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All right, it 30 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:55.799 is and all calls weekend for us. I can get 31 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:59.159 started with another call here. Show's running a little late today. 32 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:07.239 I'm my fault today, No it's not. Let's talk to Marcie. Hey, Marcy, 33 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:12.240 welcome home. Well, good morning, Dean, good morning. Oh my gosh, 34 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:13.400 you sound so chipper. 35 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:16.280 Well, second cup of espresso. 36 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:21.520 There you go, there you go. How can I help you? 37 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:26.919 Well, five years ago I had my renovator girlfriend remodel 38 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:31.000 the kitchen and we have six recessed lights in the 39 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:35.680 ceiling in the kitchen. And now what's happening is there's 40 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:38.520 two switches that you can turn and dim and you know, 41 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:41.800 dim the lights if you want. And when I put 42 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:45.039 the switch on either switch, maybe four of the lights 43 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:49.439 come on, or maybe five, and then sometimes after three 44 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:52.840 or four switches, all six come on. So my girlfriend 45 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:56.000 and I unscrewed the recess light bulbs and change them 46 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.280 around to see if it was a light bulb issue. 47 00:02:58.439 --> 00:03:00.960 It is not, so I don't know if it's a 48 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:06.000 switch issue or a wiring issue. I assume I need electrician. 49 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:07.280 What's your thoughts? 50 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:10.599 Okay, So is it always the same lights that don't 51 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:16.360 come on? Or is it just a completely random it is? 52 00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:22.800 Actually there's it's kind of random lately. I've been seeing 53 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:26.479 it regularly on two of the six Okay. 54 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:29.680 And you've got two switches that control these same six 55 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:31.479 six lights in other words, so you don't have that 56 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:33.960 on separate circuits. You've got a three way switch so 57 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:35.599 you can turn them off from one side of the 58 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:37.080 room or turn them on them off on the other 59 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:41.960 side of the room, right, correct. Okay, And those three 60 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:44.599 way switches, are they both dimmers or is there just 61 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:45.719 one dimmer? 62 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:53.199 Oh? Well, I'm running downstairs now to check. N Sorry, 63 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:59.560 I didn't expect that question. Let's see here. Well, definitely 64 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:03.599 we got on switch that's a dimmer and they are 65 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:05.520 both on switches. 66 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:12.039 All right, So here's the thing, Marcy. So it may 67 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:14.360 not be this, but I'm going to give you my 68 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:19.240 best shot on on recess can lights. Are these LED lights, 69 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:21.199 by the way, I. 70 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:25.360 Think they are. I think they are there. They're pretty modern. 71 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:27.480 They're not your your antiquated ones. 72 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:31.839 My friends, they don't take screw in incandescent bulbs. They're 73 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:35.560 it was five years ago. I'm assuming they're that they're LED. 74 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:37.160 I'm assuming yeah. 75 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:40.680 I think you'd be right. My friend who has them 76 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:43.079 in her place too, she says she's never had this happen, 77 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:44.680 so I think they're I think you're right. 78 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:51.199 Okay, So LED housings, the housings themselves can end up 79 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:58.560 with either a faulty little circuit power controller or a 80 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:03.360 faulty thermal control unit. Okay, So that it may be. 81 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:06.160 And if that's the case, then then it's probably a 82 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:10.399 situation where you need to call electrician in to check 83 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:14.680 each of the housings to make sure they're working right. 84 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:18.399 But the reason I asked, if it's random or not, Okay, 85 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:20.639 I'm just going to give you this piece of advice, 86 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:24.879 and this is an inexpensive attempted fix. Okay, an inexpensive 87 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:29.639 attempted fix. We never when it comes to LED lights, 88 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:35.319 we never ever put in two dimers on a three 89 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:40.560 way circuit. Okay. In other words, dimmers have a way 90 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:45.279 of really messing with fighting dimmers, I should say, fighting 91 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:49.879 dimmers have a way of messing with the LED recess 92 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:53.519 light fixtures that they're controlling. All right, because you've got 93 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:57.040 you know, you've got the ability to control you know, 94 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:01.759 variable current in two directions from two different sources, and 95 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:06.439 that tip typically is way more. It's just inviting trouble. Okay. 96 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:09.279 So what we what we normally do when I set 97 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:12.399 up a room, and it doesn't matter how many switches, okay, 98 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:15.040 there can be. It could be a five way switch. 