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 --> 00:00:10.560 House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hey if 3 00:00:10.679 --> 00:00:15.080 I am six forty live dreaming in HD everywhere on 4 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:19.800 the iHeartRadio app. Hey, welcome home. I'm Dean Sharp the 5 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:23.480 House Whisper. I design custom homes, I build custom homes. 6 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.320 And on the weekends and today, I am your guide 7 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:31.320 to better understanding that place where you live. Today on 8 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:35.359 the show, as has become the custom for us, on Saturdays, 9 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:39.479 it's an all calls Saturday morning. That means you get 10 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:42.000 to set the agenda for what it is that we're 11 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:46.479 talking about today. The phone lines are open. Producer Matt 12 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:50.039 is standing by already taking calls, but there is tons 13 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:53.399 of room for you. Saturday morning is always a great 14 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:55.799 time to call in because, just like the freeways, the 15 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:59.960 traffic is light because so many lazy people are sleeping. 16 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:02.679 But not you, my friend. You are up and adam, 17 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:06.000 So whatever has got you scratching your head about your home, 18 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:07.760 you should give me a call so we can talk 19 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:11.439 about it. The number to reach me eight three three two. 20 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:16.879 Ask Dean eight three three the numeral two ask Dean 21 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:21.280 A three three the numeral two, and then you just 22 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:24.760 spell out ask Dean. Let me introduce you to our 23 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:28.599 awesome team. Sam is on the board. Good morning, Sam, 24 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:32.400 Good morning Dean. How you doing. I'm good, I'm good. 25 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:35.959 How was your Friday evening? How was how Saturday morning 26 00:01:35.959 --> 00:01:38.959 turning out for you? Friday evening was a delight. 27 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:42.120 I hung out with my kids, and obviously today my 28 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:44.719 son is here. I always have my live audience in 29 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:46.920 top of the live audience, so. 30 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:52.640 It's all exactly, exactly, excellent, excellent, the family affair around here. 31 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:57.879 Glad to hear it. Producer Matt Is is is Matt 32 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:00.680 near a micro of No he's done near Micah, and 33 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:04.640 he's taking calls. But Matt is here faithfully handling the 34 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:07.680 callboard for us this morning. Again. The number to reach 35 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:11.479 me eight three three two. Ask Dean A three to three, 36 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:15.560 the number two, Ask dean. Eileen Gonzales at the news desk, 37 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:20.120 Good morning, Eileen, Good morning Dean. How are you. I'm good, 38 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:23.599 I'm good. What's going on? You know in your little 39 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:24.360 closet there. 40 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:27.879 Today, my little closet, I've got some tea brewing, I've 41 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:29.439 got some blueberries on standby. 42 00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:30.319 You know, it's. 43 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:34.879 Exciting blueberries on stand by. I love that image. Blueberries 44 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:39.639 on standby. That's my bread. Not exactly sure whether you're 45 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:42.240 gonna go for the blueberries, but you know, if things 46 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:45.479 reach a tipping point, you'll turn to the blueberries. You're like, 47 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:47.680 all right, everybody in the bowl, let's go in case 48 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:54.120 of emergency. Yes, that's awesome, that's awesome. Sitting across the 49 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:57.840 table from me, look at her, Just look at her. Gosh, 50 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:02.520 dang it, my better half, my design partner, my best 51 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:05.919 friend in all the world, the co owner, co founder 52 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:11.120 of House Whisper and her dog, Damn Tina is here. 53 00:03:11.719 --> 00:03:14.639 That wasn't my dog? No, that wouldn't you would love 54 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:17.400 that if that was your dog. We were telling, who 55 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:19.719 are we telling the other day? That your favorite animal 56 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:24.520 is an elephant? Which is why Sam always plays the elephant. Obviously, 57 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:29.240 keeping an elephant at the house the little cumbersome also 58 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:35.120 illegally illegal in the most right and not right. But 59 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:37.639 what were we fantasizing about the other day? If you 60 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:40.439 could take a if you could get a baby elephant, 61 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:44.120 if you could breed an elephant. Is there is such 62 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:47.159 a thing as a pygmy elephant? Isn't there probably, and 63 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:48.840 I'm going to look it up. But if you could 64 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:51.159 get an elephant that's just about the size of a 65 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:54.599 large dog, gosh, you would so have it. 66 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:55.120 Yes? 67 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:57.400 Have how you on my bucket list? 68 00:03:57.439 --> 00:03:59.759 By the way, Tina, it is yes. 69 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:03.639 Get a steamrolled, to get steamrolled by a baby elephant. 