WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.040 KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp the 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:11.000 House Whisperer on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, welcome 3 00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:16.199 to home where. Every week I help you understand that 4 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:19.519 place where you live. I am Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. 5 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:21.760 By the way, follow us on social media, we only 6 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:25.679 do the good kind, uplifting, informative, inspiring social media. We're 7 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:29.760 on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, x, all the usual suspects. Home 8 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:32.840 with Dean is the handle for them all. And a 9 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:35.280 reminder if your home is in need of some personal 10 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:38.000 house Whisper attention, if you say to yourself, you know what, 11 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:41.039 we'd love to get that guy in my kitchen staring 12 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:44.240 at that problem so we can just get that dealt with. 13 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:46.920 Then you can book an in home design console with 14 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:52.000 me and the t just go to house Whisperer dot design. 15 00:00:52.119 --> 00:00:54.600 All right, thank you for joining us on the program. 16 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:56.920 We are doing part two of a two part series 17 00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:01.159 this weekend about big moves for or a tracked home 18 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:05.359 remodel that pay off in spades. I mean disproportionate amount 19 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:09.079 of good for the money that they cost because of 20 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:13.120 understanding the unique properties of a and we could say 21 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:16.439 unique weaknesses of a tract home. We're taking advantage of 22 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:19.519 those weaknesses. We're dressing them head on, we're fixing them 23 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:22.359 where we can, and as a result, we're getting big 24 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:25.879 changes disproportionate to the cost. And we're going to get 25 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:27.480 back to that list in just a bit. But it's 26 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:29.920 the top of the hour right here, just a few 27 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:32.439 minutes after ten, which means it's time to go to 28 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:34.760 the phones, and I want to talk to you. What's 29 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:39.959 going on with your house? And I'm gonna ask let's 30 00:01:39.959 --> 00:01:42.560 talk to Nichee. Hey, Nische, welcome. 31 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:45.439 Home, Hidin. 32 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:46.680 Thanks for taking my call. 33 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:49.400 You are very welcome. How can I help you? 34 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:51.000 So? 35 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:54.680 I have an in ground a swim spot. It's very 36 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:58.840 large and I need to resurface it. And I have 37 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:01.879 heard that it's not good to let it sit empty, 38 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:06.040 So I'm curious how true that is. It might I've 39 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:08.680 already emptied it, but it might be a couple of 40 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:11.159 months before I actually get to the resurfacing part. 41 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:17.680 I got you, you know. 42 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:24.120 Yeah, I'm trying to figure out the exact right way 43 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:28.879 to address this for you. Here's the thing, Uh, it 44 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:31.599 is never a great idea to leave an in ground 45 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:35.759 pool or spa just sitting around empty for an extended 46 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:40.479 period of time. Okay, so that's number one. Normally, what 47 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:43.080 I would have recommended to well, absolutely, what I would 48 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:45.439 have recommended to you is keep the water in it 49 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:50.039 until it's time to actually do the resurfacing work. Not 50 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:52.439 a problem at all. To empty it, to fix it 51 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:55.840 and fill her back up again. Okay, whether or not, 52 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:58.439 it's a good idea too. And I know you just 53 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:01.599 emptied it. And so now like the idea of like, oh, 54 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:03.960 you want to pay all that amount of money to 55 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:07.479 fill up the water again for a couple more months, 56 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:12.879 That's where it gets tricky and a gray area because 57 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:17.879 it had that has everything to do with ground conditions 58 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:22.479 in your area, the water table in your area, how 59 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:24.599 high is the water table, Because the problem is this, 60 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:30.599 if the water table, you know, unexpectedly rises up in 61 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:33.560 your area because we get a strong spring rain in 62 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:37.199 the next eight weeks or so, uh, then we have 63 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:41.759 seen pools and spas literally been forced from the water 64 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:45.439 pressure underneath them out of the ground because they're empty 65 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:48.759 and they're you know, relatively light at that point, and 66 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:51.479 boom they actually pop up out of the ground some 67 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:54.439 and then the whole thing is. You know, all bets 68 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:57.400 are off. The whole thing is messed up. So what 69 00:03:57.479 --> 00:04:00.479 would your statments bet be to refill it or at 70 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:03.479 least get it filled half or three quarters of the 71 00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:05.800 way to get some more weight in there. Now am 72 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:09.360 I saying that that structure? That's my only concern. By 73 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:12.199 the way, that's my only concern. Okay, I'm not concerned 74 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:13.199 about it cracking. 