WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:02.279 Kf I am six forty. 2 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:05.719 You're listening to Dean Sharp the house Whisper on demand 3 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:10.679 on the iHeart radio app. You know, you can follow 4 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:16.079 us on social media. We're on all the usual suspects, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, 5 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:19.559 x Home with Dean is the same handle for them all. 6 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:23.399 Just go there, press follow and you'll you know, you 7 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:25.879 won't get too much stuff from us, just enough. It's 8 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:30.079 all uplifting, informative, good kind of social media. Also, if 9 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:32.719 your home is in need of some personal house Whisper attention, 10 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:35.039 you can book an in home design consult with me 11 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:37.840 and the t or just with Tina. If you don't 12 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:41.240 want me a part of it, just go to house Whisper. 13 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:43.640 I always say that, me and the tea. I'm like, well, 14 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:45.479 what if they just want what if they just want 15 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:48.960 to talk to you? Huh No, no, no, no, let's 16 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:53.920 not exaggerate. Let's let's face the facts. People have often said, 17 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:58.960 Tina's coming right right, and if I say no, They're like, hmm, 18 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:01.399 host poem or cancel. 19 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:03.439 Yeah. 20 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:06.959 Anyway, if that is of interesting, you go to house 21 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:12.319 Whisperer dot design for more information. All right, we're talking 22 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:17.400 about organizing today organizing, and I'm leading you through my 23 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:23.400 little system, as it were, the SIPs system SIPs, which 24 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:28.239 stands for sorting, inventory, purge and store. I'm going to 25 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:30.719 explain more of that and keep going as we go. 26 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:33.879 But it is time. That's right, it's time to go 27 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.159 to the phones find out what's going on with you today. 28 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:39.760 I want to talk to Susan. Ay, Susan, welcome home. 29 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:43.159 Hi Dean, thank you so much for your show and 30 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:46.719 taking my call. Would you give me permission to make 31 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:50.079 a very quick comment about the purge? Uh? 32 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:51.680 Sure, okay. 33 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:55.000 Just this something that has helped me and continues to 34 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:58.280 help me, because it can be really difficult letting go. 35 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:02.439 Is having someone in mind that I know isn't really 36 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:06.640 in need, who doesn't have much of anything, and knowing 37 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:09.400 that this item or these items are going to make 38 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:13.960 a small difference in someone else's life is very, very gratifying, 39 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:16.759 and it's really helpful for me when I have to 40 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:19.080 decide on letting go. That's all I wanted to say. 41 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:23.560 You know what, that's really really good advice, Susan. It 42 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:28.400 reminds me of how I've come to feel about books, 43 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:30.639 because if there's anything that I would tend to hold 44 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:33.159 on to its books because I'm a book nerd. And 45 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:36.919 if I lived in a bigger home, if I lived 46 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:39.159 in one of the big homes that I designed for 47 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:40.639 other people, I'd probably have. 48 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:44.879 A library of my own, just walls and walls of books. 49 00:02:45.039 --> 00:02:48.000 But I'm kind of thankful that I don't, because I've 50 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:52.759 came to the realization a few years back that you know, 51 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:55.000 I could collect all these books and just have them 52 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:57.280 sit on my shelf, or after I've read one and 53 00:02:57.319 --> 00:03:01.120 it's really impacted me, I can donate it or give 54 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:03.919 it away and send it on so that more people 55 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:08.159 can enjoy the thing that affected me so significantly. So 56 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:12.039 you're absolutely right. Having other people in mind and just 57 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:16.120 sharing the love of our stuff is such an important thing. 58 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:17.960 So yeah, full process. 59 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:21.039 By by the way, the rescue mission comes and picks up, 60 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:22.360 it's absolutely amazing. 61 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:26.560 Yeah, absolutely true. Thank you for that. All right, how 62 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:27.199 can I help you? 63 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:31.560 My question is I live in a very dark home. 64 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:35.759 I'm repainting. I want bright, bright white. I know how 65 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:38.199 difficult it is to figure out the right white, so 66 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:41.319 I want to buy a few samples. And I question, 67 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:43.919 and it's a two part question. The first part is 68 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:47.159 do you think buying particle board I guess that's what 69 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:50.240 it's called and painting those and then carrying them around 70 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:54.919 is better than just going all around and painting walls. 