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Speaker 1: to Albert. Hey, Albert, welcome home, Hello Dean.
Speaker 2: Why don't the kinder change some silly lamps? They're ali
Speaker 2: d and at night you could see light coming through
Speaker 2: to the switch off. Why what did I do that?
Speaker 1: Okay? So are these recess can lights up in the
Speaker 1: ceiling or they're just lamps that you put LED bulbs in.
Speaker 2: They're like the eighteen in diameter silly lamps. I guess
Speaker 2: there's stock where the alied bulbs, and especially at night,
Speaker 2: the switches off and it's still some dim coming through
Speaker 2: these light bulbs.
Speaker 1: Okay, So now here's an important question to two important questions.
Speaker 1: Uh do they do they eventually stop glowing or just
Speaker 1: they stay on all night long?
Speaker 2: They stay on night They stay on all night long?
Speaker 1: Okay, and today but you can't see it, okay? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the second question is the switch that controls uh
Speaker 1: these is it a dimmer? Is it a specialty switch?
Speaker 1: Is just a regular on off switch? What do you
Speaker 1: got going on there?
Speaker 2: It's a regular one and that was changed they put
Speaker 2: a new one on and still does that.
Speaker 1: Okay. So they already changed out the switch and it's
Speaker 1: just an on off regular switch. And you you know
Speaker 1: for certain that that on off switch is compatible with
Speaker 1: LED bulbs?
Speaker 2: That I don't know, but uh electric uh electrician, professional electrician.
Speaker 2: He put it in for us, So.
Speaker 1: I sure what the difference was all right. Uh So,
Speaker 1: the reason I asked that question is that it's it's
Speaker 1: actually not at all an uncommon thing. It's called phantom
Speaker 1: voltage or ghosting. It's not an uncommon thing for indoor
Speaker 1: LED lights to emit a faint glow even when they
Speaker 1: are turned off. Now, most of the time people notice
Speaker 1: that and then they come back later and they realize, oh, no,
Speaker 1: it's not glowing. And that's simply because of the way
Speaker 1: an LED light is built. LEDs, by the way, are
Speaker 1: super super sensitive to voltage, which is one of the
Speaker 1: reasons why they take such lower amounts of voltage to
Speaker 1: operate in, which why there's such energy saving bulbs. But
Speaker 1: they're super sensitive to voltage. So when an LED is
Speaker 1: turned off, the inside its system there's a capacitor and
Speaker 1: there's an inductor, and then as soon as the voltage
Speaker 1: is turned off to the LED, the capacitor starts discharging
Speaker 1: its energy and that alone keeps the LED sort of
Speaker 1: glowing for a while until it comes to zero, and
Speaker 1: the inductor as well. So that's why I asked if
Speaker 1: they eventually go off. Now, if that's the case, that's
Speaker 1: just sort of normal old LED situations. And it's nothing
Speaker 1: to worry about. If they literally are on just all night,
Speaker 1: then you have one of two things. You've either got
Speaker 1: a switch controlling them. Most commonly, it's a dimmer switch
Speaker 1: that has been purchased that just isn't for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: compatible enough, and even when it's down on low or
Speaker 1: on off, it's leaking a faint amount of voltage and
Speaker 1: keeping those LEDs glowing at some low level. The easiest
Speaker 1: way to find that out is just to change out
Speaker 1: the dimmer or change out the switch. Now you said
Speaker 1: that electrician already did that. I just want to know.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that they know, and I'm
Speaker 1: assuming if it's a license electrician, that they do know
Speaker 1: that there are switches that are compatible with LED bulbs
Speaker 1: and switches that are not the easiest way to isolate
Speaker 1: whether it's the switch is simply this. It's not to
Speaker 1: just switch out one switch to the next. It's to
Speaker 1: remove the switch and then see while the wires are
Speaker 1: completely disconnected okay, connected to no switch, which means off,
Speaker 1: to see if those lights are still glowing when there's
Speaker 1: no new switch put in place, just an empty box
Speaker 1: with you know, safely wire nutted, capped wires. If if
Speaker 1: when there's no switch there at all and the switch
Speaker 1: is completely disconnected, if those lights are off like off,
Speaker 1: then it is a switch compatibility issue, okay, And that's
Speaker 1: that's good news, and that you're just going to have
Speaker 1: to find the right switch to control those lights that
Speaker 1: will actually you know, douse all the cut off all
Speaker 1: the energy and not leak any of them through.
