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Speaker 1: on the show Well Saturday Morning, what does that mean?
Speaker 1: It means we are taking calls today. We're going to
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Speaker 1: Sam is on the board. Good morning Sam, Good morning Dean.
Speaker 1: How you doing. I'm good, I'm good? Are not so?
Speaker 2: Live?
Speaker 1: Studio audience sounds a pretty chipper this morning. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: are a lively bunch today. They are full sound vigor. Well.
Speaker 1: Sam has his hand on the volume control so he
Speaker 1: can control the vigor of our studio audience. Producer Richie
Speaker 1: standing by, as I mentioned, taking calls, and in fact
Speaker 1: he's busy working some calls right now. We are grateful
Speaker 1: for him. Does a fantastic job every week. And when
Speaker 1: you call in this morning, which I know you will.
Speaker 1: And by the way, traffic is light, always light on
Speaker 1: Saturday mornings, so now's a great time to get on
Speaker 1: the air. Richie is going to be the lovely voice
Speaker 1: that you hear and he'll tell you everything you need
Speaker 1: to know. You pop you into the queue and you
Speaker 1: can listen to the show while you wait. Eileen Gonzalez
Speaker 1: at the news desk, Good morning, Eileen, Good morning, Dean,
Speaker 1: how's it going. I'm good, I'm good. How are you doing?
Speaker 1: Doing good? Just slipping my tea like I do in
Speaker 1: the morning. What is our selection of tea for the morning.
Speaker 1: I've been pretty boring. I've just been sticking to the
Speaker 1: green tea. You're just with the green tea lately? Yeah, lately,
Speaker 1: not a lot of variety. Okay, I am looking at
Speaker 1: some point here or you know one of those funky
Speaker 1: names associated with herbal tea's Ashawa Gundakaba. You know, I
Speaker 1: can never I can never say roybos tea looks like right,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what that I mean. I know
Speaker 1: that's a tea. I have no idea what. I can't
Speaker 1: say it, but it's good. If somebody if I was
Speaker 1: sitting in a in a cafe this morning and the
Speaker 1: server said, would you like some roybos tea? I would
Speaker 1: like okay? Why not? Yeah? It works? Is that a
Speaker 1: caffee of tea or is it herbal? It's herbal. It's herbal.
Speaker 1: But this morning you need the caffeine, don't you, yes,
Speaker 1: most definitely. Eventually I'll go to coffee again. There you go. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of coffee, Oh my goodness. Hmmm, I think everyone
Speaker 1: should pour themselves a nice, warm comfort beverage. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's a little chili outside, it's a little chili. It's
Speaker 1: a classic spring morning. I heard there was rain. I
Speaker 1: know it does not look like rain at all. No,
Speaker 1: not here, not here, looking around, but it's cold. I
Speaker 1: should say chili. I don't want to say cold and
Speaker 1: offend people who are like currently, you know, in the twenties,
Speaker 1: they're like, pull it together, man, It's just chili, that's all.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: Anyway, sitting across the table from me, you just heard
Speaker 1: her lovely voice. My better half, my design partner, my
Speaker 1: partner in life, and I'm your best friend in all
Speaker 1: the world. There's her spirit animal, the elephant tinaz here.
Speaker 1: Welcome home. How you doing well? Well? And I have
Speaker 1: Oh well, I'm doing well, and I have Samy with me, Sammy,
Speaker 1: anything you'd like to say, Sam, keep petting me. Sam
Speaker 1: is one of our beagles. He is h the neediest
Speaker 1: of our beagles. Yes, but he's a love. He is
Speaker 1: a love, a little whiny in the morning about four
Speaker 1: point thirty. All right, Sam saying feed me, feed me?
