WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:04.040 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 2 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:09.160 KFI AM six forty m. 3 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:13.439 Hi Jim forty Live, Screaming Me d everywhere on the 4 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:18.960 iHeart Radio app Dean Sharp the House Whisper Live every 5 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:22.920 Saturday and Sunday Morning with you Hey. Follow us on 6 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:27.320 social media. We only do the good kind, I promise, uplifting, informative, 7 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:33.159 inspiring kind of social media. We're on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok. 8 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:34.119 Is that still things? 9 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:36.640 TikTok? Still? Is that still? Okay? Still? 10 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:38.920 Yeah, we're still there. As long as it's there, we're there, 11 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:45.119 Facebook X, all of them. 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It's 24 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:30.959 a very special group of people who get together on 25 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:34.719 Saturday morning here at the program. I am very grateful 26 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:37.519 for you for being a part of it. But yeah, 27 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:39.760 you know, there are those other guys. They listen to 28 00:01:39.799 --> 00:01:43.840 the podcast, but it's there for everybody, hundreds of episodes, 29 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:48.439 all searchable by topic. It is your home improvement reference library. 30 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:51.400 And finally, if your home is in need of more 31 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:55.519 what you might call personal house whisper attention, guess what, 32 00:01:55.959 --> 00:02:00.000 you can book an in home design consult with us. Yeah, 33 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:03.680 me and the tea right there. You just go to 34 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:08.400 house Whispered dot design for more information. All right, we 35 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:12.800 are taking calls today. It's just that simple. I hope 36 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:15.520 you are enjoying it. I certainly am. Let's get back 37 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:18.759 to the phones. I want to talk to Nisha. Nisha, 38 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:20.120 welcome home. 39 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:26.319 Thank you Dean, thanks for taking my call. I have 40 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:30.039 a situation going on with my front lawn. It hasn't 41 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:33.120 worked its way to the backyard yet, hopefully it doesn't. 42 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:37.479 But I have this statching going on. I am not 43 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:40.520 sure like what it is. I've been told it's possums. 44 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:43.639 I've been told it's raccoons. It's like, I go out 45 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:45.840 and all my grass has been ripped up, and I'm 46 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:49.479 getting these bald spots in the lawn and I Am 47 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:51.520 not sure how to make it go away. 48 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:57.039 Mmm, bald spots and premature balding of the lawn. 49 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:02.080 Have you have you done any surveillance. 50 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:07.400 So I do have cameras, and I have not I've 51 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:10.919 never noticed any creatures roaming around. 52 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:14.240 Okay, all right, I kind of figured that with the case. 53 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:18.719 Yeah, you know a lot of people blame possum and 54 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:22.159 raccoons for messing up lawns. But you know, as if 55 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:23.759 they just get come out in the middle of the 56 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:26.400 night with their shovels and just decide, you know what, 57 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:30.319 let's get under her skin and just take some of 58 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:34.280 this lawn away, it really doesn't happen that way. It's 59 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:38.439 more likely, you know, like the only larger mammal that 60 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:41.879 really terrorizes lawns on a regular basis are you know, 61 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:44.719 like gophers and prairie dogs, those kinds of things that 62 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:48.120 come up from underneath and leave little mounds of dirt, 63 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:51.639 and those are easy to identify because they've left behind 64 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:56.319 the dirt from the tunnel that they've dug but by 65 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:59.199 and large there, you know, I don't know. There's a 66 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:04.960 handful of of causes for balding lawn areas. It could 67 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:08.199 be heavy foot traffic, but obviously that doesn't sound like 68 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:14.039 it's a situation. Could be poor soil condition that is 69 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:18.199 starting to kind of spread. That's a possibility. Of course, 70 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:21.759 you're classic the neighbor's dogs or peeing on your lawn, 71 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:26.959 but that usually starts with a noticeable yellow patch first. 