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Speaker 1: I am Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. I design custom.
Speaker 2: Homes, I build custom homes, and most importantly today, I
Speaker 2: am your guide to better understanding that place where you live.
Speaker 2: Today on the show, a continuation of yesterday's topic, which
Speaker 2: was just taking your calls. That's right, it's an all
Speaker 2: calls weekend. I thought it would be really nice after
Speaker 2: a couple of well the three very harrowing weeks here
Speaker 2: in southern California, wildfires seemingly everywhere, and you know that
Speaker 2: we hear at kfire all in it. We double down,
Speaker 2: we do what we need to do. Here on the program,
Speaker 2: we've been talking about every imaginable aspect of these fires,
Speaker 2: of fire, hardening your home, all of that, and of course,
Speaker 2: not to be insensitive to those who have just begun
Speaker 2: this journey because of the disasters that have befallen them
Speaker 2: in these fires. We are going to continue to be
Speaker 2: discussing fires, fire related things for weeks and months to come,
Speaker 2: and so there you have it, but but it's also
Speaker 2: good sometimes to give yourself permission to just take a beat,
Speaker 2: press pause, and breathe a little bit. And that's what
Speaker 2: we're doing this weekend. That's what we're going to do
Speaker 2: today for the next three hours, you and I together,
Speaker 2: we're just taking a beat. And what that means is,
Speaker 2: I'm letting you tell me what the show is about today.
Speaker 2: You set the agenda for the show. If you want
Speaker 2: to talk about fire, that's fine, that's great.
Speaker 3: I'm ready to go.
Speaker 2: But anything else also that has got you scratching your
Speaker 2: head or concerned or questioning something about your home design questions,
Speaker 2: DIY issues, construction questions, you name it. You know, I'm
Speaker 2: here for it all. That's what we're here to do.
Speaker 2: So the phone lines are are we Yeah, the phone
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Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Let me give you the number eight three three two.
Speaker 2: Ask Dean A three three, the numeral two, and then
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Speaker 3: That's what we are serving up for you today.
Speaker 2: So I'm just gonna welcome you to sit down, relax,
Speaker 2: whatever it is that you're doing right now, I'm glad
Speaker 2: you're with us. It is a cloudy day here in
Speaker 2: southern California. There's rain falling. Oh my goodness, how great
Speaker 2: is that? The temperatures have dropped, and you know it's
Speaker 2: a good day to pour yourself a warm beverage.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 3: Let me do that for you. Look at that. Look
Speaker 3: at that.
Speaker 2: I realized yesterday I started to do this, but the
Speaker 2: volume wasn't up on that little sound effect. And so
Speaker 2: when if you don't catch it right at the beginning,
Speaker 2: it is very important to hear this part. If you
Speaker 2: don't catch that right at the beginning, I'm gonna let
Speaker 2: it run, just for saying. And then you come in
Speaker 2: here just sounds like you're peeing. It just sounds like
Speaker 2: somebody's peeing. And that was not a comforting thought. Well,
Speaker 2: what are you laughing at? It's true?
Speaker 3: Is it not right? You need that little I.
Speaker 2: Don't know even what that is that resonant you first
Speaker 2: burst of coffee into the cup. Right anyway, there you go, hey,
Speaker 2: really quick, let me introduce you to our awesome team.
Speaker 3: Elmer is on the board. Good morning, Elmer, Good morning,
Speaker 3: Dean Ago Bud doing good. That's Sunday, and that's it's
Speaker 3: good morning.
Speaker 2: There it is there, It is uh, producer Richie standing by.
Speaker 3: Oh, look he's handling some calls right now. So Richie
Speaker 3: is here.
Speaker 2: He's going to be screening our calls today, as always,
Speaker 2: doing an awesome job. And then there's my buddy, Eileen
Speaker 2: Gonzalez at the news desk.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Eileen, Good morning Dean. How's it going.
Speaker 2: Uh, it's good. I'm I'm I'm glad that I don't
Speaker 2: see the sun shining right now. I'm just loving the
Speaker 2: kind of the overcastness.
