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"Two this Sunday night. Or download on the I heart radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's start with sauces. This is really cool. They're not that difficult and key ingredient to me is catch up. It's one of the things that we buy in bulk. It's the base for a lot of different sauces. The fork report with Neil Saavedra this afternoon at two on a F I am 6 40. More stimulating talk. Kind of find second hand so very moving. She wouldn't wear much small very much. I think I love Kft. Dean Sharp. The house whisper at your service. My plan to do a good Saturday morning to you, my friend So glad you joined us this morning. We are talking about unconventional breaking with conventions in your kitchen. We talked about Cabinet kicks and a couple of other things. Now it's time to move on to one of my design pet peeves. That is the overuse of backsplashes. Yeah, Let's talk about backsplashes today is just to show to get you thinking, build a little courage in you so that if you redoing your kitchen, you think you know what? Maybe we should take some of these bits of advice and make our kitchen a little bit more dynamic a little bit more dramatic. A little bit more unique, Okay? So backsplashes. Now here's Here's an area that will apply to everybody because unlike cabinets, backsplashes are not mass produced. They are going to be customized to your kitchen at your direction. Okay, so this is truly something that is in your hand to control. Let's talk about backsplashes. Originally the standard backsplash that has kind of become the industry standard was four inches tall, about four inches tall tile backsplash, and why four inches tall I'll tell you why, because countertops were originally made out of ceramic tile, four inch ceramic tiles. In general. So what do you do on the backsplash? You turn up one of those tiles vertically along the back wall and you get a four inch tall backsplash. There you go. That's how these things start. Right? It's not like some site backsplash scientist was like, Oh, the four inch four inches. That is the perfect height for the back. No, it's just one tile turned up on the back of the countertop, All right. Even today, by the way, if the you know less expensive countertops like Formica preformed Formica countertops that you might find sitting around like at a big box hardware store. You're going to find that their preformed with a four inch backsplash on them. Just there It is. Convention can Bension Then came, uh, the introduction of you know, in the in the seventies, early eighties, you know, we started doing away with ceramic tile countertops it be. They went out of fashion and people started saying, Well, you know what I have in my kitchen? I have granite slabs on my kitchen counters. Lookout, swanky. I am And with those granite countertops came the full height backsplash, meaning the full 16 or 18 inches from the countertop all the way up to the bottom of the upper cabinets. Now full height, backsplash. Bit of a status symbol. It also though, Okay, we'll give it. This allows you to see your lovely countertop material from across the room because you spend all this money on a, you know, Granted or marble countertop. Whatever.
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"It also though, Okay, we'll give it. This allows you to see your lovely countertop material from across the room because you spend all this money on a, you know, Granted or marble countertop. Whatever this is When you're not standing right over the counters. You can't see them. It's just the front edge that you see. So the full height backsplash kind of puts it all on display. Get it, I get it. I get it really. No, I do. I really do. Uh, but Can get a little Cavey. I don't know if you've noticed that, especially if your countertops are dark. Having all that stone wrapping all the way up underneath the counters all the way up to the lower part of the upper cabinets can get a little kv. It's a lot of stone. So just be aware Um and And this is my point. Very similar to the point Tina was making about kicks, which is Do you need them everywhere? Do you really Are you really going to stand for hours in front of your pantry cabinet and tuck your toes under the counter underneath the cabinet in order to, you know, find the rice at the back of the pantry cabinet. No, no, you're not. So my question is this. Do you need a backsplash everywhere? Does your toaster or your cookie jar need a full height backsplash behind it to protect the wall? From what? Cookie splash? I don't know. So my point is this take the word backsplash. Very seriously. And don't stop those of you right now. Like Hey, Dean says we don't need any backsplashes in the kitchen. No, I did not say that. Stop that. You stop that right? Um This is what I'm saying. Where do you need backsplashes in splash zones. Okay. Where's the splash Zone? The kitchen sink. That might be a good place to have a bit of a backsplash going on. Why? Water splashing niss? Yeah, okay. And what is the most critical, though I would even argue that around the kitchen sink, not necessarily need a backsplash Unless you know if you've got a window in front of your kitchen sink, that's a washable surface, right? No worries, but yeah, around the edges. Fine. The most important place to have a backsplash is, uh, cooktop? Yeah. Where you are cooking. Why? Bubbling pots? Steam splattering grease, You know, oil out of the pan. All of that. Clearly, we need a good backsplash near the Cook Center. But as we move away from the cook Center of Footer so away from the Cook Center do we now need a full height, backsplash or any backsplash at all? Anywhere else where the primary purpose of the kitchen counter is to support dry goods or have an appliance sitting on it. Or what have you? Um My answer is don't know. But ask the question. That's the point. Ask the question well. Now you're saying all right, Dean. I still have things that I banged around on my countertop. And maybe I don't want to bang the drywall at the back of my kitchen cabinets and get it all marred up. Okay, Great. I understand that. And what about if we spill stuff? Ha! After. Uh this is the thing that I want to talk to you about next. So maybe we don't need a splash. Maybe we need some kind of barrier. Maybe we need a damn Mhm. Yeah, I don't know what a damn is. Well, I mean, explain that when we come back, you are home with Dean Sharp. The house whisper Claudette Stefania. It's the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks on September 11th president Biden says the commemorations bring everything painfully back, no matter how much time has passed, but it's so hard..
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"Daniel Honor is facing murder and reckless driving charges in an apparent street racing crash that killed Ashley Wells and severely injured Lexi. Benjamin, if it would have happened to you, or I am sure if you're going close to 120 miles an hour at 12 30 at night that there would have been a sobriety test. Benjamin's mother dying cleans. His honor was spared a sobriety test and charges were delayed by 11 months because he's a deputy in that sense of entitlement is what bothers me. The families want the D A to go after the driver of the other car that they say honor was racing in Torrance. Christian Karl. Okay, fine news. Student from Oregon State University, is the winner of the Take Your shot. Oregon $1 Million Vaccination lottery. Chloe's India says she's finding she's studying fine arts at O S U This money is really going to be life changing for me. I'm going to use it to pursue my dream. As an artist. I'll be able to open my own business and pay off my student loans. Linda says she got vaccinated because she works part time as a swim instructor, and it allowed her to work with Children. Lego Land in New York has opened, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says it's the first time new. This is the first new theme park in the northeastern part of the U. S in 40 years. From what Lego land is going to be, is a magnet, an attraction for a magnificent part of the state that has been unrealized to date. Legoland, New York has more than 50 rides, dining hotel and more. Lego Land's opening had been delayed a year because of Covid 19. Back to the five. It's crash on the south side of five through CAS take before Hasely Canyon Road. A big rig involved here has got only the left lane. Open your jam back to Lake Hughes Road in Cellmark. Al Trains work on the west side of the 2 10 Hubbard to the five. All lanes shut down until Monday morning around five o'clock, used Foothill Boulevard instead. Ontario, East and side of the 60 Euclid to grow two right lanes ConEd until Monday morning as well and there was a crash there on the right side of the freeway. Just before the start of the closure. This adding to delays from the Mountain Avenue K.