Speaker 1: All right, y'all, why don't we dive in. Here's the
Speaker 1: number once again. Phone lines are open eight three three
Speaker 1: to ask Dean. It's an all calls morning, all calls
Speaker 1: Saturday morning, my favorite time, just to sit and talk
Speaker 1: with you about your home. We will take those calls
Speaker 1: when we return Camphi, Dean Shark the house with her
Speaker 1: Welcome home. Whether your home is a condo or a
Speaker 1: cottage or a castle, makes no difference. I am here
Speaker 1: to help you take it to the next level. That's
Speaker 1: what we do here on our little program. Today, as
Speaker 1: most Saturdays, we are taking your calls. The number to
Speaker 1: reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three three,
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Speaker 1: We've got room on the callboard for you. Give me
Speaker 1: a call anything regarding your home. You get to set
Speaker 1: the agenda today. You get to decide what the show
Speaker 1: is all about. Why don't we go to the phones.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to Eileen. Eileen, welcome home. Hi Dean,
Speaker 1: good morning. How can I help you?
Speaker 3: Hi? I've been a listener since day one. Oh I'm sorry, No,
Speaker 3: you've been terrific. I have. I have landscaping questions for you.
Speaker 3: I know you like that. I have a flagstone patio
Speaker 3: that was put down. It is a small padio on
Speaker 3: the front of the house by the side of our driveway,
Speaker 3: and with the heavy rains that have come it has
Speaker 3: washed away some of the DG. So there are gaps
Speaker 3: maybe a butt an inch to inch and a half deep,
Speaker 3: and the flag stones put down or about an inch sick.
Speaker 3: So it's a small area. But the man who put
Speaker 3: down our original patio isn't interested in coming back to
Speaker 3: repair this, Okay. So I was wondering, along with a
Speaker 3: neighbor who's willing to help, if we can get small
Speaker 3: bags of DG and fill it in ourselves and compact
Speaker 3: it and let it dry. And then I heard that
Speaker 3: there's something like a DG stabilizer or mouch glue to
Speaker 3: prevent this happening again.
Speaker 1: Uh huh huh.
Speaker 3: Plus I need some direction here, okay, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: By the way, what Eileen is talking about when she
Speaker 1: says DG that is decomposed, granted, we've all seen it.
Speaker 1: A lot of people have it in their yards, a
Speaker 1: lot of places out in public and in parks that
Speaker 1: you'll see decomposed grantede A lot of people think you're
Speaker 1: just walking on dirt. It's that kind of gold orange
Speaker 1: e material and you realize, oh wait, this is not dirt.
Speaker 1: It's not sticking to my feet, it's not going anywhere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not dirt. It is literally granite that has decomposed,
Speaker 1: and it is very very very small aggregate pebbles of
Speaker 1: granite that because of their rough edges and their contours,
Speaker 1: they tend to lock into each other. And you can
Speaker 1: compact decomposed granite down into a really stable pathway that
Speaker 1: gives that very naturalistic feel. But yes, they are subject
Speaker 1: to you know, conditions, weather conditions like rain, and decomposed
Speaker 1: granite will eventually you know, shift out of place and
Speaker 1: just it just needs to be maintained. It's not constant maintenance,
Speaker 1: but it does need to be maintained over time. And
Speaker 1: a couple of things that are critical about decomposed granite is, yes,
Speaker 1: compaction is key. You don't just sprinkle it out and
Speaker 1: kind of stump on a little bit and expect it
Speaker 1: to stay in place. And that there are other there
Speaker 1: are other products these days that help do that, and
Speaker 1: a decomposed granite stabilizer is one of those things and
Speaker 1: I always recommend using those because they just they work
Speaker 1: really well. It's kind of a polymer based material that
Speaker 1: you mix with the DG and as you as you
Speaker 1: compacted in place, it just it makes it essentially stickier.
Speaker 1: I don't want to give the wrong impression that it
Speaker 1: actually would stick to your feet or anything. It just
Speaker 1: helps the granite hold itself in place. If you've ever
Speaker 1: here's the metaphor that I use for this, or the example,
Speaker 1: if you've ever seen one of those kids like little
Speaker 1: magic sand toys, you know, the tray that has basically
Speaker 1: sand in it, and they get to sit there and
Speaker 1: in the house without water, without adding water to it,
Speaker 1: and basically build little sand castles or sand structures. You
Speaker 1: can grab it in your hand, you can squish it.