75 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:13.960 I'm not. 76 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:17.000 You know, the the an in ground pool or spa, 77 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:22.079 if you have one on your property, is the strongest 78 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:25.079 piece of concrete you've got on your property. If you 79 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:28.959 had any idea what the amount of rebar and the 80 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:36.040 and the PSI standards for the gunnite or the shot 81 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:40.160 crete that went into forming that structure was, you would 82 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:45.000 see that they are, you know, multiple times stronger than 83 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:47.560 the foundation that your house is sitting on. All right, 84 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:50.879 So I'm never personally worried about, oh, if we empty 85 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:53.639 out this pool, because sometimes pool remodels can take the 86 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:56.600 better part of a month or so to do, so 87 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:58.720 if we empty out this pool for a month, I'm 88 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:02.519 never worried about, Oh, the shell might crack or just 89 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:05.519 I've never seen it happen. I've heard stories, but I've 90 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:08.319 never seen that happen, and if we're working on it, 91 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:10.759 we got to empty it to work on it. My 92 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:14.439 concern has always been that if we're doing this during 93 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:19.639 the rainy season, if the water table rises then, or 94 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:23.160 if ground pressures are just right, that we may end 95 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:25.160 up popping that shell out. 96 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:25.439 Of the water. 97 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:28.800 So I'm not worried about it cracking or collapsing. Just 98 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:35.160 that's incredibly, highly unlikely. It's just a question of whether 99 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:40.000 water pressure underneath it, working on a much lighter container 100 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:41.639 now pops it out of the ground. 101 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:45.600 Does that make sense, Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. I 102 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:48.199 did watch them build it, so I know that there 103 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:49.959 is a ton of rebar in there. 104 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:54.839 Crazy strong. I mean it is crazy strong. It really is. 105 00:05:57.079 --> 00:06:01.160 Well, okay, that's a little bit reassuring. Okay, so I 106 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:02.720 got a little bit of time anyhow. 107 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:05.879 Yeah, I would say, you know, I just don't want 108 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:07.879 to be the reason I hesitated, And he says, I 109 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:09.800 just don't want to be the one who says, you know, yeah, 110 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:11.800 you should be fine. What a couple of months, you 111 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:13.879 should be fine? And then you're calling me back saying 112 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:17.319 with a bill like, hey, Deane, remember when you told 113 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:20.639 me that I could just have this thing sit around 114 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:24.000 empty for eight weeks. Here's the bill for rebuilding my spa. 115 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:27.399 So I just wanted to give you the full, full 116 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:29.480 picture of that. 117 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:31.879 I appreciate disclosure. 118 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:34.879 Yeah, because because I just don't want to be the 119 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:37.319 person who gives you the wrong advice. So it's better 120 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:39.800 for me to just give you the whole, the whole perspective, 121 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:42.519 you know. I if you're working on it, of course 122 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:45.720 you have to empty it. But uh, and and I've 123 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:49.399 seen pools in homes that you know, We've walked into 124 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:51.639 a property where a new a new owner has just 125 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:54.839 bought a house and they've called this out because they're like, 126 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:56.879 this thing is in terrible shape. What we want to 127 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:00.519 know right now? The best way to read design this 128 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:02.480 house before we move in. And we walk into the 129 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:05.040 backyard and we're like, oh, there's an empty pool in 130 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:07.360 the backyard, and the realtor is like, yep, it's been 131 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:10.120 empty for the last six and a half years and 132 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:14.480 it's perfectly