Speaker 2: But if the switches, would I buy one, what would
Speaker 2: I have to ask for?
Speaker 1: Uh? You know that they're not hard to find. You
Speaker 1: just need to when you're in the electrical aisle at
Speaker 1: the hardware store at the big box store. You just
Speaker 1: need to look for the simplest led compatible switch. And
Speaker 1: if they say it right on the okay, yeah, that's easy.
Speaker 1: And so so if they're off when the switch is disconnected,
Speaker 1: then it's the switch, okay. Uh. If they if the
Speaker 1: switch is disconnected and they are still glowing, then what
Speaker 1: you have is a situation where and it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: a something to worry about, but what you have is
Speaker 1: you've got voltage leakage from somewhere else. It could be
Speaker 1: a ground wire that isn't ground properly, completely grounded properly,
Speaker 1: the neutral wire, the white wire. If it's not completely
Speaker 1: grounded properly, it might be carrying faint, faint amounts of
Speaker 1: phantom voltage and just enough. It wouldn't light anything else
Speaker 1: in the world up, but it's just enough to activate
Speaker 1: a glow, a faint glow on an LED. And if
Speaker 1: that's the case, then an electrician needs to take a
Speaker 1: more serious look at the system. If it's bugging you. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't see it as a threat to your home,
Speaker 1: but it's certainly weird, and so they would take a
Speaker 1: more serious look at the system. They would voltage test
Speaker 1: circuits and find out if we can locate where phantom
Speaker 1: voltage is getting in other than the direct line. And
Speaker 1: that happens every once in a while. But I got
Speaker 1: to tell you, Albert, most of the time, most of
Speaker 1: the time, it's the switch almost all the time, or
Speaker 1: there's something wrong with the lamp itself, but most of
Speaker 1: the time it's the switch. Thanks for the question, really
Speaker 1: good question. I hope that helps a very very simple
Speaker 1: test to find out if it's the switch, and then
Speaker 1: you move on from there.
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Speaker 1: to Jim. Hey Jim, welcome home.
Speaker 4: Hey Dean, how's it going.
Speaker 1: It's going great. How are you my friend? How can
Speaker 1: I help you?
Speaker 4: I'm doing all right. I just have a quick question
Speaker 4: because my uh my dad used to be a contractor
Speaker 4: and he's given me some advice. But I'm wondering because
Speaker 4: you know, coach change and stuff over time. I added
Speaker 4: a mini split to my garage so that I can
Speaker 4: make that into a game room for my kids. But
Speaker 4: I want to get one of them big barn sheds
Speaker 4: in my backyard and I want to run electrical to
Speaker 4: it and another mini split out there. I was wondering,
Speaker 4: do I have to pull permits and stuff to do
Speaker 4: all that?
Speaker 1: Yep, yep, you do. Uh and I'm assuming.
Speaker 2: Tell me that.
Speaker 1: Here's the good news, though, Jim, is that it's not
Speaker 1: like you know, if you're running depending on the size
Speaker 1: of the shed. First of all, right, there are shed
Speaker 1: you know. Shed shed is an interesting term. Most cities,
Speaker 1: most municipality have a clear definition of what a shed
Speaker 1: versus a garage versus something else is, right, So the
Speaker 1: shed alone depending on the size. So you just got
Speaker 1: to call the city and find out, hey, what's the
Speaker 1: cutoff square footage for a shed for you guys? Right,
Speaker 1: and they'll tell you sheds don't need permits to be
Speaker 1: put on property. I don't know a single city that
Speaker 1: says you got to have a permit for a shed. Okay,
Speaker 1: you can just drop it. Boom, there it is. I
Speaker 1: got a storage shed. I got a bunch of storage
Speaker 1: sheds here on my property, right, I don't need a
Speaker 1: permit for the shed because because they fall under the
Speaker 1: square footage of what the city considers a shed. If
Speaker 1: you go over that, then you've got a whole nother
Speaker 1: thing on your hands. But the point is this, as
Speaker 1: far as the running electrical, I can run electricity any
Speaker 1: shed here in my property to have a light and
Speaker 1: have a you know, whatever whatever is going on there.
