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 Whisperer, custom home builder, custom
Speaker 1: home Designer. Most importantly, today, your guide to turning your
Speaker 1: ordinary house into something truly extraordinary. Guess what we're talking
Speaker 1: about today? Big construction stuff? No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna keep it simple and sweet today. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna address an issue that a lot of people
Speaker 1: have issues with, and that is how to hang stuff
Speaker 1: properly in your home. So today's show, how's it hanging?
Speaker 2: Uh? Not well for most of you.
Speaker 1: Not only what to do, what kind of walls you've got,
Speaker 1: what kind of hanging implements, and you know, and hardware
Speaker 1: you're gonna use, but where and how on a wall?
Speaker 2: What you know, how high? Where?
Speaker 1: Left right? Otherwise, all of that we're going to go through.
Speaker 1: So from the I guess, the practical kind of construction
Speaker 1: side of it, if you want to call it, it's
Speaker 1: not really construction decor tips all the way into the
Speaker 1: design of how you want to frame and hang art
Speaker 1: and family photos and the like on your walls. That's
Speaker 1: today's show, and of course we're going to take calls
Speaker 1: as we do, and if we do it all right,
Speaker 1: we're going to bring some light into your morning and
Speaker 1: hopefully make you feel glad that you were here. The
Speaker 1: team is here for you again. Week two, Tony Sorrentino
Speaker 1: on the board. Good morning, Tony morning. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: leave it at that. Yeah, everything's back to normal next week.
Speaker 1: I'm just leaving it there right there. It is always
Speaker 1: such a joy to work with Tony. Tony's our master chef.
Speaker 1: He is our wizard of all things. You know, board
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Speaker 1: you've been doing it a while, and so whenever, whenever
Speaker 1: I get a chance to hang out with Tony, it's
Speaker 1: just the best thing my world always.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Producer Ritchie is standing by, uh not by a mic,
Speaker 1: but ready to take your calls. Oh I could call
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Speaker 2: Well, guess what. The phone lines are open, and Producer
Speaker 2: Richie is standing by to take your calls. The number
Speaker 2: to reach me eight three three two Ask Dean A
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Speaker 2: all right, A three three two as Dean, anything you
Speaker 2: want to talk? You know, I'm talking about hanging stuff
Speaker 2: inside your house today. You know, we're taking a we're
Speaker 2: taking a break from the heavy, sweaty labor of building
Speaker 2: your house and now we're just talking about some decor
Speaker 2: elements that are super practical. Especially you know around the holidays,
Speaker 2: you're gonna start thinking about moving stuff around, hanging things, and.
Speaker 1: It's just a good time for it. So, uh, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about today. But when it comes to calls,
Speaker 1: you've set the agenda. Anything construction, design, DIY, whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be. Give me a call. We'll put our
Speaker 1: heads together. We're going to figure out what's going on
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Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 1: Greetings? Oh, I got a greeting. So we're using the
Speaker 1: Queen's English.
Speaker 2: Teachings and salutations. How are things there in the booth?
Speaker 2: Things are great. Here. I'm with Tony. Of course, life
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Speaker 2: It's a new sitcom life with Tony.
Speaker 1: We're all going to do me Jackie, will all be characters,
Speaker 1: and it's all going to be around Tony Sorrentino. I
Speaker 1: love it life in times of Tony Sarantina. I wish
Speaker 1: you could see his face right now. Canceled send a
Speaker 1: gross the table from me. There she is, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: just look at you, my better half, my design partner,
Speaker 1: my best friend. We're gonna take a bike ride today, Yes,
Speaker 1: you and me. Let's got's after the show. We're just
Speaker 1: going to jump on the bikes and go to go places.
Speaker 2: Tina is here.
Speaker 1: Oh no, it's that was so good.
Speaker 2: Welcome home. How you doing good? Yeah, you're feeling it? Okay?
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, super excited because the Dodgers won
Speaker 1: last thing.
Speaker 2: It wasn't quite as exciting a game as Game one.
Speaker 2: I mean, how could it be.
Speaker 4: But they keep waiting till, you know, eighth ninth inning
Speaker 4: to really spice things up.