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"Now? A good time to build either a single family residence or room additions using steel stead and it and are the stage really steal because they seem like they're aluminum. Pros and cons, please. All right, All right, All right. Really, Really. Good question, Frank. Uh, so, yeah, This is like the buzz all throughout the construction industry right now because the pandemic has rendered Prices for certain elements of building materials. Just astronomically high lumber. I mean, the thing that we're all handing around right now is, uh, Plywood that was $15 a sheet a year and a half ago, is now pushing $50 a sheet now. The pandemic is the reason for that. It's not that we have a lumber shortage. Uh and in by any means, okay, but we have a temporary shortfall because when covid hit Uh, you know, as large as the construction materials industry is, uh, it's actually being driven by a lot of relatively small players. So Covid hit factories had to furlough employees. Some factories just shut down. Others reduced their workforce significantly. A lot of I'll tell you a lot of suppliers in the construction industry called covid 100% wrong because they thought, Oh, well, everything's shutting down. Nobody's gonna do anything. Not true. You know what has happened during the last year and a half of people's being stuck at home forced to look at their homes. People like you know what? It's time to fix this thing up, so demands have actually gone up. While workflow or workforce has gone down, so That's the reason why I say that because the anticipation is in a year or so, okay in the next year or so we will hopefully See that dust settle and construction material prices returned to normal pre pandemic normal. That is our goal in every expert that I have spoken to on the matter would seem to indicate you know, a year 18 months. Right in there, We're going to see it come back down, because In fact it's not a shortage. Now to your question specifically, does that mean that it's a good idea to take a look at steel stud framing your house instead of using traditional wood? Well, it's always a good idea to look at every option and we've had clients who have just decided. Let's just build the whole house out of steel, Dean. And we've done exactly that. And what does that get you? It gets you easy access for, uh, Subs running electrical and plumbing and things like that. It gets you perfectly straight walls perfectly straight because steel studs don't bow and It gets you a termite and moisture proof frame. However, uh And yes, they are made out of steel, different grades of steel. Everything from what you would call 10 all the way up to heavy duty steel. And that's the thing you don't just go buy steel studs off the shelf somewhere because there are steel studs that are set up to be or designed to be. Partition wall studs like in an office building where the the walls in between offices support nothing. They have no structural bearing. They're just partitions. That's very, very thin gauge metal. You don't use that to structurally construct your house. And then there are thicker gauge steel studs, which are actually designed up to bear structural loads. When you take a look at it from the real world perspective. Even now, Steel studs are going to be more expensive than lumber. And I should say the pandemic also has the price of steel up as well. Uh, so it's not time to look at steel studs for your house in order to save money on building materials because they are more expensive than wood to begin with, and their price has gone up. Not as much as lumber by far, but the price is still gone up, so there's still out in front of wood. Cost wise, But yes, they are made out of steel. Uh, you've got to check the gauge. You have to have an engineer, spec. The studs that are necessary and as far as saving money on building materials, the best thing I can offer to you right now is Be patient and wait. If it's going to be a real budgetary issue for you, the best thing you can do, Frank is wait it out and let the dust settle. Excellent question took a little bit more time to answer that one. But I feel like it's something that's been on a lot of people's minds. And there is the reason alright, more calls when we return. You're home with Dean Sharp. The house whisper Andrew Keller Caravelle. It's just just forget it need more coffee. Andrew,.
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"We've been talking fire season prep, and now it is time to also go to the phones. Adrian. Welcome home. Thank you for having I have a question in regards to the, uh, In addition I'm doing for plumbing. So we're going Yes s o. I'm converting my garage and pull permits and I'm doing the sewer line myself. It's uh For the outside is that 80 ft run. And I'm using the three inch a drink. Branch line, and I was questioned over if I want four. Perfect purport to it's okay for the drop. Oh, yeah. Quarter inch per foot is standard uniform plumbing code for sewer lines. Any line that drains, sewer storm drain and so on. So, yeah, quarter inch per foot is the slip. That's the minimum slope. You go, You can go more. You can't go less. Not with the sewer line, so quarter inch per foot and, you know, take it out of the garage, wherever it is that you're going across your now you're tying into the city. So at some point, you're gonna have to meet up with the city lateral. Where at whatever that level that is, S O If we want to minimize the depth of the dig across to your yard, then just maintain that quarter inch per foot for us long as you can, But at some point you condemn dive down, and that's totally your choosing. It's going to be considerably lower than that. When you actually make your tie in with the lateral out at the sidewalk or the curb or wherever it is that you're having to tie in, but quarter inch per foot. That is The uniformed minimum slope for a sewer line in these fine United States of ours, Adrian. Good question. Good luck on that 80 you edition of the garage Well done. Um, Marge, Welcome home. Most wondering what is the best way to get rid of Roaches? Occasionally I see them and one or two in the kitchen dining room, but Dan and the hallway and the bathroom And I don't know if it's Roaches or water bugs, but I'm pretty sure their Roaches Yeah. S o just as interesting note. Marge. To begin with, Um Water bugs. Here's what a water bug is. A water bug is a bug that sits out on a pond and has a special pads on the ends of its legs. Seo basically hold itself above a float in the water, water bugs walk on water, for whatever reason. Okay, let's be Roaches, then. Yeah, Yeah, No, no, And it's a common thing. I just wanted Tomo body know about that We call them water bugs. Sometimes we call them palmetto bugs on sometimes Roaches, But here's the truth. There are all those bugs that we're talking about. They're all Roaches. There are different species of cockroaches in the United States. Some of them are smaller, winged brown. Some of them are large kind of mahogany, You know, deep mahogany brown, but they're all various species of cockroach. So the reason, though, The reason that water bug is in one sense, maybe inappropriate designation is that cockroaches are looking for moist, safe areas. Toe live. Now. That doesn't mean that your house or your living room. I'm not. I'm not supposing that this is you know that there's water standing on the floor. Anything like that. But It is something to think about in terms of getting rid of them and not having them come back how much moisture has gathered around the outside of the house? It's pretty tough to actually exclude these bugs from our home. I mean, you could make an effort, but they're so flat. There's you know, they're like ants. You know all the normal exclusion tactics that we do for other pests, larger ones like mice or rats, Things like that. That starts to you know, fall short when it comes to insects that you know, can get through a 32nd of an inch gap. That's just unreasonable for us to exclude that much. They can slide under door weather stripping if they need to, Um So that's not really our tactic here. The tactic for once they're inside is, of course, usually like Jell. Bates worked really well. I would get in some advice from a past control company. If it's a severe issue gel. Bates worked really well, just because you know it's one of those things where they will take them and it effects not only them. But they'll carry it back and two other Roaches that they come into contact with. They don't live in colonies like ants, but they do, of course, have groups. And so that's one factor. Another thing is to do perimeter spray on the outside of the house that just keeps them away. In general, but the main issue that I wanted to have you just sort of look up. And that is how much moisture is developing on the outside of the house. Whether it's sprinkler lines, they're just keeping the soil little too moist, little too much shade a little too much vegetation close to the house. These are the kinds of things that draw the men, and once they're in, then, boom, they slide up inside the house. Now, if you're constantly finding them in one area, like quite often in a bathroom. Maybe a sign that The tub drain, maybe dripping a little bit every time it's used and as a result, creating Cem Cem moist, warm, cozy moisture right and the inaccessible part of a tub. There should be a tub access, though, where you can check that, where the actual drain and over floor located. But those are the kinds of things were looking for. So in that sense, a cockroach is aptly called a water bug because they're looking for that kind of thing. They're not looking for just food in your pantry, but they're also looking for moist, cool places. So if we can eliminate those usually houses that that take care of that on the outside Have minimal to no intrusion when it comes to cockroaches, palmetto bugs on water bugs, which in fact are all the same thing. Thank you for the call. Really? Good question And good luck with that. When we return, Let's talk about smoke alarms. There's some things about smoke alarms. You need to know that you probably don't your home with Dean Sharp..
