WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:04.080 Cambi, I Am Sick forty live streaming and HD everywhere 2 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:08.279 on the iHeart radio app. Dean Sharp the House Whisper 3 00:00:08.279 --> 00:00:11.240 with you live every Saturday and Sunday morning. Hey, follow 4 00:00:11.279 --> 00:00:17.079 us on social media the usual suspects. We are there, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, 5 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:21.000 x Home with Dean, same handle for them all. And 6 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:23.559 of course you know, this very program is also the 7 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:28.359 House Whisperer podcast that you can listen to anytime, anywhere 8 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:32.320 on demand. Hundreds of episodes, all searchable by topic. It 9 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:37.240 is your home improvement reference library. And if your home 10 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:39.640 is in need of a little bit more personal house 11 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:43.719 Whisper attention, I'm like Dean standing in my garage telling 12 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:46.679 me exactly what junk to get rid of. Well, I'm 13 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:49.880 not going to do that, but if you would like 14 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:52.600 us to actually be looking at your space helping you 15 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:55.320 figure it out, you can always book an in home 16 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:59.359 design consult with us with me and t right here 17 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:03.719 at house Whisperer dot Design. Just go to house Whisperer 18 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:07.879 dot design to make your consult request. All right, we 19 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:12.920 are talking about this weekend ways of getting the most 20 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:16.640 space for the least amount of money. To you know, 21 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:21.239 I'm not completely unheard of ideas, but things to remind 22 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:24.280 you of. Today, I'm talking about using the garage as 23 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:28.200 a flex space, getting more useful living space out of 24 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:31.200 the house by taking advantage of the garage by making 25 00:01:31.239 --> 00:01:34.799 it nicer. Tomorrow we'll be talking about to making outdoors 26 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:38.120 outside a little bit better so that you've got some 27 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:41.879 more living space there. This, of course, is way less 28 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:46.079 expensive utilizing these two areas than just building more, you know, 29 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:51.840 adding on to the house, which is considerably more expensive. 30 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:53.799 And you know a lot of times people just need 31 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:57.079 a little extra space and you don't have the budget 32 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:59.840 to do the rest. So listen up right now, though, 33 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:03.159 I want to go to the phones take a call 34 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:07.640 or two if we can, So let's talk to Steve. Hey, Steve, 35 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:10.599 welcome home, Hi. 36 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:12.319 Deem, good morning. Thanks for taking my call. 37 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:14.639 You are welcome, sir. How can I help you? 38 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:20.080 I have off topic question, I apologize, but in my house, 39 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:23.319 any faucet I go to, if I'm opening the faucet 40 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:26.280 and I quickly close it, I get a pretty loud 41 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:29.560 bang that comes afterward. I googled it. I guess this 42 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:34.039 is called hammering. And I've tried everything I can to 43 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:36.479 try to get this thing to go away, and it 44 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:41.319 just comes back. I literally went upstairs, opened the shower 45 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:44.439 faucet and then drained the whole house out. I closed 46 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:46.120 the main at the house, you know, at the meter, 47 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:49.240 and literally drained the whole house out, opening the top 48 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:51.199 and opening one at the bottom, and drained the whole 49 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:53.520 house out. And it went away. But then just it 50 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:56.919 came back. And I guess it's okay when I'm expecting 51 00:02:56.919 --> 00:02:58.800 it when I turn off the faucet and I'm expecting 52 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:01.280 you a bang right afterward. But when the washer is 53 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:04.159 going on where it does its own draining and stuff, 54 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:06.560 and you just hear boom bang out of nowhere. 55 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:14.400 Any conde that'll get you, that'll get you. Yeah, well, yeah, 56 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:19.039 it's actually I've got some decent news for you. You know, 57 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:21.560 nine out of ten times, maybe ninety eight out of 58 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:24.879 one hundred times, we can get rid of water hammer. Okay, 59 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:28.840 it's not that you're there's anything wrong with your plumbing system. 