71 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:57.919 And then the second part of the question is I 72 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:03.159 can't really afford Benjamin. I think you once suggested decorators white. 73 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:05.800 I know you did. My question is, maybe do you 74 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:10.360 know of a bear b eh or like a very bright, bright, 75 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:13.599 wonderful white that might be similar to decorators white. That 76 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:15.039 those are my two questions. 77 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:17.720 Okay, so let me ask you the second question. 78 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:22.439 First, I have no idea about it, even about you know, 79 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:25.680 if you're to asked Tina, she's sitting right here. When 80 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:29.519 it comes to her husband's ability to rename paint colors 81 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:34.959 from any manufacturing, including Benjamin Moore, I know like five 82 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:40.040 of them, five of them that I can remember, Okay, Okay, Yeah, 83 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:42.000 it's not always decorators white that we use. 84 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:44.839 Yeah, only because sometimes you know, there are may be 85 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:47.399 five different whites that we'll look at, but in one 86 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:49.879 house that looks very different than another house. 87 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:53.439 Right, which leads to other So, first of all, every 88 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:55.959 you know, I always say this, just you know, no 89 00:04:56.079 --> 00:05:00.079 guilt about that use the best paint that you can afford. 90 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:02.959 Of all the major manufact just use the best paint 91 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:06.879 you can afford. They all have a gabillion colors when 92 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:10.319 it comes to tints. And to answer your question, when 93 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:13.439 it comes to you know how to do that, you're 94 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:17.319 right on target. Get to you know whether it's whether 95 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:19.879 it's a piece of cardboard or whether it's a thin 96 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:24.360 piece of masonite, some inexpensive but the largest piece possible. 97 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:28.399 The easiest way to do samples of color in a 98 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:31.240 room other than just putting it up on the wall 99 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:35.240 is to, you know, make a big board and bring 100 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:37.959 it in the room that way. And I love that 101 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:40.160 idea because that way you can move it from one 102 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:42.199 wall to the next. You can look at the way 103 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:44.279 that the light hits it. Here, light hits it there. 104 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:46.319 You can put the two boards next to each other. 105 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:49.560 You can keep the board separated, which is usually the 106 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:51.759 better way to do it. And that's the problem with 107 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:55.120 painting samples on the wall. You'll put one white here 108 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:57.680 and then about four feet away you'll put another white, 109 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:01.439 and actually those two will interact with each other and 110 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:04.480 give you a bias of both of them, because that's 111 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:09.040 the way light works in transmitting color. So I prefer 112 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:13.120 to have as large of a board as possible and 113 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:16.879 bring it into the room by itself, let it stand alone, 114 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:19.560 and then bring the other one in by itself, let 115 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:22.720 it stand alone. Make your decisions that way. If you 116 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:24.439 need to put them next to each other, just to 117 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:27.360 get a sense of which one has more cream in it, 118 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:29.439 which one has more blue in it, that's all well 119 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:32.639 and good. But judge them as independently as possible, and 120 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:35.319 putting them on boards, it's a brilliant way to do it, Susan. 121 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:40.600 Just know that the larger the sample, the more accurate 122 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.000 you're going to get in regard because the mass of 123 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:48.120 any one color in a room changes the color the 124 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:50.160 way that it reacts with the room. So you know, 125 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:52.800 bringing in a little two by two square and taping 126 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:55.040 it to the wall not going to give you a 127 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:57.360 good representation of what that color is going to do 128 00:06:57.399 --> 00:06:59.879 when it's you know, eight by ten. 129 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:03.879 Fantastic. Thank you, perfect, thank you. 130 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:06.759 You are so welcome, Susan. Thank you for the question 131 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:09.639 and for the call, and for the great comment and 132 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:13.639 advice on purging, just passing it along, sharing the love 133 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:14.800 with other people. 