Speaker 1: It forms a ball, It holds together all those granules
Speaker 1: of sand. That's the kind of uh, that's the kind
Speaker 1: of effect that a decomposed granite stabilizing polymer creates. It
Speaker 1: just helps it hold in place. And yeah, Eileen, it's
Speaker 1: so it's one of those things, one of those DIY
Speaker 1: or one of those projects I should say that does
Speaker 1: qualify if if the scale is not too large, as
Speaker 1: a really good DIY project. And I distinguish DIY projects
Speaker 1: by one factor in one factor alone, and that is,
Speaker 1: does it take mastery physical mastery of a certain element,
Speaker 1: and that that the that confuses people at times or
Speaker 1: leads them astray. For instance, sometimes a project that has
Speaker 1: multiple steps to it and seems complex because it has okay,
Speaker 1: step one, do this, step one two, do that all
Speaker 1: the way to you know, step twenty, They're like, wow,
Speaker 1: there's just a lot to that. I that's probably something
Speaker 1: a pro should do. I disagree. If if every step
Speaker 1: is simply just another you know, simple execution of a thing,
Speaker 1: then that's totally a project that a dare wire can
Speaker 1: take on. Whereas sometimes what seems like the simplest of ideas,
Speaker 1: like a finishing drywall with drywall mud, is the one
Speaker 1: I always give because you know, I've been doing this
Speaker 1: for a long time and I won't even touch a
Speaker 1: drywall mudding trowel because because I'm no good at it,
Speaker 1: I just don't have that hand touch. It's one step.
Speaker 1: It's put some mud on the trowel and trowl it
Speaker 1: across the tape and feather it out. Okay, that sounds great,
Speaker 1: but it's one of those things that truly takes ten
Speaker 1: thousand hours of mastery the feel of the trowel. To
Speaker 1: get it done right, one simple step, but it takes mastery.
Speaker 1: Whereas a project like yours, Eileen, you just follow the
Speaker 1: steps and if you faithfully follow and execute the steps
Speaker 1: of clearing the area, getting the polymer, mixing it properly,
Speaker 1: compacting it properly, coming back, compacting it again, putting it
Speaker 1: in small lifts so that each layer gets compacted. Well,
Speaker 1: there's no reason why you and a couple of conscientious
Speaker 1: neighbors can't execute the replacement of your DG.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I just go to the big box store
Speaker 3: and look for stabilizer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they sell it at the big box stores. They
Speaker 1: sell it at builder supply places, meaning stone yards. They
Speaker 1: kind of specialize in stone and block places like Thompson
Speaker 1: Building Materials or Angelus Block. You can find you can
Speaker 1: find the DG stabilizer and they'll tell you exactly how
Speaker 1: to use it and give you the tips and the
Speaker 1: tools as well.
Speaker 3: Oh that's good. So and then what I need to reapply.
Speaker 1: This in the future eventually, eventually, But like I said,
Speaker 1: you know, d G is always a technically a maintenance thing.
Speaker 1: But we're not talking about you know, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: you're going to need to do some touch ups. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know in you know, a couple three years.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, okay. And I know we're concerned about a
Speaker 3: permeable surface. So even though I put this stabilizer down
Speaker 3: and I'm not I shouldn't do it over the whole patio,
Speaker 3: just this area that's kind of washed away. Is that true?
Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, I mean if you can, if you can
Speaker 1: mix a little into the whole patio surface, that's fine.
Speaker 1: But yeah, for now, I think you just worry about
Speaker 1: the areas that are washed away and it does not
Speaker 1: change the permeability of the of the Okay, okay, So.
Speaker 3: Along the driveway that should be fine. Then don't have
Speaker 3: time to ask you about my other landscape question.
Speaker 1: You know what, if you want to hang on, we're
Speaker 1: up against a break. I'd love to answer that question.
Speaker 1: So if I pop you on hold, we can handle
Speaker 1: Eileen's questions on the other side of the break. So Eileen,
Speaker 1: you stay put and we'll get you all answered. Up here.
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Speaker 1: this morning. How is your morning going here to greet you.
