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Speaker 1: I'm my fault today, No it's not. Let's talk to Marcie. Hey, Marcy,
Speaker 1: welcome home. Well, good morning, Dean, good morning. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: you sound so chipper.
Speaker 2: Well, second cup of espresso.
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. How can I help you?
Speaker 2: Well, five years ago I had my renovator girlfriend remodel
Speaker 2: the kitchen and we have six recessed lights in the
Speaker 2: ceiling in the kitchen. And now what's happening is there's
Speaker 2: two switches that you can turn and dim and you know,
Speaker 2: dim the lights if you want. And when I put
Speaker 2: the switch on either switch, maybe four of the lights
Speaker 2: come on, or maybe five, and then sometimes after three
Speaker 2: or four switches, all six come on. So my girlfriend
Speaker 2: and I unscrewed the recess light bulbs and change them
Speaker 2: around to see if it was a light bulb issue.
Speaker 2: It is not, so I don't know if it's a
Speaker 2: switch issue or a wiring issue. I assume I need electrician.
Speaker 2: What's your thoughts?
Speaker 1: Okay, So is it always the same lights that don't
Speaker 1: come on? Or is it just a completely random it is?
Speaker 2: Actually there's it's kind of random lately. I've been seeing
Speaker 2: it regularly on two of the six Okay.
Speaker 1: And you've got two switches that control these same six
Speaker 1: six lights in other words, so you don't have that
Speaker 1: on separate circuits. You've got a three way switch so
Speaker 1: you can turn them off from one side of the
Speaker 1: room or turn them on them off on the other
Speaker 1: side of the room, right, correct. Okay, And those three
Speaker 1: way switches, are they both dimmers or is there just
Speaker 1: one dimmer?
Speaker 2: Oh? Well, I'm running downstairs now to check. N Sorry,
Speaker 2: I didn't expect that question. Let's see here. Well, definitely
Speaker 2: we got on switch that's a dimmer and they are
Speaker 2: both on switches.
Speaker 1: All right, So here's the thing, Marcy. So it may
Speaker 1: not be this, but I'm going to give you my
Speaker 1: best shot on on recess can lights. Are these LED lights,
Speaker 1: by the way, I.
Speaker 2: Think they are. I think they are there. They're pretty modern.
Speaker 2: They're not your your antiquated ones.
Speaker 1: My friends, they don't take screw in incandescent bulbs. They're
Speaker 1: it was five years ago. I'm assuming they're that they're LED.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming yeah.
Speaker 2: I think you'd be right. My friend who has them
Speaker 2: in her place too, she says she's never had this happen,
Speaker 2: so I think they're I think you're right.
Speaker 1: Okay, So LED housings, the housings themselves can end up
Speaker 1: with either a faulty little circuit power controller or a
Speaker 1: faulty thermal control unit. Okay, So that it may be.
Speaker 1: And if that's the case, then then it's probably a
Speaker 1: situation where you need to call electrician in to check
Speaker 1: each of the housings to make sure they're working right.
Speaker 1: But the reason I asked, if it's random or not, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to give you this piece of advice,
Speaker 1: and this is an inexpensive attempted fix. Okay, an inexpensive
Speaker 1: attempted fix. We never when it comes to LED lights,
Speaker 1: we never ever put in two dimers on a three
Speaker 1: way circuit. Okay. In other words, dimmers have a way
Speaker 1: of really messing with fighting dimmers, I should say, fighting
Speaker 1: dimmers have a way of messing with the LED recess
Speaker 1: light fixtures that they're controlling. All right, because you've got
Speaker 1: you know, you've got the ability to control you know,
Speaker 1: variable current in two directions from two different sources, and
Speaker 1: that tip typically is way more. It's just inviting trouble. Okay.
Speaker 1: So what we what we normally do when I set
Speaker 1: up a room, and it doesn't matter how many switches, okay,
Speaker 1: there can be. It could be a five way switch.
Speaker 1: I mean, we could be controlling this from all multiple
Speaker 1: different places. But when it comes to that set of lights,
Speaker 1: one dimmer, in other words, we control the dimness with
Speaker 1: one and all the others are on off on off period. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you may have I'm and my guess is, my
Speaker 1: gut tells me that that may be the case. So
Speaker 1: your friend who has a got remodeling skill and you
Speaker 1: here is how you can see if that's the problem,
Speaker 1: and that is you simply go and buy an inexpensive
Speaker 1: three way on off switch, no dimmer control, okay, just
Speaker 1: digital led controllable on off three way switch and remove
Speaker 1: one of the dimmer switches and replace it with the
Speaker 1: on off so you pick which side of the room
Speaker 1: you'd prefer to have the dimmer control over and replace
Speaker 1: the other switch just with a three way. Still it
Speaker 1: has to be a three way switch, but a three
Speaker 1: way just on off, no dimmer control. And I have
Speaker 1: a hunch that that's going to solve your weird random
Speaker 1: light problem.
