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 --> 00:00:10.119 House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app tamp 3 00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:15.679 I AM six forty and live streaming in HD everywhere 4 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:21.879 on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome Home. I'm Dean Sharp, the 5 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:26.239 House Whisper. I design custom homes, I build custom homes, 6 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:30.760 and I am your guide to better understanding that place 7 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:35.000 where you live. This morning, on today's show, we're gonna 8 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:39.759 be taking up part two, Part two of our little 9 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:44.000 series entitled it was this way when we bought it. 10 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:48.759 The frustrating phrase that I often hear from design clients 11 00:00:49.159 --> 00:00:52.000 as they tour us through their home and kind of 12 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:56.799 embarrassingly admit that, yeah, this is a thing that is 13 00:00:56.840 --> 00:00:59.439 a problem with my home, but it wasn't my fault, 14 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:02.159 and it doesn't really matter whose fault it is. By 15 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:06.400 the way, no judgment here, no judgment just no judgment 16 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:10.719 of you, just judgment of the home and solutions how 17 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:14.280 to fix it, how to get beyond it. Really really 18 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:19.000 popular topic with y'all, and so we did part one 19 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:23.159 last Sunday, and we're gonna do part two today, part 20 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:26.239 three tomorrow. Look at that, Look at that. It's a 21 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:29.120 full weekend of it, and of course we're going to 22 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:32.120 take your calls as well. Here's the number to reach me. 23 00:01:32.599 --> 00:01:36.799 The board is open, Yeah, it's open. Eight three three 24 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:43.280 two Ask Dean. Eight three three the numeral to ask Dean. 25 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:46.519 Let me introduce you to our awesome team. Sam is 26 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:51.200 on the board. Good name Dean. How you doing good? 27 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:51.439 Good? 28 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:53.079 Good? How are you my friend? 29 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:57.079 I'm good. This live audience is really getting to me today. 30 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:03.359 Their hand they are real, They are there wiley today. 31 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:05.040 They are just they got a lot of energy and 32 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:07.519 that's driving me crazy. At least they we don't have 33 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:12.000 that crying baby. Oh I had to put him away. 34 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:13.960 I had to put him away. 35 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:18.680 Why put him away? I think crying baby out of here? 36 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:19.599 Uh. 37 00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:24.520 Producer Richie h our favorite producer standing by, ready to 38 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:28.400 take your calls. Uh no, not near my It's fine, 39 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:31.919 Uh Producer Richie. He's he's just you know what, he's 40 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:35.080 just doing his job. He's getting the work done. Again. 41 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:37.599 The number where you can talk to Richie because he's 42 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:40.039 gonna take your call, tell you everything you need to know, 43 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:42.960 and pop you into the queue. Eight three three two 44 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:48.639 Ask Dean eight three three The numeral two at Dean 45 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:52.719 our buddy Eileen Gonzalez at the news desk. Good morning, Eileen, 46 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:53.919 good morning. 47 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:54.680 How's it going? 48 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:58.520 You know it's going, it's going. How's it going with you? 49 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:01.120 How's it over? Then that little that you're sitting in there? 50 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:04.400 Oh, I'm bringing the sunshine. I don't have anyone do 51 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:06.439 in here, but I'm trying to bring the sunshine to 52 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:06.759 the room. 53 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.080 You see what I'm saying. You see what I'm saying. 54 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:13.240 The morning show. It's the early morning show, you know, 55 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:15.759 because we all know we got to bring the energy 56 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:19.319 to it. And so all right, Eileen, thanks for being 57 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:23.599 with us as always. Sitting across the table from me. 58 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:29.639 Oh yeah, what a handful. This one is my better 59 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:35.159 half most days, my design partner, my best friend in 60 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:37.319 all the world. Tina is here. 61 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:41.199 Welcome home. Oh wait, you forgot what? Champion of the world. 62 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:46.039 Oh, here we go. You want to explain why you're 63 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:47.680 champion of the world. Yes. 64 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:50.199 So we have some very good friends and we play 65 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:53.560 cards and I team up with the husband and Dean 66 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:55.199 teams up with the wife because the two of them 67 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:56.639 can't play cards together. 68 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:00.319 This is true. We can play cards together and can 69 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:01.159 we tried. 