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Speaker 1: All right, we are in the midst of an all
Speaker 1: calls Sunday morning. I am so enjoying just talking to
Speaker 1: you as we just cover whatever it is that you
Speaker 1: want to talk about regarding your home. Let's go back
Speaker 1: to the phones. I want to talk to Bob. Hey, Bob,
Speaker 1: welcome home.
Speaker 2: You steed look at the risk of boring your listeners
Speaker 2: about these airs, my friend.
Speaker 1: No, no, we will talk forever about these until every
Speaker 1: home in southern California has them.
Speaker 2: So I'm on and it scares me to death just
Speaker 2: looking at these things. But I also have a crawl
Speaker 2: space with crawl space vents that are about, I don't know,
Speaker 2: a foot off the deck and there's so many of them.
Speaker 2: Is that not a fear?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, same same same concern. Event event is event
Speaker 1: is event the same concern and uh uh and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: So you head on over to uh, you know, my
Speaker 1: buddies at brand guard Vents brandguardvents dot com. There are
Speaker 1: partners on the show. Brand guard makes all vents for
Speaker 1: your house, Okay, garage vents on your front of your
Speaker 1: garage door, the vent on the bottom of your water
Speaker 1: heater cabinet if it's outside. What you're talking about are
Speaker 1: there's two different kinds of events that we say there.
Speaker 1: There is the foundation vents. If you have a raised
Speaker 1: foundation house, then you've got foundation vents all around the
Speaker 1: premier of your house. There are different sizes. There are
Speaker 1: a couple of common sizes out there in terms of
Speaker 1: foundation vents, you know that are sort of typical sizes.
Speaker 1: They have those, you know in stock like if you've
Speaker 1: got a standard six by fourteen or an eight by
Speaker 1: sixteen side, those are the most common size foundation events.
Speaker 1: But if yours is an odd size, they'll custom make
Speaker 1: the event for that covering right there, for that penetration.
Speaker 1: So yeah, for those of you who have sub floors,
Speaker 1: I meaning crawl spaces under your house, absolutely all the
Speaker 1: vents on the house.
Speaker 3: It is a.
Speaker 1: Small, small investment, a small price to pay to fire
Speaker 1: harden your home in the most important way possible. And yes,
Speaker 1: also the crawl space access vent the one that you
Speaker 1: actually remove to get under the house.
Speaker 3: All of them, all of those are all.
Speaker 1: Available from brand Guard, and yeah, you should change them
Speaker 1: all out. Now, if you live on a slab, you
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about stuff down below. But just
Speaker 1: add events and events and all of that. But yeah, Bob,
Speaker 1: they make them all great.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your help, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: You are very welcome, my friend. Let's start another call,
Speaker 1: shall we? Let's start one way. I won't be able
Speaker 1: to finish it because I'm gonna stay on time. Here Melody,
Speaker 1: welcome home. Hello, Hello, Oh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dan, I have I'm trying to repurpose an old
Speaker 4: upright piano and I want to separate the section that
Speaker 4: holds all the chords from the back panel which supports
Speaker 4: the chord panel. Now it's an antique piano, so it's
Speaker 4: quite old. And if the two panels are glued together
Speaker 4: and I dissolve, I'm trying to figure out how I
Speaker 4: can separate the back panel from the chord panel, which
Speaker 4: currently is glued on. Is there any way I can
Speaker 4: dissolve the glue.
Speaker 3: In order to finish this restoration?
Speaker 4: Yes, Well, because I don't need the back panel, I
Speaker 4: want to. I want to repurpose the panel that holds
Speaker 4: the cords because the cords are copper, and I want
Speaker 4: to make the back panel black and the cords the copper.
Speaker 4: And of course I want to put that at a
Speaker 4: piece of art.
Speaker 1: So gotcha, gotcha, got right. So I'm we're right at
Speaker 1: the brake line right now. So I'm gonna pop you
Speaker 1: on hold you've been holding already from the popy hold
Speaker 1: and and I'm gonna answer this question on the other
Speaker 1: side of the brake and probably expanded into a slightly
Speaker 1: larger topic, and that is, you know, how do you
Speaker 1: how do you even find out where to even begin
Speaker 1: to look to find out how to do the opposite
Speaker 1: of what most.