Speaker 1: I know, right, we got to the we got to
Speaker 1: the last two innings and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: we're biting. I was sitting there the whole game, like,
Speaker 1: you know, this is kind of nice. It's just you know,
Speaker 1: my stomach isn't tied up in knots. I'm relaxed. You
Speaker 1: were dozing off at one point during the game. You
Speaker 1: woke up, You're like, what's happening?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: We're still ahead, and it's fine. And then right at
Speaker 1: the end, oh no, oh no, and then we pull
Speaker 1: it out. So yeah, go Dodger. So today a break. Today,
Speaker 1: everybody gets to rest except them they're traveling. And then
Speaker 1: tomorrow night it all picks up yet again. Game three.
Speaker 1: We're going to New York with two games under our belt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, shall we get to it? I think we should.
Speaker 1: We are going to dive into how it is hanging
Speaker 1: in your house. Here's the point. Sometimes getting your home
Speaker 1: right isn't about all the heavy construction stuff. Sometimes it's
Speaker 1: as simple as hanking a piece of art or a
Speaker 1: cherished photo on the wall. But when you count up
Speaker 1: the millions of scars and holes left on walls from
Speaker 1: failed attempt, I don't think anybody can can do anything
Speaker 1: but assume that hanging things in your home not as
Speaker 1: easy as it looks, not as easy as it looks
Speaker 1: at first glance. And so that is what we are
Speaker 1: tackling today. Plus your calls.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Hey, whether you live in a condo or a cottage
Speaker 1: or what's another c word, castle, if it's the place
Speaker 1: that you call home, I'm here to take it to
Speaker 1: the next level for you. That's it. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: And today we're talking about something that is truly, truly
Speaker 1: a universal struggle regardless of where you live, and that
Speaker 1: is hanging stuff on the wall. And if you think,
Speaker 1: if you think, if you're if you're a condo dweller
Speaker 1: or an apartment dweller, and think that the rich and
Speaker 1: famous have no problems whatsoever hanging stuff perfectly on their walls,
Speaker 1: you would be grossly mistaken. I mean grossly mistaken. So
Speaker 1: just take it for me. It's a universal problem. I've
Speaker 1: seen it all and so that's why we're gonna dive
Speaker 1: into it today. Plus of course, in just a bit
Speaker 1: we're going to be going to the phones taking your
Speaker 1: calls as we do. So the number to reach me
Speaker 1: if you're interested in calling into the show and getting
Speaker 1: your question about your home answered eight three three two
Speaker 1: Ask Dean eight three three. The numeral two ask Dan.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about your walls and stuff that's
Speaker 1: going on. There are some basic steps here, and that's
Speaker 1: what we're going to just roll through this morning. What
Speaker 1: do you need to know first? What do you need
Speaker 1: to know other than okay, the thing that you're hanging,
Speaker 1: all right, fine, there it is. But what do you
Speaker 1: need to know first? You need to know what the
Speaker 1: wall condition is? Okay, and by wall condition, I mean
Speaker 1: what is that wall made out of? How is it built?
Speaker 1: What do you expect when you know you you go
Speaker 1: to pierce the surface of that wall or attach something
Speaker 1: to the surface of that wall. What's our expectation? And
Speaker 1: we're talking about lots of choices here now, most commonly,
Speaker 1: of course, drywall. The vast majority of homes and apartments
Speaker 1: and condos and castles drywall on the wall, half inch
Speaker 1: drywall on most walls. And behind that drywall are lots
Speaker 1: of open void spaces. Now behind the drywall, might you
Speaker 1: might find plywood or OSB oriented strand board, because that
Speaker 1: wall may be, in addition to just being a stud wall,
Speaker 1: it may be some form of sheer wall, meaning that
Speaker 1: a diaphragm of wood is placed across the studs. First,
Speaker 1: to give it some lateral side to side shifting support.
