WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.040 KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:10.599 House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I am 3 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:16.280 Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, custom home Builder, custom home Designer, 4 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:19.879 and I am your guide to better understanding that place 5 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:23.839 where you live today on the show. It is part 6 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:28.879 two of our two part series this weekend about big 7 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:34.640 remodeling wins for tracked homes. Now, let me unpack that 8 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:40.039 for a second. There are inherent strengths and weaknesses in 9 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:43.759 a tracked home, a tracked home being the kind of 10 00:00:43.799 --> 00:00:48.359 home that most of us live in. And because of 11 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:52.880 those inherent strengths and weaknesses, if we can identify them, 12 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:56.200 if we understand what we're dealing with, there are some 13 00:00:56.759 --> 00:01:01.880 remodeling items, some hits as it were, that if you 14 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:06.519 know how to approach them, you can make big changes 15 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:11.239 for minimal amounts of time and money. Not free, not free, 16 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:14.200 not necessarily even what you might call cheap. But for 17 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:18.840 those who are planning a remodel, who are getting ready, 18 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:20.959 who are even thinking about it, I want you to 19 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:25.280 understand that these these to put it in Tim Conway's terms, 20 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:29.560 these are small bets that pay off big time. Okay, 21 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:36.159 big time payoff for a small investment relative to the effect. 22 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:38.239 And I've got a whole list for you and what 23 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:42.239 we did on the program yesterday, and for you who 24 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:47.120 follow our podcast, the previous episode is part one. Is 25 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:53.159 I laid the groundwork for today's list by really spending 26 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:57.560 most of the time talking about the strengths and weaknesses 27 00:01:57.599 --> 00:01:59.480 of the track home. I'm going to review that with 28 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:02.480 you this small just so that we can review, you know, 29 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:06.200 in our previous episode, we'll do a little quick review 30 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:09.240 so that we can dive in and everybody has context. 31 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:12.680 But you're gonna want to listen to yesterday's show as well, 32 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:16.400 which of course you can find on the on our 33 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:21.400 podcast Home with Dean Sharp or The House Whisper. You 34 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:25.280 can search wherever your favorite podcasts are found, and we 35 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:27.960 are there of course on the free iHeartRadio app, but 36 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:31.639 also on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. You can put in 37 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:35.199 Dean Sharp, Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. They're 38 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:38.680 all all roads with those words in it will lead 39 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:42.479 back to this fine program. So that is where we're 40 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:45.439 going today. And of course, of course I'm gonna be 41 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:48.800 taken calls because I always do. I'm going to give 42 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:50.520 you the number right now. We've already got a couple 43 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:53.000 of calls on the board and I haven't even started 44 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:56.400 talking about it yet. So and I take calls randomly, 45 00:02:56.639 --> 00:02:59.159 so just know when you call in, doesn't matter how 46 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:02.199 many folks have called in before you, Uh, it's you. 47 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:04.960 Everybody has an equal chance of getting on the air. 48 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:08.680 The number to reach me eight three three two. Ask 49 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:13.319 Dean A three three two. Ask Dean A three three 50 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:18.039 the numeral two and then you just spell out ask Dean. 51 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:21.400 Phone lines are open. Producer Richie standing by. He is 52 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:23.319 ready to tell you everything you need to know. He'll 53 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:24.879 pop you into the queue. You can listen to the 54 00:03:24.919 --> 00:03:28.680 show while you wait, and who knows, Hopefully you and 55 00:03:28.759 --> 00:03:31.159 I will put our heads together. We'll figure out what's 56 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:34.120 going on. What's got you scratching your head about your home? 57 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:37.479 Follow us on social media. We only do the good 58 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:40.400 kind of social media. Social media is a thing that 59 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:44.840 you know, I touch it very lightly and I try 60 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:50.000 and take great respect with it because you know social media, Uh, 61 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:56.360 we're everywhere there as well on all the usual suspects, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, 62 00:03:56.599 --> 00:04:00.479 x home with Dean, same handle for them all and Finally, 63 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:03.759 just a reminder if your home is in need of 64 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:07.120 some personal house Whisper attention, you know, like listening, You're like, 65 00:04:07.479 --> 00:04:09.599 you know what, I like what this guy's got going on. 66 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:11.719 What I really need him is sitting in our kitchen 67 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:15.240 he and Tina to figure out what that huge problem is. 68 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:17.720 Well guess what that can actually happen. All you have 69 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:20.639 to do to get an in home consult with me 70 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:23.639 and t is go get the information for it at 71 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:28.480 house Whisperer dot design, house Whisper dot Design. All right, 72 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:32.519 let me introduce our awesome team. Elmer is on the board. 