howdy i'm tim carter and this is the s the builder live
stream for today january 27
2022 i'm glad you're here and it's a pleasure to uh to have you
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and uh so let's get started on the uh brick and mortar what can happen sometimes i
i don't get into the main topic of the live stream for many many minutes and that's a mistake because you might be have tuned into the
live stream or after the fact you know to to hear about brick and mortar
brick and mortar uh it's really a big topic uh tens of thousands of people a month look into this topic online
and they ask all kinds of different questions and
it's really kind of interesting because some people you know the problem that i have i think
is that i easily fall into this trap where i
just kind of assume that everybody know not so much knows everything that i know
but that they have a more basic understanding of things
and but a lot of people ask that what is brick and mortar it's as if they don't even know
and it's really kind of an interesting question when you think about it you know there there could be people who
who really don't have a clue and for any number of reasons and and you start to wonder
at least from what i'm seeing in my email more and more people
are not getting a background in home repairs and how homes are built
from their from their mom and dads than used to
and as a result they just don't even know so brick and brick are well you know what there's one
right there right behind me so let me get it and i'll show you what a brick is
so this is actually a pretty standard brick you can see about how big it is compared to my hand it's really a paving brick
this is a brick that you that's meant to put in the ground and weather and i actually had this one
made um they did the letters with a laser a
high-powered laser that actually melted the clay
to create that that black glass so it's that's melted rock and it's really very very durable i mean
this would last hundreds of years outside but this is a brick and it's made from clay
and my daughter for example my daughter does a lot of pottery and
clay maybe you've you know you maybe you've you've put with play-doh you know things that are similar to clay so clay is
typically very soft uh you can form it and you have to let it dry and then you
have to what we call bisque fire it uh take so you don't crack it and then then you
put it into a kiln and you get the temperature up pretty high uh you might get the temperature up near
2000 degrees and what happens is the clay the mineralogy of the clay actually
changes a little bit and the the the soft clay which which you in
other words think about this clay regular clay like a clay deposit you can dissolve it water meaning you can get
clay on your hands and you can wash it off with water all right so that's
that's interesting think about that but once the brick
once you take the clay and you fire it and you get it up to temperature and you
leave it at the temperature for a little bit and then you slowly bring it back down it's changed meaning you can take the
brick the clay the quote unquote clay you can put it in a bucket of water and
it's not going to dissolve i'm going to leave it in the bucket of water for a thousand years because what's happened is
the heat changed the mineralogy and changed it from a water-soluble product to one that's not
it changed it into a rock basically it's man-made rock and you can make brick from
concrete you can typically make it from clay clay is the the most common material to use for brick because it's
so inexpensive i mean clay is i mean people who have
land who own land that has clay deposits on it the clay was put there for free by mother nature now there's all different
types of clay that's really really important to know and the clay mineralogy is completely
different the clays that have a higher silica content
are you know when when you fire them they are stronger brick and um and also the higher you fire the
brick and the longer you fire it the harder the brick gets some brick
can get so hard that you can use them like this one for paving brick you can go to athens ohio for example
and the streets of athens ohio 140 years ago were paved with brick
that's what they used and they still have a small section of downtown athens that
they have left the brick exposed and some of those brick have been down for over 100 years subjected to all
types of traffic snow storms ice you name it
and the brick look you know they look in really good condition so when you put brick on a house
you know if you do if you put the right brick up it's going to last a long time i mean if it's put in right
remember if you are new to this if you're new to the stream and you want to ask a question about anything it can be
about brick and mortar if you want but if you want to ask a question about anything else just type in the chat stream that's what i'm here for we don't
you know i don't intend to talk about a brick and mortar the entire live stream i'll talk about anything you want to talk about
the let's talk a little bit now about mortar the mortar that is used for brick is
typically just a blend of sand and all sand is is generally it's just tiny tiny
tiny pieces of rock and sometimes it can be tiny pieces of seashell and that's okay
because seashell is basically limestone which is very very hard very very durable
and then you mix this sand with portland cement and it's best if you add some hydrated lime in fact today
i got an email from an older gentleman he had read my a recent column of mine about
brick and mortar and he he shared a little story about how when he was a a young boy 12 to 13 years old
that he um actually i'll read it because it's um it's really interesting i just love getting emails like this
um i just love it and uh here it is he go his name is david uh colander
he lives in libertyville illinois and he said as a 12 to 13 year old lad i labored for
my bricklayer dad who belonged to the local mace union he made extra money for the family on regular weekend scab jobs for friends
and neighbors building garages fireplace and additions i soon was their go-to guy for mixing
mortar and a mortar box trough using a big hoe with large holes in it yeah that's that's a very common hoe to
use my instructions were two shovels of portland cement
one shovel of hydrated lime that's really important most bricklayers don't
use that today and they should so two shovels of portland cement one shovel of hydrated lime
10 shovels of sand and the needed water to make it the consistency of applesauce that's the
best consistency for mortar my dad told me the lime was to make it easier to clean the brickwork when the
work was all set and finished according to him the muriatic acid solution we
brushed on the bricks with wouldn't work to get off mortar smears unless the lime was in the mortar
to react with the acid this may be an old wives tale but who knew they were strengthening the mortar thanks for the
article the he's wrong about that just you know so he i i politely told him
that was not the case uh in other words i told him the lime does not make it
easier uh to get the smears off uh what the lime does is makes the mortar
really sticky which is a good thing uh because all that hydrated lime is
once you mix it with water you basically are creating liquid or plastic limestone
so if you know anything about limestone it's a really durable rock this is why whitewash is such a great material in
other words when you mix hydrated lime with water and you make white wash um it and you you paint it on brick or
whatever that coating will last for for decades i mean it's
it's because you're just painting on rock it's crazy all right remember if you've got a question about your house
anything that you you have a problem that you have with your home whatever it might be just put it in the chat i'm happy to answer it and um we'll
um um i'll try to save you some time and money now mortar
here's some things that you don't want to do with more here's what you need to understand about mortar with brick
when you when you remember all that the mortar is it's sand
portland cement and hopefully you're going to add some lime when you add water to the portland
cement and the lime you start a chemical reaction
and this is really important to understand you start a chemical reaction it's called hydration
and um the it's in other words just think of
how concrete if you've seen concrete come out of a truck it's a plastic material you know meaning it's you can
move it around but all of a sudden in a matter of time and it depends on a number of factors
the concrete becomes hard so why does that happen the concrete becomes hard
because as soon as you mix the water with the portland cement you start the chemical reaction and
billions and billions of and trillions of tiny microscopic crystals start to
form and these crystals are just like velcro and they interlock
the sand and the rock together to make the hard concrete well the same thing happens with mortar
that means that if your mortar starts to get a little stiff you really don't want to add
any water to it because you break apart some of those those crystals and you weaken the mortar
it's so it's best that you just mix enough mortar that you can use in the time frame
that it doesn't start to stiffen up and i know that's kind of hard to understand maybe but
you you know that that's one of the reasons like if you see mortar that's crumbling or whatever it's possibility
that they added water to it as it was getting stiff and it fractures many many
