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Speaker 1: of the International Builders Show twenty twenty five. It just
Speaker 1: wrapped up this week in Las Vegas, Nevada, as it
Speaker 1: does every year at this time of year, and it
Speaker 1: is massive. It fills the entire Las Vegas Convention Center,
Speaker 1: a million square feet of exhibit space, nearly two thousand
Speaker 1: major exhibitors over an well over one hundred thousand in attendance,
Speaker 1: the largest builders show in seventeen years. As far as
Speaker 1: attendance and exhibitors, it's just the It is the gathering
Speaker 1: for a building innovation and design on the planet. So
Speaker 1: I'm bringing you just tidbits highlights things that I think
Speaker 1: that you would find relevant and worth taking a look
Speaker 1: at for you and your home. One of which is
Speaker 1: and you know, if you know me, you know that
Speaker 1: Dean's not gonna talk about a builder's show without taking
Speaker 1: a look at what the latest and greatest in fireplaces are.
Speaker 2: And even in.
Speaker 1: California, where we are limited in what we can do
Speaker 1: in a new construction or a major remodel, in terms
Speaker 1: of fireplaces, oh, the industry is just finding every workaround
Speaker 1: possible and there are so many creative options. I would
Speaker 1: say the limitations that the environmental protections in California have
Speaker 1: placed on traditional fireplaces have in some a lot of
Speaker 1: ways been a good thing because it forces the industry
Speaker 1: to get creative, and I love creativity. I can tell
Speaker 1: you this a Stellar, which is a heat and glow brand.
Speaker 1: Stellar that's kind of their custom brand. They have made
Speaker 1: a name for themselves basically saying what kind of a
Speaker 1: fireplace do you want? We'll build it for you. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: we'll manufacture that fireplace for you. Want it twenty feet long,
Speaker 1: one twenty foot row of flame, Yeah, we can do that,
Speaker 1: no problem. You want to mount a TV six inches
Speaker 1: above the firebox and not have a heat problem, Now
Speaker 1: we got that.
Speaker 2: We got you.
Speaker 1: It's true. Them and Stellar and Da Vinci are in
Speaker 1: my opinion, the absolute leaders in custom fireplace design, and
Speaker 1: they were all on display here at the Builders Show.
Speaker 1: We're talking horizontal fireplaces, more traditional looking firebox setups. Vertical
Speaker 1: fires yeah, vertical like tubes running up six feet up
Speaker 1: a wall in built into the wall, Spiral vertical fire elements,
Speaker 1: any length, any configuration. And so I'm just using this
Speaker 1: as a jumping off point for you to be aware
Speaker 1: that if you're planning a remodel, you don't have to
Speaker 1: just deal with the old fireplace, and you don't have
Speaker 1: to give up on fireplaces, even if you live in California,
Speaker 1: because there are so many innovations out there. Why am
Speaker 1: I so big on fireplaces when when you know we
Speaker 1: don't need them? To heat our houses anymore and anything
Speaker 1: like that. You know, because as a designer, I know
Speaker 1: the power of fire, open flame, and it's built into us.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is evolved into our DNA two million
Speaker 1: years of US and fire and safety and tribe and
Speaker 1: conversation and storytelling and all of these things. It is
Speaker 1: simply you know, there there's a reason why, just on
Speaker 1: a basic level, we all love to, you know, gather
Speaker 1: around an open fire. There's a reason why the quintessential
Speaker 1: romance is the candlelight dinner. Right, It's just that thing.
Speaker 1: It's that kind of a thing. Also, Da Vinci not
Speaker 1: to be outdone by Stellar this year, Da Vinci has
Speaker 1: got on the electric fireplace bandwagon and release their own
Speaker 1: and I think probably right now maybe the best out
Speaker 1: there that there is their own electric fireplace, which is
Speaker 1: which uses the effect that I call Pepper's Ghost. Well
Speaker 1: it's not that I call it. Pepper's Ghost is a
Speaker 1: is a long time special effect that Disney actually developed
Speaker 1: early on. When you go to the Haunted Mansion at
Speaker 1: Disneyland and you're riding the through the Haunted Mansion and
Speaker 1: you just get into the big ballroom and all the
Speaker 1: ghosts are dancing and through and you're like, wow, that
Speaker 1: is so cool because they're all transparent and they're all
Speaker 1: dancing around that and you know you're looking into a
Speaker 1: real room. Where are those ghosts coming from. Well, it's
Speaker 1: a special effect. They're actually being projected from up above
Speaker 1: through a four five degree piece of glass that you
Speaker 1: don't see, and it overlays onto it. And that technology,
Speaker 1: that concept has been used now to create electric fireplaces.
