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All right, we're having some fun 31 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:49.000 this morning on Mother's Day, a colorful day usually, and 32 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:53.040 we are talking color theory today because color baffles so 33 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:56.079 many people when it comes to the practical outworking of color. 34 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:58.200 We're going to return to that discussion. But it is 35 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:00.359 the top of the hour of our second hour, and 36 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:03.200 so as is our tradition, it is time to go 37 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:06.760 to the phones. And I want to talk to Rick. Hey, Rick, 38 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:07.959 welcome home. 39 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:13.199 Hello, Hello Katie, can you hear me? 40 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:15.479 Yes? I can? How can I help you? My friend? 41 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:19.879 So, I have a rental and I'm going to determine 42 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:21.479 I'm going to paint in all light and the inside 43 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:24.639 because uh, it was some colors are picked up by 44 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:28.319 a designer in the past, when do you decide if 45 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:30.159 you need to use a primer or not for the 46 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:32.840 inside obviously for the outside of the house, you did, 47 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:34.759 you know, I understand I have to use a primer, 48 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:37.719 but the inside is it is it important to do that? 49 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:43.439 Well? You know, it depends if the if the paint 50 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:48.000 that's on the wall is in good shape, okay, uh 51 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:51.840 and uh, and it doesn't have too heavy of achine 52 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:55.560 on it, if it's flat paint or a matte kind 53 00:02:55.560 --> 00:02:59.280 of paint, then you can get away with what they call, 54 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:02.639 you know, paint and primer in one, right, those kinds 55 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:06.759 of combos. Just about every major manufacturer makes a version 56 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:09.840 of their paint, which is paint slash primer in one 57 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:13.080 and you can get decent cover and as long as though, 58 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:16.280 as long as the wall colors aren't too intense. Elma 59 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:18.280 and I were talking before the show about he's got 60 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:21.599 black walls in some of his place and like when 61 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:24.599 he moves out, he wanted to know, like, no, what 62 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:26.120 do I need to do? Am I gonna be able 63 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:28.680 to cover up those black walls? And I told him 64 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:32.199 black not without a primer first, primer code first, and 65 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:34.439 then another coat of white on top of that and 66 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:36.000 you should be good to go. But if they're just 67 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:39.560 you know, pastel's or you know, nothing too serious, and 68 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:42.360 the paint is in decent shape, then you could go 69 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:44.960 on top of the existing paint. Now, if you're going 70 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:49.879 Bear primer is for when there is nothing on the wall, 71 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:56.000 and you never use a paint primer combo with Bear drywall, okay, 72 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:59.319 because it is not designed to go on without any 73 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.400 primer code it all. Even though it makes that claim, 74 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:05.800 A paint primer combo is basically just there so that 75 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:08.439 you can put a coat on an existing layer of 76 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:12.840 decently applied paint and change the color or neutralize it 77 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:14.280 or whatever. Does that make sense? 78 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:16.160 That makes sense? 79 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:18.040 All right? 80 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:21.800 Can how manything else usually recommend? Do you recommend using 81 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:24.240 two coats or it just depends on if you're going 82 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:26.360 from you know, a dark color to light color? 83 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:29.439 Yeah, I mean, you know, I mean, if you're going 84 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:32.480 from a heavy dark colored to two coats, definitely, I 85 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:36.439 always recommend two coats because it's just nice. But if 86 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:38.000 you can get it done with one, if you're if 87 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:40.879 you're changing like, for instance, a light tan wall, I 88 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:44.399 mean just really light like sandy beige, wall to white. 