Speaker 1: There's numerous reasons why there could be some form of
Speaker 1: sheathing on that wall underneath the drywall. But our most
Speaker 1: two common situations is that we've got drywall and then
Speaker 1: just right on studs, and then drywall with some kind
Speaker 1: of wood sheathing behind it. That's great if you got
Speaker 1: wood sheathing behind the drywall. It's great if you know that,
Speaker 1: because that means you've got, you know, some real strong,
Speaker 1: secure surface to hook something into other than just the
Speaker 1: drywall itself. It's not great if you've got sheathing behind
Speaker 1: the wall and you don't know it, and you're trying
Speaker 1: to use a typical drywall type hangar and it's getting
Speaker 1: blocked by the wood sheathing behind. So again, wall conditions,
Speaker 1: knowing them is key. So drywall that's our most common
Speaker 1: situation for most homes. But a lot of older homes
Speaker 1: across the country, a lot of older homes now here
Speaker 1: in Southern California, because you know, time is passing. So
Speaker 1: a century home in southern California is built in the twenties,
Speaker 1: now at the point a hundred year old home, and
Speaker 1: no doubt whatsoever since drywall was not a thing. It existed,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't a thing for homes. Drywall wasn't a
Speaker 1: thing for homes, by the way, until we get well
Speaker 1: into the nineteen fifties. Okay, late nineteen fifties. So if
Speaker 1: you own an early nineteen fifties house or earlier, chances
Speaker 1: are you don't have drywall that you've got some form
Speaker 1: of plaster walls. Now, plaster walls come in two forms.
Speaker 1: They come in They always have a large coat of
Speaker 1: plaster on them on the surface, but behind the plaster
Speaker 1: you may have, you know, nearly three quarters or more
Speaker 1: inches of plaster and then would laugh. In the oldest
Speaker 1: of homes, you've seen this. If you haven't experienced it
Speaker 1: in your own home, you've seen this. It's in every
Speaker 1: classic movie with a rundown house or a broken wall
Speaker 1: or whatever, and that is behind the plaster. They are
Speaker 1: these wood slats running horizontally on the wall, right wood slats,
Speaker 1: or in the secret passageway behind the walls, or in
Speaker 1: between the walls and the haunted house. You see those
Speaker 1: wood slats on the studs from the backside, and you
Speaker 1: see the plaster has oozed through. That's exactly what it's
Speaker 1: supposed to do. That's what those slats are for. They
Speaker 1: originally they're put up with these gaps in between them
Speaker 1: so that when the plasters applied, the first coat of plaster,
Speaker 1: and there are multiple coats of plaster if you have
Speaker 1: a wall like this, But when the first coat goes on,
Speaker 1: it keys into it oozes onto the backside, and then
Speaker 1: as it hardens, now it's locking itself in place, so
Speaker 1: it stays on the wall. Anyway, plaster is at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. Oh I didn't describe the second form,
Speaker 1: all right, the other form, the newer form, the more modern,
Speaker 1: the most modern form of plaster before it was replaced
Speaker 1: by drywall altogether. Could you know a lot of people
Speaker 1: mistake as drywall, because they'll they'll open up a part
Speaker 1: of their wall and they'll call me and say, all right, well,
Speaker 1: I've got a like a half an inch of plaster
Speaker 1: on top of a half an inch of drywall. It's
Speaker 1: not drywall, but it is gypsum based plasterboard which replaced
Speaker 1: the wood lath. And that plasterboard actually has holes all
Speaker 1: the way through it, and the stuff oozes through and
Speaker 1: locks on the backside. Anyway, did not intend to give
Speaker 1: you an entire lesson on plaster walls, But you need
Speaker 1: to know that if you've got plaster walls, you treat
Speaker 1: them very, very differently than dry wall walls.
Speaker 2: Why is that.
Speaker 1: Because drywall has its strengthen weaknesses the strength of dry walls.
Speaker 1: It's very light and as a material for hangars, you
Speaker 1: can easily drill through or poke something through drywall because
Speaker 1: it's that soft, and you can do it if you're careful,
Speaker 1: very cleanly. Plaster is somesed.
Speaker 2: It is a.
Speaker 1: Kind of concrete in essence, and so poking something through
Speaker 1: a plaster wall not gonna happen. Drilling through a plaster
Speaker 1: wall with a regular drill bit, a wood or metal
Speaker 1: oriented drill bit as opposed to a masonry drill bit
Speaker 1: not gonna happen cleanly, all right, You end up with
Speaker 1: a big divot out of the wall, or cracking or
Speaker 1: chipping or flaking, the kind of stuff that you just
Speaker 1: weren't planning on wanted to have happen just because you
Speaker 1: want to hang a picture of Grandma up on the
Speaker 1: bedroom wall. So very important that we know whether we've
Speaker 1: got dry wall or plaster, we're gonna handle them differently.
