Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of Home
Speaker 1: on KFI, the house whisper Dean Sharp.
Speaker 2: Good morning Dean, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 1: So this week on Home on KFI, we're going to
Speaker 1: be sharing concrete facts.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, nice one, thank you.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, you're talking about concrete.
Speaker 2: Sunday, we're talking all about concrete. I'm going to have
Speaker 2: a special in studio guest, one of the finest concrete
Speaker 2: contractors in southern California, and we're just going to be
Speaker 2: talking all things concrete. It's something that affects everybody. Homeowners
Speaker 2: have all sorts of questions about their concrete in all
Speaker 2: its various forms around their house. So we're going to
Speaker 2: try and elucidate some interesting facts about concrete, also teach
Speaker 2: you a few things about where it goes, how it works,
Speaker 2: and then answer all those pesky questions about what's wrong
Speaker 2: with the concrete house.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know, I had a really good friend,
Speaker 1: in fact, we called him Concrete Dave when I lived
Speaker 1: up in Oregon, and he obviously did concrete work. And
Speaker 1: it's really an art, like you can be good at
Speaker 1: concrete or you can be bad. So hopefully you're going
Speaker 1: to be giving tips on how to do it good.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure. It absolutely is an art. It's
Speaker 2: one of those things where you know, I've understood the
Speaker 2: steps and the science of it and the processes and
Speaker 2: the prep work, but I never, I have never in
Speaker 2: my career gotten involved in the actual finishing and forming
Speaker 2: of concrete because it's truly a craft and it takes that.
Speaker 2: It takes that ten thousand hours of just you know,
Speaker 2: hand dexterity and in order to get it right, and
Speaker 2: it makes all the difference in the world.
Speaker 1: And because if you don't do it right, what are
Speaker 1: some of the bad things that are going to happen.
Speaker 2: Well, the thing about concrete is that you's it's kind
Speaker 2: of like baking in a strange world. Concrete is a recipe.
Speaker 2: It's a mixture of four things, essentially of basically cement
Speaker 2: Portland cement aggregates, two kinds of aggregates, rocks like gravel
Speaker 2: and sand, and then water and the ratio of those
Speaker 2: ingredients put together. As soon as you mix them together,
Speaker 2: there's this thermogenic process in which it heats up and
Speaker 2: it starts to activate and bind together. And the timing
Speaker 2: of it, just like putting a mixture of dough in
Speaker 2: the oven is or cake batter probably a better analogy.
Speaker 2: It's just critical as to when it happens, how it happens,
Speaker 2: and all the conditions around it, including the weather and
Speaker 2: the temperature on that day, and if you got one
Speaker 2: shot at getting it right, because it's a synthetic stone,
Speaker 2: and when it sets, it's it's pretty much done and
Speaker 2: there's no turning back from it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the other thing it's cool about concrete is
Speaker 1: I think more and more people are using but it's
Speaker 1: not only a utilitarian thing like for driveways but in
Speaker 1: house foundations, but now they're using it to make your
Speaker 1: house and to use it. I've seen some beautiful like
Speaker 1: concrete countertops and that kind of stuff too. Oh.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, there's an entire world of esthetic concrete. Concrete countertops
Speaker 2: for a while, you know, a few years back, we're
Speaker 2: just kind of a novelty. Now they are just simply
Speaker 2: one of the options that any homeowner could embrace as
Speaker 2: far as you know, redoing a kitchen or a bathroom
Speaker 2: or anything like that. But they still are largely sort
Speaker 2: of in the dark as to mystery of how you
Speaker 2: get that thing finished just the right way.
Speaker 1: Okay, the world of concrete is the focus of Home
Speaker 1: on KFI this Sunday, and on Saturday you're going to
Speaker 1: be talking about This is something that's affecting thousands right now,
Speaker 1: and that's builders being allowed to permit their own projects.
Speaker 1: So you can listen to Dean Sharp this weekend six
Speaker 1: to eight on Saturday, nine to noon on Sunday right
Speaker 1: here on KFI. Always great information. Thanks so much, Dean.
Speaker 2: Thanks Amy,