70 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:05.360 Oh, that would be there. 71 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:12.240 You know I once had a hippopotamus for Christmas. Oh 72 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:13.520 that was a nice poll that. 73 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:18.600 All right, y'all. I have Sam the Beagle. Yes, we 74 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:21.000 have Sam on the board and Sam the beast. Sam 75 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:25.560 the beagle eats like an elephant if we let him 76 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:28.720 and he howls, well, he makes more noise than most 77 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:32.079 elephants make in the morning if you fail to feed 78 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:39.079 him exactly exactly by four fifteen. Four fifteen, rolls around 79 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:41.879 and Sam has not eaten. Oh my goodness, everybody in 80 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:44.720 the house is up and unaware of it. Don't look 81 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:46.680 at me like that, Sam, you know exactly what the 82 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:53.319 situation is. He's like, oh what, all right, y'all, let's 83 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:55.560 take some calls, shall we. Let's talk about your house, 84 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:58.519 anything going on with your home, whatever's got you scratching 85 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:02.000 your head, whether it's a design issue, you a construction concern, 86 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:06.519 DIY question you name it. That's why I'm here. We're 87 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:09.839 gonna put our heads together and figure it out. Eight 88 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:14.759 three three two ask Dean. It's just that simple. Eight 89 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:18.360 three to three the numeral two. Ask Dean. We will 90 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:22.720 get it going if I can start the house whisperer. 91 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:27.519 That's me. Hey. Whether your home is a condo, a cottage, 92 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:30.160 a castle, matters not to me. I'm here to help 93 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:33.120 you take it to the next level. The good rules, 94 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:37.199 the best rules of building and design, they apply across 95 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:43.800 the board. It matters not I truly, truly, truly believe 96 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:46.720 that have seen it, have worked it, have done it 97 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:50.800 for decades. Now that's my business, and I'm here to 98 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:54.319 help you apply those same things to your home to 99 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:58.519 make it something extraordinary. It's an all calls Saturday morning 100 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:01.399 for us, as we do around here. Here's the number 101 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:05.319 eight three three two Ask Dean. A three to three 102 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:08.120 the numeral two. Ask Dean. It's time to go to 103 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:11.959 the phones. Let's talk to Dan. Hey, Dan, welcome home. 104 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:17.720 Hey. I'm hoping you can give me a basic primmer 105 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:21.360 on water pressure and how water pressure works in the house. 106 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:24.480 I have a My house has a pretty low water 107 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:27.639 pressure in general compared to previous houses I've lived in. 108 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:30.839 But the biggest problem is that one bathtub on the 109 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:34.600 far side of the house is useless because I can 110 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:37.120 only get like a tiny dribble of water to come out. 111 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:37.519 Of the faucet. 112 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:40.720 It would take like six hours to fill it. And 113 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:42.800 I've had a plumber tell me that there's nothing I 114 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:44.879 can do about that, and I just thought I would 115 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:46.879 check with you and see if that is in fact 116 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:47.360 the case. 117 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:51.040 Okay, well, why did the Why did the plumber say 118 00:06:51.079 --> 00:06:52.560 there's nothing you can do about it? 119 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:56.639 I think maybe because he was just too lazy to 120 00:06:56.680 --> 00:07:00.399 do something about it. I'm thinking that maybe if something 121 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:02.879 could be done in terms of like altering the course 122 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:05.120 of the pipes or something to get water to that 123 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:08.879 particular bathtub a little bit better. But like I said, 124 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:11.720 the water pressure in general in the house is pretty low, 125 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:15.279 so I don't know if there's an adjustment that can 126 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:18.720 be made to get it going a lot higher. I 127 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:20.800 know that there are problems with water hammer when the 128 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:24.360 pressure gets too high. But if you could just give 129 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:27.360 some general thoughts about how water pressure works. 130 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:31.439 Okay, Well, water pressure is something that is provided by 131 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:35.879 the city, that is supplying your home, and you know, 132 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:38.639 it varies from neighborhood to neighborhood, from city to city, 133 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:42.199 from location to location. Generally speaking, you know, it's always 134 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:46.759 a toss up optimal water pressure. Optimal for a house, 135 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:54.000 it usually rests right around sixty seventy pounds per square 136 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:57.759 inch or sixty to seventy psi. If you have less 137 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:01.000 than sixty, you it's considered that you've got low pressure. 