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Speaker 2: to the phones. I want to talk to Nisha. Nisha,
Speaker 2: welcome home.
Speaker 4: Thank you Dean, thanks for taking my call. I have
Speaker 4: a situation going on with my front lawn. It hasn't
Speaker 4: worked its way to the backyard yet, hopefully it doesn't.
Speaker 4: But I have this statching going on. I am not
Speaker 4: sure like what it is. I've been told it's possums.
Speaker 4: I've been told it's raccoons. It's like, I go out
Speaker 4: and all my grass has been ripped up, and I'm
Speaker 4: getting these bald spots in the lawn and I Am
Speaker 4: not sure how to make it go away.
Speaker 2: Mmm, bald spots and premature balding of the lawn.
Speaker 3: Have you have you done any surveillance.
Speaker 4: So I do have cameras, and I have not I've
Speaker 4: never noticed any creatures roaming around.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I kind of figured that with the case.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know a lot of people blame possum and
Speaker 2: raccoons for messing up lawns. But you know, as if
Speaker 2: they just get come out in the middle of the
Speaker 2: night with their shovels and just decide, you know what,
Speaker 2: let's get under her skin and just take some of
Speaker 2: this lawn away, it really doesn't happen that way. It's
Speaker 2: more likely, you know, like the only larger mammal that
Speaker 2: really terrorizes lawns on a regular basis are you know,
Speaker 2: like gophers and prairie dogs, those kinds of things that
Speaker 2: come up from underneath and leave little mounds of dirt,
Speaker 2: and those are easy to identify because they've left behind
Speaker 2: the dirt from the tunnel that they've dug but by
Speaker 2: and large there, you know, I don't know. There's a
Speaker 2: handful of of causes for balding lawn areas. It could
Speaker 2: be heavy foot traffic, but obviously that doesn't sound like
Speaker 2: it's a situation. Could be poor soil condition that is
Speaker 2: starting to kind of spread. That's a possibility. Of course,
Speaker 2: you're classic the neighbor's dogs or peeing on your lawn,
Speaker 2: but that usually starts with a noticeable yellow patch first.
Speaker 2: But when you just find that there's bare soil in
Speaker 2: the lawn, I have found generally speaking that it's a
Speaker 2: grub infestation. Okay, And you're like, oh, coross, what is that.
Speaker 2: It's very simple. There are little, tiny little beetles out
Speaker 2: there that are all around us, and there are some
Speaker 2: species that like to lay their eggs in the soil
Speaker 2: of our lawns because they're nicely protected areas. And then
Speaker 2: as the grubs start to hat, the little grub beetles
Speaker 2: they're feeding on the roots of our grass and as
Speaker 2: a result of these bald patches start to occur. So
Speaker 2: it could be any one of those issues. I mean,
Speaker 2: you could have like a fungal disease or a chemical burn.
Speaker 2: But I'm putting my money on grubs because by and
Speaker 2: large that's my experience with this. Fortunately, it's not that
Speaker 2: difficult to deal with. What you do is, first of all,
Speaker 2: you go get some grub treatment and you will find
Speaker 2: that on the shelf of just about every garden center everywhere.
Speaker 2: That you mix into the soil, and that gets the
Speaker 2: grubs under control. They're not spreading everywhere, They're just where
Speaker 2: the bald patches are. And you rough up the soil,
Speaker 2: add a little amendment to it, figure out what kind
Speaker 2: of grass you actually have, add some seed, keep it moist,
Speaker 2: and you'll grow the grass back.
Speaker 4: Okay, So add the grub killer and this and fertilizer
Speaker 4: at the same time.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: Huh Okay, good to know.
Speaker 2: And then you need to reseed that area and keep
Speaker 2: it extra moist and you know, give the give the
Speaker 2: new seeds a shot the best fighting chance possible.
