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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to home where every week we help you
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Speaker 1: of our fine little program. We are talking today having
Speaker 1: a discussion about stuff in your home that you are
Speaker 1: tempted to say it was this way when we bought it.
Speaker 1: You kind of apologetically are expressing that you know this
Speaker 1: thing is wrong, but it was somebody else who did it.
Speaker 1: So what do you do when you inherit somebody else's
Speaker 1: mistake on your home and specifically how to fix them.
Speaker 1: So we're moving through a list. Obviously, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be able to cover every imaginable mistake somebody else
Speaker 1: has made to your home, but we're moving through some
Speaker 1: of the biggies as we do this morning, helping you
Speaker 1: out along the way, giving you some insights, and we're
Speaker 1: going to return to that conversation in just a bit.
Speaker 1: But right now we're at the top of the hour
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Speaker 1: Let us now go back to the phones. Who are
Speaker 1: we going to talk to today? Let's talk to Sharon. Hey, Sharon,
Speaker 1: welcome home.
Speaker 3: Hi, good morning. I have two material type building questions.
Speaker 3: We're in the design stage of an ADU edition. It's
Speaker 3: not going to be freestand it's it's going to be
Speaker 3: connected to the house under our current deck and so
Speaker 3: the roof of the addition, a b U will be
Speaker 3: the also the deck of our living normal living space.
Speaker 3: So noond what type of materials will that we have
Speaker 3: options for that will look good and also be economically good?
Speaker 1: All right, I heard that right at the end, also
Speaker 1: economically good.
Speaker 2: So what is the deck? Now?
Speaker 3: It's it's a wooden it's wood deck, and it's it's
Speaker 3: we've repaint, we've repainted it. It's it's not great, right,
Speaker 3: So it's a good.
Speaker 1: Plank deck and it's not waterproof because the water just
Speaker 1: drains right through because there's nothing under it. So it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be right, just a kind of standard
Speaker 1: woodplank deck. Now you're going to build a room underneath it,
Speaker 1: so what you really need is a roof. You have
Speaker 1: to have a roof top of the room, right, So
Speaker 1: we need a water proof deck slash roof in order
Speaker 1: to cover the ADU. And so okay, so the so
Speaker 1: the the key word in what you said there was economical.
Speaker 3: Uh, And.
Speaker 1: Ultimately the best looking economical deck would be something where
Speaker 1: the both the waterproofing material and the esthetic of the
Speaker 1: deck are kind of one and the same. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: going to be the biggest cost savings, and so you
Speaker 1: make sure number one when that is when that deck
Speaker 1: is rebuilt, you know, the we're just going to call
Speaker 1: it the roof the roof deck, that it has the
Speaker 1: proper slope on it because it's no longer it can't
Speaker 1: be perfectly flat anymore because it's not shedding it right
Speaker 1: now the water runs through. Now it's got to shed water.
Speaker 1: There has to be a proper slope built into it.
Speaker 1: And then you could use a material like a fiberglass,
Speaker 1: build up waterproofing material on top. And it's really the
Speaker 1: right decking companies that there are some decking companies that
Speaker 1: can do some pretty beautiful things in the finished surface
Speaker 1: of the fiberglass, and we can make it look like stone,
Speaker 1: we can make it look like wood planking. It's a simulation,
Speaker 1: you know, not gonna pull any punches. It's a simulation.
Speaker 1: But there are some pretty attractive fiberglass decking materials. And
Speaker 1: because it is both the waterproofing of the deck and
Speaker 1: the finished surface itself, it's probably the least expensive way
Speaker 1: to go. Okay, Now from there you would step up
Speaker 1: to worrying about getting a waterproofing membrane over that room
Speaker 1: and which you could do with a waterproofing roofing membrane
Speaker 1: material not an esthetically pleasing decking material. And then on
Speaker 1: top of that, you could do something like rebuild the
Speaker 1: wood deck. You could have a flat wood deck coming
Speaker 1: out that lets water drop through, hits the sloped roof
Speaker 1: below it, and it runs off appropriately. Or you could
Speaker 1: build a waterproofing membrane and put stone or exterior tile
Speaker 1: or a material like that on that deck that it
Speaker 1: becomes the esthetic protecting covering. But all of these things
Speaker 1: that I'm talking about now the price tag is going up.