Speaker 1: And by electric, I mean that you're actually looking at
Speaker 1: real flames. Well they're not real flames, but they are
Speaker 1: actual high res video productions of real flames, not some
Speaker 1: sparkly flamy effect, but real flames with sparks coming off
Speaker 1: of them and smoke rising out of it being projected
Speaker 1: onto physical three D logs.
Speaker 2: And so you got to check it out.
Speaker 1: You got to go to Da Vinci and look for
Speaker 1: the green smart electric fireplace. You'll see exactly what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about and what the advantage is there's it's it's
Speaker 1: a basically a video multimedia unit. There's no flu there's
Speaker 1: no vents. They can heat if you want them to heat,
Speaker 1: but you get realistic fireplace fire in your room anywhere
Speaker 1: with anything above it because you don't have to treat
Speaker 1: it like a regular fireplace, but the effects are tremendous.
Speaker 1: You can also change the color of the flames, you
Speaker 1: can change the lighting inside.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: They've come a long way, That's all I'm saying. Do
Speaker 1: I still love real flames, of course I do, but this,
Speaker 1: this has come a long way, solves a lot of problems.
Speaker 1: So yes, more innovations for fireplaces, which is an essential
Speaker 1: part of being human in this reporter's opinion. All right,
Speaker 1: when we come back, I got some more for you.
Speaker 1: Why don't we talk about mosquiters and staying warm out
Speaker 1: on your patio in an unconventional way.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm here. I am here for you like I
Speaker 1: am every Sunday morning live from nine to noon Pacific time,
Speaker 1: Saturday mornings six day Pacific time. We're here all weekend long,
Speaker 1: helping you take your home to the next level. And
Speaker 1: one of the ways we're doing it today, it's always fun.
Speaker 1: I love to do this every year here right after
Speaker 1: the International Builders Show finishes up, which it did just
Speaker 1: on Thursday of this week. I love to look through
Speaker 1: all the new innovations, and there's no way, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no way I can even begin to scratch the
Speaker 1: surface of what goes on at the Builders Show for you.
Speaker 1: But I can bring you some relevant things and kind
Speaker 1: of the best of as far as your concern for
Speaker 1: your homes and things that I find interesting as well.
Speaker 1: And that's what we're doing today. Today is part two
Speaker 1: of a two part series. Yesterday's broadcast Saturday's broadcast, which
Speaker 1: is just the previous podcast episode. Make sure you catch
Speaker 1: that too, because there were some juicy nuggets there as
Speaker 1: well that I'm not repeating today. So part one and
Speaker 1: part two today. Okay, let's get out on the patio
Speaker 1: for a couple of minutes, shall we. Skeeters, Especially in springtime,
Speaker 1: mosquitoes all an issue everywhere for everyone. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just universal, right. If you live in one of the
Speaker 1: coldest places in the US by the time warm weather hits,
Speaker 1: with all that moisture soaked into the ground, with all
Speaker 1: those lakes and rivers and streams around you, with all
Speaker 1: of that everywhere, the mosquitoes. You know, probably the best
Speaker 1: most effective mosquito repelling device is a tennis racket because
Speaker 1: they're like the size of small birds. It's true throughout
Speaker 1: the Midwest, you know, in the South and so on,
Speaker 1: but even here in dry southern California, where our relative
Speaker 1: humidity hovers at about fifty percent most of the time,
Speaker 1: we've got our own issues with mosquitos here, especially in
Speaker 1: spring and summer months. And you know, because we've got
Speaker 1: a lot of standing water around too, and we've got
Speaker 1: the new eighties a Gypti mosquito, not new to the planet,
Speaker 1: but new relative to North America. And you know, the
Speaker 1: ankle bider. Yeah, that's what they are. They're really tiny,
Speaker 1: they stay low to the ground. They're even out during
Speaker 1: the day. So anyway, mosquitos, as you well know, are
Speaker 1: a problem. And there are a gabillion so called mosquito
Speaker 1: remedies out there. And I have, because I design custom
Speaker 1: homes for people, we have tried just about everything that
Speaker 1: is claimed to be the amazing end all of mosquito repellency.
