Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The
Speaker 1: House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. I
Speaker 1: am Dean Sharp the House Whisper. I design custom homes,
Speaker 1: I build custom homes, and I'm your guide to better
Speaker 1: understanding that place where you live today. On the show,
Speaker 1: Part two, we're taking the first weekend in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five and I'm just getting you equipped equipped with what tools?
Speaker 1: Just tools? Okay, yeah, we're not going starting with high
Speaker 1: brow design concepts. We're just talking about tools. And the
Speaker 1: particular list that I'm handing to you this weekend is
Speaker 1: what I call a reactive tool set. And what that
Speaker 1: means is this is not a set of tools designed
Speaker 1: around a project that you're going to start to build,
Speaker 1: because that will determine the project, will determine the tools
Speaker 1: necessary to get that done. You know, whatever kind of
Speaker 1: saw you need, or this or that or the other thing.
Speaker 1: You know, this set of tools is your basic, essential
Speaker 1: homeowner tool set that you react to things going wrong
Speaker 1: with right, your reactive set of tools. It's the tools
Speaker 1: that are there when something breaks, when something gets loose,
Speaker 1: when something starts squeaking, when something gets wobbly, you know,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: That's the essential tools that we're talking about today. And
Speaker 1: of course we will also take your calls. I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: Good morning Elmer, Good morning Dean, morning doing good.
Speaker 1: Thank you. How's your what's your new y what's your
Speaker 1: biggest New year resolution? Yeah, right on, right on, You've
Speaker 1: got it. You know, it's a master piece in the making.
Speaker 1: My friend, Oh, don't take that. I just caught him
Speaker 1: flat footed. Help you.
Speaker 2: It's it's a bunch, you know what I mean, plans
Speaker 2: work on bigger projects. Here you go go to the
Speaker 2: Dominican Republic with my family, you know, just kind of
Speaker 2: everyone back together.
Speaker 1: You know that'd be awesome, everybody getting back home, just
Speaker 1: a little visit exactly. Yeah, sweet sweet h I should
Speaker 1: ask Richie, but he's nowhere in your microphone, so we'll
Speaker 1: we will find out, Hey, Richie, once you send me
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Speaker 1: New Year's resolution, all everybody you know. And then there's
Speaker 1: Eileen Gonzalez at the news desk. Good morning, Eileen, Good
Speaker 1: morning sunshine. How's it going when you call me that?
Speaker 1: It's hilarious because it's not how I feel.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: What is your Do you have a a resolution this year?
Speaker 4: I don't do resolutions. I set goals for the year
Speaker 4: because those are right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, it's just.
Speaker 4: Doing things for my health, work and relationships.
Speaker 1: Well, there you go, you've hit the trifecta. She's got plans.
Speaker 1: Eileen has plans. That's what I like.
Speaker 4: Listen in goals, that's my thing.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, one of my great goals in life
Speaker 1: is sitting across the table from me. I did it
Speaker 1: check that box? My better half, my best buddy in
Speaker 1: all the world, my design partner, the co owner, co
Speaker 1: founder of house Whisper Tina is here. No, there you go.
Speaker 1: It is one of your goals to have a different
Speaker 1: spirit animal this year other than the elephant. We're keeping
Speaker 1: the elephant.
Speaker 4: Elephant.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're keeping the elephant. So you got any resolutions
Speaker 1: for the new year?
Speaker 3: I do, Oh, they sound private. I wouldn't call them resolutions.
Speaker 3: Like Eileen said, I think, I think goals. I think
Speaker 3: short term and long term goals. Obviously, health is always
Speaker 3: a factor, and especially after what I went through this year,
Speaker 3: I think focusing on my health even more.
Speaker 1: Right, you got hit with that unexpected surgery that you're
Speaker 1: you're covering amazingly from.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think a lot of the fact that
Speaker 3: I have built healthy goals has helped me to recover
Speaker 3: more quickly, and that's really exciting to think. Wow, you know,
Speaker 3: because I'm in such healthy, fit shape that my body
Speaker 3: was able.
Speaker 4: To bounce back pretty quickly. And that's that's great.
Speaker 1: You are fit? Yeah, yeah, you are.
Speaker 3: My heart is healthy, so yeah, those are so health
Speaker 3: I think first also, just fit all right there, fit,
Speaker 3: flow it down.
