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Speaker 1: Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, custom home Builder, custom home Designer,
Speaker 1: and I am your guide to better understanding that place
Speaker 1: where you live today on the show. It is part
Speaker 1: two of our two part series this weekend about big
Speaker 1: remodeling wins for tracked homes. Now, let me unpack that
Speaker 1: for a second. There are inherent strengths and weaknesses in
Speaker 1: a tracked home, a tracked home being the kind of
Speaker 1: home that most of us live in. And because of
Speaker 1: those inherent strengths and weaknesses, if we can identify them,
Speaker 1: if we understand what we're dealing with, there are some
Speaker 1: remodeling items, some hits as it were, that if you
Speaker 1: know how to approach them, you can make big changes
Speaker 1: for minimal amounts of time and money. Not free, not free,
Speaker 1: not necessarily even what you might call cheap. But for
Speaker 1: those who are planning a remodel, who are getting ready,
Speaker 1: who are even thinking about it, I want you to
Speaker 1: understand that these these to put it in Tim Conway's terms,
Speaker 1: these are small bets that pay off big time. Okay,
Speaker 1: big time payoff for a small investment relative to the effect.
Speaker 1: And I've got a whole list for you and what
Speaker 1: we did on the program yesterday, and for you who
Speaker 1: follow our podcast, the previous episode is part one. Is
Speaker 1: I laid the groundwork for today's list by really spending
Speaker 1: most of the time talking about the strengths and weaknesses
Speaker 1: of the track home. I'm going to review that with
Speaker 1: you this small just so that we can review, you know,
Speaker 1: in our previous episode, we'll do a little quick review
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Speaker 1: All right, y'all, why don't we get this rolling? Sound good?
Speaker 1: We will begin with a quick review, a quick review
Speaker 1: of the strength and weaknesses of that tracked home that
Speaker 1: you live in, so that there's context for this great
Speaker 1: list of big tracked home remodeling wins. And we'll start
Speaker 1: it all right after.
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Speaker 1: We are talking about big wins for tracked home remodels
Speaker 1: that would be the kinds of things that well, let's
Speaker 1: just put it this way. Remodeling home, it's all about
Speaker 1: making changes some changes are bigger than others. Some changes
Speaker 1: cost a lot more than others. Because of the unique
Speaker 1: nature of a tracked home, which is where most of
Speaker 1: us live, most of them have very similar issues, very
Speaker 1: similar problems. And so we've got a list of fixes,
Speaker 1: remodeling fixes that achieve a disproportionate amount of good for
Speaker 1: the money that they actually cost. Small bet by you,
Speaker 1: big win for you. That's what we're at. So a
Speaker 1: quick review of yesterday in today's part two of two
Speaker 1: part experience. Here on the program, yesterday, I spent a
Speaker 1: good amount of time talking about the intrinsic strengths and
Speaker 1: weaknesses of a tract home. Here's just a quick review
Speaker 1: on the positive side of a tract home. One, you
Speaker 1: have a home. Tracked homes are, essentially is what made
Speaker 1: middle class home ownership a reality ever since the tract
Speaker 1: home experience began in the twenties, early in the twentieth century.