99 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:17.680 I mean, we could be controlling this from all multiple 100 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:21.000 different places. But when it comes to that set of lights, 101 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:24.560 one dimmer, in other words, we control the dimness with 102 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:29.000 one and all the others are on off on off period. Okay, 103 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:32.040 So you may have I'm and my guess is, my 104 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:35.399 gut tells me that that may be the case. So 105 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:39.240 your friend who has a got remodeling skill and you 106 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:42.600 here is how you can see if that's the problem, 107 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:45.920 and that is you simply go and buy an inexpensive 108 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:50.160 three way on off switch, no dimmer control, okay, just 109 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:56.480 digital led controllable on off three way switch and remove 110 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:00.279 one of the dimmer switches and replace it with the 111 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:02.519 on off so you pick which side of the room 112 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:06.240 you'd prefer to have the dimmer control over and replace 113 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:09.199 the other switch just with a three way. Still it 114 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:11.199 has to be a three way switch, but a three 115 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:15.680 way just on off, no dimmer control. And I have 116 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:19.759 a hunch that that's going to solve your weird random 117 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:20.839 light problem. 118 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:25.279 Okay, but this sounds great. Thank you so much, all right. 119 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:27.839 And if that doesn't solve the problem, Marcy, if it 120 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:30.000 doesn't solve the problem, then you can have to call 121 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:32.720 electrician to have them take a look at the actual 122 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:36.040 housing units. But I got a hunch, all right, Marcy. 123 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:38.839 Thank you so much for your call. More of your 124 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:43.000 calls when we return KFI. Dean chart the house whisper 125 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:47.360 at your service. It is an all calls weekend for us. 126 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:50.319 The number to reach me eight three three two. Ask 127 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:54.079 Dean eight three three the numeral two Ask Dean eight 128 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:57.519 three to three two. Ask Dean there is room on 129 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:01.199 the callboard for you, my friend, if you've got something 130 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:03.560 that's got you scratching your head about your home. Very 131 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:05.759 quickly before I jumped in the next call, I want 132 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:09.279 to do Marcy an even bigger service. She was our 133 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:12.439 previous caller. She's got a set of six recess can 134 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:16.639 lights and a three way switches, and they're coming on 135 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:20.439 and off at weird times. They're behaving weirdly. I surmise 136 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:24.800 that she had two dimmer switches controlling those can lights, 137 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:27.920 and that's usually a no no. That usually just sends 138 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:33.799 all sorts of confusing voltage signals to the lights, and 139 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:37.000 it can create really weird behaviors, which is what she's got. 140 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:39.360 But I just wanted to make sure Marcy, if you're 141 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:43.200 still listening and everybody else, it doesn't mean just because 142 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:48.120 I said one dimmer only per circuit, it doesn't mean 143 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:51.720 that you can't here in the twenty first century control 144 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:54.759 have dimmer control in more than one location. But there 145 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:57.080 are special systems set up for that, and they're not 146 00:08:57.159 --> 00:09:01.679 expensive either. The one I'm thinking of specifically is if 147 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:05.000 you were to switch your switches in that room to 148 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:09.000 what's called the lutron Lutron, you know, big big switch 149 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:14.679 manufacture the Lutron Cassetta system. Then you could have dimmer 150 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:18.840 control as many places as you want. It still follows 151 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:22.639 my rule though, because with a Lutron Cassetta system, there 152 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:26.279 would be only one of those