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Speaker 1: I am Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. I design customer homes,
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Speaker 1: importantly today to better understand that place where you live.
Speaker 1: It is just a few minutes after six o'clock here
Speaker 1: on this first Saturday of twenty twenty five. Happy New
Speaker 1: year to you. Today on the show, we're going to
Speaker 1: start out the year this weekend with something very basic,
Speaker 1: something very important. You have a home. You want to
Speaker 1: take care of your home. You need tools, and so
Speaker 1: we are going to be talking essential homeowner tools. No,
Speaker 1: not just a list. Anybody could just throw together a list,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna explain to you not only the kind
Speaker 1: of tool that you should have at your beck and
Speaker 1: call ready to take care of your home, but why
Speaker 1: and specifically the kind of tool that you're looking for
Speaker 1: in each category. It's gonna be fun. You're gonna learn
Speaker 1: things about tools that you never knew and all along
Speaker 1: the way, we're gonna equip you for a successful maintaining
Speaker 1: and caring for your home of twenty twenty five. Let
Speaker 1: me introduce you to our awesome team. Sam Is on
Speaker 1: the board. Good morning, Hold, good morning, Dean. How's it going.
Speaker 1: It's going good, It's going good. I'm still trying to
Speaker 1: figure out a couple of things here this morning for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, but we're gonna get it worked out.
Speaker 1: And I am glad you're here, my friend. Right New Year,
Speaker 1: I hope you guys had a wonderful New Year. We
Speaker 1: we did, We did. It was it was pretty solid.
Speaker 1: I was sad to see it go, although you know,
Speaker 1: I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready to get back to work.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we had a good time. All the holidays
Speaker 1: as a whole were surprisingly good, given the fact that
Speaker 1: Tina had unexpected surgery at the outset of the holidays
Speaker 1: and she's been recovering. But you know what, she's doing
Speaker 1: really really good. My buddy. Eileen Gonzalez on the board,
Speaker 1: Good morning, Eileen, Good morning Dean. Happy New Year. How
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Speaker 2: I'm enjoying my morning tea. Actually I accidentally got one
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Speaker 2: Did you ever see that Seinfeld where Jerry drank Morning
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Speaker 1: Richie is also here with us. Of course he is
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Speaker 1: Welcome home. How you doing good? Yeah? Tired? Sure? Why
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Speaker 1: Were we more? We didn't go to bed till this morning?
Speaker 1: More appropriately, we were up early, very early today. Look
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Speaker 1: At eight fifteen this morning, I may not be able
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Speaker 1: drag me off. But you know what, until then, I'm
Speaker 1: in it to win it, all right, y'all, let's talk
Speaker 1: tools this morning, shall we. I think that's a good idea,
Speaker 1: is starting with well, you know, and it's going to
Speaker 1: be of course, from my perspective of decades of doing
Speaker 1: just this kind of thing, not only being a homeowner,
Speaker 1: but building homes, designing homes, my approach to tools is
Speaker 1: going to be different, so different than a lot of
Speaker 1: your typical just DIY list because I want to explain
Speaker 1: to you why these are the tools that should be
Speaker 1: in your toolbox. And Neil, we're going to start with this.
Speaker 1: Should you even have a toolbox? Yeah? I'm serious about that.
Speaker 1: Do you need a toolbox? We will hit that one first. Up. Hi,
Speaker 1: Keam Sharp the house whisperer. Hey, whether you're home is
Speaker 1: a condo, a cottage, a castle, doesn't matter. I am
Speaker 1: here to help you take it to the next level.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Here to help you with the design of your home.
Speaker 1: Here to help you with the functionality of your home.
Speaker 1: Here to help you with the nuts and bolts of
Speaker 1: your home. And this weekend, I'm here to help you
Speaker 1: with the tools that make the maintenance of your home
Speaker 1: that much easier. Also here to take your calls. We're
Speaker 1: going to be going to the phones as we do
Speaker 1: in just a bit. The number to reach me eight
Speaker 1: three three two, ask Dean eight three three, the numeral
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Speaker 1: just that simple, Producer Richie standing by. Phone lines are
Speaker 1: open now, all right, let's dive in right before the break.