Speaker 1: You have a home. That's a great positive about a
Speaker 1: tract home because it was a mass produced home, but
Speaker 1: it's affordable enough for you to be in it. Secondly,
Speaker 1: on the positive side, the engineering of tract homes gets
Speaker 1: better and better all the time, simply because tract homes
Speaker 1: have to be built. They're the most common homes that
Speaker 1: are built, and they have to be built by current codes,
Speaker 1: and codes are always we're always learning, we're always increasing
Speaker 1: the quality of the engineering of a home. And thirdly,
Speaker 1: on the positive side, tracked homes, if you know what
Speaker 1: you're doing, are fairly malleable. They are fairly malleable as
Speaker 1: far as what we can change, where we can change it,
Speaker 1: and how we change it, if you know what you're doing,
Speaker 1: And that's really the large part of what we're talking
Speaker 1: about today. On the weakness side of tract homes, craftsmanship
Speaker 1: is obviously, you know, a mass produced product that is
Speaker 1: essentially designed and built by the bottom line on a
Speaker 1: spreadsheet somewhere, not going to find the greatest craftsmanship in
Speaker 1: the world, clearly. So that's the thing. If you are
Speaker 1: at a place where you are ready to remodel that
Speaker 1: tract home, we don't have to worry about the craftsmanship
Speaker 1: too much because I'm going to trust it. You're going
Speaker 1: to get it done right this time. So that's an
Speaker 1: inherent weakness one that can be overcome. The second one
Speaker 1: is I spent a good amount of time talking about
Speaker 1: this yesterday. The second weakness is not where most people
Speaker 1: would think. The second weakness of a tract home is
Speaker 1: its orientation on the lot. Because tracked homes, tracked home developments,
Speaker 1: as you well know, are there's probably about, on average,
Speaker 1: there's about four floor plans in a given development, four
Speaker 1: different houses. Now those houses get you know, by way
Speaker 1: of illusion, the sense that there's a lot more than that,
Speaker 1: because you take four houses and you give each one
Speaker 1: of those floor plans maybe three or four different facade
Speaker 1: styles as they face the street, and then it looks like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, give four houses three different facades. Now it
Speaker 1: looks like we've got twelve different houses. And then if
Speaker 1: you just simply flip the floor plan left or right,
Speaker 1: you know, carbon copy upside down as it were, then
Speaker 1: you've got twelve different houses. Now looks like you have
Speaker 1: twenty four different houses in the neighborhood. And that seems
Speaker 1: like a lot of variety of homes, but there are
Speaker 1: really only four. And those four houses were designed in
Speaker 1: a studio somewhere, not in relationship to the specific lot
Speaker 1: that they ended up getting placed on. And as you know,
Speaker 1: like in any development, there are lots that are at
Speaker 1: the end of cul de sacs that are pie shaped well,
Speaker 1: same house gets put there. There are lots that face west,
Speaker 1: same house, lots that faced east, same house, South, same
Speaker 1: house north, same house. Lots that are tight and soldiered
Speaker 1: together in parallel lines, same house, lots that are big
Speaker 1: and open on the edges, same house. Lots that have views,
Speaker 1: same house, lots with no view, same house. You get
Speaker 1: the idea. This is an intrinsic weakness because the doors
Speaker 1: and window locations, while in theory might be lovely, change
Speaker 1: their effectiveness depending on whether there's a view or no view,
Speaker 1: or whether there's blazing southern sun coming in through that
Speaker 1: living room window, or whether the living room window is
Speaker 1: on the north side of the house and never gets
Speaker 1: any direct sunlight. You see what I'm saying. This is
Speaker 1: an inherent weakness in a tract home, but one that
Speaker 1: quite often, if we know what we're doing, can be corrected. Finally,
Speaker 1: another big weakness of tract homes is wasted space. Given
Speaker 1: the nature of mass production, and by that I mean
Speaker 1: like soffits and chases for air conditioning equipment. When we
Speaker 1: build a custom home, we try and finagle everything as
Speaker 1: tight and away from intruding into the interior of a
Speaker 1: home as possible, but in a tract home development there
Speaker 1: are things included built into the house kind of large
Speaker 1: balloony space is because they don't worry about making, for instance,
Speaker 1: an HVAC contractor build a specialized duck to get from
Speaker 1: point A to point B. They just want to give
Speaker 1: them a big old freeway so we can get through
Speaker 1: there as fast as possible, use the least expensive materials
Speaker 1: to get it done. And as a result, tracked homes
Speaker 1: end up with lots of drop ceilings and lots of
Speaker 1: weird chases and areas where space is being taken up
Speaker 1: inside too much space, far more space than is actually necessary.
Speaker 1: And we'll get to that too. So there you go.
Speaker 1: There's a quick outline of the intrinsic strengths and weaknesses
Speaker 1: of a tract home. And now we are ready to
Speaker 1: start addressing the home from that perspective. And if we
Speaker 1: know what we're doing, we can really make some big differences.
Speaker 1: Number one on the list, and these are in no
Speaker 1: particular order, but number one on the list turning windows
Speaker 1: into doors. We're going to deal with that right after.
