the time people buying your home are going to be those that have younger kids, you probably ought to keep some bathtubs around because that’s what younger kids like to do. Now, as I just said, if they’re getting of that older age, chances are they’d rather have a shower anyways. They’re probably going to be walking in and out of a tub and having a shower and doing all of that. So if that’s the case, then yes, I think in your case, Steve, And I know the type of home that Steve has. I think in your case, you’re very safe in that, and I’m the same way. My home would most likely not be somebody that I would sell to that would have, you know, young toddlers and little kids and so on. So typically speaking, I think you’ve got to look at the home. And by the way, what I just said, you will not find probably a publication out there because most of the publications are talking – in very general terms across the board these are the trends they see and they forget about the factor that i just said in other words are you in a really older established neighborhood where typically that’s going to be maybe somebody’s second or third home fourth home in some cases maybe or are you in an area where this might be the first or second home and yes i do think some especially on the bathroom end of things steve some of those remodeling decisions i believe come down to that sure i didn’t think about it that way that’s interesting so in your case i don’t see that being a big issue at all yeah i think it’s a plus yeah well and then you know the tub actually you know after home gets scratched and chipped and stuff so do you go in or spend the money to place the tub no and i did the same thing you did several years ago where i had uh two of the two spare bedrooms and they were you know dated let’s just say it that way i mean very you know The guy that I bought my home from kept up things very, very well, but they were dated colors, everything, even the height of the countertops was lower. That was all dated. That’s another one to think about, too, by the way. That’s something we should chat about, Steve. Again, if you’re redoing a bathroom and you’re in one of those homes where you’re likely going to sell to somebody that has younger kids and toddlers, you may not want to put… the new modern higher countertops in height wise, because if there’s going to be littler kids using it, you may want to go ahead and leave the lower countertops for that particular scenario. Because if you’ve got young kids, they’re usually going to step up on a stool or do something along those lines. So in that particular case, again, safety wise, go ahead and leave the shorter countertops in for that particular scenario. And that may be a selling point. Again, a lot of this that you’ll notice in a lot of the publications and so on, They don’t talk about that particular scenario of the home, where it’s being sold, who it’s going to be sold to. Now, some of them will. Some will talk about, you know, high-end things and things along those lines. But, no, I think in your particular case, Steve, and I did the same thing, and also by doing that, you can typically – and this is something where you’ve got to talk to your – remodel or whoever’s doing the construction and so on. You got to talk to him. In my case, we took baths out and then opened up that entire area farther to even make a larger shower than what you would have had in an opening with just the tub. So we gained some space at the same time by actually doing a walk-in shower versus a tub.
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And I actually noticed, you know, because the shower felt really tight before and I had shower curtains. We never took a shower in there. But you still know. But getting rid of the tub because the tub has the flanges and there’s a thickness actually does feel much more comfortable.
SPEAKER 04 :
You’re gaining all of that extra room. That little tiny bit. You don’t realize how much that is. Just a little bit helps. You bet. Absolutely. Joe, go ahead, sir. What’s up?
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John, just a couple of tips for people setting their clocks ahead this weekend. Here’s some things people forget to change until it’s too late. One, if you have programmable thermostats in your house, you need to set programmable thermostats ahead because, you know, out of sight, out of mind. I’ve got one friend that’s never changed the time on his programmable thermostats. That’s one. Two, if you have a programmable coffee pot, you need to change the time on your programmable coffee pot. Otherwise, your coffee will be made in an hour. And on cars, you can only do it when they’re stopped. And even though most GPS update automatically, you have to tell the car, since the change in daylight doesn’t happen on a fixed date every year, you have to tell the car, are we now in daylight savings time or not? So you’ve got to do your cars, your programmable thermostats, and your coffee pot if you have one. And the last tip is on your bedroom clock, you know, if you wake up before the alarm and you look at the clock, should I get out of bed, you should change that clock the night before, not the next morning, because if you wake up and it’s dark and you’re trying to decide should I get out of bed now or not, you want to be looking at the right time on your bedroom clock.
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True.
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So those are my suggestions on, because a lot of people, you know, it’s easy to, you know, you look at a clock, oh, I’ve got to change that. You look at the microwave, I’ve got to change that. but people forget about their thermostats, coffee pots, and their cars.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. I have a towel warmer.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 12 :
I have a towel warmer. It’s on a schedule? Yeah, and it comes on like at 6 in the morning. Oh, that’s a good idea. Yeah, I’m pretty spoiled.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, that’s not a bad idea. I like that, actually.