70 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:03.919 That dominated and we realized droid. 71 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:05.479 Them and they almost lost their marriage. 72 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:08.199 Do we realize why they can't play together? 73 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:10.759 But it's very sad because I really like playing cards 74 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:14.120 with you. With you, I mean, I'm being your team. 75 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:17.399 But my partner and I often I'm not gonna say 76 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:20.600 every time, but I would say majority of the time, are. 77 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:22.199 The Champion of the world. 78 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:24.360 Champion of the world. Okay, oh yeah. 79 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:25.759 So the reason is we play. 80 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:29.160 We play this long multi hand card game Spades. We 81 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:33.920 like playing spades, so we played Spades, five hundred point 82 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:36.639 card game, right takes multiple hands. 83 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:38.560 Takes you know, play till five hundred takes a. 84 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:42.519 Couple hours, yea, to go through a game, and whoever 85 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:45.879 wins that's the winner of the real game. And then 86 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:51.879 afterwards we play one bonus hand, just one single hand 87 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:56.240 to be Champion of the world, which is basically the 88 00:04:56.360 --> 00:04:59.000 title you give to the people who lost that night. 89 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:05.160 Well sometimes big time lost big time, but I had 90 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:06.680 a huge comeback last night. He did. 91 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:10.839 That was actually it was yeah, you guys, really, I'm cool. 92 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:12.199 Can I tell him cool? 93 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:13.759 Anyways? 94 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:17.319 All right, that has nothing to do with anything, all right, 95 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:20.800 very well, Champion of the World. Tina Sharp sitting here 96 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:24.319 across from me. All Right, y'all, shall we do the show? 97 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:27.720 How about that? Uh, let's get some news from my lean, 98 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:32.040 and then let's talk about more things in your home 99 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:34.040 that were that way when you bought it, that you 100 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:40.079 don't want to be that way anymore, can't fine? Dean 101 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:44.839 sharp the house whisper. Hey, whether home is a condo, 102 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:47.519 a cottage, or a castle, I'm here to help take 103 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:50.920 it to the next level. It's just that simple. We're 104 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:53.839 gonna be taking calls and just a bit, and if 105 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:56.759 you're interested in calling in, I'm interested in talking to 106 00:05:56.839 --> 00:05:59.600 you about whatever has got you scratching your head about 107 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:04.480 your home. Eight three three two Ask Dean eight three three. 108 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:08.879 The numeral two ask Dean is our number. Richie's standing by. 109 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:12.160 He is ready to tell you everything you need to know. 110 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:14.040 Poppy into the queue. You can listen to the show 111 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:17.279 while you wait eight three three to ask Dean. That's 112 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:22.199 coming up in just a bit. All right, Part two 113 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:25.439 today of it was this way when we bought it. 114 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:29.560 Inheriting somebody else's mistakes with your home and how to 115 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:32.399 fix them. It's a long list, and so I'm just 116 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:35.839 kinda I'm just gonna throw a dart at the at 117 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:39.240 the list on the wall here, and that's what we'll 118 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:44.800 talk about next. Oh, skylights, How about skylights? Skylights are 119 00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:48.160 an interesting subject because they can be great, they can 120 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:52.120 be terrible, and so there are a number of different 121 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:55.680 ways to evaluate skylights. Let's talk about the simplest and 122 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:59.680 most straightforward one, and that is from the building perspective. 123 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:06.959 Skylights are windows in your roof. And this is maybe 124 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:10.199 the number one problem that a lot of homeowners have 125 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:13.800 when they make a decision about a skylight, is they 126 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:16.439 don't treat it as such. Yeah, I know you're thinking, 127 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:18.360 what do you what are you talking about? I mean, 128 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:21.959 you chints out on the skylight? Or somebody did somebody 129 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:24.560 chintzed out on the skylight. You went and went to 130 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:27.040 the big box store and you saw a pile of 131 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:30.720 skylights sitting there over just beyond the window department. And 132 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:35.160 there they're those acrylic domed skylights. I don't mean the 133 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:38.000 little domes. I've got a whole set of opinions about those, 134 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:41.399 but I mean that it's an acrylic skylight, and it's 135 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:45.360 it's it's bubbled up right. In other words, it arcs 136 