89 00:04:45.079 --> 00:04:49.639 Then one coat of a good quality of paint on 90 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:51.839 top of that should get the job done. You know, 91 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:54.839 you'll know, you'll know, that's the point. You'll know. You'll 92 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:56.560 know after you put that first coat on, you let 93 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:58.199 it dry, and you walk in, you're like, you know what, 94 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:02.399 it looks fine. And if it looks fine, it is fine. 95 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:04.759 That's the point, right, That's kind of where we were 96 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:08.160 talking about already. Color. It's in our heads. And if 97 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:11.160 your eyeball is interpreting the color in the room after 98 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:13.399 you put a single coat of white on top of 99 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:16.000 a lighter color that, yeah, this room is white now, 100 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:17.360 then you know what You're good to go. 101 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:19.319 Perfect. 102 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:22.040 Okay, I have one more quick question. Do we have 103 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:23.560 time or can I should I call that? 104 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:23.920 Yeah? 105 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:26.399 Yeah, now let's do it. Let's do it, let's go. 106 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:28.720 I have on the outside of the house, I have 107 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:30.800 a cement and board and it's a white house, pretty 108 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:33.120 bright white. And I've noticed we bought the house a 109 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:35.439 few years ago, that there's starting to be little cracks 110 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:37.759 in the cement board I think it's called cement board. 111 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:41.360 And we had the painter come out and try to 112 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:44.680 fill in the cracks and they seem to be coming back. 113 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:47.639 Is there any sort of filler that sort of stretches 114 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:50.319 that you'd recommend for that? And again it's it's like 115 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:51.160 a white surface. 116 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:55.319 Okay, so is it smooth cement board on the outside 117 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:57.879 of the house, large sheets? Are we talking about cementious sighting? 118 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:01.279 Large sheets? Yeah, the cement sides, board siding. It's like 119 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:03.240 the hardy board or I don't know what you'd call them. 120 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:07.240 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, best thing you can do for 121 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:10.399 uh now, No, they filled it and it looked good 122 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:11.720 and then it cracked again. 123 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:14.720 Yeah, in about six months. We live a couple of 124 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:17.000 miles from the beach, so it's not too you know, 125 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:19.920 it doesn't get too hot here, so we don't live 126 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:21.199 off the beach a couple of miles. 127 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:26.000 So you know, these are like spidery cracks, very thin cracks. 128 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:29.959 They start like that, they get a little bit wider, 129 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:36.240 definitely wider than spidery Okay, all right, well, probably the 130 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:37.920 thing that stretches or something. 131 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:42.279 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean the mistake is that that 132 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:44.839 and this has always been a tough thing because you know, 133 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:47.759 you approach a crack in a wall for paint purposes, 134 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:52.199 either from a spacklepective perspective right, spackling in the crack 135 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:56.680 or from a culking perspective, and there's a there's a 136 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:02.319 short side to both of them. Spackle is a nice 137 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:04.800 solid filler and you can smooth it out and then 138 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:08.839 it doesn't recede back when it dries, and so it 139 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:12.680 gives you that smooth, continuous, can't see the crack anymore 140 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:16.360 kind of scenario. But it is brittle, and so if 141 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:20.360 the crack shifts a little bit more, then the crack returns, okay. 142 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:26.439 Calking is the opposite. Caulking is stretchy, okay, But when 143 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:29.759 calking dries, it actually recedes a little bit, and so 144 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:32.879 it has a tendency to show where it was. You're 145 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:35.000 like jeanez, I thought I filled that thing, and now 146 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:38.439 I can still see where the crack was. But as 147 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:41.319 it stretches, it actually bridges the gap, and the crack 148 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:43.920 itself doesn't tend to come back, but you can see 149 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:48.000 the indentation. Fortunately. Now there are some bridging products, and 150 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.399 you've got to find this at a good paint store, 151 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:52.839 but there are some bridging products that are kind of 152 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:57.800 spackley with elast americ compounds in them. That'll get both 153 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:01.319 jobs done. They're not super you can find them at 154 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:04.959 better dedicated paint stores, not so much out on the 155 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:07.839 on the shelf at the big box store, but they exist. 