138 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:05.879 If you've got above eighty, you have high pressure, meaning 139 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:11.959 too high because your plumbing lines and especially like hoses 140 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:17.360 connecting your washing machine, appliances and the various other appliance 141 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:21.839 internal components are not rated to sit there with above 142 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:26.800 eighty psi water pressure in them. So the magic spot 143 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:31.720 of nice, healthy pressure is in the sixties and seventies. 144 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:34.519 And that's you know, ideally, most people who have sixties 145 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:37.799 and seventies don't complain about it. We get complaints below 146 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:43.840 sixty and their concerns above eighty. Now that pressure can 147 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:46.919 vary from moment to moment. As it comes to a home. 148 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:50.039 There is on the front of your home, right where 149 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:54.519 the main line comes into your home, a little device, 150 00:08:55.600 --> 00:09:00.399 usually brass looking. It's usually conical and rare found in 151 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:03.279 shape around kind of cone device and it has a 152 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:08.000 nut and a bolt coming out of one end. It 153 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:12.000 is the pressure regulator for the house. Now, pressure regulators 154 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:16.720 can often and do often fail. They get worn out 155 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:21.240 over time. Occasionally they fail in the direction of like 156 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:25.159 obstructing pressure from coming into the house, but almost always 157 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:29.240 they fail in regards to regulating and keeping the pressure down. 158 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:32.960 So when a pressure regulator fails, you know, ninety nine 159 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:35.399 times out of one hundred, the water pressure in the 160 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:38.919 house goes higher than it should, not lower than it should. 161 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:43.240 But here's the thing. If you've had if the house 162 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:46.480 has a history of water hammer, which is that's a 163 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:50.440 whole different story, but it's it's water moving around and 164 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:53.080 cavitating through the pipes in such a way that it 165 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:56.440 creass that it causes vibration of the pipes and you 166 00:09:56.519 --> 00:10:00.200 get that banging sound. Then perhaps somebody in the past 167 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:03.080 has gotten to the pressure regulator and turned it down, 168 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:05.799 because one of the ways that you can reduce water 169 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:08.759 hammer in the house is by reducing the pressure. So 170 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:11.720 the first question that I would have for you is 171 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:15.879 do you know where the pressure regulator is? Have you 172 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:20.240 tested the pressure in the house and have you tried 173 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:23.960 turning up the pressure regulator so that you get to 174 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:26.200 higher levels of pressure into the home. 175 00:10:27.480 --> 00:10:31.440 Well, there generally be a psi. Is it intact psi 176 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:32.480 that we're looking at. 177 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:37.000 Yeah, it's psi. And unfortunately the pressure regulator has no 178 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:42.080 gauges on it whatsoever. And so people are like, well, 179 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:44.639 how do I know? How do I figure this out? Dean? Well, 180 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:47.120 if a plumber and by the way, if the plumber 181 00:10:47.159 --> 00:10:48.879 did not do this for you, you definitely had the 182 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:53.799 wrong plumber out there. The regular irrigation lines out in 183 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:56.480 your yard, they are not a gauge of this because 184 00:10:56.559 --> 00:11:00.720 they usually are bypassed of the pressure regular later. But 185 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:04.759 if you've got any hose bibs that are coming out 186 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:07.399 of the wall of your house, any hose bibs that 187 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:09.600 are literally coming out of the siding of the stuccle, 188 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:13.720 then they those hose bibs are part of the internal 189 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:16.919 line of the house. And you can run down to 190 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:21.840 the hardware store and for about where they now, about 191 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:25.440 six or seven dollars, you can buy a little pressure 192 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:28.159 gauge that screws onto the hose big like a hose, 193 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:32.240 and you literally turn put screw that on turn the 194 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:37.039 valve on completely and you'll know instantly what the pressure 195 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:37.960 is in the house. 196 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:42.120 Oh okay, great, And is it likely to vary from 197 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:43.440 one side of the house to the other? 