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:47.879 up because it's acrylic. You've got to do it that 137 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:51.839 way because acrylic is just a weak material, so they 138 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:54.639 have to use that curvature in order to give it 139 00:07:54.800 --> 00:08:00.560 some and you know, uh such some strength. Right, So 140 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:06.600 acrylic the other problem is easy to crack, not a 141 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:13.399 weather insulated skylight, and also starts to yellow and age 142 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:16.120 as poorly. This is about as cheap as cheap can 143 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:18.920 get when it comes to a skylight. And the reason 144 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:24.240 I underscore the fact that a skylight is a window 145 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:31.519 for your roof is that you would never never buy 146 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:34.639 something like that and put it on the wall in 147 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:39.039 your house sticking out from your room from a room, right, 148 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:44.399 You would never consider taking one of those bode out 149 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:50.440 acrylic skylights and having it as a window for your home, 150 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:55.639 all right, because it's cheap and because it's problematic from 151 00:08:55.720 --> 00:08:59.840 day one. And so that's why I draw this point 152 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:04.000 of emphasis. Skylight is a window for your roof. Treat 153 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:07.080 it like you're buying yourself a window. Get a decent one. 154 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:10.759 It should be glass, It should be flat so it 155 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:15.360 doesn't screw with your roofline appearance from outside. It should 156 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:19.799 be dual glazed, just like windows are. Because there's an 157 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:23.279 insulating factor to be taken into consideration. It should have 158 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:27.120 low E coatings on them so that they filter out 159 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:33.879 lots of dangerous material, damaging UV sunlight, floors and furniture 160 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:38.759 and all of that. That is the basic, basic, basic 161 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:41.639 truth about a skylight. And then of course it needs 162 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:46.440 to be professionally or at least skillfully installed, because when 163 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:51.519 people say to me, oh, don't do skylights, don't do it. Skylights. No, 164 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:54.279 I don't want to do a skylight because they're gonna leak, 165 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:58.039 Like why why are they going to leak? Well, because 166 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:04.840 skylights leak. No, they don't. Skylights only leak when they're 167 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:10.679 installed improperly. And so the key is a good curb. 168 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:14.399 The curb is the wood platform that we build for 169 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:16.879 the edge of the skylight up on the roof, and 170 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.840 then that curb is properly flashed with proper metal flashings, 171 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:24.360 either by the contractor by you if you know what 172 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:27.399 you're doing, or by the roofer who ties in that 173 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:31.159 skylight curb to the roof so that it's seamless. And 174 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:33.320 by the way, that kind of flashing, that's not the 175 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:35.759 only place that kind of flashing shows up on your roof. 176 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:39.759 There's anytime we've got a vertical surface intersecting with your roof, 177 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:44.200 like a fireplace, chimney or the like, we've got the 178 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:48.440 same kind of vertical flashing needs and it can be done. 179 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:52.240 It's done all the time. So let me just put 180 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:58.919 it this way without any additional cost or crazy sort 181 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:01.480 of Oh well, used spent ten times as much on 182 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:05.679 that as anybody else. No, no, no, just regular proper 183 00:11:06.519 --> 00:11:12.679 workman like skylight installation. Over the last what thirty five 184 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:20.679 almost forty years now of installing and skylights never had 185 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:25.720 a single one leak ever. O. All right, So that's 186 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:29.759 the basic right there, that you don't need to fear 187 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:33.480 a skylight because it's going to be something that leaks, 188 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:36.600 and if it does leak, it was installed improperly. And 189 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:39.759 if you're having trouble with a skylight, good chance. And 190 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:41.519 if you hate it, I mean, if you just hate it, 191 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:44.279 then there's a good chance it's one of those acrylic ones. 192 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:47.879 It could get cracked, it could start to yellow, which 193 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:52.559 is never a good thing. All right, that's the skylight 194 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:56.679 up on the roof itself. Now we need to transition 195 00:11:57.120 --> 00:12:03.679 our discussion to what happened then, what happens below the 196 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:07.600 skylight as it enters the room or as it passes 197 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:12.759 through the attic, because this is almost an entirely different 198 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:17.360 subject that and is probably the source of where most 199 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:21.960 people who install skylights get it wrong. They get it wrong, 200 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:25.000 or they simply don't know how to get it right. 