72 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:32.720 But when you just find that there's bare soil in 73 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:37.240 the lawn, I have found generally speaking that it's a 74 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:42.560 grub infestation. Okay, And you're like, oh, coross, what is that. 75 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:46.639 It's very simple. There are little, tiny little beetles out 76 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:50.000 there that are all around us, and there are some 77 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:54.639 species that like to lay their eggs in the soil 78 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:58.040 of our lawns because they're nicely protected areas. And then 79 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:01.319 as the grubs start to hat, the little grub beetles 80 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:05.279 they're feeding on the roots of our grass and as 81 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:09.120 a result of these bald patches start to occur. So 82 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:11.920 it could be any one of those issues. I mean, 83 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:15.319 you could have like a fungal disease or a chemical burn. 84 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:20.720 But I'm putting my money on grubs because by and 85 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:24.360 large that's my experience with this. Fortunately, it's not that 86 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:28.720 difficult to deal with. What you do is, first of all, 87 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:31.439 you go get some grub treatment and you will find 88 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:36.439 that on the shelf of just about every garden center everywhere. 89 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:39.199 That you mix into the soil, and that gets the 90 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:42.639 grubs under control. They're not spreading everywhere, They're just where 91 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:46.639 the bald patches are. And you rough up the soil, 92 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:49.920 add a little amendment to it, figure out what kind 93 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:53.519 of grass you actually have, add some seed, keep it moist, 94 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:55.279 and you'll grow the grass back. 95 00:05:57.160 --> 00:06:01.399 Okay, So add the grub killer and this and fertilizer 96 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:02.079 at the same time. 97 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:04.439 Uh yeah, yeah, exactly. 98 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:07.839 Huh Okay, good to know. 99 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:10.839 And then you need to reseed that area and keep 100 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:13.040 it extra moist and you know, give the give the 101 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:17.439 new seeds a shot the best fighting chance possible. 102 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:22.319 Okay, what do you suggest for watering times? I'm always 103 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:23.120 confused on that. 104 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:24.879 Uh. 105 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:30.240 Well, for watering times for a lawn in southern California, Uh, 106 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:33.319 it all depends on the efficiency of your sprinklers. But 107 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:36.120 not too long, you know, I mean, most lawns can 108 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:39.560 well water down with good sprinkler system in in a 109 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:41.560 half hour or so. It also has to do with 110 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:44.920 your soil condition, whether you've got clay or you know, 111 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:48.480 rocky soil or sandy soil. In other words, how well 112 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:54.160 your how well your soil holds on to the moisture 113 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:57.000 that's given to it. But here's a general rule. Uh, 114 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:00.160 you can there are some guides out there that you 115 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:02.279 can look up and say, Okay, I've got this kind 116 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:04.360 of grass and this kind of lawn. I live in 117 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:07.959 southern California. How long should I be watering my lawn 118 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:11.199 with decent sprinkler coverage? And then what I like to do? 119 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:15.279 And I think this is just the most efficient, most 120 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:18.199 effective ways I like to break that up. So let's say, 121 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:22.279 in fact, my smart watering system does that if forty 122 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:26.160 minutes is the amount of time that an area needs 123 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:29.759 to be irrigated, then my smart watering system will break 124 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:33.480 that up into you know, three twenty minute sessions that 125 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:36.360 are about a half an hour apart, so that we 126 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:38.759 water a little bit, we let that soak in fully 127 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:41.439 and become fully effective, and then we water again and 128 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:43.680 then you know, you understand what I'm saying. So breaking 129 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:47.360 it up into two or three cycles. And always here 130 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:50.759 in southern California, in the middle of the night. Okay, 131 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:54.360 not in the early morning when everybody can see the 132 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:57.959 sprinkler's going off. Not during daylight hours. And the very 133 00:07:57.959 --> 00:08:03.079 simple reason is that sun evaporates water. I want all 134 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:05.480 the water going into your soil. Now, this is not 135 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:08.879 true if you live back east or you live somewhere 136 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:12.480 where it's much colder and much wetter, because there we 137 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:16.040 want a water during daylight hours so that we're not 138 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:19.519 building up too much water