Speaker 3: People want with gluing?
Speaker 1: When when the when glue gets mentioned, we want to
Speaker 1: stick things together, but what if there's glue already there
Speaker 1: and we want to pull it apart? We will answer
Speaker 1: that right on the other side of the break. So Melody,
Speaker 1: you hang tight and the rest of you. Here's a treat.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the program today. Southern California.
Speaker 1: You are experiencing cold, rainy weather. Thank goodness, celebrate it,
Speaker 1: enjoy it, indulge in it today because it's gonna help.
Speaker 1: It's gonna help every single fire, which we've already turned
Speaker 1: the corner on these fires.
Speaker 3: But it's going to help.
Speaker 1: And hopefully it doesn't come down so much in so
Speaker 1: fast that it will end up hurting and moving soil
Speaker 1: because of what the fires have done. But just let's
Speaker 1: embrace it. Let's embrace the wind for the moment, shall we.
Speaker 1: We're taking a pause from all the craziness of the
Speaker 1: last three weeks and just having an open calls all
Speaker 1: calls Sunday. You set the agenda for the show, loving it,
Speaker 1: loving talking.
Speaker 3: To you as I always do.
Speaker 1: I've got Melody on hold and the melody are you
Speaker 1: still with me?
Speaker 4: I'm still here here the.
Speaker 3: There she is, all right.
Speaker 1: So, right before the break, Melody was explaining that she's
Speaker 1: got a project in the works on an old piano
Speaker 1: that she's wanting to repurpose some portions of it, and
Speaker 1: she needs to figure out how to separate the Now,
Speaker 1: is it actually the frame that holds the strings that
Speaker 1: you're trying to separate from a wood panel that's glued
Speaker 1: to it is that?
Speaker 3: Did I get that right?
Speaker 4: That's correct? Yeah, it's an old upright. So the support
Speaker 4: panel is framed by authentic two by fours really two
Speaker 4: inches by four inches? Yeah, right right, you know, and
Speaker 4: that's covered with uh some type of plywood. That then
Speaker 4: that frame attaches to the frame holding all of the piano.
Speaker 3: Chords right, all the strings.
Speaker 6: So that's the.
Speaker 4: Part that needs to be separated because it would be
Speaker 4: so heavy. It's heavy as it is, but I want
Speaker 4: to reduce the weight so I can put this thing
Speaker 4: up on the wall.
Speaker 1: I got you, all right, So you're you're trying to
Speaker 1: actually just get the get the frame out of there,
Speaker 1: get the harp portion, the cords out of there.
Speaker 4: Not the cords are attached to a panel, and that
Speaker 4: panel is then attached to another support panel, and it's
Speaker 4: the supporting panel I want to separate from the panel
Speaker 4: that is the cords are affixed too.
Speaker 1: Right right, All right, Well, you have a challenge ahead
Speaker 1: of you. It's not impossible. Sometimes when things are incredibly
Speaker 1: well adhered together, they are incredibly difficult to separate, especially
Speaker 1: when you don't have access to be able to dip
Speaker 1: them or soak them in a solvent. But I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that it can't be done, but you're going to
Speaker 1: have to just sort of experiment with it. Chances are,
Speaker 1: now this is a broad brushing of the subject, Chances are,
Speaker 1: in that situation the solvent that you're looking for, and
Speaker 1: a solvent is what we're talking about, that would be
Speaker 1: the definition of a chemical that would dissolve another chemical property.
Speaker 1: A solvent that you're looking for there is very very
Speaker 1: likely going to be acetone. Okay, probably nine times out
Speaker 1: of ten. When it comes to wood furniture and instruments,
Speaker 1: acetone is going to be the key to dissolving the
Speaker 1: glues that hold them together. Acetone does a good job
Speaker 1: of dissolving most wood glues. Acetone also does a great
Speaker 1: job of dissolving metal to wood epoxies when there's a
Speaker 1: metal to wood connection that has to be dissolved away.