fine, perfectly fine. I mean an empty pool. 133 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:18.560 By the way, your plaster you're stuck though. The plaster 134 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:21.759 on the pool will crack. Okay, that doesn't mean that 135 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:26.399 the pool shell will crack. But pool plaster is designed 136 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:30.560 to stay submerged in water. But so anybody who just 137 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:33.279 drains their pool and thinks, you know, that's gonna be fine, 138 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:37.040 I'll just fill it up next year again. Nor your 139 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:40.079 pool plaster is gonna crack because that's a particular kind 140 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:42.800 of plaster that's designed to stay submerged, and you expose 141 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:46.000 it to air too long and then it cracks. That's, 142 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:49.600 by the way, why there's tile at the water line 143 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:52.920 of your pool. Okay, the tile line of your pool 144 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:55.959 is so that pool plaster doesn't just come up out 145 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:58.120 of the water and there's a portion of exposed to 146 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:00.319 the air and a portion of it underwater. Because because 147 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:02.319 if we expose a portion of it to the air, 148 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:06.000 it will crack and fail. That's why there's tile there instead. 149 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:09.360 So the plaster's going to fail if you leave a 150 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:13.399 pool empty for an extended amount of time. But the 151 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:15.800 whole reason you've got it empty is to refinish it, 152 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:17.879 so you're not worried about that. We're talking about the 153 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:20.360 shell failing. I don't think the shell is going to fail. 154 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:25.319 I think the odds are unbelievably low that the shell 155 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:27.720 will fail. But whether it gets popped out of the 156 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:30.160 ground by pressures unseen. 157 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:33.440 That's the only wild card in the factor. 158 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:35.720 So there you go, Nishe thank you so much for 159 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:38.240 the call, and I hope that helps at least give 160 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:39.399 you some perspective. 161 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:41.519 Yes, thank you, Dean. 162 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:45.080 All right, we will talk again, my friend. Let me 163 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:46.799 know how that turns out. 164 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:51.679 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 165 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:53.279 KFI AM six forty. 166 00:08:55.200 --> 00:09:01.720 The overarching theme of our program today are remodeling facets 167 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:07.240 of facets of a remodel specifically targeted toward tracked homes 168 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:12.200 that yield a disproportionate amount of good and awesome for 169 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:14.559 the cost and time. And what we're doing is we've 170 00:09:14.679 --> 00:09:17.159 laid the foundation of what a tract home is all about, 171 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:20.600 where its inherent weaknesses are, and then we're addressing those 172 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:24.399 in terms of renovation and remodel. And if we understand 173 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:27.480 some things about our tracked home, then we can find 174 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:31.440 the best places to invest our remodeling money to get 175 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:34.279 the biggest bang for the buck. But right now, as 176 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:36.879 is our custom, I am here in the middle of 177 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:40.159 the show taking calls, and that can be and is 178 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:45.759 about anything and everything. So I want to go back 179 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:50.840 to the phones. Let's see where we're at here. Bump bump, 180 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:56.519 bump bum. Let's talk to Jim. Jim, welcome home. 181 00:09:58.159 --> 00:09:58.519 Hi. 182 00:09:59.039 --> 00:09:59.919 How are you doing deed? 183 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:02.879 I'm well. Sounds like you're doing well too. 184 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:08.480 No, I'm doing pretty good. My question is is my 185 00:10:08.679 --> 00:10:12.080 house was is a track home. It was built nineteen 186 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:17.480 eighty nine. But I got these dust collectors or plant 187 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:21.279 ledges through every room. 188 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:27.080 Yeah, and without like ripping out walls and everything, because 189 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:29.639 I don't just want to dry wall them over and 190 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:32.200 make it avoided space. 191 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:36.240 I know, I can do cabinets and stuff, but from 192 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:44.000 a design point, how can I make these not useless spaces? 193 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:48.759 Yeah? Yeah, here is a class. 