Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, The
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Speaker 1: am Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, custom home Builder, custom
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Speaker 1: anywhere else, or if you joined in for another episode
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Speaker 1: so very glad that you are here. We are doing
Speaker 1: an all calls weekend and nothing but your calls today,
Speaker 1: and I want to get back to the phone so
Speaker 1: we can get as many calls in as possible. Lydia,
Speaker 1: welcome home, Good.
Speaker 2: Morning, Dean. I have a question that's been posting a
Speaker 2: few times to you, or you've explained it, but I'm
Speaker 2: not sure if my problem applies or I have a
Speaker 2: problem where we did a remodel box and extension about
Speaker 2: in twenty two, so it's been a couple of years.
Speaker 2: Immediately the shower, I thought the water went like hot
Speaker 2: and cold.
Speaker 3: Now we did go from a regular.
Speaker 2: Tank heater to a tank less and this is a
Speaker 2: direct vent tankless waters heater.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know what information you need, but anyhow, it
Speaker 2: goes from hot to cold. I mean, it takes a
Speaker 2: long time compared to what it used to to get
Speaker 2: hot in my opinion, and then it goes where it
Speaker 2: begins to get warm and then excuse me, and then
Speaker 2: it goes cold again. And I have waited like fifteen
Speaker 2: seconds in the middle of a shower for it to
Speaker 2: get hot again.
Speaker 1: So, okay, I know.
Speaker 2: You mentioned like a recirculation pump and a bridge.
Speaker 1: But there's actually two things we're We're actually talking about
Speaker 1: two different things there. Okay, So okay, first let's talk
Speaker 1: about the the the going cold on you situation. Okay,
Speaker 1: the going cold on your situation. Are you aware that
Speaker 1: of any other water being run when it does it
Speaker 1: always do this, no matter no matter whether it's the
Speaker 1: old water that's running in the house, or does it
Speaker 1: go cold on you because somebody else turns a faucet
Speaker 1: on somewhere else or something like that.
Speaker 3: No, absolutely not.
Speaker 2: I'm home. My husband's a fireman, so he's often you know,
Speaker 2: away from home, and so I can be home alone.
Speaker 3: I'm not running anything, so I mean I've looked.
Speaker 2: At that, you know, but no, absolutely not.
Speaker 1: That was the whole important answer to the question. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to tell you this. I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you that you need to have somebody look at
Speaker 1: that water heater, okay, because a water heater should be
Speaker 1: a tankless water heater should be putting outputting a consistent
Speaker 1: temperature all the way through. It should not be dipping.
Speaker 1: There may be something wrong with a setting. There may
Speaker 1: be a problem with a thermo coupler or a thermostat
Speaker 1: inside the water heater. There may be an issue with
Speaker 1: gas supplied to the water heater. I literally it could
Speaker 1: be you know, one of ten different things or a
Speaker 1: couple of different things. And I know it's only a
Speaker 1: couple of years old, but you said you were having
Speaker 1: the issue right from the get go. So it is
Speaker 1: time to have somebody take a serious look at the
Speaker 1: water heater because that is not normal and that's not
Speaker 1: related to the house. Quite often, the reason I asked
Speaker 1: the question is that quite often, when it comes to
Speaker 1: tankless water heaters, a homeowner will pick one out for themselves,
Speaker 1: or a plumber will pick one out or plumbers usually
Speaker 1: don't make this mistake, but they'll pick one out that
Speaker 1: is undersized for the home. Undersized meaning that you know,
Speaker 1: the idea of picking a tankless water heater is all
Speaker 1: about how many hot water things do you want running
Speaker 1: all at the same time, and that therefore you get
Speaker 1: a water heater that's capable of that kind of an output,
Speaker 1: so that if you're taking a hot shower and then
Speaker 1: somebody starts doing the dishes, running the dishwasher, and the laundry,
Speaker 1: that that water heater has got enough hot running through
Speaker 1: it that it can supply to all of them without
Speaker 1: the temperature dropping. Typically, when a tankless water heater is
Speaker 1: dropping in temperature right in the middle of something, it's
Speaker 1: because another faucet has been turned on, and therefore now
Speaker 1: it's having to share its hot water load with another fixture,
Speaker 1: and the water heater isn't big enough sized enough for
Speaker 1: volume to be able to handle. It's problem with the
Speaker 1: selection of the water heater. But in your case, no
Speaker 1: other hot water is running anywhere else in the house
Speaker 1: and it's still losing temperature. That's a problem with the
Speaker 1: water heater itself. Now, very quickly, let me answer your
Speaker 1: other question and the question of because it's a completely
Speaker 1: separate issue. Tankless water heaters are endless hot water. They
Speaker 1: are not instant hot water because the hot water still
Speaker 1: has to travel the distance from the water heater to
Speaker 1: get to the faucet that you know, or the shower
Speaker 1: head that is being used. And so yeah, there are
Speaker 1: ways of getting around that recirculation pump bridge valve underneath
Speaker 1: the furthest sink away from the water heater in the house.
