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Speaker 2: back to the phones, and I want to talk to Frank. Hey, Frank,
Speaker 2: welcome home.
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you very much being for taking my call.
Speaker 4: So I have the flighting glass doors. There's the house
Speaker 4: that's about twenty nine.
Speaker 3: Years old, and.
Speaker 4: I'm getting moisture between the dull pained outside and the inside,
Speaker 4: you know, siding glass litl pain. Is there on a
Speaker 4: way to repair that or I need to be thinking
Speaker 4: about replacing the sliding glass door.
Speaker 2: There is a way to repair it. There absolutely is
Speaker 2: a way to repair it. Now whether or not you
Speaker 2: you'll have to just evaluate the cost of repairing it
Speaker 2: versus a new door. But typically typically it's going to
Speaker 2: be less expensive than replacing the sliding glass door. So
Speaker 2: assuming that you like your sliding glass door and that
Speaker 2: they're functioning well, and that the rollers and the track
Speaker 2: and everything is just got you satisfied, and you've only
Speaker 2: got you know, condensation building up inside the glass units,
Speaker 2: it's going to be less expensive for you to fix
Speaker 2: the glass problem. And here is how you fix it.
Speaker 2: In fact, well you don't fix it. You don't fix it,
Speaker 2: and it doesn't get fixed in the field per se,
Speaker 2: because what you've got there any modern dual glazed window
Speaker 2: and uh is those two panes of glass that you
Speaker 2: have on your sliding door are a factory sealed unit.
Speaker 2: In fact, it's called an IGU, an insulated glass unit.
Speaker 2: So both of those panes of glass are fused together
Speaker 2: in a zero moisture environment in a factory, used together
Speaker 2: with zero moisture inside of them. In fact, there's not air,
Speaker 2: and there's not supposed to be air inside them. There
Speaker 2: is a form of gas, usually ar gone gas inside
Speaker 2: those units. And over time, and you know you're looking
Speaker 2: at what thirty years or so, over time a unit
Speaker 2: can fail and when you see condensation forming on the inside,
Speaker 2: that means that the seal of that IGU has failed.
Speaker 2: But a lot of people misunderstand. They figure out, well,
Speaker 2: they don't really see where the stop biz. They don't
Speaker 2: see where it is that that IGU got inserted into
Speaker 2: the sliding glass door, and they just assume the whole
Speaker 2: thing's got to go. But no, a glass company, the
Speaker 2: manufacture of the sliding glass unit can and will produce
Speaker 2: a new IGU and they'll bring it out. It has
Speaker 2: to be produced. You know, you can't just remove one
Speaker 2: of the panes of glass, clean up the stuff, seal
Speaker 2: it because in the field, there's always moisture in the
Speaker 2: air out here, you know, no matter what happens, even
Speaker 2: on the hottest of hot summer days, there's always a
Speaker 2: degree of moisture in the air. You trap that inside
Speaker 2: that glass, and then when the weather gets cold again,
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, that moisture will condensate and
Speaker 2: you'll see it dripping and forming on the inside of
Speaker 2: the glass again. So it has to be produced in
Speaker 2: an absolute zero moisture factory environment. But they can bring
Speaker 2: out a new IGU and change it out for you,
Speaker 2: And that's basically the moral the story.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, thank you very much for sharing that.
Speaker 2: You're very well bet Frank. So yeah, you don't it's
Speaker 2: not the end of the world. And if the rest
Speaker 2: of the frame and everything else on your sliding glass
Speaker 2: door is functional, then just get a hold of manufacture
Speaker 2: or a rep that deals with that brand of door
Speaker 2: and you can have it changed out. Talk call your
Speaker 2: local glass company. They've got they've got you know, inroads
Speaker 2: and uh and referrals for you. But yeah, you just
Speaker 2: got to order a new IGU, the insulated glass unit.
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Speaker 2: let's talk to well, let's talk to Eileen. Hey, Eileen,
Speaker 2: welcome home.
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 6: I love your program. I've listened to it since you've
Speaker 6: first been on there, and I've learned so much and
Speaker 6: I've sent I've told a million people to listen to you.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, a million people, all because of Aileen,
Speaker 2: leave your address and we.
Speaker 3: Will find you at text.
