Speaker 1: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty, PMFI AM six.
Speaker 2: Forty and live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. Welcome
Speaker 2: to Home, where every week we help you better understand
Speaker 2: that place where you live. I'm Dean Sharp, the house whisperers,
Speaker 2: and we're talking fences and walls and hedges today. We're
Speaker 2: going to get back to that in just a bit.
Speaker 2: But right now, top of the hour, we're still taking calls.
Speaker 2: Let's talk to Gloria. Hey, Gloria, welcome home.
Speaker 3: I have a wooden fence on slope that needs to
Speaker 3: be replaced. My neighbor would like to replace it with
Speaker 3: a block wall with stuckle on it. I don't know.
Speaker 3: She has it on the other side and she has
Speaker 3: it on top. But when I look at the friends
Speaker 3: at the top my wood fence or our wood fence,
Speaker 3: the stucco is peeling off of her block wall on top.
Speaker 3: So I'm not convinced that's the way I want to go.
Speaker 3: I know it's going to cost more.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's going to cost more. It's going to
Speaker 2: cost a lot more. This is one of those areas
Speaker 2: where having a conversation with your neighbor can get tricky
Speaker 2: because of sharing this one thing, right, I think you
Speaker 2: just have to be honest with her and say, listen,
Speaker 2: I get it. I understand it matches all of your
Speaker 2: other stuff. I'm not opposed to the block wall. If
Speaker 2: that's something that you want to pay for, I would
Speaker 2: be willing to, you know, chip in my half of
Speaker 2: the wood fence cost towards your block wall. But honestly,
Speaker 2: it's not on my budget to do that, so you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, I wouldn't I wouldn't judge. I wouldn't personally,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't approach her and say, look, your block wall's
Speaker 2: peeling stucco, and I would just just the straight numbers.
Speaker 2: People can't argue with the fact that, you know, if
Speaker 2: you're not in a position to afford the fancier thing,
Speaker 2: everybody's got to understand that. And it is Gloria going
Speaker 2: to be way, way more expensive. Not only is a
Speaker 2: block wall more expensive to build than a fence on
Speaker 2: a flat ground, but it is considerably more expensive to
Speaker 2: build a block wall down a sloped backyard because a
Speaker 2: block wall, unlike a fence, actually doesn't go at an
Speaker 2: angle down a slope. A block wall still, all the
Speaker 2: blocks have to be horizontally set, which means that the
Speaker 2: footing for that block wall has to be set at angles.
Speaker 2: I mean not at angles, but to set as a
Speaker 2: stepped footing down the wall. And a lot of the
Speaker 2: block that goes into that block wall is therefore going
Speaker 2: to be hidden underneath the soil, so it has to
Speaker 2: be dug deeper. I mean, it's just a whole thing.
Speaker 2: I'm not against them at all. Sometimes I've designed one
Speaker 2: into a property because it's exactly the thing that I
Speaker 2: want to see there at that point. But yeah, it's expensive,
Speaker 2: and so I'm all for fences where fences will get
Speaker 2: the job done, because why spend the extra money? What?
Speaker 2: What do we need the block wall for? What are
Speaker 2: we protecting ourselves from? Okay, so there you go, Gloria,
Speaker 2: great question. Hope that helped. I wouldn't, you know, don't
Speaker 2: don't critique somebody else's block wall like it's failing. I
Speaker 2: would just tell them, you know, the simple fact is,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't have a budget for it, and
Speaker 2: so I'll give you what I can on the wood
Speaker 2: fence there, but you know, leave the rest of it there. Okay,
Speaker 2: does that sound good? Thank you, great question. Great call.
Speaker 2: Let me squeeze one more in here. Let's talk to Arthur. Hey, Arthur, welcome.
Speaker 4: Home, Aban. I've got a problem with a kitchen sink.
Speaker 4: It's a a Bonty brand installed under granted, and even
Speaker 4: though the countertop is completely level, the sink slops away
Speaker 4: from the drain, so no custom size. I can't find
Speaker 4: seventeen by thirty.
Speaker 2: Okay, So the sink is sloping away from the drain.
