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Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 2: There's one call here. I know there's a ton of
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Speaker 2: you know you got a chance. Okay, let's talk to Robert. Hey, Robert,
Speaker 2: my one caller this morning. How you doing, Welcome home.
Speaker 3: Thanks, good morning.
Speaker 2: Dean.
Speaker 3: Got a little question on my backyard. I've got a
Speaker 3: typical southern California track home. I got about a six
Speaker 3: hundred square foot backyard, and during COVID, we put in
Speaker 3: the sod, you know, we did the sprinklers in the
Speaker 3: sod and put in the grass in the backyard. Well, now,
Speaker 3: over the several years, it seems to have had has
Speaker 3: like maybe I didn't compact it enough, but it's got
Speaker 3: a lot of dips and valleys and little holes and
Speaker 3: stuff under the grass where you can't see it, but
Speaker 3: when you walk across it you can feel uneven. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was wondering what your recommendation would be to kind
Speaker 3: of maybe or if there is a fix.
Speaker 2: There is actually now you know, unfortunately it's a little
Speaker 2: bit tedious if you got a lot of these going on.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing, Robert, what you need to understand
Speaker 2: about your grass. Yes, grass is like every blade of
Speaker 2: grass is technically kind of its own plant. Okay, but
Speaker 2: as you know, you did sod, right, you didn't grow
Speaker 2: it from seed, you did sod.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we did the sod.
Speaker 2: So as you know that that beds of grass they have,
Speaker 2: they've got about a one to two inch root base
Speaker 2: of soil that they're hanging on to. And uh, you
Speaker 2: know that grass was just happily growing in another field somewhere,
Speaker 2: you know, a day before they cut it and removed
Speaker 2: it and brought it to your house. Okay. So the
Speaker 2: fact of the matter is you could do the exact
Speaker 2: same right now with your own grass, uh, if you
Speaker 2: wanted to. So, let me explain two ways. Number one,
Speaker 2: everybody should know you can rent a sod cutter these
Speaker 2: days at a good rental yard. I think you can
Speaker 2: rent them at like if your local home depot has
Speaker 2: a has a rental tool rental department, you can rent
Speaker 2: a homeowner version of a sod cutter that will literally
Speaker 2: do exactly what they did to your grass when they
Speaker 2: cut it and brought it to your house. You can
Speaker 2: cut your sad, lay it aside, roll it up, lay
Speaker 2: it aside, and do whatever you need to do, whether
Speaker 2: it's leveling the ground better underneath it, or doing more
Speaker 2: prep work, or because you had a broken sprinkler line
Speaker 2: and you had to get in there, or some you know,
Speaker 2: whatever the case may be. For whatever reason, that plant
Speaker 2: can be transplanted, which means cutting it, rolling it up,
Speaker 2: keeping it moist, getting the work done, and then rolling
Speaker 2: it back down and treating it like brand new sad again.
Speaker 2: So you just know that you could pull your whole
Speaker 2: yard up, you know, in a portion of a day
Speaker 2: with a sad cutter and get back to the soil
Speaker 2: if there are things that if you wanted, if there
Speaker 2: were so many of these divots and unevennesses, you could
Speaker 2: just pull up the whole yard and re level the
Speaker 2: subsoil underneath it so that you know, make sure it's
Speaker 2: nice and compacted well, and and so you know you're
Speaker 2: ready to lay it back down. It's going to be smooth.
Speaker 2: If it's just a few you can do it by hand. Okay,
Speaker 2: you can use just literally. There's a there's a there's
Speaker 2: a tool car called a gardening knife that basically looks
Speaker 2: almost looks like a six inch gardening spade, but it
Speaker 2: has like saw teeth on one side, and it's not
Speaker 2: really as fully a spade. You can cut around a
Speaker 2: section of grass. Cut. Let's say you cut out a
Speaker 2: two foot section of grass and then start sliding it
Speaker 2: underneath down at that two inches, get you know, a
Speaker 2: good amount of soil underneath where the roots are really grabbing,
Speaker 2: and you can remove a square oh grass and deal
Speaker 2: with the affected area and then lay it back down. Okay,
Speaker 2: And you got to do it carefully, and you want
Speaker 2: to do it wisely, and then you want to make
Speaker 2: sure that it gets extra water, you know, because you
Speaker 2: have cut some of the roots, uh, and just nurture
Speaker 2: it back into shape. But the fact is, yes, you
Speaker 2: can go ahead and repair the worst of the divots
Speaker 2: by hand if you want, or just roll up your lawn,
Speaker 2: fix the whole thing, and roll it back down again.
