In this insightful episode of Fix-It Radio, listeners are guided through the pressing issue of managing water use amid changing weather patterns. We delve into practical tips for conserving water while maintaining your garden’s health, emphasizing the importance of smart watering strategies, especially when restrictions are in place. AI technology takes center stage as a powerful tool for homeowners looking to optimize plant care and plan home projects more efficiently. Both the challenges and innovative solutions surrounding current drought conditions are explored, providing listeners with valuable information for home and garden maintenance.
SPEAKER 16 :
Walter? Upstairs! Are you alright?
SPEAKER 04 :
In the floor behind the chair.
SPEAKER 16 :
This is America.
SPEAKER 09 :
Does everybody know what time it is? Fix It Radio.
SPEAKER 08 :
Welcome! Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. Happy Saturday, everybody. And if you’re listening to the replay, yes, we do this show live on Saturdays from 9 to 10 a.m. I think a lot of folks maybe get confused on that because the phone will actually ring during the Fix-It Radio replay on Mondays from 2 to 3. And some of you say, well, how do you know that, John? Because I’m usually here in the studio getting ready for my daily program that starts at 3 o’clock. I actually witnessed the phone ringing. And so, yeah, if it’s Tuesday, it is a replay show. You cannot call in on Tuesday. But on Saturday, you definitely can call in. You can text in as well, 307-282-22, 307-282-22. Larry Unger with me this morning. Good morning, Larry. Good morning, John. And, by the way, Larry, not such a beautiful day today, although it’s not bad out. It’s a little cloudy out. If you guys haven’t been out and about, it’s a little cooler today. So it is exactly 37 degrees right now as we speak. It’ll be a little warmer maybe on Tuesday or Monday, Monday, Tuesday, maybe. Going to be cold here for the next few days and maybe some, by the way, much-needed moisture coming. I’m going to talk a little bit about that today in regards to just where we’re at with, you know, watering and some things along those lines, give you guys a little bit of pointers along those lines. But, Larry, we could use the moisture, definitely.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, absolutely. We’re so short, it’s scary.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, yeah, we’ll take it. We’ll take it. We’ll take the moisture. Anything, right now. Even this morning, believe it or not, even the dampness in the air, You know, the higher humidity. Even that is a help. Just not having the, you know, sun beating down and sucking the moisture out. This really is actually even, believe it or not, adding a little bit of moisture back in, which we need. And just to start off on the tips sides of things when it comes to, you know, watering and things like that. And here’s what a lot of folks probably… make mistakes on because of the visibility of things. Most people right now are worried about your grass, which I get it. Everybody wants to have green grass. But here’s what you need to be careful of. Don’t sacrifice your watering, watering days, and so on. And I know most of the watering restrictions still will allow you to water shrubs and trees and things like that. But don’t neglect… that end of things the bluegrass uh honestly it’s pretty robust i mean if it gets all the way you know down to where it’s it’s you know brown and the kids and stuff are playing on it you get down to dirt and there’s nothing left but even then that can get grown back fairly easily once we get some moisture again so i’m not saying don’t worry about your grass but we tend to focus more on the grass than we do some of the other things that surround the grass the trees and shrubs and so on and my point there is don’t neglect those while trying to keep the grass green
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, and it doesn’t take a lot of watering to do these shrubs anyway.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, and there’s a little hint on that. And I talk about AI a lot during my daily program. I haven’t talked about it much here on the weekend programs, which I probably should because there’s a lot of things you can apply it towards, even what we’re going to talk about today. But in regards to what Larry just said, you can use AI and even take a picture of your shrub or your plant or whatever it is you’re wondering how much water does this need, It will tell you. Now, I know there’s apps and other things out that a lot of folks have on their phones that will do the same thing. Here’s the reality, though. You don’t need to spend any extra money for any apps or anything along those lines. AI, pick your flavor. Any of them will do this. You can literally take a picture, load that into AI, and say, you know, here’s this plant, here’s its age, and so on, and it’ll tell you exactly how much water you need. By the way, it’ll even ask you, You know, where do you live, what’s your soil conditions like, so on and so forth. And, you know, you tell it what you’ve got there, and then it’ll tell you exactly how much water you need to do.
SPEAKER 15 :
And not only that, but it’ll tell you what kind of bush it is, what kind of plant it might be, what kind of flower it might be. So if you don’t know, you moved into a house and you’re not familiar with what’s growing, take a picture of it and it’ll tell you.
SPEAKER 08 :
I just asked my wife.
SPEAKER 15 :
That’s a good thing, too.
SPEAKER 08 :
She’s an expert in that. I am not. Yes, I own a landscape company, and no, I am not an expert in plants and trees and shrubs and things like that. I know some of the majors, all the different pine trees and so on, but when it gets into deciduous trees and so on, I can tell you some based upon the leaf and the shape of the tree and so on, but can I tell you every single tree, shrub, plant, flower, all of that? Yeah, foggiest idea. No, don’t ask me.
SPEAKER 15 :
Don’t ask me either.
