WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:04.120 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 2 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:06.000 KFI AM six forty. 3 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:13.320 If I AM six forty live streaming, and HD everywhere 4 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:17.920 on the iHeartRadio app. Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer, live 5 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:22.719 with you every Saturday morning and every Sunday morning Saturdays 6 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:27.679 from six to eight Pacific time, Sundays nine to noon 7 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:32.240 Pacific time. Yes, Easter Sunday is tomorrow, and yes, I 8 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:35.479 will be here live with you. We will be hunting 9 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:39.719 eggs together. Follow us on social media. We only do 10 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:45.119 the good kind, uplifting, informative, inspiring social media. 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All right, we're back at it. It is 31 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:59.439 an all Calls Saturday morning, and I was talking to George. 32 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:04.519 George is still on the line. You're still with me, George, Yes, Sam, 33 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:09.560 all right, So George is George is looking to light 34 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:12.560 his house differently, a lot of lamps around, a lot 35 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:15.400 of cords, lying about. He was thinking about putting in 36 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:19.280 recess can light But he's a longtime listener and so, 37 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:23.000 like so many of you, he fears my opinion about 38 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:26.479 recess canlights. So he wanted to call that he doesn't 39 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:29.039 fear it. He wanted to call and uh and see 40 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:31.280 what I had to say about putting ress can lights in. 41 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:36.360 So here's the thing, my friend, I am not against 42 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:38.840 recess can lights in a home. I'm all about them. 43 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:43.319 They're great, they're fantastic. But yes, most houses that I 44 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:47.800 walk into are houses that have been abused by recess 45 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:51.800 can lighting, not because of the lights themselves, but because 46 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:54.560 of the way that they've been used improperly. And so, 47 00:02:55.159 --> 00:02:58.800 how do you properly use a recess canlight? Well, let's 48 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:04.479 put aside. They're the standard, straightforward use in utility areas 49 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:10.039 like kitchens, laundry rooms, and you know, even bathrooms. Here 50 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:15.240 you just have standard can lights going down onto countertops 51 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:19.560 without causing shadows in front of them, onto floors. General lighting, 52 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:22.919 it's great, light up, light it up like a stadium, 53 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:25.759 because these are areas where we want as much light 54 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:29.840 as possible. But in romantic areas and you're like romantic 55 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:33.759 when you're talking about boudoir, No, I just mean areas 56 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:39.360 of architectural romance, living rooms, bedrooms, that kind of thing 57 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:46.039 where we're going for max effect and ambiance. Here is 58 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:50.400 how we use a recess canlight. Here's how professional lighting 59 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:54.800 designers use recess canlights. Are you ready? Everybody, listen to 60 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:59.319 the words I am about to speak. We do not 61 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:08.439 light rooms. We light things. And there you go. There's 62 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:10.919 the rule. If you remember nothing else, remember that we 63 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:14.759 do not light rooms. We like things. Now what does 64 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:19.279 that mean? It means this. It means that you know, 65 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:23.519 around the perimeter of let's say a living room, there 66 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:28.639 are walls, and those walls have space on them, space 67 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:32.079 where you're going to hang family photos, space where you're 68 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:36.040 going to hang a piece of art, space where you 69 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:39.800 may have bookshelves, or you may have a stone finish 70 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:44.319 on your fireplace, those kinds of things. These are things 71 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:49.839 and I love lighting, and recess can lights are usually 72 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:52.600 the best way to do it, ceiling mount can lights. 73 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:56.720 The key is this, we don't want a recess can light, 74 00:04:56.879 --> 00:05:00.879 just dropping general lighting in the room. Overhead general lighting. 