Speaker 1: And most of the time when you're just running electrical
Speaker 1: to a shed, you just got to do it by code.
Speaker 1: And the permit is going to very likely be an
Speaker 1: over the counter permit, so it's not gonna be some
Speaker 1: big hassle. It's not like you gotta submit drawings and
Speaker 1: you gotta do this and that. I gotta storage shed,
Speaker 1: I want to run electrical to it. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it right. I'm going I got an
Speaker 1: underground conduit, you know, eight PVC con do it eighteen
Speaker 1: inches underground, or a metal con doit more than six
Speaker 1: inches underground. I'm running over and here's the light, and
Speaker 1: here's the switch, and here's the outlet. And they're going
Speaker 1: to hand you a piece of paper and say count
Speaker 1: the outlets and the switches and the light fixture for us,
Speaker 1: and give us this much money, and you walk home
Speaker 1: with your permit, and then you're just gonna have to
Speaker 1: call after you dig the trench. The inspector's going to
Speaker 1: want to see the conduit laying in the bottom of
Speaker 1: a properly dug trench, and he's gonna say, okay, go ahead,
Speaker 1: fill up the trench, you pull your wires, put it
Speaker 1: all in, and he's gonna come back and say, all right,
Speaker 1: it all looks fine. He's gonna sign it off and
Speaker 1: walk away and you're done.
Speaker 4: All right. That sounds a lot easier than what I
Speaker 4: thought I was going to have to do to run
Speaker 4: my table cells and stuff out there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, so the But honestly, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: most building departments, contrary to popular opinion, are not there
Speaker 1: to make your life miserable. And believe me, they they
Speaker 1: they're not looking to h to make their job any harder.
Speaker 1: And so when it comes to that kind of a
Speaker 1: thing running water to a shed, run in electricity too,
Speaker 1: they just want to make sure it's done right now,
Speaker 1: they're going to get their pound of flesh. But it's
Speaker 1: not going to be it's not going to go through
Speaker 1: plan check, you know, with drawings and all of that.
Speaker 1: They just going to want you to count outlets, count switches,
Speaker 1: count light fixtures, and they've got a fixed charge for
Speaker 1: you it's going to be twenty five dollars per outlet,
Speaker 1: and then there it is. You pay the money, you
Speaker 1: get the permit, the inspector inspects. It's those kinds of things.
Speaker 1: It's like a roofing permit, right, nobody has to draw
Speaker 1: a picture of your house to get a roofing permit.
Speaker 1: The roofer pulls a permit. Hey, we're doing a reroof
Speaker 1: are like, okay, it'll be this much money and we'll
Speaker 1: see you after the tear offf is done. So it's
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Yeah, it's it's more hassle than
Speaker 1: you just doing it all by yourself, but it's a
Speaker 1: lot less than a whole house permit and drawings and
Speaker 1: all that jazz. So that's a little bit of good
Speaker 1: news at least for you.
Speaker 4: Great great news for me because I thought I was
Speaker 4: going to have to put through grinds and stuff.
Speaker 1: No, not at all.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, buddy, thanks for the question. Good luck on that.
Speaker 1: While you're talking to the city. Make sure that your
Speaker 1: shed it falls within the definition of shed because that's
Speaker 1: the problem that that's the point that surprises some people
Speaker 1: is they get like a garage size shed. I'm doing
Speaker 1: air quotes, and they find out that the city does
Speaker 1: not consider that a shed. They consider that a garage structure,
Speaker 1: and that does require drawings and all sorts of other thingies.
Speaker 1: So just check with this city first so you don't
Speaker 1: have to backtrack or run into any problems.
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Speaker 1: Loving our show today. I am, I hope you are.
Speaker 1: It's an all calls Sunday morning, nothing but your calls,
Speaker 1: and we've got more calls ahead of us. So I
Speaker 1: want to get right back to it. I want to
Speaker 1: talk to Louis. Hey, Louie, welcome home.
