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All right, 28 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:50.640 we're I'm just sharing some news with you on some 29 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:53.680 various topics this morning, anything that I can get to. 30 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:56.319 But also I promise to take calls if we've got 31 00:01:56.439 --> 00:01:59.719 calls on the board. And look at that, we got 32 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:01.760 calls on the board. Hey, we've got a call from 33 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:05.480 Bill who said he actually lives near Wayfarer's chapel. I'm sorry, 34 00:02:05.519 --> 00:02:07.319 just because I was talking about that, I got to 35 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:13.120 take Bill first. Bill, welcome home, Hidine. How are you sir, 36 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:19.319 I'm well, thank you, How are you good? Good? I 37 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:21.919 got a note here that you live just a few 38 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:25.520 hundred yards from the chapel and that you were happy 39 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:27.400 to talk about landslides in the area. 40 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:32.479 Yes, sir, yeah, In fact, we're about one hundred yards 41 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:38.000 from where Wayfarer's Chapel stood and our house was completely 42 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:43.039 was built in nineteen forty nine, originally designed by Frank 43 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:46.879 Lloyd Wright, and then the design that is there now 44 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:52.520 done by Lloyd Wright. And they wanted that site because 45 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:56.800 they wanted to be able to look at the Wayfarers Chapel, 46 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:01.919 another Lloyd Wright design. Once that is completed, got you? 47 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:04.199 Got you? And what has it been like to live 48 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:05.400 in a Lloyd Wright house? 49 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:07.479 Uh? 50 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:13.039 It's spectacular the way it's designed, the kind of the 51 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:17.400 great room. Uh, it makes it feel like it's just 52 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:19.680 kind of hanging in the air because you look out 53 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:24.199 towards Catalina Island. But the way he built it, it's 54 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:31.319 all glass with glass corners and everything, and it rises 55 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:35.039 above all the vegetation, so you just feel like you're 56 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:39.520 suspended out there looking out at all the nature. So 57 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:42.000 it's it's spectacular. 58 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:46.039 And and uh just amazing. And what what what's your 59 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:49.520 current status with everything that with with your home now? 60 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:53.800 Well, and that's the thing, you know, it really goes 61 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:58.439 on a home by home basis. Bat there we have 62 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:02.919 neighbors whose home have been completely destroyed torn in half 63 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:05.400 twenty five foot creass running through the middle of it. 64 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:09.759 Multiple people that have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars 65 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:12.280 trying to rectify problems and then have to walk away, 66 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:15.400 and right next to them will be somebody whose house 67 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:18.959 is basically untouched, you know. And it goes back to 68 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:22.240 what you were saying. You know, it's all about what 69 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:25.920 it's been built on. And in that area, you know, 70 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:31.399 there's uh, you know, depending upon where you build at 71 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:35.519 greater or lesser depth, there is uh, you know, basically 72 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:39.240 solid rock, and the ones that seem to be closer 73 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:44.079 to that solid rock have less movement than the ones 74 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:46.560 that were built in area that you know, maybe it 75 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:48.920 was fill or you know, it had a lot of 76 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:52.199 uh set you know, silt settlement, you know, in a 77 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:58.360 canyon or something like that. So ours, thankfully was overbuilt 78 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:03.639 for whatever reason. And our although we inch closer to 79 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:09.720 beachfront property every day, ours has not sustained a lot 80 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:13.319 of damage. But we've had our close neighbors have to 81 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:15.000 leave because their houses are total. 82 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:18.319 So so you haven't actually lost gas or power, so 83 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:21.279 I mean, you're still in your place, even though so 84 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:25.160 you guys have experienced some shifting, some some movement, but 85 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:26.000 not enough. 86 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:32.480 Oh yeah, no, it's our property is kind of three tiered, 87 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:36.439 so and it graduates up the hill. Our house is 88 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:38.879 at the top of the property and was cut into 89 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:41.800 the hillside, so it's a cut lot. So there hasn't 90 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:44.519 been much movement there. But down on the bottom part 91 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:50.360 of our property it's moved feet towards uh, the ocean. 