Speaker 2: Okay, but this sounds great. Thank you so much, all right.
Speaker 1: And if that doesn't solve the problem, Marcy, if it
Speaker 1: doesn't solve the problem, then you can have to call
Speaker 1: electrician to have them take a look at the actual
Speaker 1: housing units. But I got a hunch, all right, Marcy.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your call. More of your
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Speaker 1: the callboard for you, my friend, if you've got something
Speaker 1: that's got you scratching your head about your home. Very
Speaker 1: quickly before I jumped in the next call, I want
Speaker 1: to do Marcy an even bigger service. She was our
Speaker 1: previous caller. She's got a set of six recess can
Speaker 1: lights and a three way switches, and they're coming on
Speaker 1: and off at weird times. They're behaving weirdly. I surmise
Speaker 1: that she had two dimmer switches controlling those can lights,
Speaker 1: and that's usually a no no. That usually just sends
Speaker 1: all sorts of confusing voltage signals to the lights, and
Speaker 1: it can create really weird behaviors, which is what she's got.
Speaker 1: But I just wanted to make sure Marcy, if you're
Speaker 1: still listening and everybody else, it doesn't mean just because
Speaker 1: I said one dimmer only per circuit, it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that you can't here in the twenty first century control
Speaker 1: have dimmer control in more than one location. But there
Speaker 1: are special systems set up for that, and they're not
Speaker 1: expensive either. The one I'm thinking of specifically is if
Speaker 1: you were to switch your switches in that room to
Speaker 1: what's called the lutron Lutron, you know, big big switch
Speaker 1: manufacture the Lutron Cassetta system. Then you could have dimmer
Speaker 1: control as many places as you want. It still follows
Speaker 1: my rule though, because with a Lutron Cassetta system, there
Speaker 1: would be only one of those switches as what we
Speaker 1: call the master dimmer, but the other switch is actually
Speaker 1: a remote, a slave, a remote to the master. So
Speaker 1: you can have as many of those remote switches around
Speaker 1: the room or in other rooms, or in your car
Speaker 1: or you know next door, well next door a little
Speaker 1: far away. But the point is, using a Lutron Cassetta system,
Speaker 1: you can have dimmer and on off control anywhere around
Speaker 1: the place. But it still follows the same rule because
Speaker 1: the those other switches are still remotes. They're not sending
Speaker 1: their own s signal to the lights like two conventional dimmers.
Speaker 1: They are simply a remote for the one master dimmer.
Speaker 1: So any three way circuit, any time you've got more
Speaker 1: than one switch controlling the same lights, just one dimmer,
Speaker 1: you can just do it conventionally with one dimmer and
Speaker 1: one on and off, or you can do it with
Speaker 1: a Neutron system and have that control. But that's the
Speaker 1: only kind of system that to violate or overcomes that rule,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't really, it's just that they're using remotes
Speaker 1: along the way. Does that make sense? Okay, all right,
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Speaker 1: back to the phones. I want to talk to Sarah. Hey, Sarah,
Speaker 1: welcome home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good morning, Dean, thanks for taking my call. I
Speaker 3: have a a house built in nineteen seventy two. I
Speaker 3: replaced my flooring. I have sheep vinyl flooring I replaced
Speaker 3: maybe twenty five years ago. That is an entryway kitchen,
Speaker 3: down the hall and in one bathroom. I want to
Speaker 3: replace that torm and I want to replace it with
Speaker 3: some type of playing flooring. And I want to know
Speaker 3: do I need to remove the sheet vinyl flooring or
Speaker 3: can I install the plank flooring over it? And I'll
Speaker 3: have someone professionally do it. I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1: Okay, really good question. And you're on a slab, right, yes, correct, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're on a slab. The answer to your question is maybe,
Speaker 1: but I'll give you exactly why you the here's the
Speaker 1: thing when it comes to and we're talking about like
Speaker 1: an engineered wood floor, that would be a glue down floor.
Speaker 1: Is that what you're thinking?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, or and that's my second question
Speaker 3: is for suggestions about the type of flooring.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, just so so I can answer the first question.