Speaker 3: We need rain, not too much, but yeah, not too much.
Speaker 2: I don't think this is going to do too much.
Speaker 2: I don't think this is this is not gonna be
Speaker 2: like I don't believe that it's you know, oh, finally
Speaker 2: the rain is here. But and now it's gonna come
Speaker 2: down so hard and so fast that we're going to
Speaker 2: get landslides and ground movement in the areas that are burnt.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna be troublesome for those areas.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping not.
Speaker 2: I don't think it will be Mother Nature's in charge, yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: Oh and speaking of being in charge, sitting across the
Speaker 2: table from me, the person who's really in charge, my
Speaker 2: better half, my design partner, the co founder of a
Speaker 2: house Whisper, and my best friend in the world.
Speaker 3: Tina is here.
Speaker 2: I's drop my coffee. Great, all right, we're gonna get
Speaker 2: to it, y'all. It is an all calls Sunday. We've
Speaker 2: got some calls on the board, but there's still room
Speaker 2: for you. Eight three three two Ask Dean your home
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Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 2: We are just enjoying an all weekend, taking a little
Speaker 2: bit of a break from all the craziness that we've
Speaker 2: been covering for the last two or three weeks now,
Speaker 2: and uh taking your calls because I just want to
Speaker 2: talk to you today.
Speaker 3: That's all there is to it.
Speaker 2: I just want to talk to you find out what's
Speaker 2: going on with your home. So time to go to
Speaker 2: the phone. So, by the way, the number to reach
Speaker 2: me eight three three, the numeral two.
Speaker 3: Ask Dean.
Speaker 2: That's eight three three two, Ask Dean A three three
Speaker 2: the numeral two beep and then you just spell out
Speaker 2: ask Dean. I don't know why, Tina laughs every time
Speaker 2: I do that.
Speaker 3: Every time it just catches you by surprise. I just
Speaker 3: don't expect you to do it.
Speaker 2: Eight three three two ask Dan, there it is. Oh,
Speaker 2: this is why I found the right girl. I did
Speaker 2: stupid jokes. She's just laughing away.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go to the phones. I want to
Speaker 3: talk to. Let's just talk to Susan. Hey, Susan, welcome home,
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Hi.
Speaker 3: Are you with me?
Speaker 6: I am? Can you hear me?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I can hear you. How can I help?
Speaker 6: Okay? Yeah? I saw something advertised. It's like a polar
Speaker 6: panels that you buy and then it looks like it
Speaker 6: powers up a generator that somehow plugs into your house.
Speaker 6: You're it's like two hundred and twenty watts. It's like
Speaker 6: four thousand dollars, and we get our power turned off
Speaker 6: a lot out here because of the fires. I'm out
Speaker 6: in the country and you know, it's cold and I
Speaker 6: want heat or I want to cook, you know, and
Speaker 6: I can't. So I was just wondering if it is
Speaker 6: it like even worth it, or is it would it
Speaker 6: power up? Would it be enough to turn on heat
Speaker 6: and in the summer turn on air conditioning?
Speaker 3: Okay, great question, great, great question. Susan.
Speaker 2: A lot of generator and backup battery questions have come recently,
Speaker 2: especially with all the power outages with the wind and such.
Speaker 2: So let me see if I can help you kind
Speaker 2: of break this down. By the way, this one at Costco,
Speaker 2: how many watts did you say it was?
Speaker 3: You think it's too I think it's.
Speaker 6: Wats something like that.
Speaker 3: And how much is it selling for.
Speaker 6: It's like thirty seven?
Speaker 3: Whoa?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So so you probably don't have those
Speaker 2: numbers right. I'm sure you have the price right, but
Speaker 2: probably don't have the numbers right. Okay, So all right,
Speaker 2: So for everybody, generators and backup batteries the same. They
Speaker 2: are right on what their output is, Okay, their output
Speaker 2: is going to be wattage now twenty two and twenty watts.