Speaker 4: Okay, what do you suggest for watering times? I'm always
Speaker 4: confused on that.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Well, for watering times for a lawn in southern California, Uh,
Speaker 2: it all depends on the efficiency of your sprinklers. But
Speaker 2: not too long, you know, I mean, most lawns can
Speaker 2: well water down with good sprinkler system in in a
Speaker 2: half hour or so. It also has to do with
Speaker 2: your soil condition, whether you've got clay or you know,
Speaker 2: rocky soil or sandy soil. In other words, how well
Speaker 2: your how well your soil holds on to the moisture
Speaker 2: that's given to it. But here's a general rule. Uh,
Speaker 2: you can there are some guides out there that you
Speaker 2: can look up and say, Okay, I've got this kind
Speaker 2: of grass and this kind of lawn. I live in
Speaker 2: southern California. How long should I be watering my lawn
Speaker 2: with decent sprinkler coverage? And then what I like to do?
Speaker 2: And I think this is just the most efficient, most
Speaker 2: effective ways I like to break that up. So let's say,
Speaker 2: in fact, my smart watering system does that if forty
Speaker 2: minutes is the amount of time that an area needs
Speaker 2: to be irrigated, then my smart watering system will break
Speaker 2: that up into you know, three twenty minute sessions that
Speaker 2: are about a half an hour apart, so that we
Speaker 2: water a little bit, we let that soak in fully
Speaker 2: and become fully effective, and then we water again and
Speaker 2: then you know, you understand what I'm saying. So breaking
Speaker 2: it up into two or three cycles. And always here
Speaker 2: in southern California, in the middle of the night. Okay,
Speaker 2: not in the early morning when everybody can see the
Speaker 2: sprinkler's going off. Not during daylight hours. And the very
Speaker 2: simple reason is that sun evaporates water. I want all
Speaker 2: the water going into your soil. Now, this is not
Speaker 2: true if you live back east or you live somewhere
Speaker 2: where it's much colder and much wetter, because there we
Speaker 2: want a water during daylight hours so that we're not
Speaker 2: building up too much water content and creating mold and
Speaker 2: fungal growth and all of that kind of stuff. But
Speaker 2: not here in southern California. No one in Southern California
Speaker 2: should ever see your sprinklers going off unless they're up
Speaker 2: in the middle of the night. That's how we take
Speaker 2: most efficient use of our water. I want it all
Speaker 2: in the soil and so it's doing its job fully
Speaker 2: and effectively. Nietsche, thanks for the call. Go check that out,
Speaker 2: check out your watering times, and go check out the
Speaker 2: grub treatments that you'll find at the garden center, and
Speaker 2: also figure out what kind of grass you've got and
Speaker 2: buy that receding mix. So that once you get the
Speaker 2: grubs under control, then you know you can grow in those.
Speaker 2: It's not a terminal situation. You can fix it. I promise,
Speaker 2: all right, y'all when we come back, more of your
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Speaker 3: Damn, I.
Speaker 2: Dean Sharp, the house whisper at your service. Good Saturday
Speaker 2: morning to you, my friend. I'm glad you're with us.
Speaker 2: We're just we're taking it easy this morning. Well and
Speaker 2: it's not like we're not working, but we're taking a
Speaker 2: break from all of the emergency crisis coverage all around us.
Speaker 2: We're getting a handle on these fires.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 2: There's cool, wet weather coming. Let's keep our fingers crossed
Speaker 2: for that. And so I hope you have a warm beverage.
Speaker 2: If you don't, let me just pour you one here.
Speaker 2: Oh there we go. Oh that sounds good. It actually
Speaker 2: sounded like somebody peeing. I caught it right at the end.
Speaker 2: I just realized because you didn't hear the first part
Speaker 2: of the coffee cup. If you just catch if you
Speaker 2: catch the coffee cup stinger sound effect halfway through, it
Speaker 2: just sounds like somebody peeing. So I think I kind
Speaker 2: of that didn't work. That didn't work.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 2: The more you know that's right, Sam, the more you know,
Speaker 2: play your entire stinger. Let me try this again. Oh see,
Speaker 2: you see how critical that first part is. The first
Speaker 2: part is really important to hear.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I hope you are enjoying a warm, comforting beverage
Speaker 2: of your choice this morning. And I'm just taking calls today,
Speaker 2: so we're answering all kinds of questions and I get
Speaker 2: to talk to you and it's lovely. Let's talk to Ann. Hey, Ann,
Speaker 2: welcome home.