SPEAKER 08 :
I mean, I just I do not do well in that area. My wife, on the other hand, I can usually ask her and my wife’s even the type that I can even ask her, is this a shady plant? Is this a sunny plant? And she knows all that stuff right off the top of her head. And I don’t know any of that at all.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, God bless people that can do that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, because that is not me. I am not that person. So at any rate, that is a great tool. Now, here’s another thing that AI can work really well for. And this is something that a lot of people don’t think about. Let’s say you’ve got a little section of your lawn, your house, whatever, and you’d like to redo that. Back in the day, you’d sometimes get together with a planning person, a landscape architect, and things like that. Again, nothing against those folks. They still serve their purpose, and a lot of new builds and so on will use those individuals to plan things out. But here’s the reality. You can do the same thing in AI. You can literally take a picture of a portion of your yard or driveway, whatever you’re trying to do, whatever you’re trying to redo. My wife does this all the time. She’ll look at she wants different ideas on how to decorate the front porch for all the different seasons of the year. She’ll take a picture of the porch. And then tell AI, I’d like you to decorate this for Thanksgiving or for a fall theme or for Christmas. And believe it or not, it’ll show you a picture of what you could do with that particular area. And you can do the same thing inside the house, outside the house. And so my point is, if you’ve got an area of the… of your lawn where you’re thinking, hey, I’d like to just have less maintenance, less water, and so on. Take a picture of it. Load it into AI. Any of them will do this. Chat, GPT, Claude, Gronk, Gemini. Pick your flavor. It doesn’t matter. And load that picture in and say, can you give me ideas on… how I could redo this to either have a zero scape or just less water or whatever, and yes, it will actually give you ideas even down to the particular plants and spacing and the whole nine yards. So I’m one of those where a lot of folks are against AI, and not to get off track here on Fix-It Radio, but a lot of folks are against AI for all sorts of reasons, and I’m not going to go down those paths because I’m not one of those. I use AI on a very routine basis, pretty much daily for all sorts of different things that I do. And I think a lot of people, if they were where smart would do the same thing because it’s so handy and can help with so many different things that even on the search engine end of things, a lot of folks still Google different things. Honestly, you don’t need to do that anymore. Just go to AI and type in what you want to know and it’ll tell you. You no longer have to go Googling for things. AI will give you the answer that you need in most cases. And I get it, it’s not 100% foolproof, but here’s something else to remember with AI. You may have tried it a year ago and said, oh, it didn’t work then. A year in AI is a long time.
SPEAKER 15 :
Six months in AI.
SPEAKER 08 :
A month in AI can be a long time. So even though you may have looked at something even a month ago, remember, it’s learning second by second by second. So even what you may have looked for a week ago may be different today just because of the way the machine learning end of things is. Point is. you may have some things you want to try to redo around your house. And by the way, I can apply this to so many things. We talk about the organizational things quite a bit, which by the way, Larry’s daughter, Paula Unger, neat, neat freak solutions. You’ll see, you’ll hear her ads today through the program. And we’ve had Paula on here a few weeks ago. We’ll get her back here in the next couple of weeks as well. And she is somebody that can help you with the organizing and disposal of and even making decisions on what do I keep, what do I get rid of, and so on. Now, here’s what I will tell you, though. Once you’ve gone through that aspect with her and you’re now looking at how do I reorganize things in my garage, for example, or my storage closet, how can I maximize my space? Again, take a picture, load it into AI. It will give you examples back as to the things that you can do with shelving cabinets and so on. It will literally tell you. You can go into an area in your house, for example, and say, okay, I would like to redecorate this room. What are your suggestions? And I would like it to be this theme. It will literally give you examples of what you can do with that particular area. And again, some of you may know this and may have already used it in this manner. Others of you may be listening and thinking, I’ve never heard anybody say anything like that before. But believe me, you can do all of those things.
SPEAKER 15 :
I’m one of those people who say, I’ve never heard that before, so it’s very interesting to me.
SPEAKER 08 :
It works, and again, it’s something that my wife uses all the time for different aspects of things, decorating and so on. I’ll use it occasionally for, hey, I’d like to reorganize this a little better. How do I do that? And even for me, where I’ve been one of those people that for years and years just sort of looked at things and knew in my mind this is what I wanted to do, you’ll learn some things that AI will give you that you may not have thought of in the first go around, even how to lay things out to give you the most maximized space. And I’m getting even some of my clients that I coach to do the same thing where, hey, if you’ve got a particular area of your business where you’re looking to maximize things and shorten footsteps and so on, Utilize AI in the way that I just said and it will.
SPEAKER 15 :
That’s interesting.
SPEAKER 08 :
Think of it as a tool. And I think that’s one of the things that we tend to, you know, we demonize AI in a lot of ways. And I get it. And there’s so many different feelings on it and so on. But here’s where I’m going with this. Take the feelings out of it. Okay, just put all the feelings aside. Look at it as you would a hammer or a screwdriver. This is a tool I’m going to use to do X, Y, Z, and I want to use it in such a way. Now, here’s the other thing you can do with AI. If you don’t like the first answer you get back, tell it. Hey, I don’t like the way that looks. I’d like you to do such and such. Okay, it will do exactly that. And if you don’t… don’t like the direction that it’s headed with some of the answers that you’re getting, just tell it that and make those adjustments, and it will. That’s what’s so amazing about it.