92 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:55.399 So that makes sense. The house itself is cut into 93 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:59.800 the hillside into some solid area, so the house itself 94 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:03.759 hasn't move, but but you've lost portions of your lower property. 95 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:08.319 That's exactly correct. And like the numbers that you were giving, 96 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:11.279 the seven inch a week and stuff like that, that's 97 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:14.319 an average number, you know. So there were areas that 98 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:17.519 were moving twelve inches a week, you know, and then 99 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:22.959 areas that were moving you know, almost nothing. So, you know, 100 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:26.920 great variants. But I truly think out of this is 101 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:33.680 going to come at least I hope engineering that will allow, 102 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:40.279 you know, structures to exist in places kind of like this, 103 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:44.360 kind of like a surfboard on a wave in a way, 104 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:48.560 because the you know, it's not the first time the 105 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:51.439 land has moved back there, and so there has been 106 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:55.759 some engineering done on some of the houses that is 107 00:06:55.839 --> 00:07:01.439 completely avant garde and yet completely affect and allows them 108 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:06.399 to remain essentially untouched, you know, throughout all of this. 109 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:10.319 So I'm I think that that will be the case. 110 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:15.160 But no, we uh, we have lost gas, We've lost electricity. 111 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:20.040 We've lost our electricity second of September, so we're essentially 112 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:24.360 completely off the grid with solar and wow, you know, 113 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:28.800 propane and pellet stoves and wow. 114 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:29.519 Wow. 115 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:32.160 Yeah, we're camping next to the next to the. 116 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:37.199 Water, wow, in a in an absolute amazing helm at 117 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:39.240 the same time. And you know, by the way, Billy, 118 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:41.680 I think you're right about that. I mean, there, I'm 119 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:45.879 not sure that there's engineering that that can resolve any 120 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:50.879 kind of crisis. But uh, you know, the the big thing, 121 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:56.600 as I was saying before about Portuguese Bend, is that 122 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:01.079 the condition was always there. It's just that nobody really 123 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:05.519 knew about it. And so it's one thing to build 124 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:09.079 in an area where you're fully conscious of all of 125 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:13.079 the you know, surrounding conditions. It's another area to build 126 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:16.600 a conventional house with a conventional foundation in an area 127 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:20.360 that has unconventional ground movement and you just didn't know 128 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:23.920 about it, and that's That's one of those significant problems, uh, 129 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:26.319 in that area, is that so many of those homes 130 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:30.839 were built just normal without really being conscious of what 131 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.559 was going on deep underneath. 132 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:40.360 Them, right, and and a lot of them people thought, 133 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:42.960 you know, they had reports and stuff saying, well, the 134 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:46.559 land movement has stopped, and you know that it turned 135 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:49.879 out to, you know, just be a fallacy. And you know, 136 00:08:49.960 --> 00:08:54.240 so those people, you know, have have really suffered because 137 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:56.639 they moved into an area where they were hoping to 138 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:00.519 have their dream and through no fault of our own, 139 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:06.159 but I do believe through fault of maybe geologic reports, 140 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:11.080 city allowing building to exist where it shouldn't, you know, 141 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:14.720 they've they've you know, had that dream the least compromised, 142 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:17.440 if not you know, changed altogether. And it's really a shame. 143 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:18.879 Yeah, it is. 144 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:19.279 It is. 145 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:23.080 Indeed. Well, Bill, I am glad that you guys, at least, 146 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:26.799 despite the fact that you're completely off the grid in 147 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:33.679 the middle of southern California. I'm glad that currently your 148 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:37.440 place is is where it's at and not shifting, even 149 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:39.519 though you've lost your property. And thank you so much 150 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:42.639 for calling in and giving us an update on everything 151 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:47.120 that's happening. Bill lives just a few hundred yards from 152 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:50.960 Wayfarer's chapel site everything I was talking about this morning, Bill, 153 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:53.240 thanks so much, buddy. I really appreciate the call, and 154 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:53.960 thanks for listening. 