201 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:26.960 We'll talk about all of this and more. 202 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:31.399 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 203 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:33.279 KFI a M six forty. 204 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:40.120 HI and six live streaming in HD everywhere on the 205 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:47.480 iHeartRadio app Dean Sharp the house whisper. Now Eileen has 206 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:50.720 given me her frog in her throat. It's now affecting 207 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:55.559 everyone in the studio. Thanks eileenous I'm sorry about gosh, 208 00:12:55.840 --> 00:13:02.200 hang on a second now, g yeah, thank you. Fill 209 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:05.960 in with the elephant, all right, I'm try and get 210 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:10.600 It's just it's everywhere right now? What is going on? Hey, 211 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:12.320 We're gonna go to the phones in just a bit. 212 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:16.279 Eight three three two. Ask Dean. That's the number to 213 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:20.000 reach me. Eight three three two. Ask Dean anything that's 214 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:22.759 got you scratching your head about your home. I am 215 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:25.279 ready to help you with it. All right, let's get 216 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:30.080 back to skylights. We're talking about stuff that was that 217 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:32.159 way when you bought it. Problems with your home that 218 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:37.559 you inherited from somebody else. Bad skylights. Bad skylights can 219 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:40.279 be really bad because they are such a presence in 220 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:44.600 a room once they're there. So we've discussed how a 221 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:47.879 skylight needs to get up on the roof. It needs 222 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:50.799 to be glass, It needs to be treated like a window, 223 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:54.080 like a window, like any other window in your house. 224 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:57.240 You pay the money, invest the money. By the way, 225 00:13:57.320 --> 00:13:58.519 does Dean hate skylights? 226 00:13:58.600 --> 00:13:58.639 No? 227 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:02.519 Love them. Sometimes they are just the bell of the ball. 228 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:06.440 Sometimes they are the best thing for a room, one 229 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:10.759 of the best ways to solve ambient light problems in 230 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:13.639 a room, especially an interior room that somebody else is 231 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:17.200 screwed up by doing like a bad room edition right, 232 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:20.200 and so things got too dark. But you have to 233 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:24.039 treat skylights just right right because number one, they've got 234 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:27.000 direct access to the sun. So one of the things 235 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:29.440 that we have to be aware of when we've got 236 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:33.120 a skylight on the roof is how the sun travels 237 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:35.519 across the sky and whether that skylight is going to 238 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:39.360 be receiving i mean direct light beaming through it at 239 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:42.519 some point during the day, or whether it's on the 240 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:44.720 side of the roof that's facing away from the sun, 241 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:48.200 and it's sinse ambient light coming through. Both are okay, 242 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:51.600 they just have to be treated differently. So there's the 243 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:55.159 skylight up on the roof, all installed, all flashed, all 244 00:14:55.600 --> 00:15:00.440 sealed in very nicely. The biggest oversight or a stake 245 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:02.919 or whatever you want to call it that happens at 246 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:06.200 this point now is not the skylight up on the roof, 247 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:12.000 but where the skylight enters the room. Okay, Now, yeah, 248 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:15.399 if you've got a vaulted ceiling, then the skylight on 249 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:19.080 the roof is in fact the hole that is going 250 00:15:19.159 --> 00:15:21.360 to be in the ceiling, because the bottom side of 251 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:24.799 the roof is essentially the ceiling for the room. So 252 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:28.919 there you go. But in most cases, we've added a 253 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:32.759 skylight to the roof, and we're bringing a shaft down 254 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:37.919 through the attic space to the surface of the ceiling 255 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:40.360 of the room, which is a flat ceiling, or at 256 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:44.679 least lower and separated from the roof. Okay, the shaft, 257 00:15:45.559 --> 00:15:52.120 the skylight shaft is where unfortunately, most design errors occur 258 00:15:53.080 --> 00:15:57.919 in dealing with skylights. And I say unfortunately because it's 259 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:00.279 the easiest thing to get right. I mean and it's 260 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:06.120 not a super technical element. A skylight shaft is just 261 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:10.919 some framing and some dry wall put on it. Now, 262 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:13.879 do we have to open up the roof? I'm sorry, 263 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:16.960 they open up the ceiling? Yes, we do. And do 264 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:21.120 we need to take into considerations some structural elements there 265 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:23.559 if we're opening up the ceiling, if we're what we 266 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:26.320 call heading out