60 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:32.560 Some people get very angry in a new build, a 61 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:35.039 brand new build in the house that has water hammer 62 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:39.080 in the pipes, and they're like, now they're raising their 63 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:41.360 fist in the air at the plumbers like you guys 64 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:45.159 screwed up my house. Here's the thing, Uh, if you 65 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:50.759 think of your plumbing system as a musical instrument, you know, 66 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:54.240 it's usually a good way of kind of imagining this 67 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:56.840 because you get water moving through it and it's making 68 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:59.400 all sorts of weird turns, and then you open it 69 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:01.840 up and the water comes out in some places and 70 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:06.560 holds in others. There's really no way to know when 71 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:11.280 we're piping a house whether or not we're going to 72 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:17.319 end up with creating some bizarre, just offhand set of 73 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:21.360 turns as the water makes its way to certain locations 74 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:25.720 that that creates a water hammer or you know, that 75 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:32.199 kind of that back banging water hammering effect. There's just 76 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:34.839 really no way to know. Sometimes you luck out, and 77 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:37.360 you know, most of the time most people don't struggle 78 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:39.759 with it, but a lot of houses do. Here is 79 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:42.879 the thing, though, There is a shock absorber that can 80 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:46.920 be used, and what we do is we recommend that 81 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:49.959 they get installed in the easiest of places and the 82 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:53.000 place where it's most likely to cause the biggest bang, 83 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:56.759 and then if that doesn't do the trick, then we'll 84 00:04:56.839 --> 00:05:00.040 start installing them in other places around the house. And 85 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:02.959 by the time we get two or three sets of 86 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:07.680 these installed around the house, most of the time, almost 87 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:11.360 all the time, the loud banging goes away. So that's 88 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:14.839 the good news, Steve. Okay, water hammering is it's just 89 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:18.079 something that happens as water is trying to move through 90 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:22.639 pipes and hits you certain pipes at weird angles. The 91 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:29.000 thing that I'm talking about are literally called water hammer arrestors, okay, 92 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:32.240 and they go, they get installed. They don't have to 93 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:35.959 be done in the wall. They are installed. This is 94 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:40.319 the good news. On the outside of the walls. The 95 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:43.399 most commonplace and usually the very first place that I 96 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:47.079 put a water hammer arrestor is where the hookups are 97 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:50.639 to the washer to the washing machine, where the washer 98 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:53.040 and dryer are in the laundry room. You can pick 99 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:55.800 up a set of these. They are literally sitting on 100 00:05:55.839 --> 00:05:58.639 the shelf at the big box store, at your hardware 101 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:02.319 store in the plumbing section. I think the ode version, 102 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:06.759 which I trust is I think it's a pair of 103 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:13.639 these is like twenty bucks, twenty dollars. Okay. They will 104 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:17.160 screw in, so you disconnect the washer and dryer hoses 105 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:21.920 and you'll screw these in first to those valve settings, 106 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:24.560 and they literally what they have. You see, they have 107 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:27.959 a little tube on them sticking up a little nipple 108 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:30.639 that sticks up out of the line, and inside there 109 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:36.480 is literally a spring and a little valve body and 110 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:41.000 a plate and it's literally a shot. Yeah. It absorbs 111 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:44.600 the shock and as a result, it quiets down the noise. 112 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:49.000 And sometimes I would say maybe well over half the time, 113 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:52.360 just one of these sets, on one of these hookup 114 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:55.240 areas will get rid of the noise. Now a house 115 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:59.040 that has really bad water hammer, you know, we can 116 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:02.000 also add a under the sink and add a set 117 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:05.240 under the you know, master bedroom faucets. In other words, 118 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:08.040 you can keep adding these and they all work because 119 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:12.040 they all absorb the vibration that is hammering away at 120 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:13.360 the backside of the pipes. 121 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:16.360 And well, I think is an option also because I 122 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:18.879 am getting it in the master a lot upstairs. 123 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:24.839 And yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely. They basically you disconnect the 124 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:28.680 hoses that are running to the faucet, uh, and then 125 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:33.720 you would connect this little device to the angle stops 126 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:36.720 the valves, and then you connect the hoses to this device, 127 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:40.079 so it's just sitting in between. Doesn't take a plumber 128 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:42.040 all you have to do is, you know, get your 129 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:44.279 wrench out and you know, make sure you're you know, 130 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:47.160 you're screwing them on properly. And you could put them 131 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:49.160 under every sink in the house if you wanted to. 132 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:52.560 At twenty bucks a pop. And believe me, Uh, they 133 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:55.279 do their job, they really do. And uh and I 134 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:57.160 think you're going to see it go away. 135 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:00.759 Oh, thank you so much, Teene, last a little bit 136 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:04.680 to this. Well, will this hammering damage any of the piping. 