155 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:57.799 Thank you. And if you and Tina ever want to 156 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:01.720 come out and see unmolested did Frank Wood write junior 157 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:04.600 house existing as it was built in nineteen forty nine? 158 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:07.960 Come on, bye, hey, do me a favor. Honestly, I'm 159 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:09.279 going to take you up on that. Do me a 160 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:11.039 fake because we're down there all the time. Do me 161 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:13.879 a favor and go to house Whisper dot Design and 162 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:18.000 drop me a note and I'll reach out to you 163 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:20.080 and and we'll do it. I would love to just 164 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:22.559 do a report in general, love to see the house, 165 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:24.799 love to do a report on what's going on in 166 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:28.120 the area in general. So reach out and I'll reach 167 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:29.240 back and we'll make it happen. 168 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:32.600 Cool. Keep doing what you do. Love your show. 169 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:35.559 Thanks Bill, Thank you so much. Buddy. Well there you 170 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:41.759 go right there. It's tragic. It's tragic anyway, all right, 171 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:44.600 when we come back. More of your calls your home 172 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:48.720 with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Yay bye Dean sharp 173 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:51.480 the house whisper at your service. This is my beautiful house, 174 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:55.039 and that is my beautiful wife right there. So I 175 00:10:55.080 --> 00:11:00.000 don't know what you're talking about, talking heads. That was stupid, 176 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:04.840 That really was. It's early. It's still early. It's the 177 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:08.120 first day of February. I'm allowed. I'm allowed. Actually every 178 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:11.480 week people count on it. Deane's going to say something 179 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:13.960 stupid today. Let's just wait and see what it is. 180 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:18.559 All right, h we're taking calls and I'm going to 181 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:21.879 get back to the phones. I want to talk to Sherry. Hey, Sherry, 182 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:22.600 welcome home. 183 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:25.559 Good morning. 184 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:29.639 How are you good morning? I am well, how are 185 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:30.000 you doing? 186 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:35.600 Great? Great? I'm having an issue with my bathroom LED 187 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:40.759 lights and all of a sudden they started. They were 188 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:44.720 on a gimmer switch. All of a sudden at nighttime, 189 00:11:44.759 --> 00:11:46.919 I turn them off and I get up in the 190 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:49.480 middle of the night and there was a little light 191 00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:54.679 coming from them, but all them electrician. They replaced dow 192 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:58.879 of the lights and guess what they started coming back. 193 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:01.840 They're doing the same orn thing. So then he said 194 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:05.799 it was a switch that I the himmer switch was 195 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:12.200 incompatible with the LEDs, so he just replaced the switch 196 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:16.240 to a normal just switch and guess what one of 197 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:20.840 the lights is doing it? Again, I have no clue. 198 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:27.039 Okay, so after replacing some of the lights, it still happened, 199 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:29.879 and then after replacing the dimmer, now one of them 200 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:32.000 is still doing it. 201 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:32.559 Correct. 202 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:39.320 Hmm uh So what kind of well, I don't want 203 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:42.279 to ask you stuff that you don't have a clue about, 204 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:46.799 but okay, So what you're talking about is sometimes it's 205 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:52.679 called after glow. Sometimes it's called ghosting led ghosting, and 206 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:55.120 there are different there are a couple of different versions 207 00:12:55.159 --> 00:12:58.879 of it, just so everybody knows. It is not uncommon, 208 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:02.639 especially for older LEDs or I should say older and 209 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:07.919 or these days cheaper LED lights. They have a luminescent 210 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:11.919 layer built into the bulb structure, and it's not uncommon 211 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:15.799 at all after you flicked off and the switch for 212 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:20.399 an LED to see it actually still glowing, but that 213 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:23.399 that lasts a minute or two and then it just 214 