Speaker 1: I've only found two things, two two that actually work, okay,
Speaker 1: one being a mosquito attractor, not a repeller.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: And in order for this to work, you've got to
Speaker 1: have a big enough piece of property to legitimately get
Speaker 1: mosquitoes attracted away from your entertaining space to an area
Speaker 1: of the property where it doesn't matter that there are
Speaker 1: a bunch of mosquitoes, but those would be carbon dioxide
Speaker 1: emitting mosquito attractors, because that's what mosquitoes are largely zeroing
Speaker 1: in on. The they're zeroing in on our human exhaust,
Speaker 1: the plumes of carbon dioxide that we are breathing and
Speaker 1: coming off of our bodies. So there are you know,
Speaker 1: you can hook an emitter up to a propane tank,
Speaker 1: like just a regular old barbecue tank and set it
Speaker 1: on the far corner of your property, and basically the
Speaker 1: theory there is that, well, you got ten people here
Speaker 1: who are emitting their own plumes, but you've got something
Speaker 1: even bigger over there, and so that's where the mosquitoes
Speaker 1: are going to be primarily attracted to. Is it fail safe?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Does it tend to work? Though? Yeah, you know, yeah
Speaker 1: they do, But again, those are the preconditions you need
Speaker 1: for that. Apart from that, instead of an attractor attracting
Speaker 1: them to a tastier meal than you, you have to
Speaker 1: work with repellents. And of course we're not talking about
Speaker 1: there are a lot of really good these days, you know,
Speaker 1: insect repellents that you can just put on your skin.
Speaker 1: But let's face it, it's never pleasant for people to,
Speaker 1: you know, to have to do that every time you
Speaker 1: go outside. It's never pleasant to hand it out amongst
Speaker 1: your guests. Is there a way to create a zone
Speaker 1: of entertaining space that is relatively mosquito free? I would
Speaker 1: say these days are qualified yes, And nobody has done
Speaker 1: that better than the company called therma Cell Thermaicel. If
Speaker 1: you read the reports, if you read the independent reviews,
Speaker 1: if you read the New York Times talking about you,
Speaker 1: they're going to say the same thing that I'm essentially saying,
Speaker 1: which is there are a million different so called solutions
Speaker 1: out there, but thermo Cell act actually works. It does
Speaker 1: now here. I don't have this fancy thing that I'm
Speaker 1: about to mention to you, the higher end version. But here,
Speaker 1: I've got four or five thermicell small battery operated Thermicell
Speaker 1: units that I'll take out and set around my deck area,
Speaker 1: like around the fire pit or around the outdoor dining table,
Speaker 1: and get them going before we entertain. And you know,
Speaker 1: our guests find it amazingly pleasant and not a problem.
Speaker 1: They don't notice them at all. They don't smell them
Speaker 1: at all, they don't really even give any note to them,
Speaker 1: but they do notice that there are no mosquitoes around.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The downside of it is emitting a small amount of
Speaker 1: repellent that's atomized into the air around you. The downside
Speaker 1: to it is if it's breezy, If there's a breeze blowing,
Speaker 1: the effectiveness drops down quite a bit. But if it's
Speaker 1: a still night, if the air is relatively calm, then
Speaker 1: these things really work. Now, if you want to take
Speaker 1: it to the next level other than the portable battery
Speaker 1: charge versions, then Thermicel has introduced their live line l
Speaker 1: IV Thermicel Lift, and what that is is building into
Speaker 1: your deck or your patio area these live emitters. They
Speaker 1: are actually run on low voltage and so they're not
Speaker 1: stuck in up power, and they are operable by smartphone.
Speaker 1: They can be integated into your smart home system. There's
Speaker 1: an app where you can control them and balance them
Speaker 1: and utilize them. And they basically look like tiny, little,
Speaker 1: relatively small, attractive looking landscape lighting pillars, okay, coming up
Speaker 1: about six inches up off of the ground and maybe
Speaker 1: two inches in diameter. This little this little cylindrical item
Speaker 1: that's like a dark bronze. It blends into the landscape.
Speaker 1: And these are emitters. And the cool thing is each
Speaker 1: one of these emitters has a twenty foot radius radius
Speaker 1: twenty foot radius, in other words, a forty foot spread.
Speaker 1: So if you put five or six of these built
Speaker 1: into your decking system or built into the edges of
Speaker 1: your patio, then you can essentially turn on the thermo
Speaker 1: cell system and know that your entire entertainment area will
Speaker 1: be for your entertaining night mosquito free. And they really are.