Speaker 1: I'm so honored that you are listening and that you're
Speaker 1: part of the show. This morning, we are taking calls,
Speaker 1: and I've got to tell you we've got lots of
Speaker 1: room on the callboard. It's a sleepy Saturday morning, so
Speaker 1: I normally need to jostle you just a little bit
Speaker 1: for those calls to start coming in on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: It's be one of those more warnings. I am here.
Speaker 1: I am ready to take your calls. The number to
Speaker 1: reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three
Speaker 1: three the numeral two ask Dean eight three three to
Speaker 1: ask Dean. All right, I want to finish up my
Speaker 1: call with Eileen. Eileen, you're still with me, buddy, I
Speaker 1: am okay, thanks for hanging in there through the break.
Speaker 1: Let's finish up what you had another question for me,
Speaker 1: so let's go for it.
Speaker 3: Yes, I have a side yard almost the lanes of
Speaker 3: my house, and it's on a slope, but manageable. We
Speaker 3: did deweed it, but then we waited too long, and
Speaker 3: when the rain came it brought all the weeds back,
Speaker 3: so it's a very healthy weedy slope. So if I
Speaker 3: go ahead and remove all the wheed again, I want
Speaker 3: to replant it with subclans or native plants, but some
Speaker 3: easy to maintain plants, so I don't have to climb
Speaker 3: up on this slope?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: How do I start? Uh? And then I had a
Speaker 3: question about weed cloth and how to water the slope.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, how how how slopey are we? I mean,
Speaker 1: do we do we do we lose material off the
Speaker 1: slope when it rains? Is it that kind of a
Speaker 1: steep slope? No, in the situation that we're currently in,
Speaker 1: well a little bit.
Speaker 3: More than a gentle slope. I can get up there
Speaker 3: and you know leno or maybe it's about six feet
Speaker 3: in you know, height length. But yeah, I just don't
Speaker 3: know how to take care of this? What to do?
Speaker 1: Yeah? All right? Well, you know, because I was going
Speaker 1: to say, if it's if it's a strong enough slope,
Speaker 1: you may want to start with after you've weeded it
Speaker 1: out and kind of got it under control, that you
Speaker 1: might want to start with some erosion control cloth. But
Speaker 1: it doesn't sound like erosion is really the problem for
Speaker 1: that slope. So yes, once you have reweeded it, if
Speaker 1: you're going to be conscientious and go through and do
Speaker 1: all of that, then then I would say that weed
Speaker 1: control cloth is your next best move there. Weed control
Speaker 1: cloth is going to do two things. One, it's going
Speaker 1: to shallow out what areas weeds can actually fall and
Speaker 1: distribute their own seeds into. Which doesn't mean that it's
Speaker 1: going to eliminate the weeds there. It just means that
Speaker 1: they're going to be few and far between and shallow
Speaker 1: rooted and so easy to pluck out, and you know
Speaker 1: it because they just don't really get a chance to
Speaker 1: get down into the soil proper. And the second thing,
Speaker 1: probably the most important thing about weed control cloth is
Speaker 1: once you've laid it out, any weeds that still are
Speaker 1: in seed form down in the soil. You know, in
Speaker 1: the heat of the summer days, the control cloth will
Speaker 1: heat the soil and keep them from thriving. They'll burn
Speaker 1: out those seeds so that they actually don't emerge in
Speaker 1: the first place because they've got no sunlight and they've
Speaker 1: got way too much heat in them to do anything effective.
Speaker 1: So the weed control cloth and then a light covering
Speaker 1: of whatever you want to cover the slope with. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're using succulents, then you may have some spaces
Speaker 1: in between the plants as opposed to you know, like
Speaker 1: an ice plant or something that just grows all over
Speaker 1: completely the slope. If that's the case, then you know,
Speaker 1: I always recommend that you set up a micro drip
Speaker 1: system and all you have to do is bring the
Speaker 1: necessary water for each plant right to the base of
Speaker 1: where it is dug into the soil, so that you're
Speaker 1: not wasting water. There's no need to you know, run
Speaker 1: sprinklers over the whole slope or anything like that. You
Speaker 1: can just focus on putting water exactly where the plant
Speaker 1: needs it, and those plants will just thrive, they really will.