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"We'll talk about that, too, flying embers from a wildfire. And destroyed homes up to a mile away. This is how far we know now that they can fly. And by the way, we've been upping that number upping it every year. First, it started out as open a embers can fly Quarter mile to get to your home. Beware. Now it's half of my three Nell. Now we're up to a mile officially okay? And the reason why this is a concern for everybody. Is as soon as the number has flown a half mile of three quarter mile or a mile and ignited a house. Now that house is a source of embers, and we set a new one mile radius from that house so you can see and we have proof of this every time a wild fire breaks out. We all of a sudden start getting reports of these spots structure fires that are away from the fire line. And they start causing more and more damage as well. We've seen it in every major wildfire. So why is that? It's because there is a natural conviction action taking place inside your attic conviction, meaning that the building code has worked very, very hard to keep moisture. Under control in your attic and to keep heat. Ah ah Heat dispersement system and the means of doing that, in a well ventilated addict is that around the eaves or the lower part of the attic, the perimeter of the attic or an open Gables at the end of the attic? There are vents vents that will intake cooler air from outside. And then near the ridge of the roof. There should be another syriza events Ideally. And that Syriza events are allowing hot air to escape out of the top of the attic area or the roof area. So we've got cool and take from underneath. We've got hot escape exhaust from on top. Guess what? That isse That's a Weber kettle. That's a Weber kettle barbecue. An ideal combustion chamber. So it wasn't the intent of the code to make your attic an ideal combustion chamber in order to deal with moisture and heat, But it has And now the question is, how do we stop that from happening When we come back from break? We're going to talk about ember, suppressing vents and how easy it is to retrofit your home and then we're gonna go to the phones. How does that sound? All right, You were home with Dean Sharp. The house was for your calls up next. Andrew Caravella.
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"House whisper. Hey, that's me. Good morning to you were talking about pests. I'm about to go to the phones, but I promised I would say this. This is the number one question I get regarding termites, and that's this, Dean. Termites have done damage to my house. I gotta fix them areas Gotta repair some facia board roof Eve bottom of wall. Whatever it may be. I need to know Should I Tent or he treats you And should I treat the termites the whole house first and then repair the wood. In order to, you know, let all the stuff get in there or should I make the repairs first? And then a treat. Here is the answer. Rebuild first, then treat the house. Why Because when it comes to dry wood termites You don't want to accidentally bring dry wood termites into your house through your new lumber, which is where often they are hiding, so the point is, go ahead and fix everything, including adding the new lumber to your home, then Tent or he treat or do whatever treatment of the pest control company is recommending that way. Everything the new and the old all gets treated together and you've got the guarantee that it's all been addressed and that you haven't brought some new visitors in some new immigrants into the situation that That you weren't expecting. So there you go. All right to the phones, Robin. We have to Chris's. Let's take the Chris up at the top. Because you know, there it is. Chris. Welcome home. I dean. Good morning. Thanks for the show. I love it. Learn. You're welcome. I'm gonna help. Okay, you're talking about pests. I have. I live in a rule area out here in Riverside and I have donkeys, wild donkeys. And they come up. They eat the flowers. I've got some little saplings going across the street. They come in. They eat the trees down two sticks. And what can I do? All right, Chris, if it hadn't been for the fact that not too long ago, we went out and did a design console out your way. Uh And and I learned for the first time living in Southern California my whole life. I learned for the first time that there are herds of wild donkeys out in the riverside area blew me away. But we saw them standing by the road. So if it hadn't been for the fact that I had recently done this this last year, it was a list last year. I don't know. I don't know with Kovar. Who knows? It might have been 12 years ago at this point, but I would have thought you are punking me. Just like Dean. I've got donkeys as pests. What do I do, but it's a real thing. It's a real thing anyway. Um, Chris, you got to build some fences. That's all you got. You know, there's no other way around it. You're gonna have to. You're gonna have to build some fences. Don't poison them or anything else You've just got, you know. Fortunately, Fortunately, uh, their donkeys, So, uh, However, it's going to work now. If you don't want to build solid fencing around your property. I can understand that. Okay, It's totally understandable. If you want to keep things open and clear and not destroy your vistas. This is where you can actually stop something like a donkey. Or sometimes, dear even will be deterred by this even though they can jump in the donkey. Donkeys won't but A double rail fence. Okay, so an open rail fence but a double fence so that there's a rail fence on the outside right at your property line, and then not planting anything in the gap, and then another rail fence. A couple three ft in on Then you start your plants at that point another words you've got that area where They're not gonna jump over the rail fence if it's tall enough there, but they also can't reach over far enough past the first rail to get past the second rail and to actually get to the temblors. So There you go. Thank you for that. Very interesting call. Um There's nothing more annoying than waking up in the morning and finding you know, donkeys in the pantry crawling into the cereal box. Donkeys as pests, donkeys, donkeys everywhere. Well, that's a real problem for Chris. Do we have time for another? Uh, yeah, let's do it. Uh, well, let's talk to our other Chris Chris are other, Chris Welcome home. Good morning. Good morning. I don't dance. Am Well, how can I help you? Wolf did. I'm I'm dealing off project and I have a balcony and on the back me I have Plywood floor and I have plywood stairs, leading for about a year back. Can get affected by the weather. So my question is. How do I want to finish the treads on the stairs before on the balcony? Mm. Well, there are two options if you're going to keep it exposed wood than actually, there are three options. If you're gonna keep it exposed wood you could consider using Pressure treating the pressure treated material pressure treated plywood pressure treated wood structure for the deck. Sounds like it's already built, though s O. That may be beyond that. That option. Right now, you can simulate pressure treating because the same copper based solutions that is used during pressure treating it's not arsenic based anymore, so people have to worry about that. But you can get it's called copper, green or copper, but I think it's now called Copper Brown. You can find it on the shelf at the local hardware store or at the lumber yard. And you can actually treat the wood and basically make it the equivalent of pressure treated wood in in terms of its moisture resistance. Now the other option, which you will apply more often, but is easier to do and more attractive is to use just like is if you were doing a deck He used an exterior oil based deck sealer. Q. Tech is going that I recommend. It just happens to be the one that I love the most because it penetrates really well. It shuts down UV degradation to the wood C U T E K Q Tech Look that up when you get to go for a wood sealer for an exterior application, always look for something oil based. They're not banned. Not. It's not like oil based paints. They're not banned because these oils are naturally occurring oils that penetrate into wood. And so it's not a petroleum distillate. Okay, It's that kind of stuff like Tung oil, those kinds of things. The things that preserve would best would loves. Oil, So that's another way to go about it. And the other way is simply prime. It really, really well with a really good exterior primer and paint with an exterior paint that's going to be probably your most tedious as far as long term maintenance. But you get the color that you like. Get to finish that you like in a really good paint job can hold up even under foot traffic. For quite a long time. So those are your three options, my friend. Pick the one that's gonna work Best for you in your situation and thank you for your call. All right, when we return Let's finish up our conversation about pest today by talking about potential dangers to you and your pets and the yard. Let's talk about keeping snakes. And things like coyotes out of your yard. Can you do it? Yeah, you can. And there are some ways that is specifically when it comes to the coyotes that you may not know about and you need to hear. We'll talk about that next. Thank you for joining us this morning. Uh, You're listening to home with Dean Sharp. The House whisper and now the news.