Speaker 3: Now I did see. Now I don't know if this
Speaker 3: might just be for different climates, like maybe back east
Speaker 3: they've taken like a sand and kind of gone through
Speaker 3: the grass and kind of added sand and then it
Speaker 3: kind of grows back up through Is that an option?
Speaker 2: Is that it's it's it's a it's a procedure that
Speaker 2: I wouldn't recommend for a homeowner to do. And uh,
Speaker 2: and it's it's yeah, it's kind of a it's a
Speaker 2: it's a weird kind of situation where they lay sand,
Speaker 2: they kind of massage it into the scalp, as it were,
Speaker 2: to use the the uh hair analogy for your lawn.
Speaker 2: Massage it into the scalp, and then they'll grab certain
Speaker 2: sections and pull it up in the hopes that the
Speaker 2: sand actually it gets underneath. Okay, So and sand is
Speaker 2: a good way of doing it. It's an easy way
Speaker 2: of leveling. I just think you're better to pull a
Speaker 2: flap back, okay, as opposed to trying to massage it
Speaker 2: in from the surface, because the problem is if too
Speaker 2: much stays on the surface, then you could be getting
Speaker 2: in the way of sunlight and water penetration and that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. And we've seen people try that method
Speaker 2: and they're like, oh, I've got now, I've got a
Speaker 2: yellow patch of dead grass here and it didn't work out.
Speaker 2: It's level, but it's dead. So I'd rather have you
Speaker 2: make a nice, clean incision as it were. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I've got surgeries on my mind because of Tina this week,
Speaker 2: But make a clean incision and pull that back just
Speaker 2: like regular sod. And that's really the message that your
Speaker 2: lawn is still no matter how long it's been there,
Speaker 2: it is still entirely a flexible living skin, as it were,
Speaker 2: that can be carefully pulled back, things fixed underneath and
Speaker 2: put back in place. We do it, Robert, all the time,
Speaker 2: in order to install soaker lines underneath and eliminate the
Speaker 2: need for sprinklers altogether. So it's totally totally doable, my friend.
Speaker 2: Just do a little research, take a careful approach, and
Speaker 2: uh yeah, get it leveled out.
Speaker 3: Well. Thank you, and you guys have a great Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much, Robert, you too, and thanks
Speaker 2: for your call. And guess what I asked for calls?
Speaker 2: Now we've got like ten plus on the board. So
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Speaker 2: But suddenly, because I asked, we've got a board full
Speaker 2: of calls.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Now I'm not going to get through them all, but
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try. I'm gonna do my best, all right,
Speaker 2: So we're gonna to go back to the phones. Let's
Speaker 2: talk to is it Marissa? Marissa welcome home, Hi, Geene,
Speaker 2: appreciate you, Thank you so much. How can I help?
Speaker 4: I have property in the Conejo West facing hot and
Speaker 4: sunny and dry, and we get the mustard every year
Speaker 4: that we need to clear out. And I'm wanting if
Speaker 4: there's any ground cover, like under two feet that I
Speaker 4: could plant throughout hardy and and I need some suggestions
Speaker 4: for that chow.
Speaker 2: Okay, So we're not talking about lawn, and we're talking
Speaker 2: about like back slope of your property or where exactly
Speaker 2: side hillside.
Speaker 4: It's like a slope off the property.
Speaker 2: Okay. So you've got a typical kind of pushed up
Speaker 2: against open space. You got to slug, you got your yard,
Speaker 2: and then you've got the backslope. And of course, yes, sir,
Speaker 2: you are constantly being invaded by mustard plants.
Speaker 4: Yep, we have to cut it every years. It's pricey hassle.
Speaker 4: But I'm just wondering if we could choke that stuff
Speaker 4: out somehow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can certainly reduce it quite a bit, quite
Speaker 2: a bit of reduction. I'm not I'm not going to
Speaker 2: give you any panacea here that like, oh, this will
Speaker 2: solve the problem completely, because you know, because here's the reality.
Speaker 2: About weeds. Uh, they've just learned to survive better than
Speaker 2: normal plants. This is literally, I mean if you were
Speaker 2: a plant, you know, as a human being, we would think, oh,
Speaker 2: nobody wants to be a weed. But if you were
Speaker 2: a plant, and you'd be like, yeah, oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: I'm a weed, which means I know to grow way
Speaker 2: better than you guys, and I can grow anywhere at
Speaker 2: any time and survive all the other You know, weeds
Speaker 2: are like the cockroaches of the plant world in that
Speaker 2: they want to survive the nuclear holocaust, right.
