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 --> 00:00:10.119 House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Hey 3 00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:13.000 follow us on social media. We only do the good 4 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:17.839 kind of social media, I promise uplifting, informative, inspiring stuff. 5 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:22.879 We're on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook x Home with Dean. That's 6 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:25.920 the handle to find us. It's good for all of them. 7 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:29.440 In fact, right now, Tina has got up on our 8 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:33.000 social media a video A little blast from the past. 9 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:35.119 Yes, it's a blast from the past that I pulled 10 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:38.679 out of the archives from our YouTube channel, and it's 11 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:45.000 very relevant to today's topic about tools and the essentials 12 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:49.079 that you need in your home toolbox. 13 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:51.960 There you go, little two minute video, very very similar, 14 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:55.960 not exactly one for one my list today, but ninety 15 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:56.600 eight percent of it. 16 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:57.679 Yeah, and it's really cute. 17 00:00:57.759 --> 00:00:59.240 I mean, it's cute. 18 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:00.320 Kid. 19 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:04.040 He's very young and very young. No facial hair. 20 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:06.799 I mean, it's just it wasn't that long ago, I know, 21 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:08.879 but you look younger without the facial hair. It's just 22 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:10.959 very cute, all right. But you are you trying to 23 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:12.200 tell me something about my beard? 24 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:12.319 No? 25 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:14.719 I love your beard and you are so handsome. 26 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:18.359 Oh no, but no, just stop, it's just cute. Just stop, 27 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:18.799 all right. 28 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:20.120 I haven't seen you that way in a while. 29 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:26.079 It's there my face. Shush, I'm turning on your mic 30 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:29.560 off right now. There her mic is off. No more 31 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:32.640 of that anyway. Yes, social media, so while you're there, 32 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:34.879 follow us like it in a video like that. If 33 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:36.319 you've got a friend who's like, you know what, they 34 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:38.640 need to hear this, just share it. Boom, you can 35 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:42.079 just share it right across there you go. Also, if 36 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:44.239 you're home, I know we're not talking design today, but 37 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:47.359 if your home is in need of some personal house 38 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:49.760 whisper attention, personal what does that mean, like you know 39 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:52.439 you guys standing in my living room? Yeah, that's exactly 40 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:55.280 what I mean. Then you can book an in home 41 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:58.959 design consolet with me and tea and listen to her cuteness. 42 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:03.120 Just go to house Whisperer dot design for more details 43 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:06.640 on that. All right, we are finishing off. It's part 44 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:10.080 two today of our two part first Weekend in twenty 45 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:16.599 twenty five series of tools Essential tools for your home. 46 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:20.280 Whether you rent or own, doesn't matter. These are essential 47 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:23.080 tools to have on hand to handle whatever comes up 48 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:25.479 with in the place. That you live. We're gonna get 49 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:26.719 back to that in a bit, but it's top of 50 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:29.719 the hour. I asked for calls, I got calls. I 51 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:32.039 got a board full of calls. So I want to 52 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:35.240 get to it. Let's talk to Roger. Hey, Roger, welcome home. 53 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:37.319 How you doing, Dean? 54 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:39.639 I'm well, sir, Happy new year? 55 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:44.599 All right, same to you. Love the show. All right, 56 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:51.080 My mom's got an older house built early sixties. I 57 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:56.919 noticed that there are no gfs cis anywhere in the house. 58 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:01.080 Can you do that on a two wire? So I 59 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:03.960 can't find a ground wire anywhere? 