Speaker 1: And so that would be my general suggestion is acetone
Speaker 1: also rubbing alcohol, but rubbing alcohol likely will not be
Speaker 1: as potent. The trick when it comes to this, it's
Speaker 1: not about severity of the chemical that we're using. It
Speaker 1: is just literally chemistry. It's chemistry, and so you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes water is the best solvent to separate two things,
Speaker 1: and you think, oh, well, water is not powerful.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes it is.
Speaker 1: It's all about does the particular molecular structure of this
Speaker 1: chemical interact with the molecular structure of the other chemical
Speaker 1: in a way that breaks the bonds apart. Okay, it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to necessarily be caustic, although most of the
Speaker 1: time they tend to be somewhat caustic. So anyway, all
Speaker 1: of that to say, I'm thinking in your situation that
Speaker 1: you carefully attempt to start working those seams with acetone,
Speaker 1: acetone and anything that you can carefully pry in between
Speaker 1: the two panels in order to let the acetone penetrate
Speaker 1: deeper along the seam or the face of the glued surface.
Speaker 1: You'd probably see your best results that way. Acetone rubbing alcohol.
Speaker 1: I would go with the acetone first and just be
Speaker 1: super careful and super safe as you handle it. The
Speaker 1: other thing that I wanted to bring up to everybody
Speaker 1: is a little secret weapon of mine. Are you ready?
Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? Since Melody raised the question
Speaker 1: of glues, how do you know? How do you know
Speaker 1: what to do with what?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: You kind of reverse engineer this thing Okay, you reverse
Speaker 1: engineered in the sense of like whether if you're trying
Speaker 1: to separate a thing, you've got to figure out how
Speaker 1: they likely glued it in the first place. And also
Speaker 1: if you're just interested in it hearing something one thing
Speaker 1: to another, and we should do an adhesive We're going
Speaker 1: to do an adhesive show soon in the next few weeks.
Speaker 1: We're going to do We're going to bring back an
Speaker 1: adhesive show and a tape show because it's so helpful
Speaker 1: for people. But anyway, here is an invaluable website. I
Speaker 1: love it. It's called this to that, This to that
Speaker 1: dot com? As in, how do I attach this to that? Okay,
Speaker 1: this to that dot com? I literally couldn't tell you
Speaker 1: right at the moment.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 1: I don't remember who put this together. Some rocket scientists somewhere,
Speaker 1: some chemical engineers. Anyway, here's what you do. Here's what
Speaker 1: you find when you go to this to that dot com.
Speaker 1: You get there and right at the top it says
Speaker 1: this to that and it says I'm reading it right
Speaker 1: off the website because people have a need to glue
Speaker 1: things to other things. And then there are pulled down
Speaker 1: menus and it says attach and then there's a blank
Speaker 1: here and there's a pulldown bar ceramic, fabric, glass, leather, metal, paper, plastic, rubber.
Speaker 1: So let's say, like if I wanted to attach leather,
Speaker 1: and then it says two another thing. Let's just say glass,
Speaker 1: attach leather to glass, and then you press the button.
Speaker 1: Let's glue, and guess what we get leather to glass.
Speaker 1: For the strongest bond, we recommend general electric silicone two.
Speaker 1: Also see potentially seal all or household goop or for
Speaker 1: a non toxic alternative weld bond. Oh my gosh, right,
Speaker 1: all of that information. So in Melody's case, here this
Speaker 1: is what I actually did during the break. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I think it's acetone, but I'm going
Speaker 1: to go to this to that. And so what I
Speaker 1: went is I went in and I put in a
Speaker 1: couple of options of how to attach to this to that,
Speaker 1: found the adhesives that are most likely used, and then
Speaker 1: all I have to do is kind of do a
Speaker 1: reverse question. And that is what solvent out there breaks
Speaker 1: down these most common adhesives, and that's where we arrived
Speaker 1: at actone. And there you have it. So I'm showing
Speaker 1: you how the sausage is made a little bit here.
Speaker 1: But I'm also giving you this great great or resource
Speaker 1: this to that dot com. Oh the fun you can
Speaker 1: have there. All right, y'all, Melody, thank you for your call.
