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Speaker 1: are talking about this weekend ways of getting the most
Speaker 1: space for the least amount of money. To you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not completely unheard of ideas, but things to remind
Speaker 1: you of. Today, I'm talking about using the garage as
Speaker 1: a flex space, getting more useful living space out of
Speaker 1: the house by taking advantage of the garage by making
Speaker 1: it nicer. Tomorrow we'll be talking about to making outdoors
Speaker 1: outside a little bit better so that you've got some
Speaker 1: more living space there. This, of course, is way less
Speaker 1: expensive utilizing these two areas than just building more, you know,
Speaker 1: adding on to the house, which is considerably more expensive.
Speaker 1: And you know a lot of times people just need
Speaker 1: a little extra space and you don't have the budget
Speaker 1: to do the rest. So listen up right now, though,
Speaker 1: I want to go to the phones take a call
Speaker 1: or two if we can, So let's talk to Steve. Hey, Steve,
Speaker 1: welcome home, Hi.
Speaker 2: Deem, good morning. Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1: You are welcome, sir. How can I help you?
Speaker 2: I have off topic question, I apologize, but in my house,
Speaker 2: any faucet I go to, if I'm opening the faucet
Speaker 2: and I quickly close it, I get a pretty loud
Speaker 2: bang that comes afterward. I googled it. I guess this
Speaker 2: is called hammering. And I've tried everything I can to
Speaker 2: try to get this thing to go away, and it
Speaker 2: just comes back. I literally went upstairs, opened the shower
Speaker 2: faucet and then drained the whole house out. I closed
Speaker 2: the main at the house, you know, at the meter,
Speaker 2: and literally drained the whole house out, opening the top
Speaker 2: and opening one at the bottom, and drained the whole
Speaker 2: house out. And it went away. But then just it
Speaker 2: came back. And I guess it's okay when I'm expecting
Speaker 2: it when I turn off the faucet and I'm expecting
Speaker 2: you a bang right afterward. But when the washer is
Speaker 2: going on where it does its own draining and stuff,
Speaker 2: and you just hear boom bang out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: Any conde that'll get you, that'll get you. Yeah, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's actually I've got some decent news for you. You know,
Speaker 1: nine out of ten times, maybe ninety eight out of
Speaker 1: one hundred times, we can get rid of water hammer. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not that you're there's anything wrong with your plumbing system.
Speaker 1: Some people get very angry in a new build, a
Speaker 1: brand new build in the house that has water hammer
Speaker 1: in the pipes, and they're like, now they're raising their
Speaker 1: fist in the air at the plumbers like you guys
Speaker 1: screwed up my house. Here's the thing, Uh, if you
Speaker 1: think of your plumbing system as a musical instrument, you know,
Speaker 1: it's usually a good way of kind of imagining this
Speaker 1: because you get water moving through it and it's making
Speaker 1: all sorts of weird turns, and then you open it
Speaker 1: up and the water comes out in some places and
Speaker 1: holds in others. There's really no way to know when
Speaker 1: we're piping a house whether or not we're going to
Speaker 1: end up with creating some bizarre, just offhand set of
Speaker 1: turns as the water makes its way to certain locations
Speaker 1: that that creates a water hammer or you know, that
Speaker 1: kind of that back banging water hammering effect. There's just
Speaker 1: really no way to know. Sometimes you luck out, and
Speaker 1: you know, most of the time most people don't struggle
Speaker 1: with it, but a lot of houses do. Here is
Speaker 1: the thing, though, There is a shock absorber that can
Speaker 1: be used, and what we do is we recommend that
Speaker 1: they get installed in the easiest of places and the
Speaker 1: place where it's most likely to cause the biggest bang,
Speaker 1: and then if that doesn't do the trick, then we'll
Speaker 1: start installing them in other places around the house. And
Speaker 1: by the time we get two or three sets of
Speaker 1: these installed around the house, most of the time, almost
Speaker 1: all the time, the loud banging goes away. So that's
Speaker 1: the good news, Steve. Okay, water hammering is it's just
Speaker 1: something that happens as water is trying to move through
Speaker 1: pipes and hits you certain pipes at weird angles. The
Speaker 1: thing that I'm talking about are literally called water hammer arrestors, okay,
Speaker 1: and they go, they get installed. They don't have to
Speaker 1: be done in the wall. They are installed. This is
Speaker 1: the good news. On the outside of the walls. The
Speaker 1: most commonplace and usually the very first place that I
Speaker 1: put a water hammer arrestor is where the hookups are
Speaker 1: to the washer to the washing machine, where the washer
Speaker 1: and dryer are in the laundry room. You can pick
Speaker 1: up a set of these. They are literally sitting on
Speaker 1: the shelf at the big box store, at your hardware
Speaker 1: store in the plumbing section. I think the ode version,
Speaker 1: which I trust is I think it's a pair of
Speaker 1: these is like twenty bucks, twenty dollars. Okay. They will
Speaker 1: screw in, so you disconnect the washer and dryer hoses
Speaker 1: and you'll screw these in first to those valve settings,
Speaker 1: and they literally what they have. You see, they have
Speaker 1: a little tube on them sticking up a little nipple
Speaker 1: that sticks up out of the line, and inside there
Speaker 1: is literally a spring and a little valve body and
Speaker 1: a plate and it's literally a shot. Yeah. It absorbs
Speaker 1: the shock and as a result, it quiets down the noise.
