This episode of Fix It Radio focuses on practical spring home maintenance tips as Colorado homeowners prepare for warmer weather, water restrictions, and summer projects. John Rush and Steve Horvath discuss everything from gutter cleaning and roof inspections to foundation checks, power washing, and seasonal HVAC maintenance.
The conversation also dives deep into water conservation strategies, including rain barrels, smart sprinkler controllers, sump pumps, drip irrigation systems, and ways homeowners can reduce water usage without sacrificing healthy landscaping. Callers share creative ideas for rainwater collection, well maintenance, and automated irrigation setups using smart technology and solar-powered pumps.
Other topics include humidifier
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Walter? Upstairs! Are you alright?
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In the floor behind the chair.
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Does everybody know what time it is? Fix It Radio!
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And it is that time, Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. Myself, Steve Horvath from Geno’s Auto Service with me today for Fix-It Radio. Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer. Larry Unger here. He’ll answer phones as well. Appreciate Larry greatly. And, again, lines are open, 303-477-5600, 303-477-5600. And don’t forget the text line, 307. 207-200-8222. 307-200-8222. Beautiful day in Colorado. Yes, we’re live. It’s 9 o’clock in the morning on a Saturday morning, so if you’re listening to the replay show on Monday, I’m not sure what Monday’s going to be like, Steve. It’s going to be colder. Changing. We’ve got a nice weekend, and I think we’re going back into some… Actually, Monday says it’s still going to be like 71. Then Tuesday, we barely break 50. Wednesday, 54 and rainy. Sorry, 80% chance of rain on Tuesday. And then we warm back up and have what looks like a pretty decent end to the week and end to next weekend. So a lot of you will be out and about doing some things today. So Steve and I and Larry, we were talking before we came on air today. We thought we’d kind of go through some spring stuff. maintenance things that you should be doing around the house we’ve talked about a little bit of those here in the past you’re always welcome by the way to you know join in and give us some of the things that you might be working on we did a little bit of this here the last few weeks but we last weekend honestly it was not very warm last weekend so it was cold so today is going to be an absolutely beautiful day so if you wanted to get out and do some things today is the day to do it I know for a lot of you, you might have other things that you’re doing today, kids and ball games. We’re getting that time of the year where graduations are starting to happen and all of that. Now, for some of you that may be hosting different things and parties, and there’s graduations and sometimes weddings and what have you, and then you’re just getting ready for Memorial Day and the barbecue, and you’re getting things dialed in from winter. Now… The fortunate side, there’s two sides to everything. The misfortune of this past winter is we are lacking moisture. And we are. And we’re trying to make up for that a little bit. I’m looking up at the mountains here to the west, and the mountains look actually a nice blanket of snow.
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Snow covered, yeah.
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Yeah, they look very good, and we need a little more of that. Hopefully we’ll get some more this week. We need all the moisture we can get. We’re still far, far, far away from where we need to be. We’ve talked about some water-saving things here over the past several weeks as well. But, again, today I want to talk about some things around the house, spring cleanup and so on. And what I was going to say is the good thing about not having a super hard winter is – your spring cleanup is probably not going to be as heavy as it normally would be because of not having the type of winter that we typically have.
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And probably didn’t get the cracks and stuff like we normally do.
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We didn’t get near the cold weather and the freezing and so on. So, yeah, some of you are going to be in a little better shape as far as that goes. And, you know, again, take advantage of that. And, again, even on the water savings sides of things, most everybody right now that I know of, is on some sort of a water restriction. And folks, I’m talking to people throughout our listening audience. Now, not out of state, but in our tri-state, quad-state region, I’ve been talking to most folks, and nobody’s doing well water-wise. In fact… Talk to my good friends, Kent and Judy, up in Sterling, Novus. They went down to Texas for a big swap meet and talked about how dry it was, even the further south you get, even all the way down into Oklahoma and places like that, and just not in good shape. Actually talking about how we’re actually even in better shape than some of those places are. While we think we’re really dry, there’s other places that actually aren’t doing as well as even we are. So, you know, again, it’s one of those things where we take what we have and deal with it accordingly, and off we go. Now, along the lines of… water saving i want to throw this in really quick because andy my cohort during the week had mentioned this he went to a class this last week on rain barrels and state law now is you can have up to two rain barrels on your property and there’s lots of ways to do that you can get really fancy with the device you put in the gutter that actually diverts the water into the rain barrel there’s diverter devices that’ll fill the barrel up there’s all sorts of ways that you can do that And some of you can get very creative and handle it on your own. Some of you will need to buy the device that actually fills the rain barrel itself. But you can have up to two barrels legally. Now, you can have as many as you want as far as I’m concerned. I mean, that’s up to you. And I’m not sure there’s a rain barrel policeman, but there probably is. Although, depending upon where you live and who gets to see what you have and so on, you might get by with putting two or three or four of these in, depending upon where you live and where you’re at and what your neighbors are like and whatnot. so on but the advantage of having a rain barrel something i don’t think we’ve ever talked about on fix it radio and and this is for for those of you that have a green thumb you’ll know exactly what i’m saying your minerals and what’s in rain water versus the chlorinated water you would normally you know water your flowers and things that’s typically what you’re going to do with the rain barrels water your flowers and some of your your shrubs and things along those lines the nutrients that are in rainwater far exceed what you’re getting out of chlorinated water you would normally take out of the tap. So that’s where the advantage of having the rain barrel comes in as well, is not only are you saving some money on not having to use the water out of the spigot, but you’re actually putting better water on those garden plants, things like that. Some of you grow tomatoes and different things, and you have a little garden and so on. And if you’ve got the ability to put some… rain barrels nearby that and utilize that water instead of using chlorinated water, your quote unquote crops are going to be much better, much healthier. There’s just more nutrients, iron, things like that that’s in the rain that you’re not getting out of chlorinated water. You’re probably not going to fertilize as much then. You would not have to. No, that natural water. So you’re putting it back, but you’re taking it back out. Well, and for those of you that, you know, common sense, I mean, think about how green things will be now after the rain that we’re getting. And most people aren’t even having their sprinklers on. They’re not watering much. But you’re going to get some natural green up just with the moisture we’re having. Yes, of course, it’s from the water. But on top of that, it’s the nutrients that are in that water that you’re not getting even in regular chlorinated water. That’s why folks that are on wells and things like that typically have and don’t have to do as much fertilization. There’s more minerals in their water, and it’s better for the grass and so on than it is using regular city water that’s chlorinated.
