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Speaker 1: to talk to Ginger. Ginger, welcome home.
Speaker 2: Here, thank you? Can you hear me?
Speaker 3: I can? How can I help?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: I have a question about the attic area in my home.
Speaker 5: My home has a little entry to the attic in
Speaker 5: the area between the two front bedrooms. There's a little
Speaker 5: opening there and I have to get a ladder to
Speaker 5: climb up and get up into the attic through that section.
Speaker 5: The section that is connected to the kitchen area is
Speaker 5: all floored and I can put things up there and
Speaker 5: store things there. But the whole other section of the house,
Speaker 5: the entire complete attic area, is just covered with the
Speaker 5: foam insulation thing. And when I have made my way
Speaker 5: up into that little opening that's in the hallway between
Speaker 5: the bedrooms, it's dark and there's nothing but full m insulation.
Speaker 5: And I was wondering if it's okay for me to
Speaker 5: try and put down flooring up there so that I
Speaker 5: could get up there and do something with the space
Speaker 5: without having to have a license or or feeds that
Speaker 5: I have to pay with the city and things like that.
Speaker 5: And also at one point in time, I had seen
Speaker 5: these ingenious little slats that are like roll They're like
Speaker 5: rolls that you roll out, and there's slats that end
Speaker 5: up being a floor. And I don't know if they're
Speaker 5: still around anywhere.
Speaker 2: But if they are, I if you were aware.
Speaker 5: Of them, and if that would be something I could do.
Speaker 1: Okay, So a lot of pack a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: packed into those questions there, I am going to disappoint
Speaker 1: you on on a couple of levels, but let me
Speaker 1: start with a positive one. Yeah, I've seen those slats.
Speaker 1: Those are great. Uh they're basically roll mats. They're they're
Speaker 1: rigid roll mats, and uh they can come in they
Speaker 1: can come in handy in a lot of situations. Okay,
Speaker 1: So there's nothing wrong with them. There's they're out there around.
Speaker 1: You can probably find them on Amazon these days or
Speaker 1: other places like that.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, Ginger, everybody wants to utilize as much
Speaker 1: attic space as possible these days for storage and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. I get it, I get it. I totally
Speaker 1: totally understand that. Uh, however, our homes and and and
Speaker 1: where where is it that you live, Ginger, that's to
Speaker 1: me valley out and see me valley.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So uh, our homes uh in some in California buy
Speaker 1: and large are not designed for addicts to be a part.
Speaker 1: I mentioned this earlier in the show, to be a
Speaker 1: part of the conditioned air space of the house. That
Speaker 1: means that insulation a nice thick layer of insulation fiberglass
Speaker 1: or cellulose insulation, whether it's rolled bats or whether it's
Speaker 1: blown in, but a nice thick layer equivalent to R
Speaker 1: thirty for energy savings and all of that air conditioning
Speaker 1: expanse heating expense and the like, your general comfort in
Speaker 1: the home. R thirty is what we're shooting for in
Speaker 1: the attic, and that's thick. That's thick stuff. When people
Speaker 1: go up into their attics and make platforms, in other words,
Speaker 1: create an area of flooring. I don't have any big
Speaker 1: issue with that, okay, but just got to understand every
Speaker 1: square foot of flooring that you create up in your
Speaker 1: attic space for storage, you are squishing down and minimizing,
Speaker 1: and you're reducing your attic insulation below the line of
Speaker 1: what where the bar should be set. Okay, because if
Speaker 1: you've got I'm gonna guess in SeeMe Valley tracked home
Speaker 1: in SeeMe Valley, if we've got two by six ceiling
Speaker 1: joists running across the room, six inches or five and
Speaker 1: a half inches of space for insulation is not enough
Speaker 1: to reach that R thirty marker. So if we've squished
Speaker 1: it down because we've put plywood up there for storage,
Speaker 1: now you know, a few square feet fine, you know
Speaker 1: who's gonna know the difference. You probably won't notice the difference,
Speaker 1: but the more you do that up in your attic,
Speaker 1: the more of that area that you squish down and
Speaker 1: minimize that insulation, then the more compromised insulation wise your
Speaker 1: home becomes. And and just to add on to that,
Speaker 1: some people will go overboard when it comes to the
Speaker 1: amount of storage up there. Some people even say, well,
Speaker 1: my roof is high enough, I could make a room
Speaker 1: up there. Well, that's debatable because if it was never
Speaker 1: designed to have human habitation up in there, then there's
Speaker 1: also a very distinct chance that the ceiling joists themselves
Speaker 1: are not floor joist rated. They're just ceiling joist rated.