SPEAKER 15 :
That’s interesting. I didn’t know it would do that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, yeah. Yeah. So let’s say, for example, it’s organizing in a way and you’re not really that keen on what it’s doing. Just tell it, say, yeah, I don’t really like that design. Can you come up with something different? You can say it just like that. And by the way, the other thing that works very well with AI is you can just talk to it. You can type if you want or. In most cases, you’re better off just talking to it and telling it what you want. It’ll start learning you, how you do things, you know, your tonality and so on. And I know it sounds a little freaky, but it works.
SPEAKER 15 :
Now you’re scaring me.
SPEAKER 08 :
Tell it what you want, and it will do it for you. And it’s really an amazing tool, especially for the things we’re talking about, especially going back to the beginning on what we were talking about to get things started, which is the overall water shortage that a lot of you are encountering. And I don’t know of, and if there is one, please let me know. I don’t know of a water shortage. uh agency let me say it that way because some cities have their own sometimes that’s farmed out there can be even subsets in certain areas and so on depending on how you know where you live in your neighborhood and so on but i don’t know of anybody right now that’s not on some sort of restriction i think all of your major water companies you know from denver water on down have some sort of a restriction on what you can do and when meaning you’re going to be limited on how much water you can actually use and put down and so on. And so in that case, if you’re looking for ideas on, hey, how do I do this? And, you know, what do I need to be doing so that I’m not overusing water and I’m doing things correctly? Utilize that tool and it will help you with all of that. Again, even down to what we talked about a few minutes ago. Some plants need less. Some plants need more. There are plants out there, by the way, depending upon what you have and how mature they are. You may not need much of anything. They’ll just naturally do what they need to do, and you may not have to do a whole lot of anything. And then some, by the way, certain trees and so on, you want to fertilize and do some things along those lines, which will actually help with all of the nutrition and reduce the water that it needs and so on. So, again, there’s a lot of tools there that you can utilize as we’re going through this particular season. Now, I say season because I watched some videos and read some things this past week with the El Nino starting back up. And from the sounds of it, it’s going to be a heavier El Nino. They’re talking about how as we get into July, August, and even September, we may very well have a wetter-than-usual monsoon time, meaning we might make up for some of what we’re lacking now by the time we get there, but we have to get there. We still have one week of April left. We’ve got all of May and June before we’d even get to that season. So we’ve got about eight to nine weeks left before we would get to that monsoon season. time of the year where they’re saying we may actually get more moisture at that time and by the way they’re saying that nobody has a crystal ball and can predict you know we could end up with some moisture even prior to that or we could end up with very little moisture during that i mean no one knows point being be prepared And just know on the front side what you can and cannot do. Now, one thing I haven’t seen, I’ll talk about this maybe a little bit in Drive Radio today, is I haven’t seen anybody do water restrictions on washing cars and things along those lines. But don’t be surprised if those things aren’t coming because I would venture to guess that they probably will be.
SPEAKER 15 :
We have that in our city.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, so you already have that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, so, yeah, be aware of that. They’re probably going to have more restrictions along those lines as well, too, so that’s something else to think about when it comes to water. So just know that that’s going to be a challenge, and we want to try to help you guys with that. John and Cheyenne, you’re first today. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, good morning, John.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good morning.
SPEAKER 04 :
One of the things that I haven’t heard a lot talked about, but it’s out there, people on wells should be real careful this year because, The snowpack and the melt and the lack of water, a lot of that will go into the aquifers that your wells are tapped in.
SPEAKER 08 :
True.
SPEAKER 04 :
So you may not want to overtax your well. Same thing because of the drought.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yep, you’re right, John. You’re 100% correct. Yeah, you may think you’re insulated from this because of that. You’re making a great point, John. You’re not.
SPEAKER 04 :
You’re not. You know, if the water takes—if your well— is in an aquifer, and it drops. Right. You might be dry for the summer. That’s right.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s exactly right. You’re 100% correct.
SPEAKER 04 :
So one of the things I do, I got one of those 280-gallon IVC totes, I think they call them.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, and two rain barrels. And I’ll, like, the rain barrels are up, and as soon as they’re full, I’ll put them in that thing. And that’s 280 gallons of water to do. And I picked up a, pump at Harbor Freight for it for about 60 bucks or something like that and I could do most everything outside a lot of stuff where I don’t have to tax the well other than for living water you know what I mean which doesn’t require as much as you know luckily yeah yeah I mean and the other thing is you know like I have what they call a soap up valve in the shower And I can reach up and turn the water off while I’m soaking up and everything. Sure, sure, sure. Without adjusting the temperatures or anything. And by doing that, you don’t realize how much water a shower uses until you measure it. A shower uses less than a bath, but it still uses water. So if you can put your water flow while you’re soaking up, that’s going to save you water too. I don’t know how bad it’s going to get.
SPEAKER 08 :
um i know cheyenne’s already telling everybody they’re going to be restricted and you know we had a grass fire again yesterday if we don’t jump to your point if we don’t get some moisture and this is where i don’t know i’m again not trying to be an alarmist you know me john i’m not that way at all i’m not alarmist i’m just you know reasonable and you know what do we do to handle the you know the different things that come along at at different times and right now uh we’re we’re in a a a situation here in Colorado. It’s not other places in the U.S. are so much this way, but here in this Colorado, even Wyoming, you know, region, we just do not have a lot of moisture. And to your point, because of that, lack of snowpack and so on, the aquifers and so on, the reservoirs and so on, they’re just not going to be up, John, as you know.