Speaker 1: But just so people know, and it is true to
Speaker 1: a certain degree, some old schoolers are like, I'm not
Speaker 1: going for that tankless thing because my old tanked water
Speaker 1: heater delivered hot water faster. Well, technically, it doesn't deliver
Speaker 1: hot water faster. The water moves at the same speed
Speaker 1: from the water heater to the fawcet. But a tanked
Speaker 1: water heater is sitting there heating water all day long.
Speaker 1: So therefore that heat travels a little bit further down
Speaker 1: the pipe because it's constantly heating it, whereas a tank
Speaker 1: less water heater only heats on demand, and because it's
Speaker 1: not doing any heating of the water, the hot water
Speaker 1: in the water lines in between the water heater and
Speaker 1: the fawcet have a chance to cool down further, so
Speaker 1: the water's traveling at the same speed. The hot water
Speaker 1: is taking just as long to get there, but residual
Speaker 1: hot water from a tanked water heater is a little
Speaker 1: closer to the faucet. This is absolutely true. But that's
Speaker 1: something that you can overcome design wise with a recirculation pump,
Speaker 1: a research pump at the very very end. They're not
Speaker 1: very expensive these days, and they'll help draw that hot
Speaker 1: water in throughout the rest of the house. That's something
Speaker 1: to consider, Lydia, when you're having a plumber look at
Speaker 1: the situation. But most importantly, what's happening to you with
Speaker 1: this ducking of water temperature in the middle of a
Speaker 1: shower when no other hot water is being used in
Speaker 1: the house. That's a problem with the water heater itself,
Speaker 1: and somebody needs to take a look at it. Lydia,
Speaker 1: thank you for your question and your call. Awesome, Awesome.
Speaker 1: This is why we do this because we just hit
Speaker 1: a full gambit across the board. More of your calls
Speaker 1: when we return. You are Home with Dean Sharp, the
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Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean sharp on demand from
Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Good morning to you, and welcome home. We are doing
Speaker 1: an all calls weekend. Let's talk to John. Hey, John,
Speaker 1: welcome home.
Speaker 5: I'm calling you from San Diego, and my story is
Speaker 5: to save the few dollars.
Speaker 6: I installed my own water heat right, and in so doing,
Speaker 6: I read the instructions and one of the things that
Speaker 6: I remembered was the water pressure. They recommend maximum eighty
Speaker 6: pounds per square inch pressure in the water lines. Well,
Speaker 6: I installed the water heater and I had the city
Speaker 6: come out and test my pressure, and it's up around
Speaker 6: eighty six eighty seven. And I'm concerned about that.
Speaker 5: If what are the average home water systems of piping
Speaker 5: and everything, How much more than eighty can be tolerated?
Speaker 5: And what could I do about it to lower that
Speaker 5: water pressure?
Speaker 1: Great question, and kudos for reading the instructions, John, Good job,
Speaker 1: my friend.
Speaker 5: I learned how to read a long time ago.
