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Speaker 2: various topics this morning, anything that I can get to.
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Speaker 2: calls on the board. And look at that, we got
Speaker 2: calls on the board. Hey, we've got a call from
Speaker 2: Bill who said he actually lives near Wayfarer's chapel. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: just because I was talking about that, I got to
Speaker 2: take Bill first. Bill, welcome home, Hidine. How are you sir,
Speaker 2: I'm well, thank you, How are you good? Good? I
Speaker 2: got a note here that you live just a few
Speaker 2: hundred yards from the chapel and that you were happy
Speaker 2: to talk about landslides in the area.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, yeah, In fact, we're about one hundred yards
Speaker 3: from where Wayfarer's Chapel stood and our house was completely
Speaker 3: was built in nineteen forty nine, originally designed by Frank
Speaker 3: Lloyd Wright, and then the design that is there now
Speaker 3: done by Lloyd Wright. And they wanted that site because
Speaker 3: they wanted to be able to look at the Wayfarers Chapel,
Speaker 3: another Lloyd Wright design. Once that is completed, got you?
Speaker 2: Got you? And what has it been like to live
Speaker 2: in a Lloyd Wright house?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: It's spectacular the way it's designed, the kind of the
Speaker 3: great room. Uh, it makes it feel like it's just
Speaker 3: kind of hanging in the air because you look out
Speaker 3: towards Catalina Island. But the way he built it, it's
Speaker 3: all glass with glass corners and everything, and it rises
Speaker 3: above all the vegetation, so you just feel like you're
Speaker 3: suspended out there looking out at all the nature. So
Speaker 3: it's it's spectacular.
Speaker 2: And and uh just amazing. And what what what's your
Speaker 2: current status with everything that with with your home now?
Speaker 3: Well, and that's the thing, you know, it really goes
Speaker 3: on a home by home basis. Bat there we have
Speaker 3: neighbors whose home have been completely destroyed torn in half
Speaker 3: twenty five foot creass running through the middle of it.
Speaker 3: Multiple people that have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars
Speaker 3: trying to rectify problems and then have to walk away,
Speaker 3: and right next to them will be somebody whose house
Speaker 3: is basically untouched, you know. And it goes back to
Speaker 3: what you were saying. You know, it's all about what
Speaker 3: it's been built on. And in that area, you know,
Speaker 3: there's uh, you know, depending upon where you build at
Speaker 3: greater or lesser depth, there is uh, you know, basically
Speaker 3: solid rock, and the ones that seem to be closer
Speaker 3: to that solid rock have less movement than the ones
Speaker 3: that were built in area that you know, maybe it
Speaker 3: was fill or you know, it had a lot of
Speaker 3: uh set you know, silt settlement, you know, in a
Speaker 3: canyon or something like that. So ours, thankfully was overbuilt
Speaker 3: for whatever reason. And our although we inch closer to
Speaker 3: beachfront property every day, ours has not sustained a lot
Speaker 3: of damage. But we've had our close neighbors have to
Speaker 3: leave because their houses are total.
Speaker 2: So so you haven't actually lost gas or power, so
Speaker 2: I mean, you're still in your place, even though so
Speaker 2: you guys have experienced some shifting, some some movement, but
Speaker 2: not enough.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, it's our property is kind of three tiered,
Speaker 3: so and it graduates up the hill. Our house is
Speaker 3: at the top of the property and was cut into
Speaker 3: the hillside, so it's a cut lot. So there hasn't
Speaker 3: been much movement there. But down on the bottom part
Speaker 3: of our property it's moved feet towards uh, the ocean.
Speaker 2: So that makes sense. The house itself is cut into
Speaker 2: the hillside into some solid area, so the house itself
Speaker 2: hasn't move, but but you've lost portions of your lower property.
