Today’s Homeowner Radio Show | May 28, 2022

In this week’s radio exhibit, we’re offering advice on how to eradicate a tripping hazard, deal with mason bees and deal with tree root challenges.

Getting rid of a Tall Concrete Threshold

The hooked up garage in Thomas Boyd’s Dimond Bar, Calif., home was constructed with a stem wall, which would make the threshold at the door much too tall. To enter, a particular person has to move up and more than the almost 6-inch threshold. 

He needs to know the ideal way to eliminate this tripping hazard.

I have found situations like this prior to built a good deal better by building a ramp. Pour concrete on the outside of the stem wall for a 4 or five-foot ramp. But that is not serving to if the inside techniques again down.

The stem wall can be reduce out. I would take away the door and the body then use a side grinder to cut on each side to extend the jamb down. Then, rating the base of the stem wall to make it less difficult to hammer out. 

Eventually, just take a sledgehammer to crack off the stem wall at the slab. As very long as there is not any rebar heading via that, it should be quick to get rid of.

If you use the identical doorway, there’ll be about a six-inch void on the best of the door body. To fill that room, put decorative crown molding on best of the door, equally inside of and out. This will make it seem intentional. Or, you could purchase a tailor made door, but that will be a pricier selection.

Skip to [21:25] for the whole phase on the Today’s House owner Radio Clearly show.

Working With Mason Bees

A caller suggests mason bees are eating the brick mortar of her dwelling and nesting inside. She would like to know how to evict them after and for all. 

First of all, the mason bees aren’t basically consuming the mortar. They’re nesting inside of cracks and crevices that are now in the mortar. 

They are termed mason bees simply because they are cavity-nesting bees. They’ll make their homes in any little hole, crevice, crack, or tunnel.

For the bees to be nesting within her brick mortar, the cracks had been now there in the 1st spot. The prolonged-phrase resolution will be to fill any spots in the mortar that are open up.

Do not use any pesticides to test to get rid of them. These bees are effective to your yard mainly because they are pollinators. 

Mason bees seem like honey bees but they really don’t generate honey. And in contrast to honey bees, they never dwell in colonies.

To maintain the bees from nesting in your brick mortar, you can develop a bamboo mason bee house. Glue parts of bamboo with each other in a frame and dangle them in a tree subsequent to your household.

Skip to [44:05] for the entire section on the Today’s Homeowner Radio Display.

Tackling Tree Root Troubles

Tree roots are interrupting a caller’s mowing program and pushing pavers out of area. Here’s what she desires to do.

If the quality of your assets enables, set a couple of inches of soil on major of the roots and plant some grass seed so you can mow in excess of it.

If the roots are protruding also high for grass to increase more than it, plant some groundcover plants or spread mulch about them. That way, you will not need to stress about mowing that region.

For the roots around the pavers, connect with an arborist before you reduce them. Some trees can tolerate their roots becoming lower, but it can get rid of other people. 

If the roots can be minimize, pull up the pavers, reduce the root out, then backfill it and substitute the pavers.

Skip to [1:07:04] for the full section on the Today’s Home-owner Radio Display.

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