Speaker 1: And sometimes I would say maybe well over half the time,
Speaker 1: just one of these sets, on one of these hookup
Speaker 1: areas will get rid of the noise. Now a house
Speaker 1: that has really bad water hammer, you know, we can
Speaker 1: also add a under the sink and add a set
Speaker 1: under the you know, master bedroom faucets. In other words,
Speaker 1: you can keep adding these and they all work because
Speaker 1: they all absorb the vibration that is hammering away at
Speaker 1: the backside of the pipes.
Speaker 2: And well, I think is an option also because I
Speaker 2: am getting it in the master a lot upstairs.
Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely. They basically you disconnect the
Speaker 1: hoses that are running to the faucet, uh, and then
Speaker 1: you would connect this little device to the angle stops
Speaker 1: the valves, and then you connect the hoses to this device,
Speaker 1: so it's just sitting in between. Doesn't take a plumber
Speaker 1: all you have to do is, you know, get your
Speaker 1: wrench out and you know, make sure you're you know,
Speaker 1: you're screwing them on properly. And you could put them
Speaker 1: under every sink in the house if you wanted to.
Speaker 1: At twenty bucks a pop. And believe me, Uh, they
Speaker 1: do their job, they really do. And uh and I
Speaker 1: think you're going to see it go away.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much, Teene, last a little bit
Speaker 2: to this. Well, will this hammering damage any of the piping.
Speaker 2: It's copper piping, and from what I was told, it's
Speaker 2: actually relatively new, like within the last ten years or so.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, No, it's not going to damage the it's
Speaker 1: it's not hurting the pipes. It's just annoying the heck
Speaker 1: out of you. It's not hurting the it's just the
Speaker 1: just the weird combination of turns that are creating that
Speaker 1: kind of effect in the pipe. It is not a
Speaker 1: threat to the house, although it feels like the pipes
Speaker 1: are about to explode every time it pops like that.
Speaker 1: Use the dampener and uh and you know you're you're
Speaker 1: going to be loving life again.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Dean.
Speaker 1: You are so welcome, my friend. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 1: All right, Uh you know what, Yeah, Okay, when we
Speaker 1: come back, we'll take one more call and then we'll
Speaker 1: jump back into the garage. Stay tight with me, can't
Speaker 1: I team charged the house. Whisper at your service. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the program. So glad that you have spent your
Speaker 1: Saturday morning with me. And if you're sitting there thinking,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just tripped upon you. I haven't
Speaker 1: decided to spend my Saturday morning with you yet, well
Speaker 1: just hang tight. We're talking about your home, as we
Speaker 1: do every Saturday morning and Sunday morning, and specifically, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about inexpensive ways of getting a little bit more
Speaker 1: elbow room in your home. Tomorrow we're going to be
Speaker 1: talking about making out doors a little bit more comfortable
Speaker 1: so he can spend more time outside. Today talking about
Speaker 1: the garage. But right now, as is my custom, I'm
Speaker 1: taking some calls. I want to take one more call
Speaker 1: and then we're going to get back to garage talk.
Speaker 1: Let's talk to Annie. Hey Annie, welcome home.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 3: Yes, on the Wednesday night, during or after the rain
Speaker 3: or during I heard a drip, drip, drip, and I
Speaker 3: looked in the fireplace in front of the fireplace, there
Speaker 3: was some water dripping, just a drip and a drip.