SPEAKER 13 :
A towel warmer on a schedule, all right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I didn’t want to run it all day. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. Well, and joke along those same lines. There’s a lot of folks out there that have pumps that will pump water through the house so you can get an instant shower, things along those lines. Also, same thing. Those are typically programmable, and you’ll have to change those sorts of things around as well, sort of what Steve was just saying. So, yeah, I think folks need to really think through all of those different things you might have in the house and make sure you’re all dialed in today.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, and hopefully your lawn sprinkler, you don’t need to change that because hopefully when you set it up, you set it up for daylight. It’s on daylight savings time, so you don’t have a winter setback on your lawn sprinkler system.
SPEAKER 04 :
Good point.
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But anyway, those are just some things a lot of people, not most, but I know a lot of people forget, you know, for days or weeks or sometimes even months, particularly on the programmable thermostats, you know, they never think that, oh, I need to change the time on my programmable thermostat.
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Yep. All right. Great point. All I got. Thanks, Joe. Appreciate you very much. No, I appreciate that. And somebody did mention, Steve, on some of the stainless steel faucets, things like that, that CLR, which I’ve used as well, it’s good for getting rid of the buildup, but I think what you’re looking for is how do we prevent it in the first place. So the CLRs are great. For those of you that have buildup, the CLR works. We use it. Yeah, I like that product very well. It works fantastic. And back to Joe’s comment a moment ago about changing clocks and all that. Yeah, do a little inventory of what do you have that actually needs to be physically changed. In my case, A, I don’t use an alarm clock, so that’s not an issue for me. I don’t use a programmable coffee pot either, so that’s not an issue. Car-wise, I’ll have to double-check mine. I think mine automatically know when daylight saving time is – coming around I’ll double check that today Joe so appreciate the reminder there occasionally I’ll hop in one that you know I don’t drive very often and notice that the clock’s off but yeah it’s not a huge issue it’s not my daily driver so not a not a big big deal in my world I just have a couple of analog clocks around the house that we and that in the microwave that you have to manually change but other than that I am I am uh very how should I say this I haven’t used an alarm clock wow In probably 30 years. I’m not exaggerating. I just have an internal clock that I know what time I need to wake up every day, and I do. And sometimes that’s a curse because even on vacation and things like that where you would like to get an extra little bit of sleep here and there, my body doesn’t do that. I just wake up and go.
SPEAKER 12 :
I can guarantee my wife’s still in bed sleeping. She has no alarm clocks, that she says. Well, you know what? If you’re that level of life, who cares? Well, you know, I always think, you know, she worked hard her whole life.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, absolutely. And she’s retired now. You’ve earned that. Do you. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 12 :
But on the way over, I was talking to my best friend, and he still gets up at 6 o’clock. Him and his wife get up at 6 o’clock every morning. That will be me.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
I’m just that guy, Steve. But I’ve seen him go to bed at 8.30, 9 o’clock, too.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, yeah. And for me, typically, I’m not typically somebody that’s up until – you know 11 30 12 o’clock and i i’m probably more of a 10 10 30 guy but i’m up at 5 30 to 6 every day so it’s just my schedule anyways anyways but no good reminder joe thank you for that by the way i was gonna make a joke about remember all the vcrs that had the flashing zero you know we’re older And they were always doing that.
SPEAKER 12 :
And they could never set them.
SPEAKER 04 :
If you get the clocks in on the VCR, you’re pretty technically savvy at that point. That’s right. All right, guys, we’ll come right back. Questions for us, again, 303-477-5600. If you want to add anything to what we’ve been talking about, feel free to do so. Text line 307-200-8222. Fix It Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Fix It Radio, KLZ 560. Somebody said that I am probably, I don’t sleep because I’m nocturnal. On the other side, I woke up 20 minutes ago after sleeping for 10 hours. Good one, by the way. Thank you for that message. And I think there’s times my wife would agree with you on the, yeah, I don’t sleep a whole lot. I don’t know why. I just, I don’t know. I think, Steve, for me, being self-employed the majority of my adult life, I’ve been self-employed since I was 22. Literally, I just don’t know that I know any different. It’s just the way it is. Hang on, let’s turn your mic up. There you go, say that again.
SPEAKER 12 :
Sorry, you’re kind of a type A type personality. You’re always going and you’re thinking.
SPEAKER 04 :
My brain never stops. Yeah, so, and that’s just… Which is just me. Yeah. Is what it is. John and Cheyenne, you’re next. Go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hey, John. I haven’t slept past 4.30 in 40 years.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, in 100 years.