Speaker 3: That's exactly correct. And like the numbers that you were giving,
Speaker 3: the seven inch a week and stuff like that, that's
Speaker 3: an average number, you know. So there were areas that
Speaker 3: were moving twelve inches a week, you know, and then
Speaker 3: areas that were moving you know, almost nothing. So, you know,
Speaker 3: great variants. But I truly think out of this is
Speaker 3: going to come at least I hope engineering that will allow,
Speaker 3: you know, structures to exist in places kind of like this,
Speaker 3: kind of like a surfboard on a wave in a way,
Speaker 3: because the you know, it's not the first time the
Speaker 3: land has moved back there, and so there has been
Speaker 3: some engineering done on some of the houses that is
Speaker 3: completely avant garde and yet completely affect and allows them
Speaker 3: to remain essentially untouched, you know, throughout all of this.
Speaker 3: So I'm I think that that will be the case.
Speaker 3: But no, we uh, we have lost gas, We've lost electricity.
Speaker 3: We've lost our electricity second of September, so we're essentially
Speaker 3: completely off the grid with solar and wow, you know,
Speaker 3: propane and pellet stoves and wow.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're camping next to the next to the.
Speaker 2: Water, wow, in a in an absolute amazing helm at
Speaker 2: the same time. And you know, by the way, Billy,
Speaker 2: I think you're right about that. I mean, there, I'm
Speaker 2: not sure that there's engineering that that can resolve any
Speaker 2: kind of crisis. But uh, you know, the the big thing,
Speaker 2: as I was saying before about Portuguese Bend, is that
Speaker 2: the condition was always there. It's just that nobody really
Speaker 2: knew about it. And so it's one thing to build
Speaker 2: in an area where you're fully conscious of all of
Speaker 2: the you know, surrounding conditions. It's another area to build
Speaker 2: a conventional house with a conventional foundation in an area
Speaker 2: that has unconventional ground movement and you just didn't know
Speaker 2: about it, and that's That's one of those significant problems, uh,
Speaker 2: in that area, is that so many of those homes
Speaker 2: were built just normal without really being conscious of what
Speaker 2: was going on deep underneath.
Speaker 3: Them, right, and and a lot of them people thought,
Speaker 3: you know, they had reports and stuff saying, well, the
Speaker 3: land movement has stopped, and you know that it turned
Speaker 3: out to, you know, just be a fallacy. And you know,
Speaker 3: so those people, you know, have have really suffered because
Speaker 3: they moved into an area where they were hoping to
Speaker 3: have their dream and through no fault of our own,
Speaker 3: but I do believe through fault of maybe geologic reports,
Speaker 3: city allowing building to exist where it shouldn't, you know,
Speaker 3: they've they've you know, had that dream the least compromised,
Speaker 3: if not you know, changed altogether. And it's really a shame.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: Indeed. Well, Bill, I am glad that you guys, at least,
Speaker 2: despite the fact that you're completely off the grid in
Speaker 2: the middle of southern California. I'm glad that currently your
Speaker 2: place is is where it's at and not shifting, even
Speaker 2: though you've lost your property. And thank you so much
Speaker 2: for calling in and giving us an update on everything
Speaker 2: that's happening. Bill lives just a few hundred yards from
Speaker 2: Wayfarer's chapel site everything I was talking about this morning, Bill,
Speaker 2: thanks so much, buddy. I really appreciate the call, and
Speaker 2: thanks for listening.
Speaker 3: Thank you. And if you and Tina ever want to
Speaker 3: come out and see unmolested did Frank Wood write junior
Speaker 3: house existing as it was built in nineteen forty nine?
Speaker 2: Come on, bye, hey, do me a favor. Honestly, I'm
Speaker 2: going to take you up on that. Do me a
Speaker 2: fake because we're down there all the time. Do me
Speaker 2: a favor and go to house Whisper dot Design and
Speaker 2: drop me a note and I'll reach out to you
Speaker 2: and and we'll do it. I would love to just
Speaker 2: do a report in general, love to see the house,
Speaker 2: love to do a report on what's going on in
Speaker 2: the area in general. So reach out and I'll reach
Speaker 2: back and we'll make it happen.