Speaker 1: Now they are more beautiful, ultimately, more natural, and more pleasing,
Speaker 1: and that's where you're going to have to decide. So
Speaker 1: I think as you start the design process with it,
Speaker 1: what you need to do is do a little investigating,
Speaker 1: Maybe send the plan for that deck out over to
Speaker 1: a couple of fiberglass decking companies and saying, hey, what
Speaker 1: can you do with this? Well, let's see what and
Speaker 1: what's it going to cost me for you to waterproof
Speaker 1: this and make it esthetically pleasing at the same time.
Speaker 1: And similarly, we can talk to your builder. Do you
Speaker 1: have a builder right now or are you going to
Speaker 1: be acquiring a.
Speaker 3: Building no builder, Yeah, we'll acquire when not yet, So
Speaker 3: then you could also be talking to.
Speaker 2: You know, the.
Speaker 1: Well, when you're talking to builders, we could be talking
Speaker 1: about the materials that would go into let's say, covering
Speaker 1: this over with a new deck so esthetically it looks
Speaker 1: like it does now, except new and better, or using
Speaker 1: stone or tile, and just you know, you're going to
Speaker 1: have to weigh the cost versus the benefit for you.
Speaker 1: But the least expensive way you could go would be
Speaker 1: with the fiberglass with a specialized finish on it.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. Yeah. One other question I had was we
Speaker 3: visited where we stayed in Airbnb in Spain and the
Speaker 3: bathroom was all one surface, the floor, the shower, the walls.
Speaker 3: It kind of looked like a cement plaster mixed. It
Speaker 3: was obviously water resistant, and I'm curious what that was
Speaker 3: and is that effective?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there can be. We can do rooms
Speaker 1: with a concrete like surface in them. Sometimes it's literally
Speaker 1: the concrete of the slab and the bathroom is designed
Speaker 1: that way to be all one surface and it's just
Speaker 1: going to be an attractively aesthetically sealed and treated concrete.
Speaker 1: Other times, even on the second floor, we can make
Speaker 1: a room look like concrete on the surface and glaze
Speaker 1: it so that it all feels like concrete, but it's
Speaker 1: up on the second floor, and it's essentially a specialized
Speaker 1: kind of covering treatment that pours in and that we
Speaker 1: travel into place. That's a little bit more intensive because
Speaker 1: we've got to make sure that the giving of the
Speaker 1: floor underneath it doesn't cause it to crack or anything
Speaker 1: like that. But it can be done. All of these
Speaker 1: things can be done pretty much these days, Sharon. If
Speaker 1: you can dream it, it can be achieved. It's just
Speaker 1: a question of how big the check is that gets
Speaker 1: written to.
Speaker 3: You know, I thought it was a nice modern look,
Speaker 3: and of course you wouldn't have your grout lines to
Speaker 3: worry about. But yeah, yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2: Nice modern look.
Speaker 1: But also without going to all that trouble, you could
Speaker 1: also achieve that with a large format tile porcelain tile
Speaker 1: with minimal groutline meaning and when I say large format,
Speaker 1: I mean four foot by eight foot or four foot
Speaker 1: by four foot tiles with the almost zero grout line
Speaker 1: edges to them. That's another way of eliminating grout lines
Speaker 1: from a bathroom floor. So there's so many options. Let
Speaker 1: me just encourage you that you're in the right phase
Speaker 1: right now. Don't rush to construction. Consider all of these
Speaker 1: things and all these possibilities, and continue to educate yourself
Speaker 1: because you don't want to be slapping your head later saying, oh,
Speaker 1: why didn't even think about doing that? Consider them, even
Speaker 1: the things that seem out of reach, and in the
Speaker 1: end you'll make your budgetary decisions and you'll know, Okay,
Speaker 1: we didn't do that for these four reasons. That's why
Speaker 1: we're doing this, and you're going to be content with
Speaker 1: it and you're going to be pleased with the results overall.
Speaker 1: Just don't miss out on something that's out there that
Speaker 1: you've settled for something else and you didn't bother to
Speaker 1: educate yourself on Sharon, I got to go. Thank you
Speaker 1: for your call. Good luck on that ADU and the deck.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's going to be beautiful when you're done.