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Speaker 1: Let us dig into our list of big wins for
Speaker 1: tracked home remodels. If you've just joined us, we are
Speaker 1: in the thick of just talking about aspects of remodeling,
Speaker 1: specifically a tract home, which is what most of us
Speaker 1: live in. That because of the unique nature of tract homes,
Speaker 1: make certain moves very very beneficial, relatively easy, relatively inexpensive,
Speaker 1: not cheap necessarily, but inexpensive in the big remodeling picture,
Speaker 1: but with a massive, massive payoff. And before the break,
Speaker 1: I teased you with the very first item on our list,
Speaker 1: turning windows into doors. Now what am I talking about? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, when you think about the orientation of a
Speaker 1: tract home on a lot, there may be a lot
Speaker 1: of opportunities for getting more light into a room. Turning
Speaker 1: a window, let's say, a sliding window a typical thing
Speaker 1: found in, for instance, a tracked home bedroom. Turning a
Speaker 1: window into a door, a sliding glass door doubles you know,
Speaker 1: the amount of light that's coming into a room without
Speaker 1: punching big holes in the rest of the walls anywhere,
Speaker 1: And so many tracked homes fall under this category. Let's
Speaker 1: say you've got a classic. Like here in southern California,
Speaker 1: you've got some version of a classic California ranch home, right,
Speaker 1: single story tracked home. And in those situations, quite often
Speaker 1: there's at least one, two, sometimes three bedrooms with a
Speaker 1: window to the backyard or the sideyard of the home.
Speaker 1: So imagine, if you will, the design possibilities if we
Speaker 1: take a room that has a window out onto a
Speaker 1: navigable part of your property. Okay, Now, the area right
Speaker 1: now may be underutilized, it may be a wasted space,
Speaker 1: it may be all concrete, it may be not private.
Speaker 1: Those are all things to take into account or that
Speaker 1: can be changed. But just imagine how it raises the
Speaker 1: esthetic and raises the living vibe of any bedroom. When
Speaker 1: any bedroom has access to its own doorway out into
Speaker 1: the backyard, its own Your backyard may be large enough
Speaker 1: that you could actually create its own little patio area,
Speaker 1: its own just vibe for itself, just outside its window
Speaker 1: now turned into a door. So I think most of
Speaker 1: you can imagine the benefits of that. The question is, oh,
Speaker 1: that seems like a lot of stuff, all right, So
Speaker 1: day with me. Now, let's imagine turning a sliding glass
Speaker 1: door into a window. Okay, no, I didn't misspeak. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the opposite. But there's a reason why. Let's
Speaker 1: imagine that you've got a sliding glass door, maybe a
Speaker 1: six foot wide sliding glass door, right three foot fixed panel,
Speaker 1: and the three foot door that slides back and forth,
Speaker 1: it's six feet wide. Let's imagine turning that sliding glass
Speaker 1: door into a window. Now, if you really think about it,
Speaker 1: you think, well, actually, that's that's that'd be pretty easy
Speaker 1: because we would just take out the sliding glass door,
Speaker 1: and we would put in a window the same width okay,
Speaker 1: or smaller if you want it, but the same with
Speaker 1: like a six foot wide sliding window. And then since
Speaker 1: that's all just standing there all by itself, then all
Speaker 1: you have to do is build that little wall in
Speaker 1: underneath the window, and you know, finish it off in
Speaker 1: the inside and the outside, and you're done. And you're
Speaker 1: absolutely right about that. That's what you would do, and
Speaker 1: you're done, and it's easy, all right. So the reason
Speaker 1: I explained that is because that's exactly what's going on
Speaker 1: with all of the windows in your house. In other words,
Speaker 1: when your house was originally framed up by the framers,
Speaker 1: every window in your house started out as a doorway.
Speaker 1: In other words, the header over the windows, the studs
Speaker 1: that are holding that header up, they go all the
Speaker 1: way uninterrupted down to the bottom plate of the wall.
Speaker 1: And then only after the windows arrived. That was a
Speaker 1: doorway when that house was first being framed up. And
Speaker 1: then only after the windows arrived on site did the
Speaker 1: guys who installed the windows build those that little wall
Speaker 1: inside that frame and put the window in. So what
Speaker 1: does that mean for you? It means that you could
Speaker 1: take virtually Now there's an exception to every rule, but
Speaker 1: this one, especially in a tract home, is almost never
Speaker 1: never an exception. You can take virtually any window in
Speaker 1: your home and have that little section of wall removed
Speaker 1: below the window and open it up and insert a
Speaker 1: sliding glass door. You're not changing the structure of the house.
