Today’s Homeowner Radio Show | May 28, 2022

In this week’s radio clearly show, we’re giving assistance on how to do away with a tripping hazard, deal with mason bees and deal with tree root problems.

Taking away a Tall Concrete Threshold

The hooked up garage in Thomas Boyd’s Dimond Bar, Calif., household was crafted with a stem wall, which can make the threshold at the door far too tall. To enter, a person has to move up and in excess of the pretty much six-inch threshold. 

He desires to know the ideal way to take away this tripping hazard.

I have noticed conditions like this right before made a large amount better by making a ramp. Pour concrete on the outside the house of the stem wall for a four or five-foot ramp. But that’s not aiding if the within steps back down.

The stem wall can be minimize out. I would clear away the doorway and the body then use a aspect grinder to reduce on every single facet to lengthen the jamb down. Then, score the base of the stem wall to make it simpler to hammer out. 

Eventually, consider a sledgehammer to break off the stem wall at the slab. As prolonged as there is not any rebar going by that, it should be uncomplicated to remove.

If you use the same door, there’ll be about a six-inch void on the top of the doorway body. To fill that space, set attractive crown molding on top rated of the door, the two within and out. This will make it seem intentional. Or, you could get a personalized door, but that will be a pricier choice.

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

Working With Mason Bees

A caller states mason bees are taking in the brick mortar of her residence and nesting inside of. She wants to know how to evict them at the time and for all. 

Initial of all, the mason bees are not actually having the mortar. They are nesting within cracks and crevices that are already in the mortar. 

They are termed mason bees for the reason that they are cavity-nesting bees. They’ll make their properties in any minimal hole, crevice, crack, or tunnel.

For the bees to be nesting within her brick mortar, the cracks were being by now there in the initial put. The prolonged-time period alternative will be to fill any spots in the mortar that are open.

Never use any pesticides to consider to eradicate them. These bees are valuable to your backyard mainly because they are pollinators. 

Mason bees look like honey bees but they do not deliver honey. And compared with honey bees, they really don’t dwell in colonies.

To retain the bees from nesting in your brick mortar, you can build a bamboo mason bee home. Glue items of bamboo alongside one another in a body and hold them in a tree up coming to your dwelling.

Skip to [44:05] for the whole segment on the Today’s Homeowner Radio Exhibit.

Tackling Tree Root Complications

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

If the quality of your home lets, put a pair of inches of soil on best of the roots and plant some grass seed so you can mow around it.

If the roots are protruding as well large for grass to increase about it, plant some groundcover vegetation or spread mulch all around them. That way, you won’t require to worry about mowing that area.

For the roots near the pavers, connect with an arborist before you slice them. Some trees can tolerate their roots getting lower, but it can eliminate others. 

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 comprehensive section on the Today’s Home owner Radio Display.

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