Speaker 4: This is a family show, guys.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised you didn't pick up on that when I
Speaker 1: first said it.
Speaker 4: Oh I did. I just let it go. That's how
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 1: Let it just let's just let it go back.
Speaker 4: It'll just float away.
Speaker 1: Like so many anythings that Dean says. All right, everybody,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you're with us this morning. The team
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Speaker 1: Let's dive into part two of the essential tool list
Speaker 1: for you and for your home this year. We'll do
Speaker 1: it right after.
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Speaker 1: Forty joking on my coffee and also here to help
Speaker 1: you take your house to the next level. I can
Speaker 1: do both at the same time. That's talent. I can
Speaker 1: help you change your life at home and choke on
Speaker 1: my coffee simultaneously. Let's let's resolve one of them at
Speaker 1: least here. Hang on, Okay, all right, I'm fine, No,
Speaker 1: I'm fine. Really, we are talking about the essential tools
Speaker 1: for your household today. It's not a long list. It's
Speaker 1: about thirty items or so. And they can all fit
Speaker 1: in a bucket or two. And if you are wondering
Speaker 1: why would I put my tools in a bucket, then
Speaker 1: you need to watch yesterday's episode a yesterday's show, find
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Speaker 1: Yesterday's show was part one. This is part two, so
Speaker 1: you're only going to hear some of the tools today
Speaker 1: and the rest were yesterday. Okay, let's die back into
Speaker 1: the oh oh oh, by the way, because I keep
Speaker 1: my promises here hang on Producer Richie's resolutions for the
Speaker 1: New Year. More travel this year Belgium, Amsterdam and Switzerland.
Speaker 1: Is that all going to be one trip? That could
Speaker 1: that actually could all be one trip? But or you
Speaker 1: just divide it up, just say, hey, I'm going three times,
Speaker 1: but that's a night. We have friends, very very dear
Speaker 1: friends who lived in Amsterdam for years and years and
Speaker 1: years decades that and we would go visit them. Off in.
Speaker 1: Amsterdam is a cool town and it's also an insane
Speaker 1: place for New Year's Oh my gosh, insane.
Speaker 3: That should be your bucket list, Richie, go to Amsterdam
Speaker 3: for New Years.
Speaker 1: Say you've never seen a New Year's life.
Speaker 3: It is definitely one of those bucket lists things to do.
Speaker 4: It's unreal.
Speaker 1: There are virtually no regulations about the use of fireworks,
Speaker 1: and all of the fireworks in Amsterdam are this amazing
Speaker 1: high quality German fireworks, like like artillery, I mean, crazy stuff. Anyway,
Speaker 1: more more stories.
Speaker 4: There are lots of drunk people playing with very intense.
Speaker 1: Surprisingly surprisingly, you know, all night long, we didn't hear
Speaker 1: any ambulances running. Maybe they just shut down the ambulance.
Speaker 1: You know, you lose an arm. Deal, we'll catch you
Speaker 1: the next morning. Anyway, it's a good thing. Okay, back
Speaker 1: to the list. Where are we at on the list?
Speaker 1: We're up to pliers pliers. What's the difference between a
Speaker 1: plier uh set of pliers and a wrench? By the way, well,
Speaker 1: here's the difference. Essentially, wrenches are for the most part.
Speaker 1: There's a couple exceptions here, especially when it comes to
Speaker 1: plumbing stuff like pipe wrenches, but wrenches are usually typically
Speaker 1: categorized as tools that are designed to fit squarely around
Speaker 1: objects that are meant to be twisted and turned, like
Speaker 1: the heads of bolts and nuts and bolts and that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Does that make sense? In other words,
Speaker 1: if there is a fastener device like a nut or
Speaker 1: a bolt, or even a screw head at times that
Speaker 1: has a blocked head or a nut attached to it,
Speaker 1: then there is a wrench that's made that slides over
Speaker 1: that blocked head and turns it efficiently. That's, by definition
Speaker 1: kind of what a wrench is. Wrenches don't have teeth typically,
Speaker 1: again with the exception of the pipe wrench and a
Speaker 1: couple of things like it, but wrenches usually don't have teeth.
Speaker 1: They don't leave scratches behind when they turn a thing.