Speaker 1: I tease you just a bit. The very first thing
Speaker 1: that we're going to discuss in regards to essential homeowner
Speaker 1: tools or the essential homeowner toolkit for your house in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five is the toolbox, whether or not you
Speaker 1: should even have a toolbox. And you're like, wait, of
Speaker 1: course we should have a toolbox. Where am I gonna
Speaker 1: put my tools? Well, of course there are those of you,
Speaker 1: and you know, if you're one of these people, then
Speaker 1: you don't really need to have the toolbox advice. There
Speaker 1: are those of you who love, you know, a good
Speaker 1: garage workshop, or you've got a shed that you've got
Speaker 1: rigged up set up where you've got peg board or
Speaker 1: other kinds of you know, tool display and storage stuff.
Speaker 1: This this bit of advice is actually still for you,
Speaker 1: just not in the overall storage sense of the word.
Speaker 1: But what I'm really speaking to is the average homeowner
Speaker 1: who has been you know, has a drawer of a
Speaker 1: few items, or if you go out into the garage,
Speaker 1: we're like, where are the tools? I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I have this old screwdriver here and I have it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is for you especially, And my advice is very
Speaker 1: simply this, I think, and all the big box stores
Speaker 1: are going to hate me for this, but it is
Speaker 1: my opinion that by and large, the average home owner
Speaker 1: does not need to go out and buy into a toolbox.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why. Toolboxes with their locking lids
Speaker 1: and all of that kind of stuff are really, really
Speaker 1: truly designed initially originally for a tradesman, for contractors, for
Speaker 1: builders who are taking tools and transporting them. Okay, hence
Speaker 1: an enclosed top toolbox, which, if you think about it
Speaker 1: in terms of around the house projects, why am I
Speaker 1: lugging this toolbox around? Or not lugging it around because
Speaker 1: it's too big and I've got to keep it, you know,
Speaker 1: in the garage and I just carry you know, a
Speaker 1: handful of tools to wherever it is and the house
Speaker 1: that I'm actually working on a thing, when it could
Speaker 1: all be very very a lot easier and a lot
Speaker 1: less expensive. I love a good bucket. Quite a few
Speaker 1: years ago, Bucket Boss the company came out with this
Speaker 1: wonderful concept of taking a five gallon bucket, you know,
Speaker 1: which is you know, the best buckets out there. Essentially
Speaker 1: the way they're building, you know, the five gallon bucket
Speaker 1: is the large bucket that you find in the aisles
Speaker 1: at the big box store, at the hardware store, metal
Speaker 1: handle with the plastic roller grip and the top great
Speaker 1: strong three dollars ninety five cents. Okay, now I'm not
Speaker 1: abandoning you just to that bucket. Because you get one
Speaker 1: of those five gallon buckets and you slide into it.
Speaker 1: Something that these these range in price anywhere from the
Speaker 1: mid twenty tease to up to sixty dollars or so,
Speaker 1: but most most fall in about the thirty ish dollar category,
Speaker 1: and that is a bucket organizer. A good bucket organizer
Speaker 1: is made out of like a heavy duty Cordura material.
Speaker 1: It slides in like a perfectly tailored piece of clothing
Speaker 1: onto that five gallon bucket, and it holds on the
Speaker 1: outside of the bucket and on the inside of the
Speaker 1: bucket up a number of tools because it has a
Speaker 1: number of open pockets. Now, a five gallon bucket. You
Speaker 1: could even make the argument that handled correctly, you can
Speaker 1: throw that in the back of a truck or a
Speaker 1: vehicle and take it to a location. But of course,
Speaker 1: you know, if it tipped over and spilled, then things
Speaker 1: are can flying out. But generally speaking, the average homeowner
Speaker 1: or what we're talking today again, the essential homeowner toolkit, right,
Speaker 1: I don't want to get any emails from you saying
Speaker 1: you'll left out this, you'll left out that. This is
Speaker 1: the essential homeowner toolkits what I call a reactive toolkit, Okay,
Speaker 1: not a creative toolkit, all right. Creative tools means, oh,
Speaker 1: I've got a project, I'm gonna build something. All right,
Speaker 1: You're not gonna find like a circular saw discussed on
Speaker 1: our Essential Homeowner Toolkit list, because that's let's build something.