Speaker 3: Cool. Keep doing what you do. Love your show.
Speaker 2: Thanks Bill, Thank you so much. Buddy. Well there you
Speaker 2: go right there. It's tragic. It's tragic anyway, all right,
Speaker 2: when we come back. More of your calls your home
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Speaker 2: the house whisper at your service. This is my beautiful house,
Speaker 2: and that is my beautiful wife right there. So I
Speaker 2: don't know what you're talking about, talking heads. That was stupid,
Speaker 2: That really was. It's early. It's still early. It's the
Speaker 2: first day of February. I'm allowed. I'm allowed. Actually every
Speaker 2: week people count on it. Deane's going to say something
Speaker 2: stupid today. Let's just wait and see what it is.
Speaker 2: All right, h we're taking calls and I'm going to
Speaker 2: get back to the phones. I want to talk to Sherry. Hey, Sherry,
Speaker 2: welcome home.
Speaker 4: Good morning.
Speaker 2: How are you good morning? I am well, how are
Speaker 2: you doing?
Speaker 4: Great? Great? I'm having an issue with my bathroom LED
Speaker 4: lights and all of a sudden they started. They were
Speaker 4: on a gimmer switch. All of a sudden at nighttime,
Speaker 4: I turn them off and I get up in the
Speaker 4: middle of the night and there was a little light
Speaker 4: coming from them, but all them electrician. They replaced dow
Speaker 4: of the lights and guess what they started coming back.
Speaker 4: They're doing the same orn thing. So then he said
Speaker 4: it was a switch that I the himmer switch was
Speaker 4: incompatible with the LEDs, so he just replaced the switch
Speaker 4: to a normal just switch and guess what one of
Speaker 4: the lights is doing it? Again, I have no clue.
Speaker 2: Okay, so after replacing some of the lights, it still happened,
Speaker 2: and then after replacing the dimmer, now one of them
Speaker 2: is still doing it.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 2: Hmm uh So what kind of well, I don't want
Speaker 2: to ask you stuff that you don't have a clue about,
Speaker 2: but okay, So what you're talking about is sometimes it's
Speaker 2: called after glow. Sometimes it's called ghosting led ghosting, and
Speaker 2: there are different there are a couple of different versions
Speaker 2: of it, just so everybody knows. It is not uncommon,
Speaker 2: especially for older LEDs or I should say older and
Speaker 2: or these days cheaper LED lights. They have a luminescent
Speaker 2: layer built into the bulb structure, and it's not uncommon
Speaker 2: at all after you flicked off and the switch for
Speaker 2: an LED to see it actually still glowing, but that
Speaker 2: that lasts a minute or two and then it just
Speaker 2: fades away. That's kind of like almost like a bioluminescent
Speaker 2: battery that was still stored in the light lens itself,
Speaker 2: and it has a little bit of glow, like a
Speaker 2: glow in the dark kind of one of those things,
Speaker 2: and it lasts for a little while and then it
Speaker 2: goes off. But you're talking about a different kind of
Speaker 2: ghosting or after glow, which is not something that fades away.
Speaker 2: You turn the light off and then you get up
Speaker 2: in the middle of the night and you can still
Speaker 2: see it on there. That and that almost always all
Speaker 2: I mean. There could be something wrong with the wire,
Speaker 2: but I really doubt it. I really doubt it. It's
Speaker 2: hardly ever a wiring issue. Ever. It is usually either
Speaker 2: a fixture itself or b the switch, especially a dimmer
Speaker 2: And so all I can tell you is that that
Speaker 2: unit that's still glowing might need to be changed out
Speaker 2: yet again. Or here you could try this instead of
Speaker 2: using a dimmer switch. You can just put a standard
Speaker 2: switch in there and see if after turning that off
Speaker 2: whether you get any after glow whatsoever. Okay, because that
Speaker 2: the thing is with this, people don't realize that a
Speaker 2: dimmer switch has a lot of dimmer switches, depending on
Speaker 2: how they are constructed. They have a low end and
Speaker 2: a high end. That's what allows them to dim and
Speaker 2: increase the light. And sometimes the low end literally LEDs
Speaker 2: are so sensitive too, They're so sensitive to current that
Speaker 2: the low end of a dimmer is just literally not
Speaker 2: low enough. In other words, it has dropped it down.