Speaker 1: They have flat sides because they're designed specifically and fit
Speaker 1: specifically for the thing that they're turning. Applier appliers a
Speaker 1: little wilder, it's a little bit more free flowing. Pliers
Speaker 1: are for typically for items that do not have these
Speaker 1: pre set, pre designed surfaces made for turning or extraction
Speaker 1: or so on and so forth. So first on your
Speaker 1: list for today, at least Needle nose pliers. Needlenose pliers
Speaker 1: are typically what you know for a lot of fine
Speaker 1: wire work, like electrical work, needle nose that sort of.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what a needle those pliers is, right,
Speaker 1: It comes down to a very fine point. Allows you
Speaker 1: to hold things like a wire in a very cramped situation.
Speaker 1: It allows you to manipulate things in Do they have teeth.
Speaker 1: They don't really have teeth, well, I guess they do.
Speaker 1: Technically they have teeth, but they're more like ridges just
Speaker 1: for good grab, for good hold and then Needlenose pliers
Speaker 1: typically will have a wire cutting section right back near
Speaker 1: the actual hinge, back at the backside of its jaw,
Speaker 1: and some of them come with wires stripping attachments too,
Speaker 1: and some are combos, right, but a good pair of
Speaker 1: needle nose pliers in your toolbox is a must. Also.
Speaker 1: Second set of pliers slip joint pliers. I've never heard
Speaker 1: that term before, Dean, What does slip joint pliers? Well,
Speaker 1: just clear all thoughts of pliers from your mind, and
Speaker 1: then just imagine what pops into your head when I
Speaker 1: say pliers. They've got kind of a they're sort of
Speaker 1: medium sized, they're not needle nose, they're straight what you
Speaker 1: imagine as the typical set of pliers, like the pliers
Speaker 1: that you see illustrated when the word pliers is mentioned,
Speaker 1: that is technically a slip joint plyer, because instead of
Speaker 1: having a fixed joint or hinge that cannot be moved,
Speaker 1: you've all done this, You open it up and you
Speaker 1: find out that it can, that it can slide sideways slightly,
Speaker 1: and that makes the jaws slightly larger to handle a
Speaker 1: larger diameter thing. That's the slip joint, and that's a
Speaker 1: slip joint plier. Okay, typical pliers. Probably strangely enough, if
Speaker 1: I was selling plyers, this is probably the last pair
Speaker 1: I would sell you. And and I just find in
Speaker 1: my own life that slip joint pliers, which is ironically
Speaker 1: the kind of the iconic plier, is the set of
Speaker 1: pliers I use the least. I hardly ever reach for
Speaker 1: slip joint plers, but you know what, everyone's in a
Speaker 1: blue moon and they're not expensive, so I say have
Speaker 1: them in your toolbox as well. All right, now, we
Speaker 1: need to move on to the set of pliers that
Speaker 1: I use, probably more often than way more often than
Speaker 1: any pliers, channel locking pliers, and a derivation of channel
Speaker 1: locking pliers, which is critical to keeping your house looking nice.
Speaker 1: We need to talk about that, but we will on
Speaker 1: the other side of the news.
Speaker 5: Right now, you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on
Speaker 5: demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Dean Sharp, the house Whisper with you on this first
Speaker 1: Sunday of twenty twenty five. We're taking the weekend. We're
Speaker 1: talking about essential tools for your home that every homeowner
Speaker 1: should have in their home to take care of it,
Speaker 1: not to do big old projects. Of course they'll do
Speaker 1: big projects for you, but this list particularly is about
Speaker 1: the tools that you have on hand to take care
Speaker 1: of your house as a little thing goes wrong, as
Speaker 1: a little something gets loose, something gets wobbly, you know
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Also, we're coming up top of
Speaker 1: the hour, we're going to be going to the phones,
Speaker 1: and I want to let you know the phone lines
Speaker 1: are wide open right now. So if you want to
Speaker 1: jump into the queue and you've got a question something's
Speaker 1: got you scratching your head about your home, give me
Speaker 1: a call eight three to three two. Ask Dean eight
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Speaker 1: up in just a bit. All right, back to the list.
Speaker 1: I was talking about pliers again. The difference between wrenches
Speaker 1: and pliers, FYI, is that a wrench and no, they
Speaker 1: don't all look the same. They can look wildly different.