Speaker 1: Good luck on that project. Sounds fascinating and awesome. Please
Speaker 1: send me a pick when you are done more of
Speaker 1: your calls when we return your Home with Dean Sharp
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Speaker 1: Your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. It is
Speaker 1: a beautifully rainy, cool Southern California Sunday morning. I am
Speaker 1: as always honored to be spending time with you on
Speaker 1: this morning, and we're taking nothing but calls all weekend
Speaker 1: long here just because man, I just love talking to you,
Speaker 1: helping you out with your house, and we're just taking
Speaker 1: a breather from the flood of information that you've heard
Speaker 1: from us over the last few weeks fire wise, and
Speaker 1: I'm totally down for talking fires, by the way, but
Speaker 1: also anything else, just so that we can all just
Speaker 1: breathe deep this morning, enjoy the fact that mother nature
Speaker 1: has showed up and said okay, that's enough enough of that,
Speaker 1: let's go back to the phones.
Speaker 3: I want to talk to Jeff. Hey, Jeff, welcome home.
Speaker 6: Oh wise, Dean, I hope you can help me with
Speaker 6: my greatest frustration at home improvement.
Speaker 1: Oh no, See, when you start like that, you're just
Speaker 1: setting me up for failure.
Speaker 6: No, I don't think so. So if you take sandpaper
Speaker 6: to wood, you get fine sawdust and you get smooth wood.
Speaker 6: What's upon a time we used to paint walls and
Speaker 6: if you take sandpaper to it, you'd have a similar result.
Speaker 6: But now that we coat our walls with plastic, you
Speaker 6: stand that and it melts the plastic and you get
Speaker 6: really bad results instead of smooth walls. So what do
Speaker 6: you do?
Speaker 3: Well, what do you do?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: So you ease up on the sanding, is what you do.
Speaker 1: So I'm assuming that what we're setting up here is
Speaker 1: the idea that you've got acrylic based or latex based
Speaker 1: paints on the walls, and you know, they have a
Speaker 1: rubbery sort of you know, plastic key aspect to them.
Speaker 1: They're not all lead based paints like in the good
Speaker 1: old days, you know, when you could lick your walls
Speaker 1: and die, but they were so sturdy and they're not
Speaker 1: oil based paints anymore. But yeah, so under the friction
Speaker 1: of an aggressive sanding, you can you can kind of
Speaker 1: regelatinize a coat of paint on your wall and you
Speaker 1: end up with gummy, gooey whatever stuff. So here's the thing.
Speaker 1: If you are restanding a room and you're committed to
Speaker 1: just stripping the paint off the walls and getting back
Speaker 1: to ground zero, then you know what, you just ignore
Speaker 1: that and you just keep on going. You just plow
Speaker 1: through the goo. You change out your sandpaper, and you
Speaker 1: continue on. However, if the paint is just like, well,
Speaker 1: we don't like this color of paint, and I want
Speaker 1: to change the paint in this room, and it's time
Speaker 1: change the paint. But it's bonded well and it's holding well,
Speaker 1: then the mistake that a lot of people make is
Speaker 1: to go at it too aggressively with too heavy a
Speaker 1: grit of sandpaper. You know, you don't need to use
Speaker 1: eighty grit or one hundred grit sandpaper to prep a
Speaker 1: wall for new paint, especially if the paint is in
Speaker 1: decent bonding shape. And when I say decent shape, I
Speaker 1: don't mean it's got marker and it's just color. No
Speaker 1: I mean, is it grabbing the wall? Well, all right,
Speaker 1: So in that case, you approach the wall with a
Speaker 1: screen what we call something in that on the spectrum
Speaker 1: of sandpaper approaches the end of the spectrum that we
Speaker 1: call screening. Screening is literally just the lightest kind of sandpaper,
Speaker 1: because all we're looking to do is open up the
Speaker 1: porosity of what's there, not remove what's there, but open
Speaker 1: up its porosity so that the new code of paint
Speaker 1: bonds well to it. And for that you could use
Speaker 1: one eighty two hundred. I mean, in some situations you
Speaker 1: can simply do it with you know, heavy hot steel wool,
Speaker 1: which is I'm not recommending it, I'm just using that
Speaker 1: as an illustrate. So to avoid the uh, the gelatinization
Speaker 1: of your existing paint. If it's a room where you
Speaker 1: can live with having that paint stay on the wall,
Speaker 1: then lighten up on the on the sanding pressure and
Speaker 1: lighten up on the grit so that you're just opening
Speaker 1: up the perocity of that paint and you're not going
Speaker 1: to get in you know, in the world of goo
Speaker 1: and gum.
