Track 2: Around The House

• SPEAKER_00: Hey there, welcome back.
  
• SPEAKER_00: It's 106 hour number two of Around the House.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Good to have you with us here on the program.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Let's get back to the phones now.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Buddy and Erie, thanks for waiting.
  
• SPEAKER_00: You're on the air with Ken Moon around the house.
  
• SPEAKER_00: What's going on?
  
• SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Hi.
  
• SPEAKER_02: Hi.
  
• SPEAKER_02: I got some goof off on my slats on the ground,
  
• SPEAKER_02: and I took a Dremel to it.
  
• SPEAKER_02: And it turns out I'm straight down to the rebar now.
  
• SPEAKER_02: And I got jip board down there.
  
• SPEAKER_02: There's gusses down there and everything else.
  
• SPEAKER_02: So my question is, if I've got a heel cut, sort of a honeycomb burger up there,
  
• SPEAKER_02: I got a heat pump running through there, which is the compression and decompression.
  
• SPEAKER_02: Can I hotwire a hose bib up there to get a hurricane clip to just secure everything?
  
• SPEAKER_00: We're going to have to put them on a hose.
  
• SPEAKER_00: You'll have to get him to call back if you can put them on hold, Jason, because that was just an odd connection.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Don't understand what's going on.
  
• SPEAKER_00: In the meantime, Richie, Richie, you're on the air with Ken Moon around the house.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Hi, good morning.
  
• SPEAKER_02: Hi, Ken.
  
• SPEAKER_02: Hi.
  
• SPEAKER_02: I was in my crawl space earlier in the week, and I saw a downspout in there, some horizontal gutters.
  
• SPEAKER_02: And there's a drip cap attached to an earth.
  
• SPEAKER_02: quake strap in the easement.
  
• SPEAKER_02: So the overhang of the exterior roof kind of comes through there at an elbow and an electric lateral.
  
• SPEAKER_02: So with an elevation sheet, should I be able to get an evaporator coil around the expansion
  
• SPEAKER_02: joint to kind of get some wonderboard in there or maybe some facing brick with some fish tape
  
• SPEAKER_02: maybe with the grain of the grade beam, kind of a laminated beam, and around the globe.
  
• SPEAKER_02: valve and the gloss enamel is coming loose.
  
• SPEAKER_02: Hey, Mike, Mike, Wolf, let's dump this caller.
  
• SPEAKER_00: I have no idea, Richie, what you're talking about.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Maybe you need to take another pill and settle down this morning, I guess, huh?
  
• SPEAKER_00: The perils of live radio, I apologize for that, but we're back here with the program at 21 minutes
  
• SPEAKER_00: after 10 o'clock.
  
• SPEAKER_00: And Huey and Ken Carroll Ranch, good morning.
  
• SPEAKER_00: You're on the air.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Hi.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Hi, Ken.
  
• SPEAKER_02: Hi.
  
• SPEAKER_02: I had to ask you about pests, pesky animals.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
  
• SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
  
• SPEAKER_02: Well, it started with my fireplace, it started with fruit, really.
  
• SPEAKER_02: It smelled like apple pie or something every time I use my fireplace, you know?
  
• SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
  
• SPEAKER_02: And then I looked in there, and I saw a bunch of apples, and then I saw raccoons just running wild,
  
• SPEAKER_02: and they were storing apples in there.
  
• SPEAKER_02: Oh, they were running wild.
  
• SPEAKER_02: So what would you do with...
  
• SPEAKER_02: The constant presence of raccoons in your fireplace.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Well, is it a mom and babies inside there?
  
• SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there's a whole clan.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'll bet there is.
  
• SPEAKER_00: This is the time of year when they breed and wealth, if you will, or have their litters.
  
• SPEAKER_00: And usually there's, what, five or six little babies with each litter.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Well, you've got to get them out of there before you do anything,
  
• SPEAKER_00: because if you trap them in there, they'll die, and you think the apples smell bad.
  
• SPEAKER_00: you don't, if you have dead raccoons in your fireplace flu.
  
• SPEAKER_00: So you're going to have to trap them.
  
• SPEAKER_00: I have either you or an animal control person is going to have to come trap them and release them far, far away.
  
• SPEAKER_00: And then put up, you can put a screen, you know, kind of a spark arrester cap, steel cap over your fireplace,
  
• SPEAKER_00: and the gaps are little enough that they can't get back in there.
  