75 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:03.720 It's the worst kind of lighting for human beings. It 76 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:08.160 dissipates all shadows, and shadows are something that we want 77 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:14.399 in a room because shadows bring texture and dimensionality and 78 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:17.480 interest to a space. We want shadows. We don't want 79 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:19.639 to drive all the shadows out of a room. We 80 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:24.000 want them. But overhead lighting on a human being is 81 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:27.639 ask any photographer, no, no, no, We're not going to 82 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:32.199 light you that. That's like Halloween lighting. Right, big shadows 83 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:35.480 under your eyebrows and so on. It's just the worst 84 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:38.600 kind of general light. Not to mention the fact that 85 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:42.079 the last thing world you want in a room is 86 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:46.839 to gaze towards the ceiling and be staring into essentially 87 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:51.319 what is the headlight of oncoming vehicles. Glare. Glare is 88 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:55.639 a massive, massive enemy of recess can lighting. We don't 89 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:58.720 want it, So how do you achieve this? When I 90 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:02.600 buy recess can light to inspect it for a house easily, 91 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:07.399 and I'm not exaggerating, well over eighty percent, sometimes well 92 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:10.839 over ninety percent of the recess can lights that we 93 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:15.319 purchase for use in homes are directional. It means that 94 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:19.399 they are what's called a gimbal style recess can light. 95 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:23.240 A gimbal simply means Back in the eighties, when these 96 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:26.040 first came out, we used to call them eyeballs because 97 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:28.839 they kind of there's a big round part that sticks 98 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:31.040 into the room and you rotate it around. But the 99 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:36.160 point is they're not eyeballs anymore. Gimbal lighting. Gimbal lighting 100 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:39.720 means that you can direct the light, and I don't 101 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:42.800 want to direct the light down onto the floor if 102 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:46.720 there's a section of wall where we're gonna potentially hang 103 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:49.560 a piece of art. Then I'll put a recess can 104 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:52.839 light about thirty inches or so off of that wall, 105 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:55.639 right in front of that section of wall, and it's 106 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:58.199 a directional light so that I can aim the light 107 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:02.160 at the art, so that I'll put up I'll put 108 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:04.439 lights in front of bookshelves so that i can aim 109 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:07.800 the light at the bookshelves. I'll put lights in front 110 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:10.319 of family photos so i can aim the light at 111 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:13.279 the photos. And guess what, these aren't lasers. That light 112 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:17.560 bounces around and also fills gently fills up the room 113 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:21.240 with ambient light as well, but the direction of the 114 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:24.480 light is aimed toward the wall, away from your eyes 115 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:27.759 so that you are not staring up into glare. So 116 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:31.639 we've solved the glare problem. And we're not just generally 117 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:36.240 doing overhead lighting. We are lighting things, not the room, 118 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:39.959 and that's the goal. So think that through as you 119 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:42.879 lay out any room in bedroom, you got a wall, 120 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:45.519 you're gonna put art, you're gonna put photos, you gotta 121 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:49.040 put something attractive there. Light it. Throw a light on 122 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:52.720 to it, not next to it, onto it. Okay, don't 123 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:55.759 make the mistake of putting recess can lights straight down 124 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:59.000 as reading lights over a bed, because as soon as 125 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:02.199 you are laying horizon and look straight up, you will 126 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:07.319 never turn those lights on because glaire glare into your eyes. 127 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:10.399 No one likes it. Even if you don't think about it. 128 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:13.480 People shy away from it. Nobody likes it, and so 129 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:18.639 does Dean Hate recess candlights, No, not at all. They 130 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:21.680 have their use. There are only two kinds of lights 131 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:26.399 in the world. There are lights that do the job 132 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:31.920 of lighting something without drawing attention to themselves. It's just 133 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:34.480 the light that we want out of them. And there 134 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:37.399 are lights that light a thing and also say hey, 135 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:41.360 look at me, So like a chandelier is one of 136 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:44.600 those lights that does lighting but also says, hey look 137 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:49.120 at me, I'm gonna gugi, I'm sexy. A recess candlight, 138 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:55.360 by definition, is meant to go away, not draw attention 139 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:59.759 to itself, and simply provide the light on the object 140 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:04.519 of its focus. So yeah, taking a living room and 141 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:08.279 laying out eight to ten recess can lights all over 142 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:13.519 the ceiling in an organized grid wrong, absolutely, one hundred 143 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:19.720 percent not good. Wrong. But picking where we have open space, 144 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:22.879 where we have walls, where we have objects that we 145 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:27.519 want to light, and directing a specific light against that wall, 146 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:33.399 against that object, against that thing. We light things, not rooms. 