Speaker 1: They really do work when the wind is not blowing gusty.
Speaker 1: They really really work. So thermicell pro insect solutions for
Speaker 1: professional builders, which translates to insect solutions for the serious
Speaker 1: homeowner who has issues with mosquitos. Take a look at
Speaker 1: the live system. It works, It's all I can tell you.
Speaker 1: It works, all right. I also want to talk to
Speaker 1: you about a this is more. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I got my interest. I think it's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. I don't know what you want to do
Speaker 1: with it. But I want to talk about a way
Speaker 1: of staying warm on a cool evening out on your
Speaker 1: patio without being right on top of the fire pit,
Speaker 1: but without covering yourself over with blankets or having a
Speaker 1: big space heater above you.
Speaker 2: How do we do that? Let's talk about it.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1: Live every Sunday morning from nine to noon Pacific time.
Speaker 1: Here to help you take your home to the next level.
Speaker 1: And the way we're doing it today is we're talking
Speaker 1: about some things fun and breakthrough and innovative from the
Speaker 1: International Builders Show that just wrapped up this last week
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas, Nevada. All Right before the break I
Speaker 1: teased you a little bit. We're talking about patio life outdoors,
Speaker 1: and I wanted you to consider what it might be
Speaker 1: like to stay warm on a cool evening without a
Speaker 1: blanket or without bellying up to the fire pit or
Speaker 1: having to put on, you know, extra layers or clothes.
Speaker 1: How would you do that? Well, some of you have
Speaker 1: already figured it out. There's a company called Warmth, which
Speaker 1: is not spelled without the A, so I'm already suspicious.
Speaker 2: No, just check it out. The company is spelled w
Speaker 2: r m th warm Warmth, Warmth, Warmth.
Speaker 1: I guess all right, anyway, they have developed the Summit.
Speaker 1: The Summit is a heated Adirondack chair. Now what does
Speaker 1: it look like. It looks like an Adirondack chair. It
Speaker 1: is not an Adirondack chair with special panels or this
Speaker 1: or that built into it. They have developed a kind
Speaker 1: of synthetic material that the Adirondack chair is made out
Speaker 1: of that conceal on the seat and the back heating
Speaker 1: panels and you know, kind of like heated car seats,
Speaker 1: and those heating panels are I mean, they're they're completely inconspicuous.
Speaker 1: You just look at it and you're like, it's an
Speaker 1: Adirondack chair. The only thing that gives it away is
Speaker 1: that this Adirondack chair has a small cord coming off
Speaker 1: the back of one of its back leg supports that travels,
Speaker 1: you know, a few inches or a few feet depending
Speaker 1: on I guess how long of a tether you wanted
Speaker 1: to have into you know, an in built electrical outlet
Speaker 1: or sourced out of the patio or the deck or
Speaker 1: what have you. So no, I haven't really thought through
Speaker 1: completely how I might integrate this into a deck for
Speaker 1: a client. Because it's brand new and nobody's asked me
Speaker 1: to do it. But I think the big challenge here
Speaker 1: would be that, you know, we don't want to yank
Speaker 1: these chairs to just go anywhere. I think if it's
Speaker 1: an easy, plug and play kind of thing, and there
Speaker 1: are multiple spots around a deck there where you could
Speaker 1: move it to, that would help things a lot. There
Speaker 1: is a there's a there's a little shopping.
Speaker 2: Center near my house. I'll just tell you this.
Speaker 1: And one of my favorite little gelato slash coffee places
Speaker 1: called Tifa, is in the corner of this little shopping center.
Speaker 1: And this is not Tifa's fault, by the way, so
Speaker 1: I'm not please don't misunderstand.
Speaker 2: This is the shopping center.
Speaker 1: So out in front of Tifa there, it's kind of
Speaker 1: the corner unit of the shopping center. There's a little
Speaker 1: setup of adiron deck chairs there and that's provide by
Speaker 1: the shopping center, not Tifa.
Speaker 2: Love you Tifa.
Speaker 1: I'm going out of my way not to diss on Tifa,
Speaker 1: but I'll get my coffee or our gelato and we'll
Speaker 1: go and sit in this Adironda chair. And I always
Speaker 1: do this because I always love just like re orient
Speaker 1: myself toward whoever I'm with to talk with, and I
Speaker 1: want to grab the autor Adironduck chair and I just
Speaker 1: want to turn it a few degrees to And it
Speaker 1: always frustrates me because I forget that they're bolted to
Speaker 1: the ground and you can't move them. So there they are.