60 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:06.479 Okay, all right, great, So all right, let me set 61 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:10.240 this up for you for everybody who's listening. So Roger's 62 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:13.719 mom lives in an older home. That was the electricity 63 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:16.680 was running this home. You guys, you know you've seen 64 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:20.919 this before. Electricity was running this home. All the outlets 65 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:25.240 have two prongs. There's no third little grounding plug down below, 66 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:29.159 just two prongs, no grounding plug. That means there's no 67 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:32.800 ground wire run throughout the entire house. Those are that's 68 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:38.680 old school ungrounded you know, plugs and switches running throughout 69 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:42.639 the house. Now, Roger also mentioned a GFCI A GA 70 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:46.080 for short, we'll just call it a GFI ground fault 71 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:49.960 interrupt plug. You've also seen these. These are the little 72 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:53.319 outlets that have a little button that says test and 73 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:56.240 reset on them. Sometimes they are all one color, sometimes 74 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:57.360 the button is red. 75 00:03:58.039 --> 00:03:58.159 Uh. 76 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:03.520 And those are designed and required by current code for 77 00:04:04.439 --> 00:04:10.039 all sorts of areas that have water anywhere nearby, because 78 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:14.560 they act like their own little miniature circuit breaker. They 79 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:17.800 pop off and cut the power whenever there is any 80 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:21.160 kind of a grounding fault, like, for instance, you know 81 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:23.680 you drop a hair dryer into a sink of water. Okay, 82 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:29.720 that kind of thing. So the question is Mom's house 83 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:36.000 has no grounded outlets? Can you install a GFI outlet 84 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:40.000 on an ungrounded house? And would it be worth it? 85 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:43.079 Would they do anything if there are no ground wires 86 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:47.199 running through the house. And the answer is yes, yes 87 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:50.720 you can, and you probably should. In fact, Roger, it's 88 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:54.079 one of the ways in which, without tearing into the 89 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:58.439 walls and rerunning new electrical you can make her home safer. 90 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:02.040 Now I say safer. So here's here's a couple of uh, 91 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:06.519 here's a couple of you know, nuances to that. A 92 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:12.399 GFCI is a grounding device. I mean a breaker in 93 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:16.160 and of itself. It does not need the ground wire 94 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:18.360 being attached to it in order for it to do 95 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:23.759 its job. Okay, but without a ground wire attached to it, 96 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:28.279 it won't be quite as sensitive to ground faults as 97 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:31.360 it would be if it had the ground wire attached 98 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:35.279 to it. Now what that means though, is it means 99 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:41.360 sensitive electronic devices. Okay, A GFI plug will not protect 100 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:44.519 is not going to save the circuit board on a 101 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:47.959 sensitive electronic device if there's a ground fault the way 102 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:52.680 it would if it had a grounding wire attached to it. 103 00:05:53.040 --> 00:06:00.519 But on the human being level, children us, Okay, it 104 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:03.720 will do its job just fine, and that's why it's 105 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:06.120 such a good idea. Okay, So if you want to 106 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:10.240 protect humans, then you can go into a house that 107 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:12.959 has no ground wires in it and replace as many 108 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:16.240 of the outlets as you want with GFI outlets that 109 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:18.920 will pop off and they'll just have to be reset 110 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:22.240 once they go off. To protect human beings, and that's 111 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:26.720 really what they're primarily for. If you've got sensitive electronic equipment, 112 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:30.800 don't rely on those entirely. Plug into one of those 113 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:35.000 a a power strip that is a surge protector specifically 114 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:37.399 designed for electronic here, and you'll be good there too. 115 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:42.399 But the good news is that there's an inexpensive way 116 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:46.600 to make an ungrounded house safe. The outlet's safe, and 117 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:51.199 that's by actually just switching out those outlets to GFCI outlets. 118 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:53.800 They'll work fine, they just won't be as sensitive. And 119 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:57.720 here's what's going to confuse some people. Part of my list. Actually, 120 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:00.639 one of the tools on my essential toolbox list is 121 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:05.720 a receptacle tester. Okay, these little receptacle testers. You plug 122 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:07.800 them into a receptacle to make sure that it's been 123 00:07:07.879 --> 00:07:10.319 wired properly, and a lot of them have. The one 124 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:12.360 that I want you to get has a little switch, 125 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:14.720 a little button and you push that and it creates 126 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:19.399 a little ground fault to test a GFI outlet. So 127 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:24.480 here's the thing. If the house is ungrounded and you 128 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:27.920 install a GFI outlet, that little tester is not going 129 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:31.839 to work because it's very sensitive. It's like the sensitivity 130 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:35.120 of electronic device. It's not going to be enough to 131 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:37.920 test it. So it's going to be confusing because look, 132 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:42.839 something's not working. So if it's an undergrounded house, the 133 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:48.120 code actually says this to you. You're totally legally allowed 134 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:52.759 to install those inside the box of a GFCI outlet. 