Speaker 1: They're not designed to support a tremendous amount of hundreds
Speaker 1: or thousands of pounds of weight. So my answer to
Speaker 1: the question is a qualified Sure, you could add a
Speaker 1: little bit of storage area up in an attic, but
Speaker 1: no that every time you do it, we are compromising
Speaker 1: the insulation of the house. And that most Southern California
Speaker 1: single story homes, well second story homes too, it doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter. Most attics in Southern California are not designed
Speaker 1: to be load bearing in any significant sense or insulation
Speaker 1: compromised attic space When you put a platform up there
Speaker 1: so that's my concern. My concern about accessing the attic
Speaker 1: in that way is that we run the risk of
Speaker 1: messing up the thermal continuity of the house, and you
Speaker 1: can overload an attic, and that's not a good thing
Speaker 1: as well. Now can it be done? Of course, I
Speaker 1: was just saying before the break anything can be done.
Speaker 1: If you are so committed to storage in a certain
Speaker 1: area of your attic and you want to preserve the
Speaker 1: insulated quality, then you could spill that area underneath the
Speaker 1: platform with rigid insulation. It's going to be more expensive.
Speaker 1: Rigid insulation that compensates for the loss of the loft
Speaker 1: of the fluffy stuff basically, but that's more expensive, and
Speaker 1: it's very intentional. And if we're really starting to put
Speaker 1: lots of load up there, and we need to talk
Speaker 1: to an engineer about whether the kind of stuff we
Speaker 1: want to store up there is actually going to be
Speaker 1: well supported by the house, or if it's going to
Speaker 1: put too much of a load on those poor little ceiling. Joyce,
Speaker 1: whose job originally was just to hold some insulation and
Speaker 1: hold up the drywall on the lid of the ceiling.
Speaker 1: That's the best I can tell you. Side unseen ginger.
Speaker 1: So think those things through and then make decisions accordingly.
Speaker 1: And thank you so much for your call. All right
Speaker 1: more when we return your home Dean Sharp the house
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Speaker 6: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1: You have landed right in the center of our all
Speaker 1: calls Sunday morning, nothing but your calls today. I'm just
Speaker 1: taking calls. Love doing this every few weeks. I want
Speaker 1: to get back to the phones right now so we
Speaker 1: can get as many calls in as possible. Let's talk
Speaker 1: to David A David, I'll come home.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Dean. I'm in Venice Beach. I live in
Speaker 4: an apartment, so I feel like I represent all the
Speaker 4: apartment renters. We don't usually own a home. And the
Speaker 4: building I live in was built in nineteen twelve. There's
Speaker 4: three stories and I'm on the top floor. There are
Speaker 4: three stories, and about seven or eight months ago the
Speaker 4: levelode replaced the water heater and since then it wakes
Speaker 4: me up at night because of I guess people taking
Speaker 4: a shower because the pipes are banging for between five
Speaker 4: and twenty seconds sometimes during the week, and I was
Speaker 4: wondering how I can explain to my lavelorad is I'm
Speaker 4: sorry to say, but lazy doesn't want to admit that
Speaker 4: it's just bothering and keeping me awake. So how does
Speaker 4: it make such a noise that I think it's pipe expanding?