Speaker 1: So okay, first of all, water pressure around eighty five
Speaker 1: eighty six. You know you don't have an emergency concern
Speaker 1: on your hand, okay, because it's just you know, it's
Speaker 1: just it's just etching over the the you know, the
Speaker 1: upper limit. However, you are right to address it. You
Speaker 1: should address everybody should know this. This is why that's
Speaker 1: why I take calls all right, because not only am
Speaker 1: I gonna answered John's question, but it should help everybody
Speaker 1: who's listening understand a little bit more about their home. So,
Speaker 1: residential water pressure should ideally fall in the sixty to
Speaker 1: eighty psi range. Sixty to eighty, So that's the optimum range. Okay,
Speaker 1: below sixty, it's not going to hurt your house, but
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's going to be like, what the heck
Speaker 1: is wrong with my water? Why is it clogged? Right? So,
Speaker 1: we all like nice water pressure in our lines. But
Speaker 1: above eighty psi, and here's the key, above eighty ps i,
Speaker 1: it puts a strain on the fittings in your water system,
Speaker 1: the fittings of the pipes themselves, and even more important
Speaker 1: than that, which you know, there are systems that, if
Speaker 1: they're well built and well put together, could withstand a
Speaker 1: heck of a lot more pressure than that. But more
Speaker 1: important than that, uh is all of your appliances. The
Speaker 1: interior guts of the washing machine and the dishwasher, and
Speaker 1: the water based appliance is like your water here. None
Speaker 1: of them are rated to have more than eighty PSI
Speaker 1: sitting in the term right, So we just don't want
Speaker 1: to do that. We don't want to damage. We don't
Speaker 1: want to you know, I don't want to blow out
Speaker 1: the ice maker line to the refrigerator or anything like that. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got to get your water pressure down, all right.
Speaker 1: So I recommend dating for the house just to bring
Speaker 1: the pressure down. No, there are no such things. But
Speaker 1: here's the simple it's a simple things. Okay, every home
Speaker 1: has a pressure regulator on the main line going into
Speaker 1: the house. And I would say, well, okay, then then
Speaker 1: it's time to get yourself one, my friend. UH, A
Speaker 1: pressure regulator valve, all right, And it's and it's almost
Speaker 1: always located right where the main water cutoff valve is,
Speaker 1: right before the water lines enter the house. I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about the meter out in the you know, on
Speaker 1: the h in the sidewalk out there in the little
Speaker 1: concrete pit. I'm talking about the irrigation and UH and
Speaker 1: water control valves, the gate valves right before water enters
Speaker 1: your home, right then and there, that is where we
Speaker 1: want a pressure control valve. We don't have to have
Speaker 1: a pressure regulator uh on the irrigation lines for your home,
Speaker 1: because they don't hold pressure. They're empty lines.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, the sprinkler system is empty until you activate
Speaker 1: it and then and then they fill up with water
Speaker 1: and then they irrigate your house, and then you turn
Speaker 1: them off and they drain out again. They don't hold
Speaker 1: pressure twenty four seven three sixty five. But the rest
Speaker 1: of the pipes inside your house do always standing water
Speaker 1: there under pressure. So the point being, pressure regulators are
Speaker 1: not expensive in the long run of all. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot less expensive than your water.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 1: We're talking about two or three hundred dollars at the most.
Speaker 1: And if you don't if there isn't a union hook
Speaker 1: up there to detach the existing one, if you don't
Speaker 1: actually have one, then you need to get one. You
Speaker 1: can find them at any plumbing supply place, find them
Speaker 1: at the big box stores. Make sure they're sized right
Speaker 1: to your line. And if you don't feel confident, like well,
Speaker 1: how am I going to hook this up? Then yeah,
Speaker 1: you call a plumber and stall. Listen, I need you
Speaker 1: to install a pressure regulator right here at I would say,
Speaker 1: and I don't have a scientific this is not a
Speaker 1: scientific at scientifically accurate statistic. This is just my you know,
Speaker 1: empirical experience. But I would say probably eighty percent of
Speaker 1: the homes of the folks who are listening to me
Speaker 1: right now have a worn out pressure regulator. They wear out, okay,
Speaker 1: over time, uh and so, and that's why. So once
Speaker 1: originally it was doing its job holding back the pressure
Speaker 1: and reducing it, and now it has just given out,
Speaker 1: and as a result, we've got too high pressure in
Speaker 1: the house.
Speaker 5: So everybody would be the lifespan of a regulator.
Speaker 1: You know, it's impossible for me to tell you, but
Speaker 1: I will tell you this. I haven't seen many that
Speaker 1: are over twenty twenty five years old that are still
Speaker 1: doing their job. Okay, Oh, I don't know. You know,
Speaker 1: I can't tell you that for certain. All I know
Speaker 1: is that you know, if you suspect that you've got
Speaker 1: high pressure, and if you haven't ever checked the water
Speaker 1: pressure on your house, you should. Most people, by the way,
Speaker 1: can test this themselves because most homes. Most homes have
Speaker 1: a wall mounted water spigot somewhere. Okay, now I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about out in the yard. You can't trust those.