156 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:12.439 What is it called a It's like a lastomeric bridging. 157 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:14.439 Is that exactly what I have them to look for? 158 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:16.959 Yeah, that's that's what you want to ask for. Yeah, 159 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:18.720 there are different brands you want to ask them. You 160 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:21.199 get explained. I got cement board. I got it. I 161 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:24.199 needed to be filled, but I also needed to stretch 162 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:26.759 when I'm done, and uh, and they'll get you in 163 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:29.519 the right direction. And then you may want to paint 164 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:33.080 with an elastomeric based paint on top of that, so 165 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:37.840 the paint itself has a stretching crack bridging to you know, 166 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:41.480 capacity if the crack wants to return. So there's kind 167 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:44.039 of a you know, a double layer of protection that 168 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:46.759 you could approach that with as you go. Rick, Thanks 169 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:49.159 for the questions, Bud, and for the call. I hope 170 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:52.519 that helps uh and get you going in the right direction. 171 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:53.840 Uh. 172 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:56.600 When we returned, we will go back to the phones. 173 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:01.120 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 174 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:03.039 KFI AM six forty. 175 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:07.879 We're talking color today and color theory and how you 176 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:11.159 get your arms around it and the practical wrestling of 177 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:14.000 color in your home so you get the colors that 178 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:16.480 you actually want. Well, we're going to return to that 179 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:19.799 conversation in just a bit, but it's second hour, which 180 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:22.159 means we're taking calls, and I want to go back 181 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:25.320 to the phones. I want to talk to Steve. Hey, Steve, 182 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:28.919 welcome home, Hello young man. 183 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:34.360 Hello Mike. Yes, how you doing. I'm doing a great job. 184 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:37.759 You're doing a great job, and I would like to 185 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:42.200 ask you a question about possibly a plumber could help me. 186 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:47.919 But we had our bathroom redone, and then ever since then, 187 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:51.480 when we would turn the faucet on in the kitchen 188 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:55.080 and turn off quick, it makes a pounding noise like 189 00:09:55.240 --> 00:09:57.840 pressure or something. So I don't know if we have 190 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:00.360 to dig into the wall again. We did tile everything 191 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:04.639 in there. We did the trick with the water heater, 192 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:07.399 but that didn't fix it. So what do you think? 193 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:11.080 All right, Well, you are you have become a victim 194 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:17.919 of the water hammer effect. That's what you're water hammer 195 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:22.519 is common. It's not your plumber's fault. Nobody did anything wrong. 196 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:28.440 It is Yeah, No, what it is. You know, water 197 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:33.480 rushes through pipes, it turns corners, and as it turns corners, 198 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:37.000 it causes what's like in the world of ships and 199 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:41.039 submarines and stuff, is called cavitation. Right as what you know, 200 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:43.919 it doesn't turn a corner as smoothly as we think 201 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:46.399 it does. Some of that energy gets kind of bundled 202 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:50.399 up and it creates different kind of pressures that happen 203 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:54.080 as a result. So you never know. I mean, it's 204 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:58.639 just virtually impossible to know. We've plumbed entire you know, 205 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:04.360 eighteen thousand and square foot homes with seemingly miles and 206 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:08.039 miles of hot and cold water lines and never had 207 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:11.960 a single water hammer issue with any faucet, and then 208 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:16.480 we've turn around and done very similar house and it's 209 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:19.320 all over the place. It really has to do with 210 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:22.519 when you think of your hot and cold running water system, 211 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:26.840 thinking of it as a gigantic flute, and sometimes it 212 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:30.080 makes noise and sometimes it doesn't, depending on the twists 213 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:33.519 and the turn. So here's the thing. It's not the 214 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:36.559 