switches as what we 153 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:31.039 call the master dimmer, but the other switch is actually 154 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:35.159 a remote, a slave, a remote to the master. So 155 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:38.360 you can have as many of those remote switches around 156 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:40.399 the room or in other rooms, or in your car 157 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:42.919 or you know next door, well next door a little 158 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:46.480 far away. But the point is, using a Lutron Cassetta system, 159 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:50.720 you can have dimmer and on off control anywhere around 160 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:54.360 the place. But it still follows the same rule because 161 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:59.000 the those other switches are still remotes. They're not sending 162 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:03.759 their own s signal to the lights like two conventional dimmers. 163 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:07.679 They are simply a remote for the one master dimmer. 164 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:11.480 So any three way circuit, any time you've got more 165 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:15.840 than one switch controlling the same lights, just one dimmer, 166 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:18.639 you can just do it conventionally with one dimmer and 167 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:21.759 one on and off, or you can do it with 168 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:26.399 a Neutron system and have that control. But that's the 169 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:31.080 only kind of system that to violate or overcomes that rule, 170 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:34.320 and it doesn't really, it's just that they're using remotes 171 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:36.919 along the way. Does that make sense? Okay, all right, 172 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:39.080 we are going to get back on time here. We're 173 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:41.159 going to jump to a quick break and right after 174 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:44.879 the news more of your calls. Your Home with Dean Sharp, 175 00:10:44.919 --> 00:10:48.960 the House Whisper. You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp 176 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:55.039 on demand from KFI AM six forty five AM six 177 00:10:55.120 --> 00:11:00.519 sporting live streaming in HD everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. 178 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:04.159 Welcome home, your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. 179 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:07.440 That's me here to help you take your home to 180 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:10.200 the next level. Whether it's a cottage or a castle, 181 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:13.120 it matters not. I am here to help you with 182 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:15.519 your home. And it is an all calls weekend for 183 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:18.039 us here on the show. Nothing but your calls. The 184 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:21.240 number to reach me eight three three to ask Dean. 185 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:25.000 Eight three three the numeral to ask Dean. Let's go 186 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:28.759 back to the phones. I want to talk to Sarah. Hey, Sarah, 187 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:29.600 welcome home. 188 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:35.679 Yeah, good morning, Dean, thanks for taking my call. I 189 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:41.799 have a a house built in nineteen seventy two. I 190 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:46.840 replaced my flooring. I have sheep vinyl flooring I replaced 191 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:51.080 maybe twenty five years ago. That is an entryway kitchen, 192 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:55.440 down the hall and in one bathroom. I want to 193 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:58.159 replace that torm and I want to replace it with 194 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:05.000 some type of playing flooring. And I want to know 195 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:08.480 do I need to remove the sheet vinyl flooring or 196 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:12.200 can I install the plank flooring over it? And I'll 197 00:12:12.279 --> 00:12:15.600 have someone professionally do it. I'm not doing it. 198 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:22.159 Okay, really good question. And you're on a slab, right, yes, correct, Okay, 199 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:26.279 you're on a slab. The answer to your question is maybe, 200 00:12:27.879 --> 00:12:33.440 but I'll give you exactly why you the here's the 201 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:36.639 thing when it comes to and we're talking about like 202 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:39.799 an engineered wood floor, that would be a glue down floor. 203 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:40.879 Is that what you're thinking? 204 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:45.480 Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, or and that's my second question 205 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:47.879 is for suggestions about the type of flooring. 206 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:51.879 Okay, Well, just so so I can answer the first question. 