Speaker 1: If you've got a water spigot and you know, hooked
Speaker 1: up to a hose out in the yard somewhere, it's
Speaker 1: very likely that that is part of the irrigation system
Speaker 1: and not pressure regulator. But if you on the outside
Speaker 1: of your house anywhere on the outside of your house,
Speaker 1: if you've got a just a hose spigot coming out
Speaker 1: of the stucco or the siding on the house, that
Speaker 1: is very likely part of the house water line system
Speaker 1: and it's regulated. And a water pressure test valve, I
Speaker 1: mean a gauge is like a ten dollars item at
Speaker 1: the hardware store and it screws onto the end of
Speaker 1: the hose bib just like a hose, and then you
Speaker 1: just turn on the hose bib and you wait to
Speaker 1: see where the needle goes. And that's how you can
Speaker 1: pressure test your own water. And everybody can check that
Speaker 1: out for themselves. So, my friend, it's time for a
Speaker 1: pressure regulator and bring that out and take that expertly
Speaker 1: installed water heater of yours and make sure that has
Speaker 1: a long, healthy life.
Speaker 5: I did a good job on it for the first time.
Speaker 6: And you know, there's another thing.
Speaker 5: That I learned that I think other people should be
Speaker 5: aware of. And these water heaters is the anode rod. Yes,
Speaker 5: I'm thinking to change that every four years.
Speaker 1: It is not at all a bad idea, my friend John,
Speaker 1: Thank you for your call, My friend, good luck. It's
Speaker 1: no big deal. You're going to get your pressure under control.
Speaker 1: Bring it down to about seventy PSI once that new
Speaker 1: regulator is in and happy water, happy house, happy life.
Speaker 1: There you go, Thanks John.
Speaker 4: Well, you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand
Speaker 4: from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: You're setting the agenda today. The number to reach me
Speaker 1: eight three three two, ask Dean Joyce, welcome home.
Speaker 7: I have a husband who is disabled. He's eighty four.
Speaker 7: He's house bound. Now I'm the man of the house,
Speaker 7: trying to restore the house or keep it healthy. And
Speaker 7: I've just gotten rid of skunk and now I have
Speaker 7: to work on termites. Now. There are two companies, specific
Speaker 7: Coast Termite that uses natural supplies and termin X that
Speaker 7: cannot fumigate because I can't move my husband. He won't
Speaker 7: move out of the house, but they will sort of
Speaker 7: do a chemical. But I'm wondering is one better safer
Speaker 7: than another?
Speaker 1: Okay, let me try and parse this out. So here's
Speaker 1: the thing. When it comes to termites, it can be
Speaker 1: a confusing world out there. And I don't want to
Speaker 1: zero in on any brand or any particular termite you
Speaker 1: know provider, Okay, exterminating provider. Okay, I'm just going to
Speaker 1: tell you this. Yes, there are companies out there that
Speaker 1: that make big claims about all natural termite treatments versus
Speaker 1: you know, and they kind of stake their claim on
Speaker 1: the idea that you know, we use non toxic, you know,
Speaker 1: all natural stuff, and the other guys, you know, use
Speaker 1: the nasty stuff and so and it can all be
Speaker 1: so a couple of things. When it comes to termite control,
Speaker 1: it is a toolbox. It's a toolbox. There is no zero,
Speaker 1: no silver bullet out there. I like termite or pest
Speaker 1: control companies that offer me a variety of choices based
Speaker 1: on and you know, they've got a lot of tools
Speaker 1: in their toolbox, based on what actually has to happen. Now.