Speaker 3: They have.
Speaker 2: They've simply evolved to do it. So so the idea
Speaker 2: of like we'd free we'd free gardening, eye, I don't know,
Speaker 2: we'ed reduction garden. That's the thing. And so yeah, for you,
Speaker 2: the key is, I think you're thinking the right way.
Speaker 2: There are a host of I mean so many more
Speaker 2: than than I could even begin to mention to you,
Speaker 2: of plants that are going to grow in the in
Speaker 2: the one to two foot high category. So when it
Speaker 2: comes to a back hill you what you want is
Speaker 2: some kind of rugged chaparral kind of plant. There are
Speaker 2: there are if you go to your local nursery and
Speaker 2: I don't mean, let's see you live in the Caneo Valley.
Speaker 2: I'm going to recommend that you go to Elegant Gardens.
Speaker 2: Elegant Gardens off the twenty three and Tierra Rahata. It's
Speaker 2: a wholesale nursery that contractors and designers like ourselves buy
Speaker 2: from all the time and talk to them about and
Speaker 2: they're going to show you like ten different very very
Speaker 2: easy to care for, drought resistant, full sun, doesn't burn
Speaker 2: in the heat of the summer, kind of shrubs. But
Speaker 2: here's the key. You're on the right track. That's how
Speaker 2: I'm gonna encourage you this morning. Because most people think groundcover.
Speaker 2: They're thinking thin, thin, relatively thin ground cover, whether it's
Speaker 2: ice plant or this or that, you know whatever. These
Speaker 2: one to two inch groundcovers, those are the hardest ones
Speaker 2: to keep weeds from invading. Because you think the little
Speaker 2: seed of a weed falls into the ground and it
Speaker 2: starts to grow, and if it gets even the smallest,
Speaker 2: little one inch tall sprout up through the ground cover
Speaker 2: into its own light, then then it's on its own.
Speaker 2: Then it's now it's it's got its head above water,
Speaker 2: and it's got its own source of sunlight and it's going,
Speaker 2: and that weed is going to go. But on a hillside, especially,
Speaker 2: you know, an untended area, you do you want something
Speaker 2: between a foot to two feet of cover there. And
Speaker 2: the reason is the weed seeds are going to fall
Speaker 2: in just like they do everywhere else, but they're going
Speaker 2: to be in the dark. They literally have to find
Speaker 2: a way to be in darkness, which is not how
Speaker 2: they grow for the first twelve inches of their growth.
Speaker 2: It's virtually impossible, but it still does happen, but really
Speaker 2: really super rare. And so the number of weeds that
Speaker 2: will survive that first twelve full inches of growth before
Speaker 2: they get their own leaves above the shrub line so
Speaker 2: that they can continue to prosper on their own vastly, vastly,
Speaker 2: vastly reduced. And so it's a long list, and that's
Speaker 2: the good news. You can also check out Theodore Paine
Speaker 2: Foundation in Sun Valley. They exist solely solely for the
Speaker 2: purpose of propagating native southern California plants. And I'm telling you, mersa, there,
Speaker 2: there are there. There's at least ten different kinds and
Speaker 2: that you can choose from to put there. But that's
Speaker 2: the right idea. The right idea is to have height
Speaker 2: above these weeds so that they don't have a chance
Speaker 2: to get started in the first place. You're not going
Speaker 2: to stop the seeds from falling, but you can stop
Speaker 2: the plant from finding its way up because it's got
Speaker 2: to go so far before it breaks out. I hope
Speaker 2: that makes sense, right, everybody? Right? The logic of that, Yeah,
Speaker 2: as opposed to like a half an inch of growth. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's why. All right, Thank you so much for your call.
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Speaker 5: Home, Good morning, Well, thank you, good morning, Gane. We
Speaker 5: live in San Diego in a two story home about
Speaker 5: eighteen hundred square feet. I'm wondering about the most reasonable
Speaker 5: economical solution for attic insulation, and once we get attic
Speaker 5: insulation about nine hundred square feet up there. Should we
Speaker 5: at the same time, do the interior walls, particularly the
Speaker 5: second floor.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, attic insulation best attic insulation that well, yeah,
Speaker 2: the best attic insulation that is the best value for
Speaker 2: what it does, is going to be blown in insulation.