Speaker 5: Oh hi, Gane. I hope this isn't a stipid question.
Speaker 5: I have a friend who bought an older home in
Speaker 5: Burbank after listening to all your fire shows. I called
Speaker 5: her and I told her she has to get fire
Speaker 5: resistant at exent. Is there an easy way to tell
Speaker 5: if your at events are fire resistant?
Speaker 2: Well, an easy way I mean if you understand, if
Speaker 2: you know what a fire resistant event looks like. And
Speaker 2: there are different brands events out there, and so it
Speaker 2: may not be the easiest thing to tell from the beginning,
Speaker 2: but I'll tell you this. If she's got an older home,
Speaker 2: she would know and and chances are chances.
Speaker 3: Are very very very very very high.
Speaker 2: That no, she doesn't fire resistant at events, even though
Speaker 2: I mean, they've been around for as long as I've
Speaker 2: been doing this show, and I've been begging everybody to
Speaker 2: get them. But then, you know, it takes a disaster
Speaker 2: like what has just happened here in order for a
Speaker 2: lot of people to listen and finally say, you know what,
Speaker 2: maybe we should maybe we should do that. So yeah,
Speaker 2: right now, the state of things it is even currently
Speaker 2: right now, and let me say it this way, it
Speaker 2: has never been a code requirement to put in ember
Speaker 2: resistant vents in your home until right now. Finally the
Speaker 2: state has caught up with it. I had mentioned this
Speaker 2: on one of the fire coverage shows, But the state
Speaker 2: of California building code updates every three years on a
Speaker 2: three year basis, So in other words, they gather all
Speaker 2: the desired updates and test them out and decide which
Speaker 2: ones are actually going to be entered into the code,
Speaker 2: and then that official update happens every three years. Twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five is the final year of the three year cycle.
Speaker 2: And I can tell you with absolute certainty because I've
Speaker 2: seen it that as of January first, twenty twenty six,
Speaker 2: it is code a code requirement in California new construction
Speaker 2: and major remodels that the vents that have to do
Speaker 2: with the crawl space and the attic will by code
Speaker 2: be required for the first time ever to be fire
Speaker 2: resist ember resistant vents. And so it is just now,
Speaker 2: absolutely right now as we speak, a code requirement. You
Speaker 2: can also expect that from here on out because it's
Speaker 2: a code requirement that any insurance company that you go
Speaker 2: to for fire insurance will be requiring you to in
Speaker 2: order to get fire insurance, to prove that you have
Speaker 2: installed ember resistant vents. So so, and thank you very
Speaker 2: much for telling your friend that she needs to do that.
Speaker 2: And I would say chances are ninety nine percent that
Speaker 2: hers are not and so, but it's very easy. Also,
Speaker 2: you can call brand Guard. Brand Guard is now a
Speaker 2: sponsor of our program. I am so thrilled about that
Speaker 2: because it means I get to talk about it every
Speaker 2: weekend with you to remind you to do this. But
Speaker 2: you can call brand Guard and brand Guard will refer
Speaker 2: her to a local certified installer and they'll be happy
Speaker 2: to come out and just check her events and tell
Speaker 2: her and if and if they're not and they probably aren't.
Speaker 2: Then they'll measure them all up and give her a
Speaker 2: quote for getting them installed. It happens really quick, it's
Speaker 2: really easy, and it literally is the most important thing
Speaker 2: you can do to your home to protect it from
Speaker 2: fires in the future. So and thank you for being
Speaker 2: an advocate for that and for listening so carefully.