73 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:35.879 Good morning Elmer, Good morning Dean. How you doing, Bud, 74 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:40.839 I'm doing really good. Thanks for asking. Yeah. Yeah. Every 75 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:43.959 time I hit up Elmer on a Sunday morning, he's like, 76 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:50.160 let's do it. I love it. Like I said, our 77 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:53.560 producer Richie he is standing by. He's working the phone 78 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:56.040 lines right now. So you know, let's put him to work. 79 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:58.399 Give me a call. Put Richie to work, Okay, so 80 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:01.839 he doesn't just get bored this mor Heather Brooker at 81 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:05.240 the news desk tune a row, Heather, that's right. 82 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:07.839 It's the lucky weekend. 83 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:09.680 We still haven't figured out how to get a buffet 84 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:10.240 in here. 85 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:13.439 But no, what a dream, right? I think we need 86 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:17.439 like a field trip. We need a home field trip. 87 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:20.839 I think, so we gotta we just need to work 88 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:22.800 that out. We had a call yesterday. I had a 89 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:24.879 caller yesterday, and by the time I got to her, 90 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:26.519 she said, Okay, I'm gonna have to make this question 91 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:28.720 really quick because I'm standing in line at a buffet 92 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:31.560 and Heather and I were like, what the heck? But 93 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:34.879 then she described all of the food, like so she did. 94 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:37.199 I asked her at the end, I'm like, so, what 95 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:39.800 are you going to pick? And then she literally described 96 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:42.680 all the food And I shouldn't have done that because 97 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:44.120 I left hung Right now. 98 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:46.319 We're all like, oh man, okay, next time, next. 99 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:49.480 Time, next time, next time. All right, Well, glad to 100 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:52.839 have you here. He always sitting across the table from me, 101 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:58.759 my better half, my design partner, the co founder co 102 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:04.759 yeah co, the co everything of house Whisper. Uh, my 103 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:12.000 best friend in all the world, Tina is here. You pause. 104 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:14.319 You know he was going to put your elephant in there. 105 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:18.759 I did, thank you for that. Yeah, welcome home, good morning, 106 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:22.279 good morning, Glad to see your smiling face. This morning. 107 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:26.680 Good day. It's beautiful outside the gym this morning. You 108 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:29.600 did go to the gym this morning, which now thousands 109 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:31.800 of people have said, what is wrong with her? I know, 110 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:34.879 but it was really nice. It was great. What's wrong 111 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:38.639 with Tina is intrinsic awesomeness. That's it. That's what I 112 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:45.120 would say, generally speaking. Generally speaking, there are other things 113 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:47.439 wrong with her too, But we're not going there. We're 114 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:49.839 not going there because if we start, if I start 115 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:53.240 that list, a much larger list comes out. Oh, oh boy, 116 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:59.920 of what's wrong with me? House? The Secrets, Welcome home. 117 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:02.680 Wow? 118 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:06.519 All right, y'all, why don't we get this rolling? Sound good? 119 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:10.759 We will begin with a quick review, a quick review 120 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:14.920 of the strength and weaknesses of that tracked home that 121 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:18.040 you live in, so that there's context for this great 122 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:23.680 list of big tracked home remodeling wins. And we'll start 123 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:24.639 it all right after. 124 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:29.000 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 125 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:30.600 KFI AM six forty. 