207 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:55.879 So if you if you choose a floating floor system, 208 00:12:56.480 --> 00:13:00.360 something that is interlocking and just floating and other words, 209 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:03.080 it only gets held down on the perimeter by the 210 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:05.600 baseboard or base shoe or whatever the case may be, 211 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:08.159 then it's an absolute no brainer. You can just keep 212 00:13:08.159 --> 00:13:12.120 the vinyl in place, okay, because the floating floor system 213 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:15.320 is not dependent on what's underneath it. It just kind 214 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:20.360 of lays there and there's no attachment dependency between the 215 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:23.679 floating floor and the vinyl. But that does not mean 216 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:28.399 that that's the your only option there. Quite often, in 217 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:32.720 certain conditions, we will lay down something that is the 218 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:37.279 equivalent of sheet vinyl onto a slab to create what 219 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:40.279 we call a vapor barrier in order to keep moisture 220 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:44.919 from the slab from having a detrimental effect on our 221 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:49.679 hardwood that we're gluing down. So and if we were 222 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:54.080 to lay down a vapor barrier, a vinyl sheet product 223 00:13:54.200 --> 00:13:57.960 vapor barrier, it would be solidly glued to the slab, 224 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:01.879 I mean just incredibly well glued to the slab. And 225 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:06.360 then we would we would the surface would be porous, 226 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:09.759 not shiny and glossy, would be porous, and we use 227 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:13.600 a special glue that is designed to grab onto the 228 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.519 surface of the vinyl and hold the hardwood in place. 229 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:19.120 And it's kind of the best of all worlds because 230 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:22.080 now we know that that hardwood is fully protected from 231 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:24.759 any moisture in the slab. So that would be a 232 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:27.919 special product that we would use in certain conditions anyway, 233 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:31.399 And quite often when we find a well adhered and 234 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:35.960 that's the key, my friend, well adhered vinyl floor, then 235 00:14:36.360 --> 00:14:38.440 we don't have to pull it up. We'll just use 236 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:41.519 it like we would use a vapor barrier. We will 237 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:44.679 rough it up well, will scuff up the surface so 238 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:47.279 that it's all roughed up, and the porosity of that 239 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:50.840 vinyl has opened up so that the hardwood glue will 240 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:54.759 grab onto it and bind and hold the floor really, 241 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:58.879 really well. And the question in your case is simply this, 242 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:04.720 whether or not that vinyl floor is really well adhered. 243 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:07.960 And I'm not talking about just whether it was shoddy 244 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:11.279 work or whatever. But there were, you know, twenty years ago, 245 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:13.759 there were a lot of vinyl floors that were going 246 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:16.600 in that were specially designed to kind of themselves be 247 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:20.279 floating floors, meaning that they are only sort of adhered 248 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:22.600 on the perimeter that they get laid down sort of 249 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:26.720 like carpeting, and that they themselves aren't really in most 250 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:29.480 places glued down to the slab. And you wouldn't know 251 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:33.279 the difference unless you actually, you know, cut into them 252 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:36.120 and try and pull up a piece and so The 253 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:42.120 point is this, when the time comes, a flooring professional 254 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:45.159 can evaluate that vinyl and they will I mean, knowing 255 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:47.159 that you're going to cover it anyway. It's either going 256 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:50.600 to get covered or torn out, and they'll probably go 257 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:53.320 through and try and cut out certain sections of the 258 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:55.679 vinyl in certain areas to find out out in the 259 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:58.559 middle of the room, to find out whether it's it 260 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:01.840 itself is glued down and how well it's glued down. 261 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:05.360 And most flooring pros will find that if it's glued down, well, 262 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:08.480 they're just gonna leave it there, rough it up and 263 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:12.320 use the proper adhesive to lay down your plank flooring. 264 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:15.840 So you really there's a good chance, there's a good 265 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:18.519 chance that you can just keep the vinyl floor in 266 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:22.120 place if it is a well installed vinyl floor. End 267 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:23.320 of end of storm. 268 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:28.559 Yeah it's not. The flooring amazingly is not coming up 269 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:32.120 or bubbled up in any way, shape or form anywhere, 270 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:34.679 even though it's in a very large area. 271 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:37.399 Yeah, so that I think you have a I think 272 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:39.840 you have a very high likelihood that you'll be able 273 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:40.720 to keep it in place. 