Speaker 6: Yeah, where I have the biggest problems on trim on
Speaker 6: the molding.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Now, trim is tricky. Trim.
Speaker 1: Uh, you know, again, the rule still applies, but on
Speaker 1: trim sometimes sometimes it's time to strip it, and sometimes
Speaker 1: you could actually just do better again, foregoing the sand
Speaker 1: paper altogether. And uh, let's just get a little bit
Speaker 1: of paint stripper on there and apply it carefully, let
Speaker 1: it do its work, and get right back down to
Speaker 1: the base of the wood itself. Of course, be careful
Speaker 1: to make sure that it's wood that you're working with
Speaker 1: and not some like MDF casing or baseboard, because you
Speaker 1: do that with some stripper and you just go right
Speaker 1: through it, just like, oh.
Speaker 3: It dissolved my base board. But assuming baseboard.
Speaker 1: Then stripper sometimes will do a far better job of
Speaker 1: just getting you back to ground zero.
Speaker 4: Cool.
Speaker 3: How'd I do?
Speaker 6: Pretty good?
Speaker 1: You sound a little disappointed, though, I gotta say, I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm listening.
Speaker 6: Try it and see if it works.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, all right, all right, all right, my friend. Well,
Speaker 1: thanks for keeping an open mind, and hopefully my wisdom
Speaker 1: did not disappoint you this time around. And give it
Speaker 1: a shot, and I think you'll I think you'll see
Speaker 1: it works out. Remember, everybody, when you're repainting a room,
Speaker 1: you don't need to strip the old paint off, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, in some cases that's the goal, right, It's like,
Speaker 1: but even even when it comes to dangerous things like
Speaker 1: lead based paint, Okay, you've got a hundred year old
Speaker 1: house and you know that there's lead in the paint.
Speaker 1: And again, you don't want your you know, your two
Speaker 1: year old being able to you know, rub their fingers
Speaker 1: all over the wall or lick the wall. And I'm
Speaker 1: not saying your two year old as a wall licker.
Speaker 1: Every two year old is a wall liquor, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying even those quote unquote dangerous paints don't have
Speaker 1: to be stripped. In fact, I would tell most homeowners
Speaker 1: don't because you're then you're disrupting it and putting it
Speaker 1: out into the air around you. Better to encapsulate it,
Speaker 1: meaning that there are coatings that can go over the
Speaker 1: top of that. So the moral of the story is,
Speaker 1: if you're repainting a room, unless the paint that you've
Speaker 1: got is peeling off, and sometimes it is, that needs
Speaker 1: to come down because that's not a stable base to
Speaker 1: put more paint on. But if the paint is holding,
Speaker 1: it's just old and dingy and gross and whatever. All
Speaker 1: you have to do is take the sheen off of it.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is just very lightly rough
Speaker 1: it up a little bit so that the porosity on
Speaker 1: the microscopic level has opened up and is ready for
Speaker 1: the new paint to get into those pores and grab on,
Speaker 1: and the new paint's gonna hold just fine. So a
Speaker 1: lot of homeowners, a lot of di wires, run into
Speaker 1: back breaking projects when solely because you know, they went
Speaker 1: at it with too aggressively and they created the backbreaking
Speaker 1: work for themselves, when just a little bit here and
Speaker 1: there would have been enough to get them rolling to
Speaker 1: the next phase. And there you go, all right more
Speaker 1: when we return.
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Speaker 1: Well, here we are at the end of another three
Speaker 1: hours show that we have spent with you this morning.