Speaker 2: But if there's still a trickle, just a tiny, tiny
Speaker 2: trickle of energy running through the dimmer switch in any
Speaker 2: way shape or form, an led may pick it up
Speaker 2: and show a tiny bit of a glow, not perceivable
Speaker 2: like during the daytime, but in the middle of the night,
Speaker 2: in pitch darkness, you can see that there is still
Speaker 2: this tiny little glow happening. It's nothing serious, by the way.
Speaker 2: It's not a concern like, oh, something's wrong and my
Speaker 2: house is going to burn down or anything like that.
Speaker 2: But you know, so, So here's the thing I would
Speaker 2: if you've already changed out the light fixtures once and
Speaker 2: there's still one that's doing it, I wonder, I would
Speaker 2: wonder actually if that one in the chain of lights
Speaker 2: that you have up on your ceiling is I wonder
Speaker 2: if it's the first one in line by way of wiring.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't be able to tell just by looking up
Speaker 2: on the ceiling because you don't know where the wire
Speaker 2: goes to first. But I wonder if it isn't the
Speaker 2: first one in line with the output from the switch,
Speaker 2: because that would typically be the case and whatever tiny
Speaker 2: little trickle of energy is still there, then it's picking
Speaker 2: it up and the others aren't getting it. So I
Speaker 2: would say, attempt to replace the dimmer yet again, go
Speaker 2: with a different brand. Definitely had an LED compatible, but
Speaker 2: if the lustron switch, go with a different brand of switch.
Speaker 2: If it's not a loutron, then try a loutron. Try
Speaker 2: a new dimmer switch in there and see if you
Speaker 2: can't get it to shut down completely in for a test.
Speaker 2: You could pop in just temporarily in a standard on
Speaker 2: off switch, no dimmer, okay, because an on off switch
Speaker 2: is a total power cut total, So you click it
Speaker 2: off and it's off. And if you find that you
Speaker 2: that you put an on off switch in just for
Speaker 2: one night, go back into the bathroom at night, look
Speaker 2: up and if there are if there's still a glowing light,
Speaker 2: then there's power trickling in there from somewhere else, and
Speaker 2: it is a wiring issue. But I would my guess
Speaker 2: is ninety nine percent sure if you put a standard
Speaker 2: switch in there, then all the powers been cut off
Speaker 2: and there will be nothing. You'll see darkness on your ceiling,
Speaker 2: just like you would expect. And what that tells you
Speaker 2: is to is that, for whatever reason, the dimmers that
Speaker 2: you've been using aren't dropping the voltage for those LEDs
Speaker 2: all the way to zero, and there's been a trickle
Speaker 2: of charge passing through, So try another dimmer because the
Speaker 2: right dimmer will shut it down.
Speaker 4: Well that's interesting because because the gimmer switch was replaced
Speaker 4: with a regular on off switch and that fixed one
Speaker 4: of the other problems. You know, one of the lights
Speaker 4: which was staying on. But now I think it's the
Speaker 4: first light that the guy replaced that's coming on. I
Speaker 4: mean it's staying on. It's not as bright as the
Speaker 4: other one with it says it could be.
Speaker 2: So so you so it was replaced with an on
Speaker 2: off and there's still a glow. Yes, yes, okay, So
Speaker 2: then then you've got to talk to your electrician about
Speaker 2: the fact that there is some phantom current getting into
Speaker 2: that system somehow, somehow that's not coming just from the switch.