134 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:16.800 Such such a good piece of advice. 135 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:19.639 All right, let's take a quick break and when we 136 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:21.360 come back, more of your calls. 137 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:25.759 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 138 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:27.360 KFI AM six forty. 139 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:32.160 Thanks for joining us on the program today. We are 140 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:37.560 talking about organization, purging, organizing storage. We're going to return 141 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:40.600 to that conversation is just a bit, but right now, 142 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:43.639 middle of the show, it's time to take calls. I'm 143 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:46.720 going to the phones. I want to talk to Rod. Hey, Rod, 144 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:47.720 welcome home. 145 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:49.680 Hi Honda. 146 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:50.399 How are you Dean? 147 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:52.959 I am well, sir, How are you doing? 148 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:58.519 Pretty good? Okay? I have a question regarding peers or footing, 149 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:01.920 So it's underneath the how My house obviously has has 150 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:05.040 a chrowned cross space, and I was down there doing 151 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:08.160 something else because I had a leak on my refrigerator. 152 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:10.240 And when I was down there, I noticed that one 153 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:13.800 of the footings and the piers they were like moved 154 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:17.279 over to the left and pretty close to I don't 155 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:21.279 know how close to maybe coming off from holding the beam. 156 00:08:21.639 --> 00:08:23.480 But then I noticed that it wasn't only that one. 157 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:25.759 There was three more like that. But it looks like 158 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:28.920 they're all moved in the same direction, almost like it'll 159 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:31.920 almost say the same distance. They're not leaning, they're not 160 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:35.120 you know, they just seemed to be somebody just shifted 161 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:37.600 them to the left. So I called the company to 162 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:40.000 come and look at it, and they said that there's 163 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:41.960 really you know, the house is not going to come down. 164 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:45.399 There's really not much that needs to be done. They said, 165 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:47.480 we have a minimum of three thousand dollars to do 166 00:08:47.559 --> 00:08:49.480 the work and you don't really need it. You know 167 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:51.120 what you need to do. Then you look at me 168 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:52.759 and it says you could probably go underneath the house 169 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:54.759 and do it yourself with just take a car jack 170 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:59.240 lift them and I would recommend you put the footings. 171 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:04.080 You said. So, I don't know if it's something that 172 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:06.519 I should be concerned about or what can I do 173 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:07.039 about this? 174 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:08.240 All right? 175 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:10.679 My friends? So who did you call to come out? 176 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:13.200 Who came and looked at it? A foundation company? 177 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:18.200 Yeah, they do foundation repairs. And he came inside the 178 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:19.960 house and he did a plumbing saying you know that 179 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:23.519 he plumbed the house and he said everything was fine 180 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:26.480 inside the house. I think that in the living room area, 181 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:28.720 he said there was a it was off by like 182 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:31.120 about a quarter inch, and he said that that's fine, 183 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:33.320 he says, a lot of people would would love to 184 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:36.480 have a quarter inch you know, the off under under house. 185 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:39.679 How old is your hot How old is the house? 186 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:45.679 It's pretty old. It was really in nineteen thirty eight. Yeah, 187 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:46.840 you know, I've been here with all you know, the 188 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:49.320 earthquakes that we had since since the North Reach earthquake. 189 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:52.000 So I don't know if that happened with the earthquakes. 190 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:54.279 You know, I've never begun underneath the house till recently, 191 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:56.519 and that's when I noticed. So who knows how long 192 00:09:56.559 --> 00:09:57.279 that's been like that. 193 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:01.840 Yeah, Well, here's the thing. First of all, that's great news. 194 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:04.559 And if a foundation company has looked under your house 195 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:08.039 and has literally said to you, listen, you don't need us, 196 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:11.919 you could fix this yourself, then you know, I would 197 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:14.240 take that as great news. I would not look at 198 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:17.039 a stack in the mouth, you know, And I think 199 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:20.639 I think they're absolutely right if they've looked at the 200 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:24.600 overall footings. You know, it's a post and beam set 201 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:27.639 