of those crystal crystal bonds simple as that let's get caught up on the comments
tech support says shoreline deck i live in western new york okay
and my backyard has access to the erie canal okay great great uh great canal
and i like i'd like to build a shoreline deck for the kids not sure how to start well that's a great question so the
first thing you need to do is as much as i hate to say it uh you
have to go to your local government office and you need to find out if you're even allowed
to do it i mean are there you know you need to find out if you're zoning i'll let you do it are there
special for example here in new hampshire where i live i live on a lake which would be similar to the canal
and we have a thing called the shoreline protection act all right so
you have to work within that law so that's your first step
once you cross over that barricade meaning if you find out it's okay to build
uh then you probably gonna have to submit a plan and you're going to have to get it
approved and as far as coming up with a plan oh well that could be a little difficult i
offer phone coaching so i have helped people do this uh i can help you a little bit with a design
your local town might have some very simplistic uh guidelines to help you to show what
the minimum requirements are for a deck like this uh there's there's so many different
options so first of all just go find out if you can build the deck find out how big you
can build the deck how big you're legally allowed to do it and then
take those necessary steps and if you need my help just go to my shopping cart and you can see the consult tim thing
i'm happy to get on a 15 minute phone call with you rob says i'm very happy to report that i
had almost no problems with the nordob installation i decided not not to re-key and use a different brand good for you
good for you that was a great um that was a great idea hello simulator from northern ireland uh
tell me about the weather there today um tell me about the um what's it like in northern ireland today
um rob says my question is whether i have to be careful about fiberglass
that's kind of exposed should i send you a picture indeed it says well you could rob you could send me a quick photo
who knows we it may cross over into a quick 15-minute console i don't know um
i wouldn't be too ex-worried about any exposed fiberglass you know your biggest challenge would be
to take um you know an artist brush see these artist brushes
you know you might have to get a little bit of stain and very carefully very carefully stain that part that's
exposed to match whatever you have now or maybe the doors painted but i mean fiberglass is
i mean it's it's pretty weather resistant so i'm not really concerned about fiberglass
uh okay good so you're pretty far along tech you you've already they've already approved your deck plan good and um
so i mean i have i'm just going to share this with you tech support i i must have
oh my gosh i don't know five ten columns on my website about how to build a deck all
the different things you need to know all kinds of tips i would start and i would read all those
columns um i have a bunch of videos uh on on my channel here on youtube
about when i built my deck that's right out the window that i'm looking at and a shed i built a shed up there 16 by
24 well the entire floor of the shed is no different than building a deck
no different at all if i were you i would watch all those videos that'll really give you a good head
start on to what to do but you have so many options i mean you have to know is your you know are you are you going to
have beams in this thing where are the beams going to be are they going to be under the joist are they going to be in the same plane as the joists um
uh you know how what are you going to do about your peers you know all that i have all those videos on the website so
watch all that and then if you still need help uh you know where to get it um
i can i'm happy to help you if you have any questions uh about
anything else so tech had some really great questions rob great about the doorknob that's
fantastic uh so rob says it's 45 degrees in the
building so i kind of want to insulate the sides and top the interior door to my office in which i heat with a space
heater um well you um you can do that it may cross over like i
said into a consult um you know i'm sure you understand how i have to be respectful of my time that i
invest and stuff like that so um it's up to you you know and here's the best part um if
you do one of those console phone calls from me if you're not happy if you're not happy with the information and you don't think it's worthwhile
you just email me at the end of the call and we refund your money so it's
satisfaction guaranteed okay so a sliver sliver 760 hi how you
doing uh how to seal the cracks and bricks after foundation issues well
that's a great question so the number one thing to do so you don't waste time
is you need to make sure that the foundation foundation issue has been solved
um in other words it's kind of it's kind of stupid to start patching the brick if you think
the foundation is going to continue to move once you're done with that then
you you've got a couple of choices i have some really interesting columns on the website
about how to match the mortar most people really goof up they don't understand how to match
mortar and i have columns on my website that show you exactly how to do it and
uh they're very very it's really it's i i'm gonna say it's simple to do
but it takes just a little bit of work and most people aren't willing to do it uh the first thing that you know if you
really want to match the mortar when you go to make repairs you actually have to mix up a batch or
two of this test mortar you have to lay a couple of test bricks you can get
some cheap brick at um you know at a brickyard and you have to wait maybe two weeks and
then you're going to lightly acid wash it i've got all the instructions in my columns
and you're going to see if you get a good match but i tell you that the key to matching the mortar is you got to get the right
sand i mean that's the thing in other words go look at the mortar really closely and you'll uh
you know like mortar that's been up there for 30 40 50 years you'll notice it's not all one color and when you look
really closely at mortar you're going to see all the different colors of the individual pieces of sand that's
really important go look at my cop i've got some great photos of this on my website uh just
just go to askthebuilder.com and type into the search engine matching mortar matt and mortar
we're getting some great questions today i love it uh frederick
you say floor dressed on an old house over 100 years old look wider apart how would you brace
them they bounce in some places in the house well um
so that's the problem is i don't have enough data to really give you a great answer um
one of the things in in the old days what we did and for some reason they've gotten away with this and i think it's a huge mistake
if you go look at old buildings um we would put cross bracing in between
the joists like i'm trying to hold my hands up two pieces of wood that like the top of my fingers up here
that's touching the top of the floor joist and then these the bottom of my finger would extend about an inch above the
bottom of the floor joist and this cross bracing this diagonal bracing
you would do different rows depending on what the span of the choice was but what that does is that transfers the load
that's on one joist to the joist next to it and you keep transferring and spreading the load out across the entire
floor and for some odd reason this is where this is a great example actually i
should write a column about this this is a great example of why
i get upset at the building code because this used to be in the building
code and then for whatever reason the code officials think it's a smart idea to take it out
well they're in this case they're wrong if they're big time wrong uh you the cross bracing is a great idea
so you can you it's hard to install the cross bracing after the fact that it can be done
uh the other thing you can do typically that and this is much harder to do is it's almost like you have to put another
beam underneath these floor joists if they're springy and that might not be possible if it's
if it's you know in a room downstairs or it might be hard to do in a crawl space
um it's really i just need a lot more information might be this is another great example of why
my 15-minute phone call i'm going to give you that link there by the way that my 15 minute co phone call
is such a good idea i do many many many of them and um
in all the years i've done these phone calls just so you know i've only person asked for a refund
and it's because uh this person um
was expecting me to train him over the phone about how to install
a uh flashings on a metal roof so so um
and i even went to all the trouble to made a video for him and he still wasn't satisfied it's crazy crazy that you can
watch that video on youtube i made that video just for this guy that shows you how
it's really hard to satisfy some customers he he just felt like i didn't give him he didn't feel like i gave him
enough confidence to do the job himself all right uh let's see here i'm gonna
get caught up on the comments um
you got how about hairline silver sliver says how about hairline cracks on the actual brick well
what i would probably do with those tiny little hairline cracks i would be inclined