plumber's fault because there's just no way to anticipate it. 215 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:40.879 But fortunately the fix can be pretty dang simple. You 216 00:11:40.919 --> 00:11:44.519 can find sitting on the shelf at the big box store, 217 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:49.639 at your local plumber supply store, a device called water 218 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:54.360 hammer Arrestor, And what it literally is is it's kind 219 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:57.600 of like a three to four inch sort of copper 220 00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:04.120 nipple device. Inside that tube is a spring and essentially 221 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:07.799 a shock absorber. It's a shock absorber, and a water 222 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:10.559 hammer Arrestor can be put in line by a plumber 223 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:13.799 somewhere up in the attic, but it can also they 224 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:17.399 have them that it can be installed literally underneath a 225 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:21.399 sink in the new bathroom. You can take off the 226 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:27.879 angle stop that's the valve that's there, and install the 227 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:30.759 water hammer arrest or first, and then put the angle 228 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:34.960 stop back on, and you know, just with wrenches, and 229 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:39.279 more often than not, one or two of these, one 230 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:42.080 on the hot line, one on the cold line will 231 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:45.519 solve the problem. And if it doesn't completely solve it, 232 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:49.159 then you find another location under another sink and you 233 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:52.919 add a couple of more. They're inexpensive, they're easy to install, 234 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:57.279 and that cavitation that's happening in the line, just because 235 00:12:57.320 --> 00:13:00.120 of the configuration of the lines, the shock of as 236 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:03.960 will do their job. They'll absorb that shock instead of 237 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:07.080 letting it reverberate through the pipes all the way through 238 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:11.960 the house and cause that that uh that you hear 239 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:14.600 when uh let me get the door, get the door. 240 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:20.559 Oh there you go, my friend. That's uh, that's that's 241 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:23.919 the solve. And so it's it's good news. It's you know, 242 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:26.080 it's not great news, but it's a shout out. 243 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:29.240 And they give a shout out to uh, my favorite 244 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:30.360 restaurant and Moro Bay. 245 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:32.679 Uh sure, why not. 246 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:37.919 You've probably been there, but it's carlss for breakfast. Oh 247 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:40.399 my gosh, Oh yeah, you know what I'm talking about. 248 00:13:40.840 --> 00:13:42.679 Oh yeah, are you up in Moro Bed? 249 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:46.519 No, I avoid that like the plague today because the 250 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:49.720 Mother's Day. But I'm sure they're very busy. And but 251 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:51.639 it's just a shout out because they might even be listening. 252 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:54.360 You never know. But that is the place to go 253 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:55.360 if you're in Moro Bay. 254 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:58.399 Carlis Maro Bay is the place to go. We were 255 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:01.440 up there a few months ago and spent a week 256 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:05.080 there in the Pomo overlooking more Obay and then just 257 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:06.240 enjoying the whole area. 258 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:06.679 It is. 259 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:09.159 It is delicious. It is a delicious place. 260 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:12.840 Well, I've got good memories of my parents going there. 261 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:17.759 I've got good memories from my honeymoon and many many 262 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:21.639 meals there, and this sunsets and just beautiful. So all right, 263 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:24.720 thank you, mister Dean. You're doing a great job, and 264 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:25.720 keep up the good work. 265 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:29.320 Thank you, sir, Thanks Steve, thanks for the question, Thanks 266 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:32.720 for the vote of confidence. Always love it when when 267 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:35.879 people are appreciated. Not everybody is always appreciative, by the way, 268 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:39.360 so that's just the nature of things. Let me tell 269 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:45.360 you about an email that we got yesterday. On that note, Tina, 270 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:50.080 you want to wait here, turn your mica, and I'm 271 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:54.200 the one who reads those, Yes you are. We can't 272 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:56.919 actually use the like I'll even tell you what it said. 273 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:00.440 But the worst it was quite irate about because I 274 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:04.320 had mentioned, Yeah, somebody called yesterday and wanted to know, 275 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:06.320 is there a way to keep rattlesnakes out of our 276 