Speaker 1: Orange oil. Orange oil is an essential oil. It's extracted
Speaker 1: from oranges, right, It's got a lot of benefits. You know,
Speaker 1: the toxicity is low, Okay, it is effective against insects
Speaker 1: besides termites, carpenter ants and beetles and things like that. Right,
Speaker 1: you don't have to take out items like plants or
Speaker 1: pets from the house. Right, you don't have to leave
Speaker 1: your home. But orange oil, now there's downside. The downside,
Speaker 1: or I should say the limitations of orange oil is
Speaker 1: that it's localized. Orange oil is a localized treatment. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not going to affect undetected infestations anywhere. It can
Speaker 1: be expensive the more you treat with orange oil, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't leave any residue behind to speak of, So
Speaker 1: it doesn't offer long lasting after the treatment protection for
Speaker 1: things to prevent things from coming back. Now does that
Speaker 1: mean it's not useful. No, it has its uses. And
Speaker 1: if it's just a localize infestation and we feel like
Speaker 1: we've got control of it, orange oil would be a
Speaker 1: great option for that because it's convenient. But this is
Speaker 1: something actually that happened to while back. I'm reading off
Speaker 1: of a website here that after all of these claims
Speaker 1: for orange oil treatments became so popular, the California Structural
Speaker 1: Pest Control Board reminded gently pest control companies don't confuse
Speaker 1: in misinformed customers. Orange oil is yet another localized treatment
Speaker 1: tool against the elusive drywood termite. It is not an
Speaker 1: alternative to all encompassing methods of treatment. That's just to say,
Speaker 1: it's just one of the tools in an exterminator's tool belt.
Speaker 1: There are other natural treatments. Some of it goes by
Speaker 1: the brand name Ultraset, others know it as tree bark treatments.
Speaker 1: But it's a formulation that is a completely harmless doesn't
Speaker 1: leave it any residue, but it actually can provide lasting protection.
Speaker 1: It is a version of a substance found in a
Speaker 1: certain kind of tree bark, the Rhianna speciosa tree bark,
Speaker 1: and basically termites like it. They eat it and it
Speaker 1: paralyzes their jaws so that they can't eat, and then
Speaker 1: the entire colony ends up starving and boom they go
Speaker 1: out that way. There are just so and then there's
Speaker 1: tenting treatments, which would mean that you guys, yeah, have
Speaker 1: to protect your valuables and move out of the house.
Speaker 1: And there's also now this is another thought that you
Speaker 1: might want to take into concern. I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: broadbrush the whole thing. There are home whole house heat treatments,
Speaker 1: heat treatments for insect and infestations. Now what that means
Speaker 1: is that instead of using a chemical or a fog
Speaker 1: to penetrate the walls for the whole house, they're going
Speaker 1: to ask that you guys be out for the day.
Speaker 1: They're going to come in in the morning. They're gonna
Speaker 1: seal up the house. They're gonna remin move things that
Speaker 1: can melt at one hundred and thirty degrees or so,
Speaker 1: protect those things like candles and various things like that.
Speaker 1: And then while you're out, just for about eight hours,
Speaker 1: while you're out doing something else for that period of
Speaker 1: time you're not gonna be at renting a hotel room,
Speaker 1: they will heat treat the house. In other words, they'll
Speaker 1: raise the overall temperature of the entire house, including all
Speaker 1: the walls and the studs and everything. And that raising
Speaker 1: of the temperature and holding at that level for a
Speaker 1: certain period of time will also kill off insects and
Speaker 1: termites inside. Now, again it doesn't leave a residue behind,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't have a future preventative residual effects. But
Speaker 1: it's a way of treating the whole house as an
Speaker 1: alternative to tentting. That doesn't mean that you have to
Speaker 1: move out for three days. So again, everything has its advantage.
Speaker 1: Everything has its limitation. It's really a question of finding
Speaker 1: and in your case, and here I'm gonna leave you
Speaker 1: with this because then I got to hit the road.
Speaker 1: Here in your case, joyce the advice I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: to you for both this situation and every other kind
Speaker 1: of homeowner DIY situation you find yourself in, the best
Speaker 1: thing you can do is to look around, find two
Speaker 1: or three or even four, take your time, find four
Speaker 1: reputable companies, have them all come out and give you
Speaker 1: free estimates and diagnosis. That way, you're getting a sense
Speaker 1: of everything that everyone is offering. And I believe most
Speaker 1: of the time, not always, but most of the time,
Speaker 1: you'll start to see a consensus form. You'll start to
Speaker 1: see two or three of these companies say, you know what,
Speaker 1: you really can handle this. Look, I think your problem
Speaker 1: is localized, or you're going to find two or three
Speaker 1: of them is kind of shaking their heads, thinking, wow,
Speaker 1: you know it really would be best to tent this
Speaker 1: place and then look at your alternatives. So, whether it's
Speaker 1: this or calling the plumber or the carpenter or whatever,
Speaker 1: two three, sometimes even four free estimates to give yourself
Speaker 1: the info you need to make the decision.