Speaker 6: They address. I'll have to give it to you in
Speaker 6: a minute because I'm a new address and I have
Speaker 6: a hard time remembering it. Catch me after I get up.
Speaker 2: I do not want you to read your address on
Speaker 2: the air. I was just kidding. I was just kidding. Well, no,
Speaker 2: I was also kidding about saying you a check.
Speaker 6: Anyway, my my grandson's my grandson's built a new house
Speaker 6: about three years ago on about three acres, which is
Speaker 6: fenced with chain length for the most part, with one
Speaker 6: sliding wrought iron gate. But this is and we have
Speaker 6: grown to six dogs, a couple of Great Pyrenees and
Speaker 6: a couple of smaller dogs. And I forget what else,
Speaker 6: But anyway, rattle snakes are just a real problem. And
Speaker 6: some of our neighbors losing dogs because of the rattlesnakes.
Speaker 6: And you know, they tell you not to kill them,
Speaker 6: they need them. And but yet you have kids playing
Speaker 6: there and dogs playing there. What do we do? Maybe
Speaker 6: if we could get a road runner to stick around, possibly,
Speaker 6: but I.
Speaker 2: Keep a road runner in the yard as a constant monitor. Okay, well,
Speaker 2: you've called the right place because I grew up in
Speaker 2: a large open space, multi acre open space right here
Speaker 2: in southern California, actually in a landfill. And by the
Speaker 2: time I was twelve years old, I was responsible for
Speaker 2: rattlesnakes intrusions into our.
Speaker 3: Property up there.
Speaker 2: By the time I was twelve, I had a extra
Speaker 2: large jar of skippy peanut butter and empty peanut butter
Speaker 2: jar filled with the rattles of my victims. And it
Speaker 2: wasn't because snakes, right, No, no, no, just the rattles.
Speaker 2: I collected the rattle and it wasn't being killing rattle snakes.
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 2: But you know, when they come they come in too
Speaker 2: close to the house, you know, it's not it's not
Speaker 2: good when they're in the yard. It's exactly so I
Speaker 2: will tell you this. Uh, snake fencing, Uh, it's not
Speaker 2: that expensive. It comes in rolls. Uh, this is the
Speaker 2: first line of defence. Okay, that chain link isn't stopping anybody.
Speaker 2: And and so snake fencing, and what I would do.
Speaker 2: I know it's three acres, so there's a lot of fence.
Speaker 2: But what I would do is a snake fencing is
Speaker 2: just small nylon you know, vinyl mesh that is too
Speaker 2: small for a snake to crawl through, and just tall
Speaker 2: enough for a snake not to be able to climb
Speaker 2: up and crawl over. And so this alone will radically
Speaker 2: change the game as far as snakes in on the property,
Speaker 2: if you're consistent and you do it in an unbroken manner.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: And I also recommend that not that snakes dig. They
Speaker 2: don't dig, okay. And when we talk about snake holes,
Speaker 2: those are old golfer holes that other animals have dug
Speaker 2: that snakes utilize to burrow in. But I recommend just
Speaker 2: bury the bottom of the snakeproof fencing, you know, three
Speaker 2: or four inches, so just a tiny little trench, just
Speaker 2: to get it buried so that they can't nose underneath it.
Speaker 2: That's the whole idea. A snake, a rattlesnake, well, all
Speaker 2: snakes for the most part, they're not excellent climbers, but
Speaker 2: they usually can raise themselves up. Okay, they have to
Speaker 2: have support to do this, but they can raise themselves
Speaker 2: up roughly a third of their body length.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So let's say we've got a big old rattlesnake and
Speaker 2: a big rattlesnake in southern California terms, or in Western
Speaker 2: States terms is like, you know, a six foot rattlesnake. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's a big, fat, old rattlesnake that has survived well.
Speaker 2: So you think about that one third of their body length.
Speaker 2: So for the biggest of rattlesnakes, we're talking twenty four
Speaker 2: inches that they could actually raise their head up about
Speaker 2: two feet up a supported structure and in theory get over.
Speaker 2: So a three foot roll, three foot tall roll of
Speaker 2: snake fencing that you roll along the inside or the
Speaker 2: outside of the chainling fence will pretty much shut down
Speaker 2: the biggest of beasts and keep them out of the yard.
Speaker 3: That's one thing.