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:27.120 fades away. That's kind of like almost like a bioluminescent 215 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:31.519 battery that was still stored in the light lens itself, 216 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:34.799 and it has a little bit of glow, like a 217 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:37.799 glow in the dark kind of one of those things, 218 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:40.240 and it lasts for a little while and then it 219 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:43.000 goes off. But you're talking about a different kind of 220 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:47.039 ghosting or after glow, which is not something that fades away. 221 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:48.679 You turn the light off and then you get up 222 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:50.399 in the middle of the night and you can still 223 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:56.080 see it on there. That and that almost always all 224 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:59.960 I mean. There could be something wrong with the wire, 225 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:03.159 but I really doubt it. I really doubt it. It's 226 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:07.840 hardly ever a wiring issue. Ever. It is usually either 227 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:14.360 a fixture itself or b the switch, especially a dimmer 228 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:20.519 And so all I can tell you is that that 229 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:24.240 unit that's still glowing might need to be changed out 230 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:28.960 yet again. Or here you could try this instead of 231 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:31.600 using a dimmer switch. You can just put a standard 232 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:36.399 switch in there and see if after turning that off 233 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:43.120 whether you get any after glow whatsoever. Okay, because that 234 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:46.720 the thing is with this, people don't realize that a 235 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:53.000 dimmer switch has a lot of dimmer switches, depending on 236 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:58.200 how they are constructed. They have a low end and 237 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:01.440 a high end. That's what allows them to dim and 238 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:05.960 increase the light. And sometimes the low end literally LEDs 239 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:12.720 are so sensitive too, They're so sensitive to current that 240 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:15.360 the low end of a dimmer is just literally not 241 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:17.960 low enough. In other words, it has dropped it down. 242 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:21.399 But if there's still a trickle, just a tiny, tiny 243 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:26.480 trickle of energy running through the dimmer switch in any 244 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:30.200 way shape or form, an led may pick it up 245 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:33.440 and show a tiny bit of a glow, not perceivable 246 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:35.799 like during the daytime, but in the middle of the night, 247 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:38.799 in pitch darkness, you can see that there is still 248 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:42.279 this tiny little glow happening. It's nothing serious, by the way. 249 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:45.759 It's not a concern like, oh, something's wrong and my 250 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:47.559 house is going to burn down or anything like that. 251 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:53.159 But you know, so, So here's the thing I would 252 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:56.240 if you've already changed out the light fixtures once and 253 00:15:56.279 --> 00:16:00.799 there's still one that's doing it, I wonder, I would 254 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:04.519 wonder actually if that one in the chain of lights 255 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:07.600 that you have up on your ceiling is I wonder 256 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:11.240 if it's the first one in line by way of wiring. 257 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:13.519 You wouldn't be able to tell just by looking up 258 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:16.039 on the ceiling because you don't know where the wire 259 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:18.480 goes to first. But I wonder if it isn't the 260 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:22.320 first one in line with the output from the switch, 261 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:25.919 because that would typically be the case and whatever tiny 262 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:31.039 little trickle of energy is still there, then it's picking 263 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:34.240 it up and the others aren't getting it. So I 264 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:38.639 would say, attempt to replace the dimmer yet again, go 265 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:42.840 with a different brand. Definitely had an LED compatible, but 266 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:47.279 if the lustron switch, go with a different brand of switch. 