137 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:06.800 It's copper piping, and from what I was told, it's 138 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:10.079 actually relatively new, like within the last ten years or so. 139 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:14.839 Yeah. No, No, it's not going to damage the it's 140 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:18.560 it's not hurting the pipes. It's just annoying the heck 141 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:21.000 out of you. It's not hurting the it's just the 142 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:24.839 just the weird combination of turns that are creating that 143 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:27.399 kind of effect in the pipe. It is not a 144 00:08:27.399 --> 00:08:30.360 threat to the house, although it feels like the pipes 145 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:33.039 are about to explode every time it pops like that. 146 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:37.759 Use the dampener and uh and you know you're you're 147 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:39.080 going to be loving life again. 148 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:41.200 Thank you, Dean. 149 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:44.720 You are so welcome, my friend. Thanks for the call. 150 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:47.159 All right, Uh you know what, Yeah, Okay, when we 151 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:48.720 come back, we'll take one more call and then we'll 152 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:53.679 jump back into the garage. Stay tight with me, can't 153 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:57.159 I team charged the house. Whisper at your service. Welcome 154 00:08:57.240 --> 00:09:01.240 to the program. So glad that you have spent your 155 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:04.720 Saturday morning with me. And if you're sitting there thinking, 156 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:06.639 I don't know, I just tripped upon you. I haven't 157 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:09.200 decided to spend my Saturday morning with you yet, well 158 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:12.960 just hang tight. We're talking about your home, as we 159 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:16.879 do every Saturday morning and Sunday morning, and specifically, I'm 160 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:20.840 talking about inexpensive ways of getting a little bit more 161 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:23.120 elbow room in your home. Tomorrow we're going to be 162 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:25.840 talking about making out doors a little bit more comfortable 163 00:09:25.879 --> 00:09:29.320 so he can spend more time outside. Today talking about 164 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:32.480 the garage. But right now, as is my custom, I'm 165 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:34.600 taking some calls. I want to take one more call 166 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:37.200 and then we're going to get back to garage talk. 167 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:40.279 Let's talk to Annie. Hey Annie, welcome home. 168 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:41.600 Ah. 169 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:45.960 Yes, on the Wednesday night, during or after the rain 170 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:50.639 or during I heard a drip, drip, drip, and I 171 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:53.480 looked in the fireplace in front of the fireplace, there 172 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:57.360 was some water dripping, just a drip and a drip. 173 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:01.039 And then sometimes even when it it's not raining, there's 174 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:04.759 a dampness in front of the fireplace on the sidewalk. 175 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:07.600 So I was wondering if that's something I should worry about. 176 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:11.080 Okay. So when you say in front of the side, okay, 177 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:14.919 where the dripping was down in the firebox itself. 178 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:19.360 Yes, inside the house and in the front at the 179 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:21.200 hearth that's the opening of the hearth. 180 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:24.639 There was a drip, oh, right at the opening of 181 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:28.919 the hearth. Okay. And then you said, sometimes outside you 182 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:33.320 see a dampness outside where where the chimney is? Okay? 183 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:38.600 Do you know any whether or not your fireplace is 184 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:42.600 a masonry fireplace, whether it's all bricked or whether it's 185 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:46.320 a prefabricated fireplace surrounded by masonry. 186 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:48.360 I don't know. 187 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:52.200 But it's brick, okay. Well, it's brick on the outside. 188 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:57.559 How old is the house seventy four it was built, okay, 189 00:10:57.639 --> 00:11:01.840 So chances are it's actually a masonry fire place, okay. 190 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:04.320 A couple of things. It's not the it's not a 191 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:08.960 bizarre and uncommon thing. And during heavy rains for a fireplace, 192 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:12.840 sometimes to get little drips down the chimney. Flu that 193 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:17.759 may be happening, But my guess is that we may 194 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:20.480 have something that we want to address in terms of 195 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:23.720 looking up at the chimney and taking a look at 196 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:28.480 flashings where the flashings connect to the chimney up at 197 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:31.399 the roofline. There are a number of places where water 198 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:35.720 can get into a fireplace. Number One, do you have 199 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:40.360 an ere I'm sorry, Annie, hang tight? Do you have 200 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:44.320 a cap on the top of your chimney? 