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"Issues on your home design mentor because design matters most in just a friend helping you build yourself a more beautiful home. More beautiful life and hopefully do it more affordably and more artfully than you ever imagined. Alright Right before we turn the corner on our discussion of pests towards insects of note. Let me finish up this. These two things have got your pen ready. Got ready? Something to write this down here go. If you're gonna exclude rabbits by way of fencing on the perimeter of your property. What do you need? You need this. You need half inch by half inch square mesh. You need to bury it at least six inches deep. A little trench right at the fence line. Six inches down. They're not gonna Yes, they will burrow, but they're not gonna Borough You know, they're not gonna as as it were. Dig the proverbial hole to China. Okay, most borrowing, rob animals. Mammals don't go that deep. Go first to the exception. We're gonna talk about them in a second. Um Half inch by half inch mesh six inches deep. About four ft High about 48 inches up. You do that seamlessly around your property. Rabbits are not getting in period. The end. That's all there is to it. Okay? It's that simple. Really. Now what about go first, huh? Gophers Gophers. They're coming at us from underneath right. Gophers like to come up subterranean. They nibble on routes on the roots of plants in order to feed. Even though I've heard many complaints about, you know, gophers in the Garden Gophers damaging, you know, whatever. In the planter beds, the biggest complaint, Let's face it about gophers. If you've got gophers is the lawn. All those little dirt mounds all the holes in the lawn. That's the biggest complaint. It's also The most foolproof area to deal with, Okay, and here's how it happens underneath that lawn. We put half inch by half inch mesh. Okay, buried about 2 to 3 inches deep under the grass. It's that simple. It's a fence laying underneath your grass. You have that underneath the sawed of the lawn gophers dig up to it, And they're like, Whoa, What is this? And you know they're not getting through there simply not getting through. The roots of the grass will get through the soil will get through the water would get through. The Gophers will not get through it. All right. Sorry, Dean. All right, Einstein. I've already got grass in my yard. I don't know if you realize that you can go down to the This is only for those of you who are really struggling with gophers. You can either spend the rest of your life. Uh, shooting them, blowing them up, flooding them out, poisoning them, or you could just deter them with this one activity over the course of a weekend. You know, you could go down to the local rental yard and rent a sod cutter, a self driven sod cutter. What is a sod cutter Do it's the exact same thing that happens at the grass farm when they bring new sod to your place that saw it was in the ground just hours before it showed up at your home when they rolled out your new lawn. How did they get it up A sod cutter. It reaches down and say it's a reverberating blade, and it gets down below the roots and you can cut up the sawed in your own yard. Lay down, you roll it up, Send it off to the side. Lay down the hardware mesh and then put the grass back. Let it you know you got to give it a little bit of extra attention. A little bit of extra water. Let it re establish itself again. But you can remove your own lawn. Lay down the gofer mesh, put it back and never have to worry about another one of those little dirt piles in your yard again. Okay, I gotta move on. There are so many things we could talk about on all these subjects. Let's talk about mosquitoes. Uh, there are 10 quintillion insects on planet Earth, and I think all of them Most of them are mosquitoes and they are useless to me Useless, I say and, in all seriousness Scientists are kind of split on whether mosquitoes really have any value to the planet at all. There is one argument that could be made and that is that they are bad food. Uh, Mosquitoes provide our food for a lot of predatory rodents on dead animals like that, apart from that, though, and in it, and it remains to be seen whether we really need them. Uh, the fact is, mosquitoes are The most dangerous planet on animal on planet Earth. They are when you think about all of the things that are involved that mosquitoes carry with them. The diseases that they carry with them, right. Let's see. Where's my list of diseases here? Deng Gay fever. Um, West Nile virus. Yellow fever, malaria, parasitic, canine heart warming. The list just goes on and on. This is what has made them the deadliest animal in the world, Okay? So what do we need to know about mosquitoes? Well, you certainly not going to to barricade your property from mosquitoes, but you can do this. You understand? Number one mosquitoes fit. Spend their 1st 10 days. Of their life in water. Not just any water, though. Still water. None moving water, okay? That water is necessary for the eggs to hatch into larvae, and then you get the little wig Lear's in your, You know your bird feeder or wherever you've got standing water and boom. Next thing you know the mosquitoes they're feeding on organic matter in stagnant water and their breathing oxygen from the surface. So so First step, No standing stagnant water on the property. If you've got a bird feeder are birdbath. Then you just need to get a little agitator for it. There are little bubbler is you can get these that wild birds unlimited or hardware. You know any place where they have birdbath supplies. Just get a little agitator. As long as the water is moving the female mosquito can't lay her eggs in it. They she lays a clutch of eggs called a raft. She can't lay those eggs if the water is rippling even a little bit. Okay, so that keeps your local mosquito birth rate down and mosquitoes not like mosquitoes, You know, have a long life span, and they're traveling tens of miles to get to your house. So the point is, the more opportunities for egg laying that you eliminate near your property, the fewer and fewer and fewer mosquitoes you're gonna find on your property. The other thing you need to know. Is that Miss skiers have these receptors in their antenna that are specifically keyed in on because they are mammal predators CEO too So in other words, they have receptors that are looking for your exhale. Okay, Seo to comes off of us Every time we exhale. That is why, for a large property CEO to attractors that are set up, they can be propane driven. Sometimes they can be electric driven, but they what they do is if you could see the world through the eyes of mosquito, you would see these plumes of CEO to coming off of their potential victims. That's us. Uh or all mammals, basically, um on then, when they get close, they look for they look for heat signatures, and And then there's the rent. So the key is this. A CEO to a tractor. The basically puts out way more CEO two way off in the corner of your property than the humans walking around. Guess what will happen. The mosquitoes will go there instead of it you and so you'll have mosquitoes on your property, but they won't be where you are. Don't worry about bug zappers. When it comes to mosquitoes, they don't work. They kill every other kind of bug that your garden actually needs. But it has been proven study after study. You're not going to get many mosquitoes in a bug zapper, so the best thing to do is lure them away. From where you are, okay? We also need to talk about termites a bit because there are some new treatments. We will do that when we return. I'm so glad you joined me this morning. So much more to come Your home with Dean Sharp. The house whisper Brian Buruma, hesitant to search for a tiger scene in the Houston neighborhood in a social media video continues. Police arrested a man seen with the tiger, but he claims the tiger isn't hiss..
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"Less expensive luxury vinyl plank flooring or laminate floors, whatever it is that you're getting that's in Boston. You'll see in the less expensive versions you'll see just kind of an M bossing pattern from across the room. It looks fine when you get up on it, and you see the m bossing of a wood grain. And you look down at the photo, and you notice that the well the wood grain in the photo isn't actually the wood grain that's in Boston. On the surface. It's just a random generated in Boston pattern that repeats itself on the very, very best luxury vinyl planks that M bossing is aligned with the woods. So if there's a not let's say In the pattern of your floor. Let's say you're getting a not, you know, a naughty would pattern floor. If there's a knot in the photo, there's a knot in the embossing, so the image looks and feels. Far more realistic, and that's what I recommend for everybody, even at that, even that high end stuff. It's only running at about $45 a square foot, so it's well worth the effort to just go right to the top of the heap. When you walk into a flooring showroom, wherever it is that you're shopping for a home depot or wherever. Just ask somebody. Hey, show me the good stuff. Okay. I don't want to mess with this lower price. I don't need $1 A square foot flooring. Just show me the good stuff. And go for it. You will not regret it. Phil. Phil, Thanks for your call, buddy. Really Good question. Let's talk to Richard. Richard Welcome home. Hey, Dean. How's it going? I am. Well, sir. How can I help? Okay, I'm remodeling a single story by 1978 Stick frame house and I'm adding an exterior garage door. Have a question about positioning the pre Hung jam. The jam is foreign 9/16 wide, but the assembly of the house is I'm gonna have five eights drywall on the inside. It's got two by four studs. So 3.5 is studying in the wall. Happened cheating and then three layers of stucco, which is about Incheon, Eighth or so. So that adds up to me to be a total thickness of about 5.5 5 and three quarter So my question is, I'm gonna have a gap where I've got to do some kind of a jam pill. Should I flush the jam to the finish of the stucco or flush the jam to the inside finish of the drywall? Okay, So here's what you're going to do, My friend. You are going to flush the jam to not not. You're not going to flush the jam to the finish of the stucco. You're gonna flush the jam, plus stucco mold. To the finish of the stucco. Okay around the jam onto the jam, you're going to run a stucco mold or what is sometimes called a brick mold. The difference between brick mold and stucco mold is stuck. A mold has a key, a routed into it so that new stucco can key into it and kind of lock into it. Brick mold is just square edge because it's going up against, you know, Brick Um, either one you can pick. It's fine for the look. But generally speaking, we use stuck a mold for stucco walls, so evaluate the thickness of your stucco. Figure out the thickness of the stucco mold that you're going to use because the stucco moldings is going to flush to the outside face of the stucco. And then you hit the jam to that Now your jam is 49 16. So it is way too narrow for your overall Wall Assembly because not only do you not have half in streible on the inside, you got five eights. You got a two by four wall? That's 3.5. Then you've got shaving on the outside. You got plywood on the outside, and then you're stuck. Oh, so the reason we don't flush to the inside wall is because this jam is going to need a jam extension. It's very simple. All you're going to do is after you've set the jam to the outside on the inside. Finish your gun, Tolo. You know, rip some trim would and add that onto the jam on the inside to bring you out flush to the drywall on the inside of the garage wall in the reason we do that on the inside is because if you put that seem on the outside now we've introduced a seem to allow moisture to get behind the stucco, and we don't want to do that. So we want the solid wood jamb. And the stucco mold on Lee outside, then the door and then a jam extension running inside where it doesn't really matter where moisture isn't the issue and that jam extension by the way off, set it a little bit wider that just barely 16th plus of an inch wider on all three sides, then the door jam itself. Don't try and flush it with the door jam because you will forever just see that as Crack that just keeps forming and reforming again. It'll crack in the paint, so acknowledge the fact that there's another little piece of wood there, step it out a little bit. No one will question that the jam steps out a little bit. You bet you cock it. You painted all together. It's going to make a lovely scene and you'll be able to finish it off. Great. Just don't try and flush it out and pretend like it's one continuous piece of wood. It's in the garage. It doesn't matter that much anyway. Just step it out that extra little edge detail won't matter to anyone and boom. There you go. It is just that simple. Everybody hang tight. We got more to come your home with Dean Sharp. The house was for Rob Newton As the news.