content and creating mold and 139 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:21.600 fungal growth and all of that kind of stuff. But 140 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:24.600 not here in southern California. No one in Southern California 141 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:27.879 should ever see your sprinklers going off unless they're up 142 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:30.199 in the middle of the night. That's how we take 143 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:35.600 most efficient use of our water. I want it all 144 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:40.120 in the soil and so it's doing its job fully 145 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:43.840 and effectively. Nietsche, thanks for the call. Go check that out, 146 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:46.080 check out your watering times, and go check out the 147 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:49.600 grub treatments that you'll find at the garden center, and 148 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:52.919 also figure out what kind of grass you've got and 149 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:56.799 buy that receding mix. So that once you get the 150 00:08:56.840 --> 00:08:59.840 grubs under control, then you know you can grow in those. 151 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:04.600 It's not a terminal situation. You can fix it. I promise, 152 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.039 all right, y'all when we come back, more of your 153 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.679 calls your home with Dean Sharp the house whisper. 154 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:10.879 Damn, I. 155 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:16.279 Dean Sharp, the house whisper at your service. Good Saturday 156 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:19.360 morning to you, my friend. I'm glad you're with us. 157 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:22.879 We're just we're taking it easy this morning. Well and 158 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:25.919 it's not like we're not working, but we're taking a 159 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:30.759 break from all of the emergency crisis coverage all around us. 160 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:32.919 We're getting a handle on these fires. 161 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:33.240 Here. 162 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:38.440 There's cool, wet weather coming. Let's keep our fingers crossed 163 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:42.080 for that. And so I hope you have a warm beverage. 164 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:44.000 If you don't, let me just pour you one here. 165 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:50.080 Oh there we go. Oh that sounds good. It actually 166 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:53.240 sounded like somebody peeing. I caught it right at the end. 167 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:58.200 I just realized because you didn't hear the first part 168 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:00.480 of the coffee cup. If you just catch if you 169 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:04.679 catch the coffee cup stinger sound effect halfway through, it 170 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:07.799 just sounds like somebody peeing. So I think I kind 171 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:10.600 of that didn't work. That didn't work. 172 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:10.960 Anyway. 173 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:15.360 The more you know that's right, Sam, the more you know, 174 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:20.679 play your entire stinger. Let me try this again. Oh see, 175 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:24.879 you see how critical that first part is. The first 176 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:26.519 part is really important to hear. 177 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:27.600 All right. 178 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:31.600 Anyway, I hope you are enjoying a warm, comforting beverage 179 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:34.960 of your choice this morning. And I'm just taking calls today, 180 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:37.879 so we're answering all kinds of questions and I get 181 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:42.559 to talk to you and it's lovely. Let's talk to Ann. Hey, Ann, 182 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:43.759 welcome home. 183 00:10:44.679 --> 00:10:49.120 Oh hi, Gane. I hope this isn't a stipid question. 184 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:53.639 I have a friend who bought an older home in 185 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:59.559 Burbank after listening to all your fire shows. I called 186 00:10:59.559 --> 00:11:02.799 her and I told her she has to get fire 187 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:06.759 resistant at exent. Is there an easy way to tell 188 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:11.480 if your at events are fire resistant? 189 00:11:12.200 --> 00:11:14.480 Well, an easy way I mean if you understand, if 190 00:11:14.519 --> 00:11:16.919 you know what a fire resistant event looks like. And 191 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:20.000 there are different brands events out there, and so it 192 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:24.879 may not be the easiest thing to tell from the beginning, 193 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:27.639 but I'll tell you this. If she's got an older home, 194 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:32.440 she would know and and chances are chances. 