Speaker 4: Do their rub against something? And what can I say?
Speaker 1: I don't know what you can say with a lazy
Speaker 1: landlord who doesn't want to do anything, but you can
Speaker 1: talk to him about the problem though, And so are
Speaker 1: we talking about? So there's two kinds of noise that
Speaker 1: people sometimes experience when it comes to their hot water
Speaker 1: systems or there's water in general. Number one is, Uh,
Speaker 1: there's this there's a like a what a lot of
Speaker 1: people describe as a creeping or clicking sound like that
Speaker 1: happens when when hot water is being used.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then there's that banging sound literally like you know
Speaker 1: this banging sound.
Speaker 3: Which of the two are you experiencing?
Speaker 4: It's a mix between the two. It's the sound is
Speaker 4: like the banging, but the space between the bang is
Speaker 4: more space are like dum dum dum dum dum dum
Speaker 4: dum tum or sometimes slower it slows down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all right, so what you get is, uh,
Speaker 3: is the the new it's weird. UH.
Speaker 1: Plumbing systems are even really well designed systems, they are
Speaker 1: essentially it turns out sometimes like a giant, a giant instrument.
Speaker 3: You know, you got a lot.
Speaker 1: Of pipes, and you got stuff flowing through it, and
Speaker 1: depending on the twists and the turns that it makes
Speaker 1: and so on, you get weird noises out of pipes.
Speaker 1: Sometimes most common is what we call water hammer, okay,
Speaker 1: and that's that thudding sound. And you could be in
Speaker 1: a building for you know, one hundred years and not
Speaker 1: have water hammer, and then all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: somebody changes out the water heater, changes the pressure relationship
Speaker 1: of the building. Maybe the water heat. Maybe the new
Speaker 1: water heater is out putting hotter water than the previous one.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's putting it out at slightly a different pressure
Speaker 1: or flow level. There could all be all these little
Speaker 1: subtle changes, and all of a sudden, now we're getting
Speaker 1: water hager hammer. Fortunately, in most cases it's a pretty
Speaker 1: simple fix. And that is and you could tell your
Speaker 1: landlord thisys, hey, you put in the new water heater,
Speaker 1: but now we're getting water hammer really bad in the house.
Speaker 1: Would you please have a water hammer a restor installed
Speaker 1: near the water heater, okay? And what a water hammer
Speaker 1: arrestor is. It's literally it's an extension of the pipe.
Speaker 1: You know, it inserts. It could insert, for instance, in
Speaker 1: between the water heater hoses and the hot water line
Speaker 1: feed for the rest of the building. And it's literally
Speaker 1: got a little kind of a column sticking out from it.
Speaker 1: And inside that column is essentially a shock absorber for water.
Speaker 1: There's a big spring and a diaphragm, and as that
Speaker 1: water comes unevenly flowing through the pipes and that vibration
Speaker 1: starts to form, this thing will receive a lot of
Speaker 1: that vibration into itself and not send it knocking down
Speaker 1: through the pipes. Now, sometimes it takes more than one,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's a great idea to install them in
Speaker 1: different locations. But a you know, a water hammer a restor,
Speaker 1: I mean you can get a two pack of them
Speaker 1: for like twenty five dollars, so and they're an easy
Speaker 1: install okay, And so that would be I think that
Speaker 1: would be my first line of approach to your landlord,
Speaker 1: who obviously doesn't want to do a whole lot that
Speaker 1: often just say listen. It is a problem, and a
Speaker 1: lot of us hear it, and I don't want to be,
Speaker 1: you know, complaining about it. But honestly, ever since the
Speaker 1: new water here went in, we're hearing this thing. And
Speaker 1: so you know, there's an I'm told there's an easy
Speaker 1: fix for it. You know, could you please step forward
Speaker 1: and deal with that? And you know what, when if
Speaker 1: it's an easy, inexpensive fix, you know, maybe he'll move
Speaker 1: on it. Maybe he'll he'll shift and make it happen.