Speaker 1: So if you if you choose a floating floor system,
Speaker 1: something that is interlocking and just floating and other words,
Speaker 1: it only gets held down on the perimeter by the
Speaker 1: baseboard or base shoe or whatever the case may be,
Speaker 1: then it's an absolute no brainer. You can just keep
Speaker 1: the vinyl in place, okay, because the floating floor system
Speaker 1: is not dependent on what's underneath it. It just kind
Speaker 1: of lays there and there's no attachment dependency between the
Speaker 1: floating floor and the vinyl. But that does not mean
Speaker 1: that that's the your only option there. Quite often, in
Speaker 1: certain conditions, we will lay down something that is the
Speaker 1: equivalent of sheet vinyl onto a slab to create what
Speaker 1: we call a vapor barrier in order to keep moisture
Speaker 1: from the slab from having a detrimental effect on our
Speaker 1: hardwood that we're gluing down. So and if we were
Speaker 1: to lay down a vapor barrier, a vinyl sheet product
Speaker 1: vapor barrier, it would be solidly glued to the slab,
Speaker 1: I mean just incredibly well glued to the slab. And
Speaker 1: then we would we would the surface would be porous,
Speaker 1: not shiny and glossy, would be porous, and we use
Speaker 1: a special glue that is designed to grab onto the
Speaker 1: surface of the vinyl and hold the hardwood in place.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of the best of all worlds because
Speaker 1: now we know that that hardwood is fully protected from
Speaker 1: any moisture in the slab. So that would be a
Speaker 1: special product that we would use in certain conditions anyway,
Speaker 1: And quite often when we find a well adhered and
Speaker 1: that's the key, my friend, well adhered vinyl floor, then
Speaker 1: we don't have to pull it up. We'll just use
Speaker 1: it like we would use a vapor barrier. We will
Speaker 1: rough it up well, will scuff up the surface so
Speaker 1: that it's all roughed up, and the porosity of that
Speaker 1: vinyl has opened up so that the hardwood glue will
Speaker 1: grab onto it and bind and hold the floor really,
Speaker 1: really well. And the question in your case is simply this,
Speaker 1: whether or not that vinyl floor is really well adhered.
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about just whether it was shoddy
Speaker 1: work or whatever. But there were, you know, twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: there were a lot of vinyl floors that were going
Speaker 1: in that were specially designed to kind of themselves be
Speaker 1: floating floors, meaning that they are only sort of adhered
Speaker 1: on the perimeter that they get laid down sort of
Speaker 1: like carpeting, and that they themselves aren't really in most
Speaker 1: places glued down to the slab. And you wouldn't know
Speaker 1: the difference unless you actually, you know, cut into them
Speaker 1: and try and pull up a piece and so The
Speaker 1: point is this, when the time comes, a flooring professional
Speaker 1: can evaluate that vinyl and they will I mean, knowing
Speaker 1: that you're going to cover it anyway. It's either going
Speaker 1: to get covered or torn out, and they'll probably go
Speaker 1: through and try and cut out certain sections of the
Speaker 1: vinyl in certain areas to find out out in the
Speaker 1: middle of the room, to find out whether it's it
Speaker 1: itself is glued down and how well it's glued down.
Speaker 1: And most flooring pros will find that if it's glued down, well,
Speaker 1: they're just gonna leave it there, rough it up and
Speaker 1: use the proper adhesive to lay down your plank flooring.
Speaker 1: So you really there's a good chance, there's a good
Speaker 1: chance that you can just keep the vinyl floor in
Speaker 1: place if it is a well installed vinyl floor. End
Speaker 1: of end of storm.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's not. The flooring amazingly is not coming up
Speaker 3: or bubbled up in any way, shape or form anywhere,
Speaker 3: even though it's in a very large area.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that I think you have a I think
Speaker 1: you have a very high likelihood that you'll be able
Speaker 1: to keep it in place.
Speaker 3: And the vinyl floor goes underneath the floorboards, so then
Speaker 3: I would put the new flooring. I don't have quarter
Speaker 3: round molding, so I would put the new flooring down
Speaker 3: if it's applicable and it's the right thing to do,
Speaker 3: and then I would maybe put some quarter round molding
Speaker 3: against the existing molding, because I don't want to expend
Speaker 3: an effort to pull up all the molding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what typically is done, is what we call
Speaker 1: it a base shoe. And yeah, it's a quarter round
Speaker 1: kind of molding that covers the edge and the flooring
Speaker 1: will be run up to your existing baseboards and then
Speaker 1: the base shoe laid down. And I recommend, by the way,
Speaker 1: when you do that, that the base shoe actually be
Speaker 1: not don't try and match the base shoe and make
Speaker 1: it part of the flooring pattern. In other words, you've
Speaker 1: got an oak floor, don't use an oak base shoe.