147 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:37.440 Got it all right? George? There you are, my friend, 148 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:40.399 best advice I can give in the shortest amount of 149 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:43.200 time possible. These are the pearls that you get when 150 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:47.120 you come on the show. Recess can lighting good thing 151 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:51.399 for a home. Don't overuse it. Lamps work way better 152 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:54.639 in most situations. But if you've got stuff on the 153 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:57.639 walls you want people to see, light it up. But 154 00:09:57.799 --> 00:10:02.080 turn those lights toward those objects, not towards people's eyes. 155 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:05.240 It's that simple, all right. When we come back, more 156 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:09.080 of your calls, Thank you, George, appreciate you, appreciate you listening. 157 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:12.720 Good luck on picking those lights for your home. And yes, 158 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:16.519 these things are available, these movable directional they're available at 159 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:19.240 the big box stores and at lighting outlets and at 160 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:21.639 hardware storage. You just got to know what you're looking 161 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:24.879 for and insist on the directional lights. More of your 162 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:29.480 calls when we return. Can't buy Dean sharp the ouse was. 163 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:33.360 We're at your service. We're doing an all call Saturday morning, 164 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:37.360 just doing what I love to do more than anything, 165 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:42.559 talking directly to you about what's going on with your home. 166 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:48.240 So we've got calls on the board and let's talk 167 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:50.720 to Richard. Hey, Richard, welcome. 168 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:53.919 Home, Good morning, Dean, thank you for taking my call. 169 00:10:55.399 --> 00:11:00.879 I have I will be removing a satellite dish from 170 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:06.240 the chimney. And after I remove the dish, I'm going 171 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:09.720 to have holes in my chimney. It's a red brick chimney, 172 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:13.799 and I would like to know what how I can 173 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:17.759 fill it and how I can get the color fairly 174 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:18.960 close to the brick. 175 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:24.559 Gotcha, gotcha. Uh, there are products out there that will 176 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:29.000 do this for you. This is the good news. But uh, 177 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:32.879 there are better and worse places to find these products. 178 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:36.480 And so I'm just gonna you know what, where where 179 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:37.200 do you live, Richard? 180 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:39.720 I live in ranch Ugarcamannga. 181 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:45.039 Okay, so I'm going to recommend that you find your 182 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:51.879 nearest stone yard or or a builder supply. And by 183 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:54.799 builder supply, a lot of people get this confused. Not 184 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:57.759 a hardware store, not a big box store. Builder supply 185 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:02.919 is usually uh, you know, quite often stone rock, those 186 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:07.519 kinds of things like TOMPs, like Thompson Building Materials. This 187 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:09.240 is the kind of place you want to go in 188 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:12.799 southern California, Thompson. They've got places, They've got outlets all 189 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:16.039 over the place. There's gonna be one within driving distance 190 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:20.960 of you. I'm sure there are kits out there that 191 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:26.799 have color matching boards, like colored stucco matching and you, 192 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:30.399 but you don't normally find these at the big box stores. Okay, 193 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:33.440 So you go to a stone yard and you just 194 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:35.440 tell them that he was like, hey, I got brick 195 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:39.480 and here's a particular color. If you can take them 196 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:41.639 a little chip or a little sample, they might be 197 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:44.600 able to color match it right there for you off 198 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:47.200 of one of their color codes. If you've got used 199 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:49.639 brick and each brick is a different color, then you 200 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:51.960 know you're gonna need a little, tiny, little sample of 201 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:55.559 each one. But it's relatively easy to do, and the 202 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:58.960 color matches are dang close, and so you can just 203 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:02.600 you know, putting knife right into those holes, seal them 204 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:06.039 all up, and the bricks look great after it's all 205 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:08.720 said and done. You just need to find a pro 206 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:11.279 version of a kit. They're not harder to use than 207 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:15.519 anything else. They're just better. And they are sold specifically 208 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:18.000 at stone yards because that's the kind of stuff that 209 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:19.240 they deal with all the time. 210 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:24.120 So what the material that that would be going into 211 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:27.679 the into the holes. It would be more like like 212 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:29.200 a putty type material. 