Speaker 3: And then sometimes even when it it's not raining, there's
Speaker 3: a dampness in front of the fireplace on the sidewalk.
Speaker 3: So I was wondering if that's something I should worry about.
Speaker 1: Okay. So when you say in front of the side, okay,
Speaker 1: where the dripping was down in the firebox itself.
Speaker 3: Yes, inside the house and in the front at the
Speaker 3: hearth that's the opening of the hearth.
Speaker 1: There was a drip, oh, right at the opening of
Speaker 1: the hearth. Okay. And then you said, sometimes outside you
Speaker 1: see a dampness outside where where the chimney is? Okay?
Speaker 1: Do you know any whether or not your fireplace is
Speaker 1: a masonry fireplace, whether it's all bricked or whether it's
Speaker 1: a prefabricated fireplace surrounded by masonry.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: But it's brick, okay. Well, it's brick on the outside.
Speaker 1: How old is the house seventy four it was built, okay,
Speaker 1: So chances are it's actually a masonry fire place, okay.
Speaker 1: A couple of things. It's not the it's not a
Speaker 1: bizarre and uncommon thing. And during heavy rains for a fireplace,
Speaker 1: sometimes to get little drips down the chimney. Flu that
Speaker 1: may be happening, But my guess is that we may
Speaker 1: have something that we want to address in terms of
Speaker 1: looking up at the chimney and taking a look at
Speaker 1: flashings where the flashings connect to the chimney up at
Speaker 1: the roofline. There are a number of places where water
Speaker 1: can get into a fireplace. Number One, do you have
Speaker 1: an ere I'm sorry, Annie, hang tight? Do you have
Speaker 1: a cap on the top of your chimney?
Speaker 3: No, I just have a regular. I didn't have anything
Speaker 3: added just to regular that was built with.
Speaker 1: It, okay, So there's no little lid, there's no little
Speaker 1: te top on top of the chimney. Keep it, you know, exactly.
Speaker 3: Just as is if it was built okay. And I
Speaker 3: did get a new flat roof, that new white emulsion
Speaker 3: two years ago, and I thought about maybe calling the
Speaker 3: roofer and having them check that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good idea, because here's a couple of things.
Speaker 1: Number One, it's not a bad idea to actually get
Speaker 1: a an arrestor top that acts as a little umbrella
Speaker 1: over your flu just to keep out heavy rains, because
Speaker 1: heavy rains will eventually get down inside and they're not
Speaker 1: always easy to spot exactly where it's coming from. Because
Speaker 1: there's a what's called a smoke shelf built into a
Speaker 1: masonry fireplace. That rain will come down, will saturate that,
Speaker 1: and will soak kind of the backside of the fireplace,
Speaker 1: which is maybe what you're seeing on the outside near
Speaker 1: the sidewalk, just water moving through masonry. That's the first
Speaker 1: culprit to look at. The second culprit to look at
Speaker 1: is if there's had any roofing work done lately. It
Speaker 1: sounds like you have, so yeah, I would call the
Speaker 1: roofers back out and check the flashings as they tie
Speaker 1: into that masonry fireplace to make sure that those things
Speaker 1: are sealed. I'm a little concerned about the water that's
Speaker 1: dripping right in front of the hearth there. That seems
Speaker 1: a little excessive to me, and so I would probably
Speaker 1: look at the tie in between the chimney itself and
Speaker 1: the flashings in order to shut that down. Typically speaking,
Speaker 1: it's not the weirdest thing in the world to get
Speaker 1: a few drips, especially if you have a metal flu fireplace,
Speaker 1: but brick usually absorbs most of the water as it
Speaker 1: makes its way down, and then it hits the smoke shelf,
Speaker 1: which is right behind the damper. You'd never see any
Speaker 1: of this, by the way. And then that water, if
Speaker 1: it builds up, will accumulate and soak the outer backside
Speaker 1: of the fire box and then the brick outside. It
Speaker 1: sounds like there's enough water for there to be a concern,
Speaker 1: so get yourself a smoke arrestor for the top. Call
Speaker 1: the roofer, have them take a look at the flashing.
Speaker 1: And last thing, call an actual chimney sweep company to
Speaker 1: inspect the chimney flu because they actually not the roofers
Speaker 1: in the end are the experts as to how things
Speaker 1: are affecting your overall fireplace and your chimney, and it
Speaker 1: probably sounds like you're overdue for a little clean up
Speaker 1: there as well. So that's my best advice for you, Annie.