SPEAKER 03 :
4.30 is pretty early. When I was in, you know, 11 and a half years in the military, the latest I ever got up was 5 a.m.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
So… I wake up usually now around 4.30, quarter to 5. You just get used to it, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s your body clock, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, my body clock. But then again, come 8.30, quarter to 9, I’ll go up, turn TV off, we’ll go up and read. And I don’t read on my phone. I found that that will keep you awake. I read with a paper, but with a book. And by looking at a book, your body winds down if you have the right thing. The one thing that I got years ago… When I still was using an alarm clock, because I’ve got a projection alarm clock. You know what that is? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, and that thing’s the greatest because you know where the time… You don’t… Even if you wake up all twisted and everything, you know what I mean? You just look at the ceiling and it tells you what time it is. And it’s attached to the atomic clock. So that’ll change overnight automatically. Right, right, right. And it was… Twenty, twenty-five bucks or something.
SPEAKER 04 :
Interesting.
SPEAKER 03 :
It really makes me… It projects the time in red, which doesn’t affect your circadian rhythms either. But, unlike you, my wife, when she’s not flying… She likes to get a little extra sleep. So once I’m awake, and I can tell when I’m awake, I just get up and leave the room and let her sleep.
SPEAKER 04 :
Me too. That’s our rule. Me too, John. Exactly. Really quick, funny story along those lines. I’m so different, and this is not an exaggeration. I can, because I’m one of those where I’m typically up two or three times a night, I will look at the clock occasionally, but I can be within about 10 minutes of the time waking up knowing what time it is.
SPEAKER 03 :
And that’s your, as we have aged, your bladder doesn’t hold. I need a drink of water or I don’t know.
SPEAKER 04 :
You name it. My back hurts. I don’t know, John. There’s just something going on that you’ve got to dink around with.
SPEAKER 03 :
For me, it’s always having to get up to use the toilet. There you go. That’s all I’ve got to say. But I’m 63 1⁄2, so it happens at least once a night, maybe twice. And what I have found, and this is the worst thing, not really, When we’re out backpacking and you wake up 12, 1 o’clock in the morning. Oh, that stinks. The work and having to go. That stinks. You can’t go back to sleep. Yeah, that one.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I can relate to that one as well. That one’s rough, John. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, because you’ve got to climb out of that warm sleeping bag and get out. And it’s usually, you know, in our altitude, even if it’s August and we’re up above 10,000, it’s probably low 40s, high 30s.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, right.
SPEAKER 03 :
At night. It’s chilly going out to use the restroom and come back. Yes. You know.
SPEAKER 12 :
Makes you wonder, though, about, like, the pioneers and stuff when they had the odd house out there and you had to get up in the middle of the night to go use that. You know, how did they get back to sleep?
SPEAKER 03 :
I saw some video of some woman that’s living off the grid in Alaska.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
And she has, like, a solar-powered light that keeps a little light on in her outhouse. But she said, yeah, that’s tough because in Alaska – In the winter, you got to get up and put like three layers of clothes on to go out and use the toilet. I would stink. I’d be rough. You know, that is, yeah, that is rough. But, John, the other thing that might work on, you know, to keep the stuff off and everything is, I know my wife does it. She’s a little, when she’s home. She’ll grab just some vinegar and water mixture and just wipe everything down before it builds up. And she says that works really good. And the other thing she does is if the showerhead starts to get a little too, and I’m on a well, so it’s going to be a little tougher. She’ll just take a Ziploc with straight vinegar, put it over the showerhead and rubber band it, and let it soak for like a half hour.
SPEAKER 04 :
Good idea.
SPEAKER 03 :
And everything comes off. And, you know, vinegar’s not going to hurt you as much as some of these other chemicals do. You know, if you can avoid using chemicals. We try to avoid as many chemicals as we can just because we don’t want to put it down our septic system.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, don’t blame you. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, when you’re cleaning the house and you’re on a septic, you watch what you put in there. You’re more careful. That’s right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. I mean, the only thing that should go down, yeah, you’re on a septic too. The thing about the tubs is I read an article and they say if you want to get rid of a tub, in a house that has multiple bathrooms, always leave one.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, you need one. That’s a good idea. Whether it’s in the master or wherever, at least have one, John.
SPEAKER 03 :
So say you’ve got a whole bath in the master and you want to change the master to a walk-in shower, leave the whole bath with a tub. This way, the next people that buy it do have small kids. They could bathe them in that, you know, other bathroom, that common area bathroom, I guess we would call it, you know, for the bedrooms. But not taking all the tubs out does affect the cost of… the value of the house. If you don’t have a bathtub at all, that can turn some people off.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you for saying that, by the way. I appreciate that, because yes, I would very much say that, and there’s even times as we get older where you want to go soak, you’ve got the flu, you don’t feel well, you want to go soak in the tub or whatever. Yeah, you still need that ability, John, absolutely.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, my wife, when we finished our second floor, because our house came with the second floor unfinished, She got a Victorian-style clawfoot tub for that bathroom.