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:10.320 three acre property? And I described snake fencing, and I 277 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:15.080 described some snake repellent that is actually very effective, non toxic, 278 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:17.519 not going to kill any snakes. But I did mention 279 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:21.320 that I was familiar with the problem because as a 280 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:26.879 youth living in a big open space, we often had 281 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:31.320 rattlesnakes come in way too close to the house. And 282 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:34.279 at the time, my father had given me instructions that 283 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:36.720 you know, if you go outside, you're in charge of this, dean, 284 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:40.240 because your mother is not physically able to do this 285 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:44.519 because she was sickly. But my father would say, you're 286 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:47.120 in charge of this, and so you go outside if 287 00:15:47.159 --> 00:15:50.360 there's a rattlesnake that has curled up in near the house, 288 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:54.200 on the patio or on the cool concrete, to dispatch 289 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:56.399 that snake. And I had mentioned to the caller that 290 00:15:56.440 --> 00:15:59.679 I by the time I had reached young adulthood, I 291 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:03.480 had a large peanut butter jar, empty peanut butter jar 292 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:06.960 full of rattlesnake rattles from the rattlesnakes that I had 293 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:10.159 had to dispatch to. You know, I thought, keep my 294 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:12.919 family safe because they were getting into close and we 295 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:16.000 just lived in a big open area without fencing, and 296 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:19.240 so it was difficult to avoid. That's all I said. 297 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:21.399 And it's one thing, that's all I said. To not 298 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:24.960 agree with you, that's the kind I don't like killing animals. 299 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:28.720 But basically we just as a grown We got an 300 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:32.120 email yesterday essentially that said I was going to burn 301 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:35.639 in hell for killing wildlife. And so you know, I 302 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:38.879 appreciate when guys like Steve call up and say that 303 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:44.679 we're doing a good So that's just that's all. I 304 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:47.879 have nothing against rattlesnakes, by the way, except when they 305 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:51.720 try to bite me. Other than that, no problem whatsoever. 306 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:55.120 I love animals. Olivia is here. She will tell you 307 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:59.519 Papa loves animals. Okay, there you go, tell him, tell 308 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:03.519 them Olivia, he loves animals. And also my dog is 309 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:09.079 right here. Not okay, so there you go. See all right, 310 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:12.839 all right, sit down, you be quiet. Now, we're gonna 311 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:16.680 get you your own show when we return more of 312 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:19.039 your calls. I just wanted to share that with you. 313 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:22.440 It's not a big deal. I'm just saying, hopefully I 314 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:26.160 don't burn in hill because of my rattlesnake jar uh. 315 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:28.480 When we return more of your calls. Your Home with 316 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:30.000 Dean Sharp the House Whisper. 317 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:34.359 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 318 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:35.960 KFI Am sixty. 319 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:41.759 You are Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, here 320 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:44.559 to take your ordinary house and help you make it 321 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:49.880 an extraordinary home, like we do every weekend live Saturday mornings, 322 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:53.759 six to eight Pacific time, Sunday mornings, nine to noon 323 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:57.920 Pacific time. We're talking color and color theory, and we're 324 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:01.240 gonna be just about we're just about ready to move 325 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:05.000 into the practical ads on how do you get your 326 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:08.839 arms around color problems. But we're still right here middle 327 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:12.359 hour taking some calls and honoring you and everything that's 328 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:14.680 going on with your home today. So I want to 329 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:17.359 go back to the phones and I want to talk 330 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:19.960 to Joe. Hey, Joe, welcome home. 331 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:24.720 Oh, good morning, Dean. First, I'll say thank goodness. We're 332 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:27.519 past the color stage of our renovation project. 