Speaker 2: That that is very very very very small amount of output.
Speaker 3: Okay. That's why I doubt that that's the right number.
Speaker 2: It actually may be a backup battery capable of doing
Speaker 2: two twenty voltage, and that's a whole different ballgame, Okay,
Speaker 2: two twenty voltage as opposed to one twenty or what
Speaker 2: we call two forty. Anyway, the point is this, go
Speaker 2: back check the specs. But here's how you can figure
Speaker 2: out what kind of generator you can get by with
Speaker 2: or what kind of generator you want. There are whole
Speaker 2: house generators. There are great companies out there. Daffy Power,
Speaker 2: Honeywell makes a great generator. Generak makes great whole house generators.
Speaker 2: They usually run off of natural gas that you hook
Speaker 2: them up to your natural gas lines and uh and
Speaker 2: they'll hook into the house and you can size them
Speaker 2: to your entire home to be automatically activated whenever the
Speaker 2: power goes down. So if you want a whole house
Speaker 2: generator run your entire house, they'll do the calculations and
Speaker 2: they'll size that and it'll just be an automatic thing.
Speaker 2: Where power goes down, you see a you know, the
Speaker 2: lights dim about three seconds and boom, the generator kicks
Speaker 2: on and you're back in business, living life just the
Speaker 2: way you were before, without any concern about do we
Speaker 2: have to recharge the generator, do we have to refuel
Speaker 2: the generator because it's just hooked into the natural gas supply,
Speaker 2: whether that's just regular natural gas coming from the city
Speaker 2: or your municipality, or whether you know, if you're way
Speaker 2: off in the country, if you if you're running your
Speaker 2: house on a propane. It'll run on propane, not a
Speaker 2: problem either way. Then below whole house generators that could
Speaker 2: that's going to be in the thousands of dollars, definitely,
Speaker 2: in the thousands of dollars. Below that, uh is are
Speaker 2: portable generators and they come in all shapes and sizes,
Speaker 2: and these days portable battery packs come in all shapes
Speaker 2: and sizes. That's what sounds like you're looking at a
Speaker 2: costco because a generator, it's not a battery pack, is
Speaker 2: not really a generator.
Speaker 3: It's a battery. So well, it's.
Speaker 6: Supposed to be it's supposed to be getting into energy
Speaker 6: from solar panels instead of gasoline or propaine.
Speaker 3: Exactly, it's a battery.
Speaker 2: It's a battery that's recharging using solar panels and and so,
Speaker 2: and that's great, that's great. Usually so there's a there's
Speaker 2: an upside in the downside. Usually a battery like that
Speaker 2: is not going to be as powerful as an equivalent
Speaker 2: generator for a lot less money that's running off of
Speaker 2: like propane or gasoline. But it's also rechargeable via the
Speaker 2: sun and uh and so it's always trade off. So
Speaker 2: but here's the key, and I'll just give this right
Speaker 2: before we have to go to break here.
Speaker 3: The key is this.
Speaker 2: What you're looking for is that you're looking around the
Speaker 2: house and you're thinking, all right, what do I want
Speaker 2: to run off of this when.
Speaker 3: When the power goes down?
Speaker 2: And if it's the answer is I just want to
Speaker 2: run everything, then you need a whole house generator.
Speaker 3: Bottom line done. That's it.
Speaker 2: But if you're willing to limp by with less but
Speaker 2: still have the comfort level that you're looking for, then
Speaker 2: what you do is you want to find out what
Speaker 2: is the wattage consumption of the appliances and or the
Speaker 2: lights that you want to have going right. So you
Speaker 2: can find that out by looking at each of your appliances.
Speaker 2: You know, most of us want the refrigerator running right.
Speaker 2: It has a certain wattage uptake that's required. A lot
Speaker 2: of us would like to still be able to cook right.
Speaker 2: For Tina and I, we have an induction cooktop that
Speaker 2: is a two hundred and forty amp induction cooktop that's
Speaker 2: not going to fly for us during a power outage.