SPEAKER 04 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 03 :
And it’s deep. So if you need a soak, that’s the one. Even somebody my size, 6’4″, I could soak in there and get most of my body in it, which is kind of nice. But, John…
SPEAKER 04 :
um i gotta call you back door and drive radio i got a question okay all right that works on my plow i’ll talk to you later that works appreciate you john very much somebody texted too and this is a great this is a great tip or a great thought i should say somebody said hey don’t forget some of you that might know some more uh technically challenged uh elderly type individuals and so on when it comes to the clock changes and so on you may want to check in on some of them and make sure that if they need any help that you’re there to help them maybe you’ve got a neighbor or some family something along those lines thank you by the way that is a great tip because yes in some cases it can get a little bit daunting or confusing as to how to even get that clock setting to come up and then get in there make those changes necessary so yes thank you by the way for saying that so those of you that do have either elderly loved ones you might live next to somebody that is you may know of somebody maybe you even you work around some folks that way whatever the case if you know somebody that might need a little bit of assistance of course by all means reach out let them know that you’re there to help them if they’ve got a you know an issue where you need to help them along those lines by all means that’s a great idea so And, you know, going back really quick to, you know, what Steve and John were talking about with bathrooms and so on. Yes, and I failed to mention that. So, John, thank you for mentioning that. Yes, I would be one to say that no matter what your home is, if you’re thinking about going to, you know, taking out bathtubs and putting in walk-in showers and so on, that’s all fine and dandy. But absolutely, at least leave one tub in the house, you know, for that, you know, one-off occasion where you might find yourself needing it and so on. Absolutely, I would do that. Absolutely. Jeff in Western Montana, go ahead.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, good morning, Seth. How are you doing?
SPEAKER 04 :
Good. How are you?
SPEAKER 10 :
I am better than I deserve. Excuse me. We’re a community well here.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 10 :
And our hardness is about 12 grains. And I look at all sorts of solutions. I mean, yeah, ionizing bed, certain kinds of plastics that you put in there are charged and the magnetic stuff that the guy who we bought the house from, and he even put in a ship of space water softener that was supposed to do it. Um, but in the end, uh, we just elected to go to the standard old, uh, ionic thing, uh, you know, and it has worked fantastically. Uh, It actually cleaned things up. So the top started to get less dirty. So water heaters are lasting longer because the minerals that got encrusted on the heating element started to dissipate. I mean, it’s amazing what just softening your water will do. And I know some people are sodium sensitive, I guess, would be the best way to say. And other people don’t want to put that extra sodium in their body, but, you know, I just, I was very reluctant to do it, but it was probably one of the best things that we did in terms of, you know, and eliminating these spots on walls and, you know, on the glass, on the shower enclosure, that kind of thing. So, I turned into a water softener, but not a And I installed it myself as I was doing, so I debated whether or not to have the, where it does the recharge and goes through the periodic cycle. How do I handle that? Was I just going to discharge that out next to the house, or was I going to put it into the septic? And I elected actually to put it into the septic after thinking about it, because I figured if I did see problems that I could change that. And I know a lot of people say not to do that, But some say that it’s not a problem. We’ve had that now for six or seven years, and it has not caused a single problem with our septic. That extra flow of water as the softener recharges.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, you’re on test, and if it’s working, then it is. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn’t tell you to change it, Jeff. If it works, it works. Don’t worry about it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, and the guy who came up with it, I can’t remember, I think it was last year. He came out and he said, you can actually extend your cycle. I was on a five-year cycle. He said, you can go to six or maybe even seven years. Nice. It’s working fine. And, you know, don’t believe everything. I know Abraham Lincoln said, don’t believe everything you read on Google. Like in the automotive world, you’re going to hear a lot of opinions out there. Some of them are based on experience and actual knowledge, and some are just based on opinion. That’s right. I did want to err on the side of caution until I looked at whether or not to put it into the subject. But in the end, we did, and it hasn’t been a problem.
SPEAKER 04 :
If you haven’t had any issues, I think, yeah, like I said, you’re your own testament. And I agree with you as well. There’s a lot of things that, frankly, I either have done or am doing that you go look at the Internet and they would say, yeah, you know. don’t do that or don’t make this change or you know whatever the case may be and it’s like well every every i think bottom line where this comes down to jeff is every set of circumstances is unique while there’s a lot of great information out there from everything about you know design things and how to fix this and how to fix that and so on those are quote unquote universal it may not apply to your specific situation is probably the best way to say that
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. And septic systems, as you well know, are somewhat fragile, but they’re also pretty resilient.