Speaker 1: Those are the three possibilities or the three directions to head.
Speaker 1: Always cap the top of your chimney, even if you
Speaker 1: don't use it. Make sure that the flashings that are
Speaker 1: connected to the chimney where it hits the roof are sealed,
Speaker 1: And have your chimney looked at by an actual chimney professional,
Speaker 1: you know, a chimney sweep like from Mary Poppins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: except none of the dancing. That's all all right, y'all.
Speaker 1: When we return, we're getting back into the garage and
Speaker 1: we're going to take a look at the other issues
Speaker 1: that are standing between you how it is right now
Speaker 1: and making it a true through flex space. What are
Speaker 1: all the things it can become? And most importantly, what
Speaker 1: do we do with that ugly cracked garage slab? All
Speaker 1: of this? When we return. You're listening to Home with
Speaker 1: Dean Sharp on demand from KFI AM six forty cam
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Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. Hey, you are Home with Dean Sharp,
Speaker 1: the house whisper. How is your Saturday morning going? Ours
Speaker 1: is going pretty good. We're talking this weekend here at
Speaker 1: the on the cusp of remodeling season, specifically speaking to
Speaker 1: people who are like you know, inflation has not let
Speaker 1: up at all. Funds are a little tight, but so
Speaker 1: is the room in my house, and so I need
Speaker 1: an inexpensive or at least a less expensive way of
Speaker 1: getting more space around here. Well, the very first place
Speaker 1: we look when it comes to extra space that you
Speaker 1: already have is the garage. I know, We've already discussed
Speaker 1: this morning what those obstacles are. But now we're in it,
Speaker 1: we're in it to win it. How do you actually
Speaker 1: make that space livable? Now, for most people, it's pretty
Speaker 1: easy to understand what I've already told you about, which
Speaker 1: is insulating the walls and dry wall and finishing up
Speaker 1: the ceiling really nice, and you can imagine putting some
Speaker 1: lighting in there and all of that kind of stuff. This,
Speaker 1: of course, after we've dealt with the storage issues. But
Speaker 1: what about the floor. Well, there are two problems or
Speaker 1: two issues I should say, with your garage slab. One is,
Speaker 1: even if it's in perfect condition, you just need to
Speaker 1: know that unless you live in a house that was
Speaker 1: built in the early sixties or earlier, your garage slab
Speaker 1: is sloped. It is not like level. It is probably
Speaker 1: pitched at about an eighth of an inch per foot
Speaker 1: towards the garage door. And that's quite intentional for leaks
Speaker 1: and water and all sorts of messiness to get out
Speaker 1: of the garage. So that don't normally does not affect
Speaker 1: typical like game room or putting the sofa out there
Speaker 1: or anything like that. But just understand that if you're
Speaker 1: putting in cabinet tree along the slope side of the
Speaker 1: walls of the garage or anything like that. Those things
Speaker 1: are going to have to be leveled and accounted for.
Speaker 1: Otherwise they're going to be a little bit leaning one
Speaker 1: direction because they're sitting perfectly well on the slab. So
Speaker 1: that's something to take into account. And no, I don't
Speaker 1: want you to level it up. I don't want you
Speaker 1: to put a damn there and chain, you know, because
Speaker 1: we're still a space to drive the car into. Okay,
Speaker 1: but just understand. So flooring levelers, furniture levelers, all of
Speaker 1: these these are inexpensive things, but there are things that
Speaker 1: have to be thought through. The second issue, and the
Speaker 1: most common issue, is the garage slab is cracked and
Speaker 1: it's just but ugly. I mean just it's greasy. There's paint,
Speaker 1: there's grime, there's I mean, no, nobody wants to be
Speaker 1: in a garage when or any room when a floor
Speaker 1: looks the way it does. Well, let me tell you
Speaker 1: we have come light years, I mean light years away
Speaker 1: from having to put up with that. And no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want you to paint your garage floor. That
Speaker 1: is not the answer to a long lasting thing here.
Speaker 1: And there are some concrete paints out there, but that's
Speaker 1: not the fix. There aren't there. There is a quick fix,
Speaker 1: it's just not an immediate quick fix, okay. Quick fix
Speaker 1: meaning take a couple three days to work on this.