Speaker 7: Deane, I have to thank you and I have to
Speaker 7: just insert. I listen to you all the time, and
Speaker 7: up until listening to you, I've done everything wrong. I
Speaker 7: ta have one person come out charm me, sign a
Speaker 7: contract and then know what I'm doing. So I'm learning
Speaker 7: every day from you, and I appreciate it. I've already
Speaker 7: got three. I'm going to go for number four, and
Speaker 7: you've helped me already make a decision. So I can't
Speaker 7: thank you enough.
Speaker 1: And yeah, Joyce and Tina too, bless your heart. Choyce.
Speaker 1: All right, you call back anytime you need to.
Speaker 7: Okay, my friend, Okay, I shall thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, have a great day.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: We are doing an all calls weekend. Alex, welcome home.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 3: This is a question about ruth leaks. Last a storm
Speaker 3: we had, I had a roof leak in my garage
Speaker 3: and it was going down my drywall and I was
Speaker 3: wondering how I could find out where it is and
Speaker 3: what to do about it. I went up in my attic,
Speaker 3: but I didn't see where the actual leak was coming from.
Speaker 1: Did you go up in your attic while it was leaking.
Speaker 3: Yes, I did.
Speaker 1: You did mm and you saw you you didn't see
Speaker 1: any evidence of moisture anywhere.
Speaker 3: It was hard for me to tell. I mean I
Speaker 3: had a flashlight, but it was really hard to tell
Speaker 3: where exactly it was coming from. But it was a
Speaker 3: big leak area and some of the drywall was peeling off.
Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't really know.
Speaker 3: It's hard to see. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the best thing I can do other than have Okay,
Speaker 1: So first of all, if you want to get it
Speaker 1: back up there and and and see if you can
Speaker 1: rediscover it again, Okay, you can, you know, get a
Speaker 1: hose up on your roof and cut it kind of
Speaker 1: put it on the you know, wide fan spray, let
Speaker 1: it run for a little bit, see if you can't
Speaker 1: induce the leak again in order to test it out. Okay,
Speaker 1: But as a general principle, just as a general principle,
Speaker 1: here's what you're Here's the or, I should say, the
Speaker 1: trickiness about finding a roof leak, and that is that
Speaker 1: wherever by the time water ends up on the dry
Speaker 1: wall in our ceilings or running down our wall down below,
Speaker 1: it could have traveled a good distance to get there.
Speaker 1: So I don't have great news for you in that regard,
Speaker 1: because number one, the water has to get through your
Speaker 1: roofing material and then it slides down underneath the underlayment
Speaker 1: we talked about earlier on the show today, the builder paper,
Speaker 1: the roofing paper. Now, at what point does it slide
Speaker 1: down underneath? If the water gets under the shingles, it
Speaker 1: may move a ways down the roof before it actually
Speaker 1: finds a crack or an opening in the roofing paper,
Speaker 1: or maybe it moves through a flashing air. It's hard
Speaker 1: to tell exactly where on the roof exactly it's leaking
Speaker 1: based on when it comes through. It could also run
Speaker 1: on the plywood sheathing of your roof for a while
Speaker 1: before it then soaks down in starts dripping through the rafters,
Speaker 1: And it can run down a rafter for a while
Speaker 1: before it drips down onto the ceiling joist. So the
Speaker 1: general rule is this, wherever you find the water dripping
Speaker 1: down through the ceiling or on the wall, start there
Speaker 1: and track up the roof. Okay, it's definitely not coming
Speaker 1: from lower down on the roof, that's for sure, but
Speaker 1: definitely literally anywhere between that point and the very top
Speaker 1: ridge of your roof, okay, and several feet in both
Speaker 1: directions left and right as you track up. That's what
Speaker 1: you want to be looking for now. If you don't
Speaker 1: want to induce leaking again, and I would understand why,
Speaker 1: But then what you're going to have to rely on
Speaker 1: is getting up there and closely examining the rafters and
Speaker 1: the plywood to see if you can't see evidence of
Speaker 1: water dried water lines, and sometimes, and it's not uncommon,
Speaker 1: sometimes that works out really well because there's so much
Speaker 1: stuff material in the building, paper and so on, that
Speaker 1: when the water drips down, it's a little dirty and
Speaker 1: it leaves a little trail behind. So if you can
Speaker 1: find some drip lines, that's a clue. If you can
Speaker 1: actually induce the leak again and see some water running
Speaker 1: from somewhere, obviously, that's a clue. But always look up
Speaker 1: from the leak from where it's coming through up to
Speaker 1: the ridgeline, and if all else fails, coul a ruffer
Speaker 1: and let him take a look at it. All right, Alex,
Speaker 1: I hope you appreciate the answer, and good luck finding
Speaker 1: the leak. All right. I'm going to leave you with
Speaker 1: this thought. Today, you know, we have a new pope,
Speaker 1: Pope Leo, and Pope Francis died just a few days ago.