Speaker 1: And I get it, you know, they don't want somebody
Speaker 1: stealing these chairs and they don't want to have to
Speaker 1: put them away at night. I get it, but it
Speaker 1: is a bit of a frustration to me. I like
Speaker 1: chairs that move, and I don't know how I'm gonna
Speaker 1: feel about warm warmth, warmth warmth, summit heater adirondeck chair
Speaker 1: because it has a tether and now you can move it,
Speaker 1: that's the nice thing. But you can't move it very
Speaker 1: far without yanking at that cord. So I don't know
Speaker 1: how that's gonna work. But I do know this. People
Speaker 1: are sitting in this chair and they're like, oh my,
Speaker 1: this is lovely. In other words, I could spend an
Speaker 1: evening on a cool evening out on the patio not
Speaker 1: having to worry about bundling up or getting a blanket
Speaker 1: or turning on the fire even because this chair, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just coming through my tush and my back and
Speaker 1: I am as snug as a bug and a rug. Essentially,
Speaker 1: it is a warm chair and it is a luxurious experience.
Speaker 1: And the question of tethering it, you know, well it
Speaker 1: remains to be seen. But I'm just letting you know.
Speaker 1: You can go check it out. Warmth warmth wr wr
Speaker 1: MT warmth no A so warmth without the A look
Speaker 1: for the Summit heated Adirondeck chair.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: In more serious news, Lennox, the air conditioning HVAC manufacture
Speaker 1: really blowing up. The heat pump world. Heat pumps are
Speaker 1: something that I've talked to you about a lot on
Speaker 1: the program, especially here in southern California. Heat pumps an
Speaker 1: air conditioner that essentially can work backwards and provide heating
Speaker 1: in a home without using an open flame gas furnace.
Speaker 1: Heat pumps are great, and they're very energy efficient, and
Speaker 1: they do a great job, and they don't dry out
Speaker 1: the air like a gas furnace. They don't introduce allergens
Speaker 1: into the air like a gas furnace.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 1: I mean, they are really really a very high tech approach.
Speaker 1: The achilles heel of heat pumps traditionally has been that
Speaker 1: heat pumps because they use relative temperature change outside. That
Speaker 1: if it gets too cold outside, the heat pumps efficiency
Speaker 1: to heat the inside of the house drops down considerably.
Speaker 1: And that was the case, was the case for many years,
Speaker 1: and that's why you would find more heat pumps in
Speaker 1: warm climate areas like California or southern California and not
Speaker 1: in South Dakota or places like that. But if you're
Speaker 1: listening to me from anywhere across the country, hear this.
Speaker 1: Lenox has introduced the best energy efficient product finalist, the
Speaker 1: world's most efficient HVAC heat pump system efficient at heating
Speaker 1: a home with an exterior temperature dropping down to five
Speaker 1: degrees fahrenheit five degrees, yes, sub freezing temperatures. This is
Speaker 1: a heat pump system that does not have to rely
Speaker 1: upon fossil fuels natural gas. It is a heat pump
Speaker 1: system that is capable of remaining energy efficient and heating
Speaker 1: a home when it's five degrees fahrenheit outside. That is
Speaker 1: a big change, I mean a big change, and that
Speaker 1: is worth noting, and bravo Lenox for doing that. Heat
Speaker 1: pumps are not for everybody. I'm not trying to broad
Speaker 1: brush across the board. I'm just saying what has long
Speaker 1: been the reason to not get a heat pump is
Speaker 1: now being quickly diminished. And Lennox is not the only
Speaker 1: company out there. But this is about as good as
Speaker 1: I've ever seen it, and I think they're not being
Speaker 1: inaccurate when they say it's the world's most efficient residential
Speaker 1: HVAC heat pump system because of its five degree fahrenheit capability. Wow,
Speaker 1: along that line, I can squeeze this one in before
Speaker 1: we get some news. I'm this is something that does
Speaker 1: touch a lot of folks who work with me, and
Speaker 1: that is people are interested in introducing radiant heating to
Speaker 1: their home floor heating, and one of the things that
Speaker 1: is always tricky is how much is that going to
Speaker 1: change floor levels? In other words, I'm remodeling a bathroom,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about radiant heat in the bathroom, and so
Speaker 1: it'll probably have to go electric. So, but even electric
Speaker 1: radiant heat systems might raise the floor a quarter inch
Speaker 1: or three eighths of an inch up above the pre
Speaker 1: existing floor because the pad uses resistive wires inside most
Speaker 1: pads that cause that radiant heat to come out of
Speaker 1: the floor. Okay, all right, so is there a solve
Speaker 1: for that? Well quiet Warmth. The company Quiet Warmth introduced
Speaker 1: this week at the Builders Show a heating matt that
Speaker 1: is completely customizable for whatever size floor anywhere in a home.