Speaker 1: Just not clean, you know, empty out the garage and
Speaker 1: slap a coat of paint on. That is never the
Speaker 1: right approach to anything around your house. Take some time,
Speaker 1: do it right, and you will be shocked at the results. Now,
Speaker 1: if you were to go to the big box store
Speaker 1: right now, you could pick up a garage floor epoxy
Speaker 1: kit from Rustolium that basically gets you set up to
Speaker 1: put a new epoxy finish on your garage floor. That's
Speaker 1: all well and good. It's not my first recommendation. I
Speaker 1: like other epoxy kits better. But the point is this.
Speaker 1: The Rustolium kit is going to have you etch the floor,
Speaker 1: wet the floor, all of this kind of stuff to
Speaker 1: get rich, to get it prepped, to get rid of
Speaker 1: grime and grease. A lot of scrubbing is involved. I
Speaker 1: want you to just bypo pass all of that, all right.
Speaker 1: For all of that, you can go to a place
Speaker 1: like home depot or a tool rental yard and rent
Speaker 1: yourself a concrete refinishing machine. I know that sounds intimidating,
Speaker 1: but trust me on this. When you get a shot here,
Speaker 1: just go online, look up concrete refinishing rental machine and
Speaker 1: take a look at it. Okay, it is heavy, but
Speaker 1: it comes in its own little trailer. You can wheel
Speaker 1: it off and roll it into your garage. It is
Speaker 1: not a crazy, highly skilled thing. That's why they're at
Speaker 1: rental yards. In fact, it's about as calm and easy
Speaker 1: going of a machine as can possibly be rented to you.
Speaker 1: It's not going to fly out of control. It's not
Speaker 1: a danger. You just follow the rules. It's gonna set
Speaker 1: you back about I'm going to say a couple hundred
Speaker 1: bucks for a day, and all you're going to need
Speaker 1: it for is a day. It is a big machine
Speaker 1: that has a diamond blade of refinishing disc on the bottom.
Speaker 1: It sits there on its own weight, It controls its
Speaker 1: own dust, and you simply pull it across the garage
Speaker 1: floor with a little bit of a swishing motion as
Speaker 1: it goes, and amazingly, it will resurface the vast majority
Speaker 1: of garage floors smooth, get below the grease and the grime.
Speaker 1: It will open up the porosity of the floor so
Speaker 1: that it's ready for an epoxy finish or a concrete stain.
Speaker 1: It is really, really quite amazing. It'll even up a
Speaker 1: little bit of uneven uplift at cracks. And then once
Speaker 1: you've refinished the floor and you are your jaw is
Speaker 1: a gap at how bright and beautiful and fresh your
Speaker 1: concrete slab in your garage looks. Then you can put
Speaker 1: a little bit of a patching epoxy into the cracks
Speaker 1: to let that set up and seal the cracks, and
Speaker 1: then you are ready. Essentially, I'm truncating this just a bit,
Speaker 1: but not much. Then you are to put a new coating,
Speaker 1: be it a stain or an epoxy over the garage slab.
Speaker 1: That brings you to a beautiful, clean, heavy duty new
Speaker 1: garage floor that's not just great for the car, but
Speaker 1: entirely pleasant for human beings to spend time on. So
Speaker 1: check that out. The key to this whole thing is
Speaker 1: something that has changed over the last twenty years, and
Speaker 1: that is the rentability the diy ability of resurfacing your
Speaker 1: own garage floor. If you can push a vacuum cleaner
Speaker 1: around the house, you can resurface your garage slab. I'm
Speaker 1: not gidding, it's true. Give it a look Sie, all
Speaker 1: right more, when we return you are home with Dean Sharp.
Speaker 1: The house whisper, Hey am I Dean Sharp the house
Speaker 1: whisper welcome home.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: We are at the end of another two hours together.
Speaker 1: Don't forget. We're going to be right back here tomorrow yep,
Speaker 1: from nine to noon. Continuing our topic for this weekend,
Speaker 1: but with a little different twist. Today, I've been reminding
Speaker 1: you about your garage, the fact that it's there, that
Speaker 1: it's probably at least four hundred square feet of extra
Speaker 1: space already attached to your house. Why have we concentrated there,
Speaker 1: Because it already has a roof, it already has walls,
Speaker 1: It already has a foundation and a slab underneath it.
Speaker 1: It is three quarters or more of the way to
Speaker 1: being truly an enjoyable, habitable space. If you just take
Speaker 1: it the rest of the way over the top, it
Speaker 1: can become, at very worst, at very minimum, a flex space.