Speaker 2: So I mean, is the sink delaminating from the bottom
Speaker 2: of the granite countertop? Is that the problem? Or is
Speaker 2: it always been this way? Or is it is it
Speaker 2: just starting to fail? In other words, for some reason,
Speaker 2: you know, if this is an undermount sink, are the
Speaker 2: clamps or whatever is supporting this sink in the countertop
Speaker 2: failing and is that the problem? Or is there just
Speaker 2: something weird about the sink.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's installed correctly, everything's level, it's a sink itself,
Speaker 4: and Bonky is China. I can't even get a hold
Speaker 4: of anybody, and I was able to find another brand
Speaker 4: new one at the same supplier, but it was the
Speaker 4: same thing. So unless I can there's some way to
Speaker 4: re to you know, remake that bottom to make it
Speaker 4: slope in. I have to replace it, and I can't
Speaker 4: find a step seventeen by thirty sink ready to go
Speaker 4: at So one a few es years ago you had
Speaker 4: you were talking about sinks. It's a one big, nice
Speaker 4: one piece sc.
Speaker 2: Right right right, okay, all right, well yeah, okay. So
Speaker 2: here is where we utilize the resources of the Internet
Speaker 2: and a couple of specialists along the way, and I'll
Speaker 2: give you one quick piece of advice here. So number one,
Speaker 2: I would research the heck out of it. Maybe you
Speaker 2: already have, but I would research the heck out of
Speaker 2: this proportion of sinc across the interweb and see if
Speaker 2: you can get anything that's even close. Now, unlike the
Speaker 2: Showcase Showdown with Bob Barker that everybody's talking about today,
Speaker 2: here's the situation with an undermount sink where you can
Speaker 2: actually afford to go slightly over and be a winner. Okay,
Speaker 2: as long as we can get a new underneath inside
Speaker 2: your cabinet. Okay, since it's an under mount sink, and
Speaker 2: since the edge of your granite countertop is really forming
Speaker 2: that edge, we could actually put in if we need
Speaker 2: to a slightly slightly not ridiculously, but slightly larger sink.
Speaker 2: And all it means is that the granite countertop hangs
Speaker 2: over it just a smidge more. Okay, So you might
Speaker 2: be able to fit an eighteen by thirty sink in
Speaker 2: there without a problem and just accept the fact that
Speaker 2: the granite's going to overhang it a little bit further
Speaker 2: and that may open up your sink choices quite a bit.
Speaker 2: So Number one, I would research this sink size thoroughly.
Speaker 2: Number two I would see if just a smidge a
Speaker 2: deeper eighteen by thirty sink would work. And then third
Speaker 2: uh is call your local fixture warehouses, whether it's a
Speaker 2: WDC in your area. If you're down in where you're
Speaker 2: at in Coasta, Mesa, oh, you could go down to
Speaker 2: the Collection and Coast to make and talk to the
Speaker 2: guys at Perch and see if they are aware of
Speaker 2: anything that will get you fit in that situation. But
Speaker 2: my guess is that there is a solution to this
Speaker 2: without tearing out that ground at countertop that will end
Speaker 2: up working even if it's a slightly oversized sink than
Speaker 2: the one that you've got, So think about that. Because
Speaker 2: it's a single basin, So we might be able to
Speaker 2: find an eighteen by thirty and get that thing creatively
Speaker 2: to work. It may just take a little bit more creativity, Arthur,
Speaker 2: Thank you for your call. Great question. All right, when
Speaker 2: we return more of your calls your home with Dean Sharp,
Speaker 2: the house Whisper, Cafi, Dean Sharp, the House Whisper, at
Speaker 2: your service. Thanks for joining us on the program. Here
Speaker 2: we are talking fences, walls, and hedges today, and now
Speaker 2: is time to switch the conversation over from fences to walls.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk walls a little bit. Hedges a little
Speaker 2: bit doesn't need as much attention as the others. First
Speaker 2: of all, what I just mentioned I just use two
Speaker 2: names for walls, garden wall and retaining wall. What is
Speaker 2: the most important thing you need to understand between these two?
Speaker 2: They are different. They are different in one particular way.