Speaker 1: But that's ultimately what that is, my friend. And do
Speaker 1: you happen to have our laundry facilities in each apartment?
Speaker 1: It's an old apartment building, so I'm guessing not. But
Speaker 1: do you have like a washer drug in your unit?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: No one does, Okay, nobody does.
Speaker 1: Another place where you might be able to help yourself
Speaker 1: with this is you could install one of these you know,
Speaker 1: twelve fifteen dollars water hammer devices, like underneath your sink
Speaker 1: in the kitchen, okay, because anywhere they are located anywhere
Speaker 1: along the lines, or underneath the sink in the bathroom,
Speaker 1: or get a couple of them, put one in each
Speaker 1: place anywhere on that system where these shock absorbers are
Speaker 1: they will help mute the vibration, so ask your landlord first,
Speaker 1: but maybe you go out and pop a couple underneath
Speaker 1: your own sinks and see if that helps as well.
Speaker 4: Fantastic. I love that information. Thank you so much, David.
Speaker 1: You are so welcome. Happy holidays, my friend. Thanks for calling.
Speaker 1: Great question. All right, y'all, we got more to come.
Speaker 1: More of your calls. Right after.
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Speaker 3: Let's talk to Marie. Hey, Marie, welcome home.
Speaker 2: Thank you. My question to you is if I want
Speaker 2: to explain what happens if it's usual or unusual. I
Speaker 2: had a water leak from the second flour. They came
Speaker 2: down through the wall in the dining room and the
Speaker 2: joining kitchen, so they had to remove the cabinet that
Speaker 2: was next to the wall that was compromised with this leak.
Speaker 2: But on top of that cabinet I have a gas
Speaker 2: countertop stove, So any rate, it was all. They replaced
Speaker 2: the counter the cabinet, and they did very nice job
Speaker 2: as far as that goes. But my home is fifty
Speaker 2: years over fifty years old, and the original stove countertop
Speaker 2: was electricity, so somewhere along the line I had gas
Speaker 2: put in. So there is the gas line that was
Speaker 2: showing that. I never saw it in the cabinet under
Speaker 2: the stove where I put all my pots and pants. Well,
Speaker 2: when this contractor came and they replaced the cabinet, and
Speaker 2: now all the the gas pipe is exposed inside the
Speaker 2: cabinet along with I didn't even know I had an
Speaker 2: electrical outlet under there, but I guess you need that.
Speaker 2: So the gas stove turned on the.
Speaker 4: Stove.
Speaker 2: Well, anyway, I did not see that prior to all
Speaker 2: this problem, and all I could think of this, there's
Speaker 2: one shelf in this cabinet and maybe it was below
Speaker 2: that and I never noticed. I don't know. Anyway, all
Speaker 2: this is exposed and they want to put like a
Speaker 2: little box around it. So I think it's a Mickey
Speaker 2: mouse job. But on the other hand, is this is
Speaker 2: this okay as it happened before? Do I need to
Speaker 2: really insist that they tear everything out do it all
Speaker 2: over again. I'm really up a creek. I don't know
Speaker 2: what to do.
Speaker 1: I got you, Yeah you did, you did. Let me
Speaker 1: try and summarize. I had the cabinet switched out, and
Speaker 1: now you, for the first time noticed you never saw
Speaker 1: them before. You notice the gas line that's connecting the
Speaker 1: gas cook top. It's back there in the back, and
Speaker 1: you notice the electrical and.
Speaker 3: So is it in the way or do you just
Speaker 3: see it?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, it's all the cable and the wire for the electricity.
Speaker 2: They're all exposed. So if they put a little box
Speaker 2: around it, I'm going to lose some space. Well, it's
Speaker 2: not that bad, but I just wanted to know. Is
Speaker 2: this something that if I go to sell this house,
Speaker 2: am I going to have a problem?