213 00:13:29.879 --> 00:13:32.320 It's putty ish, but it's actually kind of a concrete. 214 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:35.480 It's a you know, it's it's a it's a dynamic 215 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:40.320 polymer concrete and as a result, it matches texture, it 216 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:44.679 structurally fills the hole just fine. Uh and uh it 217 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:47.879 comes the good ones come in various Uh. You know, 218 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:51.879 we we find ourselves having to match concrete colors with 219 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:57.360 crack filling all the time, and brick cracks and brick holes, 220 00:13:57.519 --> 00:14:01.879 all of this. It's a common thing in industry, but 221 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:06.120 it's usually something reserved for professionals in terms of you know, 222 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:09.240 people asking for it. But they're very very easy to use. 223 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:11.759 You know, you'll get a little you know, basically a 224 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:14.639 cup of it, or sometimes they come in little baggies 225 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:17.080 and you mix it to the consistency of pace that 226 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:19.759 you want and you just putty it in and that's 227 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:23.480 pretty much it. It's just that there aren't many homeowners 228 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:27.840 who do it themselves as opposed to it happens in 229 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:31.039 the context of a bigger repair, so the contractors handle it. 230 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:35.919 So those kinds of materials you find at pro building 231 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:39.279 supply suppliers like stone yards like Thompson, which is a 232 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:45.639 fantastic builder supply for stone and veneers and all of 233 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:46.440 that kind of stuff. 234 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:50.080 No, well, thank you so very much. I appreciate your 235 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:50.799 help this morning. 236 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:53.879 You are very welcome, sir. Good luck with that. I 237 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:56.120 know you'll find it. You will. You'll be shocked that 238 00:14:56.200 --> 00:14:59.080 you're like, oh, is this easy? Wow? You can also 239 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:01.559 find these things, by the way, if you are not 240 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:04.320 near one of those builder supply places like I just 241 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:06.799 talked about, you can find this kind of thing on 242 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:09.080 You can find it on eBay, you can find them 243 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:12.279 on Amazon. Just don't commit to a color yet. Act 244 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:16.279 ask have them send you a color selection chart first, 245 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:19.320 and then you can match it up to your brick 246 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:23.320 and then you can order the right pigment to repair 247 00:15:23.399 --> 00:15:26.200 whatever brickwork you've actually got going on. I've got it 248 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:28.240 all right, more of your calls. 249 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:32.519 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 250 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:39.039 KFI AM six forty. 251 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:40.320 I AM six forty live streaming in h D everywhere 252 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:44.120 on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, thanks for joining us on 253 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:47.679 the program. You are Home with Dean sharp the house Whisper. 254 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:50.039 That's the name of the show home Why, because it's 255 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:53.320 about your home. That's why I'm here to help you 256 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:59.799 transform your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. Saturday mornings 257 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:02.519 love to take calls. We've got calls on the board. 258 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:05.080 I want to go back to them. Now, let's talk 259 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:12.240 to Bailey. Hey, Bailey, welcome home. I am well, how 260 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:13.720 can I help you? My friend? 261 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:18.080 I have been told that I need a sub floor 262 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:21.759 under four rooms in my house because it tends to 263 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:25.799 slope in certain areas. So I'm calling to I know 264 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:28.080 what type of person I need to do that and 265 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:30.480 questions to ask so it gets done right. 266 00:16:30.440 --> 00:16:31.000 The first time. 267 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:34.559 Okay, well, tell me a little bit about the house. 