SPEAKER 04 :
No. Did you see the article? They had to release a whole bunch of water from Flaming Gorge. You know where Flaming Gorge is, right?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I did see that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Which is… to just put enough water in Lake Powell so they can continue to generate electricity.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. Yeah, and they’re draining. You know, Denver Water is draining. Antero, they’re encouraging people, fishermen, to go down there, fish as much as you want. All the limits are off. You can catch as many fish as you want to catch because they’re all going to die anyways because they’re going to drain that particular reservoir this summer to help the downstream end of things. And so, yeah, I mean, these are conditions that they’re up against. And, John, it just is what it is.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right, yeah, and I saw an article, a good one, and it said that this is the worst winter we’ve had for dryness since the winter of 80-81. Hmm, okay. Yeah, and the only saving grace was I saw a graph out of CSU’s meteorology that said the winter of 81-82, the snowpack was at 140%. Right. So hopefully… We’ll get some rain now. I woke up to so much humidity in the air, and there was a little bit of wind. I had frost on everything. The wind was blowing across.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, really?
SPEAKER 04 :
Because we were below freezing. We were below freezing. No complaints. I mean, anything to keep the pastures. All right. Because that’s going to be our biggest thing is one idiot with a dragon chain or a cigarette out the window, we’re going to have a fire like nobody’s going to believe. Yeah. I know the Forest Service, Medish and Bo, they’re already talking to no campfires for the summer. And it’s not even, the roads aren’t even fully open yet. You know, the roads that they closed for winter haven’t even opened yet, and they’re still saying no fires. So with the water shortage and everything, that’s the other thing. Look what happened in, what is it, a year and a half now in California? They didn’t have enough water to fight fires.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hopefully we’re not at that level yet, but God forbid it happens.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and hopefully this monsoon weather that I’m talking about with El Nino, we can get through these next. But, you know, as you know, John, nine weeks is a long time for a lot of this. So, yeah, we may have some reprieve coming, but it’s not tomorrow.
SPEAKER 04 :
No. And I was watching that weather podcast that I watch every day, and he was saying the same thing. He goes, weather more than a week out. is an educated guess based on modeling and averages. So if anybody’s telling you two weeks from now we’re going to get a big rainstorm, they’re guessing.
SPEAKER 08 :
They have no idea.
SPEAKER 04 :
They’re guessing. And one of the things he showed is he showed the different models that they use, the Canadian, the European. And one set, they were all over the place 10 days out. And they were all different. So he said, don’t count on it. Just hope for the best. Now, yeah, hopefully we’ll get some, the monsoon will crank up and we’ll get some, just enough rain to keep us from burning down here in the west.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and I think, you know, to your point, John, utilizing some of the other tools you might have around your place to minimize, you know, some of your not only water usage, but, you know, making sure you keep, you know, as I said earlier, you know, grass will come back. I mean, the grass is pretty resilient, Kentucky bluegrass, which a lot of folks have and so on. Pretty resilient. You know, even some areas where you think, man, this is just completely dead. You’ll be surprised. Get some moisture. It’ll come back up next year. Not a huge issue. Or even later in the year, if we get some moisture, it’ll come back. So not a huge issue. But the plants and shrubs, they’ll have to have water.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, they do. But you want to know how quick the grass comes back. Just go out to some place that had a grass fire six months to a year ago, and you can’t even tell it happened there.
SPEAKER 08 :
Actually, it might be greener.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 08 :
it usually is that that that fire puts in some some nutrients and things back into the soil that actually in a lot of cases as long as the topsoil hasn’t you know eroded and gone away john typically will be greener when it’s all said and done yeah because we you see those fall grass fires and you’re like wow
SPEAKER 04 :
And then even on the winter we had, you go by in the spring and you’re like, oh, it’s all green again.
SPEAKER 08 :
I mean, not to get completely off topic, but we have stopped a lot of what, you know, God, Mother Nature, whatever you want to say, wanted to happen years ago, which was the rejuvenation of forests through fires and so on. And we’ve stopped a lot of that. And then we wonder why we have such bad ones now. It’s because we’ve not allowed things to clean themselves up over the years, John.
SPEAKER 04 :
Exactly, and I would encourage anyone that hasn’t been up in one of the national forests lately to just go, even if it’s just a drive-through, and look how much dead stuff that’s laying on. They are not doing responsible forestation.
SPEAKER 08 :
They’re not, and because we stopped fires at one time, it did itself. Right. But we don’t allow that anymore, John.
SPEAKER 04 :
But also they don’t allow logging in a lot of places either.
SPEAKER 08 :
Nope, that’s true as well.
SPEAKER 04 :
And it’s just more rush to reason. But that logging would go in and clean that forest out.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 04 :
And then you’d grow back better. Same thing. We were talking about the grass. But if you go through a place that had a fire 10 years later, you usually can’t tell.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. Great point.
SPEAKER 04 :
Because nature brings it back just as good. Except there’s more aspens because the pines don’t grow as fast.
SPEAKER 08 :
You’re right. That is correct. 100% correct.
SPEAKER 04 :
John, you have a good rest of the day.
