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Speaker 2: an all Calls Saturday morning, and I was talking to George.
Speaker 2: George is still on the line. You're still with me, George, Yes, Sam,
Speaker 2: all right, So George is George is looking to light
Speaker 2: his house differently, a lot of lamps around, a lot
Speaker 2: of cords, lying about. He was thinking about putting in
Speaker 2: recess can light But he's a longtime listener and so,
Speaker 2: like so many of you, he fears my opinion about
Speaker 2: recess canlights. So he wanted to call that he doesn't
Speaker 2: fear it. He wanted to call and uh and see
Speaker 2: what I had to say about putting ress can lights in.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing, my friend, I am not against
Speaker 2: recess can lights in a home. I'm all about them.
Speaker 2: They're great, they're fantastic. But yes, most houses that I
Speaker 2: walk into are houses that have been abused by recess
Speaker 2: can lighting, not because of the lights themselves, but because
Speaker 2: of the way that they've been used improperly. And so,
Speaker 2: how do you properly use a recess canlight? Well, let's
Speaker 2: put aside. They're the standard, straightforward use in utility areas
Speaker 2: like kitchens, laundry rooms, and you know, even bathrooms. Here
Speaker 2: you just have standard can lights going down onto countertops
Speaker 2: without causing shadows in front of them, onto floors. General lighting,
Speaker 2: it's great, light up, light it up like a stadium,
Speaker 2: because these are areas where we want as much light
Speaker 2: as possible. But in romantic areas and you're like romantic
Speaker 2: when you're talking about boudoir, No, I just mean areas
Speaker 2: of architectural romance, living rooms, bedrooms, that kind of thing
Speaker 2: where we're going for max effect and ambiance. Here is
Speaker 2: how we use a recess canlight. Here's how professional lighting
Speaker 2: designers use recess canlights. Are you ready? Everybody, listen to
Speaker 2: the words I am about to speak. We do not
Speaker 2: light rooms. We light things. And there you go. There's
Speaker 2: the rule. If you remember nothing else, remember that we
Speaker 2: do not light rooms. We like things. Now what does
Speaker 2: that mean? It means this. It means that you know,
Speaker 2: around the perimeter of let's say a living room, there
Speaker 2: are walls, and those walls have space on them, space
Speaker 2: where you're going to hang family photos, space where you're
Speaker 2: going to hang a piece of art, space where you
Speaker 2: may have bookshelves, or you may have a stone finish
Speaker 2: on your fireplace, those kinds of things. These are things
Speaker 2: and I love lighting, and recess can lights are usually
Speaker 2: the best way to do it, ceiling mount can lights.
Speaker 2: The key is this, we don't want a recess can light,
Speaker 2: just dropping general lighting in the room. Overhead general lighting.
Speaker 2: It's the worst kind of lighting for human beings. It
Speaker 2: dissipates all shadows, and shadows are something that we want
Speaker 2: in a room because shadows bring texture and dimensionality and
Speaker 2: interest to a space. We want shadows. We don't want
Speaker 2: to drive all the shadows out of a room. We
Speaker 2: want them. But overhead lighting on a human being is
Speaker 2: ask any photographer, no, no, no, We're not going to
Speaker 2: light you that. That's like Halloween lighting. Right, big shadows
Speaker 2: under your eyebrows and so on. It's just the worst
Speaker 2: kind of general light. Not to mention the fact that
Speaker 2: the last thing world you want in a room is
Speaker 2: to gaze towards the ceiling and be staring into essentially
Speaker 2: what is the headlight of oncoming vehicles. Glare. Glare is
Speaker 2: a massive, massive enemy of recess can lighting. We don't
Speaker 2: want it, So how do you achieve this? When I
Speaker 2: buy recess can light to inspect it for a house easily,
Speaker 2: and I'm not exaggerating, well over eighty percent, sometimes well
Speaker 2: over ninety percent of the recess can lights that we
Speaker 2: purchase for use in homes are directional. It means that
Speaker 2: they are what's called a gimbal style recess can light.