SPEAKER 04 :
They’re pretty robust if you take care of them.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, bacteria likes to grow.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 10 :
So unless you do something that’s going to actually absolutely devastate the colony down there, which is pretty hard to do, you know, some folks say don’t put any chlorine down your drain. Well, when you look, I just kind of did a little back of the envelope thought experiment. Say you put a quarter of a cup of chlorine in your laundry. Well, how much of that is left if you’re in the laundry? How much of that scum and bacterial residue that’s in your drains, is that chlorine going to hit and change?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I know the way to look at that too, Jeff. In most cases, people have anywhere from a 1,000, 1,500, maybe even 2,000-gallon tank on the septic before it actually runs out into the leach field. No offense, what’s a quarter cup doing to that, Jeff?
SPEAKER 10 :
Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Literally a drop in a bucket. No offense, like peeing in the lake.
SPEAKER 12 :
No offense, but not much.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 12 :
Do you put, like, a chemical down every so often to help continue that good growth, or is that just different schools of thought on that, too?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, this is, I think, unique to each individual that’s out there. I do. I’ll do a little bit of that about once a year. Jeff, I don’t know what you do. I know John does different things up in Cheyenne with his. But, yes, we will add a, you know, quote, unquote, you know, starter or helper, if you would, on the bacterial end of things to just make sure things are rolling along. Is it needed? Am I overkilling it? I don’t know, but we do it on an annual basis anyways, and I’ve not had any issues. Kind of like you, Jeff. We service ours about you’re supposed to do it every two to three with just the two of us living in the house. We’ll go four or five without any issues at all.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. And regarding the ad pack, there’s a home improvement guy down in Colorado Springs. He would talk about this quite frequently that a lot of folks, You know, sometimes an overactive septic system is even worse than an underactive septic system. Right. And so, you know, people will put any stuff down there once a month and stuff.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, no, I’m one where if you literally annually or maybe if you’ve got a lot of activity and there’s a lot of, how should I say this, Jeff? In other words, if you’re using a lot of water and you’ve got a larger family and that, That tank is then – I’m not going to get into all the details of a septic system, but you know how when things get to a certain point, they go and they leach out and so on and so forth, and that’s how the septic system works. And there’s ways that, depending upon the system that you have, can be different depending upon where you’re at in the country and how the system was designed and so on. But, yeah, Jeff, I’m one where – I think you’re correct on that. You’ve got to be careful to not overdo it as well. And again, a lot of this comes down to you can’t really go off of any, in my opinion, rule of thumb on the internet because it really comes down to you, your situation, how much water you use, and so on.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, well, my maintenance is pumping it on a scheduled basis and then getting it jetted out if it needs to be, which it hasn’t had to have for a while. But I think it’s kind of like with cars, when we talk about cars, you change your oil, You do certain things, but you don’t mess with the air filter because sometimes it can cause more problems.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right. By the way, I think your septic system can fall into that same category.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s the point I was trying to get to. Some of this stuff, it may seem like a good idea to disturb things, but if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
SPEAKER 04 :
I agree with you. I agree with you.
SPEAKER 10 :
Ours is kind of strange because Our leach field is one long pipe that comes out from the tank. And since we’re on a hill, they didn’t have room for, you know, multiple lines. So it probably runs about 200 feet. Wow. So it’s worked so far, and it makes jetting it out really easy. You just got to run one jet all the way down.
SPEAKER 04 :
Nice. Nice.