SPEAKER 08 :
John, always. I appreciate it. Great conversation. And, you know, point being with everybody is really, you know, my tip there is, you know, make sure that you’re watering the things that need watered most. We tend to look at the things that are most visible, i.e., grass. The grass will come back, and I know that it’s an eyesore, and for a lot of folks, myself included, that’s one of those things you pride yourself on is having a really nice-looking yard and so on. Well, this may be one of those years where we’re all in the same boat, and it may not look as good as what it normally does, but make sure you’re keeping the rest of what you have on track and making sure that you don’t lose any trees and shrubs and so on. All right, we’ll be right back here in just a moment. Don’t go anywhere. Myself, Larry Unger, Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 08 :
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SPEAKER 05 :
John, I’ve got a problem. I’m stumped. I’ve got a kitchen window above the sink, six feet wide, three feet tall. The center section is three feet. It’s fixed. But on either side, I’ve got 18-inch crank outs. And on one side, one of the crank outs, it’s a metal clad. And that crank out, the wood on the bottom is all rotted out. So where the crank arm is supposed to screw into that, it won’t hold. The crank arm is pulled loose. And I can’t find a manufacturer’s name anywhere on it. I’ve looked on Pella, Anderson, Marvin. I can’t find anybody that is making a similar-sized window. But I’d just like to replace that one crank-out section, which is 18 wide by 36 tall. Gotcha. And my other option is to possibly take it off and try to rebuild and replace that piece of rotted wood on the bottom. But I’m open to suggestions, any way to figure out who made the window or where I could buy it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and he’s not my sponsor here, but, you know, during the week, Veteran Windows and Doors, Dave Bancroft, Dave Smart, I’ve had him out to my place and different things. And if there’s anybody that could tell you, it would be him, Joe.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, even though I’m not in a position to be, well, maybe he wants to ship me a window.
SPEAKER 08 :
He might be, yeah. I was just going to say he might be able to. I mean, through pictures and so on, you might be able to do something along those lines. He could just have it shipped right from Provia right to you if that’s something that’s doable. So I don’t know why. I mean, here’s the bottom line. Even if he can’t, at least he can steer you in the right direction.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, because if I can’t find a way to either replace or rebuild this one little crank out section, I’m looking at $3,000 to replace the whole window.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, that’s ridiculous. Or more, as you know. They’re not cheap, as you know.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. The windows alone can run $1,800 to $2,000. Okay. So Dave Bancroft, Veteran Windows and Doors.
SPEAKER 08 :
Veteran Windows and Doors, yep, and he’s a good guy, and his number’s right on the website. Just give him a call. He’ll know you. He listens to the show enough to know who you are, Joe. That wouldn’t be a problem at all. He’ll know who you are and just tell him what you’re looking at doing and what you need, and he’ll be happy to help.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and if he could make me one, I’ve actually got another one that’s getting to where this one was, a larger one. So I’d actually order a couple.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I don’t know why he wouldn’t do that. I’m sure he could help you with that, Joe. No doubt he could.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, well, I’ll give him a call.
SPEAKER 08 :
I mean, as you know, you’ll have to figure out the install and all of that. But, again, he’s a guy that’s been around the country enough. He might even have some resources on that end of things for you.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, well, the install is easy. The only thing that holds that window on is the crank arm extension on bottom and top. That’s all that holds that window in place.
SPEAKER 07 :
Gotcha, gotcha.
SPEAKER 05 :
You’ve got the crank arm. There’s two screws on the bottom and two screws on the top.
SPEAKER 08 :
Make it easy that way.
SPEAKER 05 :
And that’s the only thing. But right now, there’s nothing to screw into on the bottom of the wood. It’s just all completely rotted away.
SPEAKER 07 :
Gotcha. No, he’s a good resource, Joe.
SPEAKER 05 :
Give him a call. Okay. I’ll give him a call on Monday.
SPEAKER 08 :
Thank you. In fact, you call him today, Joe. He’ll answer today if you want to call him today.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. I’ll do that. Thanks, John.
SPEAKER 08 :
You betcha, Joe. Take care. Appreciate you, as always. Jeff, you’re next. Go ahead. Hey, good morning, gents. Good morning.
SPEAKER 03 :
Sorry to hear what you’re going through. We just got—we’re in the middle of a cold snap here. We’re low in the 20s, high in the 40s. Some of the trees have started to blossom.
SPEAKER 08 :
We’re a little cooler today, but I wouldn’t say that it’s—well, I mean, some would say it’s cold. I don’t think it’s necessarily cold. Hopefully we get some moisture out of this when it’s all said and done because, as you know, Jeff, we drastically need it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I— I sent a screenshot of what the temperature looks like across the U.S. and what our temp is, and my kids were suitably sarcastic. Oh, so, yeah, we’re having our 88-degree pole snap down there, too. Wow. Sometimes I wonder if I parented right.
SPEAKER 16 :
Good one. Good one.
SPEAKER 03 :
I didn’t know your wife ran a landscaping business.
SPEAKER 08 :
Actually, yeah, my boys run it, actually. But, yeah, I’ve owned it for, oh, gosh, a long time now, Jeff, 20-plus years.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, okay. Well, that would cover the time when I was on Colorado Springs. And I made a conscious decision to go to Xeriski. Colorado Springs Utilities kind of pushed it. We had a lot of resources. We needed to go to see how to do it and stuff like that. I never regretted the xeriscaping part because just for ease of maintenance. Right. It’s so much easier to go out there and not mow the lawn than have to worry about it. True. You have stuff with mulch and plants and little spot watering and maybe, I don’t know what they’re called, the little end point sprinklers, bubblers. But I… Is there a push in Colorado right now?