certain ceiling joists in order to make 267 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:28.759 a larger hole or a hole the size of the 268 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:32.360 skylight in the ceiling. Sure, but here's my thing. Here's 269 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:33.960 what I want you to understand. I want you to 270 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:38.279 loosen up. Just just shrug your shoulders and relax them, 271 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:42.919 drug and relax. Now, roll your head around, just loosen up. 272 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:47.879 Loosen up the way that you think about bringing a 273 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:51.320 skylight into the room. The biggest mistake that I see 274 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:53.960 all the time is that there's the skylight up on 275 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:58.399 the roof and there's a straight shaft coming down boom, 276 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:01.960 and there's a hole in the ceiling the size of 277 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:04.880 the skylight up on the roof, and it's right under it. 278 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:08.880 You're saying, WHOA, isn't that the way it's supposed to be. No, 279 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:11.039 it doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have 280 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:14.079 to be that way because in the room itself, now 281 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:17.359 we have a light fixture, a feature in the room, 282 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:21.799 and a shaft can be built straight down, it can 283 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:25.440 be built at an angle. It can be delivering light, 284 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:28.880 you know, at a forty five degree angle somewhere else 285 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:32.920 in the room, several feet away from the skylight itself. 286 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:38.119 It can come down and be considerably larger than the 287 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:42.720 skylight itself as it enters and makes a penetration through 288 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:46.640 the ceiling of the room. And these are all the 289 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:50.039 things that everybody needs to loosen up about and figure 290 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:53.640 out because in a room, once a skylight hole is 291 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:57.240 down in that ceiling, is it balanced, is it centered? 292 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:00.640 Is it sending the light exactly where you need it? 293 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:03.039 Have you got all that skylight up there and you're 294 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:06.480 just delivering one tight shaft of light, like a beam 295 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:09.279 of light down in one spot on the room, and 296 00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:12.160 everything else is still kind of dark around it, You 297 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:14.319 see what I'm saying. So we really need to think 298 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:17.519 about the shaft, and we need to think about how 299 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:21.200 we can you know, manipulate it and or create it 300 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:23.720 in the ceiling. I like to think of it this way. 301 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:27.359 You're gonna put the skylight on the roof wherever you 302 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:31.200 can put it as close as possible to where you 303 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:35.480 want the light entering the room. Okay, I don't want 304 00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:36.880 you to put it on the other side of the house, 305 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:40.599 just for the heck of it, but as close as possible. 306 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:45.240 And then you deliver that light into the ceiling by 307 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:48.519 making a decision about, Okay, well, what's the hole in 308 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:50.319 the ceiling going to look like and where's it going 309 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:55.440 to be. Quite often, whenever possible, I will widen the 310 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:59.000 skylight shaft from the skylight down so if you were 311 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:00.920 to look at it in the attic, it looks a 312 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:04.079 little bit more like a pyramid than just a rectangle 313 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:07.400 of shaft, because I want that light to spread out. 314 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:10.319 I want it to be not an intense laser beam 315 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:13.160 down on the floor. I want it to be a 316 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:17.519 diffused ambient light all the way across the space. If 317 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:20.480 we're using a skylight for that purpose. The other reason 318 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:24.599 that we don't hesitate to angle the shaft on a 319 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:30.640 skylight is that I'm very, very often don't want to 320 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:34.680 see a skylight on the front elevation of the house. 321 00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:38.039 You're like, well, the living room is on the front 322 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:40.359 of the house. In other words, you know, my roofline 323 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:42.079 goes up and then there's a ridge, and then it 324 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:44.599 goes down, and the front half of the roof that 325 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:48.680 faces the street, which is all lovely and part of 326 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:52.200 your curb appeal, I'd prefer not to put a skylight 327 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:55.799 on that section, even if it's a really nice, attractive one, 328 00:19:55.920 --> 00:20:00.400 still still a thing poking through your roof. So again, 329 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:04.680 if possible, not always, but if possible, if we can 330 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:08.559 put that skylight on the backside of the roofline, and 331 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:12.359 