126 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:37.720 We are talking about big wins for tracked home remodels 127 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:40.759 that would be the kinds of things that well, let's 128 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:42.680 just put it this way. Remodeling home, it's all about 129 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:45.680 making changes some changes are bigger than others. Some changes 130 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:49.000 cost a lot more than others. Because of the unique 131 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:51.560 nature of a tracked home, which is where most of 132 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:56.399 us live, most of them have very similar issues, very 133 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:59.639 similar problems. And so we've got a list of fixes, 134 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:05.360 remodeling fixes that achieve a disproportionate amount of good for 135 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:08.480 the money that they actually cost. Small bet by you, 136 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:11.800 big win for you. That's what we're at. So a 137 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:15.399 quick review of yesterday in today's part two of two 138 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:21.480 part experience. Here on the program, yesterday, I spent a 139 00:08:21.639 --> 00:08:25.800 good amount of time talking about the intrinsic strengths and 140 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:28.839 weaknesses of a tract home. Here's just a quick review 141 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:31.839 on the positive side of a tract home. One, you 142 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:35.279 have a home. Tracked homes are, essentially is what made 143 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:40.039 middle class home ownership a reality ever since the tract 144 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:44.759 home experience began in the twenties, early in the twentieth century. 145 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:48.679 You have a home. That's a great positive about a 146 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:51.879 tract home because it was a mass produced home, but 147 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:56.320 it's affordable enough for you to be in it. Secondly, 148 00:08:56.440 --> 00:08:59.720 on the positive side, the engineering of tract homes gets 149 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:02.919 better and better all the time, simply because tract homes 150 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:05.320 have to be built. They're the most common homes that 151 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:09.039 are built, and they have to be built by current codes, 152 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:12.399 and codes are always we're always learning, we're always increasing 153 00:09:12.759 --> 00:09:17.000 the quality of the engineering of a home. And thirdly, 154 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:20.080 on the positive side, tracked homes, if you know what 155 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:24.639 you're doing, are fairly malleable. They are fairly malleable as 156 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:27.720 far as what we can change, where we can change it, 157 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:31.279 and how we change it, if you know what you're doing, 158 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:33.440 And that's really the large part of what we're talking 159 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:40.120 about today. On the weakness side of tract homes, craftsmanship 160 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:43.200 is obviously, you know, a mass produced product that is 161 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:46.000 essentially designed and built by the bottom line on a 162 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:50.679 spreadsheet somewhere, not going to find the greatest craftsmanship in 163 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:55.080 the world, clearly. So that's the thing. If you are 164 00:09:55.240 --> 00:09:58.600 at a place where you are ready to remodel that 165 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:00.720 tract home, we don't have to worry about the craftsmanship 166 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:02.320 too much because I'm going to trust it. You're going 167 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:05.440 to get it done right this time. So that's an 168 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:09.240 inherent weakness one that can be overcome. The second one 169 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:11.519 is I spent a good amount of time talking about 170 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:15.399 this yesterday. The second weakness is not where most people 171 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:18.879 would think. The second weakness of a tract home is 172 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:26.399 its orientation on the lot. Because tracked homes, tracked home developments, 173 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:31.639 as you well know, are there's probably about, on average, 174 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:35.639 there's about four floor plans in a given development, four 175 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:40.559 different houses. Now those houses get you know, by way 176 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:43.679 of illusion, the sense that there's a lot more than that, 177 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:47.080 because you take four houses and you give each one 178 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:51.120 of those floor plans maybe three or four different facade 179 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:55.039 styles as they face the street, and then it looks like, well, 180 00:10:55.159 --> 00:10:57.759 you know, give four houses three different facades. Now it 181 00:10:57.799 --> 00:11:01.080 looks like we've got twelve different houses. And then if 182 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:03.679 you just simply flip the floor plan left or right, 183 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:07.799 you know, carbon copy upside down as it were, then 184 00:11:08.519 --> 00:11:11.519 you've got twelve different houses. Now looks like you have 185 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:14.120 twenty four different houses in the neighborhood. And that seems 186 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:16.080 like a lot of variety of homes, but there are 187 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:19.080 really only four. And those four houses were designed in 188 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:24.120 a studio somewhere, not in relationship to the specific lot 189 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:27.559 that they ended up getting placed on. And as you know, 190 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:31.440 like in any development, there are lots that are at 191 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:33.600 the end of cul de sacs that are pie shaped well, 192 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:38.159 same house gets put there. There are lots that face west, 193 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:42.919 same house, lots that faced east, same house, South, same 194 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:46.639 house north, same house. Lots that are tight and soldiered 195 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:51.159 together in parallel lines, same house, lots that are big 196 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:54.080 and open on the edges, same house. Lots that have views, 197 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:58.000 same house, lots with no view, same house. You get 198 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:02.159 the idea. This is an intrinsic weakness because the doors 199 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:07.080 and window locations, while in theory might be