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So some people with wells, are they on restrictions for how much they can take?
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s a great question, Steve. I’m guessing that’s probably case by case, and what kind of water rights do you have, and, and, and. And I don’t know an answer to that one. That I don’t know.
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I know when my mom lived in Evergreen, she was on a well, but they were— They had to pay for some reason for that. So it must have been somebody else’s water rights.
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Must have.
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And I thought it was so strange. Like, well, it’s not, you know, are they going to pay for you when your well one’s dry?
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Yeah, how does that work?
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Yeah. It was a certain little neighborhood, and it must have had something to do with it.
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It must have been a community well or a community aquifer or something along those lines.
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I always thought that was the strangest thing.
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Huh. News to me. And some of you that are on WELLS, you might know the answer to that even better than we do. I’ve never been on a community WELL. So that one I don’t know much about. So that’s something one of you would have to call in and tell me about because I’ve never had any experience on WELLS. a community. Well, uh, I have one house that has a well and it’s all on its own and there’s, and you have to get approved by the state to drill a well. And then depending upon how, how big your property is, there’s only so much water you can actually use. You can’t irrigate and so on unless you have over certain acreages. And anyways, there’s lots of
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Oh, sure.
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Rules and regulations around that that you have to get approved for. You can’t just go out and drill a well. In the old days, you could. In the West, the water is king. I mean, it’s not gold. It’s water. That’s exactly right. That’s exactly right. So spring home maintenance. And, again, you guys can chime in on this as you feel the need to. 303-477-5600. Okay, this one’s easy. And, by the way, some of these, if you don’t have the ability – To do these things on your own, we have partner sponsors, these first two especially. We have a great partner that can help you with this, and that is cleaning your gutters and downspouts and inspecting your roof for any damage that may have happened this last winter. Keep in mind, we did have a lot of high winds this last year. We didn’t have the snow, but we had high winds on a lot of cases. So that’s something to, you know, especially if you’ve got trees and things nearby where those branches can come and scrape on the roof and what have you. I’m one that says you should get an annual roof inspection, period. Whether you’re doing that yourself or you’re having Dave Hart, who’s with Roof Savers of Colorado, again, one of our great sponsors. He’s on the website, fixitradio.com. But I would do an annual roof inspection. If you want to do it yourself and you’ve got the ability, then you know what? Knock your socks off. Go ahead and get it done. If you don’t, though, maybe you don’t like heights. Maybe you don’t want to get on a ladder. Maybe you don’t have the ability to do that. Maybe you don’t know what you’d even be looking at if you got up on the roof. If that’s the case, then go ahead and get, you know, Dave Hart out and have him help you with all of that. And he’s more than willing to come out and do an inspection, find out if there’s anything needed, if the gutters and that need to be taken care of, if there’s any damage. He can give you a price on all of that, and then you can decide from there what you want to do or not do. So it works out really well. By the way, Kentucky Derby. I’m getting people texting in all about derby time. So some of you are larger, I guess, horse race fans than others. And, yes, it is that time of the year. And I don’t know whether I’ll watch it or not. To me, I’m not one of those people that dresses up and do all those things and so on. It’s just not.
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Not in our bag.
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Yeah, it’s not my thing. If it’s a car race, I’m probably more in on that than I am actually.
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But back on those ladders and stuff, my niece has taken away my brother-in-law’s ladders so he can’t get up on the roof. She knew of too many people that were older that had fallen off ladders and died or had been severely hurt. And I think we’ve reached an age where we shouldn’t get ladders anymore.
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I don’t know that I can argue that.
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I don’t think it’s a bad thing.
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No, I don’t either.
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I don’t know how many dumb things I’ve done on a ladder and fallen off.