268 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:39.519 But what do you want to know. 269 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:45.559 I'm assuming you've had a raised foundation house. Is it 270 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:48.600 a really old house, is it a relatively new house? 271 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:51.919 And what kind of uneven floors are we talking about? 272 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:57.960 It is almost one hundred years old? Is a raised foundation? 273 00:16:58.840 --> 00:16:59.000 Huh? 274 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:03.960 Is a raised foundation? And it's just like when you 275 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:08.759 walk on it, you can just feel it sloping down 276 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:14.519 in two bedrooms and mostly like in corners and stuff. So, yeah, 277 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:18.799 I had the foundation. What do you call it? 278 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:20.359 Retro fitted. 279 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:24.480 Yeah, but just yeah, I kind of made solid and 280 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:27.079 then it seemed like it got worse after that happened. 281 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:30.079 Okay, all right, and the guy said. 282 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:32.599 That he can't make it even because I needed the 283 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:34.960 sub floor, which I'm assuming is plywood. 284 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:41.039 Well yeah, okay. Sub Flooring is simply the flooring that 285 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:44.880 you're walking on. That's where That's what it is. Uh it. 286 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:47.039 Sub floor can be a number of different things, but 287 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:50.359 it's the overall component that is a raised floor. That's 288 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:53.319 the sub floor. The sub floor is what everything that's 289 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:58.319 underneath your finished floor. Okay. Uh And so so here's 290 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:03.319 the thing. Of course, our first concerned is why is 291 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:06.799 the house sloping and settled? It's not at all unusual, Okay, 292 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:08.640 but you got to ask the questions. You got to 293 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:12.079 ask the question one hundred year old home. You know. Foundation, 294 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:15.880 Sometimes foundation are failing, Areas of a foundation are failing. 295 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:19.799 Other times, after a century, they've just settled, they've just 296 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:22.160 settled in a little bit and they've sunk down a 297 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:25.400 little bit. But the foundation is not failing. So you're like, well, wait, 298 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:27.799 what's the difference. If a foundation is out of level, 299 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:32.039 doesn't that mean it's failing? No, A failing foundation is 300 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:36.319 when when the one of those concrete stem walls or 301 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:40.720 what's going underneath is cracked and is sagging now and 302 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:43.920 is in need of repair. But there are sometimes at 303 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:46.799 one hundred year old house areas have just settled in 304 00:18:47.039 --> 00:18:49.880 a little bit more half an inch of settled three courts, 305 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:53.400 sometimes an inch of settling. The foundation is in good shape. 306 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:56.200 It's just a little tipped and so it's holding up 307 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:59.920 the house just fine. But it has settled in crooked 308 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:04.160 over the number as the decades have passed by. So 309 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:08.559 our first concern as always is there a foundation problem, 310 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:13.480 and for that it is well worth calling a foundation 311 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:18.960 repair company out. They are foundation engineers. There's a number 312 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:22.039 of them in the southern California area. You call a 313 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:24.440 foundation repair company out and you have them do a 314 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:27.799 crawl and do an examination to make sure that we 315 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:32.759 don't have any serious damage. Now, if that's fine, let's 316 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:35.960 say we're good. We're just settled. Okay, If that's an issue, 317 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:38.160 then that has to be addressed. But let's say we 318 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:42.640 just have settlement. Well, your foundation. Depending on where these 319 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:47.200 rooms are at, it may be possible to jack them 320 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:51.880 up from underneath to actually raise up that corner and 321 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:55.119 then reblock them, repost them because you do have a 322 00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:58.799 raised foundation. It may may be possibly has everything to 323 00:19:58.839 --> 00:20:01.079 do with where the rooms are at and how they're 324 00:20:01.079 --> 00:20:04.440 sitting on the foundation. But it is quite often possible 325 00:20:04.839 --> 00:20:08.480 to do some jacking up of the roof of the 326 00:20:08.519 --> 00:20:13.839 sub floor itself. Now, when that's not possible, it may 327 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:17.680 be possible to from to affect the repair from the 328 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:21.160 room side of things, which means a one hundred year 329 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:28.920 old home. Can I assume it it's got hardwood flooring, Bailey? 330 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:32.720 Are you with I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I think we 331 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:35.279 cut you off there. Do we have a hardwood. 