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"Free at babble dot com. Just go to babble dot com and start learning a new language. Today. That's babble dot com b A b b e l dot com. So Cal. Whether from K if I mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly cloudy by the afternoon highs in the lower to mid sixties at the beach, it's gonna be very windy 15 to 25 Miles an hour with gusts up to 35 miles an hour in the afternoon, stronger near the coast Temperatures in the mid to high sixties and metro Elaine Orange County mid sixties in the Valley Inn inland Empire Tonight, mostly clear but in the forties toe low fifties Still windy Sonny Valentine's Day, though, with a slightly warmer temperature into the high sixties to low seventies right now it's 47 degrees in Mission Viejo 49 in Santa Ana 46 in Pomona and 49 degrees in Carson. We leave local live from the CAF. I 24 hour newsroom. I'm Rob Newton, Arkansas lover pompon. Do away There are two love you. Well, Holy mole in me. Oh, my! Oh, the apple of my eye! I believe never loved one like you, Madam Manual, Modest friend screaming to nothing. This There is nothing that I need Well hardened, heavy pumpkin, Pa Chocolate candy. Taste some nice. There ain't nothing. Please me more than you. Oh, Let me come home home is wherever with you, O k. If I am 6 40 live everywhere on the I heart radio app You are listening to home. I'm Dean Sharp. The house whisper Custom homebuilder, Custom home Designer here with you alive like I am every weekend Saturdays from 6 to 8 Sundays from 9 to 11. Welcome. Welcome to the second hour. Of our fine program. What are we doing here? I'm here to help that's all as a nad voc it for you as you.
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"Dean Sharp. The house whisper. Good morning. Hey, babe, Tina's back. Good morning. Here we are beckoning our friends into that space between the world as it is. Which is our homes the way they are. And looking forward to the world as it should be. Right? Every week helping you better understand that place where you live. Guess what we're doing this weekend all weekend long. Nothing but calls all weekend long. You determine what the show is all about. I'll give out the number one more time. We got a board full of calls, but I should just to be fair. I'm giving out the number. 833 to ask Dean a 33 the number two Aston give us call. And who knows? Maybe you know, I can talk about what's going on with your home. I would really thoroughly enjoy that. All right. Back to the phones. Let's talk to Diego Diego. Welcome home. Agent. Hey, Dean. I've got an issue here with a dryer. It's any condo complex. So the dryer vent their runs. Well, the dryer doesn't run it to guess dryer. It shuts off everyone's well or it doesn't get hot enough. Everything else works for the dryer, except for the vending issue. First of all behind the dryer is about a 6 ft vent. That runs to the feeling And then goes out another 15 ft. And a left in an area between the ceiling and the floor of the next room. Above. Now I ran a air compressor through here trying to clean it up the air barely got through. I didn't feel it. On the other end, I ran a brush. Figuring it's stuffed in there. It's clogged up. And the brush never made it to the other. End of event. In the brush. I exceeded the length of the van. So I'm thinking I rented to both sides and one of the side there, Minister. Look, I got some moist lint. My dilemma is I'm thinking that this event which you don't you can't have access to is disconnected somewhere in between. Yeah, you put it sounds like it. See it. See, it sounds like it's either disconnected or it's cracked, you know, or it's been split open somehow. And so when you say it runs, and I think I'm picturing it running out of the room that it's in, and then it takes off horizontally for a while, and it's basically in the sub floor area right underneath another floor. So is it sitting there doubt like in the dirt area? That you can't access. Actually between the ceiling of a bathroom below any floor of a bathroom above. Oh, I see. I see what we're talking about. So it's probably running in the Joyce today. In between those two correct Okay, night Like I did put a camera in.
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"Dean Sharp. The house whisper. All right, Layla, I've got an update on Tina's dream. Okay. Her bread Pitt dream. She stepped out of the studio. So I have the freedom to tell this now, eh? So apparently the last thing that she was doing was fiddling with her phone last night before she fell asleep. She saw some story about Jennifer Aniston on set somewhere, and there was a mystery individual in the back of her trailer laying down and there was all the Nation that it must be Brad Pitt must be Brad Pitt. Brandon Jenner back, you know on then she fell asleep and heard subsequent dream was that she was at our house. Somehow trying to On Social media. You know, tamp down the rumor mill, and there's a knock at the front door and Brad Pitt is at the front door and and she's telling bread. Can't get to the door right now. I'm too busy. So basically, she couldn't answer the door. Even though she knew Brad Pitt was at the door. She wouldn't answer the door because she was too busy trying to work on the the rumor that Brad and Jennifer were back together again. And there you go. I like that story. That was a good dream. And that's that, so he wasn't trapped in a wall like you said, or something. Or like, I don't know. I don't know how I got. So here's the Here's the truth. The truth is, she caught me. I wasn't listening. I was just kind of Gonna catch up, Okay? And I was thinking about something else. All right, There we go. All right. When last we left you We had Bill on the line. And I hope Bill is still on the line. Is Bill still Bill? You still there, buddy? I'm still here. All right. Sorry. Just had Tonto give that critical. Brad Pitt Dream update. So, Bill has got a couple of balconies on his house. There's wood rotting underneath. Now they're starting to drip and leek and whoever has done the balcony work has got concrete up on top of the balcony, and Bill wants to know he's tried everything in the world. He wants to know what he can you put on this concrete to seal it. But here's Here's my concern, Bill. Let me just deconstruct this thing back to a day One Here is how the balcony any balcony, Every balcony should be or deck. Whatever it is, that is waterproof should be created. I don't really care what's on top. I don't care if it's concrete. It could be tile. It could be stone. Whatever you can put anything on top of a balcony that the balcony will structurally support in terms of its weight. Uh, analysis, but When the balcony was first built. You got the framing members underneath. You got the choice coming out. Then you've got the plywood or that she even put on top of that, right at that moment after the shaving is in place. That balcony should have had a complete waterproof membrane run across it tied in sealed with flashing on the on the edges. And then flashed up inside and underneath whatever the wall surface on the houses, in other words, before concrete or tile or stone or wood, or anything else was put on that sucker. That waterproof membrane just like a roof. We treat waterproof balconies, just like we treat roofs. Should have a complete water resistant. What? Er proof membrane. Right down on the framing that will forever repel water because because whatever material you put on its stone concrete or what have you The assumption is that that material is not itself going to be waterproof it maybe water resistant, maybe water repellent, but it's not waterproof, especially Concrete concrete is just a giant stone sponge. It's porous. There are capital Aires inside of concrete water moves right through it. And so I had to set that up for you, Bill because I've got to be the bearer of bad news. The chances of you sealing up This concrete to the point where you don't get any more leaks coming through, or water intrusion is very, very unlikely. Because it's just it is porous by nature. Now you could spend money attempting to seal the concrete. You could put epoxy coatings on his many edges. Insides as you can get to And that may help. But my point is, it's not going to solve the systemic problem, which is deeper than the skin of the balcony itself. Especially if you're looking up from underneath at that sheathing material and you're seeing rot there. That means we've had moisture sitting against that plywood. Sitting against that cheating for a good amount of time enough for fungal properties to start taking a route and to start eating at the carbohydrates in wood, and that is not a good situation. The on leeway that that's going to be dealt with is By getting to it, cutting those sections out and not letting it move any further. And I have no assurance that Simply sealing the concrete on top is going to stop that from happening. Well, the concrete itself is raw concrete. There's no paint. There isn't anything on that. So which is even worse. Correct and I'm on social Security. So just be even a can of paint is the challenge that tear down both of these balconies and redecorating is Only 8 $10,000. I'm guessing Yeah, I just wanted to, uh minimize right now. I don't know if I should put linoleum down over the top of this thing. And.