201 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:51.320 No, I just have a regular. I didn't have anything 202 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:53.759 added just to regular that was built with. 203 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:57.480 It, okay, So there's no little lid, there's no little 204 00:11:57.559 --> 00:12:02.320 te top on top of the chimney. Keep it, you know, exactly. 205 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:05.480 Just as is if it was built okay. And I 206 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:09.320 did get a new flat roof, that new white emulsion 207 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:12.759 two years ago, and I thought about maybe calling the 208 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:14.240 roofer and having them check that. 209 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:18.720 Yeah, that's a good idea, because here's a couple of things. 210 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:21.360 Number One, it's not a bad idea to actually get 211 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:24.080 a an arrestor top that acts as a little umbrella 212 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:27.480 over your flu just to keep out heavy rains, because 213 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:30.840 heavy rains will eventually get down inside and they're not 214 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:34.120 always easy to spot exactly where it's coming from. Because 215 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:36.840 there's a what's called a smoke shelf built into a 216 00:12:36.840 --> 00:12:40.399 masonry fireplace. That rain will come down, will saturate that, 217 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:43.519 and will soak kind of the backside of the fireplace, 218 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:46.919 which is maybe what you're seeing on the outside near 219 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:52.120 the sidewalk, just water moving through masonry. That's the first 220 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:54.679 culprit to look at. The second culprit to look at 221 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:57.799 is if there's had any roofing work done lately. It 222 00:12:57.879 --> 00:13:00.039 sounds like you have, so yeah, I would call the 223 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:02.840 roofers back out and check the flashings as they tie 224 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:05.519 into that masonry fireplace to make sure that those things 225 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:08.360 are sealed. I'm a little concerned about the water that's 226 00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:11.360 dripping right in front of the hearth there. That seems 227 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:14.120 a little excessive to me, and so I would probably 228 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:18.240 look at the tie in between the chimney itself and 229 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:24.159 the flashings in order to shut that down. Typically speaking, 230 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:26.559 it's not the weirdest thing in the world to get 231 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:29.679 a few drips, especially if you have a metal flu fireplace, 232 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:32.440 but brick usually absorbs most of the water as it 233 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:36.159 makes its way down, and then it hits the smoke shelf, 234 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:39.279 which is right behind the damper. You'd never see any 235 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:42.000 of this, by the way. And then that water, if 236 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:45.480 it builds up, will accumulate and soak the outer backside 237 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:48.720 of the fire box and then the brick outside. It 238 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:51.600 sounds like there's enough water for there to be a concern, 239 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:58.360 so get yourself a smoke arrestor for the top. Call 240 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:00.559 the roofer, have them take a look at the flashing. 241 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:04.679 And last thing, call an actual chimney sweep company to 242 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:09.399 inspect the chimney flu because they actually not the roofers 243 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:13.360 in the end are the experts as to how things 244 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:16.559 are affecting your overall fireplace and your chimney, and it 245 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:19.600 probably sounds like you're overdue for a little clean up 246 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:23.000 there as well. So that's my best advice for you, Annie. 247 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:26.639 Those are the three possibilities or the three directions to head. 248 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:29.879 Always cap the top of your chimney, even if you 249 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:33.240 don't use it. Make sure that the flashings that are 250 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:36.799 connected to the chimney where it hits the roof are sealed, 251 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:41.279 And have your chimney looked at by an actual chimney professional, 252 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:46.039 you know, a chimney sweep like from Mary Poppins. Yeah, 253 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:49.600 except none of the dancing. That's all all right, y'all. 254 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:53.559 When we return, we're getting back into the garage and 255 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:55.360 we're going to take a look at the other issues 256 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:58.840 that are standing between you how it is right now 257 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:01.639 and making it a true through flex space. What are 258 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:05.039 all the things it can become? And most importantly, what 259 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:09.279 do we do with that ugly cracked garage slab? All 260 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:14.080 of this? When we return. You're listening to Home with 261 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:20.080 Dean Sharp on demand from KFI AM six forty cam 262 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:23.840 I SAM for forty live streaming in HD everywhere on 263 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:28.080 the iHeartRadio app. Hey, you are Home with Dean Sharp, 264 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:32.000 the house whisper. How