Speaker 1: A wrench is a tool that has a configuration on
Speaker 1: it that's designed to spin or turn or tighten or
Speaker 1: loosen a fastener of sorts an object that is also
Speaker 1: designed for that tool. Okay, so, for instance, the head
Speaker 1: of a bolt or a nut has flat surfaces on it,
Speaker 1: specifically so that the flat sides of a wrench can
Speaker 1: slide onto it and turn it efficiently. But it doesn't
Speaker 1: even have to be an open two prong thing. Yesterday
Speaker 1: on the list we talked about Allen wrenches or hex
Speaker 1: wrenches or torques wrenches which actually go inside the top
Speaker 1: of a screw or a bolt. Those are wrenches too.
Speaker 1: Why because the top of the screw or the top
Speaker 1: of the bolt has a recess in it that is
Speaker 1: hexagonal and designed to have that hex inserted into it.
Speaker 1: Therefore it is a wrench. Plyers are a bit more
Speaker 1: wild west. Pliers are devices that you use your actual
Speaker 1: hand to squeeze to create tension onto, and they usually
Speaker 1: have teeth of some sort so that they can grab
Speaker 1: onto unconventional surfaces, round surfaces, for instance. And of course
Speaker 1: there's always exceptions to this rule, like the pipe wrench,
Speaker 1: which is a wrench that goes on round surfaces. But
Speaker 1: as a general rule, that's what pliers are all about.
Speaker 1: And I left you after talking about needle nose and
Speaker 1: slip joint plyers to the pliers that I probably grab
Speaker 1: more often than any other. Why. I couldn't tell you,
Speaker 1: just the fact that I think these are great pliers
Speaker 1: and they just they so get the job done. And
Speaker 1: those are channel locking pliers. But Tina is flagging me
Speaker 1: down here, and it's really getting distracting. You're distracting enough.
Speaker 1: Just sitting there. Beatina's fagging me down because I obviously
Speaker 1: forgot something. What okay what?
Speaker 3: So I dug into the archives, dusted them off on
Speaker 3: our YouTube channel, and I found a little promo video
Speaker 3: we made gosh, quite a few years ago.
Speaker 4: You're you're very cute and clean shape, and it's what.
Speaker 3: But anyway, it's actually very relevant to what we're talking
Speaker 3: about today because it's a quick two minute here's a
Speaker 3: tool box of white all the tools that you should have, you.
Speaker 4: Know, a home owner show.
Speaker 1: I remember that video.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's just great, like here's this, here's this,
Speaker 3: and then like little prices.
Speaker 4: You know, it's really cute. I suggest going and watching it.
Speaker 3: One for all the information about tools, but two to
Speaker 3: see Dean super cute and clean shaven.
Speaker 4: He's like a little baby.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're that.
Speaker 3: I'm not super cute. Now you're so super cute. You're
Speaker 3: just clean shaven. It's just funny. I haven't seen your
Speaker 3: face it.
Speaker 4: A long time.
Speaker 3: Oh geez, but it's it's on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok
Speaker 3: at Home with Dean.
Speaker 4: Very fun two minutes. You got to watch it and
Speaker 4: you get and even.
Speaker 3: If you if you're hearing about all these tools today
Speaker 3: and you're not exactly sure what they look like.
Speaker 4: You get a visual of all the tools.
Speaker 1: Okay, now that I think this list has changed a smidge,
Speaker 1: I've only added to it just because. But that's it's
Speaker 1: probably ninety eight percent of what we're talking about today
Speaker 1: and in two minutes. Yeah, all right, great, thank you
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 4: You are so welcome.
Speaker 1: Thanks for happy to he calling me cute once. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how to take that. You are adorable, all right?
Speaker 1: Uh cham locking pliers. So the other feature of pliers,
Speaker 1: by the way, as I said, the difference between that
Speaker 1: and a wrench, okay, is and this is probably why
Speaker 1: pipe wrenches are in fact wrenches. Wrenches by definition are
Speaker 1: not tools that you have to use the strength of
Speaker 1: your grip to manipulate. They have their own jaws and
Speaker 1: or you know, a method of locking itself into the
Speaker 1: fastener that it's designed to turn, and then all you
Speaker 1: do is pull the handle, all right. You don't have
Speaker 1: to actually squeeze at the same time. Pliers you gotta
Speaker 1: squeeze them in order to grab onto to make them
Speaker 1: grab onto a thing. And so that's part of what
Speaker 1: makes a plier applier. Okay, channel locking pliers kind of
Speaker 1: bridges the gap, and that's probably why they're so useful.