274 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:48.039 And the vinyl floor goes underneath the floorboards, so then 275 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:51.279 I would put the new flooring. I don't have quarter 276 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:54.799 round molding, so I would put the new flooring down 277 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:58.200 if it's applicable and it's the right thing to do, 278 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:02.679 and then I would maybe put some quarter round molding 279 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:06.440 against the existing molding, because I don't want to expend 280 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:08.480 an effort to pull up all the molding. 281 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:11.440 Yeah, that's what typically is done, is what we call 282 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:14.559 it a base shoe. And yeah, it's a quarter round 283 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:19.039 kind of molding that covers the edge and the flooring 284 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:22.240 will be run up to your existing baseboards and then 285 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:25.839 the base shoe laid down. And I recommend, by the way, 286 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:28.400 when you do that, that the base shoe actually be 287 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:31.559 not don't try and match the base shoe and make 288 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:34.880 it part of the flooring pattern. In other words, you've 289 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:37.160 got an oak floor, don't use an oak base shoe. 290 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:40.160 I prefer as a designer. It doesn't matter from a 291 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:42.440 contractor's point of view. It holds it down either way. 292 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:45.480 But I prefer that you lay down an inexpensive base 293 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:48.279 shoe and paint it along with your baseboard. Let it 294 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:49.599 become part of your baseboard. 295 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:53.599 Okay, yeah, I would do that. I agree with that. Okay. 296 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:57.119 My last question, do you have any recommendation. I know 297 00:17:57.240 --> 00:18:01.000 that flooring can be from this price up to you know, 298 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:09.240 a Cadillac style. Do you have any suggestions on brands 299 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:14.039 or in your experience, because I have no idea. 300 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:17.000 I know, uh, there are so many out there, Sarah. 301 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:19.200 I'm not going to zero down to one brand. I'm 302 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:21.920 just going to tell you this. Start your shopping and 303 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:24.880 start your investigation. Like I was saying earlier in the show, 304 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:28.200 just get out to a really good flooring place. Only 305 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:30.680 go with reputable brands when you're you know, when it 306 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:35.640 comes to floating floors, there's so many options, so many options. 307 00:18:35.960 --> 00:18:37.799 But when it comes to hardwood, if you're going to 308 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:43.720 put down legitimate engineered hardwood, engineered, absolutely, I wouldn't. 309 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:46.519 I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't put down hardwood. 310 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:48.960 You would not put down hardwood. So you don't have 311 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:54.079 to worry about that. No, Okay. Then then then then 312 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:57.720 you're just in the You're just in that that phase 313 00:18:57.720 --> 00:18:59.400 where you just need to get out. You need to 314 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:03.039 look at the look at the colors, talk about the durability, 315 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:07.000 look at the warranties. The warranties are key, Okay, because, 316 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:10.160 like you know, if you've got a manufacturer who basically, 317 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:12.960 I always like to look for a floor for a 318 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:16.359 residence that actually has a commercial warranty, you know. I 319 00:19:16.359 --> 00:19:18.319 mean if a manufacturer says, well, if you put this 320 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:21.480 in a home, we'll do a fifty year warranty on it. 321 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:24.359 If you install it in a commercial space like a 322 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:28.480 store that gets unbelievable amounts of traffic, we'll warranty it 323 00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:31.119 for twenty years. I'm like, that's a good floor. If 324 00:19:31.160 --> 00:19:35.000 you've got a floor that actually is is viable to 325 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:38.079 go in a commercial space, then you know that you're 326 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:40.920 looking at a durable product. And the rest of it 327 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:44.839 is simply just a matter of style and preference and 328 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:49.279 all of those things. Sarah, good luck. Do your research. 