Speaker 1: I hope you have enjoyed the time. I'm not done yet.
Speaker 1: I think I have time for one more quick call.
Speaker 1: It's been an all calls weekend. If you've missed any
Speaker 1: of it, you know, find us on the podcast and
Speaker 1: you will. You'll enjoy it. You'll enjoy both Saturday and Sundays.
Speaker 1: Really good callers this weekend. And I've been in good
Speaker 1: mood too, and that always helps, not that I usually
Speaker 1: i'm not, but you know, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Let's talk to Carrie. Carrie, welcome home. Hi, good morning.
Speaker 1: How can I help you?
Speaker 6: Hi?
Speaker 4: I just want to say I really enjoy your show.
Speaker 7: And I just bought a new home, new to me
Speaker 7: as a fixer upper, and I have a four hundred
Speaker 7: square foot covered patio and I'm having a bit of
Speaker 7: sticker shock with everything. And when I got the price
Speaker 7: for a tile, it was quite a bit of money,
Speaker 7: and I was told if I put granite grip paint down,
Speaker 7: it's about half the price. And I was wondering, in
Speaker 7: your opinion, is it worth spending the money for tile
Speaker 7: or is the grant grip paint a good thing to
Speaker 7: go with?
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I mean explain the patio for me. Is
Speaker 1: it covered? How exposed is it to slippery moisture?
Speaker 3: And uh?
Speaker 1: And when you say the granite grip paint, you mean
Speaker 1: you're just wanting to do that on top of your
Speaker 1: concrete for a granity kind of look versus running it
Speaker 1: running tile.
Speaker 7: Well, yes, it's covered. And it's it's a it has
Speaker 7: copped out indoor outdoor carpet on it right now, but
Speaker 7: there is a cement slab underneath. So I'm just just wondering,
Speaker 7: what do you Is it worth spending the extra money
Speaker 7: for the tile, which I'm kind of leaning towards.
Speaker 6: But.
Speaker 7: I just wonder what you thought about the granite grip paint.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't have any problems with granite grip paint
Speaker 1: if that's the thing that everybody is looking to do,
Speaker 1: but again, it is a coding and it has a
Speaker 1: certain look and a certain vibe, and if your heart
Speaker 1: is leaning toward tile, I would do the tile.
Speaker 3: I mean, just straight out.
Speaker 1: Sometimes sometimes a client will come to me and say,
Speaker 1: I really want to do this on my patio. You know,
Speaker 1: I want to cover my patio with marshmallows. Deem, How
Speaker 1: does that sound? You know it could be problematic, but honestly, honestly, Carrie,
Speaker 1: in those situations, you know what I say, Well, let
Speaker 1: me think about that, and I literally, if possible, and
Speaker 1: I'm exaggerating a little bit, but in some situations not
Speaker 1: so much. If possible, I'm going to figure out a
Speaker 1: way to put marshmallows on this damn patio right and
Speaker 1: have it last, because that's what my client wants to do.
Speaker 3: Uh, in your case, I mean the tile on the patio,
Speaker 3: exterior patio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's just make sure that it's a tile that
Speaker 1: does well in exterior applications, that that it's a tile
Speaker 1: that's going to last. And on the grip side of things,
Speaker 1: let's make sure that it is a flooring tile that
Speaker 1: has a good grip coefficient to it.
Speaker 3: In other words, that you know, the minute.
Speaker 1: It gets a little bit moist, you know, we don't
Speaker 1: want people slipping and dying out there.
Speaker 3: And so may.
Speaker 4: I ask you, yeah, sorry, may I ask you? What
Speaker 4: is the grip?
Speaker 3: Is it friction?
Speaker 7: Is that the number that I'm looking for? What number?
Speaker 7: What I be looking for?
Speaker 3: The grip exactly?
Speaker 1: The friction coefficient because you want the friction to be high.