Speaker 2: But a little induction hot plate that you know, ironically
Speaker 2: we got from Costco takes about fifteen hundred watts of
Speaker 2: power and so it'll run just fine on our little
Speaker 2: generator circuit as well as our microwave, and the circuit
Speaker 2: that runs and fires are.
Speaker 3: Our water heater.
Speaker 2: Our generators are not powerful enough to start up my
Speaker 2: air conditioner, but some are, and so it's all a
Speaker 2: matter of choosing what it is that.
Speaker 3: You want to run, and how long you want it
Speaker 3: to run, and the convenience level there.
Speaker 2: Obviously, you're going to pay the most to set up
Speaker 2: an automatic whole house generator system. You're going to pay
Speaker 2: a lot lot less to set yourself up with smaller
Speaker 2: portable generators, but then there's some inconvenience and some less
Speaker 2: abilities as you go. Always look at the wattage output though.
Speaker 2: This is the key, because that's what's going to tell
Speaker 2: you what it's. You know, just like your you know
Speaker 2: your hair dryer, fifteen hundred WAT hair dryer, Well, a
Speaker 2: fifteen hundred WAT generator.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 2: You can run a hair dryer and then you turn
Speaker 2: off the hair dryer you go to do something else,
Speaker 2: but you can't do it all at once, all right, Susan,
Speaker 2: thank you for your question. I hope that helps you
Speaker 2: at least get your arms around the beginning of the
Speaker 2: subject and uh, good luck, good luck with all of that.
Speaker 2: All right, I ran late with this very first call.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to do it again.
Speaker 5: I promise you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on
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Speaker 2: Dean Sharp the house whisper here for you on this
Speaker 2: rainy Sunday morning here in southern California. And you know what,
Speaker 2: not a minute too soon, honestly, not a minute too soon,
Speaker 2: loving it, loving the rain this morning. Uh the number
Speaker 2: to reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean eight
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Speaker 2: Ask Dean. Because it's an all calls Sunday morning. And
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go back to the phones right now. Lisa,
Speaker 2: Welcome home.
Speaker 7: Hiking. I need your design help. I'm in the process
Speaker 7: of remodeling my nineteen fifties tracked home with a front
Speaker 7: facing garage to a craftsman's style. The sighting is going
Speaker 7: to be Benjamin Moore white dove front door. Garage door
Speaker 7: are yet to be determined.
Speaker 4: Green.
Speaker 7: My exterior accents and my window frames on the exterior
Speaker 7: are bronze oil rub bronze. My husband didn't like the
Speaker 7: brown roofs when it came to that, so we went
Speaker 7: with the charcoal roof. But now that we're thinking about
Speaker 7: the gutters, I'm stumped. And that's where I need your help.
Speaker 7: Is I don't know if Anitia I would have gone
Speaker 7: with the oil reb bronze, but now against the black wrist,
Speaker 7: that doesn't seem like that will looks right. And if
Speaker 7: I go with black and I have black down spouts,
Speaker 7: and I don't know if I try and go with
Speaker 7: one of those two colors, or do I not even
Speaker 7: try and go with the brown or the black and
Speaker 7: just go with some green or I don't know, some
Speaker 7: other color.
Speaker 2: Ah, all right, well, Lisa, you just threw like eight
Speaker 2: hundred colors at me and I haven't had the chance
Speaker 2: to see your house, and everybody who's listening is like,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm completely lost now. But I'm gonna
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna make it simple, Okay. I'm gonna give
Speaker 2: you an answer, and I'm hoping fingers crossed. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: guess that it's probably ninety percent possible that this is
Speaker 2: the right answer for you, okay, And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: Because there's a thing that I have with gutters and
Speaker 2: down spouts and various other forms of metal on the
Speaker 2: outside of a house.
Speaker 3: Here is the thing.