267 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:50.320 If it's not a loutron, then try a loutron. Try 268 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:54.039 a new dimmer switch in there and see if you 269 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:57.120 can't get it to shut down completely in for a test. 270 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:01.200 You could pop in just temporarily in a standard on 271 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:04.599 off switch, no dimmer, okay, because an on off switch 272 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:07.880 is a total power cut total, So you click it 273 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:11.680 off and it's off. And if you find that you 274 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:13.880 that you put an on off switch in just for 275 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:17.039 one night, go back into the bathroom at night, look 276 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:21.319 up and if there are if there's still a glowing light, 277 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:24.799 then there's power trickling in there from somewhere else, and 278 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:27.920 it is a wiring issue. But I would my guess 279 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:30.839 is ninety nine percent sure if you put a standard 280 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:33.960 switch in there, then all the powers been cut off 281 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:37.160 and there will be nothing. You'll see darkness on your ceiling, 282 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:39.920 just like you would expect. And what that tells you 283 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:43.359 is to is that, for whatever reason, the dimmers that 284 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:47.400 you've been using aren't dropping the voltage for those LEDs 285 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:50.240 all the way to zero, and there's been a trickle 286 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:54.960 of charge passing through, So try another dimmer because the 287 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:56.400 right dimmer will shut it down. 288 00:17:58.759 --> 00:18:03.119 Well that's interesting because because the gimmer switch was replaced 289 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:08.079 with a regular on off switch and that fixed one 290 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:10.200 of the other problems. You know, one of the lights 291 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:14.480 which was staying on. But now I think it's the 292 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:18.119 first light that the guy replaced that's coming on. I 293 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:21.200 mean it's staying on. It's not as bright as the 294 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:24.400 other one with it says it could be. 295 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:29.160 So so you so it was replaced with an on 296 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:33.319 off and there's still a glow. Yes, yes, okay, So 297 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:36.839 then then you've got to talk to your electrician about 298 00:18:36.880 --> 00:18:40.960 the fact that there is some phantom current getting into 299 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:47.000 that system somehow, somehow that's not coming just from the switch. 300 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:49.960 So it is something wiring that needs to be looked at, 301 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:53.240 a wiring issue, because there is some because an on 302 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:56.200 off switch cuts the power, and if that is detecting 303 00:18:56.279 --> 00:19:00.599 any kind of residual glow, then there is power into 304 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:06.640 that circuit apart from the switch access and so have 305 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:09.519 electrician look at it. Whether you're electrician or whether you 306 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:11.799 want to talk to somebody else, I'm not sure, but 307 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:15.119 have them take a serious look at where else power 308 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:19.519 could be getting into that line, because it's on or 309 00:19:19.559 --> 00:19:21.799 it's off, the power is there or it's not. And 310 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:25.400 if it's if there's still residual power. LEDs are super 311 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:28.920 sensitive they might pick it up. And so there you go. 312 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:30.920 That's the best I can tell you, Sherry, thank you 313 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:34.079 so much for calling. I think you're on the right 314 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:36.599 path there for the hunt though. All right, when we 315 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:39.000 come back, more of your calls. Your Home with Dean Sharp, 316 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:39.799 the House Whisper. 317 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:43.960 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 318 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:50.200 KFI AM six FORTYFI. 319 00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:53.160 AM six forty Your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. 320 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:56.720 We're having a morning. I'm taking calls. I'm giving you 321 00:19:56.759 --> 00:19:58.839 a little news and inside. So far I've only been 322 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:01.880 able to talk about had time to talk about Wayfair's 323 00:20:01.960 --> 00:20:05.400 chapel out on the Palace Verties Peninsula. Hopefully I can 324 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:08.920 slip in one more little tidbit of design news, not 325 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:12.279 so much from SoCal, but we'll try and get there. 326 00:20:12.279 --> 00:20:14.880 But I also just want to honor our calls here, 327 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:20.480 So let's talk to John. Hey John, welcome home. 328 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:22.720 Hi Jean. 329 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:25.759 I hope it's not too much background sound here for you. 330 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:28.119 Now, we're good. We're good. 331 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:34.240 I live in a townhome community on Justin Ranch golf 332 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:39.079 Course and I have a fire sprinkler system in my 333 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:45.440 twenty four hundred square foot home. And when I replaced 334 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:48.400 a smoke detector, I found that I had to replace 335 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:51.200 all of them. I guess they're all connected and communicating 336 00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:54.640 with each other, and it made me wonder. It made 337 00:20:54.680 --> 00:21:00.480 me wonder about the sprinkler system. What would take to 338 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:04.160 cause for that to go off? Is it communicating also 339 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:07.200 with the smoke detectors and with the fire department be notified? 