Speaker 1: You know, the opposite of high friction is you know,
Speaker 1: teflon is just slippery. You want a full stick patio
Speaker 1: so that people just walk out and uh and just
Speaker 1: feel confident even even when it's wet and so but there,
Speaker 1: there's there's a thousand tile applications that will work in
Speaker 1: that situation. So uh, you know, I am all about
Speaker 1: as a designer, uh, making function match the form that
Speaker 1: you want. And so the form that you are looking for,
Speaker 1: the look, the vibe, the feel that you're looking for,
Speaker 1: that should always come first and then only be steered
Speaker 1: away from if for some reason, the like I said,
Speaker 1: marshmallows right, the form that you're looking for just isn't
Speaker 1: going to work in that environment. And in your case,
Speaker 1: there's a thousand tiles you can put out up there
Speaker 1: and and have it last and make it look gorgeous.
Speaker 3: So why not you have my full thumbs up. Go
Speaker 3: for it.
Speaker 7: Okay, I'm so child.
Speaker 1: Thank you all right, Gerry, thank you so much. Great call,
Speaker 1: great calls today, just great calls today. I'm thinking I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to draw the line right there, left a
Speaker 1: couple of callers online. If you guys who are still
Speaker 1: holding want to call back next week, then you let
Speaker 1: Richie know that, Hey, I was on the line last week,
Speaker 1: Dean didn't get to me. I am happy to move
Speaker 1: you to the front of the line because that's the
Speaker 1: way we treat people around here with respect. We can't
Speaker 1: always meet every need every weekend, but we'll get to you.
Speaker 1: I promise we always will all right, thanks for spending
Speaker 1: the time with me again this morning. It has of
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Speaker 3: All right. So a bit of a.
Speaker 1: Bit of an of an interesting closing thought today, a
Speaker 1: thought actually about not having a closing thought, and then
Speaker 1: it turned into a little bit of a closing thought.
Speaker 1: So all right, take it for what it will. I'm
Speaker 1: going to leave you with this thought today. There are
Speaker 1: Sunday mornings that I wake up with something unmistakably potent
Speaker 1: on my mind, and then there are others when I
Speaker 1: have to sit for a while and listen before whatever
Speaker 1: it is that I'm feeling rises to the surface. And
Speaker 1: then there are days like today when I seem to
Speaker 1: know from the moment that I open my eyes that
Speaker 1: there just aren't going to be any messages waiting in
Speaker 1: the inbox of my brain. It doesn't mean it's.
Speaker 3: A bad day, or that I'm down, or that I'm
Speaker 3: too tired to be clever. It's just a day when
Speaker 3: things are quiet inside.
Speaker 1: And on those mornings, I still get up, pour myself
Speaker 1: a coffee, and I sit by the fire and I
Speaker 1: listen and just.
Speaker 3: Quiet.
Speaker 1: And when I'm pushing myself to produce something, quiet is
Speaker 1: not what I want to hear. But I think quiet
Speaker 1: is a kind of message in and of itself.
Speaker 3: After all.
Speaker 1: I think it's my own soul's way of letting me
Speaker 1: know that today just have to find something else to do.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like showing up to a place that
Speaker 1: you planned on spending some time and finding that it's closed,
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, I didn't know they were closed
Speaker 1: on Sundays, So okay, now what, Well, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 3: So here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I have no idea if today is that kind of
Speaker 1: day for you, Perhaps it's a good day for quiet.
Speaker 1: Perhaps you've been sitting too long and it's time to
Speaker 1: get up and get something going. I don't think there's
Speaker 1: a right answer. I think there's just your answer, and
Speaker 1: I'll suggest this though, whatever it is, honor yourself in it.
Speaker 1: Speak to yourself like you speak to somebody that you love.
Speaker 1: Always try to speak to yourself like you speak to
Speaker 1: someone that you love. And then whether it's racing or resting, creating,
Speaker 1: or just quiet, you'll know that you're doing what you
Speaker 1: should do to build yourself a beautiful life. Everybody, enjoy
Speaker 1: this rainy weather today, enjoy the afternoon, Enjoy the NFL playoffs,
Speaker 1: Enjoy whatever.
Speaker 3: It is that you are about doing today.
Speaker 1: Honor yourself and we will see you right back here
Speaker 1: next week. This has been Home with Dean Sharp, the
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