135 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:55.920 There are little stickers that nobody ever uses because they 136 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:59.560 they you know, they just use them in normal grounded houses. 137 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:02.319 But there is a sticker in there, a label that 138 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:06.720 says no equipment ground And technically you're supposed to put 139 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:10.040 that sticker on the outlets so that somebody knows that 140 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:13.240 this is a GFCI. It works just fine, but there's 141 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:17.160 no ground wire connecting it. And that way, when you 142 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:19.720 go to test that, you realize, okay, the electronic tester 143 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:22.439 doesn't work, but still the buttons work just fine. Does 144 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:23.040 that make sense? 145 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:27.240 It makes a lot of sense. And I will say 146 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:31.720 it'll be a license electrician that does still work. I 147 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:35.279 just want to educate myself on it before I, you know, 148 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:37.519 have them come out and do the work. There. 149 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:39.440 You go, yeah, and you know and so, and if 150 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:42.360 any electrician is like, listen, these aren't any good, you 151 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:44.960 just need to rewire the house, then you just show 152 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:47.399 them the door because they're looking for, you know, a 153 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:50.480 multi thousand dollars job when you actually just want them 154 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:54.679 to install some outlets, and you know, honesty is the 155 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:58.159 first threshold that every contractor must pass to get into 156 00:08:58.240 --> 00:08:58.679 your house. 157 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:01.799 Agreed. That's great. 158 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:05.440 Great, and so all right, Roger, thanks for listening to 159 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:07.679 the show, Thanks for being a fan. Appreciate it. Hope 160 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:09.360 that helps you out. I think it does, and it 161 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:11.480 helped out a lot of other people who were like, oh, 162 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:12.919 I didn't know you could do that. 163 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:17.360 All right, you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on 164 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:20.639 demand from KFI AM six forty. 165 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:24.720 We are taking calls. I am talking to you about 166 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:28.159 whatever is going on with your home. Let's go back 167 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:30.360 to the phones. I want to talk to Jill. Hey, Jill, 168 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:31.320 welcome home. 169 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:36.440 Hi Deane, thanks for the great topic. What recommendation do 170 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:38.679 you have for tools that are made in America? 171 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:45.840 Oh you mean you mean what tool brands are made 172 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:47.039 in America? Is that what you're asking? 173 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:50.480 Yeah, yes, yeah, yeah, thanks. 174 00:09:53.080 --> 00:09:57.720 Fewer these days than used to be. So my recommendation 175 00:09:57.840 --> 00:09:59.879 is that. So it's here's here's the thing. If it's 176 00:09:59.879 --> 00:10:02.960 a important to you, okay, and so let me say 177 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:08.159 two things about this. Number One, Yes, tools made overseas 178 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:11.679 in some instances, especially when it comes to hand tools, 179 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:18.720 are probably inferior to tools made here in the US 180 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:21.639 as far as their quality is concerned. Now, I say 181 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:25.679 that qualifiedly, and I say it specifically, keeping it the 182 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:29.440 subject connected to hand tools. Right. I'm not trying to 183 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:33.720 demean any foreign countries by saying that the stuff that 184 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:36.679 comes from overseas is cheaper quality. But a lot of 185 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:40.840 it is cheaper quality. There are some tool manufacturers that 186 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:46.120 are simply born and belong to other countries that are 187 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:50.759 among the top top of quality tool manufacturers, especially when 188 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:54.639 it comes to power tools, names like Makita and Bosh 189 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:57.279 which is a German company, and so on and so forth. 