to really carefully and that's really hard since it's hairline
to fill those you have to do it really carefully fill it with a caulk um a really really high performance caulk
and you have to wipe it with a sponge to make sure you don't smear it in the brick and if the bricks a rough brick
where you'd smear it you've got big problems and then if you're able if it's a smoother brick and you can do this you
can caulk it very cleanly then two or three days later you would take a
brush just like this a really really fine artist brush and very carefully you know
paint the caulk just the caulk only the same color as the brick not easy but that's the only
way i know to do it rob says one small doorknob different
was that uh one of the two latch screws are turning and so yeah well that's because you need to the hole was too big
and you should have glued in you should have taken some carpenter's glue with some toothpicks
glued it filled the hole back up with wood and uh come back two days later and put
the screw in that's all you had to do i've got i've got a ebook about how to do that
uh you didn't install the new strike plate and i used one of the long stripe like screws on the latch it tightened it so
well i think it was a good uh might have been a good solution i don't know i'd have to see it if it's tight then i think you've got the answer
to your question um it's a newer building don't have cross
bracing yeah too bad uh yeah well it might be the trouble is for the cross bracing it's really hard
to get to secure it at the top really hard i mean you it's so it's so easy to put
the cross when we put cross bracing in we do it we we set the floor joists
first then we come through and put the cross bracing in we just nail it at the top
only we don't nail it to the bottom of the floor joist and you never on a cross view just let
me see with my fingers you never want the cross bracing to touch you have to have a little space between
it like i have with my fingers because you never want the cross bracing to rub against one another
as people walk on the floor because it'll cause a squeak but you have to just nail the top and and they just kind
of flopping there the cross bracing is flopping then you have to put your plywood in and
you know get the proper 16 inch spacing nail all your plywood get that all done
glued and nailed now the joists aren't going to move then you go down to the basement or in the crawl space and finish nailing the
cross bracing to the bottom of the joist that's how it's done
you're welcome sliver andrew whatever the thumbnail is that is not
how that job is supposed to be done it looks messy yes that's because that's a great comment um if you go
let me let me share the url to the column and you need to read
the caption for that photo that's a really great comment um i did
that as a test so go here and uh go to that column and read the
caption it's right at the top of the page and then come back and tell me what you think
that was that photo was taken at my own home and so i i used my home uh as a as a testing lab for a lot of
things and i did that in a certain spot where i knew it wouldn't bother kathy um
you know that was not done in the middle of the patio the brick patio because she would have never accepted it so i did it
off somewhere where it was out of the way where i could cover it up if i had to
and it didn't bother her but i i did that as a test and um so after about two
or three years once the test was done then i went ahead and used some ash and and cleaned it up
so that was a great great uh great um great comment andrew good for you good
for you if you have any other questions love to hear them these are great everybody's
got great questions today these are all wonderful oh
i just love it let me get a drink while i'm waiting for you to type
what else did i want to share with you oh i have a teaching moment
i um this guy didn't get back with me he didn't get i thought he'd get back me
and complain thinking that i was being snarky
but i have talked before about even recently
this is something that you need to know it's and what i call it is um that the power this is a really
interesting thing that the power is in the question meaning when you ask a question of
somebody you need to ask the question in the right format
um because because someone could answer the
question correctly and but you not get the information that they want so here was this person's
question and um i i just um i can understand why he
asked me this because he might think that i'm the ask the builder guy and
that i just magically memorize incredible amounts of detailed
information so when i read this when i read this question you'll understand
his name was david from rochester new york he companies make routers with the on
off switch on the handle
so you you couldn't expect him to think that i would just drop what i was doing
and just go spend an hour or two researching this right i mean you don't
you don't think he expected me to do that do you so that means that he then probably felt
that i just am a router expert and would would happen to know this
so my answer was my guess would be several
so i don't think that's snarky i mean it's a very and then he got back to me just um a few
minutes later and said the only three horsepower router i find is the makita right so notice
in the first question he never said it had to be a three horsepower router see see what happens
the power's in the question he goes the only three horsepower router i find is the makita
is there any others so i answered them again and i said
when you went to amazon.com and looked at all of them what did you discover
you know and he hasn't responded back to me because hopefully he understood from that
you know that um i was trying to take him to the woodshed a little bit i was trying to
you know i see this happen a lot uh i actually have this problem with a friend of mine
um he's a really nice guy but i i don't know if it's laziness i i
don't know i don't to me i look at it is that i just think that you need to be
more self-sufficient i think many people need to be more self-sufficient
and when someone comes to me like with a question like that i just go
why would you have not gone to amazon first or to some store that sells routers and
just asked the salesman there you know it just seems like he's trying to get the easy way out and so i
i kind of bristle at questions like that they just they don't hit me the right way in other words i'm not this
i'm a i'm a busy guy okay i'm not that person when you go to the airport you've ever
gone to a big airport and flown into a city for the first time you come down you come down
you know and you get towards the baggage claim area and in many airports there's a big desk and it's like information you
know there's people sitting there that can answer questions about just about anything and
i mean what's happened is i think the internet people just think that i'm that person sitting at my home for free
just waiting for your question to come in and all i do all day is just sit here
answering free questions not making any money and somehow money just floats out of the sky
to pay all the bills for ask the builder so anyway just like a mini rant there
uh okay the weather he finally answered from northern ireland weather was very windy yep i would think that this time
of year if you have any other questions now is the time to put them in
the chat love to help you um love to help you uh but i i'm not
clairvoyant i do not know um i do not know what's on your mind i
don't know what's wrong at your home so you need to tell me in the meantime
i have this to share i am going to be featuring next week i think
um a really interesting tape measure
i mean really interesting i don't want to tell you any more about it i don't want to give it away
but i you can imagine how many tape measures i've looked at over the years and you'd
be surprised there's a lot of difference in tape measures but this tape measure that i got
was perhaps the most innovative one i've ever seen in my career and what i did
i'm just going to share this with you this is a live stream you don't want to miss i'm telling you
so i looked at this tape measure first you know i you know the box was addressed to me no one was around i
opened it up i look at it hold it in my hand and i immediately go
this is pretty cool and i i open it up
and i was like wow wow
so later that night uh we're getting ready for dinner and my youngest daughter was here
and um we've got a great relationship and i just handed her the tape measure
she's really really smart and i just handed it to her and i said tell me what you think of this
you know that's all i said i didn't want to set any expectations
and she she looked at it and she immediately pulled it open and she went
oh my gosh and this is the next thing she said
can i buy this from you all right
so then the ultimate test like 20 minutes later kathy came up
and she's really hard on stuff i mean like it takes a lot it takes i mean it takes
a lot to impress my wife especially tools because she doesn't care
i do the same thing just hamster and say tell me what you think dear i said dear
she did the same thing and her reaction was holy moly this is pretty cool
you do not want to miss that live stream next week that's all i can tell you
hey laureen how you doing uh will oh no wave there's it can't be 15 below zero
there right now are you kidding me come on it may have been that this morning
let's see what it is here right now i would predict right now where i am it's 10 or 12.