Speaker 1: This toolkit here is for all of you who just
Speaker 1: really want to know what tools should I have standing
Speaker 1: by for when things go wrong, when things get a
Speaker 1: little wonky, when I've got to fix or tighten or
Speaker 1: adjust or whatever the case may be. This is a
Speaker 1: reactive toolkit. And those reactive tools, the thirty plus tools
Speaker 1: that we're going to be discussing this weekend, they can
Speaker 1: all fit inside a single, well organized five gallon bucket
Speaker 1: with a good bucket organizer in play. And the cool
Speaker 1: thing about it is that even after these tools are
Speaker 1: all in place, you've still got space in the bucket
Speaker 1: for the screws or the nails, or the nuts and
Speaker 1: the bolts that you had to get to the hardware
Speaker 1: store to fix the thing. And you simply pick it
Speaker 1: up and carry it right to the location where you're
Speaker 1: doing the work, and then when it's done, it sits
Speaker 1: back in the garage again. So now do I have
Speaker 1: anything against toolboxes? No, you want to go for it,
Speaker 1: go for it. All I'm telling you is truly, truly,
Speaker 1: I'm not one of those guys who are so deep
Speaker 1: into you know, this, this whole genre that that I'm
Speaker 1: going to tell you where you're gonna have to get,
Speaker 1: you know, a two hundred and fifty dollars set up
Speaker 1: like this, this that you know and shame you for
Speaker 1: not having somehow a pro grade tool organization system. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you from from decades of experience that even around
Speaker 1: here at my place, the thing that is most likely
Speaker 1: to make its trip across the yard or down the
Speaker 1: hallway in my house is a bucket with a few
Speaker 1: items in it in order to get any particular task done.
Speaker 1: This is gonna get you through the five gallon bucket
Speaker 1: with the bucket organizer. I like the idea of having
Speaker 1: two of them for storage and one of them standing empty,
Speaker 1: ready to load up for a project or whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be. That will get you through. All Right,
Speaker 1: what's next? How about just the most classic tool of all,
Speaker 1: the hammer. But I want you to buy the right hammer.
Speaker 1: We'll figure that out. You're listening to Home with Dean
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Speaker 1: iHeart Radio app. Dean Sharp the House whisper with you
Speaker 1: on this first Saturday morning of twenty twenty five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're We're up. You and I we are up. We're
Speaker 1: at it, We are awake, ish and we're getting it done.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to the spending the year with you, talking
Speaker 1: about all sorts of things regarding your home. Today, we're
Speaker 1: starting out essential tools, reactive tools. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Reactive tool? It means if you drop water on them,
Speaker 1: will they turn into a dinosaur? No? No, no, no.
Speaker 1: A reactive tool is a category of tools that, you know,
Speaker 1: a tool set that we've put together in order to
Speaker 1: be there in case something goes wrong with the house.
Speaker 1: That's a totally different set than if you've got a project,
Speaker 1: a building project. Well it's not a totally different set,
Speaker 1: but it's a different set then if you've got a
Speaker 1: building project, and then we're actually creating something as opposed
Speaker 1: to reacting to something that's gone wrong with the house.
Speaker 1: This is your essential take care of the house toolkit
Speaker 1: for you. And believe me, once you put a set
Speaker 1: like this together, it's going to be your go to.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go to these tools, this little set far
Speaker 1: more often than use anything else along the way. Even
Speaker 1: if you're a tool officionado and you know, and you
Speaker 1: pride yourself on having thousands of dollars of tools, especially
Speaker 1: you guys, you guys should know that this little set
Speaker 1: of tools is essentially the go to for most things.
Speaker 1: And that's what we're stepping through this weekend. Uh, we're
Speaker 1: also going to be going to the phones in just
Speaker 1: a bit. The number to reach me eight three three
Speaker 1: two Ask Dean eight three three The numeral to ask Dean.