up underneath your house, the subfloor. There's beams that are 202 00:10:27.639 --> 00:10:32.080 holding up the floor joists, and there are posts going 203 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:35.480 down to concrete piers that are holding up the beams 204 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:39.399 and quite often in an older home, and twenties home 205 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:46.120 and nineteen thirties home, those posts are barely barely attached 206 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:48.919 to the beams that they're holding up, and barely attached 207 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:52.399 to the to the piers that are that they're sitting on, 208 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:56.080 usually with a couple of nails a toenail into each one, 209 00:10:56.559 --> 00:11:00.399 sometimes not at all, or sometimes the nail has rust 210 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:03.679 it out and so over. You know, what are we 211 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:09.279 talking about ninety years of earthquakes, of vibrating that foundation. 212 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:14.240 Sometimes those piers can just literally the vibration of the 213 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:17.279 ground can cause them to shift left, shift right and 214 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:20.879 either take the posts with them or not. So here 215 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:23.039 is the thing that I would say, if you've got 216 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:26.960 concern about it, then they're absolutely right. You could get 217 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:29.840 under there and switch them out. You can put a 218 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:34.000 little carjack underneath the beam, make sure it's supported, switch 219 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:36.600 out the post, or slide the post over onto the 220 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:39.559 pier better. Or you could replace the piers and the 221 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:42.200 posts with what and this is what I would do 222 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:47.080 with positive connecting hardware. Okay, So in other words, if 223 00:11:47.080 --> 00:11:48.879 you go down to like a place like a big 224 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:52.120 box store, like home depot, right now, look in the 225 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:56.919 building supply department. Right the building materials department, you'll find 226 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:59.720 concrete piers very much like the ones that are underneath 227 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:04.039 your home home, except they've got metal galvanized straps coming 228 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:08.559 out of them, Okay, straps that get positively nailed into 229 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:11.559 the posts that they support. And then if you go 230 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:13.840 over to the hardware section, you can find that same 231 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:17.039 kind of strapping material in a T form, a T 232 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:20.879 shaped strap that would go the top of the T 233 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:25.200 would get nailed in along the beam that the post 234 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:27.720 is holding up and the bottom of the tee which 235 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:31.600 would stretch down and actually connect the top of the post. 236 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:35.720 That's the kind of hardware that we install by code 237 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:40.840 these days for post and boom peer connections. And that's 238 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:46.159 going to guarantee that whatever vibration happens in the future earthquakes, 239 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:49.440 that that post, that peer, and that beam are all 240 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:52.480 going to stay together and nothing's going to fall off 241 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:55.759 or shift sideways. That's all I would recommend. My main 242 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:58.399 concern was going to be, hey, have you had a 243 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:01.000 foundation company look at it? Have they put a level 244 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:04.240 on your floors? And they're absolutely right. You're living in 245 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:06.720 a nineteen thirty eight house, and if you've got one 246 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:09.440 room that might be a quarter of an inch over 247 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:15.080 the course of the room out of level. That's wonderful. 248 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:19.039 Just that, that's wonderful. Just get under there and add 249 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:19.720 some hardware. 250 00:13:21.159 --> 00:13:24.879 Okay, so I just use a regular carjack. 251 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:29.080 Uh yeah, if it'll rely, if it's got a high 252 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:32.639 enough reach. And here's the thing though, use it if 253 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:35.200 you bring a carjack underneath, because they're pretty easy to 254 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:38.120 manipulate underneath the house. If it's got a high enough reach. 255 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:40.039 What you want to do is you want to bring 256 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:45.159 in a plank of you know, maybe like a two 257 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:49.360 by twelve that's three or four feet long that you 258 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:51.720 set the carjack in. So what you don't want to 259 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:53.919 do is you put the carjack in the dirt under 260 00:13:53.960 --> 00:13:56.559 there and start putting pressure on it, because it's just 261 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:59.559 going to push the wheels down into the dirt. So 262 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:02.879 put the carjack on a plank so that you're kind 263 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:06.559 of sitting on a ski as it were, and then 264 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:08.919 you can jack up and you don't need to crank 265 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:11.759 it up like lifting up the house. Okay, all you 266 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:14.240 need to do is get it high enough up there 267 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:17.000 so that you hear that little bit of tension form 268 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:21.200 so that when you move the post over or remove 269 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:24.879 it or replace it, that you know that that the 270 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:26.399 beam isn't going to shift down at all. 271 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:31.240 Great, Okay, well, I'm glad to hear that, and I'm 272 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:32.559 going to see if I could give it a try. 273 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:34.799 If not, maybe have to hire a handyman or something 274 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:35.720 failed me out here. 275 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:40.120 All right, my friend, good luck with that great question. 