190 00:10:57.320 --> 00:11:01.840 So I'm just talking about hand tools, and yeah, quite 191 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:05.440 often you will find that. So there are two things 192 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:08.320 to look for when it comes to a tool. Number One, 193 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:12.759 a brand name that you recognize, that you know has 194 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:17.120 been around forever in the day. Now, that's not a guarantee. Okay. 195 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:20.360 For instance, a few years back and around two thousand 196 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:24.120 and eight or so, Craftsmen of all tool brands, Craftsmen 197 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:28.399 went through some structural corporate changes and now a lot 198 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:32.200 of Craftsmen tools come from overseas, not all of them, 199 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:35.320 a few still made here, a lot of them made 200 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:40.720 over there. Other tools like Stanley, you would think, oh, 201 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:43.480 that's been you know, my grandpa used to use Stanley. Yeah, 202 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:47.159 and a lot of Stanley tools made overseas, not all 203 00:11:47.159 --> 00:11:51.159 of them, but some maybe most these days. So here's 204 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:54.600 the thing. The thing I look for when if you're 205 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:57.360 looking for a US made tool, I say the same 206 00:11:57.440 --> 00:12:00.600 thing about tool packaging that I say that if you 207 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:04.639 are shopping for organic foods. Okay, it costs more to 208 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:08.519 make a tool in the US. Labor is you know, 209 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:11.840 US labor. It's you know, we pay our people more 210 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:17.120 than foreign manufacturers pay the Generally speaking, it's kind of 211 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:20.600 understood that the quality that goes into it, the materials themselves, 212 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:25.159 they're manufactured better, so they're gonna cost more. And to 213 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:31.080 justify that that cost, just like growing organic it costs 214 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:34.840 more than growing conventional food. Guess what, by the time 215 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:38.360 it makes it to the grocery store, those organic growers 216 00:12:38.519 --> 00:12:43.519 want you to know that it's organic, certified organic, because 217 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:46.799 that's how they justify. Listen, I know our eggs are 218 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:50.480 more expensive than those eggs over there, but we're certified organic. 219 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:56.000 So if you've gone through the trouble to grow food organically, 220 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:59.559 you tell the world that you've done that and in 221 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:04.039 the same vain. If you have manufactured a tool here 222 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:08.519 in the USA, then you are going to let the 223 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:11.600 world know. And so you just really have to look 224 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:14.080 at the packaging and sometimes you look at the tool itself. 225 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:17.360 Here's one brand, for instance, that I was just talking about. 226 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:21.799 I was talking about channel locking plyers, okay, and I 227 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:25.679 was very careful not to say channel locker pliers because 228 00:13:25.799 --> 00:13:28.799 channel Lock is actually a brand, a US brand. They 229 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:32.720 happen to make channel locking plyers and that's how they 230 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:36.919 got their start. Stamped right on the side of every 231 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:40.200 channel lock wrench made in the USA, and it's going 232 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:44.799 to be on the packaging and so on. So that's 233 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:47.320 what I would recommend. If it's important to you that 234 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:50.080 it's US made, then just look at the packages because 235 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:53.399 if it is, you'll see it. It's going to say 236 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:57.000 it clearly because they want you to know that they've 237 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:00.759 gone to extra effort to get you that tool. It 238 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:04.879 communicates two things. Number one, that's probably why our tool 239 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:07.919 is a little more expensive. And number two, it should 240 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:11.519 communicate that our tool is more expensive because it's better 241 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:14.480 quality because we made it here. And that's the idea. 242 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:15.559 Is that makes sense, Jill. 243 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:18.840 Perfect sense? And yes, I was referring to hand tools. 244 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:20.799 So that's really helpful. Thanks so much. 245 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:23.039 Yeah, yeah, just look for it, Just look for it 246 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:27.200 and it's in. Yeah, it is, it is. It's tricky. 247 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:30.720 It's trickier than you think these days. Because you know 248 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:35.320 craftsman tools. You know, you would think of all kinds 249 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:37.399 of tools, right, but there are brands that are here 250 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:40.519 when it comes to wrenches, snap on tools, one hundred 251 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:44.519 percent US made to my knowledge. Hopefully somebody correct me 252 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:48.320 if it isn't. But there they're Cline, Cline, which makes 253 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:51.399 a ton of electrical tools, I believe are one hundred 254 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:55.039 percent US made. Pliers, those kinds of things, channel lock. 255 00:14:55.200 --> 00:14:57.399 You're safe, but you just got to check. You just 256 00:14:57.480 --> 00:14:59.519 got to check to make sure. And it'll say it. 257 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:02.519 It'll screw eam it out if it is, because they're very, 258 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:04.600 very proud of it as they go. All right, do 259 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:06.679 I have time to squeeze another one in here? Let's 260 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:09.480 try Anita, welcome home. 261 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:14.679 Thank you for the call. I have a twenty year 262 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:19.039 old home and we have a tankless water heater in 263 00:15:19.080 --> 00:15:21.799 our garage which is about thirty feet from our kitchen, 264 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:24.759 and in the kitchen to get the water there faster. 