ah i'm off 15 degrees 15 degrees right now here in meredith
and they just posted a winter storm watch which is bad all right so that means that the
it's going to advance to a winter storm warning sometimes say they have like what they call a winter weather advisory and an
advisory is when they don't expect much snow like i think the threshold is
five inches or less so it says um
this is bad because they say i'm reading it winter storm watching effect from saturday morning through late saturday
night heavy heavy snow possible total snow accumulations 5 to 10 inches
winds could gust as high as 35 miles per hour so well you and i are going to get hit
i'm sure you've got the same winter weather advisory um
well winter storm watch so it's gonna get like i said it's gonna transform to a
warning tomorrow afternoon um 8-bit vinyl i love those milwaukee tape
measures that have huge stud hooks on it yes they did um yeah right that's what i
thought 15 this morning it was it was about eight below zero here um okay lorraine says i'm leaving my
daughters i i know you well laureen we've missed you too the feeling's mutual
it's it's just not the same when when um you and steve and will and
shannon and jason and uh others are not here i mean it's
it's still fun but um i just it feels a little bit more formal to me
when i get questions from people that i i don't recognize or that don't appear to be regulars um well so lorena what
they say that's interesting be careful that heavy snow uh well the i think what they mean with
that um i don't think they mean weight wise because the temperature what i'm looking at
of the temperature during the storm it should be really light and fluffy stuff and there doesn't appear to be any
rain involved i think when what they mean by heavy is large amounts of it um
thick you know deep snow and that's really the word i think they should have used i just think it was a
bad a bad adjective and anyway i've got the snow blower i i
shovel hardly any of the snow around here i don't i don't shovel hardly anything the the machine does it all
eight-bit vinyl says supposed to get one two feet of snow over friday night and saturday get ready yeah so where where
what where are you at 8 bit vinyl what what part of the country are you in are you here in the northeast with will and
i kind of interesting um anyway back to that tape measure i'm
telling you you do not want to miss that live stream is all i can tell you
it's uh i've said this before you know it takes a lot to impress me i mean it really
does because i've seen so much and you know and you would think i mean
here's the thing you would go how could a tape measure i mean it's so
you know what's the big deal you know come on well when you see it
you'll go i swear i swear you're gonna go i want one of those things i want one i'm
telling you i'm just telling you i'm just gonna warn you pretty cool
uh anyway there's that crutch word anyway
and so what are your crutch words have you ever thought about it what are the crutch words you use
let's um um will says guessing the tape measure
requires batteries i'm not going to answer that question that's nice to know information at this point not need to know
just south of you in concord okay yeah yeah i don't know if we're gonna get one to two feet i don't know about that i i
haven't looked look who's here jason uh
but 8-bit vinyl so what look what happened to us last year well i don't know how
bad it was for you down in concord but if you remember winter storm gail in december
um the forecast here in meredith was 16 inches of snow
we got 39 inches i've got all the pictures and everything on my website just go to
askthebuilder.com type in winter storm gail and look at the photo
of my truck i i um my truck was buried
by the by the storm and so i decided as i was uncovering it that i was only going to uncover half of
it it's a pretty interesting photo and uh and it what and and some of the snow had
blown off because it wasn't instead it wasn't 39 inches of snow in my truck it was probably more like two
feet maybe 28 inches but some of it had blown off but it's still a very impressive photo
oh my gosh i drove through concord uh two two nights ago i was driving through right
about now actually uh yeah right about now i had left the house here about four o'clock
takes me um 45 minutes for my house to get down to exit 14.
