Speaker 1: Let's say good morning too. The host of Home on
Speaker 1: KFI our house whisper Dean Sharp.
Speaker 2: Morning, Dean, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's a dy weekend. I love a good DIY.
Speaker 1: It's so fun. Yeah, it makes you feel like you
Speaker 1: really kind of can accomplish things. And we've got some
Speaker 1: big projects, some small projects. But you're going to be
Speaker 1: talking about diys on your show this weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're going to be focusing on Sometimes very
Speaker 2: little things make the big difference when di wires get
Speaker 2: active on a project and they get frustrated because they're like, well, wait,
Speaker 2: the instructions never said how much of this or how
Speaker 2: little of that, or how to do this? And so
Speaker 2: I'm going to be taking and tackling some of those
Speaker 2: those little techniques that make all the difference. And we'll
Speaker 2: be taking calls on Saturday and spending most of Sunday
Speaker 2: talking about these fix it tips.
Speaker 1: Okay, So that's there's so many here. I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: need to do that, need to do that. I've tried that,
Speaker 1: can't do that. Here's an easy one, hopefully. What if
Speaker 1: if your toilet runs in the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: that's still a problem.
Speaker 2: Sometimes, Yes, the haunted toilet. Why are we laying in
Speaker 2: bed and all of a sudden we hear the toilet running.
Speaker 2: It's usually something super super simple. It's just usually nine
Speaker 2: times out of ten, it's the flapper inside the tank.
Speaker 2: It's that little flap that opens up that the chain
Speaker 2: is connected to from the handle of the toilet. That
Speaker 2: flapper sits in water constantly in its entire life, and
Speaker 2: eventually the rubber of the flapper starts to fail, and
Speaker 2: so it starts leaking water a little bit into the tank,
Speaker 2: a little bit, a little bit more, and then the
Speaker 2: tank drops its water level and the valve wants to
Speaker 2: refill it, and that's what we hear in the middle
Speaker 2: of the night. Fortunately, a flapper costs.
Speaker 3: Like four dollars five dollars at the hardware core and
Speaker 3: takes all of you know, thirty seconds to change out,
Speaker 3: and suddenly we will not have our haunted toilet being
Speaker 3: used by no one in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1: Okay, So that's that's a great quick fix. Okay, here's
Speaker 1: another one. I've run into this. I bet you have
Speaker 1: to what do you do when you bust a light
Speaker 1: bulb and you need to get it out and there's
Speaker 1: all that sharp glass.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know what, I've I always mentioned two
Speaker 2: things here because there's the right way to do it,
Speaker 2: and then there is this this kind of mythological story
Speaker 2: of how to do it. I think if you look online,
Speaker 2: everybody says, oh, just get a potato, get a get
Speaker 2: a rusted potato and shove it up in there and
Speaker 2: start to turn it. And you know what, we've tried
Speaker 2: it before, and every once in a while it works.
Speaker 2: But don't don't waste your time with the potato. There's
Speaker 2: no reason to get a potato anywhere near a broken
Speaker 2: light bulb. You just make sure that the power is
Speaker 2: off and that there is no energy running to that fixture.
Speaker 2: And this is where the use of a pair of
Speaker 2: needle nosed plyers comes in handy. You either grab the
Speaker 2: very center of that broken bulb fixture, or with needlenose plyers,
Speaker 2: you can grab the edge of the of the brass
Speaker 2: cup that's still stuck up there in the fixture, bend
Speaker 2: it in a little bit and rotate it clockwise and
Speaker 2: you'll see that you'll get all of that out quickly.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about using a rusted potato.
Speaker 1: But I have used the potato, and it did work
Speaker 1: one time.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: You know. The funny thing is because potatoes are just
Speaker 2: firm enough and just moist enough that they form kind
Speaker 2: of a vacuum seal around what's left, and they become
Speaker 2: essentially a wrench for taking it out. It's just will
Speaker 2: frustrate somebody if you go all the way to the
Speaker 2: store and get a potato, bring it home, get up
Speaker 2: there on your ladder and find out that the fixture
Speaker 2: is stuck in there a little bit too much, and
Speaker 2: that the potato just turns and turns, and you're like, Okay,
Speaker 2: why did I waste a trip to the store when
Speaker 2: I could have just used a pair of plyers exactly
Speaker 2: to just use the player.
Speaker 1: Dean Sharp is going to be saving you unnecessary trips
Speaker 1: to the store all weekend long. I would love to
Speaker 1: talk about more of this. Unfortunately we don't have the
Speaker 1: time to do it, but you're going to talk about
Speaker 1: it this weekend. What to do with mushy light receptacles,
Speaker 1: I've got that problem. How do you repair a damaged
Speaker 1: window screen, I've got that problem. How do you fix
Speaker 1: a jiggling doorknob, I've got that problem? And how do
Speaker 1: you Reattach loose carpet. I've got all these problems, So
Speaker 1: I'm going to be listening to your show this weekend.
Speaker 1: Dean sounds great, Okay great Saturday from six to eight
Speaker 1: right here on KFI, and then Sundays nine to noon.
Speaker 1: It's a Home with Dean Sharp. You can also follow
Speaker 1: him at Home with Dean. Thank you, Dean Sharp.
Speaker 2: Thanks Amy