Speaker 1: It is electric based and it does zero raising of
Speaker 1: existing floors. In other words, you could pull up the
Speaker 1: tile and put this down and put the tile right
Speaker 1: back down floating floor, whatever the case may be, with
Speaker 1: no flooring change for the area that's being heated. And
Speaker 1: the reason is is that this entire heating system matt
Speaker 1: is printed on a specialized kind of mylar film. And
Speaker 1: get this, the conductive element is not a wire. It
Speaker 1: is exactly what they call it. It is conductive ink
Speaker 1: ink that conducts the heat. Radiant conductive ink is painted
Speaker 1: on or printed on to this mylar in bars and
Speaker 1: it does the exact same thing that a standard radiant
Speaker 1: floor does, except it doesn't have wires in it. It
Speaker 1: has heat condunctive ink printed on the mylar surface that
Speaker 1: is impressive. So it is literally paper thin a radiant
Speaker 1: heat system for a remodel of a kitchen or a
Speaker 1: bathroom or the whole house if you want. Now, it's electric,
Speaker 1: so it still has the issues of how much water
Speaker 1: is it actually taking up to do that.
Speaker 2: But radiant floors are the bomb. I mean, they're just awesome.
Speaker 3: So all right, you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp
Speaker 3: on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: I want to push this all the way through the
Speaker 1: end and just give you just a little goodbye at
Speaker 1: the end because I just want to make sure I
Speaker 1: get as much of this content in for you as possible.
Speaker 1: So let me get back to the list. Now Here
Speaker 1: is one attention di I wires. Okay, here's a truth
Speaker 1: about anybody who does any work in the garage. You
Speaker 1: got a workshop, anything like that, and you're the person,
Speaker 1: you're the person who's getting some stuff done around the house.
Speaker 1: There has been many times, or there will be times
Speaker 1: in which you're out there trying to work on a
Speaker 1: piece of material and you need a second set of hands,
Speaker 1: and there are not a second set of hands around,
Speaker 1: or even if there were a second set of hands around,
Speaker 1: you need a stronger grip on this material. And so
Speaker 1: what does that equate to let me hear you say it, Yes,
Speaker 1: a bench vice? A vice okay, vice is just one
Speaker 1: of the most useful things that you can have on
Speaker 1: a workbench mounted to a workbench and usually almost exclusively.
Speaker 1: Vices are very very bit there. They're thick, they're heavy,
Speaker 1: they they do their job. You know, you can crank
Speaker 1: them down, you can grid a really good grip on
Speaker 1: a thing and it'll help you helps you loosen things,
Speaker 1: it helps you work on you know. Just vices have
Speaker 1: universal application. However, a vice, and by the way, you
Speaker 1: can get a good vice out there, I mean a usable,
Speaker 1: workable vice for just a little under one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: and I would say like a pro grade workable vice.
Speaker 1: But here is the downside of the vice. A vice
Speaker 1: usually has a horizontal mouth opening to it. Some of
Speaker 1: them might rotate in one degree ninety degrees, but that's
Speaker 1: it and that's what you got. And so those are
Speaker 1: your options with a vice, not anymore. The company is
Speaker 1: known as work Iq. Work Iq and I've seen this.
Speaker 1: This is so impressive. I'm actually gonna get one for myself,
Speaker 1: maybe this week even and this will definitely know this,
Speaker 1: this is definitely making it on this year's House Whisper
Speaker 1: Holiday Gift Guide. Okay, now, is it one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: piece of equipment, No, it's a two hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: dollars piece of equipment, so granted, But what is unique
Speaker 1: about the I work or the work iq IQ vice.
Speaker 1: It is a rotating ball and socket pressure eye design.