laureen says it is 33 degrees right now in southeast wisconsin that's interesting uh 9 minus 9 overnight at home yeah
well you know what it's january it's almost over here's what you know here's kind of some good news for what it's
worth and i i'll be honest with you i cannot believe how fast this month has gone
it just seems like yesterday it was january 3rd to me
monday it's going to be the end of the month so january typically here in new
hampshire is the coldest month so we're almost out of the you know a little bit out of the woods a little bit
out of the woods and you can see each day we've got more light each day we've already picked up
about uh almost 40 minutes i think from what it is at the solstice so
it's really um it's it's it's not it's you know we're
almost out of the woods i mean almost i mean the trouble is here in new hampshire
i mean winter winter doesn't it winter lasts i mean it's six weeks longer than it was in
cincinnati i mean it'll it can be cold all the way up to april first
no get around it okay remember um
remember no live stream tomorrow we're doing the zoom call
so laureen and jason and will and there's about five others i hope you
got the email i hope you got the invite if not you better email me you need to let me know that you got it
rob oh rob there's rob yeah we're going to be doing the zoom call tomorrow at four o'clock gonna be a lot
of fun and my understanding is what we have to do is i already know the call's gonna go over we're gonna get cut off
i'll talk about it at the beginning as soon as it's cut off i'll send out another invite and we'll
probably just get back on the call five minutes later that'll give everybody a chance to hit the head
get a drink whatever so okay good all right
eight bit van i remember that ethernet it was actually overwhelming it took yeah it was um luckily luckily it was a
pretty light snow the biggest problem for me was because of uh my roof at my front door
i have a photo on that page you should really go to that page on my website just askthebuilder.com
gail in the search engine the snow on my front porch was eight feet deep
and it took my wife and my daughter it took the three of us um
i don't know about four hours the next day i think we worked a little bit on it the first day
but it took um about four hours to get that all dug out we had to dig out the whole sidewalk
and what we were doing is i just had a wheelbarrow and we would my wife and my daughter would fill the wheelbarrow up
and i would wheel the wheelbarrow down the sidewalk out onto the driveway dump it off just hit a bunch of piles
and then eventually i took the snowblower and blew it all down the hill but we had you know you can't get the
snowblower back there so you had to put all that snow physically you had to move that by hand so
yeah um anyway it's winter i can just tell you that i would never
own another home like this you know i i never thought well first of all i never thought we would be here as
long as we did this was supposed to be a transitional home i i was not supposed to be here but i i
would never own a home that has this box canyon design where the snow comes off the roof in
other words my porch is 10 feet i have like a 30 foot long box canyon
look at will will used to work on on the road on the d.o.t obviously yeah i'll bet you don't miss that at all
i'll bet you don't miss that for a minute crazy um crazy
uh all right any other questions that you've got i'm happy to answer them about your home uh we have quite a few people i i really
appreciate you turning into the live stream today watching right now if you have a youtube account remember
that you can you can type a question about your home into the
chat i'm happy to answer it does not have to be about brick and mortar it can be about anything it could be um
plumbing related it could be roofing [Music] it could be anything anything you want
happy to answer you happy to answer you uh let's see here let's go back to um i
haven't the builder show is about to happen might be happening right now i i i i'm
not going to any more builder shows um i can uh i can tell you a story about
that why i made that decision uh and it's loosely related to
the you know the fact that tom brady should probably be retiring ben roethlisberger just announced his
retirement but um anyway uh years ago
many years ago probably 27 years ago i went to my first editors conference
and really kind of cool events where companies invite members of the media like me
uh to a remote location in this case it was a beautiful resort
in clearwater beach florida and they they do a dog and pony show so they've got a captive audience
you know they pay all your expenses to get there and then they show you all of their new tools and things
and so there there usually are about 20 or 30 of my peers there and
you know i was not the youngest but i was in my 40s and there were several older men there
that were of the generation before me who were the basically the founders of
the home improvement industry the home improvement industry really didn't exist until after world war ii
anyway one of the guys there was he and i became really really good
friends his name was larry eisinger larry passed away about 10 years ago he was the father of home improvement
and sadly there's no there's no uh tribute to him online i
should probably try to write it my mistake i made is he told me his whole history one day but i failed to record it it was just a
story he told me and i i wish now i would had a tape recorder on
so at this event you know larry went to bed early he was i mean at the time larry
was probably in his late 70s and that night you know everybody's
outside down at the near the pool some of these younger guys really brash and
they're you know they're kind of making fun of larry like what's that old what's that old guy doing here you know what could he possibly know about home
improvement and they didn't know anything about larry and and i didn't know much about him at the time either
but i came to know that he was really really smart but the point was these young guys were making fun of this old
guy and as i flew home from that conference i decided i said you know what
when i'm the oldest guy to attend a conference
or to build a show i'm done it's over because i don't want those young guys talking behind my back
all right so i'm not going anymore all right
lv says uh most people don't expect to live in their homes as long as they do
particularly if it's not their dream home so here's a really interesting statistic i got this statistic i don't
know if it's changed a little bit because of the shamdemk but back when i was writing this book
so i was i wrote this roofing ripoff book you can get it for free the link is way at the top of the chat
i had to do some research about how long the average person owns their home i got the data from the national association
of realtors and at the time which is about five years or six years ago uh it was eight to nine years so eight
to nine years is the average length of time somebody owns a home
all right rob this might be a tough one we have an outdoor shower and i have to shut off the outdoor water and drain the
water before it freezes yep before we get to this jar it probably gets destroyed yes truth
any possible solution deciding remember to turn off turn off outdoor water and drain um
rob let me ask this question do you own one of these things
you know what this is smartphone you know do you own do you um let me look at this
so um you know what that is so that's google calendar
and in google calendar you can set up alerts
uh all right so um so anyway um
i assume you have a smartphone so i assume you can go to
you know it's an android and even if it's not android even if it's an iphone
because there's a thing called icalendar you can set up all these incredible reminders
in the calendar and you can make them repeat whenever you want you know so
what i would do is i you can actually go in and set up a calendar
uh you know reminder i don't know whenever you think you're going to stop using water outdoors like november 1st
you set up a reminder for november 1st and then you set up multiple ones because you're
probably going to procrastinate so you set one up for november 1st november 4th november 7th
and uh you know it keeps letting you know and then when you're setting it up and you just say turn off or turn off
the damn shower water drain the head whatever blah blah blah blah blah whatever it needs to stimulate your head
and then um you just set it up to repeat annually and every november 1st every november
3rd or whatever you do it's going to set you're going to get these little reminders man none of this is hard none of it is hard
man none of this is hard um
not any of it is hard look who's here steve how you doing everything is doing great buddy uh
we're having a pretty good live stream we talked a lot about brick and mortar um are you ready for the zoom call
tomorrow is what i want to know are you all ready did you get the email do you have the invite