Speaker 2: A nice, big, old, thick blanket of blown in. It's
Speaker 2: counterintuitive as to what people normally see when they dream
Speaker 2: of attic space, because they're like, I would like my
Speaker 2: attic to look like that. You know that Hallmark Christmas movie,
Speaker 2: you know when they go up in the attic and
Speaker 2: they sit there and they search through the chests and
Speaker 2: they find the old photos. That's all well and good.
Speaker 2: But in the real world here in southern California, especially,
Speaker 2: leave your attic messy, don't worry about that, don't store
Speaker 2: stuff up there. Put the insulation up there. And blown
Speaker 2: in is best because it covers everything. It gets all
Speaker 2: the way out to the edges, it covers all the
Speaker 2: tops of the wood ceiling joists. It truly makes an
Speaker 2: effective blanket. Whereas some people would think, well, I just
Speaker 2: want to run it again, nice and neat and clean,
Speaker 2: so I'm gonna use roll bat insulation in there that
Speaker 2: fits in between all the wood, and at least that
Speaker 2: means I could put a plywood platform and have some
Speaker 2: things and whatever. The problem is that that bad insulation
Speaker 2: number one is very very difficult to get it all
Speaker 2: the way over to the edge of the where the
Speaker 2: roof joins the top of the wall, so it leaves
Speaker 2: a hole. It's very very difficult to get it around
Speaker 2: recess can lights and other things, so it leaves a hole.
Speaker 2: And every single bat that fits in between the wood
Speaker 2: joists doesn't go over the wood joist, so the joist
Speaker 2: itself is essentially an insulating hole. And to maximize insulation
Speaker 2: in a house, especially at an insulation, we don't want
Speaker 2: any holes. You think of it like a boat, an
Speaker 2: inverted boat. We don't want anything leaking through. You could
Speaker 2: have the most brilliant, thickest strong titanic, like you know,
Speaker 2: hull of a ship, but you know, once there's a
Speaker 2: hole in it, it's going down and so blown in,
Speaker 2: which also happens to be the least expensive way of
Speaker 2: getting insulation in your attic. In fact, blown in these
Speaker 2: days a lot of people decide to di wyatt because
Speaker 2: places like well big box stores like Lows and Home Depot.
Speaker 2: They actually will rent you a blower, and if you
Speaker 2: rent the blower for a day, they even throw in
Speaker 2: a few cubes of insulation for free to get you started.
Speaker 2: So you can control the depth. You can overdo it,
Speaker 2: which is never a bad thing, and it can be
Speaker 2: one and done and you're set. And when it comes
Speaker 2: to blown in, fiberglass is fine. I've got no particular
Speaker 2: issues with it. I prefer cellulose myself as the material
Speaker 2: to blown in to blow in, But either way, blown
Speaker 2: in blanket of insulation in the attic is your best value,
Speaker 2: and I believe your overall best form of insulation unless
Speaker 2: you're going to do something much more expensive like filling
Speaker 2: up the rafter bays with foam insulation. So blown in
Speaker 2: that's the way to go.
Speaker 5: Okay. And then so the cellulose, is that the kind
Speaker 5: that they blow in and it expands that foamy stuff
Speaker 5: that it spans.
Speaker 2: No, No, that's that's that's a whole different animal there.
Speaker 2: Cellulose and fiberglass. They will blow in and they will
Speaker 2: essentially look the same. One is made out of shreds
Speaker 2: of fiber. As you know, shred fiberus shreds of glass.
Speaker 2: The other is made out of a paper product that
Speaker 2: is treated with borates and acetate that are that are
Speaker 2: you know, moisture resistant, rodent resistant, uh and a little
Speaker 2: bit more dense. And so for for lesser inches you
Speaker 2: can get you know, higher R value of insulation up
Speaker 2: there plus no glass. So there's dust, there's dust, there's
Speaker 2: a dust content up there, but there's no glass shreds,
Speaker 2: so that if you have to get in the attic
Speaker 2: or somebody has to get up there and service it,
Speaker 2: it doesn't make you itch and irritate the skin the
Speaker 2: same way got it.
Speaker 5: And for the interior walls, we have a guest bedroom
Speaker 5: closet that butts up against the guest bedroom bathroom the
Speaker 5: wall in between, so I was thinking for noise baffling
Speaker 5: of maybe having that insulated and then the guests. The
Speaker 5: other wall of the guest bathroom blots up against the
Speaker 5: master bath. That's where the plumbing chase is. So I
Speaker 5: was curious about insulation in those two walls. So essentially
Speaker 5: it's bedroom, guest bath, master bath, you.