Speaker 2: A gimbal simply means Back in the eighties, when these
Speaker 2: first came out, we used to call them eyeballs because
Speaker 2: they kind of there's a big round part that sticks
Speaker 2: into the room and you rotate it around. But the
Speaker 2: point is they're not eyeballs anymore. Gimbal lighting. Gimbal lighting
Speaker 2: means that you can direct the light, and I don't
Speaker 2: want to direct the light down onto the floor if
Speaker 2: there's a section of wall where we're gonna potentially hang
Speaker 2: a piece of art. Then I'll put a recess can
Speaker 2: light about thirty inches or so off of that wall,
Speaker 2: right in front of that section of wall, and it's
Speaker 2: a directional light so that I can aim the light
Speaker 2: at the art, so that I'll put up I'll put
Speaker 2: lights in front of bookshelves so that i can aim
Speaker 2: the light at the bookshelves. I'll put lights in front
Speaker 2: of family photos so i can aim the light at
Speaker 2: the photos. And guess what, these aren't lasers. That light
Speaker 2: bounces around and also fills gently fills up the room
Speaker 2: with ambient light as well, but the direction of the
Speaker 2: light is aimed toward the wall, away from your eyes
Speaker 2: so that you are not staring up into glare. So
Speaker 2: we've solved the glare problem. And we're not just generally
Speaker 2: doing overhead lighting. We are lighting things, not the room,
Speaker 2: and that's the goal. So think that through as you
Speaker 2: lay out any room in bedroom, you got a wall,
Speaker 2: you're gonna put art, you're gonna put photos, you gotta
Speaker 2: put something attractive there. Light it. Throw a light on
Speaker 2: to it, not next to it, onto it. Okay, don't
Speaker 2: make the mistake of putting recess can lights straight down
Speaker 2: as reading lights over a bed, because as soon as
Speaker 2: you are laying horizon and look straight up, you will
Speaker 2: never turn those lights on because glaire glare into your eyes.
Speaker 2: No one likes it. Even if you don't think about it.
Speaker 2: People shy away from it. Nobody likes it, and so
Speaker 2: does Dean Hate recess candlights, No, not at all. They
Speaker 2: have their use. There are only two kinds of lights
Speaker 2: in the world. There are lights that do the job
Speaker 2: of lighting something without drawing attention to themselves. It's just
Speaker 2: the light that we want out of them. And there
Speaker 2: are lights that light a thing and also say hey,
Speaker 2: look at me, So like a chandelier is one of
Speaker 2: those lights that does lighting but also says, hey look
Speaker 2: at me, I'm gonna gugi, I'm sexy. A recess candlight,
Speaker 2: by definition, is meant to go away, not draw attention
Speaker 2: to itself, and simply provide the light on the object
Speaker 2: of its focus. So yeah, taking a living room and
Speaker 2: laying out eight to ten recess can lights all over
Speaker 2: the ceiling in an organized grid wrong, absolutely, one hundred
Speaker 2: percent not good. Wrong. But picking where we have open space,
Speaker 2: where we have walls, where we have objects that we
Speaker 2: want to light, and directing a specific light against that wall,
Speaker 2: against that object, against that thing. We light things, not rooms.
Speaker 2: Got it all right? George? There you are, my friend,
Speaker 2: best advice I can give in the shortest amount of
Speaker 2: time possible. These are the pearls that you get when
Speaker 2: you come on the show. Recess can lighting good thing
Speaker 2: for a home. Don't overuse it. Lamps work way better
Speaker 2: in most situations. But if you've got stuff on the
Speaker 2: walls you want people to see, light it up. But
Speaker 2: turn those lights toward those objects, not towards people's eyes.
Speaker 2: It's that simple, all right. When we come back, more
Speaker 2: of your calls, Thank you, George, appreciate you, appreciate you listening.
Speaker 2: Good luck on picking those lights for your home. And yes,
Speaker 2: these things are available, these movable directional they're available at
Speaker 2: the big box stores and at lighting outlets and at
Speaker 2: hardware storage. You just got to know what you're looking
Speaker 2: for and insist on the directional lights. More of your
Speaker 2: calls when we return. Can't buy Dean sharp the ouse was.