333 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:30.640 Really, we have rested with that as well. 334 00:18:31.799 --> 00:18:34.680 Oh, we certainly did. We finally hired a designer to 335 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:37.359 help us with it, and it came out just fine. 336 00:18:39.319 --> 00:18:40.920 We are. 337 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:43.720 We have a stove that's on a stovetop that's on 338 00:18:43.799 --> 00:18:47.160 an island, and we've lived there for twenty years without 339 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:50.440 a hood. But we're moving out and converting it to 340 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:52.960 a rental unit now, so we need to put in 341 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:58.839 a stovehood. I understand many of the ones I've looked 342 00:18:58.839 --> 00:19:03.359 at say that they're can vertible, and I'm understanding that 343 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:06.799 to mean that either you can put a duct from 344 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:10.839 the unit up through the attic and the roof, or 345 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:16.119 alternatively by two carbon filters for twenty five bucks apiece 346 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:20.279 and not have to duct it. And I'm wondering, am 347 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:24.519 I understanding that correctly or not? And what is your 348 00:19:24.559 --> 00:19:26.680 recommendation concerning this? 349 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:33.319 Okay, really, really good question. It's a confusing whirl of 350 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:36.599 vent hoods. By the way, let me ask you first 351 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:41.319 and foremost, the stovetop itself, the stove gas electric. What 352 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:42.359 do you got going there? 353 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:43.480 Gas? 354 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:45.200 Thirty six inch gas? 355 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:48.839 Okay, So let me explain this real quickly, just because 356 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:52.519 people are confused by it, and rightly so, because it 357 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:57.640 is a confusing area of the code. Okay, technically speaking, 358 00:19:58.400 --> 00:20:04.799 the Internet Building Code has no concern whatsoever how much 359 00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:10.519 fish smell or smoke from searing your steak fills up 360 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:16.400 your kitchen great or your home. Okay, the technically technically, 361 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:20.519 if you have an electric cook top, then there is 362 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:26.119 no code requirement for a hood at all, because the 363 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:30.720 hood idea was was added to the code as a 364 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:36.720 way of exhausting uncombusted gas fumes out of the house 365 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:43.000 as a safety issue, uncombusted fumes and particulates from a 366 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:47.160 gas burner, because no gas burner combusts all the gas 367 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:49.400 that is coming out of the burner, there's always some 368 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:53.799 you know, leftover, So that would that would lead us 369 00:20:53.880 --> 00:20:58.640 to the conclusion then that Okay, if that's the case, 370 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:02.319 then why is isn't it also a code requirement that 371 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:06.079 every time I turn on my gas burner, the hood 372 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:12.240 vent has to turn on automatically to evacuate those gas particulars. 373 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:14.880 But that's not a part of the code. You can 374 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:17.759 install one of these things and never turn it on 375 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:22.359 for your entire life, and uh, it's perfectly okay with 376 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:25.359 the code. It's a gigantic, gaping hole in the way 377 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:30.559 that the building code handles, you know, this particular issue. 378 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:32.799 So I just want to explain that to everybody. If 379 00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:35.400 you have an electric cook top, an induction cooktop, or 380 00:21:35.400 --> 00:21:38.559 an electric cook top stand, you know, a conventional electric 381 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:42.000 cook top, technically you don't need a vent hood. If 382 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:44.839 you have a gas burner, technically you do need one, 383 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:47.880 and you never have to use it. Most people, though, 384 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:51.799 are most concerned about, all right, well, when I when 385 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:54.759 I you know, see a steak, or if I accidentally 386 00:21:54.759 --> 00:21:57.440 burn something, or if I'm cooking fish or something like that, 387 00:21:57.480 --> 00:21:59.400 I want to get rid of the odors, and I 388 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:01.559 want to get rid of the excess smoke and or 389 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:04.519 steam or whatever is coming off the cook top. That 390 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:07.880 is what most people are thinking about when they think 391 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:10.920 about vent hoods, and there are two ways to go 392 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:16.359 about it. You conduct it, meaning that the hood leads in, 393 00:22:16.720 --> 00:22:20.480 brings all that to smoke in and directs it with 394 00:22:20.599 --> 00:22:23.720 a fan through a ducting system and blows it to 395 00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:25.720 the outside of the house. It doesn't have to go 396 00:22:25.799 --> 00:22:29.440 straight up. It can go sideways once it's in the attic. 397 00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:32.559 It can go through ceiling joists or floor joists or 398 00:22:32.599 --> 00:22:34.839 whatever the case may be, as long as it gets 399 00:22:34.880 --> 00:22:36.640 to the outside of the house and the fan is 400 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:39.000 powerful enough to push it along and there you go. 401 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:44.519