is your Saturday morning going? Ours 265 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:36.000 is going pretty good. We're talking this weekend here at 266 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:40.519 the on the cusp of remodeling season, specifically speaking to 267 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:43.440 people who are like you know, inflation has not let 268 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:45.679 up at all. Funds are a little tight, but so 269 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:48.840 is the room in my house, and so I need 270 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:52.799 an inexpensive or at least a less expensive way of 271 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:56.639 getting more space around here. Well, the very first place 272 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:01.799 we look when it comes to extra space that you 273 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:07.240 already have is the garage. I know, We've already discussed 274 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:10.360 this morning what those obstacles are. But now we're in it, 275 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:13.759 we're in it to win it. How do you actually 276 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:17.799 make that space livable? Now, for most people, it's pretty 277 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:20.799 easy to understand what I've already told you about, which 278 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:25.039 is insulating the walls and dry wall and finishing up 279 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:28.279 the ceiling really nice, and you can imagine putting some 280 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:31.080 lighting in there and all of that kind of stuff. This, 281 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:37.159 of course, after we've dealt with the storage issues. But 282 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:41.440 what about the floor. Well, there are two problems or 283 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:46.679 two issues I should say, with your garage slab. One is, 284 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:49.519 even if it's in perfect condition, you just need to 285 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:52.519 know that unless you live in a house that was 286 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:57.279 built in the early sixties or earlier, your garage slab 287 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:01.840 is sloped. It is not like level. It is probably 288 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:04.799 pitched at about an eighth of an inch per foot 289 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:09.240 towards the garage door. And that's quite intentional for leaks 290 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:12.400 and water and all sorts of messiness to get out 291 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:17.920 of the garage. So that don't normally does not affect 292 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:21.880 typical like game room or putting the sofa out there 293 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:24.759 or anything like that. But just understand that if you're 294 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:28.559 putting in cabinet tree along the slope side of the 295 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:33.160 walls of the garage or anything like that. Those things 296 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:35.359 are going to have to be leveled and accounted for. 297 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:38.599 Otherwise they're going to be a little bit leaning one 298 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:42.680 direction because they're sitting perfectly well on the slab. So 299 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:45.720 that's something to take into account. And no, I don't 300 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:48.000 want you to level it up. I don't want you 301 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:49.720 to put a damn there and chain, you know, because 302 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:52.599 we're still a space to drive the car into. Okay, 303 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:58.119 but just understand. So flooring levelers, furniture levelers, all of 304 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:00.799 these these are inexpensive things, but there are things that 305 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:03.920 have to be thought through. The second issue, and the 306 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:08.680 most common issue, is the garage slab is cracked and 307 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:14.200 it's just but ugly. I mean just it's greasy. There's paint, 308 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:17.960 there's grime, there's I mean, no, nobody wants to be 309 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:21.119 in a garage when or any room when a floor 310 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:24.720 looks the way it does. Well, let me tell you 311 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:29.880 we have come light years, I mean light years away 312 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:33.400 from having to put up with that. And no, no, no, no, 313 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:37.440 I don't want you to paint your garage floor. That 314 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:41.240 is not the answer to a long lasting thing here. 315 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:45.519 And there are some concrete paints out there, but that's 316 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:48.920 not the fix. There aren't there. There is a quick fix, 317 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:52.599 it's just not an immediate quick fix, okay. Quick fix 318 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:56.519 meaning take a couple three days to work on this. 319 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:00.079 Just not clean, you know, empty out the garage and 320 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:02.519 slap a coat of paint on. That is never the 321 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:05.680 right approach to anything around your house. Take some time, 322 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:10.319 do it right, and you will be shocked at the results. Now, 323 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:15.119 if you were to go to the big box store 324 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:18.559 right now, you could pick up a garage floor epoxy 325 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:24.799 kit from Rustolium that basically gets you set up to 326 00:19:24.839 --> 00:19:27.599 put a new epoxy finish on your garage floor. That's 327 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:31.559 all well and good. It's not my first recommendation. I 328 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:35.039 like other epoxy kits better. But the point is this. 329 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:38.640 The Rustolium kit is going to have you etch the floor, 330 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:41.279 wet the floor, all of this kind of stuff to 331 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:43.480 get rich, to get it prepped, to get rid of 332 00:19:43.519 --> 00:19:46.920 grime and grease. A lot of scrubbing is involved. I 333 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:49.359 want you to just bypo pass all of that, all right. 