Speaker 2: If we're building a super contemporary home in which we
Speaker 2: are trying to hide the gutter system, that's great. Hide it,
Speaker 2: make it go away, don't bring emphasis to it, because
Speaker 2: it's part of our design aesthetic that we're not trying
Speaker 2: to look at, you know, stuff hanging off the outside
Speaker 2: of a house. However, if that's not our style of home,
Speaker 2: if we are doing some form of period home, like
Speaker 2: a nineteen twenties craftsman home aka a beautiful one of
Speaker 2: my favorite architectural eras of all time for a residential home,
Speaker 2: then guttering and down spouts, that's just part of the
Speaker 2: aesthetic of the house. And I am in no way
Speaker 2: a believer of hiding them. A good gutter on a
Speaker 2: period house is like a piece of crown molding hanging
Speaker 2: at the end of the roof. Okay, and I love
Speaker 2: what I love about metal on the outside of a
Speaker 2: house is a design a rule for them. Now, you
Speaker 2: can split this rule in two directions. You can have
Speaker 2: all trim and decorative metals, you know, like your doorknobs
Speaker 2: on the front door, and you know, trim accents around
Speaker 2: a door and things like that, oil rub bronze, great, fantastic,
Speaker 2: no problem. But when it comes to the functional utilitarian
Speaker 2: medals on the outside of a house, I almost always
Speaker 2: and I hesitate to say this because I am not
Speaker 2: a formulaic designer, but I just find myself nine times
Speaker 2: out of ten taking gutters and down spouts and leader
Speaker 2: boxes if you happen to have a leader box on
Speaker 2: your down spout, and those kinds of metals, and I
Speaker 2: love to see them in iron, okay. And so it's
Speaker 2: not black, not jet black, because that is a little
Speaker 2: bit weird against your roof, Nor is it the oil
Speaker 2: rub oil rub broms would not be a bad choice,
Speaker 2: but with your with your darker roof, uh, it would
Speaker 2: be a little bit offsetting. What I would do is
Speaker 2: what I'm looking for, is I'm looking for like cast iron,
Speaker 2: which is like a charcoal black, okay, a flat kind
Speaker 2: of charcoal black. Basically you hold up a cast iron skillet,
Speaker 2: and that's what I'm aiming at. And you know, you've
Speaker 2: got some freedom there as far as you know the shading.
Speaker 2: And what I like to do is I like to
Speaker 2: offset the gutters from the roof a little bit. So
Speaker 2: I will pick one of the darker tones in the
Speaker 2: roof and say, okay, this is the color that we're
Speaker 2: going to go with the gutter, so that the so
Speaker 2: that the gutter corresponds with the roof, but it doesn't
Speaker 2: absolutely match the roof.
Speaker 3: Does that make sense?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: And then you just go with that down spouts down
Speaker 2: the wall, uh, and and so on all of it.
Speaker 2: We're not trying to camouflage any of it because it's
Speaker 2: it's a set of architects details, a beautiful set of
Speaker 2: gutters and down spouts that we want to actually emphasize,
Speaker 2: and it'll just be another bit of jewelry on the
Speaker 2: outside of the house. So my vote, without having seen,
Speaker 2: just trying to imagine what you've described, my vote nine
Speaker 2: times out of ten for gutter systems is to keep
Speaker 2: them metallic, not shiny, and I lean away from the
Speaker 2: browns and the bronzes, and I lean towards unless we're
Speaker 2: doing copper, and that's a whole different ballgame, okay, But
Speaker 2: I lean away from the bronzes and I tend to
Speaker 2: go towards gray, charcoal kind of cast iron look for
Speaker 2: the gutters. And that is the best that I can
Speaker 2: offer you on the phone without having seen a picture
Speaker 2: of your house.
Speaker 7: Okay, anything I need to be aware of since I
Speaker 7: have open raftertails when I get the gutters done, just
Speaker 7: to watch out for as far as how they stay
Speaker 7: their going to install them.
Speaker 2: No, not really, I mean, you know the the You
Speaker 2: know a lot of people think that facial board is
Speaker 2: required for gutters for them to work.
Speaker 3: Really well, it's not true at all.