Speaker 2: So it is something wiring that needs to be looked at,
Speaker 2: a wiring issue, because there is some because an on
Speaker 2: off switch cuts the power, and if that is detecting
Speaker 2: any kind of residual glow, then there is power into
Speaker 2: that circuit apart from the switch access and so have
Speaker 2: electrician look at it. Whether you're electrician or whether you
Speaker 2: want to talk to somebody else, I'm not sure, but
Speaker 2: have them take a serious look at where else power
Speaker 2: could be getting into that line, because it's on or
Speaker 2: it's off, the power is there or it's not. And
Speaker 2: if it's if there's still residual power. LEDs are super
Speaker 2: sensitive they might pick it up. And so there you go.
Speaker 2: That's the best I can tell you, Sherry, thank you
Speaker 2: so much for calling. I think you're on the right
Speaker 2: path there for the hunt though. All right, when we
Speaker 2: come back, more of your calls. Your Home with Dean Sharp,
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Speaker 2: AM six forty Your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
Speaker 2: We're having a morning. I'm taking calls. I'm giving you
Speaker 2: a little news and inside. So far I've only been
Speaker 2: able to talk about had time to talk about Wayfair's
Speaker 2: chapel out on the Palace Verties Peninsula. Hopefully I can
Speaker 2: slip in one more little tidbit of design news, not
Speaker 2: so much from SoCal, but we'll try and get there.
Speaker 2: But I also just want to honor our calls here,
Speaker 2: So let's talk to John. Hey John, welcome home.
Speaker 3: Hi Jean.
Speaker 5: I hope it's not too much background sound here for you.
Speaker 2: Now, we're good. We're good.
Speaker 5: I live in a townhome community on Justin Ranch golf
Speaker 5: Course and I have a fire sprinkler system in my
Speaker 5: twenty four hundred square foot home. And when I replaced
Speaker 5: a smoke detector, I found that I had to replace
Speaker 5: all of them. I guess they're all connected and communicating
Speaker 5: with each other, and it made me wonder. It made
Speaker 5: me wonder about the sprinkler system. What would take to
Speaker 5: cause for that to go off? Is it communicating also
Speaker 5: with the smoke detectors and with the fire department be notified?
Speaker 2: Okay, good question. Good question. I can answer two out
Speaker 2: of three of those questions for it. So number one, No,
Speaker 2: your smoke detector system is not connected to your sprinkler system. Okay.
Speaker 2: Your smoke detector system is communicating with itself. Smoke detection
Speaker 2: is just that and the alarms are inside your place
Speaker 2: to alert you to the presence of smoke. And very
Speaker 2: very rarely are smoke detectors connected to outside services because
Speaker 2: you know they go they'll go off for a number
Speaker 2: of reasons. The whole point of a smoke detector is
Speaker 2: hopefully to alert you to the presence of something starting
Speaker 2: to brew that you can deal with without calling the
Speaker 2: fire department. So smoke detectors never communicate directly to communic
Speaker 2: emergency services. Some fire sprinkler systems are set up to
Speaker 2: do that, and I couldn't tell you whether yours is
Speaker 2: or not. You should look at the branding plate or
Speaker 2: any information that you've got on your specific system at
Speaker 2: the manifold, call the company and say, hey, this situation
Speaker 2: am I hooked up to Actually does this go to
Speaker 2: emergency services? Or is this just happening inside my house?
Speaker 2: That part I couldn't tell you, but you can find
Speaker 2: out pretty easily. As far as smoke detecting and fire
Speaker 2: sprinklers go, I can explain that to you super simple.