lovely, change 200 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:11.240 their effectiveness depending on whether there's a view or no view, 201 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:15.159 or whether there's blazing southern sun coming in through that 202 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:18.720 living room window, or whether the living room window is 203 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:20.840 on the north side of the house and never gets 204 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:23.840 any direct sunlight. You see what I'm saying. This is 205 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:27.679 an inherent weakness in a tract home, but one that 206 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:31.679 quite often, if we know what we're doing, can be corrected. Finally, 207 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:36.679 another big weakness of tract homes is wasted space. Given 208 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:39.679 the nature of mass production, and by that I mean 209 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:43.279 like soffits and chases for air conditioning equipment. When we 210 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:46.919 build a custom home, we try and finagle everything as 211 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:51.120 tight and away from intruding into the interior of a 212 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:54.879 home as possible, but in a tract home development there 213 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:58.759 are things included built into the house kind of large 214 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:03.279 balloony space is because they don't worry about making, for instance, 215 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:08.360 an HVAC contractor build a specialized duck to get from 216 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:10.080 point A to point B. They just want to give 217 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:12.399 them a big old freeway so we can get through 218 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:15.320 there as fast as possible, use the least expensive materials 219 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:18.120 to get it done. And as a result, tracked homes 220 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:20.960 end up with lots of drop ceilings and lots of 221 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:25.279 weird chases and areas where space is being taken up 222 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:29.559 inside too much space, far more space than is actually necessary. 223 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:31.159 And we'll get to that too. So there you go. 224 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:36.519 There's a quick outline of the intrinsic strengths and weaknesses 225 00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:40.279 of a tract home. And now we are ready to 226 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:44.840 start addressing the home from that perspective. And if we 227 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:48.519 know what we're doing, we can really make some big differences. 228 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:52.120 Number one on the list, and these are in no 229 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:56.080 particular order, but number one on the list turning windows 230 00:13:56.120 --> 00:13:59.360 into doors. We're going to deal with that right after. 231 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:03.720 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on Demand from 232 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:05.279 KFI AM six forty. 233 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:10.639 Let us dig into our list of big wins for 234 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:14.480 tracked home remodels. If you've just joined us, we are 235 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:19.320 in the thick of just talking about aspects of remodeling, 236 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:21.639 specifically a tract home, which is what most of us 237 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:25.759 live in. That because of the unique nature of tract homes, 238 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:32.039 make certain moves very very beneficial, relatively easy, relatively inexpensive, 239 00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:35.720 not cheap necessarily, but inexpensive in the big remodeling picture, 240 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:39.720 but with a massive, massive payoff. And before the break, 241 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:43.360 I teased you with the very first item on our list, 242 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:48.399 turning windows into doors. Now what am I talking about? Well, 243 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:50.799 you know, when you think about the orientation of a 244 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:54.080 tract home on a lot, there may be a lot 245 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:59.440 of opportunities for getting more light into a room. Turning 246 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:02.639 a window, let's say, a sliding window a typical thing 247 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:05.759 found in, for instance, a tracked home bedroom. Turning a 248 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:11.840 window into a door, a sliding glass door doubles you know, 249 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:15.480 the amount of light that's coming into a room without 250 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:19.279 punching big holes in the rest of the walls anywhere, 251 00:15:19.799 --> 00:15:25.080 And so many tracked homes fall under this category. Let's 252 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:28.000 say you've got a classic. Like here in southern California, 253 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:33.080 you've got some version of a classic California ranch home, right, 254 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:39.360 single story tracked home. And in those situations, quite often 255 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:44.039 there's at least one, two, sometimes three bedrooms with a 256 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:48.840 window to the backyard or the sideyard of the home. 257 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:55.960 So imagine, if you will, the design possibilities if we 258 00:15:56.039 --> 00:16:02.039 take a room that has a window out onto a 259 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:07.720 navigable part of your property. Okay, Now, the area right 260 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:11.919 now may be underutilized, it may be a wasted space, 261 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:15.039 it may be all concrete, it may be not private. 