SPEAKER 08 :
Some of the cities are trying to push, you know, that direction. It’s what I find interesting being, you know, in the business and for everybody listening, we only do commercial. So don’t reach out and ask me if I can help you with your lawn project or whatever because the answer is no, we only do commercial. I shouldn’t say that. We do have some large estate-type places, Jeff, that we take care of and such, but we don’t do any regular just daily residential stuff. But with that being said. There is some cities that are pushing. What I was going to say is what I find ironic at times is I laugh because sometimes what they push, it’s like, you know, at the end of the day, you’re really not changing much for the people and what you’re trying to push on your residents. So it’s funny because some of these cities, as you know, Jeff, they’ll get a bug up their butt about something, and they’ll have somebody on staff that thinks this is the way things should be done, even though they’re incorrect.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. There’s nothing worse than a bureaucratic –
SPEAKER 08 :
Yep. Yep. And what I mean by that is, you know, a lot of people will knock bluegrass and yes, bluegrass takes a lot of water and so on. But again, the one plus to bluegrass is, and yes, to your point, you’ve got to mow it and care for it and so on. But, you know, it has a cooling effect that also helps with different things around your home and electricity and so on. It’s also very easy to maintain. It’s very resilient. Like this year, if it does go dormant, guess what? When you get some moisture back on it, it’ll come right back. I mean, there are some forgiving things about it. And yet, Jeff, there’s a lot of cities out there that don’t understand what I just said.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep. I had a cousin who lived in Albuquerque who, the first time he came up to visit us in Colorado Springs, he just went out to the lawn with his shoes and socks off if he wanted to feel grass on his feet.
SPEAKER 08 :
And again, for those of you that are listening, I mean, to each his own. But bluegrass does have a purpose, and I know it gets a bad rap from a lot of the quote-unquote environmentalists, Jeff, but what it does in regards to cooling around your home and the resiliency of and the fact that it’s about as easy to maintain and take care of. Yes, you have to mow it, but outside of that, it’s about as easy of a product to have down as anything, and I get it. You have to water it to stay green, and that’s where it gets a bad rap. But typically, Jeff, in a good year, that’s not a problem.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. I just… Just for the other listener out there, I just thought I’d mention the fact that xeriscaping is a, especially for residential.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 03 :
And that’s not just letting your grass die off and pouring gravel every place, either.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, you come up with a proper design, and as you know, places in Arizona, there’s lots and lots of zero-scaping because they don’t, because of the extreme temperatures, they don’t have a lot of grass and things like that because it’s the desert, as you know, Jeff. And so, yeah, you can go in with the right plan and make things look good at the end of the day. You’re right. It’s not just removing the grass and throwing gravel down, you know, there’s some shape and even mounds and different things you can do to make things look a lot better when it’s all said and done and put the right plants in. And this is where you need some help because most people have no idea how to do that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. And even something as simple as when we moved in here, the grass came right up to the house. And like I said, I’ve told you before, we had a, a Mugo pine that was right up next to the house. And I was all concerned about that becoming a torch. Right. So I’ve, I put a lot of river rock around the house. Good idea. One to three inch. And, yeah, it’s a mulch. I don’t have to worry about taking care of that. And it’s a good fire protection. Yeah. I have a green zone as well, but…
SPEAKER 08 :
And I’m a guy, even though I have some mulch around my house, just because the way the design was, and I’ll be honest with you, Jeff, if there’s one thing in life I hate, it’s mulch. I would rather have rock than mulch because it’s easier to take care of. You don’t have to renew it. It doesn’t blow away. It doesn’t get, you know, trampled around if the dogs or animals or whatever get in it. I am not a mulch fan. I have some just because, again, it’s the way things were designed. But if there’s anything I could ever take out, it would be mulch. I hate it.
SPEAKER 03 :
I agree. Maybe around some trees out there.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s different. You can ring your trees and do some mulch that way, and those are easy to renew and so on. But, I mean, I’ve got areas, Jeff, where I’ve got entire mounds where it’s just nothing but mulch, and I would love to change that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, if you put too much mulch around the trees, that’s not good either.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, well, and here’s something else along that line. You have to be careful of the type of mulch you use. A lot of folks that are listening, you guys will go and get the red dyed mulch and put that around your trees. That’s very acidic and not recommended to actually ring your trees with. If you’re going to ring a tree with mulch, use natural mulch that’s not dyed.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep. Yeah. I think they sell bark products around here for the mulch.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s even better because then it’s a little bit thicker. It doesn’t move and blow away and so on. Most people don’t know what I just said, Jeff. That dyed red mulch, and sometimes it can come in variations of, it’s very acidic and not good typically for that tree that you’re actually ringing with. So I am one that I would not – in fact, I don’t know why that mulch is even made, Jeff. I know it’s decorative and people like the color, but – It is so acidic. I would never use it.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don’t know if you’re old enough to remember this, but I put red-dyed mulch in the same category as red-dyed hot dogs.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, it’s just not natural.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right, right. And yet they still sell it. You can go to any of the, you know, Lawn and Garden, you know, Lowe’s, Home Depot, and so on, and there’ll be bags of that stuff there.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, well, somebody will buy it, I guess.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, somebody does, and again, I don’t know why, because it’s not natural. I don’t know why people, I guess the color, people just like the color of it, I guess. I don’t know, Jeff.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don’t either. Yeah, well, good luck this year.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, we’ll do our best, Jeff. Appreciate you, and glad you guys are getting some moisture. And again, we have listeners from all over the country, so some of you, what I’m talking about today doesn’t apply because you’ve got plenty of moisture where you’re at. This is really more for us that are in the Colorado, Wyoming area, and there’s even places I know that are close by where you’ve got plenty of water, moisture. In fact, in some cases, probably more than you expect. And some of you that listen to us, even down in the Panhandle, Oklahoma, bad tornadoes that went through there last couple of days. So, man, just, you know, those of you that live in those areas, be really, really careful because, as you know, those things can come up at any given time. So be really careful. All right. Got another segment as soon as we come back. Don’t go anywhere. We’ll be right back. Fix It Radio, KLZ 560.