Speaker 2: The second thing, just for safe measure, is that there
Speaker 2: actually is several companies produce granular repellents that are made
Speaker 2: from certain essential oils and things that snakes just do
Speaker 2: not like. And you know, not a lot of people
Speaker 2: think that that would be something that's effective, but it is.
Speaker 2: Snakes are all about They don't have that great of Okay,
Speaker 2: snakes are all about odor sensing. Their tongue is essentially
Speaker 2: their nose. When they stick their tongues out, they are
Speaker 2: sampling what's going on in the air around them. They
Speaker 2: are super super odor sensitive creatures. That's how they track.
Speaker 2: They literally will track and find their prey based on sampling,
Speaker 2: chemical sampling as they go. It's not because that they've
Speaker 2: got egalized they don't. They really don't. So there are
Speaker 2: a lot of companies everybody from I think Ortho to Well.
Speaker 2: If you go online and just put in snake repellent granules,
Speaker 2: you'll find them. They're not expensive, and those can be
Speaker 2: distributed kind of shaken out. They're safe for the kids
Speaker 2: and the dogs. Those can be shaked and established around
Speaker 2: the perimeter of that fence as well. So those two
Speaker 2: things combined, I think you'll see a marked reduction in
Speaker 2: the you know, I mean it should, it should shut
Speaker 2: down snake. I'm not saying a snake can't get through
Speaker 2: like under the gate, but in three acres worth of fencing,
Speaker 2: if there's just one sliding gait, you're radically reducing the
Speaker 2: chances of a rattlesnake getting into the yard.
Speaker 6: Okay. In addition, we've had dogs snakeproofs in the past,
Speaker 6: which worked pretty well. I cannot find a snake doing
Speaker 6: that recently. I've tried to. You know, of course the
Speaker 6: internet you can find anything, but I haven't been able
Speaker 6: to find anybody just snake poof the dogs again, because
Speaker 6: a couple of these are proposits that haven't gone through
Speaker 6: that experience before.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And when Eileen is talking everybody about snakeproofing a dog,
Speaker 2: it's about training a dog so that it understands not
Speaker 2: to attack a snake, but to be worn and to
Speaker 2: stand back and not to put itself in that kind
Speaker 2: of danger. I Leen, the best bet there is call
Speaker 2: your vet, call your local veterinarian, because they have they
Speaker 2: have references for that kind of stuff. I know our
Speaker 2: vets in our area will refer you out to services
Speaker 2: that help prep dogs for rattlesnakes as well. In fact,
Speaker 2: it's like around here around where I live in eastern
Speaker 2: Ventor County. Uh, It's a thing and there are there
Speaker 2: are classes and things being taught all the time because
Speaker 2: we've got so much open space where people hike during
Speaker 2: the spring and the summer, and the snakes are out
Speaker 2: right now. They're not out in full force yet because
Speaker 2: the weather's been wonky, but with this recent heat spell,
Speaker 2: they're waking up, they're coming out and they're going to
Speaker 2: be around, so everybody needs to be aware. I lean
Speaker 2: thanks for the call. Just know you can. You can
Speaker 2: snake proof of yard for the most part if you
Speaker 2: do it right. You've got to be consistent. It's not
Speaker 2: like they're trying to get into the yard, you know,
Speaker 2: with full force and intent. It's just they're just wandering along,
Speaker 2: picking up scents as they go and h and they
Speaker 2: end up in the yard. And don't I know, I've
Speaker 2: had to deal with I've had to dispatch too many
Speaker 2: in my lifetime and they are terrifying. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: scary because you know it's a venomous snake. So anyway,
Speaker 2: but it can be done. Good luck, Eileen. I hope
Speaker 2: that helps along the way. All right, y'all, more of
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Speaker 3: Hey, your home, Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk to Marsha. Hey, Marsha, welcome home, Good good.
Speaker 7: Morning, Dean. I have a forty year old home and
Speaker 7: I need a recommendation for a company that does.
Speaker 6: Will repair the wheep screed at the base of the walls,
Speaker 6: of the outside walls.
Speaker 3: Okay, what's going on.
Speaker 7: We're all breaking down. They're all all breaking down.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, well that's this is an easy one. It's
Speaker 2: a stucco company, okay. Weep screed is a is a flashing.