i like your comment rob that's an idea i'll probably use the echo because i don't use the smartphone often but
anyway i cannot keep it off all winter it's my only shower method wait a minute you take a shower outside
no no way come on
you can't be serious anyway what no no no no no
no chickening out commander we set the the whole zoom thing was your idea
and we built it all around you you're not gonna uh you're not gonna bolt on us
i almost had somebody bolt on me one time that would have been a big mistake um and uh
no bolting no no no it's gonna be fun what in the world would you possibly be worried about it's gonna be hilarious
it's gonna be a great time okay good you better be only joking so um
anyway uh
okay so anyway um
i don't know what to tell you about the shower up because you you're confusing me because you just said you say we have an outdoor shower
so now you say it's a warm water shower at a business no indoor
at night it works fine i i don't know um you're kind of confusing me buddy that's
all i can tell you um if you're not able to turn it off and let it be off all season long
then you need to make sure that the cold air can't get to the pipes
none of this is hard not none of it is none of this is hard
it's simple physics you know i'm not trying to scold you here i'm just saying use the little gray cells up here and
figure out whatever you have to do to keep the pipes above 32 degrees that's all you have to
do yeah no doubt um
maybe rob works at a car wash i i don't know maybe but typically what they do here in new hampshire
will and i have a really good friend of mine a subscriber on my newsletter that owns car washes up in prescale main
they just let the water run all the time and i i find it hard to believe it doesn't freeze up
i turn it off many times each winter i'm going to write you about things yeah you're probably gonna need a console call on this it's it's way too
complex so your business will pay for it just get them to pay for it and um no big deal uh you know once you
send photos whatever i'm happy to help you uh now my tooth is fine
my gum where the tooth was extracted what happens though you notice they put my finger in my i've got a piece of
gauze in inside my cheek right now for some odd reason over yesterday
i don't understand why this is happening i don't i don't get it but i started to bite the
inside of my cheek you know back there and you know now it's kind of swollen
and then as i talk it keeps getting worse because i keep as my teeth go up and down so i thought
okay this morning i thought i know how to solve that i'll put a flipping piece of gauze
inside my mouth to keep my cheek away from my flipping teeth so that's i was just adjusting it
so it's a little gross i'm sorry about that um anyway
crutchford
uh okay we have a trailer trailer buildings on about 60 years yeah it will we talk i talked about this
a little bit yesterday like you know kathy was kind enough to remind me and she's right
our bodies are really interesting the human body because when you get an injury in the mouth
um our bodies are programmed to heal that really fast really fast
because we can't afford not to eat you know can't afford it like
you know we have to it's like hey all right you know what i'll give you a break for 48 hours but
man you gotta we got you gotta feed me that's what the body's saying to the mouth and uh so but it as far as the um
where the wisdom tooth was no no doe pain just actually it's just like a minor if i had to rate the pain right
now i would i would rate there's no pain i mean it just that i can
i can just feel that there's just a very little difference um
i'm sure i don't know how long it's going to take for the gum to completely heal over i you know it's funny i didn't
ask the dentist that um i'll have kathy look at it this weekend see what it looks like
yeah exactly uh yeah i i bite my cheek sometimes too i
you know i have to wear a mouth guard at night to stop grinding my teeth so anyway
too much information i know i know um all right so um i'm gonna mention this
real fast maybe we can talk about this a little bit what um so steve and will
and i know jason is here i saw jason before um
what and and if you're here like ro i don't know if you're here and i apologize if i'm not connecting your
your screen name with someone who is going to be on the zoom call right now there's only seven
or eight people are going to be on it um how do you think excuse me share with me how you think
we should do the zoom call i'll tell you what i think and then um
just let me know because i know you they don't give you a lot of characters to type
um i think that we should open it up and just kind of go around in a circle
um and every everybody just kind of do their two-minute elevator speech
so if they do that that's going to take up 15-20 minutes right there and i do mean two minutes
you know just like this is who i am uh this is where i live if you want to share that you can just be general if
you want not looking for a street address um just a very little bit about your
background whatever you want to share um so that people get to get so we get to
know one another a little better i i just i'm trying to figure out what to do because i
just so you know on a personal level i shared this yesterday i i i want to talk very little in this zoom call
i mean i'll answer but this is my opportunity to get to meet you i want to know about you you
already know about me so that's so it's you know that that's my perspective so i'm i'm um
oh um okay lorraine um the zoom is really easy
super easy um you're gonna love it um shouldn't be a problem
uh you know and everybody just you know you have your choice as to whether or not you
want to turn your video camera on it's not required you know i'll have mine on but it just
just that when you uh which you have to understand you might want to watch if you're still here laureen you might want
to watch a video going to youtube watch a video i'm sure there's one about how to use
zoom first time because sometimes it automatically has your microphone off and it has your video
camera off so you'll be talking at home thinking all of us are hearing you and we're not
so you have to understand how to turn those those things on and off it's really simple but that you just need to know
for a first timer all right safe travels lorraine uh but
anyway let me know uh here we go will 10 uh so we're no one's letting me know about the zoom
call so will says to insulate my basement cinder block walls i've got two inches of strapping nail to it added fiber
insulation with facing out hope no mail boats up under the solution well
um it might it might um
okay no problem jason uh okay thanks for being here uh just just jump
into the zoom call anytime you can and um i'll send out an email with that invite but i think the
invite supposedly that same link will look work for the second call once we initiate it two minutes after the first
call ends so will um let's think about here's what
you always have to think about the
i mean you know how condensation forms you're a smart guy so by default
with you putting the insulation in in between the strapping
you're not letting the warmer air of the basement because it is in the yeah
basement uh get to the cinder block walls all right so by default that's going to
make them colder which means that condensation would form on the
cinder blocks faster than it normally might so that's the physics that's involved
and the the um what you may want to do
is you may want to experiment with this like in other words um
i would be really tempted to just put first of all what i would put in
you said you put in fiber insulation so i i would have actually put in
two inches of closed cell foam cut as tightly as possible so it fits
in between the two inch um the the wood so i would have put closed cell foam put
it right in contact with the because close cell foam is has got its own built-in vapor retarder
water vapor will not go through a closed cell phone and you so you have to stop
water vapor from getting to that cinder block that's what you have to do so you can test it
you can um maybe cover some of that insulation with
a sheet of six mil visqueen from the floor all the way to the top
uh and don't put a million staples in it because you want to be able to pull it down a month from now and check to see if
there's water back there you know i would i would be constantly checking it i can tell you that
ah um so steve wants to know what is cinderblock so that's a great question
so it's just like the breeze block that you talked to us about steve a month ago it's um
years ago it's a it's a funny term so many many years ago here in the united states people
still heated with coal and the coal would create cinders you know small pieces of of that rock that
would that didn't burn and they would use this those cinders to mix with to make concrete
and a lot of people used it to make concrete block which you call breeze block
but here in america i don't know that will has actual true cinder block uh it's just a
it's kind of a slang term that that older people like like uh will and i might use but normal younger