Speaker 2: A retaining wall is in fact holding back soil on
Speaker 2: one side of it. Okay, it is retaining soil a
Speaker 2: surcharge of earth against it. So a lot of you
Speaker 2: have at times mentioned to me like, oh, well, I've
Speaker 2: got a retaining wall in between my property and my neighbor,
Speaker 2: and you just you're used to using that phrase when
Speaker 2: you see a block wall. Okay, not all block walls
Speaker 2: are retaining walls. In fact, most block walls are not
Speaker 2: retaining walls. They are simply block walls. They could just
Speaker 2: as easily be a fence. There's no pressure up against
Speaker 2: either one side. The ground on both sides is roughly,
Speaker 2: you know, within a foot or so of the same
Speaker 2: height or elevation. That is not a retaining wall. That's
Speaker 2: a garden wall. And even though it's made out of blocks,
Speaker 2: and those blocks are hollow, they are not filled with
Speaker 2: cement all the way to the top because they don't
Speaker 2: need to be. They don't have full mortar or grout
Speaker 2: fill inside or steal inside. In most cases, they're just
Speaker 2: hollow block walls, which is why a lot of them
Speaker 2: you've noticed in your yard. You can walk out of
Speaker 2: two and give them a good shake, and sometimes the
Speaker 2: blocks shift out of place or they crack. And if
Speaker 2: it was a retaining wall, I guarantee you if it
Speaker 2: was just a fully grouded, fully steeled block wall, that
Speaker 2: would not be happening in that same way. Okay, So
Speaker 2: a garden wall that's what we use to describe any
Speaker 2: kind of a wall, masonry wall that is just sticking
Speaker 2: up in your garden for the purpose of privacy or
Speaker 2: dividing the property line, or anything else that you're using
Speaker 2: in your garden. Now, a retaining wall, as I said,
Speaker 2: holding back soil. Two kinds of retaining wall. Engineered and
Speaker 2: non engineered. Okay. The difference is massive, and the difference
Speaker 2: in cost is massive. Under the International Building Code and
Speaker 2: State of California. It holds true here as well. You
Speaker 2: can have a wall that is retaining up to three
Speaker 2: feet thirty six inches of soil okay, without having to
Speaker 2: have it engineered or having a permit for that wall. Okay,
Speaker 2: You're allowed to hold back up to thirty six inches
Speaker 2: of soil on the backside of that wall. That still
Speaker 2: should be a strong wall, shouldn't be a hollow wall.
Speaker 2: But you could build that wall, let's say, out of
Speaker 2: the interlocking pavers that you find at the garden center
Speaker 2: or at the local nursery or a big box store. Right,
Speaker 2: you've seen those. They are solid concrete blocks. They're usually
Speaker 2: kind of funky wedge shaped, and they've got a little
Speaker 2: lip on the front and they interlock with each other.
Speaker 2: And you can stack that up and you can hold
Speaker 2: back up to thirty six inches of soil, and that's
Speaker 2: totally allowed in almost every situation. You don't need a
Speaker 2: big footing underneath it, and you don't have to have
Speaker 2: an engineer design it for rollover or hydrostatic pressure or
Speaker 2: anything like that. But if you're going to hold back
Speaker 2: more than thirty six inches of soil, now we got
Speaker 2: an engineered wall, which means we're paying an engineer to
Speaker 2: figure out a footing that increases the cost. Grouting and
Speaker 2: mortaring of that wall that increases the cost, and we've
Speaker 2: got a permit involved and inspections and drainage and water
Speaker 2: retention issues and so on. That is a retaining wall
Speaker 2: holding back more than thirty six inches of soil. Another
Speaker 2: kind of masonry wall is just a stack wall, okay,
Speaker 2: especially when it comes to garden walls, something that a
Speaker 2: lot of people overlook these days, especially if you have
Speaker 2: a more rustic theme in your yard, you should consider it.