Speaker 1: And then of course, other walls that are kind of
Speaker 1: self evident. Maybe the surface of the wall is wood,
Speaker 1: maybe it's paneling of some form or another. Maybe we've
Speaker 1: got a concrete wall, maybe it's a basement wall, you know,
Speaker 1: a live in basement. Or maybe you've got some form
Speaker 1: of just full on concrete or cinderblock walls in your
Speaker 1: dwelling for whatever reason. Whether it's a solid surface meaning
Speaker 1: that there's no gaps behind the wall, or a hollow
Speaker 1: wall with studs. These are all the things we must
Speaker 1: find out about your wall conditions before we move on
Speaker 1: to the next step. And what is the next step?
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Yes, Tony's playing some Halloween music because guess what what
Speaker 1: is this? It's October twenty seventh. You know, I decided
Speaker 1: not to do specifically a Halloween show this year. You know,
Speaker 1: I like mixing it up. When Halloween falls like really
Speaker 1: really close to the show or on the show, then
Speaker 1: we're all in. Last year, I had my sister on.
Speaker 1: We were talking about a house, the Kellogg House down
Speaker 1: in oc where she does ghost tours of the Kellogg House.
Speaker 1: She's expanded her repertoire. By the way, you should check
Speaker 1: that out. But you know, so we approached it from
Speaker 1: a ghostly and an architectural perspective. In years past, we've
Speaker 1: done all sorts of fun stuff. This year Halloween, I'm
Speaker 1: all in, We're all in. Tina's got her costume. We're
Speaker 1: going trick or treating with the nieces and the grandchildren
Speaker 1: and all of that, walking around with them. But it's
Speaker 1: a little late. Is it Thursday or Wednesday? It's Thursday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a little lad. So anyway, I thought instead we
Speaker 1: were just, you know, we'll play some cool, funky Halloween
Speaker 1: music and we'll talk about something that haunts all of
Speaker 1: you regularly, and that is hanging stuff poorly on your walls.
Speaker 2: So there you go, haunted by that. All right. It's
Speaker 2: not a good talie in, but I tried. AnyWho.
Speaker 1: And by the way, when we're done with this segment,
Speaker 1: I think we'll be going to the phone. So there
Speaker 1: you go, And now is your chance to call in
Speaker 1: a three to three to ask Dan eight three three
Speaker 1: to ask Dan. Okay, we've talked about wall conditions. That's
Speaker 1: the first thing you need to know when you're trying
Speaker 1: to hang something on your walls. You got to know
Speaker 1: what you're going to be biting into. Next thing you
Speaker 1: need to know is the weight of the object, because
Speaker 1: not all hangers are the same or I'll put it
Speaker 1: this way. Uh, if you've selected the style of hanging
Speaker 1: device or hardware that you think is going to be
Speaker 1: the best way to go, just know that in many
Speaker 1: many cases that hardware comes sized in multiple sizes. Like
Speaker 1: you're like, for instance, your classic nail driven hook, right,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about, little brass hook. It's
Speaker 1: got a little fold over triangle on the top where
Speaker 1: there's a whole two holes in it actually that align
Speaker 1: the angle optimal angle of a nail into drywall. It's
Speaker 1: a classic classic hook for hanging stuff on the wall.
Speaker 1: You've seen them, you've used them. Those come from the
Speaker 1: very very very small to the relatively big and beefy
Speaker 1: when it comes to that, and they come weight rated.
Speaker 1: So you need to know, you know, generally speaking, how
Speaker 1: heavy this thing is, so that you don't use something
Speaker 1: too big or too small. Use something too big, well,
Speaker 1: it's not going to fall off the wall, but you
Speaker 1: don't want that hook to be pushing the frame off
Speaker 1: the back of the wall up at the top so
Speaker 1: that it's hanging you know, at an angle that's weird
Speaker 1: and nobody likes that look. So size the hangar to
Speaker 1: the weight of the object. And then the third thing
Speaker 1: we got to know is where are the anchor points
Speaker 1: on the object itself? Okay, now when it comes to
Speaker 1: I'll just talk about, you know, your classic photo or
Speaker 1: piece of artwork, and there are various things that you
Speaker 1: might find on the back if you've just if you're
Speaker 1: framing this yourself. Of course, you get to choose what
Speaker 1: you're doing, and I have a recommendation for you there.