276 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:41.879 You're very very welcome. Ron. 277 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:46.159 All right, more of your calls when we return. Eileen, 278 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:51.320 excuse me, I just gotta something flew into my throat. 279 00:14:53.159 --> 00:14:56.480 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 280 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:58.000 KFI AM six forty. 281 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:03.759 We're talking an organization, kind of explaining the little system 282 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:06.519 that I've come up with to help you sort of 283 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:09.600 sort and purge and organize your home. We're going to 284 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:11.600 get back to that conversation in just a bit, but 285 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:14.120 it's middle of the show, which means it's time to 286 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:18.879 go back to the phones. I want to talk to Barbara. Hey, Barbara, 287 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:19.799 welcome home. 288 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:22.240 Hy Jane. 289 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:25.360 I called yesterday and then week with the effluorescence under 290 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:27.759 the house, and we addressed that, and I did look 291 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:31.000 up those dehumidifiers that you talked about. So I'm gonna 292 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:34.399 look at getting one of those. But we didn't talk 293 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:38.120 about the Well, there's two things. Today. I had a 294 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:41.080 painters here on Father's Day, and Happy Father's Day. By 295 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:45.200 the way he put the the you know, he used 296 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:47.639 the painting machine and he put it all down the toilet, 297 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:51.120 all the residue of the water, and I started thinking, 298 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:53.840 oh my gosh, this is like this house is fifty 299 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:57.200 five plus years old, and I'm worried that it's going 300 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:00.320 to gum up my pipe. So I started in the 301 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:02.759 toilet and I thought, well, this is cold water, so 302 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:05.840 I have thirty percent vinekar and I did put it 303 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:09.159 in the tank, maybe about three cups, and flustered about 304 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:12.759 five times. And I'm wondering if that's even the right 305 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:15.759 thing to do. I don't know that makes a difference. 306 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:19.120 And my other questions about the orange mold on the outside. 307 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:22.519 I was talking about that, Yesterdavid. It's like we got 308 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:25.919 so in detailed with the cephalores and tissue. So I'm 309 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:28.080 going to take take you up on everything you said, 310 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:30.639 but I need to find out about those two things. 311 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:34.039 Okay, all right, Well, first of all, you know what 312 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:37.639 you bring up one of those what do we call it? 313 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:41.879 One of those gaps in the whole home improvement process, 314 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:46.879 the fact that we often use materials on our home 315 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:53.480 that are that there's excess and the question is what 316 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:56.600 do you do with it? And we're pretty conscientious in 317 00:16:56.639 --> 00:17:00.519 California generally. In fact, the regulations are pretty ricked and 318 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:04.039 rigid when it comes to all sorts of certain kind 319 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:08.799 of construction debris and detritus and leftover things. But this 320 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:13.480 is one of those gaps because here is somebody's paint 321 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:17.079 in your house. Their sprayer needs to be cleared out. 322 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:21.079 The spray has to be cleared, so they blow out 323 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:23.720 the sprayer. They use water to blow out the sprayer, 324 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:27.839 and you end up with wastewater that has paint residue 325 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:28.240 in it. 326 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:30.559 And what do you do with it? You know? 327 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:34.519 I know most painters that I know ask permission from 328 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:37.599 a homeowner to pour it down a sink or flush 329 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:41.119 down a toilet, puts it into the sewer system, It 330 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:45.200 puts it into the water system chemicals that aren't necessarily 331 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:48.799 supposed to be there. But here's the thing, there's no 332 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:53.599 place for a painter to go in most localities. There's 333 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:57.839 no place where they've been ordered collect your paint spray 334 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:02.319 or runoff collected in to you know, a tub or 335 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:06.319 a sealed jug and bring it to such and such 336 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:09.039 a place and deposit it here with us. I mean, 337 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:14.599 there are paint stores technically will take old paint cans 338 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:18.119 full of paint. I suppose I've never actually asked this question. 