Speaker 2: Now talk about becoming an expert at this. It takes
Speaker 2: a little practice, but that's something realistically that a homeowner
Speaker 2: could actually do, which is, you know, like they do
Speaker 2: in well back east On along the East coast in
Speaker 2: the old colonial farms, where every single time you plow
Speaker 2: your field, you're pulling up old stones. What did the
Speaker 2: farmers do? They use those stones to create the walls
Speaker 2: in between their properties. These were stacked stone walls. Came
Speaker 2: from Europe the exact same way, came from the UK,
Speaker 2: from Ireland the same way. If you want to take
Speaker 2: a look look at the air and ailes in Ireland,
Speaker 2: just off the coast of Ireland, you will see some
Speaker 2: of the most beautiful old interlocking stacked stone walls. I mean,
Speaker 2: it is an art form. It is also absolutely gorgeous,
Speaker 2: especially if the wall in question is what I've been
Speaker 2: talking about from a design perspective, and that is creating
Speaker 2: an area, designating a quote unquote room in the backyard
Speaker 2: or a quote hallway leading to another space. This is
Speaker 2: where we really get creative with walls and fences and
Speaker 2: hedges for that matter. Do you understand that destinations creating
Speaker 2: destinations in the yard and a delineation of a space
Speaker 2: can be something even if it's just twenty four inches tall. Okay,
Speaker 2: think about this. If you and I are standing ten
Speaker 2: or fifteen feet apart from each other and there is
Speaker 2: nothing in between us, then we are standing in the
Speaker 2: same space, right Okay. Now, obviously, if somebody comes along
Speaker 2: and builds a big eight foot wall in between us,
Speaker 2: now we are not standing in the same space because
Speaker 2: I can't even see you. But let's just put some
Speaker 2: plant material, okay, a hedge, a hedge that's only eighteen
Speaker 2: twenty four inches tall, and run it in between us. Amazingly,
Speaker 2: even though I can still see you, and even though
Speaker 2: you can step right over that hedge. Okay, suddenly I
Speaker 2: am here and you are over there. You understand what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. That is the value of utilizing from a
Speaker 2: design perspective, a wall, a hedge, a fence in a
Speaker 2: garden area, not just on the perimeter, but really dividing
Speaker 2: up and using it to contour and create space in
Speaker 2: your yard. All right, that's walls. Did want to spend
Speaker 2: a whole lot of time on those today, per you know,
Speaker 2: because we've got so many more opportunities to talk about
Speaker 2: these things when we come back. Let's talk plant material
Speaker 2: and the magic of plant material, especially when it comes
Speaker 2: to the edges of your property. What is he talking about, Well,
Speaker 2: there's a whole point when it comes to plant material
Speaker 2: in the edge of your property that makes them invaluable
Speaker 2: discuss that when we return Your Home with Dean Sharp
Speaker 2: The House Whisper.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 2: Your Home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper. Thanks for
Speaker 2: joining us on the program. Today we've been talking fences
Speaker 2: and walls and hedges, and right now it's time to
Speaker 2: talk about hedges a little bit. First of all, from
Speaker 2: a designer perspective. Okay, I want to be very very
Speaker 2: clear to you, because you know, these words get thrown
Speaker 2: around and they take on a typical connotation, and I
Speaker 2: am anything but a typical designer. So I want to
Speaker 2: be really really clear that you understand what I mean
Speaker 2: when I use a word or term like hedges. Okay,
Speaker 2: when I say hedges, now, I might be talking about
Speaker 2: what you typically think of like a tightly pruned you know,
Speaker 2: geometrically shaped Japanese box hedge or something like that. You know,
Speaker 2: the small waxy green leaf all drawn up in tight
Speaker 2: little rows with flat tops. You know, the kind of
Speaker 2: thing that turns into a topiary at some point and
Speaker 2: so on. That's definitely a hedge. Okay, the kind of
Speaker 2: thing that you hedge in a maze with or something
Speaker 2: like that. Definitely a hedge. But that's not the limit
Speaker 2: of my definition of hedges in my book. A hedge
Speaker 2: is are you ready, any low lying plant, virtually any
Speaker 2: plant that is planted in mass that creates some form
Speaker 2: of psychological separation or barrier from one place in your
Speaker 2: yard to the next. Like we were talking about in
Speaker 2: the previous segment, the idea of creating a sense of
Speaker 2: here and over there. And even though yeah, you could
Speaker 2: step over it, you don't really want to. Your brain
Speaker 2: kind of tells you you're not supposed to. You're supposed
Speaker 2: to look for the opening and walk around it to