Speaker 2: We're at your service. We're doing an all call Saturday morning,
Speaker 2: just doing what I love to do more than anything,
Speaker 2: talking directly to you about what's going on with your home.
Speaker 2: So we've got calls on the board and let's talk
Speaker 2: to Richard. Hey, Richard, welcome.
Speaker 3: Home, Good morning, Dean, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 3: I have I will be removing a satellite dish from
Speaker 3: the chimney. And after I remove the dish, I'm going
Speaker 3: to have holes in my chimney. It's a red brick chimney,
Speaker 3: and I would like to know what how I can
Speaker 3: fill it and how I can get the color fairly
Speaker 3: close to the brick.
Speaker 2: Gotcha, gotcha. Uh, there are products out there that will
Speaker 2: do this for you. This is the good news. But uh,
Speaker 2: there are better and worse places to find these products.
Speaker 2: And so I'm just gonna you know what, where where
Speaker 2: do you live, Richard?
Speaker 3: I live in ranch Ugarcamannga.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm going to recommend that you find your
Speaker 2: nearest stone yard or or a builder supply. And by
Speaker 2: builder supply, a lot of people get this confused. Not
Speaker 2: a hardware store, not a big box store. Builder supply
Speaker 2: is usually uh, you know, quite often stone rock, those
Speaker 2: kinds of things like TOMPs, like Thompson Building Materials. This
Speaker 2: is the kind of place you want to go in
Speaker 2: southern California, Thompson. They've got places, They've got outlets all
Speaker 2: over the place. There's gonna be one within driving distance
Speaker 2: of you. I'm sure there are kits out there that
Speaker 2: have color matching boards, like colored stucco matching and you,
Speaker 2: but you don't normally find these at the big box stores. Okay,
Speaker 2: So you go to a stone yard and you just
Speaker 2: tell them that he was like, hey, I got brick
Speaker 2: and here's a particular color. If you can take them
Speaker 2: a little chip or a little sample, they might be
Speaker 2: able to color match it right there for you off
Speaker 2: of one of their color codes. If you've got used
Speaker 2: brick and each brick is a different color, then you
Speaker 2: know you're gonna need a little, tiny, little sample of
Speaker 2: each one. But it's relatively easy to do, and the
Speaker 2: color matches are dang close, and so you can just
Speaker 2: you know, putting knife right into those holes, seal them
Speaker 2: all up, and the bricks look great after it's all
Speaker 2: said and done. You just need to find a pro
Speaker 2: version of a kit. They're not harder to use than
Speaker 2: anything else. They're just better. And they are sold specifically
Speaker 2: at stone yards because that's the kind of stuff that
Speaker 2: they deal with all the time.
Speaker 3: So what the material that that would be going into
Speaker 3: the into the holes. It would be more like like
Speaker 3: a putty type material.
Speaker 2: It's putty ish, but it's actually kind of a concrete.
Speaker 2: It's a you know, it's it's a it's a dynamic
Speaker 2: polymer concrete and as a result, it matches texture, it
Speaker 2: structurally fills the hole just fine. Uh and uh it
Speaker 2: comes the good ones come in various Uh. You know,
Speaker 2: we we find ourselves having to match concrete colors with
Speaker 2: crack filling all the time, and brick cracks and brick holes,
Speaker 2: all of this. It's a common thing in industry, but
Speaker 2: it's usually something reserved for professionals in terms of you know,
Speaker 2: people asking for it. But they're very very easy to use.
Speaker 2: You know, you'll get a little you know, basically a
Speaker 2: cup of it, or sometimes they come in little baggies
Speaker 2: and you mix it to the consistency of pace that
Speaker 2: you want and you just putty it in and that's
Speaker 2: pretty much it. It's just that there aren't many homeowners
Speaker 2: who do it themselves as opposed to it happens in
Speaker 2: the context of a bigger repair, so the contractors handle it.
Speaker 2: So those kinds of materials you find at pro building
Speaker 2: supply suppliers like stone yards like Thompson, which is a
Speaker 2: fantastic builder supply for stone and veneers and all of
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: No, well, thank you so very much. I appreciate your
Speaker 3: help this morning.