195 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:35.360 Are very very very very very high. 196 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:38.759 That no, she doesn't fire resistant at events, even though 197 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:40.519 I mean, they've been around for as long as I've 198 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:43.320 been doing this show, and I've been begging everybody to 199 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:47.440 get them. But then, you know, it takes a disaster 200 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:50.679 like what has just happened here in order for a 201 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:53.279 lot of people to listen and finally say, you know what, 202 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:57.720 maybe we should maybe we should do that. So yeah, 203 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:02.720 right now, the state of things it is even currently 204 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:05.399 right now, and let me say it this way, it 205 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:08.120 has never been a code requirement to put in ember 206 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:13.559 resistant vents in your home until right now. Finally the 207 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:16.639 state has caught up with it. I had mentioned this 208 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:20.480 on one of the fire coverage shows, But the state 209 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:25.159 of California building code updates every three years on a 210 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:27.480 three year basis, So in other words, they gather all 211 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:30.759 the desired updates and test them out and decide which 212 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:32.919 ones are actually going to be entered into the code, 213 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:37.200 and then that official update happens every three years. Twenty 214 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:40.759 twenty five is the final year of the three year cycle. 215 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:44.879 And I can tell you with absolute certainty because I've 216 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:48.679 seen it that as of January first, twenty twenty six, 217 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:53.360 it is code a code requirement in California new construction 218 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:57.519 and major remodels that the vents that have to do 219 00:12:57.559 --> 00:13:01.480 with the crawl space and the attic will by code 220 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:05.559 be required for the first time ever to be fire 221 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:09.799 resist ember resistant vents. And so it is just now, 222 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:13.919 absolutely right now as we speak, a code requirement. You 223 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:17.639 can also expect that from here on out because it's 224 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:22.039 a code requirement that any insurance company that you go 225 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:28.519 to for fire insurance will be requiring you to in 226 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:32.120 order to get fire insurance, to prove that you have 227 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:37.120 installed ember resistant vents. So so, and thank you very 228 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:39.879 much for telling your friend that she needs to do that. 229 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:43.840 And I would say chances are ninety nine percent that 230 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:48.519 hers are not and so, but it's very easy. Also, 231 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:52.200 you can call brand Guard. Brand Guard is now a 232 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:55.519 sponsor of our program. I am so thrilled about that 233 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:57.960 because it means I get to talk about it every 234 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:01.639 weekend with you to remind you to do this. But 235 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:07.440 you can call brand Guard and brand Guard will refer 236 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:12.559 her to a local certified installer and they'll be happy 237 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:15.360 to come out and just check her events and tell 238 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:18.840 her and if and if they're not and they probably aren't. 239 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:21.720 Then they'll measure them all up and give her a 240 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:24.600 quote for getting them installed. It happens really quick, it's 241 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:29.960 really easy, and it literally is the most important thing 242 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:33.120 you can do to your home to protect it from 243 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:36.000 fires in the future. So and thank you for being 244 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:38.480 an advocate for that and for listening so carefully. 245 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:41.720 Okay, thank you, Dean. I really appreciate it. 246 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:44.320 All right, and you take care and you make sure 247 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:46.960 you get them on your home as well. All right, 248 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:49.440 when we come back, more of your calls. Your Home 249 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:51.320 with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. 250 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:55.759 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 251 00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:57.639 KFI AM six forty. 252 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:04.679 DFI M six forty live streaming in HD everywhere on 253 00:15:04.759 --> 00:15:08.600 the iHeart Radio app. Your Home with Dean Sharp, the 254 00:15:08.600 --> 00:15:12.840 House Whisper. Yes you are, you are home. Welcome home. 255 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:15.519 Thanks for joining us on the program. We're just taking 256 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:18.679 calls this morning, taking a break from all the crises, 257 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:21.960 just taking a breather. Doesn't mean that we're done covering that, 258 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:25.200 of course not. We're here with you through it all, 259 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:28.919 to the end of it all. But this morning got 260 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:33.879 cooler weather ahead, some rain in the forecast on most 261 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:35.720 of our major fires around us. 262 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:37.480 Now are are you know? 263 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:40.720 We've definitely turned a corner on them, getting a handle 264 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:43.600 on them, and with a little bit of rain and 265 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:47.480 the lack of weather events around us, it looks good. 266 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:50.279 It's good news. It's good news for all of that. 267 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:54.080 So we're just taking some calls. I want to go 268 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:58.679 back to the phones this morning. Let's talk to Rose 269 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:02.080 A Rose, welcome home, Good. 270 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:04.799 Morning, Thank you. We really enjoy your show. 271 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:05.879 It's very educational. 