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"Me, Dean Sharp, the house whisper and my elephant loving wife, Tina and her LF she's drinking out of her elephant mug today, there it is. All right. We've been talking about how to get your fence out of the ground today, and I hope that I've handed you some useful stuff. I have a few things to share with you about hedges before we are finished today. But right now, as promised Go back to the phones. I want to talk to Jennifer. Hey, Jennifer. Welcome home. Jennifer. Hi. Good morning. Yes. Can you hear me? Hi. Can you hear me? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Um, So my question is, we are my husband is currently trying to pull out our wood floors from the downstairs are on our downstairs level, and they're glued down to the concrete and he is having the toughest time doing this. We've tried the scraper, and then he even rented one of those machines that you know what the scraper attachment at the end. That kind of Jack is just a jackhammer that and it's still just a It's the slowest process ever. So I'm wondering if you have any tips to maybe possibly make that go a little faster. Oh, yeah. Uh, maybe, maybe First of all, thank you for correcting when you said we are removing, and then you stopped yourself into my husband is removing that happens around here a lot. Usually, I don't mind Tina using the royal we when she describes the fact that Ah, we tore down the house yesterday. Um, when, in fact I tore down the house, and then she She helped me out a little bit, But that's fine. That's fine. It's not an ego thing, Tina. It's really not just, you know. It feels good when you're hurting yourself so badly anyway. Jennifer, I wish there were some silver bullet that I could tell you. Uh, it sounds like you guys are approaching it the right way. And the good news is Hey, this is what happens when you glue a floor down properly. Doesn't want to come. He doesn't want to come off. S o. Yeah. Getting a properly glued down hardwood floor off of a concrete slab is no easy task. And so you just have to keep out of here a couple of things that you guys have already rented the heavy duty floor scraper. Correct. OK, so you've gone. I mean, you've pulled the nuclear option. The only thing I can tell you is this And maybe this one trick hey, hasn't used yet, And that is We talk a little bit about physics here. The physics of trying to pry up any little section of wood floor, okay, knowing that it's connected to a longer plank, okay? That means that all the glue under that entire plank is fighting him at every point that he puts his scraper or his pride bar underneath any point of the plank all of the glue of the plank. Is fighting him at every point, Okay, and the way that we can eliminate that and reduce that kind of force. Is by taking the skill saw or a circular saw putting a blade in it that you're gonna just trash. You just know you're going to throw it away a blade or two And setting it for the depth of the hardwood floor. And then, uh, this is for the areas that he hasn't all tourney up yet, Uh, Cutting through the hardwood floor again and again and again line after line after line and in his anise there times that I've done it in as short as, like, six inch increments. It's gonna take him a little while to do that. But you make those slots. Okay? Six inches has so what have we just done? We've just cut the entire hardwood floor instead of it now being made up of glue down planks. Now we've reduced it to a floor that is now made up of independently glued down six by six inch or six by eight inch squares. Okay. And what That means is those little squares when he puts the either the the flooring remover, the big machine underneath it, or just his pride bar underneath it or chisel. That means he's on Lee fighting the glue in that six by six area and the odds of that square. Popping up way easier are much much higher. Okay, So that's an old trick. An old demo trick and that is reduce your enemy down to its smallest common, uh, portion. Before you attack it and try and get it off the floor. So use a saw if he sets it to the right death. I want him to set it so that it cuts all the way through the hardwood floor, And that means He's going to ruin the blade because it's going to be hitting concrete as he goes. I don't want him to dig deep into the concrete cause that's a waste. But it's going to be hitting some concrete. It's gonna dull the blade. But the dulling of a blade er two is well worth slicing up that floor so that as he pops it open on Lee, a small bit of wood and a small bit of it, he sieve. Is working against him at any given time. How's that? That is amazing. Thank you so much. All rights. The best I got Jennifer. Good luck and congratulations in go, go give him a big hug for working so hard at that thing out, because because it is psychologically emotionally and physically. Just disheartening on every level. That kind of demo is just the hardest stuff around, Jen. Thanks for your call. I appreciate it. We have do we have time? We really don't have time for another call. So why don't we do this? Why don't we take a little break? Why don't we listen to some news, and when we come back, I'll have an extra minute or two to talk to you about hedges and how from a design perspective again, we can use some specific plant materials to, uh, to solve the problem of visuals around your yard. When the height of your fence is just not going to get it done. We will discuss that when we return your home with Dean Sharp. The house whisper. Rob Newton has the news. Borderline Bar and Grill nightclub in 1000 Oaks were 12 people were killed.
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"Or anything around it. It's easy. It's safe. Everybody feels like they're in control of it. And so I'm now recommending it to die wires as a hammer alternative. Milwaukee CORDLESS Palm Naylor. All right, I got a lot more to cover, but we're going to go to a break, and when we come back, we're going to go back to the phones. Your home with Dean Sharp. The house was for your calls up next Rob Newton as the news Theo FBI office in Sacramento is preparing for any possible problems in California with the inauguration of Joe Biden. FBI Special agent in Charge Sean Reagan says specialists are ready to respond to potential threats and help with investigations are getting tips and leaves from Both our headquarters from other field offices around the country as to what they're picking up on what they're hearing that might indicate that there's any type of violence plans or criminal activity planned. The D A in Sacramento says anyone involved in criminal behavior in the city or at the state Capitol will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Immigration has been placed at the top of the agenda for California's next U. S. Senator, Democratic Senator designate Alex Padilla says illegal immigrants have filled millions of essential roles during the pandemic must keep essential workers safe. And recognize their role in keeping us safe to do the pandemic. But he is, as those workers have not only earned protections offered by covert relief packages. But security of a A path to citizenship. Period. But he is says he supports legislation from Texas Democratic Congressman Joaquin Castro that would fast track citizenship for immigrants. Essential workers Chris and Carl. Okay, if I knew the news is sponsored by my diamond, the smell good plumber Governor Newsome has kicked up the championship dirt of Dodger Stadium to inspire a vaccination strategy. Newsome says he's not distressed about reports that the Trump administration lied about the amount of vaccine available to the states are result is to get All.