265 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:28.840 We put in a pump, and recently when you run 266 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:32.120 the water in the kitchen, it'll run a little bit 267 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:34.440 and then it loses the water pressure. 268 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:38.159 And with good pressure, and then it loses it. 269 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:41.279 Yeah, it's like it'll run, you know, like strong, and 270 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:43.200 then all of a sudden it just weakens. 271 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:48.720 Okay, okay, you know it's only idea. It's only the 272 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:53.039 kitchen faucet. Yes, no other facets in the house are 273 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:53.639 reacting that. 274 00:15:53.600 --> 00:16:02.039 Way, no, okay, have you It goes through So the 275 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:07.320 pipe runs from the tankless water heater to haul bathroom first. 276 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:09.799 And then to the kitchen. But the pump is under 277 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:11.919 the kitchen, okay. 278 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:13.720 So yeah, so you've got a research pump there and 279 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:17.200 you know, okay, and the hall bathroom is not experiencing 280 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:18.240 this issue. 281 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:20.720 Uh, you know, I don't use it that often, but 282 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:22.320 I haven't noticed it. 283 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:25.279 All right, assuming that it's not, let me ask you this, 284 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:27.279 how how recently was this work done? 285 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:31.039 By the way, how recently was it? What like? 286 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:33.799 The how was the work done the tankless water heater 287 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:35.120 and the pump and all that. 288 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:39.360 The pump was put in probably two years ago, and 289 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:41.960 the tankless water heater has been here from the beginning 290 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:42.480 of belief. 291 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:45.279 Okay, well, let me ask you. 292 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:47.039 About the house we didn't buy brand new. 293 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:51.159 So okay, have you checked the aerator on the kitchen faucet? 294 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:53.840 Have you opened up the aerator and checked it to 295 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:56.519 see if it's if it's clean and clear. 296 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:01.679 I have not done then, And I have an attachment 297 00:17:01.879 --> 00:17:07.680 for a water filter on their machine. Okay, so I 298 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:09.160 could take that off and check it. 299 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:12.000 I would. I would take it off and check it. 300 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:15.200 It sounds to me. Okay. Now if it was if 301 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:18.279 there was a pressure drop issue for the house as 302 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:23.519 a whole, then you'd experience it in all the faucets everywhere. 303 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:25.799 Okay, okay, if it was water. 304 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:28.279 Heater acting up, if it was a pump system acting up, 305 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:31.599 or what have you. Since you're only experiencing this at 306 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:34.559 the kitchen faucet, the first question. I don't know that 307 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:37.000 it's the answer, But the first question that I have 308 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:41.160 is because that's how this behaves. Sometimes pressure builds up 309 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:45.920 in the line maximum pressure. When when you know nothing 310 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:49.519 is running, you open up a faucet, pressure starts to flow. Now, 311 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:53.680 if if that kitchen faucet has got you know, especially 312 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:55.920 if it has like a filter attached to it too. 313 00:17:55.960 --> 00:17:59.359 If the filter is old and dirty and starting to clog, 314 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:03.319 then it is then it's a cluding water pressure and 315 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:07.000 water flow. If the aerator has got some sediment in 316 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:09.839 it and has started to clog, then then it's a 317 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:12.440 cluding water flow. And right when you turn it on, 318 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:15.480 because all of that max pressure is right at the door, 319 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:19.759 then for a half second or two it feels like 320 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:21.920 it flows fine because there's a lot of pressure, But 321 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:26.640 then the pressure neutralizes down to normal, and then the 322 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:30.839 flow seems less than great. That usually is a sign 323 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:34.920 of something clogged or sediment or dirt. And since you 324 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:38.480 have a filter attached to it, my suggestion is check 325 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:41.920 the filter clear, flush the filter out, check the aeriator, 326 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:45.319 make sure that it's all clear, and before you if 327 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:49.480 you can, before you reattach the filter and or reattach 328 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:52.759 the aererator, go ahead and turn the faucet on and 329 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:54.960 see what kind of flow you get then, and if 330 00:18:55.000 --> 00:19:00.119 it's still inadequate flow, then you know it's something a 331 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:02.200 little bit more systemic, and then we have to look 332 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:04.759 back line a little bit. But my guess is if 333 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:08.960 the filter's not on and the aerator is detached, my 334 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:10.839 guess is you're going to be very happy with the 335 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:13.200 flow of that faucet, and that's lets you know that 336 00:19:13.240 --> 00:19:16.160 it's the aerator and or the filter that are clogging 337 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:17.160 up the works. 