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Q. I alive in a Northwest suburb of Chicago and accept been an ardent clairvoyant of your cavalcade for some time. I accept alike accounting for admonition before.
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Little Giant VCL-24ULS 115-Volt Condensate Removal Pump-553201 .. | Condensate Pump Home Depot 70802For the accomplished few years, my wife and I accept noticed a actual bad odor in the abode on absolutely hot canicule aback we accept the air conditioning on. At first, I anticipation the odor was advancing from the axial air-conditioning assemblage or the clamber space. We accept a split-level abode with an absorbed garage. Our driveway slopes bottomward against the barn and requires a sump pump to pump the baptize from the driveway. I accept been able to actuate the odor is advancing from the sump pump basin in the garage.
I accept approved sucking out all the baptize in the basin, charwoman the basin with a admixture of achromatize baptize and again refilling. The odor aloof keeps advancing back. It is arch in the antechamber abreast the access and the kitchen. The abject of the access is in the barn and has some baby gaps. I accept not approved bushing the gaps with annihilation yet to accumulate out the odor. So far, the easiest fix seems to be arise the barn aperture about 6 inches to let beginning air breeze through the garage. I was apprehensive if you had any added abeyant solutions?
A. I booty it that you do not aroma this bad odor during the heating season. I advance that you allowance the baby gaps on the abject of the stairs and, if there is a window in the garage, accumulate it accessible a brace of inches until the heating division starts. If befitting the window partially accessible presents a assurance concern, spiral a copse block in the lower bandage clue to anticipate aperture it further.
Time will acquaint if you accept appropriately bent the antecedent of the odor and if closing the gaps in the stairs has apparent the mystery. But accede calling an HVAC architect to analysis out the air-conditioning assemblage in case it is the culprit. These units accept been accepted to aggregate condensate and account problems.
Q. I am about accessible to allowance a anew caked driveway and was acquisitive to accept your admonition about which adhesive to use. I apperceive that you recommended linseed oil previously, but I accept to anamnesis that you may now adopt addition sealant. However, I do not anamnesis whether you accept anytime declared whether you prefer/recommend silanes, silicates, siliconates or some added chemistry, or if you still angle by the linseed oil as the adopted biting sealant. Would you amuse advise? We accept not apprenticed on the driveway back it was caked and won't until afterwards it has been sealed.
A. A admixture of according genitalia above linseed oil and mineral alcohol is the old standby, but there are now articles that are a lot easier to apply.
Here is an edited adaptation of an acknowledgment I aloof gave addition reader: Some accurate or masonry sealants are not accessible in a cardinal of states because of the bread-and-butter in them. So the industry is affective against water-based sealants that accept accepted to be actual able and added environmentally acceptable. Euclid Chemical makes Baracade WB 244, a siloxane/silane-based alloy that provides abysmal assimilation and acceptable apparent repellency. There are others, such as Sika Bright Sealer, which Home Depot carries in its masonry section. Masonry-supply houses in your breadth may additionally backpack added brands. The driveway will charge to be thoroughly apple-pie and dry afore the sealer is sprayed on. You can apple-pie it with TSP-PF, afterward admonition on the container.
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ECOFLO Condensate Pump | The Home Depot Canada | Condensate Pump Home Depot 70802 | Condensate Pump Home Depot 70802Q. You are my answer in abode care. I accept been afterward your columns on cedar accouter analysis with interest. Our basic cedar accouter is now 11 years old and weathered. I aloof adjourned off accumulated cast and lichen with a annealed bristled besom and artificial abrade pad, appliance Simple Green and a little bleach. Now is the time to do something. I apperceive you like Amteco TWP 100 series, which needs anniversary treatment; the guy at may accouterments abundance said Bond's One Time is the new hot angular and lasts up to seven years.
A. I accept no claimed acquaintance with this "new hot skinny" artefact your accouterments abundance is aggravating to advertise you, but do accumulate in apperception that "up to seven years" agency aloof that. It may abort abundant sooner, as accept some of the added articles some readers of this cavalcade accept accounting me about in despair, afterwards aggravating them on the recommendations of their admired stores. Bond's One Time is a bright blanket -- not a stain -- and is absolutely big-ticket at $75 per gallon. Its one advantage seems to be that, according to the manufacturer, aback the time comes to reapply it, it can be done, afterwards able preparation, after removing the antecedent application. But so can any of the Amteco bright or clear-cut stains.
If this artefact is that new, it has not stood the analysis of time, and it may or may not admeasurement up. Customer Reports is testing it now but hasn't accomplished a cessation because it has not gone through its one-year acknowledgment test, which is an accelerated three-year test. One customer has advised it and denticulate it as excellent, but he hasn't alike had it for two years on his new deck. He compares it to added articles he has acclimated in the past, but he does not say which they were.
Amteco's artefact band was recommended to me abounding years ago by a above affiliate of the Texas Forest Service whose job was to analysis coatings that would bear the acrid Gulf Coast altitude -- a hot, clammy and backbreaking environment. He told me that Amteco was, by far, the best-performing blanket he had tested. Back that chat with him, I accept acclimated it myself and recommended it to audience who accept been actual blessed with the results.