Speaker 1: In other words, the vice portion is mounted onto a
Speaker 1: steel ball that sits inside a fully articulated, fully rotatable
Speaker 1: socket that can be cranked down and cam locked on
Speaker 1: the benchtop. And what that means is that this vice
Speaker 1: can sit at a forty five it consider at any
Speaker 1: angle you want. It can hold something vertically, it can
Speaker 1: hold something horizontally, It can hold it at an angle.
Speaker 1: It can accommodate just about any possible configuration. It also
Speaker 1: comes with soft grip accessories, so that if you need
Speaker 1: to hold something that's tender and easily marred by the
Speaker 1: steel teeth of a vice, you can function that way.
Speaker 1: If you've got to super I mean you've got to
Speaker 1: put like one hundred and fifty pounds of torque on
Speaker 1: a thing, then this ball cam has notches in it
Speaker 1: where pins slide across it lock it into place, so
Speaker 1: it literally cannot be moved. But it's real genius is
Speaker 1: that it mounts in just a minute onto a workbench
Speaker 1: and from there it can move in just about any position.
Speaker 1: It is brilliant it is a great design. It comes
Speaker 1: highly reviewed, It has passed every one of my wishless
Speaker 1: tests for a workshop vice, just because it is so
Speaker 1: so functional, and it also happens to come with a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of accessories like a plug in clip in
Speaker 1: magnifying glass articulated are magnifying glass for fine work, or
Speaker 1: a plug in clip in led light for lighting up
Speaker 1: details on what you're working on. All of it articulated,
Speaker 1: and all of it in every single direction that you
Speaker 1: could possibly go in. So big props to work IQ
Speaker 1: for their IQ vice. That's a tool that many I
Speaker 1: hope di wires will have the pleasure of mounting on
Speaker 1: their workbenches inside their garage or their workshop as they
Speaker 1: go all right, what is up next? Oh and don't
Speaker 1: let me forget to say this. Tina has got a
Speaker 1: lot of these images instructional for you, so you can
Speaker 1: get a little bit ter look at some of the
Speaker 1: things I'm talking about. A lot of these images are
Speaker 1: now up on social media. They're on Facebook and Instagram.
Speaker 1: So go to Home with Dean, find the post, the
Speaker 1: latest and greatest post there, and you will see them
Speaker 1: clumped altogether in a collage of multiple images you can
Speaker 1: see get your eyes on some of the things I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. One of them is one of my favorite
Speaker 1: window and door companies, Sierra Pacific. They tend to be
Speaker 1: a custom company because they can do a lot of things.
Speaker 1: But I love the fact that Sierra Pacific has now
Speaker 1: introduced a line of patio sliding glass doors, a single
Speaker 1: sliding door and what they call an offset, which basically
Speaker 1: means when you think of a sliding glass door for
Speaker 1: a patio, you can imagine it comes in different sizes.
Speaker 1: Some are five feet, some are six, some are you know,
Speaker 1: up to eight or ten feet. And what is it
Speaker 1: you're looking at it? I picture it in your mind,
Speaker 1: your sliding glass door. It's a fifty to fifty proposition.
Speaker 1: In other words, if it's a six foot wide sliding
Speaker 1: patio door, then three feet of it is fixed glass
Speaker 1: and three feet of it is the sliding door. Fifty
Speaker 1: to fifty three and three okay, And that is true.
Speaker 1: If it's an eight foot slider, it's a ten foot slider,
Speaker 1: they're almost always fifty fifty okay.
Speaker 2: Well, see the air.
Speaker 1: Pacific knows that people are gravitating towards more glass, more
Speaker 1: light coming into the house, but you don't necessarily need
Speaker 1: a bigger walk through opening, and so they have customized
Speaker 1: what they call the sliding door offset. The one that
Speaker 1: I'm staring at right now is actually, I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: it is a ten foot sliding glass unit, three feet
Speaker 1: of which is the sliding door unit and the other
Speaker 1: six feet one solid, unobscured, clear glass panel. That's not
Speaker 1: for everybody, but you just.
Speaker 2: Need to know.
Speaker 1: We live in a world in which anything is possible,
Speaker 1: and manufacturers are responding to those kinds of things. People,
Speaker 1: thank god, are doing more and more customization of their
Speaker 1: homes for themselves. And so if what you're really looking
Speaker 1: for in a big glass door unit is not necessarily
Speaker 1: big door openings, but clear, beautiful vista glass, then Sierra
Speaker 1: Pacific has got offset door units where the majority can
Speaker 1: be glass fixed in place and still be an operable
Speaker 1: door for you as you go.