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Okay, Fix It Radio, KLC 560, welcome back. Myself, Larry Unger, last segment here. If you’re listening on Monday, I should say the replay on Monday, thank you. We appreciate that as well. You can always text us a question even in our off hours when we’re not live on air, 307. 200, 82, 22, 307, 200, 82, 22. Sometimes I get questions even on, hey, I’ve got this particular problem, or here’s a picture of a bug, or here’s a construction thing I’ve got going on. And I may not know off the top of my head what the answer is, but I’ve got plenty of resources, just like we were talking to Joe in Jersey about Windows. I’ve got plenty of resources where if I don’t know the answer, I can typically find somebody that does and get you back the an answer relatively quickly. So by all means, if you’ve got a question, you’re more than welcome to ask, text, and I answer those pretty much, not 24-7 because I sleep, but some of you text during the middle of the night, which is fine, I get that, but I will answer as quickly as I can, and most of the stuff I get in the middle of the night is more informative of things, not actual questions. But whether it be something for Fix-It Radio, Drive Radio, Ready Radio, Rush to Reason, anything at all, you’re always welcome to text, and I’ll get those answered as quickly as I can. And again, 307-282-22 is our text line. And again, our theme today has really been more of just the drought, and I get it. It’s a little bit cooler today, going to be cooler even during the replay that you hear on Monday. But folks, we are not even close to being out of the woods. We’ve had a little bit of moisture up in the mountains, but our snowpack is low. The majority of water districts are on some sort of a restriction. And Larry was just saying in his case, even to what you can do, washing your car and so on. And again, it’s just one of those things that we’re in right now. We do. We’ve done this before. As we were talking earlier, John from Cheyenne mentioned, you know, all the way back in the you know 81 year so we’ve had this before and if you’re not if you memory is like mine because i remember those years uh the year after was heavy yes it was so we can cycle up and down and it will and it will continue to do so it’s what it’s done here in colorado the entire time i’ve been here so those of you maybe that are transplants or have moved here and haven’t lived here very long is what we’re going through normal i wouldn’t say it’s normal but have we been through it before yes we have I remember my house. I moved into a house in 2002, the spring of 2002, and it was so bad at that time. You couldn’t plant any new grass or anything because of how bad the drought was at that time. So, yes, folks, we have gone through this before. Dan, a monument. You’re next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes. Several weeks ago, Joe called in with a product that he had found, and I’m trying to figure out what it is. What I’ve got is a garage, and where the concrete pad meets the garage lip, there’s a space. And you put this product in there, and it swells up and seals it. And it’s kind of like, you know, backer board type of thing. And he found it, and he called in, and he was telling how good it was. And I was driving. I couldn’t I don’t remember either.
SPEAKER 08 :
And what I’ve done in those particular situations is most of those are supposed to have a felt strip that was put in there originally. And that’s probably deteriorated over time. And you can either do one of two things, Dan. You can either put that felt back in or you could simply put the round backer down in the crack down below and then use an elasticity type of a concrete product. for the crack that moves because we want that joint to be able to move, expand, and contract. You could do it either way, and it would work fine that way.