• SPEAKER_00: So that's really the way to do that, but you've got to get rid of them first.
  
• SPEAKER_00: And, you know, you might try some of the repellent products that you can spray.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Maybe you want to, I mean, I think they come out at night to feed, as I remember.
  
• SPEAKER_00: And so maybe after sundown, if you can get up there and shine a strong flashlight down in the chimney.
  
• SPEAKER_00: And if they're gone, man, that's great.
  
• SPEAKER_00: If you look down there and there's none left because they're out foraging, then if you look down there.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Of course, you can just cover that fireplace flu opening with a piece of wood or cardboard or plywood or something and put a couple of bricks on it.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
  
• SPEAKER_00: And then get that spark or ruster cap and they won't ever come back because they can't get through that gap.
  
• SPEAKER_00: They can't get through that gap.
  
• SPEAKER_00: So that's what I would do is but get them out of there.
  
• SPEAKER_00: And I think nighttime is the best time to do that.
  
• SPEAKER_02: Well, that sounds a lot better than what I tried.
  
• SPEAKER_02: That's for sure.
  
• SPEAKER_02: Would you try?
  
• SPEAKER_02: I put some mannequins in there.
  
• SPEAKER_02: But these were like,
  
• SPEAKER_02: pressure treated like with pressurized chemicals.
  
• SPEAKER_02: They're like the Cadillac of mannequins.
  
• SPEAKER_02: And I put them in there and I kept adding stuff like I added wigs on there and leather jackets and I added a horse whip.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Are you trying, like a, like a, like a, like a scarecrow kind of thing, huh?
  
• SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I had a pinstrap and I even ordered a bull whip and I added a wig and I added all kinds of stuff.
  
• SPEAKER_02: But I added some different things.
  
• SPEAKER_02: I put a cactus in there.
  
• SPEAKER_02: I had all kinds of different things.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Sounds like a vaudeville routine and not trying to get rid of it.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Listen, I've got a bad, I can barely understand you, so we'll let you go.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Let's let him go, Jason.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't know what do you.
  
• SPEAKER_00: He kind of lost me there at the end, mannequins and stuff.
  
• SPEAKER_00: But maybe he was trying to do a scarecrow thing that wasn't very effective.
  
• SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
  
• SPEAKER_00: But you can't trap them in there.
  
• SPEAKER_00: You got to get rid of them some other way.
  
• SPEAKER_00: I don't know if that last part was that, was he putting me on?
  
• SPEAKER_00: You know, sometimes I could barely hear what he was saying,
  
• SPEAKER_00: but it sounded like wigs and whips and mannequins and leather jackets.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Maybe he called the wrong show.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Maybe that's it.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Lance in the Springs, good morning.
  
• SPEAKER_01: Well, thank you very much for let me follow up that call, Ken.
  
• SPEAKER_01: I appreciate that.
  
• SPEAKER_00: I know.
  
• SPEAKER_00: He was sounding relatively sane there until the very end, but anyway, go ahead.
  
• SPEAKER_01: I know raccoons are really bad, but if you have that many mannequins are really bad,
  
• SPEAKER_01: but if you have that many mannequins on hand with all the wardrobe,
  
• SPEAKER_01: for him. I think you've got other issues.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think so.
  
• SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
  
• SPEAKER_01: And I'm glad that you're back.
  
• SPEAKER_01: I hope you're feeling better.
  
• SPEAKER_01: I don't like that last guy.
  
• SPEAKER_01: Watch out for mannequins, I guess.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
  
• SPEAKER_00: I don't, you know, every caller
  
• SPEAKER_00: and every listener to the show was very precious,
  
• SPEAKER_00: and Hugh, I didn't mean to offend you,
  
• SPEAKER_00: but your cell was so choppy there.
  
• SPEAKER_00: I just couldn't see what you were up to,
  
• SPEAKER_00: but I'm not sure I really wanted to know.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Anyway, so anyway, thanks, Lance Free.
  
• SPEAKER_00: your call. Let's get Tony in the Springs on the air right now. Good morning.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Good morning. Ken, how are you? I'm doing fine. I'm just in response to the last caller. I'm still
  
• SPEAKER_00: in recovery, but I am recovering, so that's all good news.