Speaker 1: No, I doubt it, as long as as long as
Speaker 1: everything is in case the way it should be. In
Speaker 1: other words, any electricity that's running on the outside of
Speaker 1: a wall has to be inside a metal protective conduit.
Speaker 1: The gas line itself a lot of people have posed
Speaker 1: gas line connections underneath their cook tops in their homes,
Speaker 1: and so now ideally, ideally, okay, so you know I'm
Speaker 1: going to play both sides of the coin here, ideally,
Speaker 1: And understand, I come from a world of contracting where
Speaker 1: every little detail matters to us a lot. Okay, So
Speaker 1: if I if I am reconfiguring a cabinet for a
Speaker 1: new cook top, you know we find out okay, the
Speaker 1: owner has selected this cook top, this gas cooktop. I
Speaker 1: get on the specs right away. I want to find
Speaker 1: out where does the gas connect to that cooktop? Okay,
Speaker 1: it's oh, it's the upper left hand corner. Okay, Where
Speaker 1: is the gas line coming out of the old cabinet bay? Now, oh,
Speaker 1: it's the lower right hand corner.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: If that's the case, Dean does not run a diagonal
Speaker 1: pipe all the way across the backside of the cabinet
Speaker 1: to get from the old place where it popped out
Speaker 1: to the new connection. What I do is I open
Speaker 1: up the wall and we reconfigure the gas line so
Speaker 1: that it is popping out, if not directly behind the
Speaker 1: cook top, at least as close to it as humanly possible,
Speaker 1: so that it's as clean and as out of the
Speaker 1: way as possible, And the same is true for electrical
Speaker 1: conduits and all of that stuff. Now, I get it.
Speaker 1: You know, other contractors come in and they're like, well,
Speaker 1: that's where it was sticking out of the wall, and
Speaker 1: that's where you make the connection.
Speaker 3: That's what it has to be. Well, it's not what
Speaker 3: it has to be.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, would it have
Speaker 1: been nice if the contractor had reconfigured the electrical and
Speaker 1: the gas in this cabinet so that it was high
Speaker 1: and tight and clean and clear and out of the way.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Is it possible to completely make it all go away? No,
Speaker 1: But should it have been done as tight as possible.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Now, if it's not completely in the way of everything,
Speaker 1: is it worth making a stink and having them pull
Speaker 1: the cabinet out and redo it? Only you, Marie, can
Speaker 1: make that decision based on how important this is to
Speaker 1: you and how much you know of a fight you
Speaker 1: want to have with the cabinet guy or the contractor
Speaker 1: at this point, because if it's not in your way,
Speaker 1: I mean, let's face it, it's not like one of
Speaker 1: these things that's out in the open, right, It's not
Speaker 1: like it's ruining the look of your kitchen. It's down
Speaker 1: inside underneath it. So if it's not in your way,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not going to tell you one way
Speaker 1: or the other. You got to make that decision. But
Speaker 1: I am agreeing with you wholeheartedly that Yes, wouldn't it
Speaker 1: be lovely to live in a world where every builder
Speaker 1: who walks into your home their first priority is how
Speaker 1: are we going to get this done the absolute best
Speaker 1: that it can be done, and suggest these things to
Speaker 1: the client, as opposed to them having to tell us
Speaker 1: after the fact. Well, I would have preferred if you
Speaker 1: had taken a little more energy and time and effort
Speaker 1: and thoughtfulness. I never want to hear that from a client,
Speaker 1: so I try and stay out out here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, I agree with that. I just also
Speaker 2: want to mention one other things to your listeners. I
Speaker 2: needed to have a restoration company come in to clean
Speaker 2: the mold, and so that company's person took out the
Speaker 2: cabinet because it did have mold on the bottom, So
Speaker 2: I thought, okay. Then they recommended this construction company who
Speaker 2: came in, and those four souls didn't see how everything
Speaker 2: was lined up prior to this, so had I realized
Speaker 2: what was going on, I would have said that one
Speaker 2: person that took it out should be the one person
Speaker 2: putting it back in, or should have been around, And
Speaker 2: that didn't happen. So I think it was a little
Speaker 2: bit of a sloppy job, and I learned a great
Speaker 2: deal from this. I never had problems with contractors before,
Speaker 2: but this I did. So it was a learning experience
Speaker 2: I truly didn't need. But anyway, thank you for your
Speaker 2: confirmation and on. It could have been done a little nicer,
Speaker 2: but it shouldn't prove problem if they put a little
Speaker 2: box around to hidle those I hate for my pots
Speaker 2: and pants to be touching that every time I go
Speaker 2: in and out. You know how you kind of push
Speaker 2: your pants in yep, and it's touching. Okay, thank you,
Speaker 2: thank you very very much.