Speaker 1: You're not replacing the header over the top with a
Speaker 1: bigger beam because that header is already rated to be
Speaker 1: holding that amount of width. And wait, so if you
Speaker 1: put in a door the same width as the window
Speaker 1: that's there, there are no structural changes the most, at
Speaker 1: the most, what you will be dealing with is probably
Speaker 1: somebody ran some electrical through that little wall down below
Speaker 1: the window and electrical can be re routed up and
Speaker 1: above and over and around very very easy. So the
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is this is a huge wind
Speaker 1: for a tract home. If you can imagine a couple
Speaker 1: of the bedrooms in your home with their own doorways
Speaker 1: out into the yard, even sideyard, even a sideyard that
Speaker 1: you could treat as a tiny little garden pathway that
Speaker 1: would lead again privately into the main yard. We're not
Speaker 1: talking about doing this on bedrooms that face the front
Speaker 1: of the house, okay, so that we've got sliding glass
Speaker 1: doors out to the street, But we're talking about bedrooms
Speaker 1: that have windows sideyard or rear yard. Doubling the amount
Speaker 1: of glass, doubling the amount of light, increasing the size
Speaker 1: of the room because you see the outside, and everything
Speaker 1: you can see from the outside see on the outside
Speaker 1: from the inside increases the spacious ness of a room.
Speaker 1: You're increasing the vista, you're increasing the access, and for
Speaker 1: all of that, it's really just the cost of the
Speaker 1: slider and a little bit of labor to rem move
Speaker 1: something that's actually very very easy to remove and change.
Speaker 1: Think about that. That is a massive win for a
Speaker 1: relatively small move. And if you understand that we're dealing
Speaker 1: with one of the intrinsic weaknesses of a tracked home.
Speaker 1: Then we're using it to our advantage and we're getting
Speaker 1: a lot out of it. So give that some thought.
Speaker 1: I know, right, Oh, I've got a whole list of
Speaker 1: pearls for you. We will move forward right after.
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Speaker 1: If somebody gives me free cheese steaks for a year, Heather,
Speaker 1: how does that work?
Speaker 2: I mean, I wish. I'm just trying to process, like
Speaker 2: I was listening to that, going, how can we make
Speaker 2: that happen here? How can the rest of us get
Speaker 2: in on this? Am I allowed to apply? Like what
Speaker 2: i'ma have to tune in to find out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna have to tune in to Gary and
Speaker 1: Shan and find out how to get free cheese steaks
Speaker 1: for a year. And I'll and in a deeper question,
Speaker 1: Heather is why are you and I spending so much
Speaker 1: time talking about food on this program?
Speaker 2: I think, Well, I know, for me, I come in
Speaker 2: at like five in the morning and I don't really
Speaker 2: have time for a proper breakfast.
Speaker 1: So there you go.
Speaker 2: So I'm sitting here going like, okay, is this muffin
Speaker 2: gonna sustain me? And then we're talking about like grilled
Speaker 2: mushrooms and breakfast buffets and now cheese steaks, so yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's time to eat basically.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well thanks for joining us, everyone. Heather and
Speaker 1: I have got to go get something to eat and
Speaker 1: we'll catch TOMRK now right back, all right, be right
Speaker 1: back in a couple of hours. All right, let us
Speaker 1: dive back in. I know I left just jaws draping
Speaker 1: just on the floor with this whole idea of turning
Speaker 1: windows into doors. That was one of the items on
Speaker 1: our list of really really effective moves when you're remodeling
Speaker 1: a tract home. Okay, a relatively small effort, relatively simple
Speaker 1: procedure that yields a big win. All right, let's move
Speaker 1: on to yet another one. Okay, this one I've you know,
Speaker 1: none of these are absolutely brand new to the program here.
Speaker 1: I've talked about them in different contexts before, and this
Speaker 1: one is something we've covered again and again. But nevertheless,
Speaker 1: it's because it's such an important move for most tracked houses,
Speaker 1: and that is the new garage door. The new garage door.
Speaker 1: Now you're like, what's wrong with the garage door I've got.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe nothing. I just want to point
Speaker 1: out the fact that, you know, starting in the late
Speaker 1: nineteen fifties into the sixties and well beyond to current day,
Speaker 1: a trend in suburban housing shifted. There was, of course
Speaker 1: that the time when from let's say the nineteen twenties,
Speaker 1: when suburbia was kind of really invented, all the way
Speaker 1: through World War Two and into the post war area,
Speaker 1: even into the nineteen fifties, and for some areas the sixties,
Speaker 1: but very rarely that we had detached garages in the
Speaker 1: back of the lot, the back of the property and
Speaker 1: alleyways in between our homes. Now, if you ask me,
Speaker 1: why did that ever go away? Dean, Well, there are
Speaker 1: numerous reasons why it shifted. One was there were concerns
Speaker 1: about crime at the time, and that an alley way
Speaker 1: is just a place where things can happen. Obviously, nowadays,
Speaker 1: with cameras and you know, and everybody's ability to watch
Speaker 1: everything all the time, that's not so much a concern anymore.