Speaker 2: Know, master bedroom. I'm a huge proponent of interior wall insulation,
Speaker 2: but just to be clear, for everybody. We're not talking
Speaker 2: about thermal insulation. When it comes to interior walls, we
Speaker 2: don't need to worry about thermal. But it's all about
Speaker 2: sound and just keeping a room quiet, one room quiet
Speaker 2: from another room, and layer upon layer room for room
Speaker 2: from I mean, it's a brilliant thing and it's something
Speaker 2: that we always do with all of our clients. It's
Speaker 2: one of the things that kind of sets them apart
Speaker 2: and gives them that much more of an awesome house
Speaker 2: when it's done. So any wall that you can do
Speaker 2: problem walls, and then in the future, you know, anytime,
Speaker 2: anytime you've got drywall off the wall, do not put
Speaker 2: that wall back together without slapping some insulation in there.
Speaker 2: And the insulation you want is rock wool insulation, and
Speaker 2: I think it's rock Sol the brand that we normally
Speaker 2: use ro o x ul, but but you know they've
Speaker 2: changed names a little bit recently. But here's what your
Speaker 2: mineral wool insulation. And I believe the kind that you
Speaker 2: want is safe n sound, safe and sound and it's
Speaker 2: literally there doesn't have a massive R value, but it's
Speaker 2: there intentionally designed to be sound baffling insulation.
Speaker 3: Perfect.
Speaker 5: Well, I thank you so much.
Speaker 2: All right, and I think we'll get it.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, professional installation, and we're getting quotes anywhere from
Speaker 5: seven dollars per square foot to fourteen dollars per square foot,
Speaker 5: any price point we should be aware of.
Speaker 2: You know, it varies for house to house. So the
Speaker 2: thing you should do is just do what you're doing.
Speaker 2: Get those multiple quotes, Get as many quotes as you
Speaker 2: can tolerate getting, and you will find the right price points.
Speaker 2: Starts to form up for you. And it's like a
Speaker 2: big ven diagram, so you know you'll see it as
Speaker 2: it develops. That's the best way of knowing what the
Speaker 2: right price is because different conditions vary from house to house,
Speaker 2: so I can't just quote you it should be this.
Speaker 2: Just get a bunch of quotes from reputable companies. You'll
Speaker 2: see them starting to clump together in one zone and
Speaker 2: you'll know like, oh, yeah, it's clearly it should be
Speaker 2: this price. And thank you so much for your call,
Speaker 2: my friend, and thanks for listening to the show. And
Speaker 2: when we return, I'll try and tackle at least a
Speaker 2: couple of more can't buy ben chart of the house
Speaker 2: Whisper welcome home. We're wrapping up another Saturday together. I
Speaker 2: asked for calls. You gave me calls. I got a
Speaker 2: board full of calls. I want to try and take
Speaker 2: at least one more before we're out of here, maybe two,
Speaker 2: who knows. Let's go to Terry. Hey, Terry, welcome home.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, see, my house is coald. I have no attic,
Speaker 6: and I close off the vents and the rooms we
Speaker 6: don't use. I have to go outside to get warm.
Speaker 6: I understand. The only thing I can do is poke
Speaker 6: holes in the wall. Is that right?
Speaker 2: You mean as far as adding insulation. Are you saying
Speaker 2: you don't have insulation in the house?
Speaker 6: No, I have no attic.
Speaker 2: Oh you got no attic? Right? Okay?
Speaker 6: Ceilings. It's a four bedroom, so I close off rooms,
Speaker 6: and I closed the vents in the rooms we don't use,
Speaker 6: and I try to conserve the heat.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, first of all, I wouldn't do that, Okay,
Speaker 2: I would not. When it comes to your your heating system,
Speaker 2: it was designed to breathe fully through all of those rooms,
Speaker 2: as opposed to it being shut down, so longer term
Speaker 2: use of heat.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I know it sounds a little counterintuitive, but your heating
Speaker 2: system really is designed. I don't want to put undue
Speaker 2: stress on it. And when we close off a duct
Speaker 2: at the vent at the very very end, back pressure
Speaker 2: can build up and it can affect the way the
Speaker 2: entire system is working in the house. So I wouldn't
Speaker 2: close off the rooms. Right, You've got a leaky house,
Speaker 2: I understand, I get it, But I would keep the
Speaker 2: whole house breathing for the sake of your heating as
Speaker 2: far as that is concerned. Now, as far as insulation
Speaker 2: in your attic is concerned, which you don't have. You
Speaker 2: don't have an attic space. Yes, the way to insulate
Speaker 2: a ceiling up above you, you're going to have to
Speaker 2: get access to the space in between those rafters. And
Speaker 2: the only way, there's only two ways to get access.