194 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:51.240 I mean, this is one of my big critiques about 195 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:53.679 you know, when I talk about track homes in general, 196 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:56.240 obviously there are a lot of different kinds of track 197 00:10:56.360 --> 00:11:00.240 There are different eras of track homes. Yeah, I'll just 198 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:02.000 say I was just going to say right now for 199 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:04.200 everybody who's listening that if you live in like a 200 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:09.440 nineteen sixties, fifties, sixties or seventies ranch style house, you 201 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:12.759 have the tract home that is most malleable. It is 202 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:15.360 it can be changed, it can be customized. In so 203 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:19.960 many ways because it's basically a very simple rectangular structure 204 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:23.679 with rectangular rooms, and we hadn't ride, we hadn't arrived 205 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:29.039 at the nineteen eighties and nineties, where my term for 206 00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:35.919 this is faux sophistication built into tract homes in the 207 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:38.080 eighties and nineties. We're kind of tired of the ranch 208 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:40.639 house builders were like, look at this, and you end 209 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:44.879 up with a home like weird angles, strange softs. And 210 00:11:45.399 --> 00:11:49.159 because of all of that jumble of what looks oh 211 00:11:49.279 --> 00:11:54.399 very different and sophisticated, we find ourselves really limited in 212 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:57.919 a lot of ways. And one of the classics of 213 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:02.159 a nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties tracked home are what 214 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:05.399 you called them plant shelves, but basically, up above your 215 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:08.440 eight foot wall, all of a sudden there's an indentation 216 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:10.720 and an alcove and it runs all the way up 217 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:13.159 to the vaulted ceiling. And you know, what do you 218 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:15.919 put up there? Plants? I mean, there's a shelf up there. 219 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:19.000 Now are you talking about that where it's you know, 220 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:21.759 like up above running up to the ceiling, or if 221 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:23.440 you've got something down at eye level. 222 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:27.080 Oh no, no, no, it's that's what I'm talking about. 223 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:29.759 It's up above, going all the way to the vaulted ceiling. 224 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:30.960 Yeah. 225 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:34.360 So all right, so we've got these weird alcoves and 226 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:38.480 plant shelves. So I mean, you already spoke to one 227 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:41.840 of them. One of the solves, and that is and 228 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:44.080 this is the thing that most everybody's hesitant to do. 229 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:48.360 But I would say, honestly, Jim, about maybe at least 230 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:50.799 a third of the time that I'm looking through a 231 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:54.519 house like that from a design perspective, I just asked 232 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:58.279 the question, well, what if you never knew it was there? 233 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:00.840 What if you did just finish that off and dry 234 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:04.799 walllet in, And how would you feel about the room 235 00:13:04.919 --> 00:13:07.519 at that point? And most, you know, a good third 236 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:10.639 of the time, the real honest answer is we wouldn't care. 237 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:14.120 It would be we just wouldn't care. The room would 238 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:19.279 feel better, it would look better, just to ignore the weird, 239 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:23.679 funky shelf. H So to just let it go. So 240 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.919 that is always an option. And I say that even 241 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:28.600 though you said you didn't want to do that. But 242 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:30.240 I say it because you know, we've got a lot 243 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:32.879 of people listening, and they're in that situation. Now you've 244 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:35.919 got them staring at their shelves. Jim, thanks a lot. 245 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:40.399 Sorry, And I'm going to say that. 246 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:42.559 That at least at least a third of those cases, 247 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:44.799 you know, you could just fill it in, Just fill 248 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:48.720 it in. It's a little weird to put cabinetry and storage, 249 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:51.480 you know, up up in the upside of a room 250 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:53.840 that you've got to get on a ladder to get 251 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:56.919 up to, but you know, in some situations maybe it 252 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:00.240 would work. My suggestion if you're going to keep the 253 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:03.600 shelf is that you make the most out of it. 254 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:07.440 And making the most out of it usually doesn't work 255 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:11.799 with plants, because a plant is a visible dust collector 256 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:17.039 that you'll need to maintain regularly. And again you're getting 257 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:21.559 up there. So so I actually I take off the 258 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:25.320 construct the the the contractor hat, and I take off 259 00:14:25.399 --> 00:14:28.799 the designer hat, and I actually put on a decorator 260 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:33.799 hat at this point and say, if we can put 261 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:37.480 on that shelf right where the indent goes in, because 262 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:42.519 of today's you know technology, if we can put a 263 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:48.200 really nice strip of led lights there that will shine 264 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:53.200 up onto that wall, then put above it the right size, 265 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:57.600 the right proportion, the right volume of you know, a 266 00:14:57.639 --> 00:15:01.879 piece of art a tapestry, a poster, a you know, 267 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:04.519 whatever the case may be. In other words, we can 268 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:09.080 turn it into a a lit recessed gallery. 