339 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:20.759 You found a gap in my understanding. I've never asked 340 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:24.160 the question whether paint stores will also take watered down 341 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:27.920 jugs of paint spray or runoff. But I am not 342 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:31.079 familiar in any way, shape or form with a painter 343 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:35.160 who's ever done that kind of thing. And it's just one. 344 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:38.400 It's just one of those things. And I'm sorry to 345 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:44.200 say I don't have a perfect environmentally friendly solution for that. Otherwise, 346 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:47.359 other than maybe that is something that should happen. Maybe 347 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:50.559 maybe painters should collect that stuff and take it to 348 00:18:50.599 --> 00:18:54.279 the paint store along with the other, you know, paint 349 00:18:54.359 --> 00:18:57.039 leftover things. I just don't know about that, but I 350 00:18:57.119 --> 00:19:00.680 will tell you this, as far or is it going 351 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:03.839 down the drain, whether it was a sink or the toilet, 352 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:06.519 you did the right thing, which is to you know, 353 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:09.160 dilute it, keep. 354 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:13.319 Putting the thirty percent down and keep plushing it. It's 355 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:14.200 like vinegar. 356 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:16.640 Yeah you did, fine, you did fine. 357 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:20.319 Vinegar is is not really a solvent, but it is 358 00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:24.160 an acid, and so it does break apart of those things. 359 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:27.000 And the dilution, I mean, it was already diluted when 360 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:29.200 it came out of the sprayer because it was already 361 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:32.319 mixed with water in the sprayer. Plus you went so 362 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:35.880 far as to dilute it even more. And if it 363 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:41.480 was a regular occurrence, you you potentially have issues with 364 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:44.599 that if it was a regular occurrence down your pipes 365 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:49.200 with you know, painters, painters, fine fine art painters often 366 00:19:49.240 --> 00:19:51.759 find their pipes getting clogged at their home because they're 367 00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:55.480 constantly washing out their brushes and stuff in their own 368 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:58.079 sewer system. But the one off every once in a 369 00:19:58.079 --> 00:20:03.039 while just because you were having your house being painted, 370 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:06.000 not a problem. It's not a problem for your pipes. 371 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:07.880 Don't worry about it. You did the right thing. You 372 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:10.039 ran a lot of water after the fact, and it's 373 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:11.680 not going to become an issue. 374 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:12.519 So there you go. 375 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:18.880 What's the mold issue? Then? What about that? I'm so 376 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:23.880 worried about this whole thing. They look like okay, they 377 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:27.400 look like avocado pits that are that are kind of 378 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:32.039 orangey colored purplish orange and outside and again I have 379 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:36.039 a lot of sand and soil up against the stucco 380 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:40.119 flash foundation. I actually took a shovey the other day 381 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:42.599 and we did put weed stop back there, and I 382 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:47.000 think the weeds stop with the I have what's it 383 00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:51.640 called Lake Tahoe gravel. It's like a polished stone in 384 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:54.000 my backyard. And it's a three level yard, so I 385 00:20:54.039 --> 00:20:57.160 have like like areas that are like three level and 386 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:00.640 it goes. I'm the one that has the f inside 387 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:03.160 of the house, so that's the side that gets all 388 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:05.599 the moisture, right. I don't have anywhere else but on 389 00:21:05.640 --> 00:21:08.640 the back side of this house, And so I took 390 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:12.480 a shovel pulled some of the sand slash dirt away 391 00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:16.319 from the stucco to let that dry. I actually have 392 00:21:16.440 --> 00:21:20.519 a really heavy dety tart kind of plastic tarp over it, 393 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:23.200 so it still gets sun. But I don't want any 394 00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:26.680 more moisture because we have fog every single day. And 395 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:31.400 so it's like, is I haven't seen any more of 396 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:35.279 those bulbs come up since I've been doing this. My 397 00:21:35.480 --> 00:21:39.680 question is should I keep that dirt away, get rid 398 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:42.920 of it? And well, sand, flash dirt and just get 399 00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:46.039 straight dirt and put it up there against the house. 400 00:21:46.079 --> 00:21:48.400 So I don't get those kinds of things or do 401 00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:50.759