Speaker 6: And so.
Speaker 2: Yes, and your wise wisdom about the insurance earlier, my
Speaker 2: my insurance company wouldn't pay for the leak in the
Speaker 2: in the in the wall, and I was with them
Speaker 2: for sixty six years. So yes, read that contract very
Speaker 2: very well. Yeah, thank you so much for your show.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Huh, thank you, Marie, thank you. Good luck with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a hard one, you know, like, you know,
Speaker 1: how how far do you twist a contractor's arm too,
Speaker 1: you know, if it's an aesthetic issue. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm there's never there's never any leeway with Dean. I'm like,
Speaker 1: look right there, that looks terrible. You are fixing that
Speaker 1: if it's underneath and technically, I mean it's all done
Speaker 1: to code, but it was just not thought through as
Speaker 1: well as possible. But it's hidden underneath the cabinet. Ah.
Speaker 1: That's where my contractor empathy and my lack of desire
Speaker 1: to tear out my kitchen again kind of piles up
Speaker 1: on me. And I'm like, oh fine, fine, don't want
Speaker 1: to have to make those decisions though, you all feel me.
Speaker 3: All right more?
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Speaker 3: Look at us.
Speaker 1: We've come near the end of another three hours together,
Speaker 1: our final program before Christmas twenty twenty four and Hanukkah
Speaker 1: as well, all starting up right about the same twenty
Speaker 1: four hour period this time around. This is the week
Speaker 1: we're leading into we are doing an all calls Sunday,
Speaker 1: and I want to try and take one more call
Speaker 1: if I can, and then leave you with a quick
Speaker 1: closing thought, send you off on your way to where
Speaker 1: should I go? Let's talk to Barbara? Hey, Barbara, welcome home.
Speaker 7: Hi, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 3: You are very welcome. How can I help you?
Speaker 7: Well, while I've been waiting on the line, my question
Speaker 7: kind of expanded. It started out that I live in
Speaker 7: a house in the hills that was built in nineteen
Speaker 7: fifty five, and I have done nothing, absolutely nothing based
Speaker 7: on I have no money and I really kind of
Speaker 7: don't care. I mean, I'm not one of those people
Speaker 7: that wants the perfect house. So down the line, I'm
Speaker 7: realized that it's old. It's really old like me, I'm
Speaker 7: eighty five, and things are, you know, popping up, and
Speaker 7: I'm wondering how safe is my house? It's an old,
Speaker 7: stuckold thing. And I originally what I was wondering about
Speaker 7: was the beam ceilings in the living room. How long
Speaker 7: do these guys live? I mean, are they going to
Speaker 7: collapse on me at some point? Or are they forever?
Speaker 3: What do you think? Uh? Have you got it? You've
Speaker 3: got exposed beams in your living room.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, uh is there any sign of like, uh,
Speaker 1: dry rod or termite damage or anything like that, not
Speaker 1: that I know of.