Speaker 1: Producer Richie is standing by ready to tell you what
Speaker 1: you need to know and pop you into the queue
Speaker 1: anything that's going on with your house. All right, So
Speaker 1: we've covered the idea of a basic but super super
Speaker 1: effective tool organization system or toolbox, not the toolbox, but
Speaker 1: the tool bucket. And now of course we have to
Speaker 1: talk about the quintessential tool, the quintessential tool that actually
Speaker 1: these days doesn't get used as often as as it
Speaker 1: used to, but still clearly, I mean, this is the
Speaker 1: universal thing. If you put tool into your phone, you
Speaker 1: want a tool emoji, what's gonna come up? Yep, I
Speaker 1: hammer an image of a hammer. You know, chances are
Speaker 1: if you're a contractor builder, you know you're gonna have
Speaker 1: an image an icon on your business card or your
Speaker 1: letterhead and there's probably a hammer involved. It's just the
Speaker 1: classic carpentry tool. So the world of hammers is pretty cray.
Speaker 1: I mean it really is. It's pretty insane as far
Speaker 1: as all of the variations of hammers out there. So
Speaker 1: let me just cut through it for you as a homeowner.
Speaker 1: As a homeowner, what are we looking for. Let me
Speaker 1: cut to the chase. Look for a hammer that is
Speaker 1: somewhere in the twelve to sixteen ounce category. All right,
Speaker 1: pref preferably, I'm thinking about a fourteen ounce hammer. Okay,
Speaker 1: twelve is a little light, it really is. It's a
Speaker 1: little light for everybody. Sixteen is starting these days to
Speaker 1: move into a larger scale hammer. Hammers have lightened up
Speaker 1: a lot because they they've come to a place where
Speaker 1: we're swinging them faster. And the speed at which a
Speaker 1: hammer can travel through the air in order to hit
Speaker 1: the object that you're aiming at makes up for in
Speaker 1: terms of force for the mass or the heavy weight
Speaker 1: of the hammer. So, you know, let's say fourteen or
Speaker 1: so ounce hammer. Now, one of the most important piece
Speaker 1: of advice I can give you right now guarding a
Speaker 1: hammer that you're going to think about buying, is this
Speaker 1: the shape of the claws, the claws on the back
Speaker 1: of the hammer. Okay, I don't want them to be
Speaker 1: heavy curved claws for you, all right. And so what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is the hammer that you probably picture in
Speaker 1: your mind, okay, the heavy bent claws. In other words,
Speaker 1: if you're holding your hammer upright, it's perfectly straight upright.
Speaker 1: And if the claws, the tips of the claws on
Speaker 1: the back of the hammer are essentially pointing down to
Speaker 1: the floor. That, in my opinion, not your optimal hammer.
Speaker 1: H Yeah, they have, they have their purposes, okay, but
Speaker 1: they really, in terms of general practicality, are extremely extremely limited.
Speaker 1: What we want is what's known as a straight claw hammer,
Speaker 1: which of course is also a misnomer because there are
Speaker 1: very few hammers whose claws are perfectly straight. There's a tiny, tiny,
Speaker 1: gentle arc to them, but by and large, if you
Speaker 1: hold the hammer upright, the claws are pointing backwards. Okay, now,
Speaker 1: don't take this wrong, but the whole idea of the
Speaker 1: usefulness of these claws is not just in nail pulling,
Speaker 1: but at times in wedging them in between a couple
Speaker 1: of pieces of wood or an item, or using it
Speaker 1: as a wedge to lift something off the floor, to
Speaker 1: pry something out. It's the usefulness of claws on a
Speaker 1: hammer go way, way, way, way beyond just pulling a nail.
Speaker 1: And you would think, if it's just about nail pulling,
Speaker 1: you would even think, oh, then the heavier bent claw
Speaker 1: on the back of the hammer, that's more effective. Well
Speaker 1: it's fine, it's fine, But here's the thing. The physics
Speaker 1: on a claw hammer. Well, you know what we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna save this to the other side of the break.
Speaker 1: I want you to hang tight. I'm gonna explain to
Speaker 1: you why the heavy claw hammer does not get as
Speaker 1: much done as you might think, and why I'm looking
Speaker 1: for that straight claw. We'll talk about that you can't
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Speaker 1: joining us on the program today. Yeah, if you just
Speaker 1: tuned in or you just stumbled across us here, you're
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Speaker 1: that what's going on here? Yes? It is, Yes it is.