Speaker 3: Is this a black cloth that I see?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes it is. It's not plastic, it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's very cloth like in its feel. Uh. And it's
Speaker 1: really really easy to work with. You can buy some
Speaker 1: small little metal steaks and stake it down.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's weed control cloth.
Speaker 3: And then wherever I want a plant, I just make
Speaker 3: a hole there in the cloth.
Speaker 1: Yep. You just make a little hole in the cloth
Speaker 1: and then that's it. That plant gets what its needs.
Speaker 1: But everything else around it is denied, denied, and then
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 3: The micro drip after all the plants are in.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean you can. You can absolutely do
Speaker 1: the micro drip after all the plants are in. You
Speaker 1: may want to run it underneath the weed control cloth
Speaker 1: tucket underneath or right on top. It doesn't really matter
Speaker 1: that micro drip systems don't have to be buried. They
Speaker 1: can just run along and then and then some ground
Speaker 1: cover around it, whether it's bark or whether it's graund,
Speaker 1: pebbles or you know, then you just cover it up
Speaker 1: like in our garden. That's how we always do it.
Speaker 1: We plant the plants, we control the weeds, we plant
Speaker 1: the plants, we run micro drips, and then we'll cover
Speaker 1: with some kind of uniform groundcover.
Speaker 3: Like the most you're talking about. Yeah, well the black cloths, okay, yep, yep, okay,
Speaker 3: well great, anything.
Speaker 1: Else, any other tipe No, that's I think that's I
Speaker 1: think that's enough for you right now as far as
Speaker 1: your first steps, and as you move along. If you've
Speaker 1: got other questions, you feel free to give me a
Speaker 1: call back. Eileen, And thank you so much for listening
Speaker 1: to the show. From the very beginning. I'd apologize for
Speaker 1: that because you know now that I'm such a pro.
Speaker 1: Back then, you know, I was still a pro, just
Speaker 1: not a pro radio, just just you know, just doing
Speaker 1: my thing and always there to help you with your home.
Speaker 1: All right, we got a couple of more calls on
Speaker 1: the board. There's still room for you. Eight three three
Speaker 1: two ask Dean. A three to three the numeral to
Speaker 1: ask Dean. It's an all call Saturday morning. More of
Speaker 1: your calls, caamp Hi, Dean Sharp the house whisper with
Speaker 1: you this morning, on this lovely Saturday morning, Welcome home.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the program today. It is
Speaker 1: a privilege and an honor as always to be invited
Speaker 1: into your life, into your weekend mornings, and talk about
Speaker 1: this thing that is so important for all of us,
Speaker 1: which is home. Of course, home starts with a house
Speaker 1: or a structure, a condo, an apartment, a cottage, a castle,
Speaker 1: whatever it may be, and then we work from there
Speaker 1: and we fill it with our lives and it becomes home.
Speaker 1: And I'm here to help you do exactly that, whether
Speaker 1: it be by design and architecture, construction issues, DIY concerns,
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be, all of it all across
Speaker 1: the board, landscaping, exterior, interior. We're here to talk about
Speaker 1: your home today, and it's Saturday morning, which means we
Speaker 1: are taking your calls, and we've got room on the
Speaker 1: callboard for you too. Eight three three two Ask Dean
Speaker 1: A three three the numeral two. Ask Dean. Saturday morning
Speaker 1: is always a great time to call, because all the
Speaker 1: sleepy heads are still asleep, and you and I were
Speaker 1: up and awake, and traffic is light on the freeways
Speaker 1: and on the airwaves as well. So give me a
Speaker 1: call eight three three two ask Dean anything about your home?
Speaker 1: All right, let's go back to the phones. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to Robert. Hey, Robert, welcome home. Good morning, Dean,
Speaker 1: good morning.