198 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:47.000 No, well, well yeah, I mean it can. It can 199 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:50.159 based on the way things are plumbed. Obviously, things that 200 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:54.440 are furthest away struggle the most getting And this is 201 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:59.279 something that sometimes people get confused, the difference between flow 202 00:11:59.559 --> 00:12:04.120 volume and water pressure. Okay, things that are far, far far, 203 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:08.120 at the far end of the branching system can sometimes 204 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:14.720 exhibit less flow than things closer by to the main inlet, 205 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:19.919 but the pressure can actually should be relatively constant through 206 00:12:19.960 --> 00:12:24.440 the system. So the point is DAN one number one. 207 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:26.240 If you've got a hose bib on the side of 208 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:31.240 the house, go get a pressure regulator, a pressure valve 209 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:36.279 so that you can gauge. Valve, sorry, gauge for a 210 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:38.879 few bucks. Put that on there, and then find your 211 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:44.159 pressure regulator, grab a wrench and turn it, and as 212 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:48.600 you turn to that bolt, you should see the pressure increase. 213 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:52.919 Increase the pressure if you can until okay, don't go 214 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:56.879 over eighty, but until you start getting better results in 215 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:00.320 that far tub that's at the end of the house. Now, 216 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:03.120 if you end up with water hammer, don't worry about that. 217 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:07.000 There's better ways to fix water hammer then by turning 218 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:10.240 the pressure down, which is we can install under a sink, 219 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:14.840 under several sinks, these little water hammer arrestors, which are 220 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:18.639 just like these tiny little shock absorbers, again, very inexpensive 221 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:23.000 pieces that homeowners can install themselves right underneath their sinks, 222 00:13:23.320 --> 00:13:25.320 and they can pick up in the plumbing department at 223 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:28.840 the hardware store. They are literally shock absorbers for water 224 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:31.759 inside a house, and one or two of these devices 225 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:36.279 installed throughout the house usually alleviates the water hammer issue 226 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:39.559 as well. So crank up the pressure. Find out if 227 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:42.039 you can get that now, if you've the worst case scenario, 228 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:43.799 and then I gotta go here, Dan. But the worst 229 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:47.960 case scenario is if you've just got unusually low city 230 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:51.039 pressure coming into the house. And if that's the case, 231 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:54.000 even that can be fixed. It's a bigger investment, but 232 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:57.039 you call the right plumber and they can install a 233 00:13:57.159 --> 00:14:01.320 booster pump onto your entire home which makes up for 234 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:05.320 low pressure and repressurizes the house as it should. But 235 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:09.120 there's a good chance, well you can resolve it without 236 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:10.279 that having to happen. 237 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:14.120 Okay, terrific. You've helped me a lot. Thank you very 238 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:16.679 much for the helping me. 239 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:19.960 All Right, buddy, go for it, Get out there, get 240 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:24.159 those little components. Do the test. I think you there's 241 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:27.159 a good chance that you can get some get some 242 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:31.320 results very in very short order, and for very little cash. 243 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:33.919 All Right, y'all, when we come back, more of your 244 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:36.240 calls your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. 245 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:40.559 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 246 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:46.559 KFI AM six forty. 247 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:47.840 IF I AM the forty live streaming and HD everywhere 248 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:51.879 on the iHeart Radio app. Dean Sharp the House Whisper 249 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:55.279 here with you like I am every Saturday morning from 250 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:59.159 six to eight Pacific time, Sundays nine to noon The 251 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:03.120 Big Show nine to noon Pacific time tomorrow show. By 252 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:07.000 the way, we're talking about sound control, not just soundproofing, 253 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:10.720 but sound control. That's even a larger subject. How to 254 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:17.159 get your home quieter, more pleasant, more relaxing, more subdued, 255 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:20.799 more beautiful sounding, all of those things. We're going to 256 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:22.720 do a deep dive tomorrow. You're not going to want 257 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:25.919 to miss tomorrow's show. But today, of course, Saturday Morning, 258 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:29.559 which means we are taking your alls and I want 259 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:32.080 to talk to Mary. Hey, Mary, welcome home. 260 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:37.639 Well, good morning, Dean. Enjoy your show every Saturday and Sunday. 