Speaker 2: Gutters just tuck up under the edge metal that's coming
Speaker 2: off the roof and everybody, every roof has edge metal,
Speaker 2: so you just make sure that they're tucked well up
Speaker 2: under the edge metal and that they're secured properly.
Speaker 3: Without facial board.
Speaker 2: I want to see the gutter company strapping back onto
Speaker 2: the roof a little more often, and not just nailing
Speaker 2: into the ends of an open rafter tail, okay, with
Speaker 2: a with a nail. So I like to see strapping
Speaker 2: that guns runs up underneath the first twelve inches or
Speaker 2: so of the roofing material itself to make sure that
Speaker 2: they're secure and that they hold forever. But apart from that,
Speaker 2: no facia, no facia, open rafters, closed rafters, it's all good.
Speaker 6: Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 7: I just worry because I'm going to have it a
Speaker 7: bronze window about five feet away from potentially a black gutter,
Speaker 7: and I'm like, oh, that's not gonna look right.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you know what, I honestly think.
Speaker 2: I mean, if if it was a jet black gutter,
Speaker 2: you'd probably be right about that. But again, if we
Speaker 2: go for this cast iron concept on the outside of
Speaker 2: the house, I think you're going to be surprised that
Speaker 2: it looks just fine. And you know what, once the
Speaker 2: gutters are are are up in place, uh, it's not
Speaker 2: the end of the world if you had to repaint them.
Speaker 3: But put some samples up there.
Speaker 2: Now, put just a tiny little section up and uh,
Speaker 2: and play around with it. I mean you could literally
Speaker 2: go I'm not talking about having your gutter people do it,
Speaker 2: but you could literally go down to a big box
Speaker 2: store and buy a cheap section of gutter, you know,
Speaker 2: an eight foot long section of gutter, tack it up
Speaker 2: over the house and paint it yourself until you decide,
Speaker 2: you know what, that's the right color. I'm all about that.
Speaker 2: Exp with it, take a little time and experiment with
Speaker 2: it as you go.
Speaker 3: Lisa, thank you so much. For your call. I hope
Speaker 3: that helps.
Speaker 2: I think you will all right, y'all when we come
Speaker 2: back more of your calls. It's an All Calls Sunday
Speaker 2: on this beautiful, rainy southern California Sunday morning.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 5: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on the program this morning. How
Speaker 2: quickly an hour just to kind of goes by when
Speaker 2: you're enjoying the company of good friends, which is what
Speaker 2: I hope that you feel reciprocal of what we're doing here,
Speaker 2: because I really really enjoy having our All Calls Sundays
Speaker 2: where you just get to determine what's going on, and
Speaker 2: I listen and help you out best I can.
Speaker 3: Real quick.
Speaker 2: I want to try and get back to the phones.
Speaker 2: Let's talk to Paul. Hey, Paul, welcome home, Good morning.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Bud? How can I help you?
Speaker 4: Okay? With all the rebuilding going on, I was wondering
Speaker 4: if you designed a home and built it and you
Speaker 4: hardened it for flood and mud, fire, hurricane winds, and earthquakes,
Speaker 4: what materials would you use and what would it end
Speaker 4: up looking like?
Speaker 3: That is a really really good question. And I love
Speaker 3: to you. Yeah, it's not as long as you think.
Speaker 3: It's not as long as you think. Here's the thing.
Speaker 2: I'm going to use your question, Paul, as a as
Speaker 2: a springboard to answer a question or to address an
Speaker 2: issue that kind of gets under my skin every time
Speaker 2: a natural disaster happens.
Speaker 3: And I understand why it happens.
Speaker 2: I totally understand why this happens this way, but I
Speaker 2: want to be really clear about it.
Speaker 3: So when was it, Tina? It was I think it
Speaker 3: was Friday. Friday.