262 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:17.600 Those are all things to take into account or that 263 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:22.559 can be changed. But just imagine how it raises the 264 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:29.000 esthetic and raises the living vibe of any bedroom. When 265 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:33.799 any bedroom has access to its own doorway out into 266 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:38.360 the backyard, its own Your backyard may be large enough 267 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:41.720 that you could actually create its own little patio area, 268 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:48.000 its own just vibe for itself, just outside its window 269 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:51.559 now turned into a door. So I think most of 270 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:57.600 you can imagine the benefits of that. The question is, oh, 271 00:16:57.720 --> 00:16:59.360 that seems like a lot of stuff, all right, So 272 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:06.319 day with me. Now, let's imagine turning a sliding glass 273 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:11.759 door into a window. Okay, no, I didn't misspeak. I'm 274 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:15.279 talking about the opposite. But there's a reason why. Let's 275 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:18.279 imagine that you've got a sliding glass door, maybe a 276 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:22.359 six foot wide sliding glass door, right three foot fixed panel, 277 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:24.559 and the three foot door that slides back and forth, 278 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:28.640 it's six feet wide. Let's imagine turning that sliding glass 279 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:32.079 door into a window. Now, if you really think about it, 280 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:36.400 you think, well, actually, that's that's that'd be pretty easy 281 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:40.279 because we would just take out the sliding glass door, 282 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:45.079 and we would put in a window the same width okay, 283 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:46.839 or smaller if you want it, but the same with 284 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:50.920 like a six foot wide sliding window. And then since 285 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:53.839 that's all just standing there all by itself, then all 286 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:55.680 you have to do is build that little wall in 287 00:17:55.960 --> 00:17:59.000 underneath the window, and you know, finish it off in 288 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:02.240 the inside and the outside, and you're done. And you're 289 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:05.799 absolutely right about that. That's what you would do, and 290 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:08.359 you're done, and it's easy, all right. So the reason 291 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:14.440 I explained that is because that's exactly what's going on 292 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:19.160 with all of the windows in your house. In other words, 293 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:24.480 when your house was originally framed up by the framers, 294 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:31.200 every window in your house started out as a doorway. 295 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:34.880 In other words, the header over the windows, the studs 296 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:37.599 that are holding that header up, they go all the 297 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:41.839 way uninterrupted down to the bottom plate of the wall. 298 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:46.920 And then only after the windows arrived. That was a 299 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:49.519 doorway when that house was first being framed up. And 300 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:52.440 then only after the windows arrived on site did the 301 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:55.920 guys who installed the windows build those that little wall 302 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:58.960 inside that frame and put the window in. So what 303 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:01.200 does that mean for you? It means that you could 304 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:04.480 take virtually Now there's an exception to every rule, but 305 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:09.000 this one, especially in a tract home, is almost never 306 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:14.400 never an exception. You can take virtually any window in 307 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:19.160 your home and have that little section of wall removed 308 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:22.839 below the window and open it up and insert a 309 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:26.039 sliding glass door. You're not changing the structure of the house. 310 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:29.240 You're not replacing the header over the top with a 311 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:32.240 bigger beam because that header is already rated to be 312 00:19:32.279 --> 00:19:34.519 holding that amount of width. And wait, so if you 313 00:19:34.559 --> 00:19:37.640 put in a door the same width as the window 314 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:41.759 that's there, there are no structural changes the most, at 315 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:44.319 the most, what you will be dealing with is probably 316 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:47.960 somebody ran some electrical through that little wall down below 317 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:51.200 the window and electrical can be re routed up and 318 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:54.640 above and over and around very very easy. So the 319 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:58.319 fact of the matter is this is a huge wind 320 00:19:58.839 --> 00:20:02.359 for a tract home. If you can imagine a couple 321 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:06.400 of the bedrooms in your home with their own doorways 322 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:10.799 out into the yard, even sideyard, even a sideyard that 323 00:20:10.839 --> 00:20:14.279 you could treat as a tiny little garden pathway that 324 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:19.519 would lead again privately into the main yard. We're not 325 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:22.000 talking about doing this on bedrooms that face the front 326 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:24.359 of the house, okay, so that we've got sliding glass 327 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:27.279 doors out to the street, But we're talking about bedrooms 328 00:20:27.359 --> 00:20:33.000 that have windows sideyard or rear yard. Doubling the amount 329 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:37.680 of glass, doubling the amount of light, increasing the size 330 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:41.720 of the room because you see the outside, and everything 331 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:44.640 you can see from the outside see on the outside 332 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:49.240 from the inside increases the spacious ness of a room. 333 00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:54.279 You're increasing the vista, you're increasing the access, and for 334 00:20:54.440 --> 00:20:56.880 all of that, it's really just the cost of the 335 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:00.319 slider and a little bit of labor to rem move 336 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:03.960 something that's actually very very easy to remove and change. 