Speaker 1: Just keep your eyes open and remember design matters most all, Right,
Speaker 1: y'all when we come back, more of your call, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to take at least one more
Speaker 1: call as we go. You're home with Dean Sharp the
Speaker 1: house Whisper.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the program today. We're talking
Speaker 1: about the stuff in your home that you like to
Speaker 1: say it was this way when we bought it, inheriting
Speaker 1: somebody else's mistakes. We're going to get back to that
Speaker 1: conversation in just a bit, but right now I want
Speaker 1: to take at least one more call today because we've
Speaker 1: got so many calls on the board.
Speaker 2: Who's it going to be.
Speaker 1: I'm going to disappoint a lot of people and makes
Speaker 1: one person very happy.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Let's just just hold I'm just going to cover my
Speaker 1: eyes and throw a dart at the board. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk to Joseph. Hey, Joseph, welcome home.
Speaker 5: Hi did before I my question about plumbing, I wanted
Speaker 5: to tell you how we impressed time. I am with
Speaker 5: your landscape in knowledge. I am landscaper for over forty
Speaker 5: years and I'm still learning. And actually I think you
Speaker 5: should be called the home whisperer instead of house whisperer,
Speaker 5: because you knew about everything before the house. You know. Actually,
Speaker 5: actually it's about plumbing, and I have an L shaped house.
Speaker 5: If you look at from a bird's eye, view. I
Speaker 5: have a longside and a shorter side like an L,
Speaker 5: and I installed a little recirculating little pump to have
Speaker 5: the hot water instantly the long side of the L.
Speaker 5: At the end of it, I installed the lost faucett,
Speaker 5: but I still have cold water is coming on the
Speaker 5: short side. So my question is is it okay to
Speaker 5: install another little pump on the short side. I won't
Speaker 5: have a kind of cross plumbing problem with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, In fact, it was exactly what I was going
Speaker 1: to suggest. You've got an L shaped house, and what
Speaker 1: you've done is you've put a recirculation pump and a
Speaker 1: little bridge valve at the far far fawcet down at
Speaker 1: the far end of the L. And what that has
Speaker 1: done is it has allowed the recirculation pump to draw
Speaker 1: hot water down through the lines and without wasting it,
Speaker 1: like just turning on the faucet and wasting it. You
Speaker 1: draw hot water down those lines. And what it's doing
Speaker 1: is while the water is still cold, it's pushing that
Speaker 1: water into the cold water line, which means it's still
Speaker 1: your water ready to be used as cold water. And
Speaker 1: of course the research pump will turn off when the
Speaker 1: hot water actually gets there. Because it'll sense it, the
Speaker 1: bridge valve will shut off. It's a brilliant little device,
Speaker 1: inexpensive way to getting hot water much much closer to
Speaker 1: the faucets that are most importan to you. And also,
Speaker 1: by the way, not just a gimmick. It is literally
Speaker 1: required on major remodels and new builds here in California.
Speaker 1: Now that we do exactly that. But you've got an
Speaker 1: L shaped house, and if you think of your plumbing
Speaker 1: system like a like the branches on a tree, You've
Speaker 1: got all the main trunk and branches heading off down
Speaker 1: the big side of the L, but you have a
Speaker 1: few branches heading off down the short side, and you
Speaker 1: can do the exact same thing. It's not going to
Speaker 1: adversely affect your plumbing. You don't have to replumb the
Speaker 1: whole house. You can just pick again the FURTHEST branch
Speaker 1: down the FURTHEST sink down the short side, install another
Speaker 1: research pump and another bridge valve right there, and you'll
Speaker 1: have the same effect. And for those of you who
Speaker 1: are listening and thinking, Okay, I get that for that sink,
Speaker 1: but how does this help everything else? Well, because because
Speaker 1: when we do it on the furthest sink it's drawing
Speaker 1: that hot water down past all the other sinks and
Speaker 1: fixtures on the way getting there, so everybody benefits. All
Speaker 1: of the other sinks and fixtures benefit on the way
Speaker 1: to the furthest thing. You do that on each extreme,
Speaker 1: on both ends of the L and Joseph, Yeah, you'll
Speaker 1: end up with hot water. It's not gonna be instant
Speaker 1: hot water. You already know that it's not instantaneous. Like
Speaker 1: the second you turn the faucet on, boom, there's the
Speaker 1: hot water. But we're talking about hot water showing up
Speaker 1: in a couple of seconds versus a couple of minutes,
Speaker 1: and that is a massive, massive difference and also a
Speaker 1: huge savings in water. Joseph, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: your question. Thank you for your very very kind words
Speaker 1: about just what we're doing here. Keep listening. I promise
Speaker 1: more good stuff coming as we go. All right, y'all,
Speaker 1: we are going to get back to our conversation on
Speaker 1: the stuff you've inherited, the mistakes from previous owners of
Speaker 1: your home. It was this way when we bought it.