Speaker 2: You are very welcome, sir. Good luck with that. I
Speaker 2: know you'll find it. You will. You'll be shocked that
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, is this easy? Wow? You can also
Speaker 2: find these things, by the way, if you are not
Speaker 2: near one of those builder supply places like I just
Speaker 2: talked about, you can find this kind of thing on
Speaker 2: You can find it on eBay, you can find them
Speaker 2: on Amazon. Just don't commit to a color yet. Act
Speaker 2: ask have them send you a color selection chart first,
Speaker 2: and then you can match it up to your brick
Speaker 2: and then you can order the right pigment to repair
Speaker 2: whatever brickwork you've actually got going on. I've got it
Speaker 2: all right, more of your calls.
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Speaker 2: love to take calls. We've got calls on the board.
Speaker 2: I want to go back to them. Now, let's talk
Speaker 2: to Bailey. Hey, Bailey, welcome home. I am well, how
Speaker 2: can I help you? My friend?
Speaker 4: I have been told that I need a sub floor
Speaker 4: under four rooms in my house because it tends to
Speaker 4: slope in certain areas. So I'm calling to I know
Speaker 4: what type of person I need to do that and
Speaker 4: questions to ask so it gets done right.
Speaker 5: The first time.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, tell me a little bit about the house.
Speaker 4: But what do you want to know.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming you've had a raised foundation house. Is it
Speaker 2: a really old house, is it a relatively new house?
Speaker 2: And what kind of uneven floors are we talking about?
Speaker 4: It is almost one hundred years old? Is a raised foundation?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 4: Is a raised foundation? And it's just like when you
Speaker 4: walk on it, you can just feel it sloping down
Speaker 4: in two bedrooms and mostly like in corners and stuff. So, yeah,
Speaker 4: I had the foundation. What do you call it?
Speaker 2: Retro fitted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but just yeah, I kind of made solid and
Speaker 4: then it seemed like it got worse after that happened.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, and the guy said.
Speaker 4: That he can't make it even because I needed the
Speaker 4: sub floor, which I'm assuming is plywood.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, okay. Sub Flooring is simply the flooring that
Speaker 2: you're walking on. That's where That's what it is. Uh it.
Speaker 2: Sub floor can be a number of different things, but
Speaker 2: it's the overall component that is a raised floor. That's
Speaker 2: the sub floor. The sub floor is what everything that's
Speaker 2: underneath your finished floor. Okay. Uh And so so here's
Speaker 2: the thing. Of course, our first concerned is why is
Speaker 2: the house sloping and settled? It's not at all unusual, Okay,
Speaker 2: but you got to ask the questions. You got to
Speaker 2: ask the question one hundred year old home. You know. Foundation,
Speaker 2: Sometimes foundation are failing, Areas of a foundation are failing.
Speaker 2: Other times, after a century, they've just settled, they've just
Speaker 2: settled in a little bit and they've sunk down a
Speaker 2: little bit. But the foundation is not failing. So you're like, well, wait,
Speaker 2: what's the difference. If a foundation is out of level,
Speaker 2: doesn't that mean it's failing? No, A failing foundation is
Speaker 2: when when the one of those concrete stem walls or
Speaker 2: what's going underneath is cracked and is sagging now and
Speaker 2: is in need of repair. But there are sometimes at
Speaker 2: one hundred year old house areas have just settled in
Speaker 2: a little bit more half an inch of settled three courts,
Speaker 2: sometimes an inch of settling. The foundation is in good shape.