Speaker 1: Number One, they're long. They tend to be about twelve
Speaker 1: plus inches long. And number two, because it has a
Speaker 1: number of chainals in it, they can open up pretty
Speaker 1: dang wide and get really small at the same time,
Speaker 1: so they have a wide range of usefulness. They've got teeth.
Speaker 1: But the nature of the offset head of a pair
Speaker 1: of channel locking plyers, and if again, if check out
Speaker 1: the video, if you don't understand what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: or just look it up online, but the offset head
Speaker 1: of channel locking plyers means that you get that your
Speaker 1: channel selected close to the size of the thing, and
Speaker 1: that channel also helps you get a good grip on
Speaker 1: a thing, so you don't have to squeeze them as hard.
Speaker 1: In fact, once you've locked onto a thing, you just
Speaker 1: sort of maintain mild tension. And they do the rest
Speaker 1: of the work like a wrench, So they're kind of
Speaker 1: half a wrench half plyers, and as a result, they
Speaker 1: just do a lot of things good. They work like
Speaker 1: a pipe wrench, they work like a mechanics wrench. They
Speaker 1: are just they're all over the place, and they're probably
Speaker 1: my biggest go to. However, here's the thing. There's a
Speaker 1: second set of channel locking pliers that I want you
Speaker 1: to have in your toolbox. You know. Let me back up.
Speaker 1: I just heard myself say a second set. Let me
Speaker 1: say this. When it comes to wrenches and pliers, I
Speaker 1: think it's a great idea to have two of the
Speaker 1: exact same kind, two sets of channel locking pliers and
Speaker 1: two sets of, like when we get to it, adjustable
Speaker 1: end wrenches. Why because quite often these things get used
Speaker 1: for plumbing and or sensitive items, you know, that are
Speaker 1: kind of stuck way out. And I've seen more homeowners
Speaker 1: break more pipes or rip open more plumbing hoses because
Speaker 1: they put a wrench on a thing and they start
Speaker 1: to spin it, and they don't realize that the pipe
Speaker 1: itself is getting too much torque on it. Okay, so
Speaker 1: the best way in this I didn't want to make
Speaker 1: today a show about technique, but I will tell you this.
Speaker 1: The best way to ever use a wrench or a
Speaker 1: set of pliers when you're trying to turn something off
Speaker 1: something sensitive like plumbing, is to set the one wrench
Speaker 1: on the thing that you're trying to turn and spin
Speaker 1: off and set the other wrench just behind it, opposing
Speaker 1: it on the pipe. Okay, so that the one wrench
Speaker 1: supports the pipe, the other wrench supports the nut or
Speaker 1: the valve or whatever it is you're trying to spin off,
Speaker 1: so you don't do bigger damage than you expected to.
Speaker 1: So there's your tip of the day, opposing wrenches and pliers. Okay.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. You don't always have to do that.
Speaker 1: And here's an example of when you don't. And here's
Speaker 1: an example of when you need to use a pair
Speaker 1: of plyers, but you don't use the pair of pliers
Speaker 1: that I just described. That is typical homeowner maintenance. Your
Speaker 1: sink faucet, the faucet at the kitchen sink has at
Speaker 1: the very end of it an aerator. Okay. That aerator
Speaker 1: is that last little half inch guy with a little
Speaker 1: screen inside, and it's got a little mechanism where it
Speaker 1: drops air into the water and it helps just aerate
Speaker 1: and make a better stream of water. But over time,
Speaker 1: a sediment from inside the plumbing supply, I mean the
Speaker 1: city supply of water can build up and you find
Speaker 1: reduced flow out of your kitchen faucet, and especially after
Speaker 1: plumbing work has been done in the house. That's a
Speaker 1: typical time when sediment actually gets into the water lines
Speaker 1: and ends up boom, being flushed right to the tip
Speaker 1: of the faucet. So one of the typical things is, oh,
Speaker 1: you know what we're gonna change. You know, we'll clean
Speaker 1: out the aerator. They're made to be removed and cleaned. Okay. Now,
Speaker 1: ideally an aerator is on there, just finger type, and
Speaker 1: you could get your two fingers in there and open
Speaker 1: it up. But if it hasn't been moved in months
Speaker 1: or years, I guarantee you it's finger tight anymore. All right,
Speaker 1: it's all it's kind of gunked up and stuck. And
Speaker 1: so your first temptation is, well, okay, do you use
Speaker 1: a wrench? No, because there's no flat sides to it
Speaker 1: on most aerators. Something actually do. But if there's nothing flat,
Speaker 1: if there's no flat surfaces on the aerator, then you
Speaker 1: got to use pliers. And guess what, pliers have teeth.