Speaker 1: Right after Eileen Gonzalez gives us the news.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on Demand from
Speaker 4: KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the program. We are having
Speaker 1: a conversation today about the things you've inherited in your home,
Speaker 1: somebody else's mistakes, and how to fix them. The kind
Speaker 1: of stuff you look at and say it was this
Speaker 1: way when we bought it. Please don't look too much
Speaker 1: at that thing. I want to help you actually do
Speaker 1: something about them. That's why we've been covering some of
Speaker 1: these major issues, and I've been handing out not just
Speaker 1: pointing them out, but giving you some solutions along the way.
Speaker 2: I hope.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about something in the bathroom again real quick.
Speaker 1: How about if you happen this is you, by the way,
Speaker 1: if you live in an eighties or nineties house, this
Speaker 1: is most likely your situation, not if you live in
Speaker 1: an older home, but most likely in eighties or nineties house.
Speaker 1: How about that massive jetted tub platform in your primary bathroom,
Speaker 1: you know the one I'm talking about. It's huge, It's
Speaker 1: got a big old kind of spa tub I say
Speaker 1: jetted tub, like a chikuzi kind of tub sitting in there.
Speaker 1: You never use it, and it is taking up some
Speaker 1: serious real estate in your bathroom. That was a mistake
Speaker 1: in my opinion, by the builders themselves. But hey, what
Speaker 1: can we say? It was an era that happily in
Speaker 1: that regard has passed us.
Speaker 2: So what do we do?
Speaker 1: Because you know it's a deal and it looks so solid. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to very simply tell you that if
Speaker 1: you've got a remodel planned for this bathroom, it is
Speaker 1: not solid. It is a framed just wood framing and
Speaker 1: tile and or stone on top of it. That thing
Speaker 1: can come out, and it can come out fast. And
Speaker 1: that's good news, right. The thing about them when you
Speaker 1: kind of look at them, I even remember the ads,
Speaker 1: seeing the ads in like design magazines back in the day.
Speaker 1: You know, it's always got this woman with her hair
Speaker 1: up in her bubble bath and you know, a glass
Speaker 1: of wine and she's relaxing with her eyes closed, and
Speaker 1: it just looks so luxurious and spake. And I'm all
Speaker 1: for a luxurious, spawlike bathroom, and I'm all for you
Speaker 1: enjoying a soaking tub as well. But here's the thing,
Speaker 1: a jetted tub with big steps leading up to it. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a massive waste of space in order to get
Speaker 1: that experience done. Also, the jetted tub, I've always laughed
Speaker 1: about this as somebody who has you know, had to
Speaker 1: work with them in the past. That whole serene scene,
Speaker 1: that beautiful. You could imagine soft music playing and maybe
Speaker 1: all the lights are off except for a couple of candles,
Speaker 1: and then you press the button to activate the jets,
Speaker 1: and the bubbles blow all over the place because the
Speaker 1: water becomes turbulent, and instead of the soft music and
Speaker 1: the serenity, you hear the sound of the jet blower
Speaker 1: blowing in the bathroom, and you know what, that's just
Speaker 1: enough to end the whole experience. It's different when you're
Speaker 1: in a spa tub outside, right, you just kind of expect.
Speaker 1: First of all, you're not in an echo chamber, and secondly,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: The noise of that.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of accepted that that's one of the
Speaker 1: things that's going to happen. Okay, But inside the enclosed
Speaker 1: space of a bathroom, no, no, Now that's a mistake.
Speaker 2: It really is. So what do.