Speaker 2: I had a question. Yeah, I had a question. I've
Speaker 2: been in my house for twenty five years or so,
Speaker 2: and it seems like my question is regarding like plumbing fixtures,
Speaker 2: like shower heads, faucets. It seems like every three to
Speaker 2: five years when you buy these from the big box stores,
Speaker 2: even if you buy the more higher end ones, they
Speaker 2: just they don't last. A lot of them are made
Speaker 2: out of plastic. Do you have any suggestions on manufacturers
Speaker 2: where you can get something that's you know, a little
Speaker 2: more high end. It's it's gonna last a little longer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And you know what, I really appreciate the
Speaker 1: question because it illustrates something that a lot of people
Speaker 1: who are listening right now struggle with, and that is
Speaker 1: really is that all I get? I don't know where
Speaker 1: else to look other than the big box stores and
Speaker 1: the you know, it's hit and miss, And you're right,
Speaker 1: a lot of plastic. The big boxes tend to carry.
Speaker 1: It's not that they don't carry any quality items, but
Speaker 1: they tend to carry things that are more mid range
Speaker 1: or low to mid range when it comes to the
Speaker 1: overall quality of the fixtures, and yeah, quite often they
Speaker 1: do not last the way. Now, there's a way to
Speaker 1: shop for a plumbing fixture that you want to look
Speaker 1: for certain things. Number One, on any time there's too
Speaker 1: much plastic around, you just walk away, just walk away.
Speaker 1: And you got to sometimes take a real good look
Speaker 1: because you're like, wow, it looks like chrome, looks like brass,
Speaker 1: And then you tap on it and you're like, that's
Speaker 1: just a plastic casing. The other thing that you're looking
Speaker 1: for when it comes to that is all brass components,
Speaker 1: solid brass components and interiors. And believe me, when it
Speaker 1: comes to these kinds of things, if they aren't screaming
Speaker 1: out at you on the package that that's exactly what
Speaker 1: they've got, then they don't. It's you know, I kind
Speaker 1: of equate it to like buying organic food. Growing organic
Speaker 1: and getting organic certification is such a process. It costs
Speaker 1: farmers so much to do that they have to tell you.
Speaker 1: They're gonna tell you, hey, listen, we've gone to all
Speaker 1: this trouble. This is organic, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: right there in the label. And if you don't see
Speaker 1: it on the label, then it's not organic. I guarantee it,
Speaker 1: because everybody who goes to the trouble of knowing that
Speaker 1: quality is going to let you know. So when it
Speaker 1: comes to all brass construction, all brass guts underneath, all
Speaker 1: the coatings, lifetime warranty on coatings, those kinds of things,
Speaker 1: that's what you're looking for. But I understand you can
Speaker 1: only find so much of that from the big boxes.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: So here's a here's a really really good tip that
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you that is kind of a
Speaker 1: game changer for a lot of people. I'm going to
Speaker 1: name a couple of brands. Okay, brands like Cohlar k
Speaker 1: O h l e R Colar, Hans growy h A
Speaker 1: n s A g R O is it grow grow
Speaker 1: is it eh? And you have to look that one
Speaker 1: up because my spelling is off this morning.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: California Faucets Okay, Now that's not just if you live
Speaker 1: in southern California. It's just a national brand, California Faucets.
Speaker 1: Then here's what you do. These are that's just a
Speaker 1: sample of some excellent, high quality plumbing fixture manufactures. And
Speaker 1: what you do now is you go onto their website
Speaker 1: and they are going because they don't have their own stores,
Speaker 1: and you click on the find a Dealer, find a
Speaker 1: store near me on like the Coohar website, and you
Speaker 1: will find you put in your zip code and you
Speaker 1: will find those products and in your area. The the
Speaker 1: actual dealers that deal with high quality bathroom fixtures, places
Speaker 1: like here in southern California, Ferguson, Ferguson bath Showrooms, places
Speaker 1: like WDC WDC. They're all over southern California. And those
Speaker 1: are just a couple of the big chains. And then
Speaker 1: there are lots of smaller plumbing supply places, Golden West
Speaker 1: Pipe and supply standards, plumbing supply, and on and on
Speaker 1: and on. So the key is zero in on a
Speaker 1: high end equality brand like cal Fawcets or Ferguson. I
Speaker 1: miss cal Fawcets or a Cohler, go to their website,
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