SPEAKER 10 :
But, yeah, so everything is different. Every system is different. Know your system. But, you know, sometimes less is more.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right. I agree with you. Jeff, as always, you’re the man. Appreciate you. Cheers. You bet. Have a great rest of your day and enjoy. I didn’t ask him how the weather in Montana is, but I’m assuming probably similar to what we have here. All right, we’re going to take a quick break. We’ll come right back. This is Fix It Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, welcome back. Fix It Radio, KLZ 560. And yes, that last ad you just heard, good friend of mine, by the way. I actually helped him on the consulting side. We started from scratch. He’s got a great IT service business. But our goal is this is not for those of you that have one computer at home and you’ve got some sort of a malware or something that showed up. No, that’s not what he does. He is there to help businesses improve. And ideally, you need to be a business that probably has four to five different machines and units around and so on. And he does things to where he will take over all of your IT services, including all of your cybersecurity, firewalls, the whole nine yards. And it’s a one-stop shop, if you would. And the plus side to Brian… versus and you hear it in the ad the plus side to him versus most i.t guys i’m sorry to say this and if you’re an i.t person and you’re not this way congratulations thank you we love you most or not most i.t people are very condescending you call them up and you sort of get this is it on did you do this i mean literally there’s times where you just feel bad calling them in the first place that is not brian at all he is completely the opposite of that he will never make you feel bad for reaching out and calling or anything along those lines and he’s got a whole system also where whereby he goes in and does a complete asset analysis of you know what kind of age of machines do you have when are we going to be looking at replacing some of that hardware potentially down the road everything from you know, routers to switches to you name it and looking at the whole nine yards, not just coming in and doing what’s, you know, he has, well, because I’ve coached him, he has the same business model we have in the repair business, which is let’s tell you what you have coming down the road so we can help you manage all of your maintenance needs and what you have, meaning you have no or less breakdowns by doing so. He does the same thing on the IT side to as much as possible eliminate those catastrophes. Enough hard drives, adding hard drives, all those kind of – All of that stuff. He’s constantly looking at that. And you don’t know those things as a normal – Well, business owners want to run the business. Yeah. They don’t need to worry about running the internet and running that connection and running even the phones and running this, that, and the other and doing the updates and all the different things, Steve, that come into this. They want to run the business. And so for those of you listening that have small to mid-sized businesses, call Brian at Ease My Pain and get him in, get an analysis of what you’ve got going on. let him take over and he literally will do the rest and and by the way great guy I wouldn’t say this it’s not just because I coach him but he is a great guy because he is just a really great him and his wife both the folks that work with him his two texts just great solid individuals literally we built this thing from the ground up and and Brian is an absolute wonderful individual and that Steve, just like the rest of us that are in this whole network that we have, does business just the same way that you would or that Ken Rackley would or Paul and Dorsey would do at Arvada West. And I can go down the list of all the different folks we’re associated with, and he does it exactly the same way.
SPEAKER 12 :
Just like the other day when I texted you, I needed somebody, and I thought, well, John knows somebody that’s going to be good.
SPEAKER 04 :
and that makes a lot of it that helps a lot makes a world of difference when you know you’re going to call somebody that’s going to be straight with you and that by the way that’s brian with ease my pain so yeah those of you that have businesses that are looking for some help along the i.t sides of things yeah give brian a call now again one more just want to make sure i reiterate if you’re just a single homeowner or you even work from home and you’ve got one computer one laptop whatever No, I hate to say that he’s just not set up to be able to handle that one device. He needs to work off of some volume to make things work correctly in that one-off unit. If you’ve got an issue with that, yeah, probably your best bets go to Geek Squad or somebody along those lines and let them deal with it because otherwise it’s just – and really, I hate to say this, it’s just not cost-effective for anybody that’s in that business community. It’d be like – Steve, it’d be like you being a one-man band. Sure.
SPEAKER 12 :
Or working on something that’s a 1980s car. That’s true, too. Something like that. It just doesn’t fit. Doesn’t fit. Doesn’t fit the model.
SPEAKER 04 :
So anyways, yeah, I would appreciate that very much. No, really quick. Getting back to, we started talking about coming into springtime, and we got into the clock changing. Steve mentioned bathroom remodels and so on. And we talked for a little bit about making sure that whatever you do, and this is true, by the way, across the board, and something we haven’t talked much about, but really across the board when it comes to even other upgrades you may do to your home. What I mean by that is, you know don’t underdo something also don’t overdo it so landscaping which we’re kind of getting in that time of the year where some people think about redoing some different things and maybe you want to enhance this and enhance that and so on be careful Because depending upon, again, the home and where you live, I’ve toured some places to where you look at it and you think, holy cow, the landscaping is like two to one on the house. In other words, the landscaping is done far better than actually the house is. And when it’s all said and done, this just doesn’t fit. It’s overboard. It’s overdone. i’ve also been in other places where it’s like man this is a beautiful house the landscaping looks like crap yeah meaning you’re going to come in and spend a bunch of money getting things up to speed to make that match so point being make things match if you’re in a you know i honestly if you’re in just a regular we talked about that you know first or second home that you may you know jump into when you’re starting out uh if that’s the particular case then you know you probably don’t want a 10 you know you probably don’t want that 100 000 water feature in the back that’s overkill. And by the way, when I just said 100 grand, yeah, you can get some of these fancy water features where they do a little flowing river in the whole nine yards, and yeah, you can spend 100 grand in a heartbeat doing a water feature. Yeah, that’s overkill. It might be great. Your neighbors might even enjoy it from the sound and so on. You’re never going to get that money back out of doing it. That would be more for something you would want. And here’s the thing you’ve got to remember, though. It may not even help you sell the home because the next person looking at it says, geez, I got all this. It’s like a swimming pool. You have to be careful on that as well. Some houses you can do fine putting a pool in. In fact, that’s getting to be a bigger and bigger deal in Colorado as we’ve had more people move in from other areas where they’re used to having one. they’re kind of wanting one even though we’ve got a short season of using them but again that becomes very home specific and don’t over build is my point because you may find that being a detriment to you down the road when you go to sell versus it being an asset in selling does that make sense i have a water feature that i’ve been maintaining for a while for a few years i’m wondering issues there yeah and do i take it out do i leave it in and it’s in a neighborhood that’s kind of in between on that Well, and I know your neighborhood. You know, you live in a neighborhood to really, you know, Steve, in your neighborhood, you’re one where you could pretty much do whatever you want to do and you would be just fine. Although you take that same water feature and, for example, go to that first-time homebuyer neighborhood, I don’t know that I would do a water feature, period, unless it’s just something that’s very small and easy to take care of and maintain and so on. I wouldn’t go full bore in a situation like that. I mean, you may want to be king of the mountain in the neighborhood, but that isn’t going to benefit you down the road.