Speaker 1: We do, well, we get rid of it, and as
Speaker 1: in getting rid of it, what do we end up
Speaker 1: with more space, more room for the vanity to grow,
Speaker 1: more room for the shower to grow, or maybe we
Speaker 1: just reallocate some of that space for a soaker tub,
Speaker 1: a non jetted soaker tub. Okay, but Dean, I really
Speaker 1: want the water hot. Well, the heat of the water
Speaker 1: in the tub has nothing to do with needing to
Speaker 1: recirculate the water to keep it hot. It just means
Speaker 1: having a nice, well insulated tub and bringing that hot
Speaker 1: water in quickly, which means when you replumb the bathroom,
Speaker 1: instead of a half inch water line hot water line
Speaker 1: to that tub like you would run to your faucets,
Speaker 1: you make sure that that's a three quarter inch hot
Speaker 1: water line into that tub so that that that tub
Speaker 1: fills up fast with piping hot water, and as a result,
Speaker 1: the filling process does not have take so long as
Speaker 1: by the time the tub gets full, the water has
Speaker 1: gone lukewarm on you. All right, So there you go.
Speaker 1: Little secret about plumbing a luxurious spa bathroom experience. The
Speaker 1: tub always gets a big soaker tub, meaning the tub
Speaker 1: always gets a three quarter inch water line a hot
Speaker 1: water line feeding it, instead of the half inch lines
Speaker 1: that are running to the shower or the faucets. It
Speaker 1: makes a world of difference. Trust me, you can do
Speaker 1: the math figure out the massive flow of a three
Speaker 1: quarter inch line radically different than a half inch line.
Speaker 1: Doesn't sound like it, but it is, it really is. Okay,
Speaker 1: moving on something a little bit more pedantic. Dipping, sloping
Speaker 1: or spongy floor never acceptable, never acceptable.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Now, obviously a spongy floor needs to be investigated. We
Speaker 1: got to dig in there. We've got to find out
Speaker 1: why it is spongy. I'm not expecting this is the
Speaker 1: case if you're living on a slab, obviously, but a
Speaker 1: second floor and a floor is spongy, Or if you
Speaker 1: have a raised foundation and the floor is spongy when
Speaker 1: you walk on it's just feeling a little strain spongy,
Speaker 1: then we've got to get into the joists and figure
Speaker 1: out what's going on there. It could simply be a
Speaker 1: breaking down of the sheathing, meaning the layer on top
Speaker 1: the plywood, or the the you know, if you live
Speaker 1: in a really old home, those one by six slats
Speaker 1: that are traveling across your floor at a forty five
Speaker 1: degree angle. It could just be that, but it may
Speaker 1: indicate that there's something else wrong as well, and we
Speaker 1: need to get into it, and we need to take
Speaker 1: a look at it and end the sponginess. Okay, A
Speaker 1: dipping floor or a sloping floor. Let's talk about a
Speaker 1: dipping floor. Well, let's talk about both. Either one could
Speaker 1: be an indicator of a structural problem that's happening. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we can't overlook that. We need to take a
Speaker 1: serious look at it. If a floor is sloped, it
Speaker 1: may mean that the foundation has sunk somewhat. It may
Speaker 1: means it may mean it was framed poorly to begin with.
Speaker 1: If the floor is dipping, it may mean that we've
Speaker 1: got a joist failure right the structure of the floor underneath.
Speaker 1: It may mean that the slab was poured poorly, or
Speaker 1: just those joists have sagged over the years and now
Speaker 1: we have a dip. So first step is to make
Speaker 1: sure that from an engineering point of view, there's nothing
Speaker 1: systemically wrong. Okay, So let's say we do that. Let's
Speaker 1: say an engineer comes out and says, Yeah, this corner
Speaker 1: of the house has sloped, but it's not dipping any further.
Speaker 1: We don't know why it is sloped, but it's not
Speaker 1: going any further. We don't see any problems, we don't
Speaker 1: see any ongoing issues. We don't think it's going to
Speaker 1: go anymore. You just have an outer level floor or
Speaker 1: an engineer has said, yeah, the joicte have sagged, but
Speaker 1: they're still doing their job and they're just sagging. In
Speaker 1: those cases, we can come in with some very lightweight
Speaker 1: self leveling compound. We can strip off all the materials
Speaker 1: on the floor. This stuff pours out like a kind
Speaker 1: of like runny pancake batter, and we run it all
Speaker 1: over the floor its self levels. You don't trowl it
Speaker 1: because it literally will find its own level, as liquids do.