272 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:08.279 I always look forward to listening to it both on 273 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:12.879 Saturday and on Sunday. Oh we did the whole Oh 274 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:16.320 are you're welcome. We did the horrible mistake of buying 275 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:19.240 a salt water system soft water system for our whole 276 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:24.039 house instead of the life source water that you guys 277 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:32.440 advertise we have. On the upstairs bastard bathroom, there's some 278 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:36.039 used to look like charcoal that used to sit at 279 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:39.600 the bottom of the toilet bowl. Now it just looks 280 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:43.519 like lint that's kind of floating around and eventually makes 281 00:16:43.559 --> 00:16:46.200 it to the bottom of the bowl. I know it's 282 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:50.399 not the toilet because we remodeled that bathroom. We thought, well, 283 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:53.000 maybe it's the toilet, but it's not, and it's also 284 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:57.759 now starting to happen to the downstairs bathroom. Any idea 285 00:16:57.799 --> 00:16:58.480 what that might be. 286 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:08.039 A couple guesses, but I'm afraid you probably are. You're 287 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:13.799 probably suspecting the culprit is the water softener, and I 288 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:18.480 would guess that it's probably that as well. There's there's 289 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:20.920 a few things that can happen with a water softener, 290 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:27.759 modern water softener, especially that you know something goes wrong 291 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:28.160 with it. 292 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:29.440 It can actually do that. 293 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:32.119 It's strange because people are like, you know what, there's 294 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:34.759 residue in my toilet and I have softened water. I 295 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:37.119 don't think that's supposed to happen. You're right, it's not 296 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:41.799 supposed to happen with a water softener. But sometimes things 297 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:45.519 can go wrong. Here's the most likely thing. And you know, 298 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:48.720 I don't know for certain, because you've got to call 299 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:51.079 your water softer company and say, hey, come and check 300 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:56.559 this out. But uh, it's not just salt interacting inside 301 00:17:56.559 --> 00:18:00.799 a water soft a modern water softener. Most modern wafts 302 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:06.000 also have a resin bead bed. And you're like, okay, 303 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:08.799 it's I don't want to waste your time or anybody 304 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:12.480 else's time explaining exactly what that looks like. But just 305 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:16.279 suffice it to say, uh, it's not something that you 306 00:18:16.359 --> 00:18:20.039 replenish in a water softener. You're just in charge of 307 00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:24.599 replenishing the salt. But a resin bead bed or chamber 308 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:30.079 are these little tiny resinous beads. They actually look like 309 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:34.039 what do they They look like salmon row in other words, 310 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:38.119 salmon fish eggs. They look like fish eggs, and they're 311 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:42.079 usually kind of brown and or black in color, and 312 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:46.640 they're resinance and they're used to attract mineralization to them. 313 00:18:46.680 --> 00:18:50.680 It's like another layer of attracting minerals out of the water. 314 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:57.039 But for some reason, uh, sometimes a water softener can 315 00:18:57.160 --> 00:19:02.960 leak their resin beads in to the water, and as 316 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:06.400 a result, you either find little fish eggs floating in 317 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:08.839 your toilet, but most often once they get out in 318 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:12.960 the open water areas, they dissolve and then they leave 319 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:18.400 their sticky, little kind of either rust or charcoal color 320 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:21.200 residue on toilet bowls or at the bottom of the 321 00:19:21.240 --> 00:19:25.519 bowl or whatever. So that's my first guest. I could 322 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:27.880 be wrong about that, but my first guess is that 323 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:33.000 there's probably a resin bead issue with the water softener 324 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:35.799 that you know, maybe an o ring failed maybe something, 325 00:19:35.880 --> 00:19:40.440 and it's leaking its resin beads into the water supply there, 326 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:44.359 and so yeah, you should get that checked out because 327 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:46.440 that can happen. So if you find fish eggs in 328 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:51.720 your toilet, no, you are not growing trout. You probably 329 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:53.920 have a water softener that needs some servicing. 