Speaker 5: Hey Dean, how you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm good? How can I help you?
Speaker 5: Bud American Standard, A few questions. Is it a quality?
Speaker 5: Is it worth the extended warranty? And is this a
Speaker 5: good time now that I got to put a new
Speaker 5: heater in, to put in maybe a whole house filter
Speaker 5: and also a recirculation valve.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let me miss backpedal here for a
Speaker 1: half second, because I wasn't writing all that down. Okay,
Speaker 1: American Standard. American Standard is a massive brand, and so
Speaker 1: you're talking about an AC system.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a water heat water heater.
Speaker 1: Oh, a water heater, Okay, yeah, yeah yeah. American Standard
Speaker 1: generally speaking, is a solid brand. I mean they've been
Speaker 1: around since the I want to say, the nineteen twenties,
Speaker 1: maybe earlier, no, actually before the nineteen twenties, and it's
Speaker 1: a good brand it has been. Here's the irony, of course, right,
Speaker 1: this is the world we live in. American Standard in
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen was purchased by Lixil Corporation, which is a
Speaker 1: Japanese company, a Japanese multinational company. So technically American Standard
Speaker 1: is owned by a Japanese multinational now as of twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: But the point is they are still manufacturing very high
Speaker 1: quality stuff and you know, and it's always a unit
Speaker 1: for unit basis. They make HVAC system, They obviously make
Speaker 1: a lot of plumbing, UH fixtures and supplies and toilets
Speaker 1: and so on, uh and also UH water heaters and
Speaker 1: so uh. If it matches up with the specs that
Speaker 1: you want for your house, I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: bad choice at all. And you know, there are a
Speaker 1: lot of them out there to choose from, so you
Speaker 1: just have to, you know, make the best choice. Possible,
Speaker 1: But there's there's nothing wrong with an American Standard product
Speaker 1: as far as I know. There may be some plumbers
Speaker 1: listing who and and plumbing and hvac guys, all of us,
Speaker 1: all of our, all of us builders in our own specialties.
Speaker 1: We all have our preferences and we're all like, no,
Speaker 1: not that thing, you got to use this one instead.
Speaker 1: But you know, uh, it's it's just an ongoing matter
Speaker 1: of debate. Some products, some brands we all shy away
Speaker 1: from all of us. But American Standard is not one
Speaker 1: of those brands. It's debatable between some pros, but it's
Speaker 1: just not so. So yeah, I'm going to tell you
Speaker 1: that you know, you probably won't be going wrong going
Speaker 1: in that direction. So that's the brand. Now throw the
Speaker 1: other questions at me real quick.
Speaker 5: The extended warranty from six to twelve years, Well, it.
Speaker 1: Depends on how much the extended warranty is costing. You
Speaker 1: are two hundred bucks and this is just the standard
Speaker 1: tanked water heater.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's a standard. One of the
Speaker 5: people that advertise on you is going to be doing it,
Speaker 5: so I don't know if it's standard. I can give
Speaker 5: you the price. If that tells you the quality level
Speaker 5: of it any one to twenty five hundred.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you said, you know, get the extended warranty, because
Speaker 1: when I say standard, I just mean a tanked water heater,
Speaker 1: not a tankless, it's a tanked water heater.
Speaker 5: No, it's a tank. Yes, it's a normal yess.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, I don't. I don't think they're
Speaker 1: you know, for for a couple of hundred bucks, get
Speaker 1: the extended warranty. You know, keep that protection, uh, because
Speaker 1: you know, at some point something always goes funky with
Speaker 1: a tanked water heater, and it'd be nice to know
Speaker 1: that you could get that far and you know, not
Speaker 1: have to lay down someone. It's going to cost you
Speaker 1: more than two hundred dollars to fix whatever is going
Speaker 1: to fix down the road, you know. And I know
Speaker 1: that's the way it is with all protection plans, but
Speaker 1: some are worth it, some or not. For a couple
Speaker 1: of hundred bucks out of you know, just do it.
Speaker 1: I would, I would just do it.