Speaker 2: It's a flashing that goes properly at the bottom of
Speaker 2: a stucco wall. And so it is the stucco company.
Speaker 2: The stucco guys that come in and install it. They
Speaker 2: paper it in when they're putting on the the building
Speaker 2: paper on the side of the house and they're putting
Speaker 2: on their stucco laugh wiring, and then they transition all
Speaker 2: of that down and overlap it onto a bottom flashing,
Speaker 2: that triangular flashing with the holes in the bottom It's
Speaker 2: called a weep screed for two reasons. One, it's a
Speaker 2: screed in that it sticks out just far enough for
Speaker 2: them to run their trowels against it to create just
Speaker 2: a nice, even layer of stucco at the bottom. That's
Speaker 2: what we would call a screed. It's a guide and
Speaker 2: it weeps because on the bottom, where you can't see it,
Speaker 2: it's got holes, and those holes allow moisture that build
Speaker 2: up inside the stucco wall to trickle down and escape
Speaker 2: instead of popping the finish of your stucco out and
Speaker 2: screwing it all up.
Speaker 3: But there are times when weep screen it will eventually.
Speaker 2: Fail, and you know, sometimes they rust out if they
Speaker 2: weren't the best quality to begin with and so on.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so the weep screed is critically important. I
Speaker 2: take calls all the time from people who are like,
Speaker 2: my stucco is failing on my house, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: what's going on. They're like, well, it's popping off, perating,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, all right, does the stucco run all
Speaker 2: the way down into the soil just right into They're
Speaker 2: like yep, And I'm like, ah see, that was a
Speaker 2: house that was done before we figured out we got
Speaker 2: to put weep screed at the bottom of the stucco
Speaker 2: and hold the bottom of the stucco line up above
Speaker 2: the soil, because concrete collects moisture, and no matter how
Speaker 2: well you've sealed and painted your house, moisture still finds
Speaker 2: its way into the concrete that is the stucco. That's normal,
Speaker 2: it's natural, but we got to give it a place
Speaker 2: to get out. And that's what the weep screed. It weeps.
Speaker 2: It weeps out moisture at the bottom. So the moral
Speaker 2: of the story, Marsha is it is a stucco company
Speaker 2: that does weep screed, not roofers, not general contractors. So
Speaker 2: if you start looking for a reputable stucco company and
Speaker 2: get two or three in your area, they can come
Speaker 2: out and if the weep screed is failing, what they'll
Speaker 2: typically do is they'll cut about four to six inches
Speaker 2: up on the wall along the stucco line and remove
Speaker 2: that stucco, bang it out, and then they can have
Speaker 2: access to that weep screen flashing where they can pull
Speaker 2: it out, slide a new flashing underneath the existing paper,
Speaker 2: get it all papered in really nicely and sealed and
Speaker 2: then they will stucco that bottom edge for you and
Speaker 2: then you know, fetter out to finish up against the wall.
Speaker 2: It is going to cause you know, some damage to
Speaker 2: the stucco, but it's well worth doing if the weep
Speaker 2: screed is failing.
Speaker 7: Yes, I can sure see that. Thank you so much, Deean.
Speaker 6: This is great.
Speaker 7: And if you don't have a company, you would recommend
Speaker 7: a stucco company.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I trust your judgment, I know, but
Speaker 3: here's the problem. Where are you at, by the way.
Speaker 7: I'm in Englewood, California.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: See that's the problem, is it.
Speaker 2: Contracting is such a local, local, uh you know deal,
Speaker 2: especially for small homes, and so where I live and
Speaker 2: where we have some of our custom designs built within
Speaker 2: a you know, certain local radio of our home out
Speaker 2: here in eastern Ventura County. I could give references anywhere
Speaker 2: else in southern California and everywhere this show reaches. It's
Speaker 2: just it's impossible to keep up with references for good companies.