people here in america will just call it concrete block because we just take concrete
to make those block uh yeah so buying a flare to look around uh
but the flear i'm just telling you well i would um
i would want to be pulling that some of that insulation back every i don't know once a week to check see if
you've got moisture back there see what's going on um it's just simple it's just simple
physics what's what's happening i mean if you don't want moisture you've got to stop water vapor from getting to
that concrete block to the cinder block simple as that okay so it looks like my idea for the
zoom call is what we're going to do because nobody gave another idea so i think we'll just do that tomorrow
and we'll just let people take turns and then i think what's going to happen
is i think it's going to people are just going to start randomly asked questions about things
you know we'll have a lot more latitude i i there's a lot of things steve i'm interested in
uh about over there in london in the uk just so you know really i mean i'm so
happy that you're gonna be on the call i'm so happy to have met you to to um create this friendship
and uh to to be a source of information you know from over there like i have another friend who lives in london
but he's um i have a business relationship with him so i don't feel comfortable
at all talking about all kinds of other things i i don't want to ruin the business relationship
um anyway yeah you're going to do a great job i mean i don't i don't have any really
pointed questions that just i just think just really interesting things um
really really interesting stuff uh about what's happening you know on on on
you know to all of us about the shamdemik and um just really interesting
uh all right any uh we got you know you're you may be a person watching the live stream
that's not been here before if you have a youtube account remember you can enter a question in the chat and i'm happy to
answer it uh it could be any question about anything could be anything about your home uh you might even have a question an odd
question about ask the builder i'm happy to answer that um
and um i can i'll just share this with you right now we are hard at work
on ask the builder um to make that website ada compliant
it's a crock of you know what but we have to do it last week we completed all that for
stain solver this afternoon just so you know i signed the retainer agreement with a los
angeles attorney uh to to to make this this lawsuit go away
uh and and we think that that's going to be taken care of in the next 10 days that the that the lady this lady that's suing
us is going to fold her tenna you know because she's going to get a a threatening letter from the attorney
that she does not want to get she just you know anyway um
we have thousands of you oh yeah boy um so
duke does not like the snow well nala and finn are both inside cats uh the only time they've ever been
outside is um when they're in a carrier to go to the vet so they don't cathy would never let
them outside they would never i don't know that they would survive two days i mean that the um you know because
of all the wildlife here coyote a fisher cat who knows something would get a hawk even you know
um yeah thousands of years of history
oh my gosh you know like little things like here's a really interesting thing so
when the romans uh had had invaded britain the uk and they built what hadrian's wall i think i
know i've seen online that that you can still see that wall you know it's like a miniature version
of the of the great wall of china uh you know like have you ever been to it have you ever you know you don't have
to answer here but i'm just saying how much of the uk have you traveled and seen
um you know what's the most beautiful place in the uk you've been um you know have you just stayed most of
your time in london you know where you're born and raised in london um you know because i don't
you know i i see some photos of of the uk a lot of photos from fellow ham radio
operators and i know the countryside is is just beautiful you know some of the some of the parts of the uk just
beautiful so uh all kinds of really just interesting stuff all kinds of interesting stuff
all right remember if you are um ah the scots built the higgins well isn't
that interesting see i i thought the romans built it so what do you know that's just great i mean all this little
stuff i don't know very interesting very very interesting um
wow all right so um what did i want to share
with you um so i brought you up to speed on stain solver that problem should be should be
gone uh in the next 10 days two weeks uh
and then we're like i said we're we're work we've got another week it's worth of work easy on ask the builder
uh we're we're just marching through it myself and my virtual assistant making each page ada compliant um
and um it's all little pesky things not just stuff we didn't know and but then what
we're going to start on just so you know also today i'll tell you what i did on ask the builder i think i told you i
subscribed about a month ago to a really interesting website called semrush
s-e-m-r-u-s-h dot com very interesting website with all kinds of interesting tools
and it can do an analysis of ask the builder and i had a a total of um
trying to think i don't know 60 70 000
backlinks and i don't know three or four or five thousand of them
were what they rate as toxic i mean they were bad links i know i didn't cr i didn't link
to these other websites they linked to me and google doesn't like these other websites
so by default google thinks i might be you know that i might be associated with
them that maybe even i bought a link from them which i did not do i've never bought a link and i have
never accepted money for a link i would never do that paid linkedin that's death on a
stick but anyway today i disavowed about 4 000 of those links so there's a tool that you use you
create this file i uploaded it to google and so that should
it basically tells google like listen i don't know anything about these guys and you can just get rid of all those
links i don't care about them i don't want them so what it does is it then will boost my
what they call your authority score so i'm hoping that happens quickly
and the goal is is to raise the traffic at ask the builder by a factor of five or ten and so we're
working on that um i i'm you know many years ago i had a lot of traffic coming ask the twitter but
google took a lot of it away so i'm working to get it back um yeah exactly it's guilt by
association it's horrible so so we're so that's the big project i'm working on
uh this spring um i've been kind of lacks about it but i got a fire lit underneath me the
past month and i am going to um i'm going to try to bring ask the
builder back to its glory days if not better if you go to the shopping cart for
example we my assistant two days ago made the shopping cart ada accessible it looks
completely different looks really good i think so if you just go to shop well i'll just give you a link to it right now i got a
link right here um this is the link you know that
you know those who want to console call me this is the link that people set use oh you know what i got to do tomorrow i
got to draw a plumbing plan for justin i just remember that so there's the link to the shopping cart go look at it it's
really clean should have done a long time ago really a beautiful look
uh i did not get an invite to the zoom call
well then that means that you might not have emailed me
so like yesterday shannon uh shannon told me
that he was going to go to the my site and send me a message he did not do it yesterday
so here's what you need to do lv you need to go here i will show you exactly what to do
none of this is hard none of this is hard so i'm going to copy this link i'm going
to do this i'm going to paste it in here
you need to go to that page right there and you need to fill out the form you
need to put in your name you need to put in your email address you need to make sure the email address is accurate
double check it and then you need to just put in the comment field hey tim um
i'm lv and i want to be on the zoom call tomorrow if you do not do that you're
not going to be on the call it's that simple no none of this is hard so do that do it right now just go there
right now just how hard could it be it takes you one minute um
let's see what else uh so anyway we're working really hard the next two three months i'm gonna be just working every
day all day on the s the builder site revising old content probably writing some new content one of the big things
i'm going to do as soon as we make it ada compliant i'm going to finish this ebook that i wrote about a year ago
it's almost it's almost done just got a very little bit left to do about sewer gas and i'm going to debut this sewer gas
book and i'm going to give everybody a really great deal on it that's on my newsletter list
um and and i think it's going to sell a lot of copies each day you know worldwide