Speaker 1: And as soon as you grab the thing and you
Speaker 1: spin it off and you're feeling so good about yourself,
Speaker 1: you look down and you realize those teeth have dug
Speaker 1: into the sensitive finish and scratched the heck out of it?
Speaker 1: How do we avoid that? All right, I'll tell you.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 5: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: We're talking about your house today, as we do every weekend.
Speaker 1: No design talk today, not for me here as far
Speaker 1: as the subject matter, No construction talk either. So what
Speaker 1: am I talking about? Well, we're starting off the new
Speaker 1: year with just an essential list of tools for you
Speaker 1: as a homeowner to embrace and have standing by to
Speaker 1: take care of your house. So we're just we're starting
Speaker 1: with the very very basics. You've got a place where
Speaker 1: you live, and whether you own or not. By the way,
Speaker 1: these are the kinds of tools that save you money
Speaker 1: from having to call a pro in in an emergency.
Speaker 1: These are the kinds of tools that, even if you
Speaker 1: have to call a pro in, if you've got them
Speaker 1: on hand, you can shut down a leak, You can
Speaker 1: shut down a problem before it damages other things. This
Speaker 1: is just the essential tools. And guess what they all
Speaker 1: fit into a five gallon bucket with a tool organizer, essentially,
Speaker 1: and so they are well worth you having, whether you
Speaker 1: rent or own, whether you live in an apartment or
Speaker 1: a condo or a cottage or a castle. It's all
Speaker 1: here for you. So that's where we're going today. Now
Speaker 1: I should say this number one like we said the last.
Speaker 1: Before the last break, Tina reached into the archives on
Speaker 1: YouTube and found She's like, you know, I think you
Speaker 1: did a tool video a few years back, so she
Speaker 1: found a younger version of me having this conversation and
Speaker 1: showing you, you know, essential tools. Now the list isn't
Speaker 1: exactly the same. I've bad it a couple of things,
Speaker 1: but it's up on our social media right now. You
Speaker 1: should go check it out. And if you've got somebody
Speaker 1: in your life who needs to have all this condensed
Speaker 1: down into a less than two minute format, then boom,
Speaker 1: there it is waiting for you can share it, follow
Speaker 1: us while you're there. It's on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok x,
Speaker 1: we're all over the place home with Dean. Go check
Speaker 1: out the video, and you know, give us a shout
Speaker 1: out while you're there. So that's that. And the other
Speaker 1: thing that I want to let you know, unrelated to
Speaker 1: my tool list is right after the next break, I
Speaker 1: would like to go to the phones. But guess what
Speaker 1: we're in one of those situations where this happens once
Speaker 1: in a blue moon, there are no calls on the
Speaker 1: and so if you've ever been holding back and thinking, gosh,
Speaker 1: I would love to chance to uh talk to Dean
Speaker 1: about something with the house. But you know what, never
Speaker 1: get through it. Well as of right now. See there's
Speaker 1: one call right now. Boom. See I say this and
Speaker 1: somebody realizes, now's my shot. So guess what, now's your shot.
Speaker 1: We've got low traffic on the call board right now,
Speaker 1: and you know what, if no calls come through, that's fine.
Speaker 1: I got plenty of stuff to talk about, but I
Speaker 1: would love to take some calls starting right after the
Speaker 1: next break. The number to reach me eight three three two.
Speaker 1: Ask Dean eight three three the numeral two peep, ask
Speaker 1: Dean eight three three to ask Dean anything you want
Speaker 1: to talk about. You don't have to talk to me
Speaker 1: about tools, anything, design, construction, architecture, landscape, DIY stuff, anything
Speaker 1: at all. Whatever's got you scratch in your head about
Speaker 1: your house eight three three two ask Dean. We'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll see where it goes. The calls the board right
Speaker 1: now is completely clear, totally up to you. All right
Speaker 1: back to the list, where was I oh, I had
Speaker 1: you sitting on the edge of your seat, didn't I right?