261 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:43.399 It's really interesting, Jean. I am always challenged with weeds 262 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:48.120 on my easement and I hate to use the traditional 263 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:54.120 weed killers. Is there something that's more natural or that 264 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:58.960 would get those weeds so they don't keep coming up 265 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:03.480 at but take care of the problem, but that kinder 266 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:06.080 to the environment into the plants around them. 267 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:10.879 Uh, there is there is, and uh but I say so, 268 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:15.440 let me, let me, let me put it this way. Uh. 269 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:24.879 The reason why uh, chemically heavy, unnatural and that sometimes 270 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:29.720 just flat out toxic weed killers are so dang popular 271 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:35.639 is because they are a relatively easy and lazy way 272 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:38.399 to go. You know, you spray it down, you walk away, 273 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:42.679 everything dies and it stays killed for months at a time. 274 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:43.120 Right. 275 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:45.759 And even in saying that, I know there are people 276 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:48.039 listening right now who are like, oh, that's the one 277 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:49.960 that I want. I won't care about the rest of 278 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:52.440 that natural stuff. I just want to get these weeds 279 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:56.399 out of here. So uh yeah, So just understand there 280 00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:00.600 are effective ways of controlling weeds that are far more 281 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:05.160 natural and less harmful to everything around. I prefer those 282 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:09.440 my methods myself, but a little bit more work along 283 00:17:09.480 --> 00:17:12.519 the way. But the one that is usually like the 284 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:18.400 standard go to for most natural gardeners who don't want 285 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:21.960 to put you know, biophosphates down into their yard, you know, 286 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:26.039 age and orange essentially in their yard. It's a very 287 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:32.319 simple mixture of high acidic vinegar. Okay, Now you can 288 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:35.119 use white vinegar from the grocery store, but I recommend 289 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:39.119 getting the high acidic vinegar from It's still white vinegar, 290 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:42.000 it's just concentrated. The acidic is the acid in. It 291 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:45.200 is concentrated, but I recommend getting it from, you know, 292 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:48.279 from a big box store of the hardware store. It's 293 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:49.839 not the kind of vinegar you'd want to put on 294 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:54.200 your salad, but it's still vinegar, nonetheless, high acidic thirty 295 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:59.759 percent vinegar and a little bit of salt and some 296 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:06.519 dawn dishwashing liquid. You mix those together in put them 297 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:09.400 in a Hudson sprayer, and on a nice warm day 298 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:13.480 while the sun is out, while all the pores are 299 00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:17.480 open on the leaves and the stems of these weeds, 300 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:21.000 which by the way, are just plants. Weeds, not a 301 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:26.920 technical definition of any kind of botany. A weed is 302 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:32.680 simply a term that human beings use for a plant 303 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:36.039 that is not where we want it to be. So 304 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:42.559 you basically use this in a Hudson sprayer. Spray it 305 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:46.079 down on a warm day, and you'll see within a 306 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:49.279 couple hours that plants start to shrivel up because the 307 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:52.720 acid in the vinegar, the astringent quality of the salt. 308 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:56.880 And if anybody's wondering why the dishwashing liquid, the dishwashing 309 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:01.480 liquid actually is just has a gelatinous substance to it 310 00:19:01.880 --> 00:19:04.680 that allows the vinegar and the salt to stick onto 311 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:07.279 the plant for longer. Okay, it's just like a like 312 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:10.960 a like a Gela feature. So it's not about the 313 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:14.400 dishwashing liquid killing a plant. It's about allowing the other 314 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:18.680 two features to hold on and stay on the weed longer. 315 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:22.279 And uh and there you go. It is not it's 316 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:24.640 not going to guarantee that they won't come back, you know, 317 00:19:24.839 --> 00:19:29.079 you know, for six months chemicals, they all come back, 318 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:34.440 You're right. So a combination of doing that boiling water 319 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:37.599 is something that people use effectively literally bringing out boiling 320 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:41.680 water and scalding a weed. Uh, Mulching after the fact 321 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:45.319 is something that I strongly recommend, and that is taking 322 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:47.960 the area that is a weed problem and covering it 323 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:51.119 in some kind of mult whether it's tree bark, whether 324 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:55.440 it is uh, you know, gorilla hair mult some kind 325 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:59.880 of ground cover to slow down and uh and inhibit 326 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:05.119 the seeds of more weeds from just finding direct access 327 00:20:05.240 --> 00:20:08.799 to the soil. Mulching is super important. And if you've 328 00:20:08.839 --> 00:20:11.480 just got a field of weeds and you're like, you 329 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:15.519 don't understand the whole thing is weeds, Dean, then after 330 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:20.200 hacking some of them off, getting them down to ground level, 331 00:20:20.599 --> 