Speaker 2: It's just a little tipped and so it's holding up
Speaker 2: the house just fine. But it has settled in crooked
Speaker 2: over the number as the decades have passed by. So
Speaker 2: our first concern as always is there a foundation problem,
Speaker 2: and for that it is well worth calling a foundation
Speaker 2: repair company out. They are foundation engineers. There's a number
Speaker 2: of them in the southern California area. You call a
Speaker 2: foundation repair company out and you have them do a
Speaker 2: crawl and do an examination to make sure that we
Speaker 2: don't have any serious damage. Now, if that's fine, let's
Speaker 2: say we're good. We're just settled. Okay, If that's an issue,
Speaker 2: then that has to be addressed. But let's say we
Speaker 2: just have settlement. Well, your foundation. Depending on where these
Speaker 2: rooms are at, it may be possible to jack them
Speaker 2: up from underneath to actually raise up that corner and
Speaker 2: then reblock them, repost them because you do have a
Speaker 2: raised foundation. It may may be possibly has everything to
Speaker 2: do with where the rooms are at and how they're
Speaker 2: sitting on the foundation. But it is quite often possible
Speaker 2: to do some jacking up of the roof of the
Speaker 2: sub floor itself. Now, when that's not possible, it may
Speaker 2: be possible to from to affect the repair from the
Speaker 2: room side of things, which means a one hundred year
Speaker 2: old home. Can I assume it it's got hardwood flooring, Bailey?
Speaker 2: Are you with I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I think we
Speaker 2: cut you off there. Do we have a hardwood.
Speaker 4: Floor No, it did at one time.
Speaker 5: What have you got now, I've got the laminate.
Speaker 2: Okay, you've got lamb okay, all right, all right, great,
Speaker 2: so you've got a laminate floating floor, right, okay? So
Speaker 2: uh so two other things real quick. One, if let's
Speaker 2: say the foundation is not failing and yet it's not
Speaker 2: really qualifies for jacking up underneath from the room side. Okay,
Speaker 2: from the room side. If we pull up the laminate
Speaker 2: flooring in your case, right, and we've underneath, if we
Speaker 2: are sealing off, in other words, if underneath. We don't
Speaker 2: have just those forty five degree diagonal one by six
Speaker 2: strips that were originally built under the hardwood floor. But
Speaker 2: if we have like plywood or solid sheeting underneath that, okay,
Speaker 2: then in your case you're leveling those rooms may be
Speaker 2: as simple as using some some floor self leveling compound, okay,
Speaker 2: which is on top of that plywood underneath the laminate
Speaker 2: before you put the lamin it back. This is a mixture.
Speaker 2: It's like a cement mixture. It's got epoxies and resins
Speaker 2: in it. You can find it at the big box store,
Speaker 2: or you can have a company do this for you.
Speaker 2: But the idea is we mix this up. We mix
Speaker 2: it up in five gallon buckets, and we can pour
Speaker 2: it out onto a sub floor condition that's the floor
Speaker 2: underneath your floor. We can pour it out and we
Speaker 2: mix it up to the consistency of like runny pancake batter, okay.
Speaker 2: And the whole idea is that this stuff finds its
Speaker 2: own level. It pours out across the floor, it finds
Speaker 2: its own level in the room, and we keep pouring
Speaker 2: it out until we've leveled out the whole floor. You
Speaker 2: don't trowl it. You don't. You don't have to work,
Speaker 2: you don't have to be a concrete expert. This stuff
Speaker 2: just pours out into the room, and it's so it's
Speaker 2: so liquidy liquidity is that a word. It's so liquidy
Speaker 2: that it finds its own level. You walk away, you
Speaker 2: come back two hours later, it's walkable and it's level. Okay,
Speaker 2: Now the room is still tipping, you know, the ceiling
Speaker 2: is still gonna be but most of the time you
Speaker 2: don't perceive it up there. It's the floor that you
Speaker 2: perceive it on. So this is good for out of
Speaker 2: level floors. It's good for floors that have wavy, you know,
Speaker 2: weirdness in them. Self leveling compound and I'm only saying
Speaker 2: that I'm jumping to the to that point because you've
Speaker 2: got a laminate floor a floating floor on top of it.
Speaker 2: We'd treat this differently if you still had your old hardwood,
Speaker 2: but you've got these laminate floors. So the laminate floor
Speaker 2: comes out, deconstruct it, stack it off to the side,
Speaker 2: self level the room, and then you can lay the
Speaker 2: laminate floor back perfectly level. Now, perfectly level floor, all
Speaker 2: of the inequities taken out. But again I got to
Speaker 2: emphasize first, we got to make sure that the foundation's
Speaker 2: in good shape. Then we're going to see if any
Speaker 2: of actual repair meaning jacking up is possible, and if not,
Speaker 2: then you can approach it from the room side of
Speaker 2: things for the sake of the feel of your walking
Speaker 2: across the room and the esthetics inside the room.