Speaker 5: Okay, thank you, Dean. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: All right, and you take care and you make sure
Speaker 2: you get them on your home as well. All right,
Speaker 2: when we come back, more of your calls. Your Home
Speaker 2: with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
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Speaker 2: House Whisper. Yes you are, you are home. Welcome home.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on the program. We're just taking
Speaker 2: calls this morning, taking a break from all the crises,
Speaker 2: just taking a breather. Doesn't mean that we're done covering that,
Speaker 2: of course not. We're here with you through it all,
Speaker 2: to the end of it all. But this morning got
Speaker 2: cooler weather ahead, some rain in the forecast on most
Speaker 2: of our major fires around us.
Speaker 3: Now are are you know?
Speaker 2: We've definitely turned a corner on them, getting a handle
Speaker 2: on them, and with a little bit of rain and
Speaker 2: the lack of weather events around us, it looks good.
Speaker 2: It's good news. It's good news for all of that.
Speaker 2: So we're just taking some calls. I want to go
Speaker 2: back to the phones this morning. Let's talk to Rose
Speaker 2: A Rose, welcome home, Good.
Speaker 6: Morning, Thank you. We really enjoy your show.
Speaker 1: It's very educational.
Speaker 6: I always look forward to listening to it both on
Speaker 6: Saturday and on Sunday. Oh we did the whole Oh
Speaker 6: are you're welcome. We did the horrible mistake of buying
Speaker 6: a salt water system soft water system for our whole
Speaker 6: house instead of the life source water that you guys
Speaker 6: advertise we have. On the upstairs bastard bathroom, there's some
Speaker 6: used to look like charcoal that used to sit at
Speaker 6: the bottom of the toilet bowl. Now it just looks
Speaker 6: like lint that's kind of floating around and eventually makes
Speaker 6: it to the bottom of the bowl. I know it's
Speaker 6: not the toilet because we remodeled that bathroom. We thought, well,
Speaker 6: maybe it's the toilet, but it's not, and it's also
Speaker 6: now starting to happen to the downstairs bathroom. Any idea
Speaker 6: what that might be.
Speaker 2: A couple guesses, but I'm afraid you probably are. You're
Speaker 2: probably suspecting the culprit is the water softener, and I
Speaker 2: would guess that it's probably that as well. There's there's
Speaker 2: a few things that can happen with a water softener,
Speaker 2: modern water softener, especially that you know something goes wrong
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 3: It can actually do that.
Speaker 2: It's strange because people are like, you know what, there's
Speaker 2: residue in my toilet and I have softened water. I
Speaker 2: don't think that's supposed to happen. You're right, it's not
Speaker 2: supposed to happen with a water softener. But sometimes things
Speaker 2: can go wrong. Here's the most likely thing. And you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know for certain, because you've got to call
Speaker 2: your water softer company and say, hey, come and check
Speaker 2: this out. But uh, it's not just salt interacting inside
Speaker 2: a water soft a modern water softener. Most modern wafts
Speaker 2: also have a resin bead bed. And you're like, okay,
Speaker 2: it's I don't want to waste your time or anybody
Speaker 2: else's time explaining exactly what that looks like. But just
Speaker 2: suffice it to say, uh, it's not something that you
Speaker 2: replenish in a water softener. You're just in charge of
Speaker 2: replenishing the salt. But a resin bead bed or chamber
Speaker 2: are these little tiny resinous beads. They actually look like
Speaker 2: what do they They look like salmon row in other words,
Speaker 2: salmon fish eggs. They look like fish eggs, and they're
Speaker 2: usually kind of brown and or black in color, and
Speaker 2: they're resinance and they're used to attract mineralization to them.
Speaker 2: It's like another layer of attracting minerals out of the water.