Speaker 5: So is it a good time Now that I'm out
Speaker 5: of this money, I might as well just stump a
Speaker 5: little bit more into the whole house filter and the
Speaker 5: recirculation valve. You think it's this is the time to
Speaker 5: do it when you're getting a new heater.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why not? Why not? The recirculation valve pump is
Speaker 1: a is always a good idea for for a house.
Speaker 1: Uh that, I mean it does if you're tight on
Speaker 1: the money right now, you know you could do both
Speaker 1: of those later. But you know, while you're messing with
Speaker 1: all of it, you know if if, if it's within
Speaker 1: your budget reach yet, just get it all done now
Speaker 1: and don't worry about it later.
Speaker 5: Great, thanks for the information.
Speaker 1: All right, buddy, thank you for the call. I've seen
Speaker 1: your name on the board for most of the show,
Speaker 1: and I just thank you so much for hanging in there,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to do my best to reward you
Speaker 1: for I'm looking across the board. Louis was there. I
Speaker 1: think he's been here since the first segment of the show,
Speaker 1: or pretty close to it, so he's just been hanging on.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to make sure I honored that. Where
Speaker 1: are we at? Here? Where are we at?
Speaker 6: On?
Speaker 1: Time? Do I have time to?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I do I've got time to at least start one.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to Barbara. Hey, Barbara, welcome home.
Speaker 7: Ah, thank you, Thanks for taking my call. This has
Speaker 7: to do with asbestos. Twenty years ago or so, our
Speaker 7: house was tested and the only place they found it
Speaker 7: was in the garage. And they told us at the
Speaker 7: time that as long as we did in anything, to
Speaker 7: just leave it because we don't work in the garage
Speaker 7: or anything. So now we're considering selling the house, and
Speaker 7: we had the garage tested again because it's been so long,
Speaker 7: and it showed that the ceiling had a three percent
Speaker 7: crystal tile and that the wall joints had a two
Speaker 7: percent crystal tile. And the people that did the testing
Speaker 7: can't do the abatement.
Speaker 2: I guess by lost right.
Speaker 7: So does this need to have be removed? Can we
Speaker 7: cover it? Cover it with paint? Anyway?
Speaker 6: What do I do next?
Speaker 1: Okay? So you're you're getting ready to sell the house
Speaker 1: and this is a dry walled garage, the finished garage wall. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: the simplest, least expensive way to legally and safely alleviate
Speaker 1: the asbestos issue. And you're absolutely right, and everybody needs
Speaker 1: to be informed that the asbestos is of no danger
Speaker 1: to anybody as long as it is not disturbed. It's
Speaker 1: only when it gets disturbed and it goes airborne, Is
Speaker 1: it breatheable? And then then you have you know, asbestos
Speaker 1: related health concerns.
Speaker 7: Okay, I need a definition of disturbing it.
Speaker 1: Disturbing it literally means rubbing, rubbing up against it and
Speaker 1: uh and causing it to uh, you know, to powder
Speaker 1: and flake and get into the air. That's disturbing it. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's yeah. So the easiest way for you guys that
Speaker 1: I would recommend, and it's not going to cost that
Speaker 1: much money, and it's just just a minute fraction compared
Speaker 1: to what an abatement would cost you, is simply encapsulated. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't want you to paint over it. Okay, we
Speaker 1: would paint over lead bab paint. That's a that's a
Speaker 1: There are paint coatings to protect people from lead based
Speaker 1: paints in a house, But asbestos, I want a better protection.
Speaker 1: Encapsulating simply means that you're gonna drywall over the drywall
Speaker 1: in the garage. Just a new layer of drywall that
Speaker 1: and now the asbestos is back where nobody can touch it,
Speaker 1: no one can reach it, It cannot get into the air,
Speaker 1: it cannot be damaged, it cannot be bumped, you know,
Speaker 1: and and it's completely safe, and this is absolutely code
Speaker 1: approved and completely legal to do. You're not trying to
Speaker 1: pull a fast one on anyone. It is simply the
Speaker 1: wisest and least expensive, most economical way to deal with asbestos.