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I mean, I still feel comfortable, can do things and so on. But, you know, again, I’m still fit and can get around and all of that. But as we age and we get older and older, yeah, I don’t think that’s it. For some of you that have elderly parents, grandparents or what have you, yeah, you know what? There’s a lot. I can, like Steve, I can tell you story after story of people that I have known where they have fallen off a ladder and it changes everything from that point forward in their life. It’s kind of like when the elderly parent falls in the tub and breaks the hip. You may never be back to where you were originally. Exactly. We’re going to take a quick break. We’ll come back. We’ll keep going through the spring maintenance checklist. Really quick, a couple more things I want to add when it comes to the roof. Check your foundation. Make sure there’s no cracks settling, things like that. And then right now, man, it is the time to get out the power washer. You can power wash your siding, windows. Make sure you’re caulking around all of that. The patios you could power wash off. I mean, any of that now is a great time to do that. Again, I know we’re under some water shortages, but typically you’re not going to have any issues washing off patios and sidewalks and things like that and the siding in the house and all of that. So, you know, you can do that.
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You’ll have to find us a window cleaner.
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You know what? We need one. You need a window cleaner. We really do. That’d be a great sponsor.
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Yeah.
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That’s another thing. Don’t get on a ladder cleaning windows. Yeah, and that’s another one no one likes doing anyways.
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Yeah, it sucks. So, yeah, and for some of you listening, if you’ve got a good window cleaning company and you think they’d be a great partner of ours, have them reach out or send me their information. I’ll do my best to reach out to them as well. Yeah, that would be a great partnership if we could figure that out. All right, we will be right back. If you guys have any questions or comments, things you want to add to what we’re talking about today with spring maintenance checklist. Let us know. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560.
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Okay, we are back. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. Myself, Steve Horvath, Geno’s Auto Service with me. Joe, you’re up. Go ahead, sir.
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John, some mechanical things for spring. One, if you have a whole house humidifier on your furnace, shut it off. Turn the humidistat down to zero and or close the water valve to your humidifier because you don’t want to be humidifying the air in the summer. Right. Two, it’s probably a good time to change that pad. It’s probably all caked up with lime and calcium. So change the pad. Also, good time to change the filter in your furnace.
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Yep. Good one. That was my next one.
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And if you’ve got a little condensate pump, good time to make sure that’s not all plugged up with mold and crap. So clean out that little box that’s where the condensate pump is. So humidistat, filter, condensate pump. Now, if you’re on a well… Good time to change the sand filter. Almost every well filter has a sand filter. And if you’ve got an expansion tank, and most do, good time to check the pressure in that bladder. Normally, you shut the water up, you drain it down. It’s got a little Schrader valve, like on a bicycle tire. And if you’ve got a little pump, you can… Because those bladders in those expansion tanks, they do tend to lose pressure And your pump, your well pump will short cycle if you don’t have any pressure, you don’t have enough pressure in that bladder. So you want to make sure you’ve got, you know, the right amount of pressure in that bladder. It’s like a basketball bladder, depending on how big your expansion tank is. So those would be the three things I would say there. And, of course, with the water restrictions, good time to reprogram your water sprinkler program. You don’t want to get… Yeah, you’ve got to reprogram it to two days a week now on the right days.
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Pretty much. Yeah, I think that’s probably what it is, Joe. I mean, again, it depends on your area. And for all of you listening, yeah, follow your local water companies. Wherever you’re buying water from, the city you’re in, et cetera, they’re going to have their own restrictions and do whatever they’re telling you to.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, so those are the mechanical things I would recommend in spring. Awesome. So…
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Oh, my God. Joe, you’re awesome. I appreciate it very much. Thanks for the tip and the guidance. John and Cheyenne, you’re next. Go ahead.
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Hey, before I go to what I called about, Joe made a good point on the well.
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Yes.
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I picked up a pressure gauge that you could screw on a hose dip, and I got a wide diverter and hooked it up at my washing machine. so I can keep an eye on my well tank pressure without having to go in a crawl space.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, nice.
SPEAKER 07 :
Good idea. That’s about $18 between the two things. Great idea. Pretty cheap. And, you know, I put it on the cold side of the washing machine, and I could just keep an eye on it.
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Great idea.
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Peace of mind.
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So are there restrictions on how much water you can pull out of your well in Wyoming?
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No, no.
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Okay.
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No. But going back to… Your rain barrels, I have two, both 55, 60 gallons. I pick them up pretty cheap. But then I also, there was a guy on Facebook Marketplace sometimes, and he sells food-grade used IBC containers, you know, like the 280-gallon ones.
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The totes, 250, the other 250, I believe. Yeah, the big totes, yes.