330 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:56.039 Okay. 331 00:19:56.119 --> 00:19:58.240 I know when we first got it, they came back 332 00:19:58.279 --> 00:20:01.359 out again and said, yeah, we did some adjustments, and 333 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:03.160 then it went away for a while, and then it 334 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:06.960 came back again. And we've had this problem for. 335 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:09.920 For a year now, okay, so that if they made 336 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:12.599 some adjustment, then it came back again. So it is 337 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:15.799 a it is the water softener then, and it probably 338 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:19.279 is the resin something in the resin reservoir. 339 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:22.759 Okay, all right, we'll give them a call. Can I 340 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:24.440 ask you just one more quick. 341 00:20:24.279 --> 00:20:25.920 Question, real quick? Sure? 342 00:20:27.359 --> 00:20:30.880 Uh do you have a name of a seiler for 343 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:32.920 a sill granite sink? 344 00:20:36.119 --> 00:20:41.559 Something more restore it to restore? Okay, a granite sink? 345 00:20:43.079 --> 00:20:46.759 Still granite, okay, granted black soil granite sink. 346 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:49.640 Yeah, not off the top of my head. 347 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:52.599 Uh So, but I'm going to advise that you do 348 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:55.680 the same thing that I do, which is when when 349 00:20:55.720 --> 00:20:58.839 we run into those situations because products change over all 350 00:20:58.880 --> 00:20:59.319 the time. 351 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:01.319 It don't. 352 00:21:01.480 --> 00:21:03.599 I wouldn't go to the big box stores in the 353 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:06.400 tile aisle because they're just gonna point you to a 354 00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:12.599 standard thing. Find your local, you know, custom tile and 355 00:21:12.680 --> 00:21:16.440 stone shop and go in there and say, here's my situation, 356 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:19.400 what's the best sealer or restore for that. They've got it, 357 00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:21.440 They've got they got you covered. So you talk to 358 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:25.519 those experts and the point in the right direction. Okay, 359 00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:28.680 thank you, Dean Rose, Thank you so much for your call. 360 00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:31.599 Thanks for listening to the program. Love It Rose listens 361 00:21:31.640 --> 00:21:33.279 Saturdays and Sundays. 362 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:34.599 That is commitment. 363 00:21:35.519 --> 00:21:38.119 Tina's like, I know I have to listen to you 364 00:21:38.200 --> 00:21:42.039 twenty four to seven talk about commitment, right. 365 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:45.680 Babe, Right right? All right? 366 00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:49.240 When we come back, should we Yeah, yeah, we're gonna 367 00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:52.039 go to break. I'm just I'm shocked because I'm going 368 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:56.960 to break on time. It actually threw me off. When 369 00:21:57.079 --> 00:22:00.799 we come back. More of your call Your Home with 370 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:05.000 Dean Sharp the house Whisper, can't f I Dean Sharp 371 00:22:05.079 --> 00:22:09.039 the house Whisper. Welcome home. Hey, thanks for joining us 372 00:22:09.079 --> 00:22:12.079 on the program this morning. Here we are at the 373 00:22:12.160 --> 00:22:14.759 end of another two hours spent together. Some of you 374 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:18.440 are just waking up saying, what two hours? What they 375 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:22.599 just started? How can you be two hours into it? Well, 376 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:25.720 my friend, I'm glad that you slept in this morning. 377 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:27.960 But for the rest of us, we've been up for 378 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:32.880 a while and we're taking a very deep breath this 379 00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:36.920 weekend on the program, and it's an all calls weekend. 380 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:41.440 I'm just answering questions getting to talk to you. Are 381 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:44.960 great listeners and help you out with your home directly. 382 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:48.000 Whatever you set the agenda this weekend. Same is going 383 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:50.640 to be true of the big show tomorrow from nine 384 00:22:50.720 --> 00:22:54.880 to noon when we're right back here, nothing but your calls. 385 00:22:54.920 --> 00:22:57.160 And I should say right now, I want to be 386 00:22:57.319 --> 00:22:59.920 really clear that if I leave you on the line, 387 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:03.759 because I've only probably got time for maybe one realistically 388 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:06.599 one maybe another call before we're done today, if I 389 00:23:06.680 --> 00:23:10.519 leave you on the line, uh and uh you call 390 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:13.200 back tomorrow, you just let Richie know, Hey, I was 391 00:23:13.240 --> 00:23:15.960 on hold yesterday and Dean didn't take my call. And 392 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:18.319 we'll give you a you know, a fast pass, a 393 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:21.599 lightning lane, that's Disney speak. We will give you a 394 00:23:21.640 --> 00:23:23.640 pass to the front of the line. It'll be a 395 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:27.319 priority call for tomorrow's show. So that's the best that 396 00:23:27.359 --> 00:23:28.240 I can do for you. 397 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:34.400 All right. That being said, let's talk to shry A. Sherry. 398 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:37.559 Welcome home, Hi, Gane. 399 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:38.440 Can you hear me? 400 00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:42.640 I can and and and I can hear other things? 401 00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:44.319