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"Dean sharp, the house whisper forever occupying the space between the world as it is. The world as it should be, because that's my idea of home. You're listening to home where every week we help you better understand that place where it is. You are living. Hey, I know it's early, but I want to hear about what's going on with your home today. So coming up in just a few minutes. Let's go to the phones and talk, Shall we? The lines are open now. So now's your chance jump into the queue the number to reach me at 833 to ask Dean 833 to ask. Dean. Anything you want to talk about regarding your home. You got a construction question. You've got to design question A d I y issue Whatever. The whole spectrum. Call me and let's talk about it, all right? Back to our list of new stuff. Here's a quickie. And it should make sense. The website that I want you to go to and take a look at these guys are is called Fire. NATO. I'm sorry. The Fire NATO fire like F i r e NATO and a video like it was a tornado of fire. You know, I'm saying and the reason that it's named that because the product line is called fire NATO, I just think it's a really useful issue in Uh, Spiral gas log burners. Okay, so it's still winter time. There's still a chance that you want to. Ah, light up the fireplace, especially if you have a gas log set, and if you have a gas, log said, then you've probably struggled from time to time over the years with the idea of like, how realistic is that flame in there? One of the reasons why A gas log flame is not as realistic as it could be, is because gas log burners are traditionally straight pipes. They are the gas supply pipe in there is just a straight line, and it has to move up through the silica sand. That's around it. So that disperses the flame a little bit, but not too much. Still, the flame is pretty much coming in through a straight line, and then it has to wrap up around the logs and, yeah, it's fine. Yeah, it's fine. But we want more than fine. Don't wait. That's we're always striving for that here on the program, so The fire. NATO gas burner is simply that it's a pan that produces the flame for underneath your gas logs. But these burners are not a straight line. They are, in fact three spiral burners, which means that they will distribute some flame towards the back of the logs. The central logs the front of the logs. In a what appears to be an incredibly random pattern. And as a result, you get away more realistic flame coming up through your gas long so you can check that stuff out and the same by the way holds true for your outdoor circular fire pit. Which they also sell burners for so find that at the fire NATO dot com All right. One more item here in the well, this one. This one kind of stands apart. I'm now going to speak to all of the you who have ever thought you know what I am going to try and install a new door. I'm gonna fix the hinges put in new hinges, adjust a latch or just put in a new door altogether. Front door. Interior doors doesn't matter. Uh, If you've noticed The art of installing a door is far far trickier than it first appears. Why? Because you have this large vertical rectangle that his only attached to the house on one side And that vertical rectangle does not. By definition sit down on the floor. It is up above the floor, and as a result, it wants to just fall. Gravity wants to pull it all wonky as you're trying to make really precise adjustments to it. So what would be of help to this? Well, let me tell you 35 years of doing finished carpentry work. Uh, the I have special pair of boots that I use. Uh, I just gotten used to the fact that the soul on my red wings are a certain thickness. And so what I'll do was when I'm hanging the door and getting it prepped to actually Go up on its hinge. I will literally set one of my my foot. In fact, it's my right foot almost always off to the side. I will prop the door up on the edge of my soul and then lifted up just enough so that it sits straight in the opening. That takes some practice. Let me tell you, there's a better way. Now. There is a tool out there made by door stud door stud. I think the website is door stud dot com and they are door hanging skates. What they are. Is these these two wheeled skates that have a little slot in the middle that adore rests down in and each of the wheels on the skates is adjustable. So basically imagine setting a door down inside these two little jigs, and now it's sliding around on wheels that are adjustable. You can raise it up. Just to the right height off the floor just to the right height and roll it into the jam so that it's not a falling one direction or the other and it will sit there stable level plumb. And at the proper height for you to do all of the adjustments. It's just, uh, worthy of honorable mention this morning. I'm so impressed with these guys door hanging skate jigs. All right, when we come back Why don't we were either going to take a call or I'm going to talk to you about a brand new washer dryer combo that's out there on the market. You are home with Dean Sharp. The house whisper up next. More good stuff and your calls. Rob.
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"So Cal, whether from Ko Phi, sending today with temperatures from the mid seventies around 80 at the beaches made the high eighties in Metro Ala. Orange County Safer the Valley and Inland Empire. Cool Temps tonight into the forties and fifties. Tempt your Sunday in the mid eighties. The intense cool off again on MLK Jr Day into the seventies going into the sixties through the rest of the week. Right now it's 53 degrees in Costa Mesa, 51 in Garden Grove, 57 in Baldwin Park and 59 in Culver City. We lead local live from the Ko Phi 24 hour newsroom. I'm Rob Newton. Yeah. Okay. If I am 6 40 live everywhere on the I heart radio app. Good Saturday morning to you, my friend. And welcome home. You are home. I'm Dean Sharp. The house whisper Custom homebuilder, Custom home designer. Join me, Will you? As we once again said, our might our I keep doing that. I just keep doing it said are mites are our minds? Uh, it's my six o'clock in the morning version of mind mites. Join me once again. And again and again as I try and save this one line. Aziz. We set our minds and our our hands.
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"You are home with Dean Sharp. The house whisper. That's me. Hey, we're about to go to the phones, but I wanted to finish up a couple of items on my list of predictions for you as well. Three more things real quickly. One prediction for 2021 quality over quantity. It is happening. It's been happening and it is now increasing. And that is that kind of our mass, like, get a lot of stuff. Get a lot of stuff. You know, furniture that assembles and is only expected the last two or three years. That is really on its way out. People, especially millennials driving this now who are you know, many of which, most of which are in their thirties to late thirties now. Um Driving the idea that listen, you know, we don't have a lot of stuff. But what we've got eyes gonna last, and it's going to be good. It's a very, very old world concept. And it is. Ah, great one in my opinion quality over quantity, too, and this kind of Mary's with it slightly. What we call laconic design. If you don't know what laconic design is the word laconic means to be like somebody of very few words. Somebody who speaks plainly simply and you know, in short, meaningful sentences. Laconic design means that instead of throwing everything against the wall and over doing tons and tons of details on the inside of rooms on the outside of houses that we are seeing more and more move now, this is not minimalism or starkness. Okay, this is just Settling down into what I would call. It is the designer of the rule of two or three and that is that our colors were picking two or three color combinations. That's it. And sticking with it and letting them really speak the same with materials the same with architectural forms two or three and then we're going bold with it the same with landscaping materials as well. Instead of the crazy, multi colored 800 different types of plants in my yard, two or three On and making strong statements with it. Laconic design. And then finally, what I had mentioned earlier about the trend. That open concept is over now. I'm just saying this The only thing that's going to cure the problems with open concept in closing it back down is more glass and more natural light. And so I don't want you to be discouraged about the idea that Hey, I was looking forward to open concept. There are things that absolutely have to be opened up, okay? But not everything and the cure for closing certain parts of your house back down. So you get that spatial privacy. So you get the sound isolation that you're looking for, as people spend more and more time at home is this Mork. Alas, more windows. Okay, so think of it as a ratio a relationship one to the other. Less open equals more glass. More natural light so bigger windows more windows mortgage lazing on the outside of the house. Absolutely. We're going to see it more and more and more and more until the day comes. When we're all living in glass cubes? No, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but not too much. Not too much. And you know what? It's a good thing. All right, let's go to the phones, Shall we? Let's talk Tonto? Jules. Hey, Jules. Welcome home. Hygiene. Thank you. Love your show. Um this problem might be more of something for a house shouter than a house whisper because I can't seem to solve it. Um, I moved into a place about a month ago. And somebody left what seems to be like It was an air deodorizer in the utility room closet in the kitchen. And so I threw it out immediately. Um, a week before moving in, and I've tried airing it out. And then I've tried putting a Portable ozone generator and the Dyson airflow machine in there, nothing gets rid of it. I've tried leaving it shut for the last couple of weeks, and this really nauseated, strong, pungent odor to teach. Emanating through that whole half of the kitchen, Even with the door closed. So what do I do? Oh, Okay, s So, uh yeah, Here's the thing, Uh, deodorizers, especially like those little uh, those those those little, uh, room deodorizers that you either plug in the outlets or whatever What they do is they release particulates into the air. Oil based particulates quite often into the air. That's what sort of creates the deodorizing effect in the room. And the thing that you're experiencing, in my opinion is not The fact that you can't clear the air because you've put in. I was going to suggest before you said it. I'm like, go rent a ozone generator and ozone generator clears out the air in the room. It knocks down particulates in the air suspended particles in the air. But what you've got is a situation where that deodorizer is actually still in there. It's not the unit itself. It's not the piece. It's not the little hanging pine Christmas tree anymore. But the residue from it. The particulates from it are on the surface is in that room and so in order, if you're going to get a full deodorant station of that utility room, then we're gonna have to get in there and actually do a little wash down of the room itself. It's not the air you've already cleared the air. The reason it keeps coming back is that it's on the surfaces and so the very simple list The very simplest thing that you could do here is a mild solution of clean water and white vinegar. OK, Vinegar is totally safe. Totally non toxic and vinegar is an acid. Okay? It's an unauthentic acid. On acid will cut through its white vinegar is such a great cleaner now. Yeah, it's going to leave the room smelling like vinegar for just a little bit, okay. But then the vinegar is gonna flash off and be gone and hopefully with it. All of the rest of the odor. But but what you're experiencing in there is the phantom odor from the residue of that deodorizer clinging to the walls to the ceiling, tow whatever shelving or cabinetry or whatever else you've got in there. So what the room really needs and the floor. What the room really needs at this point is A wash down. Okay, So is it equal parts water to white vinegar? You know, there's no set solution. You use vinegar and different proportions for based on different things. What I would do is I would start with, like three parts or four parts water to one part vinegar. Don't go crazy with it, You know, um s o and that way and that will protect the acidity of the vinegar from, you know, doing damage to the paint or anything else that might be sensitive in there always when we're approaching something to clean it..