SPEAKER 12 :
It’s never good to be the… nicest or most expensive house in the neighborhood, it’s better to be on the lower end. So you tag off those expensive houses.
SPEAKER 04 :
That is exactly right. Yeah. And I’m glad you just mentioned that because you do not want to be the most expensive home in the neighborhood. You know what? If you’re going to be one or the other, if you’re going to be the cheapest or the most expensive, you’re better off being the cheapest than the most expensive. Because typically the most expensive takes a very unique person coming in that wants to be that king of the mountain person in the neighborhood and is willing to spend the money to do so. And frankly, that buyer group, I’m using my hands, you can’t see this, but that buyer group narrows way, way, way down to where typically you might have a buyer’s group that’s a foot wide. you’ve now taken it down to a quarter of an inch or less. You literally have taken your buyer group that far down by doing some of these things. So be really careful as you look to do some of these things, especially this summer, and landscaping being one of those. I mean, some folks I have seen put a ton… ton of money into a retaining wall for example okay well at the end of the day is that retaining wall and what you just did with that really necessary could you have just sloped the ground or done something a little bit more along those lines and or done that a little cheaper with some other ways of doing it and what i mean by that is i’ve seen people do retaining walls to where they’re not just doing the regular you know classic style you know uh concrete you know retaining wall they go all out and do you’ll specialize boulders and this that and the other and yeah it looks really cool and it’s all said and done you are not going to get the money back out of that in certain circumstances so be really careful now i also will say this Like I said earlier, I’ve toured some really expensive homes in the past whereby you look at them and think, okay, wait a minute, the inside of this house is really nice. It’s in a really nice neighborhood. I mean, these are, you know, million-dollar-plus homes, and the landscaping looks like it was a track home. yeah like the builder just put in you know the cheapest sprinkler system possible with a little bit of grass and they put a little bit of edging around the edges of rocks and that was it one little tree one little tree and nothing else and i’m like this doesn’t fly either and and this is where for those of you listening is where it gets a little bit imp not not not a little bit important very important landscaping is expensive and a lot of people do it themselves which is fine and you can do a little bit at a time but to go out full bore and do a landscaping project most people steve would be shell shocked to look at what some bids would be to probably even redo what they currently have because it is extremely expensive nowadays to go in and do landscaping from scratch if you’ve got say for example a larger property maybe there’s a half acre in some cases there’s an acre And you’re getting ready to landscape all of that. I’ll tell you right now, for those of you looking and maybe even some of you thinking about, I’d like to build a house, put it on an acre. If you do it in the right neighborhood and you’re looking to do some high-end landscaping where you’ve got a water feature and some things like that, I’m not exaggerating, folks. Plan on spending a quarter million dollars on landscaping. And I’m not high on my price there. You literally can get $250,000 in landscaping in a heartbeat. I think swimming pools are over 100. You’re 100 plus in this state. 100 plus anymore. Now, some of you from other states are going to say, no, you guys are crazy. I’d get that done for half of that. Not in Colorado, you can’t. There are places in the country where, yes, you can get swimming pools done for a lot less than that. Not in Colorado because it’s that supply and demand side. Once again, Steve, we don’t have as many pool companies here. They’re not as, you know, they’re not competing with one another like you would in other states. Therefore, you know, for example, go down to Arizona and get a pool put in. You can get done for half of what it is here. Really? I’m not exaggerating. Literally half of what they cost here. You know. they probably have a pool person per 100 people instead of and maintainers and dan dan dan dan i mean yeah if you want to run a pool company don’t do it in colorado go to arizona on the same token pool companies here don’t have a lot of don’t have a lot of competition it’s a short season but you don’t have a lot of competition down there it’s 12 months out of the year Yeah, true. It is 12 months. So point being, when it comes to all of these upgrades, and this could be everything from Steve talked about bathrooms early on. I just talked about the landscaping thing. This could literally be everything from putting on an addition to redoing your kitchen to even the type of flooring you put in the home. Folks, you can walk through all of that. And what you really have to be careful of, and I’ve seen this happen more times than not, somebody gets very personalized. with what they do in regards to the remodel, and that’s great for them, but then the people coming in and looking at it afterwards look at it and say, well, yeah, that’s great for them, but I’m going to tear all this out and start over. In other words, at that point, the remodel has actually lowered the overall value of that home and not increased because somebody’s now looking at it saying, well, I’m just going to tear all that out and start over.