338 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:22.079 Okay, and just one quick question. I didn't think about 339 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:24.720 this before I called, But if it was just the 340 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:27.400 hot water doing that, and I can't remember, I usually 341 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:32.400 use just the hot water mainly, and so would it 342 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:34.359 be a difference if it was just the hot water 343 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:37.519 doing that, Would that make any. 344 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:39.400 Yeah, it might be. It might be. That might be 345 00:19:39.440 --> 00:19:43.839 an indication that it's something with the heater that's back 346 00:19:43.960 --> 00:19:47.279 line somewhere, as opposed to just all the water. But 347 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:51.319 that's what this is the kind of differential diagnosis that 348 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:53.839 you need to go through to really get to the 349 00:19:53.880 --> 00:19:56.279 heart of the problem before you commit to like, well, 350 00:19:56.359 --> 00:19:59.000 let's just throw you know, a few hundred dollars at 351 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:02.640 this or that. Test it out. Number one, Go through 352 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:05.799 the house, check out all the faucets, see how they flow. 353 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:09.599 Number two. If the kitchen is different, okay, that tells 354 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:12.119 you something. If the hot is different than the cold, 355 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:15.599 that tells you something. If the hot is not different 356 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:17.799 from the cold and it's still just the faucet. I'm 357 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:21.119 saying it's the aerator or the filter, and you can 358 00:20:21.160 --> 00:20:23.960 start there, and if not, then maybe you got to 359 00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:26.559 get a plumber involved and get a little bit more 360 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:29.519 deeper into the system with the hot water heater. Thank 361 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:32.559 you for the call, my friend, and thanks for listening 362 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:34.880 to the show. I hope that helps all right, y'all. 363 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:37.359 When we return, I'm going to get back into our 364 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:39.359 tool list, but we will be going back to the 365 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:41.319 phones again at the top of the hour, so you 366 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:43.279 can hang on the line, or you can call and 367 00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:45.880 wait and listen to the show while it all happens. 368 00:20:46.279 --> 00:20:50.319 Right now, you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on 369 00:20:50.440 --> 00:20:52.720 demand from KFI AM six forty. 370 00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:57.119 Thanks for joining us on the program today. Good to 371 00:20:57.119 --> 00:21:00.400 see you, well, I can't see you, but to know 372 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:02.880 that you're here with me. Here we are on the 373 00:21:02.920 --> 00:21:06.759 first weekend of twenty twenty five, the first Sunday of 374 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:10.200 twenty twenty five, and I'm spending it just laying the 375 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:14.440 most basic foundation imaginable for all of our discussions this year. 376 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:18.920 And that is not design stuff, not building stuff, not 377 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:22.559 remodeling stuff. How about we just start with taking care 378 00:21:23.079 --> 00:21:26.279 of what you've got on hand. Maybe you rent, maybe 379 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:29.519 remodeling is not in your future right now with this place, 380 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:32.880 whether you rent, whether you own, it doesn't matter. We 381 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:37.279 all should have at our disposal at least a small 382 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:41.160 group of the right tools that will enable us to 383 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:43.599 react to the places that we live, because the place 384 00:21:43.640 --> 00:21:47.359 is where we live. They are, you know, essentially, they're 385 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:51.440 structures and machines, not unlike an automobile. They get used, 386 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:54.359 and so as a result, something gets loose, something gets 387 00:21:54.359 --> 00:21:57.920 out of whack, something gets clogged, something, you know, things happen. 388 00:21:58.400 --> 00:22:02.160 And when those things happen, if you are at least 389 00:22:02.720 --> 00:22:06.000 semi competent and have a good set of tools on hand, 390 00:22:06.039 --> 00:22:07.559 you may be able to deal with it, or at 391 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:10.759 least stop it or shut it down, or pause it 392 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:16.119 long enough to get a professional involved before more damage occurs. 393 00:22:16.359 --> 00:22:19.079 And so this is the essential tool. And the good 394 00:22:19.079 --> 00:22:22.440 news is these are everything I'm talking about essentially fits 395 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:25.119 in a five gallon bucket with a good tool organizer, 396 00:22:25.319 --> 00:22:27.839 and you can keep that in a hall closet, out 397 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:31.400 in the garage wherever you know it's best for you 398 00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:35.519 to keep it. So this is for everybody, and this 399 00:22:35.559 --> 00:22:39.960 is part two. Today is the second part yesterday's program 400 00:22:40.119 --> 00:22:42.559 was part one, or yesterday's episode. If you listen to 401 00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:45.359