00:20:22.640 then one of the things you can do to just 332 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:25.519 did de weed an entire yard is to get out 333 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:29.160 big black sheets of plastic and pin that down over 334 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:34.200 the area and again let the sun superheat the soil. 335 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:38.839 That's what we call solarization, covering weeds with clear or 336 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:42.559 black plastics so that it superheats the soil and the 337 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:46.160 weeds just do they cannot hold up to that. There's 338 00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:48.400 also a thing called flame weeding, but I'm not gonna 339 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:52.680 recommend that to anybody in southern California. So yeah, those 340 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:54.720 are the ways that you go about doing it. Mary, 341 00:20:54.880 --> 00:20:57.799 and you know what, if you're willing to take the 342 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:00.240 time in the effort and do it right, you want 343 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:02.200 to do it not on a rainy day where it 344 00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:04.440 washes off right away, and not on a cold day 345 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:06.599 when the pores of the plants are closed up. We 346 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:08.519 want to do it as much as possible on a 347 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:11.160 nice summer day like we've got coming ahead of us here. 348 00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:13.079 It doesn't have to be blazing hot, just nice and 349 00:21:13.119 --> 00:21:18.319 warm and sunny, and those that that very very natural. 350 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:20.759 It's not going to toxify the soil or anything like that. 351 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:22.880 It's not going to hurt any animals or anything else, 352 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:27.319 but it will definitely kill a plant that it gets 353 00:21:27.319 --> 00:21:30.599 applied to. And so there you go, my friend, good 354 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:34.960 luck with the weed control in your yard. All right. 355 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:38.680 I ran a little long last segment, so we're just 356 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:40.839 gonna leave it at that. Call for night. Now, let's 357 00:21:40.839 --> 00:21:44.319 get some news, y bye. We can charge the house. 358 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:48.559 Welcome home, Welcome to our all calls Saturday morning. The 359 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:51.839 number to reach me eight three three two ask dean 360 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:57.039 eighth three three the numeral to ask dean. Let's go 361 00:21:57.240 --> 00:22:02.680 back to the phone, shall we. Well, let's talk to Anthony. Hey, Anthony, 362 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:05.640 welcome home, hiding. 363 00:22:05.720 --> 00:22:08.839 Thank you for taking my call. I love your show, 364 00:22:08.920 --> 00:22:11.720 and I wanted to ask. My kitchen was built in 365 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:16.960 nineteen fifty four and I'm redoing the whole thing. I've 366 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:19.599 gotten two opinions on when to do my floors, either 367 00:22:19.880 --> 00:22:23.400 before or after the entire project. I'm sorry, at the 368 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:25.559 beginning or the end of the entire project. I'm replacing 369 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:28.559 my cabins. Thanks to your show, I learned it's best 370 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:31.440 to just go with the hardwood, save more money versus 371 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:34.640 pre fabricated. But I like to know when I should 372 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:37.359 do the floors. I'm going to put either vinyl or landlet. 373 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:39.720 It should be at the end of the project or 374 00:22:39.759 --> 00:22:42.960 the beginning. And then if time, just any general kIPS 375 00:22:43.000 --> 00:22:46.519 on doing your kitchen dose and don't the mistakes that 376 00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:47.720 you commonly see people make. 377 00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:50.960 All right, I got you, all right, So I've got 378 00:22:50.960 --> 00:22:54.480 time to address the flooring issue. And that's always it's 379 00:22:54.599 --> 00:22:57.440 you know what, here's the thing. Depending on the kind 380 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:01.119 of cabinets that are being installed, and I'll explain what 381 00:23:01.160 --> 00:23:04.319 that means in just a second, it may change the 382 00:23:04.440 --> 00:23:09.599 order or the preferred order may change. Okay, Typically these days, 383 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:14.279 cabinets that you are ordering to have installed, are going 384 00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:19.079 to come with the kick, the cabinet kick as an 385 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:21.720 integrated part of the cabinet. In other words, the cabinet 386 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:24.960 box already has the kick built into it, right, meaning 387 00:23:25.319 --> 00:23:27.839 that little indentation down at the bottom where your toes 388 00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:30.720 go where the cabinet separates, you know, and it breaks 389 00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:33.440 away and the dives underneath and then heads down to 390 00:23:33.480 --> 00:23:39.519 the floor. Some some cabinets have the kick as a 391 00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:44.799 separate component, and the kick can be installed separately before 392 00:23:44.920 --> 00:23:47.920 the cabinet boxes are sat on top of them. Okay, 393 00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:53.880 in situations where the kick is separate from the cabinet, 394 00:23:54.519 --> 00:23:57.640 we always try to have the kicks installed ahead of time, 395 00:23:58.079 --> 00:24:01.559 and then when with no cabinets in the room, just 396 00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:05.880 the kicks in place to define where the flooring material 397 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:08.119 is going to go, we go ahead and get the 398 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:13.640 floor installed while there's easy access to everything and minimal 399 00:24:13.759 --> 00:24:17.759 risk of flooring people you know, bumping into cabinet brand 400 00:24:17.759 --> 00:24:20.759 new cabinets are scratching them or anything like that. Okay, 401 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:25.200