Speaker 1: I prefer as a designer. It doesn't matter from a
Speaker 1: contractor's point of view. It holds it down either way.
Speaker 1: But I prefer that you lay down an inexpensive base
Speaker 1: shoe and paint it along with your baseboard. Let it
Speaker 1: become part of your baseboard.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I would do that. I agree with that. Okay.
Speaker 3: My last question, do you have any recommendation. I know
Speaker 3: that flooring can be from this price up to you know,
Speaker 3: a Cadillac style. Do you have any suggestions on brands
Speaker 3: or in your experience, because I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I know, uh, there are so many out there, Sarah.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to zero down to one brand. I'm
Speaker 1: just going to tell you this. Start your shopping and
Speaker 1: start your investigation. Like I was saying earlier in the show,
Speaker 1: just get out to a really good flooring place. Only
Speaker 1: go with reputable brands when you're you know, when it
Speaker 1: comes to floating floors, there's so many options, so many options.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to hardwood, if you're going to
Speaker 1: put down legitimate engineered hardwood, engineered, absolutely, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't put down hardwood.
Speaker 1: You would not put down hardwood. So you don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about that. No, Okay. Then then then then
Speaker 1: you're just in the You're just in that that phase
Speaker 1: where you just need to get out. You need to
Speaker 1: look at the look at the colors, talk about the durability,
Speaker 1: look at the warranties. The warranties are key, Okay, because,
Speaker 1: like you know, if you've got a manufacturer who basically,
Speaker 1: I always like to look for a floor for a
Speaker 1: residence that actually has a commercial warranty, you know. I
Speaker 1: mean if a manufacturer says, well, if you put this
Speaker 1: in a home, we'll do a fifty year warranty on it.
Speaker 1: If you install it in a commercial space like a
Speaker 1: store that gets unbelievable amounts of traffic, we'll warranty it
Speaker 1: for twenty years. I'm like, that's a good floor. If
Speaker 1: you've got a floor that actually is is viable to
Speaker 1: go in a commercial space, then you know that you're
Speaker 1: looking at a durable product. And the rest of it
Speaker 1: is simply just a matter of style and preference and
Speaker 1: all of those things. Sarah, good luck. Do your research.
Speaker 1: Like I always say, window shopping is free. Take the time,
Speaker 1: educate yourself, look at every imaginable option, look at prices
Speaker 1: per square foot, and then you know, pick the one
Speaker 1: that fits your best. Thank you so much for the call.
Speaker 1: All right, more of your calls. When we return your
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Speaker 1: to everybody. Let's talk to Ken. Hey, Ken, welcome home.
Speaker 4: Hey, Hey, good morning, Thanks for taking my call questions
Speaker 4: for you. I got a sixty plus year old house
Speaker 4: that has galvanized drade lines that run from one sire
Speaker 4: house to the other right kitchen to Washington Machiner on
Speaker 4: the far side, and it was slow draining. So I
Speaker 4: had a plumbing company come out and they brought their
Speaker 4: rooter jet, their jetter. They called and they jetted out,
Speaker 4: so they got the water, They got the drain working,
Speaker 4: but they recommended doing something like they called it a
Speaker 4: de scaling operation, and then they can put in a
Speaker 4: POxy liner inside this pipe. That said that they would
Speaker 4: preserve the pipe for another fifty years. Do you know
Speaker 4: anything about that?
Speaker 1: Yep, yep, yep, I do galvan I do you have
Speaker 1: a you got a crawl space under your house?
Speaker 4: No, it's not. It's a slab. So they said there's
Speaker 4: two options. One is they can jackhammer up the slab
Speaker 4: and take out walls and take out the kitchen cabinets
Speaker 4: that replace the pipe. Or they said they can go
Speaker 4: in through the clean out on the outside of the house,
Speaker 4: the inch and a half clean out on the outside
Speaker 4: of the house, do like a de scaling operation, and
Speaker 4: then they go in and put some kind of a
Speaker 4: POxy liner that lines the inside of this supposedly descaled pipe,
Speaker 4: and they said that that should give the pipe another
Speaker 4: fifty years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's legit. It's legit. Ken. The reason I asked
Speaker 1: about whether you've got a crawl space or not because optimally,
Speaker 1: I mean optimally, and if you're planning on a major
Speaker 1: remodel or anything like that for your house, then this
Speaker 1: is something that you would want to consider, is to
Speaker 1: get rid of those galvanized pipes, galvanized anything in a
Speaker 1: home was very popular for a very short period of time,
Speaker 1: and I can just honestly tell you it was the
Speaker 1: worst idea ever. Okay, galvanized pipes are just steel pipes.