Speaker 1: Whether it's whether it's out in the dry wall tape
Speaker 1: in the garage, or whether it's you know, throughout a
Speaker 1: house in old acoustic ceiling spray. The easiest way to
Speaker 1: make it, to render it harmless, is to encapsulate it
Speaker 1: and and walk away.
Speaker 7: Now do I need a special contractor to do this.
Speaker 1: No, ma'am. You just need to dry wall over that
Speaker 1: dry wall and that's it.
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, I think I think it's all the questions
Speaker 7: that I had, And yeah.
Speaker 1: That's it, all right, Barbara. Good luck with that. Good
Speaker 1: luck on the sale of your home, and yeah, do that,
Speaker 1: do that well, but don't worry about the rest and
Speaker 1: you'll be in good shape, all right.
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Speaker 1: talk to Kathy. Hey, Kathy, welcome home.
Speaker 6: Oh hello, hello, I thank you very much.
Speaker 5: I'm glad to be.
Speaker 4: There with you.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you. So how can I help you?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 6: I have a seventy year old ranch house that had
Speaker 6: a little kind of square corner patio with the cement
Speaker 6: floor on it, when at first a porch first was built,
Speaker 6: somebody in between time enclosed the whole thing. It's stucco
Speaker 6: on the outside. Uh and uh, it's got It's just
Speaker 6: basically like the guy had before, except it's a step down.
Speaker 6: That's not quite so far. It's about four inches down.
Speaker 6: And I want to level this out so my husband
Speaker 6: and I can live safely in this house through our
Speaker 6: dotage and uh, you know, have it all all the
Speaker 6: floor on one level. How can I raise that up?
Speaker 6: I'm I've talked to some people and they've got there.
Speaker 6: They're saying it's it's an awful job.
Speaker 1: All right. So the patio, the enclosed patio, what kind
Speaker 1: of doors does it? Does it have out to the
Speaker 1: outside itself?
Speaker 4: It has.
Speaker 6: Right now, a sliding glass door.
Speaker 1: And a little doggy door, okay, and it has windows.
Speaker 1: I assume I'm not really worried about the windows.
Speaker 6: Windows windows, no windows, although there is a crossbeam across
Speaker 6: there's a way bearing thing going across the top, and
Speaker 6: like a something in between the rooms, but.
Speaker 5: That's that's not my concern.
Speaker 1: I just want that floor, okay. So the biggest question here,
Speaker 1: Kathy is can't is there is there room from the
Speaker 1: ceiling down? Is their room in this patiomclosure to raise
Speaker 1: those doors up? Six inches?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think so, Okay, I do think so if.
Speaker 1: We can raise the doors now, it's a little bit
Speaker 1: of work, but it's not the end of the world.
Speaker 1: If we can raise the door six inches, then you
Speaker 1: can simply frame in a new floor in the inside
Speaker 1: the patio room there that matches the floor level of
Speaker 1: your existing home. And uh, and just bring it. You
Speaker 1: can bring it up with with framing. You don't have
Speaker 1: to pour cement, you don't have to just deconstruct the
Speaker 1: whole thing necessarily, and and you know, just frame in
Speaker 1: a new floor and up to the exist to match
Speaker 1: the existing level and raise the doors and you should
Speaker 1: be set. You can do that inside the you know,
Speaker 1: the inside the existing structure.
Speaker 6: That sounds fantastic.
Speaker 5: I don't know what that.
Speaker 6: We had one guy come out and look at it,
Speaker 6: and he was talking about pouring cement and it wouldn't work,
Speaker 6: and and I'm going on, wait a minute, it's got
Speaker 6: to be another way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no question that the best way, the best way,
Speaker 1: the fanciest way, would be to you know, to pour
Speaker 1: you know, extended slab out there. But that's also that's
Speaker 1: also crazy making expensive, and you know, and if we're
Speaker 1: just talking about getting by and enjoying the patio room.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing in lieu of the slab, right, Uh,
Speaker 1: I want you to use wood framing to go out there.
Speaker 1: You're gonna use pressure treated wood so that it can
Speaker 1: make contact with moist surfaces and not worry about rot
Speaker 1: or anything like that. And we're gonna see the outside
Speaker 1: of it to make sure that moisture doesn't get in.