Speaker 1: And you know, within an hour or two it sets
Speaker 1: up like a resonancy POxy finish. And guess what. Now
Speaker 1: the floor is not dipping and it's not sagging, and
Speaker 1: the floor, even if the technically the room has sunk
Speaker 1: some in one corner, the floor is now not doing it.
Speaker 1: And that is usually a relatively quick, relatively inexpensive fixed
Speaker 1: to what is esthetically a major problem. And so there
Speaker 1: you go. There's no excuse in a twenty first century
Speaker 1: home environment for a dipping, a sloping, or a spongy floor. Okay,
Speaker 1: does that make sense?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: When we come back, very quick advice on bumps and
Speaker 1: ridges in walls and ceilings and what can be done
Speaker 1: about it? I know, I know it was that way
Speaker 1: when you bought it. The question is do you want
Speaker 1: to do something about it? I'll tell you how hang tight.
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Speaker 1: Here we are approaching the end of yet another three
Speaker 1: hours spent together, so many things that we did not
Speaker 1: touch on today. I got some news for you in
Speaker 1: that regard in just a second, but I wanted to
Speaker 1: at least hit one more topic before we're out of
Speaker 1: here today, and that is lumps and bumps and ridges
Speaker 1: in walls and ceilings inside your home. The kind of
Speaker 1: stuff you're like, listen, it was that way when we
Speaker 1: bought the house. Or maybe maybe you made the bold
Speaker 1: move and you're like, we're taking the acoustic popcorn stuff
Speaker 1: off of our ceilings, only to find.
Speaker 2: What was that acoustic.
Speaker 1: Hiding a wavy, crazy, bumpy, lumpy, ridgey kind of ceiling. Yeah, actually,
Speaker 1: that's what acoustic ceiling was invented to do. No, it
Speaker 1: was not invented by the name to reduce the echo
Speaker 1: in a room. That was just basically a marketing ploy
Speaker 1: saying why you needed this stuff? But what really? You
Speaker 1: never needed it? The builder needed it because they wanted
Speaker 1: to build your house faster and they didn't want to
Speaker 1: take the time or spend the money to straighten out
Speaker 1: those ceilings or have the drywall or do the same.
Speaker 1: That's the way it is. So this is the truth.
Speaker 1: So here's what you do when it comes to ceilings
Speaker 1: and walls. If a ridge or a bump in a
Speaker 1: ceiling or a wall is really getting on your nerves,
Speaker 1: then open up the drywall to the studs on each
Speaker 1: side of the stud in question. Because it's a stud
Speaker 1: or a ceiling joist that's dripping down or too high up,
Speaker 1: arcing too high, that's bent in one direction or another
Speaker 1: in a weird way, open up the drywall, floor the
Speaker 1: ceiling or across the ceiling. And this is a if
Speaker 1: it's a severe one, and simply I wouldn't say shave it.
Speaker 1: In terms of a ceiling joist, you could add a
Speaker 1: sister choice to it and then shave the bottom because
Speaker 1: we don't want to lose its structural integrity. But if
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of shaving a stud, then shave
Speaker 1: the stud down with a planer or have a handy
Speaker 1: person or a contractor do this to flatten it out. Now,
Speaker 1: Most of the time we don't have to go to
Speaker 1: that extreme. Most of the time you can hire a
Speaker 1: good quality dry waller to come in and actually float
Speaker 1: the rest of the walls feather out and float with
Speaker 1: drywall mud. Drywall mud can cover a multitude of sins.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be a super cheap fix, but
Speaker 1: it can be the fix that resolves the craziness of
Speaker 1: the whole ceiling, if not all of it one hundred
Speaker 1: percent ninety plus percent and make a huge difference on
Speaker 1: a ceiling.
Speaker 2: Or a wall.
Speaker 1: Dry Wall mud added at certain levels, Is that a thing, Dean?
Speaker 1: Will that hold up?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: On high end estate homes, we coat all the walls
Speaker 1: in a thick layer of drywall mud just to give
Speaker 1: it a finished, perfect plaster effect. It's called a Type
Speaker 1: five drywall finish. And of course when we're building new
Speaker 1: we have a little bit more control over the studs
Speaker 1: and stuff. But with Steven, though we have all that control,
Speaker 1: we still find them from time to time and that's
Speaker 1: how we resolve it. So call a drywaller, have them
Speaker 1: come out, have them give you a price for smoothing
Speaker 1: that stuff out, because you know what it's just if
Speaker 1: it's getting in the way of you enjoying a room.