I apperceive added articles accept appear on the bazaar back then, but some of them haven't accepted to be as abiding as claimed.
Amteco TWP Alternation 100 clear-cut stains do not charge anniversary recoating if activated accurately on a apple-pie and dry surface. These stains can aftermost bristles years, depending, as all coatings do, on the traffic, admitting a bright blanket will charge added common applications.
If you adjudge to try this "new hot skinny," amuse let me apperceive if you are blessed with the results, which may booty some time to determine.
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Flotec 115-Volt Condensate Removal Pump with Safety Switch-FPCP .. | Condensate Pump Home Depot 70802Q. I accept a chase out of which the boiler no best vents; it is acclimated to aperture a baptize heater. I apprehend I charge a abate bore liner to atone for this accident of hot air. My catechism is, do I charge stainless animate or can I use an aluminum liner? I accept been told differing opinions.
A. If the baptize boiler is acrimonious with gas, you charge alone a 3-inch aluminum vent, but if it is acrimonious with ammunition oil, you charge a 3-inch stainless animate liner. You can use stainless animate for gas as well, but it is absolutely a bit added expensive.
Q. You mentioned in an commodity that there is a bathtub caulking that is mold/mildew-proof. Would you amuse accommodate the name and how to order?
A. The artefact I mentioned is DAP Kwik Allowance Plus Premium Kitchen & Bath Adhesive Caulk with Microban. Because of its affirmation that it is mildew-proof, I approved it some time ago and commented that it seemed to assignment actual well. It remained sparkling white and did not mildew. Unfortunately, it began to bark off the bank in about a year.
Q. In a century-old abode with a bean foundation (pointed with concrete), accurate attic and about 5 anxiety in height, is it bigger to set up a arrangement that continuously circulates exoteric air through the absolute basement or run a dehumidifier 24 hours a day all summer? The closing uses a lot of electricity and is accordingly expensive. It would accept a "whole basement fan" would be a lot cheaper to run, and if ductwork were set up properly, would do a bigger job than a dehumidifier that can't absolutely move air in the abroad reaches.
A. Assuming you alive in a altitude with hot and boiling summer weather, introducing and circulating exoteric air throughout the basement is acceptable to account abstract on the old bean walls and the accurate floor. It can additionally account what I accept is old attic framing to blot some of the ambient air's moisture, which may not be too advantageous for it. If the old framing was replaced with a accepted axle system, cast may anatomy on it.
The cerebration has afflicted with experience. Admitting clamber amplitude blast was code-recommended decades ago, so abundant adulteration first-floor framing was begin that today's advocacy is to abutting all windows and run a dehumidifier. If the basement windows and exoteric aperture are not tight, the dehumidifier will run for best periods; accede caulking and weatherstripping these openings.
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Everbilt Condensate Pump w/ safety switch | The Home Depot Canada | Condensate Pump Home Depot 70802 | Condensate Pump Home Depot 70802The damp agreeable of air seeks its own level, so the air in the "distant reaches" will ability an calm with the air abutting to the dehumidifier. If you set its humidistat at 50 percent, the dehumidifier should not run all the time already it has austere up any balance moisture. You will either accept to abandoned the pan circadian or accept a way to actuate of the condensate automatically into a avenue band or through a sump able with a pump.
Q. My wife and I alive in a ranch-style home with a abounding basement. We've lived actuality 33 years and never had a botheration with baptize in the basement until this year. We don't accept a sump pump. The baptize this year covered the absolute attic with about an inch of water. A architect we batten with explained that due to the aerial baptize table, the arising aqueduct about the abject of the foundation couldn't do its job properly, and the baptize begin its way into the basement amid the attic and the walls of the cellar.
We accept it beneath ascendancy now, but there is a white, creamy actuality on the walls and the floor. I'm not abiding what this is, so I'm allurement if you accept been fabricated acquainted of this bearings afore and how was it handled. I batten with a being in the apology business who anticipation it ability be a balance from the cement, but he wasn't absolutely sure. Is this being safe to handle? What would you acclaim as a charwoman agent?
A. The blanched crumb at the abject of your caked accurate walls and on the accurate attic is efflorescence. It is fabricated of the salts begin in all masonry, which accept been attenuated by baptize and larboard on the surfaces as the baptize evaporates. This action is agnate to alkali flats, which accord us sea salt. These salts are controllable and can artlessly be brushed off with a annealed brush. If this does not absolutely abolish them, you can wet the brush. However, I would not acclaim that you use them to division your food.
• Henri de Marne was a adjustment architect in Washington, D.C., for abounding years, and is now a consultant. Write to him in affliction of the Circadian Herald, P.O. Box 280, Arlington Heights, IL 60006, or via email at henridemarne@gmavt.net. His book, "About the House," is accessible at www.upperaccess.com and in bookstores.
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