Topics: Brick weep holes blocked with foam; Air Conditioning not flowing into rooms; Who can fill in a swiming pool in Laval; Asphalt/gravel vs membrane for a flat roof; Shading a second floor deck; Waterproofing brick; When to repair and when to replace an old Air Conditioner; Choosing new windows; Using beet juice as a stain for brick; How to create vent holes in a brick wall that has no vent holes -- must have a flashing to move the water into the holes; Installing a sump pump on the roof for heavy rains that overflow the drain.

Topics: What Jon Eakes eats; Hose bib leaking - the recessed valve; Filling the hole cause by a downspout; Window mechanisms not closing; Repainting a wooden gallery after pealing paint; Ventilating apartment bathrooms through a vent chute; Stopping a leak in a gas furnace condensor drain tube; Polyaspartic Resin for concrete steps -- to be continued next week; Holding back a brick wall that is shifting forward.

Topics : Cleaning high wall split air conditioners; Jon Eakes does Zoom consultations where you can show him your problem without a house visit; Attic heating ducts with condensation in the ducts; Bathroom counter tile grout bleached out near the sink, how to bring back to matching the original grey; Artisanal ceiling lamp not working – how to get someone to fix it;  What shingles can I put on my 1:4 pitch roof; -- my answer was wrong in the broadcast (I looked too quickly at an old reference book), a 1:4 sloped roof is too flat for any shingles in Canada, you have to go to some kind of a membrane covering,  Soffit plywood has rotted discovered while installing a new roof, must this plywood be removed?; Popping sounds from unoccupied apartment above – to worry?; Tracing a very slow drip coming from the ceiling of the garage; Mould smell when I turn on the Air Conditioning; Should I waterproof my new concrete setps?

Topics: Remote trouble shooting inspections with Zoom; Maintenance free toppings for concrete balconies - Armorthane; Dirty water regularly backing up in the sink of a multi-lodgment building; Rattling noise from hot water tap; Filling a 10” chimney hole in a concrete balcony; Changing the glass in a patio door; Making a new tread for an old wheelchair – Try fitting a bike tire tread over the broken up original rubber – fill empty spaces with polyurethane caulking; Removing black plastic melted in an oven.

 

Sunday: Spring cleaning of carpets and how carpets can be healthier than hard floors.

Topics : How to finish a newly poured garage floor; Finish comes off of deck every year; Replacing a fiberglass balcony; Details on a shed roof – building paper – drip edge; Mould in unheated garage; Membrane roof on apartment building aging too rapidly; Choosing composite boards for a deck; Preparing a tub surround to receive tiles – do it right and you never need to caulk.

Topics : Can I paint a bathroom arborite surface?; Can’t get the garden hose off of the faucet; Choosing contractors for a foundation repair; Proper chimney caps for gas and wood chimneys; Melamine paint works great on doors; Should I put asphalt shingles or a metal roof on a large garden shed – maybe even metal shingles; How to close off wood burning chimney; For a kitchen counter – Granit – Arborite – Tile; Looking to buy a heat pump assembly directly from the manufacturer; Water coming in at the sill plate – landscape before trying to waterproof – surface water must be below the level of the wood in the wall otherwise the wall will rot even if you control the water by a drain on the inside.

Topics:  Homework from last week: looking for oil based deck stains to match a slightly worn deck -- yes they are still available except in California -- and here is a great deck stain website;  Can’t get the hose off of the faucet; Running an clothes dryer exhaust into a large 40 car garage; Is it ok to place an ABS pipe in the gravel under a garage concrete pour for running electrical wires?; 127 year old house has old mortar turning to dust way under sill plate; Hot Water Tank door to door sales scam – renting a 40 gallon tank for almost $200/month - $2,400 a year!; What to use to stain a deck built last summer – DeckStainHelp.com; Should the gable end vents be closed off if I install a Maxi vent on the top – YES; Apartment on 10th floor of 16 floor condo infested with marijuana smoke from the neighbours – condo says all systems are working – talk to CondoLegal.com  and search for "marijuana".

Sunday: Most crawling insects are commuters -- Study the traffic patterns and you can stop the critters. More information

Topics: Are pillars under a house foundation a problem in buying a home & Thermal pump replacement; New apartment virus cleaning and paint prep – TSP; Water leaking through window – could be upper window leaking – or even flashing around flat top roof can let water in behind the brick; Painting knotty pine paneling; Trying to get humidity up in the house; Spreading out insulation in an attic; Changing a roof covering; Deck with oil based stain, looking for scratch fixes – great information at DeckStainHelp.com.

Topics: Old bungalow, repair or demolish and rebuild; Need to close off Chimney – chimney balloon; No soffit ventilation, need low entry hoods on roof just above the insulation; Clean cement or baked on grime off of windows; Catching a ground hog; Cedar deck – 4 years old with uneven staining; Removing mildew and restaining a fence.

Topics: Tin roof 30 years old, white powdery look when dry; Replacing joint mortar between balcony stones - weather considerations; Appling a small amount of parging to a newly closed off window – adhesion and pre-aging for colour matching; PEX water hammer  and air access valve for new sink; Aluminum planks for third story balcony – fiberglass deck made of composite; Field stone facing with Unistone above the lower edge now showing signs of holding water on the wall.

Sunday : Window and door screens : cleaning and fixing before re-installing as the bugs start coming out.