Speaker 2: the other place. Right. That's a hedge, okay. So a
Speaker 2: hedge can be made out of roses, It can be
Speaker 2: made out of daisies if you want. If it's a
Speaker 2: flower bed that is in mass, that's coming up off
Speaker 2: the ground, okay, And the only real requirement is something
Speaker 2: in mass that rises up off the normal level of
Speaker 2: the ground. So it's not lawn okay, it's not turf
Speaker 2: okay that hugs the ground, it's not ground cover. It
Speaker 2: is a hedge. It rises up. It can be daylilies,
Speaker 2: it can be sage. I mean literally, any plant that
Speaker 2: grows more than six to ten inches off the ground
Speaker 2: planted in mass can form some kind of a hedge
Speaker 2: that gives a three D effect to a yard and
Speaker 2: thereby creates an area of shape and content. Now on
Speaker 2: the perimeter, special circumstances for the perimeter. I promised before
Speaker 2: the break that we would talk about a loophole when
Speaker 2: it comes to perimeter walls and fences, and that is
Speaker 2: simply this. In most places, definitely here in the state
Speaker 2: of California, definitely here in southern California.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: You may dream of privacy between you and your neighbor,
Speaker 2: you can dream it all day long. But and you
Speaker 2: may think of if I could only build, if I
Speaker 2: could only afford to build a twenty foot wall in
Speaker 2: between me and the neighbor, then when I would really
Speaker 2: be happy so that their second floor bedroom window doesn't
Speaker 2: look down into our backyard. Okay, I get you, I
Speaker 2: feel you, all right. But here's the thing. The city
Speaker 2: is not going to be feeling you on that. In
Speaker 2: most places, five to six feet is the limit that
Speaker 2: zoning will allow you to build a fence. Even if
Speaker 2: you could afford to build it higher, which it would
Speaker 2: be incredibly ugly and incredibly expensive. So there are codes
Speaker 2: restricting the height of the fence that you put on
Speaker 2: your property line to provide privacy between you and your neighbor.
Speaker 2: If you're lucky, you've got a super wide property and
Speaker 2: you live in la county or city, and they would
Speaker 2: allow in that situation a maximum of eight feet of fence. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's not enough either, is it. No, it's not, But
Speaker 2: here we go. That's a built structure. Guess what the
Speaker 2: code has no bearing upon whatsoever. Plants. That's right, And
Speaker 2: therefore we have the hedges. Specifically the kind of hedge
Speaker 2: that we in the custom home and a state industry
Speaker 2: call the Hollywood hedge. Hollywood hedges is just a catchphrase
Speaker 2: for any kind of plant material that we utilize on
Speaker 2: day one to take a celebrity estate and hedge them
Speaker 2: in so that nobody gets to see in and they
Speaker 2: get all the privacy in the world. We're talking about
Speaker 2: plants that will grow together and form a green wall
Speaker 2: that can grow anywhere from fifteen to twenty five feet tall,
Speaker 2: sound proof your property, essentially visually give you all the
Speaker 2: privacy that you need. Now, if we do this on
Speaker 2: day one for your house with mature products, which we
Speaker 2: can do and have done, yeah, you're going to break
Speaker 2: the bank bringing in you know, fifty or sixty eighteen
Speaker 2: foot tall hedges. Those are available, by the way, and
Speaker 2: if you'd like that, I'll bring you that tomorrow. However,
Speaker 2: you can achieve the same thing by planting the exact
Speaker 2: same materials in their junior form at six and seven
Speaker 2: foot tall versions of these same materials and planting them,
Speaker 2: you know, between three and four feet apart from each other,
Speaker 2: and patiently wait, give yourself three or four seasons, and
Speaker 2: they will grow in and form the exact same wall. Okay,
Speaker 2: these hedges are and I'm going to list them very
Speaker 2: quickly here. These are the most typical ones. They're not
Speaker 2: the only ones that you can use, but there are
Speaker 2: usually five or six that we use. Ficus natida, Okay,
Speaker 2: fastest and tallest growing twenty feet tall. Wax leaf privet
Speaker 2: or what's sometimes called Texas privet potocarpus my personal favorite
Speaker 2: in most situations, Bay laurel Carolina cherry, and in some
Speaker 2: situations some this is the lacier version. Some goldest goddess,
Speaker 2: Golden Goddess bamboo. All right, So there you go the
Speaker 2: Hollywood hedges. And yeah, you don't have to obey the
Speaker 2: zoning codes when it comes to that, because it's a
Speaker 2: plant that you're growing, and the code doesn't have anything
Speaker 2: to tell you about the height of plants, only the
Speaker 2: height of the fence that you can put between you
Speaker 2: and your neighbor. So if it's alive, then don't stop yourself.