Speaker 2: Smoke detectors have what's called an obscuration rating. So what
Speaker 2: does that mean. It means that there's a tiny light
Speaker 2: emitter and receiver inside a smoke detector and a space
Speaker 2: in between, and what it's waiting for. The receiver is
Speaker 2: sitting there reading one hundred percent of the light that's
Speaker 2: coming across this little gap and smoke gets up in
Speaker 2: the detector and it obscures that amount of light. Now,
Speaker 2: how sensitive are they. Well, different smoke detectors have different
Speaker 2: levels of sensitivity, but most, i am told, work under
Speaker 2: obscurations of just under one percent up to about thirteen percent.
Speaker 2: Now you can get different details from other people, and
Speaker 2: you know, this is sort of just like a science
Speaker 2: trivia fact. It's not like, oh, I see thirteen percent,
Speaker 2: Well that's very meaningful to me. Well it's not clearly,
Speaker 2: But the point is this smoke gets up in there
Speaker 2: and it obscures the vision. That's why. Sometimes it's not
Speaker 2: even smoke. It's not like these things are smelling for smoke.
Speaker 2: Sometimes a smoke detector gets set too close to a
Speaker 2: bathroom and you take a hot, steamy shower, open up
Speaker 2: the bathroom door, all that steam pours out, and suddenly
Speaker 2: the smoke detector goes off. It's steam, it's not smoke,
Speaker 2: but it's capable temporarily of obscuring that little light beam,
Speaker 2: and therefore it goes off. And they are very sensitive,
Speaker 2: and so that's their job. That's the smoke detector. And
Speaker 2: as far as your sprinklers go, a lot of people
Speaker 2: think that sprinklers. A lot of people don't want to
Speaker 2: get sprinklers in their house because they're scared that if
Speaker 2: they burn the fish on the skillet in the kitchen,
Speaker 2: that all of their fire sprinklers are going to go
Speaker 2: off and flood their house. Fire sprinklers don't work off
Speaker 2: of smoke at all. Zero fire sprinklers are only a
Speaker 2: temperature sensitive situation, So no fire sprinkler is going to
Speaker 2: fire because too much smoke built up in the house.
Speaker 2: A fire sprinkler fires off a little glass vial that
Speaker 2: with a liquid in it is plugging the whole of
Speaker 2: the fire sprinkler head individual heads, not the whole system.
Speaker 2: It's head for head for head. So if there's a
Speaker 2: fire in the living room, the sprinklers in the bedroom
Speaker 2: are not going to fire and flood the bedroom. It
Speaker 2: is looking for a temperature somewhere between one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty five to one hundred and sixty five degrees fahrenheit.
Speaker 2: So up at the ceiling line where that fire sprinkler
Speaker 2: is once temperature and the theory is that this is
Speaker 2: temperature rays because there's actually a fire down below, not
Speaker 2: just smoke, a flame producing that kind of heat boom
Speaker 2: the vial, The liquid in the vial boils, it bursts
Speaker 2: the vial, and the sprinkler head is then free to
Speaker 2: douse the area where the fire is burning. That's how
Speaker 2: fire sprinklers work versus how smoke detectors work. Smoke detectors
Speaker 2: are warning only. Fire sprinklers are an active action against
Speaker 2: a flame and have no relationship to smoke. You can
Speaker 2: smoke all around, you can burn the toast right underneath
Speaker 2: a fire sprinkler. You're never going to set it off.
Speaker 5: Well, very interesting, very insightful. I really appreciate your time
Speaker 5: about that.
Speaker 2: Do you no problem do you think?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you think those sprinklers would have helped any of
Speaker 5: the victims of the fires protect their.
Speaker 2: Home, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt, not all of them.
Speaker 2: So because well, I'll tell you this. I will tell
Speaker 2: you this in all candor. If a home has, you know,
Speaker 2: all the things being equal, if those homes in the
Speaker 2: Palisades had a combination of the ember resistant vents and
Speaker 2: fire sprinklers for the interior, then most of them would
Speaker 2: have survived. And I'll tell you why. Because the problem
Speaker 2: is either flames getting inside the house or embers getting
Speaker 2: inside the attic. Embers being stopped by getting in the attic.