269 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:11.759 Well that actually. 270 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:15.679 Shows off something, something that nobody expects to go walk 271 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:18.080 up to and touch, something that you look up to 272 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:21.600 and you say, oh, that's really cool and leave it 273 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:25.200 at that. But beyond that, Honestly, I got to tell 274 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:27.799 you half the time, I'm filling them in. I'm just 275 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:30.840 filling them in now. I just had a consult last 276 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:35.240 week at a beautiful, beautiful home in Lagoon and Miguel. 277 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:39.639 That's a very luxury tracked home, okay, but still a 278 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:44.159 tract home nonetheless, And what we discussed in one of 279 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:47.799 the children's bedrooms, they had exactly what you're talking about. 280 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:50.480 But it just so happens. And I was actually going 281 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:52.159 to get to this a little later in the show, 282 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:54.120 so I'm showing my hand ahead at that. Maybe I'll 283 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:58.759 move this up front after our call, Jim. But what 284 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:01.759 we had talked about was the fact that also it 285 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:03.679 just so happens on that side of the house, there 286 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:07.519 were all sorts of funky ac ducting chases that were 287 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:11.080 taking up rooms and other houses. And I realized because 288 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:14.000 this house. This room was located close to the garage 289 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:16.879 that I said, Hey, guys, you know that funky shelf 290 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:20.840 area in your son's room. If we filled that in, 291 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:24.960 we could redirect the ac ducting back behind there and 292 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:28.320 get it out of this gigantic thing that's taken up 293 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:31.240 half the room in his closet. And so that is 294 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:35.559 another just you know, I have no idea if your 295 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:40.440 alcove that you're talking about is has any other practical function, 296 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:46.840 But just think all of those options through before you commit, 297 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:50.039 you know, one to the other, because maybe there's a 298 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:52.399 duck that can run through there. Maybe you can fill 299 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:55.440 it in and not feeling bad about it because now 300 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:58.799 you're actually using it to help another room. But if 301 00:16:58.840 --> 00:17:01.519 all else fails and you're going to keep it, then 302 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:05.720 let's try and make it something other than a plant shelf. 303 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:07.920 Let's try and make it something with a little bit 304 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:12.119 of lighting that sets off a beautiful piece of art. 305 00:17:13.799 --> 00:17:16.240 All right, well that sounds great, Thank you very much, 306 00:17:16.279 --> 00:17:18.240 because I didn't even think about looking at how my 307 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:22.799 duckwork was run, So thank you. 308 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:26.279 All right, give it some thought, Jim, really really good question. 309 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:28.440 I'm so glad he called, because that just you know what, 310 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:29.960 I'm going to take this side. I don't even know 311 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:31.640 where it is on my list, but it's on the list. 312 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:33.960 That's the next thing that we're going to be talking 313 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:36.920 about when we get back. But as soon as we return, 314 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:39.200 we'll try and take a couple more calls. 315 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:43.400 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 316 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:45.000 KFI AM six forty. 317 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:50.359 Love that you've joined us on the program. Always an honor, 318 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:53.599 always a privilege to talk to you about this all 319 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:58.000 important thing that we call home. Today we are doing 320 00:17:58.039 --> 00:18:00.680 it part two of a two part series talking about 321 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:07.200 the most effective ways and facets of a tracked home remodel. 322 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:12.559 Specific areas, specific items on the to do list that 323 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:17.359 yield a disproportionate amount of good relative to their difficulty 324 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:23.519 and their cost. Low cost, low difficulty, disproportion proportionate amount 325 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:25.599 of awesome. We're going to get back to that list 326 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:27.599 in a bit, but right now I'm taking calls and 327 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:30.240 I'm going to get back to the phones. I want 328 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:32.319 to talk to Roe. Hey, Roe, welcome home. 329 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:38.359 Hi, thank you. I live in your Belinda and we 330 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:44.680 have horrible water here and the scale build up is bad, 331 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:49.640 and I have a whole house water filter, m not 332 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:50.920 the one that you advertise. 