Speaker 1: But you may have just bought this artwork or received
Speaker 1: it from somewhere to plaque or whatever. Here are the
Speaker 1: most common anchor points. And what do I mean by
Speaker 1: anchor points? I mean the thing that is on the
Speaker 1: back of the item that is supposedly there for hanging it.
Speaker 1: Most common, probably the cheapest as far as what the
Speaker 1: manufacturers themselves are spending on it is that little toothed bar.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: It's a you know, an inch inch and a half
Speaker 1: long depending and it's usually brass or aluminum, and it's
Speaker 1: it's got two little finished nails that they drove it
Speaker 1: into the edge of the frame with the backside of
Speaker 1: the frame, and it's got little teeth at the bottom.
Speaker 1: Now those teeth are handy in one respect in that
Speaker 1: if for some reason you didn't quite get it hung
Speaker 1: exactly dead center and you find that it's going to
Speaker 1: tip one way or the other, then you just you know,
Speaker 1: kind of bump it up and slide it over to
Speaker 1: the next tooth until you get it centered. But the
Speaker 1: toothed bar number one does not allow for much security
Speaker 1: in terms of you know, for instance, an earthquake or
Speaker 1: the wall rattles, because it's really designed to kind of
Speaker 1: hook over the small head of a finished nail or
Speaker 1: something like that. And if the nails sticking out too
Speaker 1: far and the toothed bar sticks out from the back
Speaker 1: of the frame, you again have that situation where you're
Speaker 1: pushing the top of the frame away from the wall,
Speaker 1: and now the thing is hanging at an angle. There's
Speaker 1: a gap at the top and not at the bottom,
Speaker 1: and it just doesn't look as clean as it could look. Okay,
Speaker 1: So yeah, but there's some situations where the tooth bar
Speaker 1: you know, goes okay. Also, by the way, since it's
Speaker 1: the cheapest of all things for a manufacturer of frames
Speaker 1: to put on the back of a frame. You will
Speaker 1: find occasionally that it is it has not been meticulously
Speaker 1: centered in the frame, so thankfully it's They're usually wide
Speaker 1: enough that you can adjust it left or right, but
Speaker 1: quite often the toothbar is not centered most of the time.
Speaker 1: When Tina and I inherit something that we want to
Speaker 1: hang and it's got a toothed bar in the back,
Speaker 1: well we'll probably take a look at it and then
Speaker 1: just pop that right off. We'll carefully pry it off
Speaker 1: and abandon it and go for another form of hanging
Speaker 1: that takes up less space and doesn't give us that
Speaker 1: angle on. So there you go the toothbar. The other thing,
Speaker 1: now this comes a lot with like wood plaques, is
Speaker 1: the drilled hole. Right, So if you've got a plaque
Speaker 1: that has been designed to hang on a wall, chances
Speaker 1: are it doesn't have any kind of hardware on it.
Speaker 1: It's probably got a hole drilled in the back and
Speaker 1: then a little slot upwards so that the hole is
Speaker 1: large enough to receive the head of a large nail
Speaker 1: or a screw, and then it slides down onto that's
Speaker 1: good for secure and it's also good for holding that
Speaker 1: plaque flat against the wall. You just got to be careful.
Speaker 1: Now we're going to be using the head of a
Speaker 1: screw or the head of a nail. We've got to
Speaker 1: make sure that we get that exactly where we want
Speaker 1: that to go, because there's no left and right adjustment
Speaker 1: on that kind of situation. And you should always double
Speaker 1: check to make sure that whoever manufactured the plaque actually
Speaker 1: got their hole drilled centered on the back so that
Speaker 1: the thing is going to hang straight. And then there
Speaker 1: are ways of accommodating for this, so don't worry, because
Speaker 1: you can always use a little bit of you know,
Speaker 1: if you find that the only way to hang a
Speaker 1: plaque on a wall is to use the hole provided.
Speaker 1: And once you hang it, you stand back and you're like,
Speaker 1: the dang thing is crooked.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 1: They did not put the hole directly in the center.
Speaker 1: It's not balanced. You don't have any other choices, though,
Speaker 1: except to use that hole. Here's what you can do.
Speaker 1: You get a little tiny piece of adhesive velcrow and
Speaker 1: you're gonna stick one side onto the wall, the other
Speaker 1: onto the bottom of the plaque, and then peel off. Well,
Speaker 1: actually you can stick them both together, stick it all
Speaker 1: onto the plaque, peel off the adhesive that's gonna face
Speaker 1: the wall, and then line that plaque up exactly how
Speaker 1: it's supposed to hang on that nail, and then push
Speaker 1: it in the velcrow.