Speaker 1: This is the most unique home improvement show that you
Speaker 1: will find anywhere. Why. Yeah, this morning, I'm talking about tools.
Speaker 1: I also, if you tune in, you might find me
Speaker 1: talking about the history of a particular architectural style or
Speaker 1: design tip for your home. I might be explaining to
Speaker 1: you why the circular saw that you need has to
Speaker 1: have a certain feature to it. Or I may be
Speaker 1: helping you fix your toilet, or I may be telling
Speaker 1: you why you bought the wrong accent pillow for the bed.
Speaker 1: So anywhere in between architecture, design, decor construction that's what
Speaker 1: we're all about here. Yeah, you can find it all
Speaker 1: right here. All right, so we are talking essential tools
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty five. And yeah, Dina's hung up on hammers.
Speaker 1: I'm not hung up. I just want to explain to you, Okay,
Speaker 1: I want you to buy the right hammer. And there's
Speaker 1: like a gabillion hammers out there that you can choose from.
Speaker 1: And so what are the essential things? Now? With all
Speaker 1: the bells and whistles that come with hammers these days,
Speaker 1: magnetic nail starters, side pulling nail removing slots, all of
Speaker 1: these kinds of things. I'm just gonna tell you this
Speaker 1: as an essential homeowner tool, I don't care. I don't care.
Speaker 1: Whatever you know. You want, all the bells and whistles, fine,
Speaker 1: just don't let it get in the way of the
Speaker 1: essential physics of the hammer. The most important thing to me,
Speaker 1: other than all right, what we've discussed so far, it
Speaker 1: should be about a fourteen ounce hammer. Twelve to sixteen,
Speaker 1: you know, So I'm just picking fourteen right in the middle.
Speaker 1: About a fourteen ounce hammer. Okay. The claws. I haven't
Speaker 1: even talked about the face of the hammer yet. The
Speaker 1: claws are far more important to me at this point.
Speaker 1: The claws of this hammer should be gently curved claws
Speaker 1: or what are known generally in the industry as straight
Speaker 1: claws versus heavily curved claws. Heavily curved claw When you
Speaker 1: hold the hammer upright is going to be those claws
Speaker 1: are going to be pointing down towards the floor. A
Speaker 1: gentle curve or straight claw hand those claws are going
Speaker 1: to be pointing out, so that Let's say you had
Speaker 1: a soft piece of wood or a tree stump in
Speaker 1: the backyard. You've got a straight claw hammer if you
Speaker 1: can basically turn it around, take that and embed it
Speaker 1: just like bump like an axe right into that wood.
Speaker 1: A heavily curved claw hammer not so easy to do
Speaker 1: that because those things are hooked right, so you're not
Speaker 1: really going to be able to get those stuck into anything.
Speaker 1: And that's one of the reasons why I don't want
Speaker 1: you to necessarily go for that one. Yeah, it has
Speaker 1: its purpose, and a lot of people think, well, you know,
Speaker 1: those heavy curves, that's great for pulling nails, is it, though?
Speaker 1: Is it? I'll tell you what I want you to
Speaker 1: imagine this and I'll get then I'm gonna get off
Speaker 1: the claws. Number one another item on our essential tool
Speaker 1: list here is a nail puller. So no, every professional
Speaker 1: carpenter will tell you should not be spending or i
Speaker 1: should say, wasting your time trying to pull a lot
Speaker 1: of nails with your hammer. Yeah, of course you will.
Speaker 1: Of course there will be a nail that you'll pull
Speaker 1: with your hammer because it presents itself in the optimal situation.
Speaker 1: But if there are a lot of nails to pull,
Speaker 1: then you use a nail polar, a cat's pod, and
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. Okay, we'll get it
Speaker 1: to that. The hammer itself though, Okay, those claws, their
Speaker 1: primary use for you is not going to be pulling nails.