Speaker 1: A flex space. What does that mean. It simply means
Speaker 1: that it's a place where, Yeah, you can pull the
Speaker 1: car in park out there, you can have the washing dryer,
Speaker 1: out there the launder room, doing the normal garagey kind
Speaker 1: of things. But then if the rest of the garage
Speaker 1: is ready, then pull the cars out into the driveway,
Speaker 1: shut the garage door, and suddenly it becomes transformed into
Speaker 1: a different kind of space. Now some of you are asking,
Speaker 1: what all can we do out there, Deane, Well, it's
Speaker 1: your workshop, it's your crafting area. It's a game room,
Speaker 1: game I mean, it's I mean, these are classic things
Speaker 1: that people have used garages for, you know, since garages
Speaker 1: have been used. But you know, ping pong, darts, billiards,
Speaker 1: garages make they're already kind of leaning in the direction
Speaker 1: of being dark and sound, isolated from the rest of
Speaker 1: the house, meaning that they can make a brilliant media room.
Speaker 1: It's the place to have everybody watching the big game
Speaker 1: to movie night, you know, with a comfortable sofa. It
Speaker 1: can be slid off to the side to pull the
Speaker 1: car in and then engaged when the time comes. It's
Speaker 1: craft room, it's a gym. Okay, it's a good place
Speaker 1: for a garage band. Let's not forget garage bands. And
Speaker 1: of course it's a good place to park the car.
Speaker 1: The idea is this long long gone are the days
Speaker 1: when the garage is just barely a covered, enclosed space.
Speaker 1: It's cold, it's too hot in the summer, and all
Speaker 1: of that kind of stuff, and it's just filthy and
Speaker 1: it's piled full of stuff. If your garage is still
Speaker 1: in that condition, I'm just telling you, I'm just being honest.
Speaker 1: You're not fully utilizing all the space that you have
Speaker 1: paid so much money for for your home. Insulate those walls,
Speaker 1: move electricity around where you want, dry wall those walls,
Speaker 1: dry wall that ceiling. Maximize your storage. There are so
Speaker 1: many storage concepts and options, everything from tote rails that
Speaker 1: slide totes right above where the garage door comes in
Speaker 1: all across the ceiling, to winched platforms that you don't
Speaker 1: even have to get on a ladder to bring that
Speaker 1: storage stuff down. You can just winch it right down
Speaker 1: to the floor, access what you want, and cable it
Speaker 1: right back up. Brilliant cabinetry all around the outside perimeter
Speaker 1: of the garage. All of this is, you know, it
Speaker 1: is based on I just want to choose my words
Speaker 1: carefully because I know it's a sensitive subject. All of
Speaker 1: this is just based on this getting read of stuff
Speaker 1: and getting yourself organized but let me tell you we
Speaker 1: live in the golden age of garage capacity. If you
Speaker 1: just spend half an hour doing searches online for garage
Speaker 1: storage systems, garage storage optimization, garage transformations, garage game room conversions,
Speaker 1: you will feast your eyes upon all sorts of super
Speaker 1: creative ideas. This last week at the International Builder Show,
Speaker 1: there's always a very very large contingent of garage conversion ideas,
Speaker 1: from fully POxy floors to tile floors, to grid interlocking floors, bars,
Speaker 1: billiard rooms, like I said, media rooms. That's just there
Speaker 1: is so much you can do with your garage, And
Speaker 1: all I wanted to do this morning was to encourage
Speaker 1: you to take a second look at it, because some
Speaker 1: of you are needing more space and you're not ready
Speaker 1: to build on to the back of the house. You
Speaker 1: have a room there, four hundred square feet that's already
Speaker 1: most of the way there. Just consider getting creative with
Speaker 1: your living and nudget the rest of the way. You
Speaker 1: won't regret it all. Right, Tomorrow, we're going to take
Speaker 1: the same approach, except we're going to be talking about
Speaker 1: the little things we can do to push our outside
Speaker 1: space the rest of the way and get you at
Speaker 1: least probably the footprint of your entire house. More if
Speaker 1: it's a space that you feel comfortable being in it.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, that's all we're
Speaker 1: talking about. The elbow room necessary to live a little
Speaker 1: larger in the house that you already have. Will do
Speaker 1: that tomorrow and until then, don't forget, don't forget that
Speaker 1: we are here for you. On social media. The house
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Speaker 1: the most of this beautiful day that is in your hand,
Speaker 1: and busy building yourself a beautiful life. We'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: This has been Home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
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