Speaker 1: If it's something that you apologize for, at least get
Speaker 1: a price on what it would take to get it resolved. Now,
Speaker 1: a lot of you this morning have been commenting, Dan Dean,
Speaker 1: I love this topic, and I know you have more
Speaker 1: on your list. Please please give us more. You know what,
Speaker 1: all right, we will next weekend. I'm going to do
Speaker 1: part two of this same series because there are a
Speaker 1: lot more of these conditions and I know you're hungry
Speaker 1: to hear about it. So next week Part two of
Speaker 1: it was this way when we bought it, so you
Speaker 1: can look forward to that both Saturday and Sunday, because
Speaker 1: it's a big list and you know what, you deserve
Speaker 1: to hear about the problem that you're struggling with in
Speaker 1: your house. And I'll tell you this in between now
Speaker 1: and then in between now and the next program, if
Speaker 1: you want to email me at the station or leave
Speaker 1: a comment on social media, then go ahead and tell me, hey,
Speaker 1: how about this problem that I inherited? And I'll do
Speaker 1: my best to see if we can't address it directly
Speaker 1: on the next program. How does that sound. That's just
Speaker 1: a deal between you and me to help all right,
Speaker 1: one more reminder social media, Facebook and Instagram. Right at
Speaker 1: the top of a Home with Dean you will find
Speaker 1: the holiday home show post. That's where you go leave
Speaker 1: a comment saying Dean, I want to be part of
Speaker 1: that studio audience, and boom, you are entered to win
Speaker 1: a seat there. That's coming up a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: from now, on November twenty fourth. Okay, here we are.
Speaker 1: I'm going to leave you with this thought today, and
Speaker 1: for those of you who follow us on social media,
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna want to go and at least see
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about here, because there's a visual element
Speaker 1: here that would help out. I have a couple of
Speaker 1: tattoos every few days, somebody a cashier at a store,
Speaker 1: a stranger, somebody I'm waiting in line with, somebody sitting
Speaker 1: at a table next to us at a restaurant, or
Speaker 1: a new client. Someone every once in a while asked
Speaker 1: me about my tattoos. Here they are right there, I
Speaker 1: see those. I only have two, but they're on my forearms,
Speaker 1: so they're pretty easy to spot, and it's not like
Speaker 1: they're weird. But they also aren't what you might call typical,
Speaker 1: so they occasionally pique somebody's curiosity to the point of
Speaker 1: saying something. And I never intended to get a tattoo,
Speaker 1: but my father, who had several of his own, always
Speaker 1: wanted me to get one, and something in me knew
Speaker 1: I would eventually want to honor him in that way.
Speaker 1: But I resisted for a long time because they knew
Speaker 1: that it would need to mean, I mean, really mean
Speaker 1: a lot to me. And that day finally came, sadly
Speaker 1: long after my father passed away, but I still did
Speaker 1: that to honor him. My tattoos are unique because I
Speaker 1: drew them myself, and I've always been fascinated with the simplest,
Speaker 1: most primal forms of art because of how straightforwardly symbolic
Speaker 1: it can be. So these are based on images that
Speaker 1: I found in a book of ancient Hopie petroglyphs cave carvings. Literally,
Speaker 1: I fell in love with the idea of the mystery
Speaker 1: of life being portrayed as a whirlwind. So on one
Speaker 1: arm is my relationship with life, life with a capital L.
Speaker 1: And on the other is that same life being shared
Speaker 1: in relationship with other people. Those are my two great commandments,
Speaker 1: my guiding principles, my life priorities to love life and
Speaker 1: to love people. So with that said, now that you
Speaker 1: know more about me than you ever asked to know
Speaker 1: or wanted to know, at the end of yet another
Speaker 1: week in this always mysterious and often tumultuous whirlwind, I
Speaker 1: will leave you with a suggestion about what could be
Speaker 1: your priorities this week. And it is very, very simply
Speaker 1: this love life, love others, because at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, there's really not that much more to get done.
Speaker 2: I hope you have a great week. I hope you
Speaker 2: have a great Sunday afternoon. We will see you right
Speaker 2: back here next weekend from r II this way when
Speaker 2: we bought it. Then out there and get building yourself
Speaker 2: a beautiful.
Speaker 1: This has been Home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
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