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Los Angeles stores and businesses prepare for potential election-related unrest
"I 24 hour news from several businesses in the South Land have been battening down the hatches for just in case things get out of hand honor after Election Day workers have already boarded up storefronts along Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, has announced the street's going to be close to pedestrians and vehicles Tuesday and Wednesday. L. A Mayor Garcetti says the city is in expecting unrest, but he's preparing just in case Ofthis building management company, Douglas MN sent a message to its tenants, saying its security staff will be on high alert and ready to respond should any events arise. It's also warned it's ground floor tenants to protect their businesses and has provided them with contact information on companies who will come board up their businesses. Aimee King KO Phi News voting machines in Riverside County
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Warren tells Nevada Democrats 'soul of our country' at stake
"Man has been shot and killed at a campsite and melba creek state park and cal are used to look shooting happened friday california state parks tony hoffman says investigators are trying to figure out what happened rangers help the sheriff search the area for evidence or suspects we provided list of the campers at least sixty state owned campsites malibu creek state park remained closed the thirty five year old was shot once in the upper chest while he was camping with his two daughters near virginis road and his daughters were not hurt massachusetts democratic senator elizabeth warren says the trump administration's immigration policies are horrific warren spoke at the nevada state democratic convention in reno yesterday today he has signed off on locking up small children in wire cages shrugged off the problem of reuniting thousands of children who've been taken away from their mothers and fathers lawrence says the policy of separating children from their families at the southern border is outrageous she said thousands of kids have been separated from their parents and there's no plan to reunite them vermont independent senator bernie sanders says both parties need to pass comprehensive immigration reform the president's job is to bring people together to address the problems that we face not to divide us up and demagogue against desperate people will come into this country he says he and his democratic allies are committed to providing a fix for this and to address the ongoing daca crisis the senate is expected to vote on several immigration measures this week women in saudi arabia are in the driver's seat for the first time women started steering their way through busy streets right after the stroke of midnight when the world's last remaining ban on women driving was lifted saudi women and the men who support them have been calling for a women's right to drive many have been arrested for defying the ban traffic from your helpful socal honda traffic center we've got.
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Understanding triggers for agitation among Alzheimer’s patients
"Home design alterations and environmental adaptations we have posted on facebook on our facebook page at home with dean so melanie there's a couple of things that i wanted to touch on a before we're done one is something that you and i talked about regarding dimension alzheimer's and it's a little counter intuitive i think in regards to family photos rule about how to handle someone who's living with alzheimer's disease and alzheimer's is just one of eighty plus forms of dementia that are out there but depending on the severity and progression of the disease it may actually be helpful to remove pictures because what sometimes happens is pictures taken recently can trigger an emotional experience of i i know i need to remember what that is but i can't and it can cause agitation so that's totally understandable i think i can relate to it in the simplest of ways whenever you know we're watching something or somebody's talking that one name that i can't remember that one file that seems to be temporarily missing experience and then it just itches my brain for like the next two hours until i resolve that and that's just i mean there's context all around that that that's just me forgetting name let alone having an issue where i i know that there's a problem in other situations having pictures of things that trigger long term memory from their childhood may be useful that pictures of more recent experiences may be problematic see that is that's worth the price of admission right there just to even consider that and like you said that not a cookie cookie cutter answer but to consider it that it may actually be more stressful than we think maybe inducing some level of stress now there are some of you out there real quick who are not in a situation where you're ready to adapt your own home and you may have a parent who is aging in place in their own space but you're still concerned about will how can i do a better job of of taking care of them of watching over them want you to understand something this is the last item on the list that i'm going to discuss with you today and that is there are a there's a tremendous amount of smart home technology that is.
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Russell Crowe's ''Art of Divorce'' Auction
"Military should be allowed to be in a position to where the us can be effective in the way response when life hands you lemons sell lemonade actor russell crowe held what he called a divorce auction yesterday sotheby's australia put up over two hundred items of movie memorabilia crow acquired during his nine year marriage to ex wife danielle spencer a replica roman chariot from his oscar winning movie gladiator sold for nearly fifty thousand dollars despite early estimates that it was just worth seventy seven hundred the body armor worn by the actor in the film sold for about seventy four thousand crow and spencer announced their split in two thousand twelve traffic from your helpful socal honda traffic center we've got a stall in mission viejo on the five phobos here on the southbound side of the five it's going to be pretty much right atla pause road the middle lane blocked fedex backing getting through anaheim hills he spent anyone from imperial all the way at the main street you got the best off often on block you super trains until about noon getting into the industry area eastbound sixty between fairway and break into rightlane work here until about five tomorrow morning and if you're making the right into vasquez rocks and the fourteen freeway northbound set our a canyon road there's a car fire in the right lane traffic is slow from soledad canyon kfi in the sky helps get you there faster i'm jalen.
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China Strikes Back at the U.S. With Plans for Its Own Tariffs
"His in how extraordinary martin luther king was and that is there are very very few people who get to these positions without being pure political animals who are not don't have this kind of humanity in them it just doesn't happen that often mahatma gandhi surly abraham lincoln martin luther king and i'm putting them in the same category because i think they have to be that's not to say they weren't very clever various political animals if you look at what abraham lincoln was about he knew politics meant he understand understood the noose nuances otherwise you don't get to be the president the same thing with martin luther king he understood the politics of what he was doing nothing he did was by accident but at the same time on the overleaf here here was a man that for the humanity came out of him when you look at presidents man it's all politics or it's a fluke like in donald trump's position i mean how many people have this kind of sort of nobel peace winning philosophy comes out 'cause the humanity i mean a lot of it is just politics yasser arafat winning the nobel peace prize boy there was a humane person henry kissinger winning the same pri boy there is humanity martin luther king was very different kind of person and as i think about him there's a reason why a national holiday is named after dr king and it is no mistake because he was able to put together like very very few people in history both his humanity and the politics of his a mediate life of the circumstances of where he was and when he was and his success you put all of those three together and that never happens but for a handful of times in modern history all right coming up dean sharp the house whisper and how to properly seal off your your home from your spouse no i have that wrong kfi am six forty there's jennifer china has proposed new tariffs on fifty billion dollars a year with of american products it's in response to a new round of tariffs on china announced by president trump the stock market opened down on the news but the president's new top economic adviser larry cudlow told reporters the market shouldn't overreact sometimes the path to this to this kind of.