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Yeah, I think the one I got was 280 or whatever, and it had honey in it. The downside was I had to clean out the little bit of honey that was in the bottom, but that’s what they shipped in it. But when I get water, like today, my rain barrel from the last couple of days are full. And I’ll transfer that water into that 280-gallon tank. And then I can use it around the house because I picked up, I think it was about 80 bucks at Harbor Freight, a pump. Yeah. And I just connect the pump to it, plug it in, and I can transfer that water. I can use it for, like you were saying, watering, garden hose and stuff. I can also use it for cleaning windows, whatever. I’ve got a small pressure washer. It’s on my 18-volt. I think it gives me like 100 pounds of pressure. Whatever. But it’s great for cleaning little things, and I don’t have to tax my well or overtax my well for all these little things. So just saying, the price, you can do it pretty cheap. And I think that guy, he was just east of Fort Collins. I can’t remember. Maybe Eaton was the town. But he had… a yard full of these things. I think he charged me 50 or 60 bucks for the 280. That’s pretty cheap. Yeah. And then he had some 55-gallon drums that he wanted to collect rainwater that you could buy. And then just to say, I don’t know which kit you like, but Menards, which you guys don’t have down there, had a great kit, came even with the metal hole saw bits. For the gutter? And it’s nice. Drill a hole into the downspout and you put it in. And then they even gave you a plug for it so you can remove it in the fall. Got it. Which is nice, too, because now in the winter when you get the snow runoff, you don’t want to collect that because you could crack your rain barrel. Right. So you just, you know, you let that go. But this winter, I didn’t have to worry so much about it. But just having all that extra water for little things, whether it’s cleaning the deck, the windows, whatever, it just, you’re not taxing your wealth. And the other thing I found, the other thing I do is I have it hooked up to my washing machine with an adapter. And… What I can do is the initial run, turn that pump on and connect it to the washing machine, and then the wash run comes off of that collected well water. And the suds I get compared to what comes out of the well is amazing how much better that water is for washing your clothes.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, really? Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, because what you were talking about, we don’t have all the minerals that are coming out of the ground through the well.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s just the pure rainwater. My sister, who lives back in Staten Island, New York, she has an old Italian neighbor who grows his own tomatoes. He collects the rainwater, and he calls it his magic water because it makes his tomatoes grow really well. So, yeah, but in this drought we got coming up, I don’t know, John. I’m just hoping we get a wet summer just to not – because I think we spoke about it earlier. Maybe it was last week or two weeks ago. Yeah. Watch your wells and watch your use on your wells because with this big of a drought, you don’t know how much the aquifers are going to be down.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep, you’re right, unless we get a bunch of moisture, which fortunately we’ve been having some. But, man, we need a lot more. They are talking about some monsoon weather coming in second half of summer. But as I said last week, we still have a full anywhere from eight to seven. Let’s just say this. We’ve got seven to ten weeks before we actually get there, and that’s a long time.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and the only saving grace is if we get enough rain once or twice a week, it won’t stop. That, I’m hoping it’ll slow down the snow melt, if you know what I mean. Yes. Up in the mountains. It might not build on the snowpack, but if it slows down the melting of the snowpack, then we might do better off.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and all that rain still gets collected, still goes into storm drains, storm drains goes into the rivers and so on. So all that rain still helps, plus it goes into the… the ground. And, you know, as you know, it waters, you know, trees and shrubs and grass and so on. And it just eliminates use of other water when it does that. So to your point, if we could get even just a couple of nice rainstorms a week, man, that’s a huge help, John.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, because it will also slow people down from watering.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s right. That’s right. Exactly.
SPEAKER 07 :
But then you got the people, which the city of Cheyenne is notorious. It’s pouring rain in the morning and they’re sprinkling.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, and here’s what’s – which I don’t understand when it comes to a city like that because given what we do for a living, John, there are what we call now smart controllers that know when it’s raining and not raining. And by the way, not even based off rain sensors. It just knows based upon geography and where you’re at, whether you’ve gotten moisture or not, based upon all the weather reports and things that come back in. And it knows whether to water or not. So there’s no reason for a city to not have a smart controller.
SPEAKER 07 :
And they had – I remember when I lived in New Jersey, I had one of those. It was just like a little cup thing that was attached to the sprinkler system.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s what we used to use back in the day. Now, John, the smart controllers and you Wi-Fi those things in, which, again, in some of them, if there’s no Wi-Fi, they’ve got 5G cards built in now and some of the smart controllers. So for a city – to not be using some sort of a smart controller to control their water usage, and somebody needs to be complaining to the city. That is dumb. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. But the other thing is that was the other thing I was going to say is people with sprinklers, hopefully most of them have something like that on their sprinkler system.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, and for all those of you listening, that’s a great topic. I didn’t have it in my notes for today, John. But for those of you listening, there are now so many choices on smart controllers. And, John, I mean that. I mean app-driven controllers. I have one. Rain Bird makes a great one. Hunter makes a great one. I use the Hunter brand. There’s all sorts of them out there, though, depending upon what you want to do. I mean, I could look at my water usage right now talking to you, turn a zone on and off, do a test. You know, whatever I want to do can do all of that remotely. And then, again, my clocks know, you know, whether to water or not based upon what’s happened moisture-wise. And all of these smart controllers can do that. There’s no reason in today’s world, John, to not be using one. They’re not that expensive.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, no, not at all. But there are people who don’t.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, and I think sometimes it’s, and this is why we’re talking about it, sometimes it’s lack of education. Some people don’t know these exist or they get used to just using the controller that came in the house or whatever and they don’t know you can even upgrade. And for those of you listening, a lot of these can be installed On your own, they’ll walk you through the entire thing. They’re just not that hard to put in. And the controllers that I’m talking about, John, you can get a smart controller anywhere from $90 all the way up to $350, and that $350 is one of the high-end. That’s one of the hunters like I’ve got. They’re called a HydraWise controller, and they literally will do anything you want them to do, and they know exactly what’s going on weather-wise.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, then, you know, and really quick, John.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, the other thing that they do for those of you listening, smart controllers typically, mine does, it knows the temperature. So if I have it set where, hey, I don’t want you watering when it’s below, you know, 60 degrees, let’s say, it won’t.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, that’s nice. I didn’t know that they had that feature, too.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, yeah. You can program it to do all sorts of things. By the way, all the programming you do in your app, you don’t even have to go to the controller to do anything. You control everything out of your app like I’m talking about.