Speaker 2: And more yards than they exist right now, I'll tell
Speaker 2: you right now should be using privacy hedging just to
Speaker 2: create the kind of ambiance and feel in the backyard
Speaker 2: that you're actually looking for. Usually, when I get called
Speaker 2: out for a landscaping consult in a troubled yard, the
Speaker 2: one thing I normally end up suggesting is on the perimeter,
Speaker 2: let's get some more hedging. If we don't have a
Speaker 2: view lot, then what we want to do is close
Speaker 2: in your yard like a stage. Don't have the glory
Speaker 2: of your yard dependent upon whether your neighbor is keeping
Speaker 2: the paint up on their house. How's that sound? There
Speaker 2: you go. That's the point, all right, And in your
Speaker 2: pearls this morning, more to come your home with Dean
Speaker 2: sharp the house Whisper pre Fine, Dean Sharp, the house Whisper,
Speaker 2: Welcome home. All of this information about fences and walls
Speaker 2: and hedges. I know a lot of you are thinking
Speaker 2: hedges right now. You're like, Okay, we're gonna get our
Speaker 2: hands on some of that plant material because I don't
Speaker 2: want to see my neighbor anymore, and I don't want
Speaker 2: my neighbor seeing me. Good fences make good neighbors. That's
Speaker 2: just a quote. If you're interested, you should read this poem.
Speaker 2: You should. It's not a long poem. You should totally
Speaker 2: read it. And you need more poetry in your life.
Speaker 2: You do. Robert Frost the mending Wall, Okay, and yes
Speaker 2: it's a wall, not a fence, but it's a quote
Speaker 2: and it gets thrown around out of context all the time.
Speaker 2: People use it, you know, like you only say good
Speaker 2: fences make good neighbors. Literally. The point of the poem
Speaker 2: that he's trying to make is that he's having a
Speaker 2: conversation with his neighbor and he keeps saying, you know,
Speaker 2: we probably don't need this separating us here on our property,
Speaker 2: and the neighbor keeps kind of like doing the screwge
Speaker 2: bug things saying good fences make good neighbors, that the
Speaker 2: neighbor is not having it. The neighbor wants the fence up,
Speaker 2: he wants the fence, and Frost is basically trying to say, listen,
Speaker 2: we really don't need a fence in between us most
Speaker 2: of the time. Anyway, it is so worth reading, you
Speaker 2: should go do that. All right, there you go, Let's
Speaker 2: go to the phones. We got time for one tony
Speaker 2: Welcome home.
Speaker 5: We're doing a complete kitchen remodel with cabinets, floors, and appliances.
Speaker 5: And my question is do the cabinets should those sit
Speaker 5: on the sub floor or do we install all of
Speaker 5: the wood floors first? And the part that seems the
Speaker 5: most trickiest from what I've read, is how to handle
Speaker 5: the dishwasher.
Speaker 2: It depends. And I say that in all sincerity because
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe I would say maybe seventy five
Speaker 2: percent of the time. Typically we will not install on
Speaker 2: top of the floors, on top of the hardwood floor
Speaker 2: or the tile sometimes just purely from the practicality that
Speaker 2: you know, why do you want to run the expense
Speaker 2: of hardwood all the way underneath cabinet kicks where it
Speaker 2: will never be seen again, so simply to save square footage. Now,
Speaker 2: when it comes to the dishwasher, whatever the flooring is
Speaker 2: in the room that we do run into, because the
Speaker 2: dishwasher is just an area avoid area, So we go
Speaker 2: ahead and run that material into the dishwasher area so
Speaker 2: that the dishwasher doesn't get trapped behind flooring material down
Speaker 2: in the recess there. And I know some people are like, well,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to run hardwood in there,
Speaker 2: because what if the dishwasher leaks. I guarantee you, if
Speaker 2: the dishwasher leaks and you've got hardwood in your kitchen,
Speaker 2: it's going to go way beyond just the wood that's
Speaker 2: directly underneath. It's going to affect you know, wood in
Speaker 2: the whole area there. So it's kind of a moot
Speaker 2: point when it comes to that argument. I just prefer
Speaker 2: the idea that we can easily slide the dishwasher in
Speaker 2: and out for installation or service or what have you.