334 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:53.559 For all of that, you can go to a place 335 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:56.319 like home depot or a tool rental yard and rent 336 00:19:56.359 --> 00:20:02.480 yourself a concrete refinishing machine. I know that sounds intimidating, 337 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:07.200 but trust me on this. When you get a shot here, 338 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:12.240 just go online, look up concrete refinishing rental machine and 339 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:15.519 take a look at it. Okay, it is heavy, but 340 00:20:15.559 --> 00:20:18.680 it comes in its own little trailer. You can wheel 341 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:21.680 it off and roll it into your garage. It is 342 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:26.680 not a crazy, highly skilled thing. That's why they're at 343 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:31.160 rental yards. In fact, it's about as calm and easy 344 00:20:31.240 --> 00:20:35.839 going of a machine as can possibly be rented to you. 345 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:38.680 It's not going to fly out of control. It's not 346 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:41.759 a danger. You just follow the rules. It's gonna set 347 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:44.640 you back about I'm going to say a couple hundred 348 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:47.680 bucks for a day, and all you're going to need 349 00:20:47.759 --> 00:20:51.240 it for is a day. It is a big machine 350 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:56.720 that has a diamond blade of refinishing disc on the bottom. 351 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:00.440 It sits there on its own weight, It controls its 352 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:06.400 own dust, and you simply pull it across the garage 353 00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:09.440 floor with a little bit of a swishing motion as 354 00:21:09.480 --> 00:21:16.039 it goes, and amazingly, it will resurface the vast majority 355 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:20.720 of garage floors smooth, get below the grease and the grime. 356 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:23.880 It will open up the porosity of the floor so 357 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:28.559 that it's ready for an epoxy finish or a concrete stain. 358 00:21:29.359 --> 00:21:33.559 It is really, really quite amazing. It'll even up a 359 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:37.559 little bit of uneven uplift at cracks. And then once 360 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:41.480 you've refinished the floor and you are your jaw is 361 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:44.680 a gap at how bright and beautiful and fresh your 362 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:48.440 concrete slab in your garage looks. Then you can put 363 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:51.519 a little bit of a patching epoxy into the cracks 364 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:54.079 to let that set up and seal the cracks, and 365 00:21:54.119 --> 00:21:58.640 then you are ready. Essentially, I'm truncating this just a bit, 366 00:21:58.680 --> 00:22:02.119 but not much. Then you are to put a new coating, 367 00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:07.680 be it a stain or an epoxy over the garage slab. 368 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:14.519 That brings you to a beautiful, clean, heavy duty new 369 00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:18.640 garage floor that's not just great for the car, but 370 00:22:19.559 --> 00:22:23.480 entirely pleasant for human beings to spend time on. So 371 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:26.319 check that out. The key to this whole thing is 372 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:28.880 something that has changed over the last twenty years, and 373 00:22:28.920 --> 00:22:35.039 that is the rentability the diy ability of resurfacing your 374 00:22:35.160 --> 00:22:38.799 own garage floor. If you can push a vacuum cleaner 375 00:22:38.839 --> 00:22:44.160 around the house, you can resurface your garage slab. I'm 376 00:22:44.200 --> 00:22:48.240 not gidding, it's true. Give it a look Sie, all 377 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:51.759 right more, when we return you are home with Dean Sharp. 378 00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:54.960 The house whisper, Hey am I Dean Sharp the house 379 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:56.440 whisper welcome home. 380 00:22:58.640 --> 00:22:58.839 Here. 381 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:01.799 We are at the end of another two hours together. 382 00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:06.000 Don't forget. We're going to be right back here tomorrow yep, 383 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:10.680 from nine to noon. Continuing our topic for this weekend, 384 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:15.079 but with a little different twist. Today, I've been reminding 385 00:23:15.119 --> 00:23:18.599 you about your garage, the fact that it's there, that 386 00:23:18.680 --> 00:23:22.839 it's probably at least four hundred square feet of extra 387 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:26.799 space already attached to your house. Why have we concentrated there, 388 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:29.119 Because it already has a roof, it already has walls, 389 00:23:29.160 --> 00:23:32.440 It already has a foundation and a slab underneath it. 390 00:23:32.440 --> 00:23:35.880 It is three quarters or more of the way to 391 00:23:36.039 --> 00:23:40.359 being truly an enjoyable, habitable space. If you just take 392 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:42.799 it the rest of the way over the top, it 393 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:47.319 can become, at very worst, at very minimum, a flex space. 394 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:50.119 A flex space. What does that mean. It simply means 395 00:23:50.359 --> 00:23:52.279 that it's a place where, Yeah, you can pull the 396 00:23:52.359 --> 00:23:55.599 car in park out there, you can have the washing dryer, 397 00:23:55.640 --> 00:23:58.559 out there the launder room, doing the normal garagey kind 398 00:23:58.559 --> 00:24:01.960 of things. But then if the rest of the garage 399 00:24:02.039 --> 00:24:06.440 is ready, then pull the cars out into the driveway, 400 00:24:07.079 --> 00:24:11.559 shut the garage door, and suddenly it becomes transformed into 401 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:14.720