Speaker 2: We were talking to a gentleman and the impression that
Speaker 2: he was giving to us was, well, you know, with
Speaker 2: all this stuff happening, I guess it's it's gonna be
Speaker 2: all just concrete, concrete walls, concrete homes from here on
Speaker 2: out right to just protect. So the only way that
Speaker 2: you can guarantee you're not going to get blown away
Speaker 2: or washed away or whatever is just to build a
Speaker 2: gigantic concrete box or a bunker and live in it.
Speaker 2: And I take issue with that, and I understand why
Speaker 2: people feel that way, because there's a natural kind of
Speaker 2: of thought process that leads to, you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: what's the safest structure on planet Earth. Well, I guess
Speaker 2: technically the safest structure on planet Earth would be like
Speaker 2: a nuclear fallout shelter. Okay, so that's what all of
Speaker 2: our home. We'll all just become mole. People will live
Speaker 2: beneath the ground, and now we'll all be safe and
Speaker 2: we won't worry about these other things. But here's the thing.
Speaker 2: Not only is that obviously not realistic, nor is it
Speaker 2: cost effective.
Speaker 3: Here is the truth.
Speaker 2: The truth is, whatever region you live in, whatever natural disasters,
Speaker 2: and fortunately no region on Earth has to contend with
Speaker 2: all natural disasters, right, it's just your region. Right, So,
Speaker 2: whatever region on Earth you live in, and whatever natural
Speaker 2: disaster you have to build your home to resist. The
Speaker 2: simple fact of the matter is, and I say this
Speaker 2: as a contractor, as a builder and a designer, the
Speaker 2: simple fact of the matter is, we have reached a
Speaker 2: stage here in the first quarter of the twenty first century,
Speaker 2: and which we can build your home pretty much looking
Speaker 2: however you want it to look, and have it in
Speaker 2: fact be resistant too that natural disaster. So my answer is,
Speaker 2: what does the home have to look like? Anything you want,
Speaker 2: my friend, anything you honestly, anything you want, as long
Speaker 2: as we design it well and we build it wisely
Speaker 2: with the materials on hand that address the specific situation.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So again, I was getting that question this week from
Speaker 2: folks as I was talking to them about to ember
Speaker 2: resistant fire events, and they were saying, well, I guess
Speaker 2: we're all just going to have to have, you know,
Speaker 2: change the way our roofs look or change the way
Speaker 2: that I'm like, no, No, The fact of the matter is,
Speaker 2: I'll repeat this again. I'm going to repeat it later
Speaker 2: in the show as well. Eight out of ten homes
Speaker 2: that burn during a wildfire event do not burn because
Speaker 2: the fire has arrived at to their home. It's because
Speaker 2: the embers have arrived. Eight out of ten. That means
Speaker 2: that if those very very beautiful, multimillion dollar homes in
Speaker 2: the palis A It's had all had ember resistant vents,
Speaker 2: which is a minor investment. Okay, if they had all
Speaker 2: had mber resistant events, we would not be looking at
Speaker 2: a loss of five thousand structures. We probably wouldn't even
Speaker 2: be looking at a loss of five hundred structures, okay,
Speaker 2: just from that thing alone. So the point is we
Speaker 2: have to build wisely. We have to build with the
Speaker 2: materials on hand that address the real concerns and the
Speaker 2: real issues in our area. But I want to assure
Speaker 2: everyone who's listening. Technology has not brought us to a
Speaker 2: place where we have to retreat from creativity and beauty
Speaker 2: in our design. Technology has given us the ability to
Speaker 2: dream bigger and wider and broader than ever before. And
Speaker 2: you can, if you design it right, have pretty much
Speaker 2: whatever kind of house you want. And that is the
Speaker 2: gosh honest truth about it. Paul, thank you so much
Speaker 2: for that question, because it let me get on my
Speaker 2: little soapbox and just to assuage everybody's fears that somehow
Speaker 2: we got to change the way southern California looks in
Speaker 2: order to be fire safe, No we don't.
Speaker 3: We just got to do it smart, all right.
Speaker 2: More when we return your Home with Dean Sharp, the
Speaker 2: House Whisper on KFI.
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