332 00:20:34.920 --> 00:20:38.079 Floor No, it did at one time. 333 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:44.519 What have you got now, I've got the laminate. 334 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:48.400 Okay, you've got lamb okay, all right, all right, great, 335 00:20:49.319 --> 00:20:54.039 so you've got a laminate floating floor, right, okay? So 336 00:20:54.680 --> 00:20:58.440 uh so two other things real quick. One, if let's 337 00:20:58.480 --> 00:21:01.759 say the foundation is not failing and yet it's not 338 00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:06.960 really qualifies for jacking up underneath from the room side. Okay, 339 00:21:07.079 --> 00:21:10.240 from the room side. If we pull up the laminate 340 00:21:10.319 --> 00:21:15.519 flooring in your case, right, and we've underneath, if we 341 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:19.480 are sealing off, in other words, if underneath. We don't 342 00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:23.359 have just those forty five degree diagonal one by six 343 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:27.079 strips that were originally built under the hardwood floor. But 344 00:21:27.119 --> 00:21:31.960 if we have like plywood or solid sheeting underneath that, okay, 345 00:21:32.359 --> 00:21:36.400 then in your case you're leveling those rooms may be 346 00:21:36.519 --> 00:21:42.920 as simple as using some some floor self leveling compound, okay, 347 00:21:43.400 --> 00:21:47.519 which is on top of that plywood underneath the laminate 348 00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:50.240 before you put the lamin it back. This is a mixture. 349 00:21:50.279 --> 00:21:53.759 It's like a cement mixture. It's got epoxies and resins 350 00:21:53.799 --> 00:21:56.319 in it. You can find it at the big box store, 351 00:21:56.799 --> 00:21:58.720 or you can have a company do this for you. 352 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:01.759 But the idea is we mix this up. We mix 353 00:22:01.799 --> 00:22:04.240 it up in five gallon buckets, and we can pour 354 00:22:04.279 --> 00:22:08.079 it out onto a sub floor condition that's the floor 355 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:11.279 underneath your floor. We can pour it out and we 356 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:15.920 mix it up to the consistency of like runny pancake batter, okay. 357 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:19.240 And the whole idea is that this stuff finds its 358 00:22:19.240 --> 00:22:22.079 own level. It pours out across the floor, it finds 359 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:24.079 its own level in the room, and we keep pouring 360 00:22:24.119 --> 00:22:27.400 it out until we've leveled out the whole floor. You 361 00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:29.640 don't trowl it. You don't. You don't have to work, 362 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:32.799 you don't have to be a concrete expert. This stuff 363 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:36.680 just pours out into the room, and it's so it's 364 00:22:36.720 --> 00:22:40.559 so liquidy liquidity is that a word. It's so liquidy 365 00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:43.279 that it finds its own level. You walk away, you 366 00:22:43.319 --> 00:22:47.400 come back two hours later, it's walkable and it's level. Okay, 367 00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:50.640 Now the room is still tipping, you know, the ceiling 368 00:22:50.720 --> 00:22:52.799 is still gonna be but most of the time you 369 00:22:52.839 --> 00:22:54.960 don't perceive it up there. It's the floor that you 370 00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:57.880 perceive it on. So this is good for out of 371 00:22:58.039 --> 00:23:01.640 level floors. It's good for floors that have wavy, you know, 372 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:06.519 weirdness in them. Self leveling compound and I'm only saying 373 00:23:06.559 --> 00:23:09.279 that I'm jumping to the to that point because you've 374 00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:11.799 got a laminate floor a floating floor on top of it. 375 00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:14.680 We'd treat this differently if you still had your old hardwood, 376 00:23:15.119 --> 00:23:17.599 but you've got these laminate floors. So the laminate floor 377 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:21.119 comes out, deconstruct it, stack it off to the side, 378 00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:25.480 self level the room, and then you can lay the 379 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:29.480 laminate floor back perfectly level. Now, perfectly level floor, all 380 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:32.400 of the inequities taken out. But again I got to 381 00:23:32.440 --> 00:23:35.039 emphasize first, we got to make sure that the foundation's 382 00:23:35.079 --> 00:23:38.079 in good shape. Then we're going to see if any 383 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:42.160 of actual repair meaning jacking up is possible, and if not, 384 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:44.440 then you can approach it from the room side of 385 00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:47.400 things for the sake of the feel of your walking 386 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:50.720 across the room and the esthetics inside the room. 387 00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:54.640 Okay, if I can do the last part except the 388 00:23:54.799 --> 00:23:58.920 third idea once I get the other two things that 389 00:23:59.039 --> 00:23:59.480 I discus. 390 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:03.799 One who installs floors or is it more advanced? 391 00:24:04.599 --> 00:24:06.359 Yeah, no and all. 392 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:09.200 Yeah, self loving. I mean it's for a lot of 393 00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:12.839 people treat it as a DIY project honestly because you 394 00:24:12.839 --> 00:24:15.240 can find the stuff sitting at the home depot and 395 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:19.319 lows in the buildings supply section. But yeah, a floor 396 00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:24.880 installer often use self loving. So you can contact floor installers, Uh, 397 00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:30.440 they are totally accustomed to using that material. Contractors in 398 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:32.759 general use the material, so it's not a it's not 399 00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:34.720 a big specialty item. But if you don't want to 400 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:38.440 tackle it yourself, talk to a floor installation company. They'll 401 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:40.720