then we bring a shaft at an angle through the 332 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:15.759 attic into even a room on the front side of 333 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:18.960 the house, you're feeling me now, you're feeling me. Okay, 334 00:20:19.160 --> 00:20:22.400 you understand what I'm saying there. This is how we 335 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:25.799 start to handle skylights. Now, I've got two other tips 336 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:29.839 for you. I understand you got a bad skylight. The 337 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:33.000 very nature of what I'm talking about should bring you 338 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:37.039 some relief because it means, without necessarily getting up and 339 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:41.359 messing with your roof, you can change it. You can 340 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:43.119 improve it. You can fix it. You can fix it 341 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:48.200 by rebuilding the shaft. You can fix it by realigning 342 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:52.640 how it penetrates into a room and There's one more 343 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:55.480 thing I want to tell you about your skylight. That 344 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:58.640 is probably the reason why most people avoid using them, 345 00:20:58.920 --> 00:21:02.279 or and or the reason most people hate them is 346 00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:05.480 because you look up and they're dirty, and they're not 347 00:21:05.599 --> 00:21:08.799 as easy to clean as regular windows in the house. 348 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:10.519 What do you do with that? We'll talk about that. 349 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:11.640 Can't fine? 350 00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:16.680 Dean Sharp the house whisper. Welcome home. You're joining us 351 00:21:16.759 --> 00:21:19.440 on the program. We're going to be going to the 352 00:21:19.559 --> 00:21:23.200 phones right after the next news break. The number to 353 00:21:23.240 --> 00:21:26.839 reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three 354 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:31.279 three the numeral to ask Dean anything that's on your 355 00:21:31.319 --> 00:21:34.480 mind about your home today. Let's talk about it all right. 356 00:21:35.119 --> 00:21:37.799 I'm going to finish up telling you about skylights here. 357 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:41.000 Skylight's part of our ongoing series. It was this way 358 00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:44.480 when we bought it, inheriting somebody else's mistakes and how 359 00:21:44.519 --> 00:21:48.039 to fix them. So the great news about skylights is 360 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:52.200 that you can replace the skylight on the roof if 361 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:54.240 you need to. If it's an old, crappy one, you 362 00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:57.880 can replace it. You can fix the roofing problems and 363 00:21:58.440 --> 00:22:02.680 the flashing around it relatively easily. It's really not that complex. 364 00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:05.440 It just has to be done right, that's all. Uh. 365 00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:08.240 And as far as the way it enters the room, 366 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:13.559 the shaft, you can alter the uh, the shape, the size, 367 00:22:13.880 --> 00:22:18.680 the location of how a skylight shaft enters the ceiling below. 368 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:21.960 And now the final point, and the final point is 369 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:25.200 this the thing that annoys people, makes them think, well, 370 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:27.200 I need a skylight for this room. But I hate it. 371 00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:29.839 I hate it. I hate it. Why every time I 372 00:22:29.960 --> 00:22:32.400 look up there, I can just see the dirt, dust 373 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:34.960 that has collected on it because it's up on the roof. 374 00:22:35.480 --> 00:22:37.519 Who's gonna, you know, I'm not gonna have my son, 375 00:22:37.799 --> 00:22:40.480 my kids go up on the roof and clean, Like 376 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:42.799 do kids clean windows? You say, I don't even know 377 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:47.519 what I'm talking about. Uh, whether it's you, whether it's 378 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:53.440 your house keeper, whether it's somebody who normally washes windows 379 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:55.720 at your house, You've got not gonna go up on 380 00:22:55.759 --> 00:22:59.720 the roof and wash that maybe once in a blue moon. 381 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:05.240 So it's dirty, you can see it. Well, not when 382 00:23:05.240 --> 00:23:08.960 I put one in, because I have a secret, a 383 00:23:09.079 --> 00:23:13.200 secret to keep a skylight clean. The secret is you 384 00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:15.960 can't keep a skylight clean, so I don't want to 385 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:19.519 see it. So this is what we do when we 386 00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:24.240 rework skylights or put them in brand new. A Dean 387 00:23:24.359 --> 00:23:27.880 Sharp a house whisper of skylight has this feature to it. 388 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:33.039 We install the skylight, we build the shaft, and then 389 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:37.200 as usually usually as high up in the shaft as possible, 390 00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:42.240 maybe maybe a couple of feet away from the skylight itself, 391 00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:46.039 maybe eighteen to twenty four inches down from the skylight, 392 00:23:46.119 --> 00:23:51.039 but still well above the ceiling line. We will put 393 00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:54.920 in a piece of molding or a jog in the 394 00:23:55.119 --> 00:23:59.160 skylight shaft. A ledge will put in a ledge around 395 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:02.799 the shaft right at that point, and then measure that out. 396 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:06.960 And then I go and get a frame and talk 397 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:10.960 to my glass company and I say, hey, guys, I 398 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:17.200 think I'd like some crackled glass here, safety glass, of course, 399 00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:19.920 and I need it so big by so big. And 400 00:24:20.039 --> 00:24:22.640 then we get on the ladder and get up in 401 00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:25.599