Speaker 1: And then I want you to do a really really
Speaker 1: good job of insulating that floor with h with like
Speaker 1: a rock wool insulation. Just pack it all in there.
Speaker 1: Not for the sake of keeping the floor warm or
Speaker 1: cool or anything like that, but so that when you
Speaker 1: walk across your slab floor of the existing house and
Speaker 1: then walk out onto this wood floor, you're gonna hear
Speaker 1: a difference in your footsteps. You're gonna hear it go
Speaker 1: from far from muted to uh. Or are you on
Speaker 1: a raise foundation?
Speaker 6: We're on a raised foundation.
Speaker 1: Oh then don't even worry about it. It's all gonna
Speaker 1: sound the same. Just extend that wood out, uh and
Speaker 1: it's all going to be the same.
Speaker 6: There you go on the cement and it'll do Oh wonderful. Okay,
Speaker 6: I'll have to break some to my husband. That's what
Speaker 6: I want to do.
Speaker 1: Oh great, Now, don't blame me, don't blame me.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, I will that's okay, Kathy, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that that helped you out there. All right, y'all,
Speaker 1: here we are at the end of another three hour
Speaker 1: broadcast with you. I hope you enjoyed the show today.
Speaker 1: We've got so so much more time to spend together
Speaker 1: as the week's roll on here. I'm here live with
Speaker 1: you every weekend Saturday mornings from six to eight Pacific time,
Speaker 1: Sunday mornings nine to noon Pacific time. And I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm just giving no, no, it's shaking the table. And
Speaker 1: it's been a while, I know since I've left you
Speaker 1: with some closing thoughts. You know, life here at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the year has been busy everything Tina, from
Speaker 1: Tina recovering from surgery, to some other family things happening.
Speaker 1: I just lost a beloved uncle in our life here recently.
Speaker 1: That was a surprise and a shock to all of us.
Speaker 1: There's just been a lot of things going on. But
Speaker 1: guess what. I sat up this morning and I had
Speaker 1: the inkling to sit down and write out some thoughts,
Speaker 1: and for better or worse, I'm going to share them
Speaker 1: with you before we go today. So I'm going to
Speaker 1: leave you with this thought today. In any first year
Speaker 1: logic or rhetoric or debate class, if you were to
Speaker 1: take one, you would learn about logical fallacies, or to
Speaker 1: put it simply, mistakes in thinking. Now I have found
Speaker 1: myself thinking about one of those fallacies for a number
Speaker 1: of reasons this week. It's a fancy Latin name. It's
Speaker 1: known as post hoc ergo propter hoc, which means because
Speaker 1: one event happened after another event, the first event must
Speaker 1: have caused it. Okay. It's also known as correlation, implies, causation,
Speaker 1: and now okay, great, thankstein. In plain English, it's the
Speaker 1: it's sometimes the misimpression that we get because one thing
Speaker 1: comes after another, that the first thing caused the second thing.
Speaker 1: Sometimes that's true right now, Like in my car, I
Speaker 1: press my foot on the brake pedal of my car
Speaker 1: and the car slows down the one thing that causes
Speaker 1: the other. That's true. But sometimes it's not true. Every
Speaker 1: time I get into my car, I sit down, I
Speaker 1: shut the door, I put on my seat belt, I
Speaker 1: just the mirrors, and then I turn the key to
Speaker 1: start the engine. But even though all of those things
Speaker 1: happen in order, every time the engine starts. Only one
Speaker 1: of those things is actually the reason that the engine
Speaker 1: starts right, just the key. But an outside observer who
Speaker 1: doesn't know enough about cars might very well improperly conclude
Speaker 1: that the entire sequence is what starts the car. That's
Speaker 1: the kind of thing we're talking about. There's another adage
Speaker 1: that has been a part of my life for years.