Speaker 2: Is gonna grab.
Speaker 1: It's gonna grab the wall, and even though it's technically
Speaker 1: going against its balance point, it will hold it nice
Speaker 1: and straight for you, and it won't hold it against
Speaker 1: you out from the wall in any significant way of consequence.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Right, So you got the toothbar,
Speaker 1: you got the drilled hole d rings. D rings are
Speaker 1: especially for larger pieces of art or frames. A d
Speaker 1: ring is not anything a top of the frame, but
Speaker 1: you'll they're on the sides of the frames down a
Speaker 1: few inches. You're gonna there's a little kind of almost
Speaker 1: a hinge plate and then a ring or a loop
Speaker 1: in the shape of a d okay on both sides.
Speaker 1: They may be facing up, they may be able to
Speaker 1: swivel and pivot. Most of the time they're facing inward.
Speaker 1: And a d ring can be a great thing, but
Speaker 1: I'll just tell you right now, it can be a
Speaker 1: super frustrating thing. If you're thinking that the D ring
Speaker 1: should have a you know, a nail or a screw
Speaker 1: in each ring on each side, because then you've got
Speaker 1: to get the spacing exactly right, and you got to
Speaker 1: get those screws and or nails in the wall perfectly
Speaker 1: level with each other. Assuming again that the D rings
Speaker 1: have been hung on the frame perfectly level each with
Speaker 1: each other. A better way to go if you find
Speaker 1: a D ring is to celebrate, Yay, it's a D ring,
Speaker 1: and then get yourself a nice length of picture wire
Speaker 1: and run wire in between the D rings so then
Speaker 1: we can actually put a hanger or two on the
Speaker 1: wall and hook the wire over the hangar. That's really
Speaker 1: actually what the D rings originally made for. Okay, And
Speaker 1: then you might have found nothing on the back of
Speaker 1: something that you want to hang on a wall, and
Speaker 1: now it's a dealer's choice as to how you want
Speaker 1: to address it. And we'll talk about that as well,
Speaker 1: because the very next step are the types of hangers
Speaker 1: that we can use other than what came on the frame,
Speaker 1: and we'll well, you know what, like I said, when
Speaker 1: we come back from the break, we're going to table
Speaker 1: this conversation. Just press pause, and we're going to take
Speaker 1: some of our calls, because we got a lot of
Speaker 1: them waiting for us on the board. When we return
Speaker 1: to this subject, we'll talk about those hangers, everything from
Speaker 1: the angled nail to the expansion anchor to one of
Speaker 1: my favorite, the monkey hook. So go nowhere, we will
Speaker 1: take make your calls when we return.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1: There you go, little Beetlejuice music. We just we just
Speaker 1: watched that last night, Tony, not the new one. We
Speaker 1: got the new one, but we don't want to watch.
Speaker 2: The new one yet.
Speaker 1: We wanted to go back and watch the original Beetlejuice
Speaker 1: so we could just kind of be in the flow.
Speaker 1: And I think we're going to watch Beetlejuice Beetlejuice later today.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know what, if you're going to become
Speaker 1: demon possessed, do it to Harry Belafonte music.
Speaker 2: That's the best way to do it. That's the best way,
Speaker 2: is it?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 2: Lay right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well that seems a little dark. Except a little dark.
Speaker 1: I would rather, you know, I'd rather be dancing if
Speaker 1: I had to, all right, Some people who have seen
Speaker 1: me dance say that I am possessed, so you know,
Speaker 1: it just works out that way.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Tina wanted to where did she go? She wanted
Speaker 2: to let me have tell me.
Speaker 1: She told me to tell you that she has posted
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Speaker 1: a call in before we take our next break. Here,
Speaker 1: let's talk to the bump bumb Judith. Judith, welcome home.
Speaker 4: Thank you. I have a quick question about retaining walls.
Speaker 4: If you couldn't expand a little bit on that. I
Speaker 4: had water and children in my home during heavy rains,
Speaker 4: and my patio outside is raised, so even if I
Speaker 4: dig the dirt away from the wall it's in a corner,
Speaker 4: it's still going to be a lot of water coming in.