Speaker 2: But for some reason, uh, sometimes a water softener can
Speaker 2: leak their resin beads in to the water, and as
Speaker 2: a result, you either find little fish eggs floating in
Speaker 2: your toilet, but most often once they get out in
Speaker 2: the open water areas, they dissolve and then they leave
Speaker 2: their sticky, little kind of either rust or charcoal color
Speaker 2: residue on toilet bowls or at the bottom of the
Speaker 2: bowl or whatever. So that's my first guest. I could
Speaker 2: be wrong about that, but my first guess is that
Speaker 2: there's probably a resin bead issue with the water softener
Speaker 2: that you know, maybe an o ring failed maybe something,
Speaker 2: and it's leaking its resin beads into the water supply there,
Speaker 2: and so yeah, you should get that checked out because
Speaker 2: that can happen. So if you find fish eggs in
Speaker 2: your toilet, no, you are not growing trout. You probably
Speaker 2: have a water softener that needs some servicing.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 6: I know when we first got it, they came back
Speaker 6: out again and said, yeah, we did some adjustments, and
Speaker 6: then it went away for a while, and then it
Speaker 6: came back again. And we've had this problem for.
Speaker 2: For a year now, okay, so that if they made
Speaker 2: some adjustment, then it came back again. So it is
Speaker 2: a it is the water softener then, and it probably
Speaker 2: is the resin something in the resin reservoir.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, we'll give them a call. Can I
Speaker 6: ask you just one more quick.
Speaker 3: Question, real quick? Sure?
Speaker 6: Uh do you have a name of a seiler for
Speaker 6: a sill granite sink?
Speaker 3: Something more restore it to restore? Okay, a granite sink?
Speaker 6: Still granite, okay, granted black soil granite sink.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not off the top of my head.
Speaker 2: Uh So, but I'm going to advise that you do
Speaker 2: the same thing that I do, which is when when
Speaker 2: we run into those situations because products change over all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 3: It don't.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't go to the big box stores in the
Speaker 2: tile aisle because they're just gonna point you to a
Speaker 2: standard thing. Find your local, you know, custom tile and
Speaker 2: stone shop and go in there and say, here's my situation,
Speaker 2: what's the best sealer or restore for that. They've got it,
Speaker 2: They've got they got you covered. So you talk to
Speaker 2: those experts and the point in the right direction. Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you, Dean Rose, Thank you so much for your call.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to the program. Love It Rose listens
Speaker 2: Saturdays and Sundays.
Speaker 3: That is commitment.
Speaker 2: Tina's like, I know I have to listen to you
Speaker 2: twenty four to seven talk about commitment, right.
Speaker 3: Babe, Right right? All right?
Speaker 2: When we come back, should we Yeah, yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 2: go to break. I'm just I'm shocked because I'm going
Speaker 2: to break on time. It actually threw me off. When
Speaker 2: we come back. More of your call Your Home with
Speaker 2: Dean Sharp the house Whisper, can't f I Dean Sharp
Speaker 2: the house Whisper. Welcome home. Hey, thanks for joining us
Speaker 2: on the program this morning. Here we are at the
Speaker 2: end of another two hours spent together. Some of you
Speaker 2: are just waking up saying, what two hours? What they
Speaker 2: just started? How can you be two hours into it? Well,
Speaker 2: my friend, I'm glad that you slept in this morning.
Speaker 2: But for the rest of us, we've been up for
Speaker 2: a while and we're taking a very deep breath this
Speaker 2: weekend on the program, and it's an all calls weekend.
Speaker 2: I'm just answering questions getting to talk to you. Are
Speaker 2: great listeners and help you out with your home directly.
Speaker 2: Whatever you set the agenda this weekend. Same is going
Speaker 2: to be true of the big show tomorrow from nine
Speaker 2: to noon when we're right back here, nothing but your calls.
Speaker 2: And I should say right now, I want to be
Speaker 2: really clear that if I leave you on the line,
Speaker 2: because I've only probably got time for maybe one realistically
Speaker 2: one maybe another call before we're done today, if I
Speaker 2: leave you on the line, uh and uh you call
Speaker 2: back tomorrow, you just let Richie know, Hey, I was
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Speaker 2: we'll give you a you know, a fast pass, a
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Speaker 2: pass to the front of the line. It'll be a
Speaker 2: priority call for tomorrow's show. So that's the best that
Speaker 2: I can do for you.