Speaker 2: How's that? Yep?
Speaker 1: I got time for one more, but all right, you
Speaker 1: know what here let me I'm gonna finish out by
Speaker 1: talking about one of my favorite tool manufacturers. Stiletto is
Speaker 1: a long time participant in the International Builders Show. Stiletto
Speaker 1: makes tools, They make hammers, they make pride bars. They
Speaker 1: make squares for carpentry, and for a long time you've
Speaker 1: heard me talk about the Stiletto titanium hammer as, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, maybe the finest carpentry hammer on the planet.
Speaker 1: I love mine, absolutely love it titanium. It's lightweight. And
Speaker 1: because of its lightweight, because we learned this a long
Speaker 1: time ago. Used to be when I back in the day,
Speaker 1: when I was framing hoses, we used to use stone clubs. Literally,
Speaker 1: I mean my Vaughan framing hammer was a thirty two
Speaker 1: ounce hammer and if you didn't think that, you out
Speaker 1: by the end of the day. But we used to
Speaker 1: think we needed that weight in order to get nails
Speaker 1: driven efficiently. Well, we did need that weight in order
Speaker 1: to do it for that, But it turns out the
Speaker 1: faster you can swing a hammer through the air, then
Speaker 1: you can equate the same amount or greater amount of
Speaker 1: force with a light hammer that you can swing faster
Speaker 1: than with a heavy hammer that swings slowly. So Stiletto
Speaker 1: has been at the forefront of that. They make these
Speaker 1: beautiful titanium hammers, and yes they cost like a couple
Speaker 1: hundred bucks, and so the problem has been not necessarily
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't be worth investing in a lifetime hammer
Speaker 1: that cost a couple hundred dollars if it was the
Speaker 1: last hammer you literally ever had to buy. Here's the problem.
Speaker 1: The faces of hammers, if it's a waffle faced hammer
Speaker 1: or even a smooth faced hammer, they get marred up.
Speaker 1: They stop funking. You know, the more you beat them
Speaker 1: against a thing, the more that the that the little
Speaker 1: waffles go flat, or a smooth finished hammer gets scratched
Speaker 1: up and isn't smooth anymore, and it doesn't matter that
Speaker 1: the rest of the hammer is bulletproof and the grips
Speaker 1: wear out. But now Stiletto has introduced their t bone
Speaker 1: fifteen ounce titanium hammer with replaceable hammer faces. It can
Speaker 1: be your finished hammer and your framing hammer, and when
Speaker 1: those heads wear out, you can switch them out and
Speaker 1: replaceable grips. And so now now Stiletto has made the
Speaker 1: one hammer the last hammer you ever have to buy
Speaker 1: for the rest of your life.
Speaker 2: And there you go.
Speaker 1: All right, that's just an inkling of everything that happened
Speaker 1: at the International Builder Show. But I hope it gives
Speaker 1: you a good idea inspiring idea of some of the
Speaker 1: things that are available out there for you again. You
Speaker 1: can find them online on our social media at Instagram
Speaker 1: and Facebook, where Tina has put some of the images
Speaker 1: for these posts. Follow us on social media at Home
Speaker 1: with Dean. Remember, the House Whisper podcast is everywhere your
Speaker 1: favorite podcasts are found, and if your home is in
Speaker 1: need of some personal house Whisper attention, you can book
Speaker 1: an in home design consult with us. Just go to
Speaker 1: house Whisperer dot design. Hey, thanks again for spending the
Speaker 1: morning with me. It is a privilege. As always, I'm
Speaker 1: just going to leave you with this tiny thought. We
Speaker 1: are all hoping and looking to live an extraordinary life.
Speaker 1: And you know what I have figured out through trial
Speaker 1: and error, there's no getting to an extraordinary life until
Speaker 1: you have figured out how to live successfully an ordinary life.
Speaker 1: And so you know what, Look to the small things,
Speaker 1: master the small and the mundane around you, and you
Speaker 1: will be set on a trajectory to go as far
Speaker 1: as your gifts can take you. I'll leave that with
Speaker 1: you and tell you to get out there and get
Speaker 1: busy building yourself a beautiful life, and we will see
Speaker 1: you right back here next weekend. This has been Home
Speaker 1: with Dean Sharp The House Whisper. Tune into the live
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Speaker 1: six to eight Pacific time, and every Sunday morning from
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