337 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:08.559 Think about that. That is a massive win for a 338 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:14.240 relatively small move. And if you understand that we're dealing 339 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:17.559 with one of the intrinsic weaknesses of a tracked home. 340 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:20.119 Then we're using it to our advantage and we're getting 341 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:22.839 a lot out of it. So give that some thought. 342 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:25.920 I know, right, Oh, I've got a whole list of 343 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:29.240 pearls for you. We will move forward right after. 344 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:33.160 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 345 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:34.720 KFI AM sixty. 346 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:41.240 If somebody gives me free cheese steaks for a year, Heather, 347 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:42.200 how does that work? 348 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:50.680 I mean, I wish. I'm just trying to process, like 349 00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:53.599 I was listening to that, going, how can we make 350 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:57.079 that happen here? How can the rest of us get 351 00:21:57.079 --> 00:21:59.839 in on this? Am I allowed to apply? Like what 352 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:01.400 i'ma have to tune in to find out. 353 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:04.200 Yeah, we're gonna have to tune in to Gary and 354 00:22:04.200 --> 00:22:06.279 Shan and find out how to get free cheese steaks 355 00:22:06.279 --> 00:22:09.799 for a year. And I'll and in a deeper question, 356 00:22:09.880 --> 00:22:13.200 Heather is why are you and I spending so much 357 00:22:13.240 --> 00:22:15.240 time talking about food on this program? 358 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:17.720 I think, Well, I know, for me, I come in 359 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:20.160 at like five in the morning and I don't really 360 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:21.720 have time for a proper breakfast. 361 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:22.960 So there you go. 362 00:22:23.160 --> 00:22:25.880 So I'm sitting here going like, okay, is this muffin 363 00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:28.960 gonna sustain me? And then we're talking about like grilled 364 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:32.920 mushrooms and breakfast buffets and now cheese steaks, so yeah, 365 00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:35.519 it's it's it's time to eat basically. 366 00:22:36.039 --> 00:22:39.799 Yeah, yeah, Well thanks for joining us, everyone. Heather and 367 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:41.680 I have got to go get something to eat and 368 00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:45.480 we'll catch TOMRK now right back, all right, be right 369 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:48.240 back in a couple of hours. All right, let us 370 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:52.200 dive back in. I know I left just jaws draping 371 00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:56.480 just on the floor with this whole idea of turning 372 00:22:56.559 --> 00:23:00.319 windows into doors. That was one of the items on 373 00:23:00.359 --> 00:23:06.759 our list of really really effective moves when you're remodeling 374 00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:10.720 a tract home. Okay, a relatively small effort, relatively simple 375 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:14.400 procedure that yields a big win. All right, let's move 376 00:23:14.440 --> 00:23:19.359 on to yet another one. Okay, this one I've you know, 377 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:22.160 none of these are absolutely brand new to the program here. 378 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:24.960 I've talked about them in different contexts before, and this 379 00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:29.000 one is something we've covered again and again. But nevertheless, 380 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:32.319 it's because it's such an important move for most tracked houses, 381 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:36.880 and that is the new garage door. The new garage door. 382 00:23:37.079 --> 00:23:40.200 Now you're like, what's wrong with the garage door I've got. 383 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:43.440 I don't know, maybe nothing. I just want to point 384 00:23:43.480 --> 00:23:47.400 out the fact that, you know, starting in the late 385 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:53.319 nineteen fifties into the sixties and well beyond to current day, 386 00:23:54.559 --> 00:23:59.039 a trend in suburban housing shifted. There was, of course 387 00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:04.279 that the time when from let's say the nineteen twenties, 388 00:24:05.319 --> 00:24:08.720 when suburbia was kind of really invented, all the way 389 00:24:08.759 --> 00:24:12.640 through World War Two and into the post war area, 390 00:24:12.839 --> 00:24:16.839 even into the nineteen fifties, and for some areas the sixties, 391 00:24:16.839 --> 00:24:20.960 but very rarely that we had detached garages in the 392 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:23.680 back of the lot, the back of the property and 393 00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:26.519 alleyways in between our homes. Now, if you ask me, 394 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:29.119 why did that ever go away? Dean, Well, there are 395 00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:33.480 numerous reasons why it shifted. One was there were concerns 396 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:36.960 about crime at the time, and that an alley way 397 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:40.799 is just a place where things can happen. Obviously, nowadays, 398 00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:44.680 with cameras and you know, and everybody's ability to watch 399 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:47.720 everything all the time, that's not so much a concern anymore. 400 00:24:48.759 --> 00:24:55.200 And so and developers were buying less property and squeezing 401 00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:58.240