Speaker 3: All right. That being said, let's talk to shry A. Sherry.
Speaker 4: Welcome home, Hi, Gane.
Speaker 6: Can you hear me?
Speaker 2: I can and and and I can hear other things?
Speaker 2: Are you in a coal mine?
Speaker 6: I'm in a power Okay?
Speaker 3: All right? How can I help you? My friend?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 6: I have several probruts in my house and they are
Speaker 6: really good shapes. They're woolf but the back is webber
Speaker 6: and it's.
Speaker 2: Starting to play off. Is there something I can put
Speaker 2: out a sack?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: All right, I know what you listeners are thinking. There's
Speaker 2: no way he has an answer for this.
Speaker 3: Uh huh huh.
Speaker 2: Okay, So Sherry, this is that Just understand what I'm
Speaker 2: about to tell you is a hack, a hack.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: What that means is this is not an established industry like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, this is exactly what you do when you
Speaker 2: have a deteriorating latex rubber throw rub backing.
Speaker 3: But uh, it will work.
Speaker 2: Okay, And I'm glad you said you have several I'm
Speaker 2: I'm not glad that you have several rugs deteriorating. But
Speaker 2: this will help mitigate the cost. But here's the thing.
Speaker 2: You can run down to a big box store hardware store,
Speaker 2: uh and get yourself a court of flex Seal. Okay,
Speaker 2: flex Seal. It's is is it's a brand of rubberized.
Speaker 2: You know basically what it is. It's it's liquid rubber,
Speaker 2: latex rubber in a can and and it is the
Speaker 2: very very similar, if not exactly what the rubber backing,
Speaker 2: because most rubber backings on throw rugs are are a
Speaker 2: latex rubber backing and it's soft and it's wonderful and
Speaker 2: it makes them grippy and it's all the good things.
Speaker 2: But latex rubber breaks down over time, It oxidizes, it
Speaker 2: breaks down and heat and cold and you know all
Speaker 2: the things. So if these are really important throw rugs
Speaker 2: for you and they're looking good on the on the
Speaker 2: front side, I'm thinking you can extend the life of
Speaker 2: these throw rugs by doing this. You get yourself a
Speaker 2: quart of flex Seal. A court of flex Seal costs
Speaker 2: about thirty five bucks.
Speaker 3: Okay. It's so if it was just.
Speaker 2: One throw rug, I'd be like, you know what, could
Speaker 2: just buy a new throw rug because the fix is
Speaker 2: is expensive. If not more so than the replacement throw rug,
Speaker 2: but if you've got a lot of them, if you
Speaker 2: have a few of them, then this might be worth
Speaker 2: it to you.
Speaker 3: You get a can of flex.
Speaker 2: Seal and a paintbrush and very carefully kind of mask
Speaker 2: off the edges. Don't go all the way right to
Speaker 2: the edge, because I don't want to getting on your
Speaker 2: the wool of the fabric itself. But you can put
Speaker 2: a couple of coats of flex Seal on the backside
Speaker 2: of a deteriorating latex throw rug and bring it back
Speaker 2: to life because you're just basically adding layers of fresh
Speaker 2: rubber and it'll bond with the old rubber and it
Speaker 2: should work for you. It is a hack, though, all right.
Speaker 2: So a hack means that this is a workaround, not
Speaker 2: a guaranteed fix. But I think that's probably your best shot.
Speaker 5: Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: You are so welcome.
Speaker 2: And you know what, put the top up on that
Speaker 2: car because it's cold outside.
Speaker 3: Thanks Sherry, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: You see, Yeah, you thought that was gonna throw me, Yes,
Speaker 2: you did, be honest.
Speaker 3: You're like, no way, there's.
Speaker 2: No way he's gonna know what to do with the
Speaker 2: back of a throw a deteriorating throw rug?
Speaker 3: Who does that?
Speaker 2: Well, my friends, you've come to the right place, and
Speaker 2: you know, with enough coffee here, you know, the more
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