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I’m going to have to spend $20,000 on this to – Or more.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Or more. Or more. It seems like there’s nothing you can do to your home that’s under $5,000. If you always say anything, you know, if you want to do this, it’s a little bit of sprinkler work or a little bit of landscape. Everything’s over $5,000.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, it’s funny you say that. I’m not sure, Steve, that just thinking in my mind right now of all the different things you could have going on inside the home. I don’t think you’re too far off. I mean, there might be some little projects where you change a faucet out, do something along those lines. But, yeah, you start talking about redoing bathrooms, kitchen countertops, kitchen cabinets, painting, on and on and on we go. Painting, yeah. You paint the outside of the house. I mean, you keep going. And I don’t think, yeah, you’re in some cases.
SPEAKER 01 :
Just playing for it.
SPEAKER 04 :
In some cases, you can’t go below 10. Yeah. depending upon what it is you’re looking to do. And my point with this is, and I can now say this because my father’s in memory care, my mom has passed last September, and we’ve got their old house now that we’re working on and doing some remodeling and so on to get sold, and I will tell you this. Do not neglect the maintenance on your house. Whether it’s you that it costs or your heirs, it will cost someone because somebody will have to go in and do the necessary updates to get the home sold or take a bath on selling it, which isn’t fun either. So don’t neglect doing some of these things. So whether that be flooring, whether that be paint, whether that be changing around, like Steve was doing, bathrooms and kitchen and things along those lines. And this concludes even some things that happen on the outside of the home. Do not neglect those things because they will eventually catch up to you. Trust me when I say that. And it may not catch up to you, but we talk about estate planning and all that during the week on my daily show with Michael Bailey. And he’s a sponsor of all my other shows as well. I tell you what, those things will catch up to you just the same as not planning for your estate will. So make sure you’re taking care of the necessary things. Doesn’t mean you’ve got to go hog wild and put in 24-karat gold fixtures. Steve, that’s not what I’m talking about. In fact, I would tell you that in some cases, that may be what the house needs. True. I’ll tell you in other cases, that’s probably the last thing the house needs. And again, you’ve really got to base this on your particular home. Where is it situated? neighborhood-wise and so on. And this is where some people can give you, this is going back to what Jeff in Montana said, also be careful of the advice you get from people that come through. Because you know what? In some cases, a contractor just wants to sell your remodel. Are they really going to be up front with you on what that remodel should consist of based upon your area, or are they just going to do whatever you’re asking for? And in some cases, they will not give you a lot of input. They’re just going to say, yeah, Steve, what do you want? I’ll do it for you. Sure, sure. And they’re not there to argue. They’re just going to go ahead and do whatever you want done when it’s all said and done. But they’re not going to advise you on, you know, I probably would tone this down just a little bit, knowing that, you know, we’re in this particular neighborhood. I don’t think there’s much here you need to do in regards to that. Now, I also will tell you this, and I’ve experienced this. There’s also times where you’re looking at something saying, you know, I don’t think that’s a high enough quality for the type of home that we have and what we’re doing neighborhood-wise. In fact, that might come back to bite me. So I don’t know that I want to use – Contractor grade X. Sure. Let’s go a couple of levels up because that fits better with my home and the neighborhood and everything else.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think that comes in with landscaping that people do themselves.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 12 :
You can kind of tell what’s been done, what’s been professionally done. Absolutely. It does detract.
SPEAKER 04 :
It does look kind of crummy. Yeah, because sometimes the next guy coming in is looking at it as, I just got to tear all this out and start over. Absolutely. You’ve neglected it too. That’s right. That’s right. All right, guys, Fix It Radio, you can always send us a text message. I’ll answer those as well. I know I’ve got a string of them. I’ll answer those here as we go to the top of the hour break. But, hey, anything you need, go to fixitradio.com. Look for all of our sponsors there as well. We appreciate you all listening. This is KLZ 560.
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