SPEAKER 13 :
It would?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, you’d be fine doing that. The biggest thing there is it’s going to move, and that’s why they always put the felt there because that pad’s moving independently of what the garage is doing.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, yeah, okay. All right, well, thank you.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and you can do that no problem at all, and just don’t use a product that gets stiff. Use one that’s got some, you know, some elasticity to it, Dan.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, okay, thank you. You’ll be fine.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, you’re very welcome. Yeah, and by the way, that’s something we talk about this a lot during the fall months as we head into winter, but, you know, getting your concrete, you know, sealed up and done and so on, and while we’re in a time where there’s not a lot of moisture and you may not be doing as many things gardening-wise because of that, you know, yard-wise, well, okay, take that time and Do some of these things that Dan just called in on and get some of your concrete handled and sealed up and taken care of and some of those other sorts of things that you get some of your other projects done along those lines. And again, there’s different products for different things that you’re trying to do. And in the seam of concrete that we’re not trying to do concrete repair there. That’s different than some of the products even Larry and I have talked about in the past. This last fall, we did some tests even on some different type of product in the joints. So I’m trying to say in the concrete joints where they’ve purposely put a joint there to allow expansion and contraction of the concrete, which it will do. And this is where a cooler day like today would be a day you’d want to actually do some of that because you’re going to have a larger joint than you will on a 90-degree day, let’s say. Right. 90-degree day, you’re not going to have much of a joint at all. That’s why we talk about this in the fall when things are cooler. Right now, early spring where we’ve got some cooler days. Yeah, this is a time to go around and seal some of those things up because the concrete will be retracted. You know, it will be shrunk as much. Not quite like it is in the middle of winter, but it’s going to be shrunk up quite a bit right now. And now would be the time to go through and fill that. Remembering that in an actual seam, in an actual joint. where you’ve got two pads, you know, two pieces of concrete joining together, that needs to stay rubberized, if you would, or, you know, got to have movement there. So use a product that allows for that. Got to be really flexible enough to… Yeah, that’s the word I was looking for, the flexibility. You want a flexible joint. Still want to keep the water and moisture from getting down into that in the winter months, especially because that’s where some of the heaving and things can happen on the concrete itself. But we want that to be able to move with that expansion and contraction of the concrete itself. And folks, everybody always asks me, what product do you use? You know, honestly, it just depends at times on what’s available and what’s on the shelf at that particular time. The majority of the products are all very, very similar in how they’re made. They have to be because they’re competing with one another. And I know you’ll go online in some forums and different things will talk about this product being better than the other product and so on. But as long as it’s got a rubberization to it where it’s got that ability to flex, like Larry just said, you know, pick your poison. I don’t care, Larry.
SPEAKER 15 :
No, and it doesn’t matter except how big the crack is that you’re trying to seal.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Now, I also know that there are some products, and this is where it gets a little handier for some, there are some products that are self-leveling, where you don’t have to worry about taking your finger and wiping it and messing. And the self-leveling, I will tell you firsthand, for me personally, much better way to do it. You literally fill the crack at self-levels. It finds where it needs to be. If you need to add another layer to it, you can. But ideally, you want to put enough in initially to where it just flows in. Again, if you’ve got a large crack… Much like we were talking to Dan about a moment ago, you do have to put some sort of backing in because that’s self-leveling. It’ll fall all the way down. And you’ll use way more product than you need to. All we’re trying to do is seal the joint. We’re not trying to seal the crack all the way to the bottom. We’re just sealing the joint. to not allow water and moisture down in the winter months, which is where that freezing and the heaving and things can happen from that moisture getting in there. So all we’re trying to do is seal that up, and we’re not filling that entire joint. So if it’s got a big joint and you can kind of even take like an ice pick or something and you feel there’s a huge gap, you know, you can go all the way down before you feel anything, then you’ve got to put some sort of backing. And here’s some rule of thumb on that. Let’s say that you get the smallest backing and it’s still too big. Just take a razor knife. exacto knife razor blade whatever you want to do and just cut the backing you can cut it in two if you have to and still slide it on down in there you’ll be just fine the key is getting something down in there that will prevent and that backing’s cheap we don’t want to use you know caulking silicone the the you know the automatic leveling uh product i just talked about we you know we don’t want to use any of that because that’s expensive the backing is cheap so put the backing down first and save yourself money by not having to use as much of the other product Rule of thumb on the other product is you probably shouldn’t have more than quarter inch of product at most, I would say, Larry.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s about it. If you’ve got more than that, you need to put some backing down in it somehow.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, let me tell you, if you read the label on the can or the product, it will tell you the same thing, no more than a quarter inch.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, that’s, yeah, because any more than that, you’re going to end up with too much product that it has trouble drying. It’ll have its own issues with flexing and so on. It becomes too rigid, I guess you could say, by putting too much product in. That’s probably why they’re telling you not to put more than a quarter inch or so in.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
And, again, make sure you put some backing down in there. Now, here’s another hint on some backing. This is also very cheap. You can buy a 50-pound bag of play sand. which you could go to those cracks and actually puts that play sand in a bucket take the bucket and kind of just run that along the edge of that crack and you can pour sand down in that as well and use that for a backer as well now for dan we don’t want to do that because we want that felt or something there because that’s a larger pad we’re not going to fill that in with sand but in some of the other areas where you know you’ve got a large void down underneath you could take some play sand and very easily just pour the sand down in that crack Let it come up to level. Put your other product on top. Let it do its self-leveling on top of the sand, and off you go, and you would be fine doing that as well. And by the way, it’s really inexpensive, and the sand is about as easy to use in some cases as the backing is. because you’re not messing with any. You literally can just take a five-gallon bucket that the sand’s in, take a measuring cup or something that you’ve got that’s some sort of a, even just a water cup, and dip that in the sand, and then just pour that along your crack. Use a paintbrush or another thin type of a brush to brush things in to where you get all of the debris off of that, and then you can put your other material right on top of that, and off you go, done deal.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and the good thing about the sand is once you put the sand in, you can put moisture on it, and the sand will compact.
SPEAKER 08 :
Correct. And you can do a little more on top of that if you need to. Exactly. Again, that makes it really easy. Folks, another episode of Fix-It Radio. As I say all the time, please, those folks that help sponsor this particular hour and make this happen on a weekly basis, and you heard an ad as we came into the program today. talking about that this is free to all of you that listen because of the folks that actually pay to have this program put on on a weekly basis so use those sponsors they’re all listed on our website fixitradio.com folks thank you so much this is KLZ 560.
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