Speaker 1: Because I said, there's a kind of plier out there
Speaker 1: to take care of things like, for instance, taking an
Speaker 1: aeriator off your faucet that without scratching it up. And see,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. So I'm gonna clarify a couple of things. Yes,
Speaker 1: there are many aerators that if you take the time,
Speaker 1: you may not notice it at first. But if you
Speaker 1: take the time and look at it, that round aerator
Speaker 1: which is where the water comes out of your faucet
Speaker 1: that you need to clean out every once in a while,
Speaker 1: that aerator may in fact have two flat surfaces on it.
Speaker 1: Now they're going to be very very hidden away because
Speaker 1: they didn't want to set it up to make it
Speaker 1: look like it was a nut or you know, sitting
Speaker 1: at the end of your your faucet. But if you
Speaker 1: look carefully, there may be two flat sides opposing each other.
Speaker 1: That's the case, then you can just slide the smooth
Speaker 1: surfaces of a wrench very carefully over those two flat
Speaker 1: surfaces and remove the aerator without doing any damage to
Speaker 1: the sensitive finish of the aerator. If there are not
Speaker 1: If it is a completely round aerator. You know, I
Speaker 1: can be able to use a wrench there. You're going
Speaker 1: to use a pair of plyers. But like I said
Speaker 1: right before the break, plyers have teeth and teeth they're
Speaker 1: gonna get it done. They're going to dig in and
Speaker 1: get that aerator off, but they're also going to permanently
Speaker 1: leave teeth marks on the aerator and you're going to
Speaker 1: mess it up and scratch its surface, as many of
Speaker 1: you have, and you're living with scratched up aerators from
Speaker 1: that old experience. How do we get around it? Well,
Speaker 1: we reach for a set of channel locking pliers, but
Speaker 1: not the ones that I was just describing. We reach
Speaker 1: for a set of channel locking pliers that are intentionally
Speaker 1: made to be drum roll please. Soft grip pliers. Yes,
Speaker 1: there is such a thing, and yes you will find
Speaker 1: them at your local big box or hardware store. Soft
Speaker 1: grip channel locking pliers are essentially just a pair of
Speaker 1: channel locking pliers that have over them over both sides
Speaker 1: of their jaws, the upper and lower jaw, a rubberized
Speaker 1: or plasticized thick coating or a slide on that renders
Speaker 1: the teeth unreachable and so as a result, you can
Speaker 1: use your soft grip pliers to grab onto and this
Speaker 1: is exactly what they're made for. Soft grip is made
Speaker 1: precisely for what I just described in order to grab
Speaker 1: onto something and be able to turn it or spin
Speaker 1: it or tighten it or whatever without messing up the finish.
Speaker 1: There you go, soft grip channel locking plyers. I've got
Speaker 1: one more set of pliers to discuss with you, vice
Speaker 1: grip pliers very quickly. Everybody should have a pair of
Speaker 1: vice gript pliers in their toolbox. Yes, they're weird looking.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are like, I have no idea
Speaker 1: how to use them. Vice gript pliers. They've got a
Speaker 1: little screw on one side of the handle and a
Speaker 1: little release tab on the other. That's because they're locking pliers.
Speaker 1: They act like a vice. What you do is you
Speaker 1: put them around the object and you start to squeeze
Speaker 1: it down. If you can't close it completely, you adjust
Speaker 1: the screw until you can just with a little pressure
Speaker 1: close them and you hear them snap into place. Those
Speaker 1: things are now more secure without you having to use
Speaker 1: your hand power to squeeze them. Then. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: as secure as a wrench in most situations and The
Speaker 1: little tab is for unlocking it and releasing it as
Speaker 1: you go. So there you go. Those are the pliers
Speaker 1: that should be inside your toolbox. And when we come
Speaker 1: back to the subject, we're going to turn a direction
Speaker 1: and talk about a whole another set of tools. And
Speaker 1: guess what I ask for Now we have a board
Speaker 1: with nine plus calls sitting on them, which we will
Speaker 1: go to right after the news. You are Home with
Speaker 1: Dean Sharp, the House Whisper on KFI. This has been
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