Speaker 4: Okay, if I can do the last part except the
Speaker 4: third idea once I get the other two things that
Speaker 4: I discus.
Speaker 3: One who installs floors or is it more advanced?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no and all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, self loving. I mean it's for a lot of
Speaker 2: people treat it as a DIY project honestly because you
Speaker 2: can find the stuff sitting at the home depot and
Speaker 2: lows in the buildings supply section. But yeah, a floor
Speaker 2: installer often use self loving. So you can contact floor installers, Uh,
Speaker 2: they are totally accustomed to using that material. Contractors in
Speaker 2: general use the material, so it's not a it's not
Speaker 2: a big specialty item. But if you don't want to
Speaker 2: tackle it yourself, talk to a floor installation company. They'll
Speaker 2: be the ones that if you want to hire them
Speaker 2: for it, they can, you know, deconstruct your laminate floor
Speaker 2: set it aside self level of the room and then
Speaker 2: reinstall the laminate for you.
Speaker 4: Okay, fantastic, Thank.
Speaker 2: You very much, Bailey. Well you are welcome and good
Speaker 2: luck there are You know, there are special conditions of
Speaker 2: special ways that to one hundred year old homes need
Speaker 2: to be taken care of. And that's one of the
Speaker 2: most common things that happens to one hundred year old home,
Speaker 2: which is the foundation not necessarily failing, but has just
Speaker 2: settled in. And you know it's a little out of level.
Speaker 2: It's typical, right, the older we get just a little
Speaker 2: out of level, all of us just slightly like yep.
Speaker 2: It's the age and life and pressure just makes us
Speaker 2: all a little at a level. But we can fix it.
Speaker 2: We just trowl in enough stuff into the cracks. All right,
Speaker 2: more of your calls, Kyfi Dean Sharp the house.
Speaker 3: With for.
Speaker 2: Welcome home. Thanks for joining us on the program today.
Speaker 2: It's an all call Saturday morning tomorrow, by the way,
Speaker 2: on the Big Show from nine to noon Pacific time,
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about makeovers. Makeovers in uncertain financial times,
Speaker 2: some people are holding back on remodels, innovations. I'm gonna explain,
Speaker 2: by the way, tomorrow. What's the difference between remodels, renovations, redecorating,
Speaker 2: and makeovers. But in uncertain financial times, you may hold
Speaker 2: back on the big, big changes, and you still want
Speaker 2: to make an impact. Now we're in the world of
Speaker 2: the makeover, and if you do it right, you save
Speaker 2: a lot of money and you have a lot of
Speaker 2: change in your home, a lot of money saved, big
Speaker 2: change made. That's what a makeover is. And we'll be
Speaker 2: giving you tips and trips, tips and tricks for every
Speaker 2: room tomorrow, so don't miss the big show. All right,
Speaker 2: let's take one more call before we're out of here. Today,
Speaker 2: I want to talk to Kim. Hey, Kim, welcome home.
Speaker 5: Hey, good morning, thanks for taking my call. I've got
Speaker 5: a roof challenge. I have a house. It's in the Midwest,
Speaker 5: got some hail damage and I'm getting two contractors that
Speaker 5: looked at it said that whole, the whole roof needs replaced.
Speaker 5: I need to know if you have any advice on
Speaker 5: how to proceed because the insurance company is saying only
Speaker 5: half the roof needs to be replaced because there inspectors
Speaker 5: see it differently than the contractors.
Speaker 2: What's your advice, well of course they do. Uh so, okay,
Speaker 2: so why is the insurance company saying only half the
Speaker 2: roof needs to be replaced.
Speaker 5: They said that that doesn't show any the damage that
Speaker 5: they would cover, but half the roof does, and that
Speaker 5: I take it up there because you know, I let
Speaker 5: that young guys do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay, So here's the big question for the insurance
Speaker 2: This is always the biggest question for the insurance company.