SPEAKER 07 :
Nice, nice. Well, Tuesday we got five inches of snow where I live. Monday night into Tuesday. And what scares me is by Tuesday afternoon, it was gone. It had melted completely off.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. But, John, you have a great recipe. I will. No, John, I appreciate that. Great tips, by the way. Yeah, I didn’t have that in my notes as far as the controllers go. And I’ve talked about this in the past. But, guys, with the water shortage we have right now, the drought that we’re in, And by the way, that Hunter Hydra-wise, which I only am telling you because that’s the one I use, that’s my preference, but there’s lots of other options out there. They make them, I think, all the way up to, don’t quote me on this, but I know you can do a 6. I think you can do, let me look and see what zones you can do. I think there’s a 6. There’s, I believe, an 8. And I know you can do a 12. And I don’t know if there’s one above 12. Anyway, you can go to the Hunter website, find all of that. And there’s lots of other brands as well. I’m just telling you the one that I particularly care for, but there are lots of other brands that do smart controllers. And I’ll just tell you right now, if you don’t have a smart controller on your irrigation system, which most people now have, there are but a few people that still have to get the hose and the sprinkler out and do things that way. And even then, there are even smart controllers that can actually go on your tap where you’re hooking your hose up, and say you’ve got your sprinkler set, and it really doesn’t ever change, there’s even smart controllers for the hose that you can do similar things to as to what we’re talking about. They’re battery-driven and so on. But again, there is no reason to not have a smart controller in today’s world that help you with this management of your water, saving money, saving water, watering when it’s the most important time to do it, and so on. There is no reason in today’s world to not be using that. And I mean that sincerely. So if you don’t have one and it’s something that you want to know more about, send me a text message or an email. I can walk you through that. The majority of them, actually all of them. are very, very easy to install. Most of them even give you labels to put on the wires that are coming off, but the best thing to do there is take a picture of what you’re removing from your current controller, and then you mark your wires and such that go to the different zones and so on, and you know where it goes back into the new controller. And I’m not exaggerating. It takes longer to do the programming. Yes. of the device itself than it does to put it on the wall and install it. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that.
SPEAKER 03 :
They’re that easy to put in. Program is unlimited. You know, I can have fall, spring, summer. Exactly. All those things.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. I mean, think about, you know, app-driven things and how many different options there are. And that’s what you end up with when you do a smart irrigation controller. And, again, you can Google or AI. you know, best smart irrigation controller for, you know, my application. If you’ve got four zones, six zones, 24 zones, I mean, everybody’s got different, you know, amount depending upon what you’re doing and the size of your property. And it is, again, I cannot stress enough how convenient that not only makes things, but how much water you save in doing so. Cause the other thing that it does, it tracks your usage. It knows that, based upon flow, how much water you’re using at any given time, and it’ll tell you you just used X amount of water to water your trees or shrubs or grass or whatever. It does it zone by zone even if you want to. So, again, if you don’t have a smart controller on your irrigation system, look that up. In this climate we’ve got where the water rates are getting to the stage that they’re at, if you put a smart controller in, I guarantee you it will pay for itself in probably a season.
SPEAKER 05 :
And I’m not exaggerating.
SPEAKER 16 :
If you do it correctly and you water correctly and don’t overwater by using that, you’ll save enough money to pay for the controller. So it’s really not even an expense. It’s a money-saving measure. You’ll pay for it in the first year, and then every year after, it’s not only paying itself back, but you’re saving money year after year. And these things will last, oh gosh. A decade or longer.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I’ve had mine four or five years.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, they’ll last a long – I’ve had a smart controller. I’ve gone several different variations, but I’ve been using a smart controller since about 2004 or 5. Different house at that time, different type of controller, but that’s how long smart controllers have been around. And again, the early ones weren’t as sophisticated as the ones we have now. And to John’s point a moment ago from Cheyenne, they did have external measures they had to have or external devices they had to have on to measure rain and humidity and things like that. The new ones that are all driven… you know, you know, through the internet, they know exactly based upon your geographic, you put your address in, and it knows exactly where you are, what’s going on, it can pinpoint on the map, how much moisture you’re getting. I mean, in a way, that’s kind of scary. But that’s how smart they are. That’s why they’re called a smart controller. And they are. And as AI gets better and better folks, even that’s going to continue to improve. So All right, we’ll take a quick break. Got a couple of text messages that have come in. We’ll come right back, finish things up here this, about the second half, I should say, here at Fix It Radio. Myself, Steve Horvath. We’ll be right back. Fix It Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 16 :