because it's a worldwide problem i did a consult about a year ago with a really really really wealthy
young man really interesting story um this young man uh very very wealthy
and i i don't care about how much money he has doesn't mean anything to me money doesn't buy you happiness um
and he lived in a condo in monaco you know that south of france its own little
country and horrible sewer gas problem in his condominium and to make a very long
story short i've i located what the problem was he said i was the only person to have ever figured it out
and once i asked him a few questions i got it what happens in these high-rise
buildings it was a high-rise condominium you know very tall building i think i think it was 35 stores
the way that they're built is that the condominiums for all the obvious reasons they're stacked in such
a way just like a hotel i mean think about being the plumber think about trying to get pipes
and doing it effectively and affordably so you try to stack everything up
and make the floor plan similar and so that the plumbing can all go down a big center chase
and that's what happened what the problem is
many of the people in this condominium they don't live there year round they might only live there two or three months a year
and that was one of my key questions to him and so while they're gone the water in
the traps evaporates sewer gas gets into the condo their
condo that's empty they don't care but that sewer gas leaks through
crevices and cracks into that plumbing chase and then gets sucked into other condominiums
so i told them well it's really simple you just have to have the the facilities
manager you know basically that's a fancy name for the building janitor the people who take care of the building they've got to go into all the empty
condominiums they just have to fill the traps so they did that one day i think it took them two days to do it there
were so many and the guy got back with me after about three days he said the problem went away
well of course it went away so so my sewer gas ebook has got a bunch of really cool stuff in it like that
tells you how to fix it so anyway i'm going to so look at that
two back-to-back crutch words so anyway [Music]
i don't think it's ever going to go away
the bottom line is that's pretty much a crutch phrase
the bottom line is a month from now or less that sewer gas ebook should be for sale
you're going to get a special deal on it if you're part of my newsletter list and uh we're going to spend the rest of the
time until the black flies come make and ask the builder back in its glory days
simple as that okay hour and 20 minutes i've been on that's
a long time i'd say we close up shop for today i've i've talked about plenty of stuff
so no live stream tomorrow zoom call we're gonna have a blast
it's gonna be a lot of fun i'm really looking forward to it i cannot wait so uh i'm not gonna be wearing a black
dress though
we did this to my disabled brother's second for breath and says okay well that i don't know what you do to it oh
you i see what you're saying you fill the traps regularly so there's no sewer gas exactly exactly i got it will got got it
good good man good man i am out of here oh oh wait one quick
thing this is big news so i've been kind of dancing around this
but my youngest daughter got a job offer today
from a company that uh they they fly it's a private jet company
and they fly very wealthy people all around the world she got a job offer today i'm sure she's
going to take the job offer um i've kind of hinted to you
that when she moves out that i'm going to then move to a new location
in the house to have a really nice studio so what i'm going to do is i'm going to
convert one of the bedrooms up on the second floor to a
a nice as the builder live studio and i'm going to um
buy a much better uh camera and get some lights so it's going to be it should be a really i'm going to try to really up
the level of the live stream here in the next month so it's going to take me a little bit of time to set up the
background you know do some things built built build uh build a little background but it's i already know what it's going
to look like it's going to have a lot of nice really tools on it i can tell you that
i am going to get out of here i'm going to be here tomorrow not here i'm going to be on the same setup but i'm going to
be doing a zoom call with you hopefully and we're going to have a lot of fun it's going to be wonderful to hear your
voice it's going to be hopefully wonderful to see you if you turn on your video camera and we're gonna have a great time we're
gonna have a wonderful time i'm out of here thanks for being here today
will thanks for being here steve can't wait to see you tomorrow lv
look at all the people that were here we had so many people it was wonderful
i cannot wait till we get to 50 or 100. how are we going to handle that the comments are going to be coming in so fast i don't know that i'll be able
to keep up will once no no she was not she was not formally she uh
she went to a school in california back in november for a week of training and she did a online
six-week course so she's been certified but remember that's why i went to boston last week
i took her last thursday she did shadow training she flew on this private jet
last friday saturday sunday and monday back to uh washington dc so she
she she uh got trained and she now she knows what to do she's got all those first flight jitters out of the way
uh she's she's gonna do fantastic uh here's what here's my prediction for her and i've already told her this
within five years she is she's not gonna be doing this
anymore she will have been she will have flown some very wealthy person who is a nice person not all of
them are nice someone is going to really notice her skills i mean and she's going to become
their private assistant and i know of somebody i used to work for somebody who was the personal
assistant of carl lindner back in cincinnati he was a billionaire and that's what i hope i live long
enough to see this happen but my daughter is going to my daughter is going to be traveling the
world for she's going to get think about this she's going to get paid to travel the
flipping world to exotic incredible locations that wealthy people
go to she's going to get put up in the nicest hotels she gets to stay overnight and for a day
or two in some of these locations while the wealthy person does what they want and then the wealthy person has
them flying back i mean it's crazy it's can you ima i mean can you imagine that
that's what she's going to be doing um
so lv says my website is not using way too many ads also does not seem to be set up for mobile device
um so the pr the problem with the ads is
i don't know of any other way to make the website available to you so i'm open to suggestions
how how can i make it more user-friendly and less ads and stay in business
so i'm i'm open to suggestions tell me what you would do if you were me in other words if you were me what would
you do um also you don't see i i have not emailed you how i i can't email you
because i don't know your email address how can i email you so
you're confusing me lv you're confusing me um you're not the first person to complain
about the ads uh and on mobile it's a it's a pretty mobile friendly uh
template on from wordpress but um i i check it all the time it looks good
on my android phone so lv before i sign off
i i i have not emailed you because i don't know your email address so i don't
know how you expect me to email you so let me check to see if you filled out the form before i sign off here
um let me see if you filled out the form see if you uh did what i told you you
were supposed to go to that page put in your name address and email address and i'm going to say no you have not
done it because i do not i have not gotten automatic email that says some new person
filled that in so lv i don't know what to tell you buddy you got i'll do it once again go to the
ask tim page it's this page right here i'm going to try to copy it copy this link i'm going to do it one more time
for you um nope that's not it
that's not it i'm trying to know let's see get rid of that
i am trying to uh get rid of i pasted something in that i don't want in there i don't know how to get rid of
it so um i am trying to
i cannot get rid of this stupid here we go let's see if i can delete there we go
all right so hold on a second we'll do it one more time i'm here i go this i copy this link
i go back here i go here i type that in i there we go i see the
link you've got to go to that page lv it's the ask tim page and there's that's the page people ask me questions
you have to fill out your name your email address and you have to just say in the comment area i want to be on the
live stream zoom call that's all you got to do and then i'll do the rest
okay um thanks very much for being here today
and i'll be here tomorrow well i won't be here i'm going to be on the zoom call i'll be back here on monday i'm tim
carter and you have been watching ask the ask the ask the builder ask the builder
on youtube i'll be here on monday