Speaker 2: But you look for local Englewood stucco companies and you'll
Speaker 2: find them and vet them, you know, make sure that
Speaker 2: they have got all their ducks in a row, and
Speaker 2: they've got their license clean, and bonds and insurance to
Speaker 2: all of that good stuff, and invite them out and
Speaker 2: take two or three bids and you should be good
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I wish I could recommend the amazing contractors that are
Speaker 2: out there to everybody wherever you live. But that, if
Speaker 2: you think about it for a second, that that would
Speaker 2: be just that would be a monumental task. We'd have
Speaker 2: to set up an entire company just to monitor the
Speaker 2: quality of contractors and to make sure that they keep
Speaker 2: doing quality work, just to give those referrals. So unfortunately,
Speaker 2: I can't give referrals out usually unless it's a company
Speaker 2: like one of our partners here on the show, one
Speaker 2: of the sponsors of the show that cover an entire
Speaker 2: wide area, and we keep our eyes on them. Sure
Speaker 2: they're doing it right, all right. I don't know why
Speaker 2: I'm growling at contractors. I guess I should be as
Speaker 2: a general rule, I am one more of your calls.
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Speaker 2: I've still got some calls on the board, so let's
Speaker 2: see what we can get done. Before we are done,
Speaker 2: I want to talk to John. Hey, John, welcome home.
Speaker 5: Hey Dean, how are you doing?
Speaker 3: I am well, sir. How can I help you?
Speaker 5: I have floor pops that are starting to drive me crazy.
Speaker 5: Where original owners? The home is about twenty one years old.
Speaker 5: It's the second floor. I was just in my son's room,
Speaker 5: but now I'm for getting some of the master and
Speaker 5: you know, I saw the construction of it. It's got
Speaker 5: those what do you call them? The engineered would I
Speaker 5: beam things?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 5: Huh? And uh, you know, I did some looking, and
Speaker 5: you know, I just is it something that can be fixed?
Speaker 5: Or am I just chasing a you know, to playing
Speaker 5: whack the mole with the stuff.
Speaker 2: Okay, so describe to me what you mean by floor pops.
Speaker 2: I'm only asking because a lot of people have a
Speaker 2: lot of different, you know, definitions of what that is.
Speaker 2: What are you experiencing up there on the second floor.
Speaker 5: When you walk on just certain areas, you will hear
Speaker 5: a pop, not a creek, a pop. And the it's
Speaker 5: not terrible upstairs, but downstairs it's a lot louder. So
Speaker 5: if you're downstairs and someone's walking around up there, it's
Speaker 5: it's irritating.
Speaker 2: And what have you guys? What have guys tried to
Speaker 2: do about it thus far?
Speaker 5: I researched it, and it's like, I better call the
Speaker 5: before I do the wrong thing.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, so here's the thing.
Speaker 2: It is very likely not the joste, especially if it's
Speaker 2: eye beam shaped. Trust joices. They're very stable, they're very secure,
Speaker 2: they're very flat. They're actually designed to help eliminate this.
Speaker 2: But you know, there is no one particular piece of
Speaker 2: material that goes into a home that all by itself
Speaker 2: solves a problem. It has to be installed properly, and
Speaker 2: I doubt that the floor joists are improperly installed. But
Speaker 2: the sheathing the plywood on top of those floor joys
Speaker 2: should have been nailed down and glued to the top
Speaker 2: of the floor joist everywhere, and if they were, then
Speaker 2: you wouldn't be experiencing that kind of noise. There seems
Speaker 2: to be This sounds to me like there is buckling happening,
Speaker 2: and that's that's not necessarily a structural issue as much
Speaker 2: as it is, you know, an audible esthetic issue. The
Speaker 2: seams of the plywood. It may be riding up and
Speaker 2: down on nails. It may have been misnailed. In other words,
Speaker 2: the nails went in and they missed the joist altogether.
Speaker 2: Somebody might have left the glue off in some areas.
Speaker 2: And so when it comes to settling that down, yeah,
Speaker 2: you are going to have to chase it a bit,
Speaker 2: I think, probably realistically. But here's the best thing you
Speaker 2: can do, and that is there are now there are
Speaker 2: some floor fix it kits that include injecting adhesive down
Speaker 2: underneath the plywood in order to get a little adhesive
Speaker 2: going on that you know, when it comes to hardwood floors,
Speaker 2: I recommend that a little bit more than just regular
Speaker 2: plywood situations sheathing situations with sheathing. I like to just
Speaker 2: trace down the nature of the pop kind it, find
Speaker 2: it where you know, and and yeah, it's not a squeak,
Speaker 2: but it still could be the same kind of issue.