All right, we are back. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560, thanks for listening. One other thing, too, that I should probably, and there’s some probably legalities around this, and I don’t know exactly what’s involved, but for some of you that may live in areas where the water table might be a little bit high. Now, right now, that might not be a concern, but as we gain some moisture and so on, it may be. And some of you have sump pumps. depending upon the area that you live in and where your basement’s located and where the water table is or where you might have drainage coming from another home in your area and so on you may actually be pumping water out of your sump pump out of the pit and then typically that just runs right back outside and dumps out into the you know a drain or the grass or the side of the house or whatever well if it were me especially now, I would be saving that water as well. And that’s something you don’t hear anybody really ever talk much about. There’s nothing wrong with that water. In fact, it’s very filtered. It’s typically gone through all sorts of rock and so on. You could use that water. You’re not going to drink it, of course, but that’s water that you could actually use for, again, watering plants and shrubs and things along those lines. So if you could figure out a way to actually have that pump and pump into – barrel much like John was talking about a moment ago again I don’t know the legalities of that so you need to check into that based upon your local area but typically it’s just gonna run out and run down the drain and who knows where it’s going me personally if I had one of those at the house I live in now we don’t have a sump pump I don’t have a basement so I don’t have a sump pump But if I did, especially now, would I be collecting that? Absolutely, especially if you’re in an area where there might be a little bit higher water table and that pump may be running and cycling. In some cases, it could cycle once an hour. In some cases, it might cycle every 10 minutes or so. It just depends on how much water you’ve got coming in. around the foundation of your house. It’s designed to collect all of that so that you don’t build up and have foundation problems and so on. It’s designed to actually take that water out of the pit, and it’s collecting it through a French drain system, and then your pump is just shoving that back outside. it’s got a float down there and it’s just got a pump in it that comes on and off and oh by the way if you have one of those and it doesn’t typically come on still a good idea to take a five gallon bucket of water and you know dump it down there and make sure that it does come on and that it’s working so that’s another one of those maintenance things at this time of the year you probably ought to make sure your sump pump is working especially for those of you that have finished basements now even unfinished you don’t want a bunch of standing water in the basement so on it’s just nasty and builds mold and so on so you want to get rid of that anyways but if you have a finished basement for sure you want to definitely go to where your sump pump is if you have one which most houses do in fact i think it’s depending upon the area probably code that you have one so most newer houses are going to have a sump pump you know a pit with a pump in it and I would highly recommend that you make sure that that works the previous house I had had a pit never had any water in it but every year I’d take a bucket of water and had a finished basement but I’d take a bucket of water down to the little area where the the pit was and I would pour that in making sure the pump came on and water pumped out and made sure everything worked and it always stayed dry I was in an area where I was really high, but again, because of code or whatever at that time, it still had a pit and a pump. But I made sure that that thing worked every year. And those of you that have one, that’s another thing that you ought to be doing. And some of you, whereby you’re in an area where you might be having a pump run every five or ten minutes, probably ought to have a backup pump. I don’t know that I would just rely on one pump. I think I might have a backup pump that’s a little bit higher in the pit that wouldn’t come on until the level gets to be a little bit higher, but then that would be your backup pump. A plumber can install all of that for you, and I would probably look at that. If I had a pump that’s running that often, that is something that I would be looking at doing. And for some of you that are in some of the higher water table areas, again, might not be as big of an issue this year, but that could change if we get into some monsoon conditions you know, into the into the monsoon season, if they’re talking about El Nino being as strong as it is, we could end up having more moisture the second half of this summer. And if that’s the case, some of you with that particular scenario, yeah, you may be getting more water down in your pit than what you would have right now. And it’d be something to look at. We’ll talk about that again, probably when we get to that point in time. But for some of you that live in those areas where you’ve got a higher water table, it would be worth looking at.
SPEAKER 03 :
Interesting, too, keep an eye on your foundations, too. Absolutely. I think there might be some shifting as water is changed and drying out.
SPEAKER 16 :
Absolutely. So, yeah, for some of you, you know the area you live in, and if you live in that type of an area, be very aware of that. Jeff, go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, good morning, all. Good morning. Summer has finally hit here as well, so we’ve had, I think this is the third day of warm weather after… I’m sorry to rub it. I don’t mean to rub it in. No, no, no.
SPEAKER 16 :
We’ve got a nice day today, too, so it’s been really nice today, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Yeah, and our snowpack was lower earlier, but where we live, it’s about in the 90% range. So in the lake, Butthead Lake is within two feet of full pool, so I don’t think water is going to be an issue for us this year. Not for you, no. But, no, it just shows how droughts are regional, really, really regional.
SPEAKER 16 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 04 :
My question, though, is I was looking at IBCs to collect rainwater off of detached rods. That’s a very large sloped roof, and I was going to have it get collected there and then move it over to some trees that aren’t. I don’t know why people did this, but they’re not on an irrigation system. So, but it’s pretty much a flat run from where the IBCs would run to where the trees are, maybe 30 feet away. So I’m just wondering if you have any suggestions or if any of the listeners out there have used IBCs as an irrigation system to distribute water around various plants, several plants, you know, What’s the best way to set that up in terms of pumps?
SPEAKER 16 :
That wouldn’t be that hard, Jeff. I mean, in a situation like that, of course, you’re going to collect it into a barrel. You need to make sure that you’ve got a barrel where you can have some sort of removable lid, of course, because then you can put a submersible pump inside. down in that and you could run, you know, then you could run irrigation line, depending upon whether you’re going to run a drip, whether you want to run, you’re going to run a bigger line, of course, and run drip off that bigger line. But you could pressurize that line with a pump very easily and just run it out wherever you want to.
SPEAKER 03 :
Couldn’t you mount it up Off the ground, maybe a couple feet and just turn it natural. I mean, if you get good enough slope.