Speaker 2: All right, let's let's just a let's just entertain the
Speaker 2: idea that half of the roof has been damaged by
Speaker 2: the hail. Is it? Is it just one side of
Speaker 2: the roof, like this section over here, but this side
Speaker 2: of the house somehow damaging hail didn't fall. Or is
Speaker 2: it When we say half, are we talking about fifty
Speaker 2: percent of the roof all over the place has been
Speaker 2: damaged by hail.
Speaker 5: And it's probably because the angle of the wind that
Speaker 5: came in. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I have their inspection reports.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but here's the thing, my friend, you don't have
Speaker 2: to go by that inspection report. If you've got two
Speaker 2: professional roofers or contractors looking there and saying this whole
Speaker 2: thing has to go, I can imagine a number of
Speaker 2: scenarios in which that's the case. Number one, if every
Speaker 2: other you know, fifty percent, if every other shingle up
Speaker 2: on the roof has got damage, it doesn't matter. There
Speaker 2: is there is no practical way to leave the undamaged
Speaker 2: shingles in between damaged shingles all around. You know, we
Speaker 2: can't just pick and choose when it comes to that
Speaker 2: much damage on the roof. Cost effective thing and the
Speaker 2: proper way is to pull the roof, recheck, redo all
Speaker 2: the underlayment, and put all the new roofing material back on.
Speaker 2: That's number one from a just a logistics standpoint. Number two,
Speaker 2: the insurance company is responsible for restoring your roof to
Speaker 2: its original condition. And how old is the roof?
Speaker 5: I think it's close to fifteen years, I believe.
Speaker 2: So, it's been out in the sun for fifteen years.
Speaker 2: Do we know if the roofing material of that roofing material,
Speaker 2: that exact color, that exact brand, that exact texture is available,
Speaker 2: Because if it's not, then you are not you are
Speaker 2: not responsible to live with a patchwork of non matching
Speaker 2: colors and non matching materials. It is one material, one roof.
Speaker 2: That's what your roof looked like. Before the hail damage.
Speaker 2: That's what it should look like after they are done
Speaker 2: with the repair. So yet another argument. We deal with
Speaker 2: this with insurance companies inside the house all the time.
Speaker 2: They'll say, well, the only damage was in the living
Speaker 2: room hardwood. I'm like, well, okay, this is twenty year
Speaker 2: old hardwood. It's been bleached by the sun. And this
Speaker 2: hardwood continues down the hallway into the bedrooms and into
Speaker 2: that kitchen area. Can you replace this and match exactly
Speaker 2: these floors because that was the pre existing condition. And
Speaker 2: then the insurance adjuster is like, well, no, no, And
Speaker 2: I get contractors to say, impossible, we can't match it.
Speaker 2: All the wood in all the rooms has to be replaced,
Speaker 2: even though they weren't damaged. The fact is they all
Speaker 2: have to match the damage replacement area as well. And
Speaker 2: the same holds true with any surface, including your roof.
Speaker 2: Even if that roofing material KIM is still available, they
Speaker 2: have to be able to prove that that color still
Speaker 2: matches your roof shingles that have been bleached in the
Speaker 2: sun for the last fifteen years. And the answer to
Speaker 2: that is going to be no. So the moral of
Speaker 2: the story is, use those contractors and let them ride
Speaker 2: up their recommendation, their strong recommendation, not just their recommendation,
Speaker 2: but the reasons why half of this roof should not
Speaker 2: be replaced and half left in the place. And you
Speaker 2: tell the insurance company this is the way it's going
Speaker 2: to be. And if you need to get an independent
Speaker 2: inspector in their public adjuster helping you out, then step
Speaker 2: up to a public adjuster, pay them a little bit
Speaker 2: of money in order to force the claim so that
Speaker 2: you get your roof replaced in its entirety and properly. Kim,
Speaker 2: thanks for your question, Thanks for hanging on so long.
Speaker 2: I know you've been on the board there for a
Speaker 2: while during the show. Thank you to all of our
Speaker 2: callers today. It's always great to talk to you about
Speaker 2: your house. Join me on the Big Show tomorrow nine
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