Speaker 2: And we just got to start with the minimum. And
Speaker 2: the minimum is a good wood screw and a screw
Speaker 2: gun and find in a in a stud finder, because
Speaker 2: what you want to be looking for, you know, pull
Speaker 2: the carpet up or pull up the flooring that's there.
Speaker 2: You're going to look underneath. You want to find the
Speaker 2: lines of the nails and or the screws that are
Speaker 2: on the floor. I'm guessing they did not screw down
Speaker 2: that floor because it wouldn't be moving that way if
Speaker 2: they had, so you want to look for those.
Speaker 5: I seem they recall there there were screws, but it
Speaker 5: was twenty one years ago. But I seem to recall
Speaker 5: they kind of had the head on them with like
Speaker 5: a square inset.
Speaker 2: But yeah, might have been, might have been, But that's
Speaker 2: the thing. We just got to track it down. So
Speaker 2: track down the problem area and and add some screws
Speaker 2: to it. That's the cool thing is you can you
Speaker 2: can add some screws to it to secure that. Now
Speaker 2: you may put shit ten feet away when you do that. Okay,
Speaker 2: if it's a systemic problem, you may have resolved it
Speaker 2: there and you're like, oh great, great, Now now over
Speaker 2: here it's squeaky uh. If you keep chasing it, and
Speaker 2: you keep dedicated to it, you will eventually probably trap
Speaker 2: the creature and and quiet it down. That's that's been
Speaker 2: my experience over the years. But it may take a
Speaker 2: little doing as you go.
Speaker 5: Okay, so pulling up the carpet and pad for sure, yep.
Speaker 3: And then you want to get a line on.
Speaker 2: You got to find out where the floor joists are
Speaker 2: because screws just out in the middle of nowhere aren't
Speaker 2: doing anybody any So you want to see where the
Speaker 2: existing floor. You might even find snap lines, old chalk
Speaker 2: lines where they snap them out to try and hit
Speaker 2: the floor joist. And then you want to make sure
Speaker 2: as you screw that screw in, you'll feel it if
Speaker 2: you're hitting into If it's digging into wood all the
Speaker 2: way through, then you've hit the top of the joist.
Speaker 2: If the screw starts off uh slow, but then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden just speeds in through. Then you've missed it.
Speaker 2: So that's why I uh and then just exploring along.
Speaker 2: But yeah, just just screw that sucker down. Add three
Speaker 2: or four in any area that it's uh you know
Speaker 2: that that it's causing you a problem, and then uh
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, I wish I could tell you
Speaker 2: something better, but then you're just gonna have to stand
Speaker 2: back and wait.
Speaker 5: So so two questions should do I need to remove
Speaker 5: all the furniture from the room. And the other question
Speaker 5: is how long? So let's say, Okay, I find it,
Speaker 5: I screw them in, and now I've got to wait
Speaker 5: to see if it moves. Is that like within the
Speaker 5: same day or do I need to kind of it is.
Speaker 2: Like it'll over Yeah, likely if it's gonna shift, it'll
Speaker 2: likely shift over you know, a week or so uh
Speaker 2: in time. So don't don't move anything unnecessarily. If you're
Speaker 2: feeling a pop. Just pull the carpet back. Just stay
Speaker 2: very very isolated, very surgical in your approach. You know,
Speaker 2: don't empty out rooms, pull out the carpet. I would
Speaker 2: just approach the area of the pop, expose it put
Speaker 2: a couple of three screws down to secure it. See
Speaker 2: if it sounds differently, then cover it back up, cross
Speaker 2: your fingers, and hope that it doesn't move to another area,
Speaker 2: because you know, what you're doing is you're reapplying pressure
Speaker 2: and you're putting the tension somewhere else. But that may
Speaker 2: be the only problem. So it may not move at all,
Speaker 2: and you may just resolve it, but you may have
Speaker 2: to wait. So just be sensitive to it. And as
Speaker 2: you start to encounter them, knock those down.
Speaker 3: You will.
Speaker 2: I promise you, John, you will eventually catch up with
Speaker 2: it all and solve whatever is deficient up there. But
Speaker 2: it's just going to be it's going to be a
Speaker 2: little project for a while, very likely, John, Thanks for
Speaker 2: the call. We are literally right up against eight o'clock here.
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