SPEAKER 16 :
You probably wouldn’t get enough out of the emitters because typically drip is run off very small, eighth-inch tubing. You’re going to need some pressure to run through the drip, I would think. You could try it gravity-fed, but I doubt it’s going to feed through that small line.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and there’s two options for the line, to bury it or to just have a seasonal hose. If I buried it, then I would have to pump it up to the emitter. So you have to pump it.
SPEAKER 16 :
Personally, for look’s sake, I would bury it, use sprinkler line, bury it. You don’t have to use heavy. You could use half-inch sprinkler line, and it’s just a submersible pump that you could pick up on Amazon or wherever, and off you go. Done deal. Put it on a – that one you could even just put on a timer, have it run, you know, so many minutes per day kind of a thing, and off you go.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Okay. So not a sump pump per se, but a submersible?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, and look at what you can size. In fact, this is where you go to AI and ask it, you know, I need to run this many emitters off of this much line. How much pressure do I need? And then get your pump sized accordingly, and it’ll even tell you what to use as far as that goes. Use AI for all that, Jeff. It’ll tell you exactly what to use.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
And then just go to go to Amazon and buy a submersible pump. And you’ve got to make sure you’ve got an outlet nearby, because it’ll run off, you know, 120. And off you go. And that’s where you’ll time it, you’ll time it off of, you know, that when you get pretty simplistic, as far as a clock goes, just, you know, figure out some sort of a, a, you know, plug in, you know, which again, you can even there even Wi Fi ones of those now you can actually use one of the smart plugs is what I would do and time it off of a smart plug to run the pump. That’s how I would do it, Jeff.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s a good idea. I hadn’t thought about getting a smart plug as a timer.
SPEAKER 16 :
Just put a smart plug in that would then be your timer. You could program the smart plug to run whenever you wanted to for however long. It just turns the outlet on and off, which is going to turn the pump on and off, and off you go. I have smart plugs in several places, and they are the bomb. They work fabulous.
SPEAKER 04 :
So they’re not outlets, not a smart outlet.
SPEAKER 16 :
You can put a smart outlet in, or you can put an adapter or plug, I should say, that goes on top of. Now, in your case, where it’s going to be outside, you’re probably, you know, of course, that’ll have to be a GFI, you know, run. And I have not looked to see if they make GFI smart outlets. I’ve never checked that. I’m assuming they do, Jeff, but honestly, I’ve never looked.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, that was my thought, too, is that as you’re talking, there is no outlet on that side. It’s the third bay of the garage where I have my shop, and I know of two outlets that are fairly close that I could just… And they do, and I figured they did.
SPEAKER 16 :
So, yes, they do make smart GFCI plugs.
SPEAKER 04 :
Good, because I… What I’ve done is I’ve just found out where there’s an internal interior outlet, and then I just go outside to that spot, pull up a couple of feet, and put an exterior one right off of that plug outlet.
SPEAKER 16 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 04 :
And bump your uncle.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep, and there you go. You’ll be in good shape.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. All righty.
SPEAKER 16 :
All right.
SPEAKER 01 :
Thanks for the idea, Jeff.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, I appreciate it very much, and it should work out well. And, yeah, for some of you where you’ve got a situation like Jeff where, you know, you might even have some flowers and things like that, or you don’t want to be out there watering things on a daily basis, but you still want to use your rain barrel to actually do all of that, well, there’s an idea on how you could use your rain barrel and even get some automation done. out of it remember that if there’s no water in the rain barrel then you’re gonna have to supplement that you know some way somehow but as long as we’ve got some water coming in as we have had uh here of late you know you’d be okay and in doing that so we i know we kind of got off track here on some of this we’re talking about maintenance and so on but you guys have had some great comments and great uh great feedback on that so not a problem at all
SPEAKER 03 :
What’s a good suggestion for watering potted plants, you know, the hanging baskets? That’s the thing we forget to do all the time.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, and you can run emitters to those as well. And somebody texted too, and Jeff did say this, you know, depending upon, you know, where you’re running uphill, downhill, and so on, yes, you’ll have to account for all of that because you’re pumping uphill versus downhill and so on. You’ll have to figure, you know, all of that as well. But, yeah, and again, this is where I talk about AI a lot. This is where AI really can come in handy because you can even tell it. I’ve got this much of a rise in the pipe, and I’m running this many emitters, and, and, and. And it will literally tell you in size, tell you what size pump and everything you need to use and run and so on. It’s really, you know, it’s really handy for things along those lines. You were talking about using it for something the other day.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Well, I was just thinking you could probably tell you how much water to put for that five-inch tree or, you know, you could ask those kind of questions. You can diagram anything on that.