Speaker 2: So my recommendation is typically save the money on the
Speaker 2: extra flooring material. Does it matter though not really, it's
Speaker 2: not really going to change the install much. Always account
Speaker 2: for the height of the hardwood floor though, so don't
Speaker 2: set yourself up for a thirty six inch tall countertop,
Speaker 2: then put in, you know, five eighths or three quarters
Speaker 2: of an inch of hardwood, and find yourself with shorter cabinets,
Speaker 2: so the kicks have to be taller if they're going
Speaker 2: to go in before the hardwood. Thanks for the question, Tony. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I have a closing thought for you today, Sure I do.
Speaker 2: It's not a long one, but here we go. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna leave you with this thought today. I think we
Speaker 2: live such presumptuously insulated lives, such prosperous and entitled lives,
Speaker 2: that we usually have nothing better to do than sit
Speaker 2: around and obsess about the slightest inconveniences, the smallest bumps
Speaker 2: in the road, the most trivial of offenses. It's as
Speaker 2: if fair weather and clear skies gives us permission to
Speaker 2: descend into selfish pettiness and become the worst versions of ourselves.
Speaker 2: So yes, I like it when nature steps in and
Speaker 2: occasionally serves up a good dose of reality, when the
Speaker 2: wind blows hard enough, or the rain on the roof
Speaker 2: gets loud enough to make us take our eyes off
Speaker 2: our screens and actually look outside. I like it when
Speaker 2: nature overwhelms our numbness and punctures the thin facades of
Speaker 2: our quote unquote deeply held beliefs. I like it when
Speaker 2: nature calls us all to account and doesn't give us
Speaker 2: enough time to hate. When somebody needs to be rescued
Speaker 2: from a burning building or a flooded river or a
Speaker 2: small up car, thank god, there is no time to
Speaker 2: check if they are rich or poor, red, or blue, straight,
Speaker 2: or gay, or any number of the million other idiotic
Speaker 2: issues we use to separate ourselves from one another when
Speaker 2: the sun is shining. So so I don't get any
Speaker 2: hate mail about this, let me be crystal clear. I
Speaker 2: don't like natural disasters. I don't want anyone to be
Speaker 2: put in harm's way. I just like how we are
Speaker 2: when they happen. It's as if it takes a storm
Speaker 2: outside of us to quiet the storm that's raging inside us.
Speaker 2: Whatever it is, it brings out in most of us
Speaker 2: the better angels of our nature, if not for just
Speaker 2: a short time, angels that I would like to see
Speaker 2: far more often. Today, the sun is shining here in
Speaker 2: southern California. It's going to be a warm one, nothing
Speaker 2: much to contend with, So I guess that means we're
Speaker 2: all free to return to being the petty, squabbling and
Speaker 2: thoroughly annoying, lesser versions of ourselves. Or we could remember
Speaker 2: that even on sunny days, life is still short and difficult,
Speaker 2: and in their own unique way, everyone you meet is
Speaker 2: fighting their own epic battle. So today, even in the sunlight,
Speaker 2: we could if we wanted to choose to be a
Speaker 2: first responder to the human condition, we could choose not
Speaker 2: to judge, not to lit misstest, not to hate, and
Speaker 2: instead just be kind. I wish that was everyone's greatest
Speaker 2: aspiration in life. Of all the things in the world,
Speaker 2: you can be be kind. Just think of what a
Speaker 2: world we would live in would be like if the
Speaker 2: one thing we were always trying out was to be kind.
Speaker 2: All right, my friend, get out there, get busy building
Speaker 2: yourself a beautiful life. This has been Home with Dean Sharp,
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