340 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:15.400 Okay, good question. Good question. I can answer two out 341 00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:19.079 of three of those questions for it. So number one, No, 342 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:26.720 your smoke detector system is not connected to your sprinkler system. Okay. 343 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:30.920 Your smoke detector system is communicating with itself. Smoke detection 344 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:36.720 is just that and the alarms are inside your place 345 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:41.880 to alert you to the presence of smoke. And very 346 00:21:42.039 --> 00:21:47.200 very rarely are smoke detectors connected to outside services because 347 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:49.440 you know they go they'll go off for a number 348 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:51.519 of reasons. The whole point of a smoke detector is 349 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:56.839 hopefully to alert you to the presence of something starting 350 00:21:56.880 --> 00:22:01.039 to brew that you can deal with without calling the 351 00:22:01.039 --> 00:22:06.039 fire department. So smoke detectors never communicate directly to communic 352 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:13.200 emergency services. Some fire sprinkler systems are set up to 353 00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:17.200 do that, and I couldn't tell you whether yours is 354 00:22:17.319 --> 00:22:20.960 or not. You should look at the branding plate or 355 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:25.359 any information that you've got on your specific system at 356 00:22:25.359 --> 00:22:29.160 the manifold, call the company and say, hey, this situation 357 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:31.240 am I hooked up to Actually does this go to 358 00:22:31.279 --> 00:22:35.400 emergency services? Or is this just happening inside my house? 359 00:22:35.480 --> 00:22:38.039 That part I couldn't tell you, but you can find 360 00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:42.240 out pretty easily. As far as smoke detecting and fire 361 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:46.400 sprinklers go, I can explain that to you super simple. 362 00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:55.279 Smoke detectors have what's called an obscuration rating. So what 363 00:22:55.319 --> 00:22:58.000 does that mean. It means that there's a tiny light 364 00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:04.200 emitter and receiver inside a smoke detector and a space 365 00:23:04.279 --> 00:23:07.839 in between, and what it's waiting for. The receiver is 366 00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:12.319 sitting there reading one hundred percent of the light that's 367 00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:16.359 coming across this little gap and smoke gets up in 368 00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:20.880 the detector and it obscures that amount of light. Now, 369 00:23:20.920 --> 00:23:24.480 how sensitive are they. Well, different smoke detectors have different 370 00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:30.160 levels of sensitivity, but most, i am told, work under 371 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:36.680 obscurations of just under one percent up to about thirteen percent. 372 00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:41.359 Now you can get different details from other people, and 373 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:44.039 you know, this is sort of just like a science 374 00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:47.400 trivia fact. It's not like, oh, I see thirteen percent, 375 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:51.240 Well that's very meaningful to me. Well it's not clearly, 376 00:23:51.599 --> 00:23:54.240 But the point is this smoke gets up in there 377 00:23:54.599 --> 00:23:58.440 and it obscures the vision. That's why. Sometimes it's not 378 00:23:58.519 --> 00:24:01.920 even smoke. It's not like these things are smelling for smoke. 379 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:07.359 Sometimes a smoke detector gets set too close to a 380 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:11.440 bathroom and you take a hot, steamy shower, open up 381 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:14.680 the bathroom door, all that steam pours out, and suddenly 382 00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:18.319 the smoke detector goes off. It's steam, it's not smoke, 383 00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:23.160 but it's capable temporarily of obscuring that little light beam, 384 00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:26.559 and therefore it goes off. And they are very sensitive, 385 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:31.839 and so that's their job. That's the smoke detector. And 386 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:34.960 as far as your sprinklers go, a lot of people 387 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:38.599 think that sprinklers. A lot of people don't want to 388 00:24:38.599 --> 00:24:41.759 get sprinklers in their house because they're scared that if 389 00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:45.240 they burn the fish on the skillet in the kitchen, 390 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:48.039 that all of their fire sprinklers are going to go 391 00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:51.599 off and flood their house. Fire sprinklers don't work off 392 00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:56.319 of smoke at all. Zero fire sprinklers are only a 393 00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:00.480 temperature sensitive situation, So no fire sprinkler is going to 394 00:25:00.599 --> 00:25:04.759 fire because too much smoke built up in the house. 395 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:09.000 A fire sprinkler fires off a little glass vial that 396 00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:13.640 with a liquid in it is plugging the whole of 397 00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:17.160 the fire sprinkler head individual heads, not the whole system. 398 00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:20.680 It's head for head for head. So if there's a 399 00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:23.400 fire in the living room, the sprinklers in the bedroom 400 00:25:23.400 --> 00:25:26.240 are not going to fire and flood the bedroom. It 401 00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:30.559