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s right. That’s right. And, again, for some of you where you’re just running strictly downhill, you don’t have to pump anything up, you may very well be able to just get by with a gravity feed at the end of the day. Every situation is going to be different. Look at what you have. And this is, by the way, where AI, you can even feed in pictures to it and so on and, hey, this is exactly what I have. True. Here’s what I’m trying to accomplish. And it will literally walk you through what you need to do to get water where you need to. And here’s the other thing. And this is always the pro and the con of things. So right now the con is we’re in a drought. The pro is all the things we’re talking about right now, you’re going to learn how to use. And you’re then going to use it from this point forward, which is not a bad thing. You’re now going to be more efficient with what you’re doing and even your water usage, which we all know that water company is one of the few things in life where the more you use, the more you get charged. Typically, when you buy in bulk, you save money. That’s kind of the common thing. The more you buy, the cheaper things get, with the exception of two things, power and water. Power and water. They charge you more for power. They charge you more for water. It’s the stupidest thing ever, but that’s just the way it is. That’s the system we have. You’re not going to change it. I can complain about it all day long. But the more water you use, the more per gallon you’re going to pay as that rate increases per thousand gallons on up the chart. And all of you have a chart that your water company or your city or wherever you’re getting your water from has given you. and all you have to do is look that chart up and know by a thousand gallons you know what are you getting charged and it’ll tell you specifically what it is and unfortunately the more you use the more you get charged so my point is as you learn how to save some water now in a drought condition like we’ve got you’re just going to save money on down the road continually because you’re not going to use as much water as you were previous to now because of the changes that you’re making as we speak It’s better overall for all of us. So that, yeah, and those are some of the things. Again, there’s always a pro and a con. And the pro right now to where we’re at is you’re going to learn some things that you then can apply and continue to use on down the road. And that could be everything from how you use water inside the house, outside of the house. Somebody asked me or texted me a minute ago and said, I bet John’s a guy that times his showers. Yeah, no, that is one thing I do not do. You know what? Nope, I take as long a shower as I want based upon how I feel and the time I have and so on. Yeah, I’ve got a routine like everybody has, and I probably don’t over-shower. But, no, I’m not worried about how many gallons are coming out of the shower head. I’m taking a shower and enjoying myself, and I really don’t care about any of that.
SPEAKER 03 :
We do like our comfort, don’t we?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, I am not one of those guys that – turns the shower on and lathers up and turns it off and does all that. Yeah, no, I’m not doing that. Mark, you’re next. It’ll be your last call. Go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 06 :
Good morning. Real quick, the guy that was thinking about watering trees with IBC2, so I’ve also been thinking about building a gravity feed system myself, and with not having enough pressure to the emitters, I’ve found on several different websites, but AI definitely helped me. Thanks, John. But So what I found was they sell 12-volt pumps with cutoffs, which is kind of like something you use in a camper that you could have set up on a battery and a small solar panel that would kick on if you had a timer, like a regular timer, like your sprinkler valve timer or a battery power type system. And then you could run it that way to a drip system. if the 120 is not available.
SPEAKER 16 :
Good point. Great point. If you’re out further away, you don’t have power and so on, great idea, Mark. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, so what we’re trying to do, we don’t have power, so I thought, you know, if I don’t have enough pressure. Great idea. And I’ve got about 10 PSI. Whether that’ll work with the valves I’m trying to use, I haven’t actually officially tested. 10’s pretty low. I tested on another side, and the other side has 12 PSI, and it worked. or at least last year it worked. I haven’t tested it this spring yet.
SPEAKER 16 :
Really quick, here’s another idea. I’m going to steal this idea from you. Sure. What keeps you from having a pretty, once you’ve got the IBC full, what keeps you from getting that air tight and adding a pressure valve to it where you just pressurize the tank with air and have that push the water out?
SPEAKER 06 :
Interesting. Because the tanks themselves are not pressured tanks. As far as the IBC, the cap themselves got like a little check valve in it, I believe, so that it doesn’t create vacuum. So as you’re entering it, or I’m sorry, as fluid’s coming out, it doesn’t collapse the tank.
SPEAKER 16 :
Gotcha. Gotcha. Makes sense. Okay. Just curious. Makes sense.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep. Yeah, so I’d have to seal that off, but then I wouldn’t have a way to put the water in it.
SPEAKER 16 :
That makes sense. No, I get it. I get it. Makes total sense.
SPEAKER 06 :
So that’s it. That’s all I got.
SPEAKER 16 :
Good one, Mark. I appreciate that. Very good. Thank you very much.
SPEAKER 03 :
Some ingenious ideas out there, isn’t there?
SPEAKER 16 :
Some of you guys come up with things that, frankly, I don’t know that I would even think of on my own, but that’s collectively, and by the way, that’s why we do the program that we do, collectively why we do this, and all of you learn from one another and teach. By the way, I learn as well. I mean, and Steve knows this, I’ve never done a program yet any single day. Being on air, in all of these years, I’ve never not learned something. Every single time I’m here and I’m sitting in this chair in front of this microphone, it doesn’t matter what show I’m doing, I’m learning something I didn’t know the day before.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Keeps us young, doesn’t it?
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s why I keep doing it because it keeps my mind sharp. It gives me ideas and things that I wouldn’t know otherwise. And, again, that’s a big thank you to all of you because between all of you, the text line, the different guests that I have on that I get to interview, folks like Steve that come in, Larry, Charlie even, I mean, all of you collectively, you do a great job of feeding information out to each other, myself included. And, frankly, folks, I’m the biggest beneficiary of because I get to hear from everybody. Mm-hmm. So thank you all very much. I appreciate it. You can go to the website, fixitradio.com, by the way. Find all of our partners and sponsors and folks there that help make this program happen on a weekly basis. And find all of our previous episodes as well. This has been Fix It Radio, KLZ 560.
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