Speaker 1: And so and developers were buying less property and squeezing
Speaker 1: more houses into them, and you know, alleys take up space,
Speaker 1: and so if you don't have an alley, then the
Speaker 1: lot can go all the way halfway across the alley
Speaker 1: and we can squeeze more houses into the same property development.
Speaker 1: And so what happened was for a number of different reasons.
Speaker 1: I won't waste any more time on the history lesson here.
Speaker 1: Starting in the sixties, all of a sudden, garages are
Speaker 1: in the front of the house facing the street, okay,
Speaker 1: and you all well know, and there are some variations
Speaker 1: of that. There are detached garages in the back that
Speaker 1: have no alleys, but you've got a big driveway going
Speaker 1: all the way past the house back to that garage,
Speaker 1: and that takes up a lot of space on the
Speaker 1: property as well. So the point being this, love them,
Speaker 1: hate them, doesn't matter. You've got a garage, very likely
Speaker 1: facing the street. Most of us do. And because of that,
Speaker 1: from a design point of view, now the designer is
Speaker 1: speaking to you, not the contractor. From a design point
Speaker 1: of view, the simple reality is a garage forward, a
Speaker 1: garage street facing presence means that that door, that door,
Speaker 1: not your front door. That door is the most important
Speaker 1: door on the front of your home. Okay, if you're
Speaker 1: going to make a change about how your home feels
Speaker 1: the vibe from the street, there is no better place
Speaker 1: to invest money in a door than on the garage door.
Speaker 1: And here's the advantage. Garage doors, uh, you know, buy
Speaker 1: pure in terms of pure square footage, are far less
Speaker 1: expensive to improve upon and change than your entry door
Speaker 1: to your home. Let's say you've got an entry to
Speaker 1: your home and you'd say, oh, we're gonna judge this up.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a solid oak entry door there and
Speaker 1: a couple of sidelights, or I've got a couple of
Speaker 1: door double doors, which Dean doesn't love anyway, But that's
Speaker 1: a whole nother discussion. Let's just say we put a nice, big,
Speaker 1: solid oak and tree door. You know very well if
Speaker 1: you've priced any of this out, that that could start
Speaker 1: at three three thousand plus dollars and just keep on going.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And a replacing garage door, a decent one doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be top of the line, but a decent looking,
Speaker 1: well insulated, maybe wood grained. And I'm not saying wood
Speaker 1: but wood grained. I mean all sorts of options for
Speaker 1: a garage door. The same amount of money to that
Speaker 1: you would spend on the entry door to your home
Speaker 1: will buy you a better garage door same amount of money.
Speaker 1: And so when you think about it by the numbers, like, well,
Speaker 1: the entry door to my home is thirty six inches
Speaker 1: wide and my garage and that's going to cost me
Speaker 1: three thousand dollars. My garage door will cost me three
Speaker 1: thousand dollars and it is yeah, probably sixteen maybe seventeen
Speaker 1: feet wide, And so dollar for dollar, square foot for
Speaker 1: square foot, inch for inch, and the fact that the
Speaker 1: garage door is very likely closer to the street, larger,
Speaker 1: taken up maybe a third of the frontage of the house.
Speaker 1: If that is the situation you find yourself in, then
Speaker 1: embrace this idea that this is actually the most important
Speaker 1: design door on the front of your house. Second to
Speaker 1: that is the actual entry door, the main entry door
Speaker 1: into your home. So adding or replacing a garage door
Speaker 1: to improve the aesthetic of your home is very, very
Speaker 1: rarely the wrong move. And if a remodel budget is
Speaker 1: being assembled and a remodel is being considered, don't skip
Speaker 1: over that idea because it's a huge change for a
Speaker 1: decent amount of money, for a small investment, disproportionate huge change.
Speaker 1: And that's our list today, all right, So we're going
Speaker 1: to get back to this list. But we're at the
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