Speaker 2: But I can't see up there, you know. I mean
Speaker 2: it's you know, up high, but to my knowledge, it's all.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, well you know it's old, yeah, but it's
Speaker 1: not that old, not in term not in house terms.
Speaker 3: Okay, oh good, good good.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, you and I we're not going
Speaker 1: to make it one hundred and twenty years, one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty years, but a house can very easily if
Speaker 1: it's maintained. Okay, And I know you haven't really been
Speaker 1: concerned about that in the past. So here's my recommendation, Barbara.
Speaker 3: And this.
Speaker 1: Despite the expansiveness, it's actually the expansiveness of your question
Speaker 1: that makes this very concise recommendation for you give yourself
Speaker 1: a Christmas present this year of calling a home inspection
Speaker 1: service and having a home inspector. And when I mean
Speaker 1: by a home inspector, I'm not talking about the city
Speaker 1: or anything like that. I'm talking about the kind of
Speaker 1: home inspection service that gets called out when the a
Speaker 1: realtor hooks you up with when a house is being sold, right,
Speaker 1: there's a home inspection that's part of the selling process
Speaker 1: of the house. An inspector walks through the house and
Speaker 1: they poke through the house, and they check the plumbing,
Speaker 1: and they check electrical and they check in the attic,
Speaker 1: and they look underneath and they and their whole job
Speaker 1: is to do a superficial, superficial inspection. In other words,
Speaker 1: they're not going to cut into your home or drill
Speaker 1: into your but an observational, superficial inspection and give a
Speaker 1: report that evaluates the condition of just about everything, all
Speaker 1: the major systems, the roof, the plumbing, the HVAC, the
Speaker 1: you know, the condition of sinks and faucets and switches
Speaker 1: and just all that kind of stuff. If there is
Speaker 1: evidence of dry rot, they'll let you know. If there's
Speaker 1: evidence of termite or other infestation, they'll let you know.
Speaker 1: It's a few hundred dollars. But for a house that
Speaker 1: admittedly you have not really put a lot into over
Speaker 1: the last few decades, maybe it's time for a professional
Speaker 1: an objective. And here's what I like about home inspection services.
Speaker 1: They're not contractors. In other words, they're not there thinking, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I could certainly tell her to replace this,
Speaker 1: and then I could get the job to do it.
Speaker 1: They just do home inspections.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: So not unlike myself sitting here on this side of
Speaker 1: the microphone. They have no vested interest in telling you
Speaker 1: that there's something wrong with your house or not wrong
Speaker 1: with your house. You're paying them to make it.
Speaker 7: I'm so good, right, I never, I never would have
Speaker 7: thought of something like this. I mean, I still have
Speaker 7: two prong outlets there. I go nothing. You know, nothing's
Speaker 7: been changed. But how can you recommend a home inspection?
Speaker 7: I never I mean I probably heard the name before,
Speaker 7: but I don't know how to start.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to dig into that because home inspections
Speaker 1: some where, some larger companies are kind of cover it,
Speaker 1: have a large coverage area. Others are very localized. So
Speaker 1: you I'm looking here. You live in Sherman Oaks, so
Speaker 1: you're looking for somebody in the valley. There's a ton
Speaker 1: of them. You can just go online, do a little
Speaker 1: research enter that in. If you've got a friend who's
Speaker 1: a realtor if you know anybody, they'll be able to
Speaker 1: recommend or ask relatives or neighbors or friends. These guys
Speaker 1: are around, guys, gals, these people they're around. But that's
Speaker 1: what I think your house could really benefit for. And
Speaker 1: you'd have the peace of mind of knowing you just
Speaker 1: had this home inspection done. You're paying them to make
Speaker 1: a report. That's what they're gonna do, good, bad or otherwise,
Speaker 1: and they're not going to fudge the results one way
Speaker 1: or the other because they're not going to be doing
Speaker 1: the work or not doing the work. They're going to
Speaker 1: do their job, and you're going to get an objective
Speaker 1: view of your home. And you know, if there's anything
Speaker 1: pertinent that really needs to be addressed right away, you'll
Speaker 1: be able to address it. And if they're isn't anything
Speaker 1: that needs to be addressed, then you can just go
Speaker 1: right ahead, not putting a whole lot in your house,
Speaker 1: and you know, continue on with your glorious life. Barbara,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. That was a great call. What
Speaker 1: an energized gal.