Speaker 1: And before that, of course, he was hospitalized quite a bit.
Speaker 1: And when that was happening, about the time that was happening,
Speaker 1: there was a meme, I don't know what you would
Speaker 1: call it, a note, a note that Pope Francis supposedly
Speaker 1: wrote from his hospital bed that was circulating around social media.
Speaker 1: I think it still is, actually in various forms, and
Speaker 1: somebody sent it to me and I read it and
Speaker 1: I thought it was lovely. I had some really lovely
Speaker 1: thoughts to it. Now I wanted to check it out
Speaker 1: before I shared it with you. And of course it
Speaker 1: turns out, according to snopes dot com and some other sources,
Speaker 1: that there's really no evidence that the Pope Francis actually
Speaker 1: wrote this. So I'm just I'm entitling this not Pope
Speaker 1: Francis's hospital note. But here's the thing. I don't know
Speaker 1: why we lean on authority to give some validity to
Speaker 1: things that are just true anyway, So but people do,
Speaker 1: and so somebody felt the need to attribute it to
Speaker 1: Pope Francis. I do not feel the need to attribute
Speaker 1: it to Pope Francis, letting you know, as far as
Speaker 1: we know, he did not say these things. But I
Speaker 1: really appreciated the person who shared this with me, and
Speaker 1: I appreciate the thoughts, so I'm gonna share it with you.
Speaker 1: It is essentially called lessons from loss, and it goes
Speaker 1: like this. The walls of hospitals here more honest prayers
Speaker 1: than most churches. They have witnessed, far more sincere kisses
Speaker 1: than those in airports. It is in hospitals that you
Speaker 1: see a homophobe being saved by a gay doctor, or
Speaker 1: a privileged doctor saving the life of a beggar. In
Speaker 1: intensive care, you see a Jew taking care of a racist,
Speaker 1: a police officer and a prisoner in the same room
Speaker 1: receiving the same care, a wealthy patient waiting for a
Speaker 1: liver transplant ready to receive the organ from a poor donor.
Speaker 1: It is in these moments, when the hospital touches the
Speaker 1: wounds of people, the different worlds intersect, according to maybe
Speaker 1: a divine design, and in this communion of destinies we
Speaker 1: realize that alone we are nothing. Now the absolute truth
Speaker 1: of people, most of the time, only reveals itself in
Speaker 1: moments of pain or in the real threat of an
Speaker 1: irreversible loss. Loss is the place where human beings remove
Speaker 1: their masks and show themselves as they truly are, in
Speaker 1: their purest essence. This life will pass quickly, don't we
Speaker 1: know it. Don't waste it fighting with people. Don't criticize
Speaker 1: your body too much, don't complain excessively, don't lose sleep
Speaker 1: over the bills. Don't worry too much about keeping the
Speaker 1: house spotless, but make sure to hug your loved ones.
Speaker 1: Material goods must be earned by each person. Don't dedicate
Speaker 1: yourself to accumulating an inheritance. You are waiting for too much.
Speaker 1: For Christmas, for Friday, for next year, for when you
Speaker 1: have money, for when love arrives, when everything is perfect,
Speaker 1: but perfection does not exist here. We are given an
Speaker 1: opportunity to learn. So make the most of this life,
Speaker 1: and do it now. Respect yourself, respect others. Walk your
Speaker 1: own path, not the path that others have chosen for you. Respect,
Speaker 1: Do not comment, do not judge, do not interfere. You
Speaker 1: love more, you forgive more, embrace more, and live more intensely,
Speaker 1: and let everyone else make their own choices. I think
Speaker 1: those are pretty good thoughts, and to them, of course,
Speaker 1: I would add, get out there and get busy building
Speaker 1: yourself a beautiful life. Thanks for joining us on the
Speaker 1: program today. We will see you right back here next weekend.
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