Speaker 1: And even if it were, okay, it does not make
Speaker 1: a great nail. A nail polar for embedded nails. Okay,
Speaker 1: try digging into a surface to get to the head
Speaker 1: of an embedded nail with a claw hammer. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a mess. Okay. So if that nail head is
Speaker 1: popped up a little bit and you have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to pull it with your claw hammer, fine, great, super,
Speaker 1: But understand this, the curved claw set it turn it
Speaker 1: upside down in your or if you have one, you know,
Speaker 1: get it out and set it upside down, set it
Speaker 1: at the angle that it needs with those curve claws
Speaker 1: in order to get those claws over a nail head.
Speaker 1: Guess what, your handle of the hammer is going to
Speaker 1: be sticking out at about a forty five degree angle
Speaker 1: because the claws are curved so much. And you think, well, good,
Speaker 1: I've got good leverage there. Well, yeah, if the nail
Speaker 1: is just right out in the open, in the middle
Speaker 1: of nowhere. But let's say that this nail is anywhere
Speaker 1: near a wall or another surface. Now you've got a
Speaker 1: hammer with let's say maybe a fourteen inch long handle
Speaker 1: sitting at a forty five degree angle, which means that
Speaker 1: the closest you can get this thing in nail pulling
Speaker 1: mode into a corner or against a wall is going
Speaker 1: to be about nine inches away. So if that nail
Speaker 1: is anywhere closer than that, that curved claw hammer, it's
Speaker 1: not getting there. It's just not going to reach it.
Speaker 1: You won't be able to actually get the claws under
Speaker 1: the head of the nail and be in a tight situation. Hence,
Speaker 1: the straight claw hammer far far more useful. All Right,
Speaker 1: you get it. You got me, all right, And of
Speaker 1: course I would like the face of this hammer for you,
Speaker 1: for the average homeowner to be smooth, not to be
Speaker 1: waffle faced. Okay, not the rough thing that's for larger
Speaker 1: framing and construction hammers. And it's all well and good
Speaker 1: if you know what you're doing. But the smooth faced
Speaker 1: hammer just is going to make do less damage for
Speaker 1: when it misses or even on a good contact on
Speaker 1: a nails you're finishing up, just less damage because a
Speaker 1: waffle hammer, I mean, if it even touches a piece
Speaker 1: of trim or finished carpentry, it's going to leave that
Speaker 1: waffle imprint, and now you've got a mess on your hands.
Speaker 1: Not to say though, that you should be driving if
Speaker 1: you're just doing like a little molding repair at your house,
Speaker 1: that you should be driving that nail all the way
Speaker 1: into the material with your hammer. Okay. That's what a
Speaker 1: nail set is for. And that's also a part of
Speaker 1: your essential list. We'll get to that as well. Nail
Speaker 1: sets are to finish off that nail without the hammer
Speaker 1: head getting anywhere near that nice molding or that surface
Speaker 1: or that drywall or whatever the case may be. So
Speaker 1: another just general rule. The hammer head, unless we're just
Speaker 1: doing rough construction, doesn't get anywhere near the finished material
Speaker 1: at all. All right. Yet, nevertheless, a smooth head hammer
Speaker 1: with straight claws about fourteen ounces and a decent handle.
Speaker 1: What's a decent handle. One that's got a little contour
Speaker 1: to it for an axe handle grip, then that feathers
Speaker 1: out and kind of curves forward at the bottom. Just
Speaker 1: something super ergonomic that fits in your hand real well.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about fiberglass and shop absorbing or wood or
Speaker 1: you know what's the difference between all that, because unless
Speaker 1: you are planning on driving one thousand nails, guess what,
Speaker 1: it's not going to matter. It's not going to affect
Speaker 1: you either way. You're not going to get tennis elbow
Speaker 1: or sprain attendant in your forearm because you didn't got
Speaker 1: you know, you didn't buy the most expensive shock absorbing
Speaker 1: hammer handle. The fact of the matter is there's two
Speaker 1: or three nails in your future for this project, and
Speaker 1: any of them will do. Got it? You got me?
Speaker 1: All right? When we come back, we've got calls on
Speaker 1: the board, We're going to the phones your home with
Speaker 1: Dean Sharp, the house whisperer on Kfi