Speaker 4: So I've heard some ideas though, what do I need
Speaker 4: to know about putting in a retaining wall, like some
Speaker 4: distance from that place so it's water doesn't come right
Speaker 4: to the wall and sits there when it rains.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so the soil, even if you say
Speaker 1: if you dig down away right there, there's still a
Speaker 1: lot of water happening there.
Speaker 2: Why is there a lot of water happening right.
Speaker 4: There because the patio is raised. I have a raised,
Speaker 4: tiled patio and it's higher than that little area that
Speaker 4: the water is coming down. So I'm thinking it's still
Speaker 4: going to be because the patio is in the middle
Speaker 4: of the yard outside and it's just a small narrow
Speaker 4: area that goes from the fence back fence into the house.
Speaker 2: To the house.
Speaker 4: Okay, so it's a little bit more of a problem thing.
Speaker 4: I did a lot of things, but it's just the
Speaker 4: last thing I think I need to do, just to.
Speaker 1: Make sure, Okay, I got you all right, So so
Speaker 1: Judith and everybody who has experienced water getting too close
Speaker 1: to the house. There's a number of things we can do.
Speaker 1: One is the big mistake is don't do nothing. Because
Speaker 1: we got to keep water away from the house.
Speaker 2: We have to.
Speaker 1: Everything about the building code begs you to have water
Speaker 1: moving away from the base of your walls, not toward it. Okay,
Speaker 1: So anything number one to divert a large amount of
Speaker 1: water that's coming toward your house. Another thing that a
Speaker 1: lot of people struggle with is that they've got gutter
Speaker 1: down spouts that are dropping rain water from the roof
Speaker 1: and the down spout comes to the base of the
Speaker 1: wall and it just ends right there and there's no
Speaker 1: concern about where all of that water goes once it
Speaker 1: hits the soil. So again, we need to lengthen that
Speaker 1: down spout, the actual bend at the bottom. We need
Speaker 1: to put an extension on it. We got to get
Speaker 1: that water away from the house. If we can change
Speaker 1: the pitch of the soil at all. If we've got
Speaker 1: just a situation where there's too much water flowing on
Speaker 1: grade towards the house, then we need to think about
Speaker 1: maybe digging down doing a little bit of water proofing
Speaker 1: on the edge of the slab, digging down six eight
Speaker 1: ten inches. It doesn't have to be a massive trench,
Speaker 1: but we just need to dig down enough to get
Speaker 1: some roll on waterproofing mastick or surface waterproofing on the
Speaker 1: edge of that concrete so that again the slab which
Speaker 1: is concrete, which is a stone sponge, is not in
Speaker 1: a position where it is absorbing too much water and
Speaker 1: then conveying that up into the walls, which it will
Speaker 1: because water will travel against gravity through a process called
Speaker 1: surface tension percolation up for quite a ways, and so
Speaker 1: we want to stop that from happening. So a little
Speaker 1: bit of that, and while we have that open trench,
Speaker 1: maybe a small French drain which is a pipe with
Speaker 1: perforated holes in it to receive the water that's coming
Speaker 1: towards the house, and again running that along away from
Speaker 1: that critical area before it lets out and distributes the
Speaker 1: water elsewhere, or tie it into the yard drains, what
Speaker 1: have you. It's hard for me to picture the exact
Speaker 1: solution for you, Judith, just because I don't have the
Speaker 1: full picture in my head. But these are the things
Speaker 1: we have to do to keep water away from the house,
Speaker 1: even something as simple as digging down and creating a deeper,
Speaker 1: little gravel filled well there so that surface water doesn't
Speaker 1: build up right there and creep into the wall line
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the sole plate of the wall.
Speaker 1: Anything we can do to keep the water from getting
Speaker 1: near the wood bottom of the wall, that's what we
Speaker 1: need to do. So anything you can do in the
Speaker 1: yard to keep it from getting there in the first place.
Speaker 1: But if you can't avoid that, then once it's there,
Speaker 1: we've got to grab it and convey it elsewhere. Drain gravel,
Speaker 1: French drain, waterproofing, and generally speaking, all of the above,
Speaker 1: a layer after layer after layer approach, because there's usually
Speaker 1: no one silver bullet for the whole thing. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you for your call, Judith, appreciate the question. When
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