333 00:18:54.079 --> 00:18:59.799 And even though we have that, we have a really 334 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:04.640 good filter on our ice cubes through the refrigerator, and 335 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:05.599 those are garbage. 336 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:06.160 We can't. 337 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:08.640 I don't eat the ice cubes. 338 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:11.119 I don't drink the water out of the refrigerator, even 339 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:14.960 though that's filtered through the whole house filter and through 340 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:15.960 the refrigerator. 341 00:19:16.680 --> 00:19:22.680 The I've got one question for I know, I know 342 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:24.839 what you're about to say. The shower head just gets 343 00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:28.519 all white and gunked up and crusty and cruddy and 344 00:19:28.759 --> 00:19:33.559 all that kind of stuff, right yep, Okay, I've got 345 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:34.279 a question for you. 346 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:34.440 Now. 347 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:37.480 You say you have a whole house water filter, do 348 00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:40.960 you have a whole house water descaler as a part 349 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:44.680 of that filter system? 350 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:45.279 Oh? 351 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:45.839 I don't know. 352 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:49.119 So here's the thing, my friend. 353 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:52.839 Uh you hear me talk about like life Source the 354 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:57.519 whole house water filtration system. Okay, there are uh and 355 00:19:57.599 --> 00:20:02.599 people can purchase from like source just the water filter. 356 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:05.799 And when you say water filtration system, you know we 357 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:09.359 talk about no longer needing a water softena or anything 358 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:12.960 like that, and that speaking, you can purchase just the filter. 359 00:20:13.039 --> 00:20:15.279 But Life Source is one of the reasons I partner 360 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:19.880 with them Life Source. Their their complete system that they 361 00:20:19.960 --> 00:20:25.519 do for most homes is two cartridges, two big canisters. 362 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:31.079 One is the filter and the other is a descaling 363 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:36.119 canister that specializes in pulling hard water minerals. Actually doesn't 364 00:20:36.119 --> 00:20:38.799 pull them out, it changes them so that they're not sticky. 365 00:20:39.160 --> 00:20:43.000 So it is a it's it's an often misunderstood thing. 366 00:20:43.079 --> 00:20:48.200 Ro a water filter does zero. It in no way, 367 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:53.000 shape or form changes the hardness of your water. Okay, 368 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:58.640 Hardness in water is not a toxin or a nasty 369 00:20:59.599 --> 00:21:02.279 that needs needs to be filtered out of the water. Okay, 370 00:21:02.559 --> 00:21:06.240 hardness and water, it's mineral build up inside the water. 371 00:21:06.319 --> 00:21:09.880 It's minerals like calcium and magnesium and things like that. 372 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:13.799 Those are minerals that our bodies need. It's minerals that 373 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:17.480 go into our water. And yeah, there are places in it, 374 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:20.359 you know, depending on whether you're well water is part 375 00:21:20.359 --> 00:21:23.480 of a reservoir system or if it's well water coming 376 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:26.400 out of the ground, there are places where the hardness 377 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:29.839 of water, and we're talking about mineral content is intense. 378 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:33.880 But a water filter is designed to take out things 379 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:39.359 that aren't usually in water, not minerals. Okay, scale all 380 00:21:39.400 --> 00:21:44.319 of that that's mineral content, and so this is people 381 00:21:44.400 --> 00:21:49.519 have water softeners. A water softener system is also gets 382 00:21:49.519 --> 00:21:52.680 misunderstood because people are like, and I found that there's 383 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:54.960 still chlorine in my water, and it's like, well, okay. 384 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:58.359 A water softener is not a water filter. It doesn't 385 00:21:58.400 --> 00:22:01.440 take out anything out of the water other than the minerals. 386 00:22:01.720 --> 00:22:05.480 But a water filter is not a water softener system, 387 00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:09.559 and it doesn't remove actual minerals from the system. So 388 00:22:10.039 --> 00:22:13.119 that's why, like a life source system has a filtration 389 00:22:13.519 --> 00:22:18.880 element and a descaling element that reduces massively the amount 390 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:22.440 of scale build up that happens in the house, a 391 00:22:22.519 --> 00:22:26.480 water softener also reduces scale build up because it uses 392 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:29.799 salt ions that it passes through. That's why you have 393 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:32.640 to keep feeding it salt. It uses salt ions to 394 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:37.799 capture to grab on to calcium and magnesium and potassium 395 00:22:37.799 --> 00:22:40.319 in these things that these minerals that cause scale, and 396 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:43.880 it pulls it out of the water completely, and so 397 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:46.640 you're drinking water at that point in bathing it. It's 398 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:49.160 why your water feels a little weird. It felt like silky, 399 00:22:49.319 --> 00:22:51.799 some people say slimy. Some people love it, some people 400 00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:56.440 hate it. But the water feels weird because it lacks 401 00:22:56.559 --> 00:23:02.119