Speaker 2: That's what ember resistant vents are all about. That's the
Speaker 2: first line of defense. Eight out of ten homes won't
Speaker 2: burn because of mber resist in vents, because eight out
Speaker 2: of ten homes burn not because the fire is there,
Speaker 2: but because the embers have blown in from nearby. So
Speaker 2: the fire resistant vents are number one. That's what keeps
Speaker 2: the flames from starting in the attic. But otherwise one
Speaker 2: the fire actually arrives at a house. Now, the flames
Speaker 2: are just outside the outside of most homes. You know,
Speaker 2: some homes are made out of wood siding and need
Speaker 2: to be protected and upgraded, but most homes, like a
Speaker 2: stucco home, a stucco home is a fire raided hoading
Speaker 2: on the outside of a home. So I've said this before.
Speaker 2: Heat will heat up a window and the glass will
Speaker 2: shatter if it's not fire rated glass. And now the
Speaker 2: flames have a chance to lick inside. But even at
Speaker 2: that flames licking inside a room, that's where the interior
Speaker 2: fire sprinklers would fire. They would feel that temperature heat,
Speaker 2: they would activate and they would keep the flames from
Speaker 2: coming inside the house. The inside of the house is
Speaker 2: the vulnerable spot. The outside of most homes not that vulnerable, Okay,
Speaker 2: not relatively speaking. I'm not saying that they don't burn,
Speaker 2: but they're not that vulnerable. Far far more vulnerable the inside.
Speaker 2: So if you've got a sprinkler system inside damping down
Speaker 2: anything that gets inside the house, your chances of that
Speaker 2: structure surviving are excuse me, frog in my throat, your
Speaker 2: chance of that structure surviving are significantly, significantly increased. Okay.
Speaker 2: You don't have to go through all these wild gizmos
Speaker 2: and creative a so called creative ideas about how to
Speaker 2: protect a home. You just have to follow the basics,
Speaker 2: execute the fundamentals, okay, Ember resistant vents, fire, sprinklers inside
Speaker 2: a home. Brilliant idea. And there you go, John, Thank
Speaker 2: you so much for your call, buddy, really really great questions.
Speaker 2: All right, more, when we return your home with Dean Sharp,
Speaker 2: the house whisper kaf I, Dean Sharp, the house whisper,
Speaker 2: Welcome home. Well, here we are at the end of
Speaker 2: another couple hours spent together, always a pleasure and a privilege.
Speaker 2: I really wanted to talk to you about another historic
Speaker 2: structure in some design News. I think maybe I'll start
Speaker 2: tomorrow's show off with this. I wanted to talk to
Speaker 2: you about Notre Dame, the cathedral in Paris and what
Speaker 2: it has undergone. I wanted to kind of set it
Speaker 2: up as a parallel to Wayfarers, but I also wanted
Speaker 2: to take calls and give you all the info about
Speaker 2: Wayfarer's chapel and what it meant to me and what
Speaker 2: it still means to me. So we will we will
Speaker 2: find the time to do that, and we will do
Speaker 2: it in the big show tomorrow, by the way, Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: in addition to that little bit of design insight in news,
Speaker 2: we're going to be talking about the Consumer Electronics Show, which,
Speaker 2: if you live in southern California, just Bruise, you know,
Speaker 2: just blue By, because our attention has been focused on wildfires.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow the best of CES for Homes. It happened just
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, and I'll give you my
Speaker 2: full review on all the cool stuff that came out
Speaker 2: of CES. There. Big year, Big year for CES. You're
Speaker 2: not going to want to miss it. All the new
Speaker 2: smart home technology that's coming. Plus we'll start with talking
Speaker 2: about Notre Dame Cathedral and some thoughts on that, and
Speaker 2: of course your calls that all happens tomorrow. That's it
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