Speaker 8: You know what I got out of Barbara Eardan, Yes,
Speaker 8: Andrew what but the very beginning of her calls, she
Speaker 8: lives in the hills and she has no money. As
Speaker 8: a broke millennial. Barbara is living the American dream. God,
Speaker 8: so God bless her.
Speaker 3: That's so true. Oh it's so true. Andrew.
Speaker 1: You're you're stepping up to the news now for how
Speaker 1: long afternoon?
Speaker 3: Twelve to six?
Speaker 8: So anyone that's in the traffic trying to get in
Speaker 8: and out of LA I'll be here for them.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: Well you heard it.
Speaker 1: Anybody who's in that situation, it's Andrew's fault, totally, Andrew's fault.
Speaker 1: From now until six, all traffic.
Speaker 5: Is it.
Speaker 3: I do know it's the end of your show.
Speaker 8: So I just wanted to say Merry Christmas and happy
Speaker 8: holidays to you and your wife.
Speaker 1: Brother. The same comes right back to you and you
Speaker 1: and Lucky the rooster, who I have not physically seen
Speaker 1: today yet, but you've seen him. You've seen Lucky, proof
Speaker 1: of life, proof of you have a photo of Lucky
Speaker 1: holding a newspaper. We can make that happen, all right,
Speaker 1: everybody here we are. You know, here's a quick thought.
Speaker 1: I didn't even bother to send this to Elmer today,
Speaker 1: So Elmer, just, you know, just roll the music whenever
Speaker 1: you feel like we're there. It's not going to take
Speaker 1: too long.
Speaker 3: I just want to say that.
Speaker 1: I want to watch everybody a very very happy holidays.
Speaker 1: I would leave you with this. However, you may celebrate
Speaker 1: this time of year. Just celebrate, Just celebrate. Life is short,
Speaker 1: life is uneven and imperfect, life is hard. Never turned
Speaker 1: down an opportunity to celebrate. You know, the oldest of
Speaker 1: wintertime celebrates. We're entirely tied to the fact that life
Speaker 1: is imperfect and tough. Okay, it's not this idyllic Norman
Speaker 1: Rockwell kind of vision that so many people get depressed over.
Speaker 1: If you are having a hard time this year, just
Speaker 1: understand that, you know, that's what winter celebrations are about.
Speaker 1: They're about hanging on, holding on to hope, lighting a
Speaker 1: candle in the dark, and staying connected. So they're connected
Speaker 1: to these concerns about the future, how harsh everything is
Speaker 1: around us. You can relate. Yeah, it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be snow and ice. It is sickness, loss, wind, fire.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Since the dawn of human history, this time of year
Speaker 1: has always been about meditations on whether we will have
Speaker 1: enough to get through the dark times and the tough times.
Speaker 1: And since the dawn of human history, humans have countered
Speaker 1: those concerns by celebrating what we have, are gathering together,
Speaker 1: sharing our food, our shelter, our family, holding each other close.
Speaker 1: That's what this time of year has always been about.
Speaker 1: It's about overcoming a worrisome, fragile existence with powerful truths,
Speaker 1: the deepest magic that humans can conjure, love, joy, peace
Speaker 1: and hope.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 1: Celebrate the holidays, celebrate them, and when you're done, meet
Speaker 1: me back here again next week and together we'll get
Speaker 1: back to work building yourself a beautiful life. Everybody, Merry Christmas,
Speaker 1: Happy Honika. We'll see you next weekend. This has been
Speaker 1: Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Tune into the
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