Speaker 1: Steel as in yeah, rusts very easily covered with a
Speaker 1: galvanic coating. That's what makes it that kind of you know, shiny,
Speaker 1: you know, bright, kind of tin colored. That galvanic coating
Speaker 1: has two problems with it. Number one, over time, it'll crack,
Speaker 1: and as soon as it cracks, moisture gets into the
Speaker 1: steel and starts rusting out the pipe. And that galvanic
Speaker 1: coating is on the inside and the outside and on
Speaker 1: the inside. The second problem is as you could just
Speaker 1: tell by looking at a galvanized pipe, and if you
Speaker 1: look under a microscope you'd be like whoa, yeah. The
Speaker 1: second problem with a galvanized pipe is that that galvanic
Speaker 1: coating is very rough. It is very I mean it
Speaker 1: is heavily textured on a microscopic level, very textured, and
Speaker 1: as a result, it grabs onto everything, including the poop
Speaker 1: and everything that goes down the pipes, and it creates
Speaker 1: sludge and sludge clings to it. And then it creates
Speaker 1: build up and the next thing you know, you're in
Speaker 1: your situation where you got slow running drains. Not only
Speaker 1: are they deteriorating, but they're clogging all the time. So
Speaker 1: galvanized was just a terrible idea. If you have the
Speaker 1: option of pulling them out and replacing them with PVC
Speaker 1: or ABS piping, then yeah, do that. But I totally
Speaker 1: get it. If you're not planning on doing anything else
Speaker 1: to your house, you got all this stuff running underneath
Speaker 1: your house. Chances are, by the way, that once that
Speaker 1: galvanized gets down into the ground, the chances are it
Speaker 1: transitions into a cast iron pipe. They're very, very few circumstances.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I've ever seen a circumstance where galvanized
Speaker 1: runs in the ground all the way over to the
Speaker 1: sewer connection. It usually it's galvanized pipe above ground that
Speaker 1: transfers into cast iron under the ground. But still cast
Speaker 1: iron sewer piping. Same ultimate problem. So my friend, yes, now,
Speaker 1: make sure a couple of things. Make sure you get
Speaker 1: two or three estimates from two or three qualified companies.
Speaker 1: But it's true if the pipe has not corroded, cracked,
Speaker 1: or you know, in other words, if it's still structurally
Speaker 1: holding solid and they've successfully cleaned it out, then yes,
Speaker 1: there is a procedure by which they will go in
Speaker 1: descale the inside of the pipe, which is just basically
Speaker 1: clearing it, you know, as much as possible. And yeah,
Speaker 1: we can put in an epoxy liner inside the pipe,
Speaker 1: which is basically a pipe inside a pipe, and that
Speaker 1: epoxy liner is everything that the galvanized and or cast
Speaker 1: iron pipe is not, which is it is smooth, things
Speaker 1: don't cling to it. And yeah, you're essentially repiping the
Speaker 1: sewer system from the inside out. And typically speaking, yeah,
Speaker 1: you'll get decades more as long as the galvanized and
Speaker 1: or cast iron pipe itself is still holding its structure
Speaker 1: on the outside, then that epoxy lining will definitely extend
Speaker 1: the life of your sewer system without having to get
Speaker 1: in and jackhammer up the slab. Now, getting rid of
Speaker 1: those pipes would be my first, you know preference, but
Speaker 1: not if you're not plenty, not if you're not doing
Speaker 1: a major remodel. I don't want you jackhammering up all
Speaker 1: your floors in order to get to that stuff. So
Speaker 1: get some competitive bids and consider doing the epoxy line.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you, very much. I just didn't know if
Speaker 4: this was a legit thing or it just sounded kind
Speaker 4: of funny. I just don't know how they're going to
Speaker 4: get the how they get the epoxy in there, and
Speaker 4: then how they get it so it just coats the
Speaker 4: whole inside of the surface of the pipe instead of
Speaker 4: just like puddling in the middle of the pipe or
Speaker 4: something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why. That's why I want you to use
Speaker 1: a company and only get bids from companies that you know.
Speaker 1: I don't go with the plumber who's like, yeah, wait, yeah,
Speaker 1: we do that once in a while. Now, you want
Speaker 1: to go with a company that is fully legit on
Speaker 1: that and gives you a full warranty because there's a
Speaker 1: process that has to be taken. They use high pressure
Speaker 1: air blowing through the line, and the companies that do
Speaker 1: it all the time do it really well and they'll
Speaker 1: warranty their work. So just make sure you're getting bids
Speaker 1: from those kinds of companies and you know it'll work.
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