329 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:53.200 Like I always say, window shopping is free. Take the time, 330 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:57.400 educate yourself, look at every imaginable option, look at prices 331 00:19:57.440 --> 00:19:59.960 per square foot, and then you know, pick the one 332 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:03.000 that fits your best. Thank you so much for the call. 333 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:06.400 All right, more of your calls. When we return your 334 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:09.359 home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper, Hey bye, keep 335 00:20:09.720 --> 00:20:13.160 the house whisper. Welcome home. Hope you're having a lovely 336 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:19.200 morning here on this Saturday, March fifteenth. We are doing 337 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:22.160 an all calls weekend. I love all calls weekend because 338 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:25.240 I just love talking to you about your home. I've 339 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:27.680 got time for at least one more before we're out 340 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:29.200 of here today, and then we're gonna pick it up 341 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:33.720 again tomorrow the Big Show Sunday from nine to noon. 342 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:35.880 If I leave any of you hanging on the line, 343 00:20:35.880 --> 00:20:39.079 which undoubtedly I will have to today, just know if 344 00:20:39.079 --> 00:20:41.920 you call back tomorrow and let producer Richie know, Hey, 345 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:44.000 I was on the phone yesterday and Dean didn't get 346 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:48.039 to me. We will give you a priority position tomorrow show. 347 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:51.079 So that's my way of saying sorry, I couldn't get 348 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:56.039 to everybody. Let's talk to Ken. Hey, Ken, welcome home. 349 00:20:56.119 --> 00:20:59.599 Hey, Hey, good morning, Thanks for taking my call questions 350 00:20:59.599 --> 00:21:02.720 for you. I got a sixty plus year old house 351 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:07.839 that has galvanized drade lines that run from one sire 352 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:10.960 house to the other right kitchen to Washington Machiner on 353 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:14.880 the far side, and it was slow draining. So I 354 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:17.920 had a plumbing company come out and they brought their 355 00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:21.000 rooter jet, their jetter. They called and they jetted out, 356 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:23.480 so they got the water, They got the drain working, 357 00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:27.079 but they recommended doing something like they called it a 358 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:30.000 de scaling operation, and then they can put in a 359 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:33.720 POxy liner inside this pipe. That said that they would 360 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:37.160 preserve the pipe for another fifty years. Do you know 361 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:38.000 anything about that? 362 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:44.799 Yep, yep, yep, I do galvan I do you have 363 00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:46.599 a you got a crawl space under your house? 364 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:49.680 No, it's not. It's a slab. So they said there's 365 00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:52.720 two options. One is they can jackhammer up the slab 366 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:55.640 and take out walls and take out the kitchen cabinets 367 00:21:55.640 --> 00:21:59.440 that replace the pipe. Or they said they can go 368 00:21:59.519 --> 00:22:02.119 in through the clean out on the outside of the house, 369 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:04.160 the inch and a half clean out on the outside 370 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:07.200 of the house, do like a de scaling operation, and 371 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:09.680 then they go in and put some kind of a 372 00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:15.039 POxy liner that lines the inside of this supposedly descaled pipe, 373 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:17.759 and they said that that should give the pipe another 374 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:18.920 fifty years. 375 00:22:19.240 --> 00:22:22.920 Yeah, it's legit. It's legit. Ken. The reason I asked 376 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:26.480 about whether you've got a crawl space or not because optimally, 377 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:28.920 I mean optimally, and if you're planning on a major 378 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:31.839 remodel or anything like that for your house, then this 379 00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:35.319 is something that you would want to consider, is to 380 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:40.400 get rid of those galvanized pipes, galvanized anything in a 381 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:44.960 home was very popular for a very short period of time, 382 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:47.759 and I can just honestly tell you it was the 383 00:22:47.799 --> 00:22:54.440 worst idea ever. Okay, galvanized pipes are just steel pipes. 384 00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:59.839 Steel as in yeah, rusts very easily covered with a 385 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:04.039 galvanic coating. That's what makes it that kind of you know, shiny, 386 00:23:04.519 --> 00:23:09.000 you know, bright, kind of tin colored. That galvanic coating 387 00:23:09.160 --> 00:23:13.160 has two problems with it. Number one, over time, it'll crack, 388 00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:15.759 and as soon as it cracks, moisture gets into the 389 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:19.880 steel and starts rusting out the pipe. And that galvanic 390 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:23.200 coating is on the inside and the outside and on 391 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:27.440 the inside. The second problem is as you could just 392 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:30.319 tell by looking at a galvanized pipe, and if you 393 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:33.799 look under a microscope you'd be like whoa, yeah. The 394 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:37.359 second problem with a galvanized pipe is that that galvanic 395 00:23:37.400 --> 00:23:40.480 coating is very rough. It is very I mean it 396 00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:44.759 is heavily textured on a microscopic level, very textured, and 397 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:48.960 as a result, it grabs onto everything, including the poop 398 00:23:49.240 --> 00:23:53.000 and everything that goes down the pipes, and it creates 399 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:55.799 sludge and sludge clings to it. And then it creates 400 00:23:55.880 --> 00:23:57.680 build up and the next thing you know, you're in 401 00:23:57.720 --> 00:24:01.119