Speaker 1: In backpacking, we have an adage that ounces equals pounds
Speaker 1: and pounds equal pain. It means that everything you decide
Speaker 1: to put in your pack weighs something, and that weight
Speaker 1: adds up fast, and a heavy pack can ruin your
Speaker 1: fun on a backpacking trip. So you want to make
Speaker 1: wise decisions about what is essential and leave behind what
Speaker 1: is not. All right, what is the point of all
Speaker 1: of this? The point is on the journey of my life,
Speaker 1: I want to better understand what I need to lug
Speaker 1: around with me and what I don't, and to do that,
Speaker 1: I have been questioning for a long time now just
Speaker 1: how many things we cling to because we mistakenly believe
Speaker 1: that they are necessary for good things to happen. How
Speaker 1: much weight, how much cultural convention, how much tradition, how
Speaker 1: much emotional baggage, how much belief system, how much ritual,
Speaker 1: how many wounds, how much pride. I look around our
Speaker 1: world and I see so many people groaning under the
Speaker 1: weight of all of that they have chosen to carry,
Speaker 1: and it's just too much. We break ourselves to carry it, though,
Speaker 1: because we think, I think mistakenly that we've come to
Speaker 1: believe these things are necessary for good things to happen.
Speaker 1: And I'm not here to tell you to lay down
Speaker 1: all of your burdens. I'm just a fellow traveler with
Speaker 1: his own sore back, who is always questioning all the
Speaker 1: things I've chosen to bring with me along the way.
Speaker 1: What do I really need? What really starts the car?
Speaker 1: And what is just the other stuff that I've made
Speaker 1: assumptions about? And we live I don't need to tell
Speaker 1: you in a politically divided world, a religiously divided world,
Speaker 1: a culturally divided world, an economically divided world, such a
Speaker 1: divided world, a world always at war with itself. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing, all this stuff, these beliefs, these traditions,
Speaker 1: these identities that we think are so necessary. I know,
Speaker 1: really really good, really healthy, truly beautiful people on every
Speaker 1: side of every issue, And I know, really bad, really unhealthy,
Speaker 1: unsavory people on every side of every one of these things.
Speaker 1: So at some point I have to wonder if it's
Speaker 1: the cultures and the beliefs, the traditions and the taking
Speaker 1: sides that really matters at all. Are these really the
Speaker 1: things that start the car? Are these really what we
Speaker 1: should be lugging around, or is what makes a good
Speaker 1: person good and happy and beautiful something else altogether. I've
Speaker 1: come to the personal opinion that love, trust, honesty, kindness, integrity,
Speaker 1: things like that, a life filled with a thousand tiny
Speaker 1: choices to be as healthy a human being as possible.
Speaker 1: These are the things I see in every beautiful person
Speaker 1: I meet, regardless of their other beliefs, or their political party,
Speaker 1: or their cultural norms or their family traditions. And I've
Speaker 1: met so many unhealthy people who share some of my
Speaker 1: own views, and so many truly healthy people who don't,
Speaker 1: And it makes me look at some of the stuff
Speaker 1: in my own pack and question whether these things are
Speaker 1: really necessary to carry at all, or whether there are,
Speaker 1: deep down in the bottom of my pack just a
Speaker 1: few essentials that are truly worth carrying, just a few
Speaker 1: things that may actually be the only real things needed
Speaker 1: to build a beautiful life. Now, it's not my place
Speaker 1: to tell you what you should and shouldn't carry, but
Speaker 1: I think it's at least worth asking the question. And
Speaker 1: so there I've done it. I've asked the question, and
Speaker 1: I will leave it to you to toss that thought aside,
Speaker 1: or to take it seriously and take a look at
Speaker 1: the stuff in your own pack and find out if,
Speaker 1: with whatever time you have left on this planet, it's
Speaker 1: worth carrying that stuff around, or maybe it's time to
Speaker 1: just lay some of it down, free yourself to live
Speaker 1: a beautiful life. I hope that's something worth listening to today,
Speaker 1: and I hope you get out there and get busy
Speaker 1: building yourself a beautiful life, and we will see you
Speaker 1: right back here next weekend. This has been Home with
Speaker 1: Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Tune into the live broadcast
Speaker 1: on KFI AM six forty every Saturday morning from six
Speaker 1: to eight Pacific time, and every Sunday morning from nine
Speaker 1: to noon Pacific time, or anytime on demand on the
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