Speaker 2: Either you've got to drill a hole into the dry
Speaker 2: wall and pump insulation in. There will be multiple holes
Speaker 2: to do that to pump insulation into that void. Or
Speaker 2: the drywalls just got to come down and then and
Speaker 2: then fill those rafter bays with bats of insulation and
Speaker 2: or foam and close it all back up again. And
Speaker 2: I know that's inconvenient and it's pricey, but that's simply
Speaker 2: the truth about how to get how to get insulation
Speaker 2: in the house.
Speaker 6: Where is that area where you have to go into.
Speaker 2: Well, it's literally every every bay, every space in between
Speaker 2: the roof rafters up on your ceiling there, and it's
Speaker 2: literally every sixteen inches. Yeah, it's a whole thing. It's
Speaker 2: a whole that's why. That's why I'm so upset with
Speaker 2: homes that were built without insulation in them when they
Speaker 2: were built, because it was so easy to add when
Speaker 2: it was all opened up. In the meantime, though, Terry,
Speaker 2: let me tell you this, in the meantime, you don't
Speaker 2: choke off the heating system for the house. Okay. And
Speaker 2: here's a good piece of advice for anybody who's living
Speaker 2: in a leaky place and you want to stay warm.
Speaker 2: You should not have to go outside to stay warm
Speaker 2: to get warm, all right, So here, but here's the reality.
Speaker 2: Space heating in each room or or a portable space
Speaker 2: heater you can carry with you. And and let me
Speaker 2: be really clear about this. What you want is you
Speaker 2: want to get a infrared space heater infrared, okay. And
Speaker 2: the reason is this, You want to get a good
Speaker 2: infrared space heater because infrared waves they don't heat the air,
Speaker 2: they heat you Okay, So when you're in a room
Speaker 2: with an infrared space heater, you will be warm. You
Speaker 2: will get warm even without the heavy lift of having
Speaker 2: to bring all of that cubic air of in the
Speaker 2: room up to temperature. Okay, when you go out, when
Speaker 2: you eat at a restaurant, okay, and I gotta, I
Speaker 2: gotta rush out of here because we're literally at the edge.
Speaker 2: What you know, when you go outside and you eat
Speaker 2: at a restaurant at night, right, and those space heaters
Speaker 2: that are out there, not just the ones with the flame,
Speaker 2: but you know, the free standing ones with the little
Speaker 2: cap on top, or maybe there's those bar heaters that
Speaker 2: are running underneath a patio wanting if you ever thought
Speaker 2: about this, those heaters are not heating up the air
Speaker 2: it's outside. Okay, that would be a massive heater to
Speaker 2: actually heat the air outside. But what they are infrared.
Speaker 2: Infrared waves get under your skin and uh and warm
Speaker 2: you up. So infrared heaters heat you and that's why
Speaker 2: it's comfortable to sit out on a patio with one
Speaker 2: of those heaters nearby. If you were actually to measure
Speaker 2: the air temperature around you, it's not that much different
Speaker 2: than the rest of the cold everywhere outside of that patio.
Speaker 2: But you your plenty warm because they heat you. And
Speaker 2: so if you live in an impossibly leaky cold space
Speaker 2: and it just literally is going to you have to
Speaker 2: mortgage the house in order to pay the heating bill.
Speaker 2: Number one, Save up and think about what it takes
Speaker 2: to retrofit insulation. Call insulation companies get quotes. But in
Speaker 2: the interim, and you're in a cold room, infrared space heater,
Speaker 2: get it near you. You'll be cozy even if the
Speaker 2: room doesn't increase in temperature. Thank you, Terry for your call.
Speaker 2: That's all I had time for today. I am so
Speaker 2: grateful for those of you who respond. You know, at
Speaker 2: the top of the show, I'm like, you know, only
Speaker 2: got a couple of calls here on the board, and
Speaker 2: you've got room, and now I have to let some
Speaker 2: of you go. Just know, if you call back, then
Speaker 2: you let producer Richie know that you were on hold
Speaker 2: before and I didn't get you, and you get you
Speaker 2: get priority access to the front of the line. All right,
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